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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sam924" data-source="post: 23741496" data-attributes="member: 515715">If we concentrate on the Oracle JDK the answer to that question is quite easy and you can choose between 3 options:1. Update the Java version every 6 month. By doing so you will always build on the supported Java version and will automatically get all important feature and security updates.2. Buy commercial support from Oracle and migrate only from one LTS version to the next LTS version. This would mean that you migrate from Java 8 to Java 11 maybe in the first half of 2019 and than from Java 11 to Java 17 in 2022.3. Stay on a Java version without updates and bugfixes from Oracle. Once the free support of a Java version ends nobody forbids to keep on using the unsupported version. By doing so you avoid paying for commercial support or getting into a maybe stressful migration every 6 months. You are free to decide when to migrate to a newer Java version. On the downside you will miss out on all released bugfixes and security updates. While a bugfix is not really critical as long as the bug does not affect your software, open security issues can end in horrible problems.<a href="https://dev.karakun.com/java/2018/06/25/java-releases.html" target="_blank">https://dev.karakun.com/java/2018/06/25/java-releases.html</a></blockquote>

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