I believe that's by design: applications are encouraged to upgrade often. That's usually a smooth process for standard-conforming applications.

Applications that need to move slower can stick to LTS versions. LTS hopping has become a little bit more viable since the interval has been shortened to two years, i.e., four major versions.

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bmacho 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> I believe that's by design: applications are encouraged to upgrade often.

I'm not sure what's your thought process here. I'm not saying they should have a release every 2 years instead of every half a year, but that their numbering scheme is bad.

It makes upgrading harder. If they'd just put the date in the version field, people would know how old the software is (this applies to every software btw not just Java and Ubuntu).

Their current versioning system doesn't help anyone in any imaginale circumstance.

	▲	re-thc 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> If they'd just put the date in the version field, people would know how old the software is Does it tell you anything? If this "software" just bumps the date and never provides anything meaningful it is useful to you? It's about the substance.