Java releases every six months

[Vincent Privat]

Hello,
Mark Reinhold announced a big change for Java today:
https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster

"after Java 9 we adopt a strict, time-based model with a new feature
release every six months, update releases every quarter, and a long-term
support release every three years."
"the version strings of feature releases will be of the form $YEAR.$MONTH.
Thus next year’s March release will be 18.3, and the September long-term
support release will be 18.9."

I cannot yet evaluate the impact for JOSM. What drives our migration
schedules is often the availability of the latest version of Java on Ubuntu
LTS. We will see in the coming months how Debian and Ubuntu adapt their
update cycle.

Vincent

I propose that after Java 9 we adopt a strict, time-based model with a new
feature release every six months, update releases every quarter, and a
long-term support release every three years propose that after Java 9 we
adopt a strict, time-based model with a new feature release every six
months, update releases every quarter, and a long-term support release
every three years.