https://devops-monk.com/tags/lts/Recent content in Lts on Devops MonkHugoen-usMon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/java17/java17-overview/Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/java17/java17-overview/Java 17: The Landmark LTS Java 17 was released on September 14, 2021 as a Long-Term Support (LTS) release. It is the successor to Java 11 (released September 2018) as the recommended production baseline for enterprise and cloud Java deployments. Between Java 11 and Java 17, six non-LTS releases (Java 12 through 16) delivered a continuous stream of language improvements on a six-month cadence. Java 17 is where five of the most important new features — Records, Sealed Classes, Pattern Matching for instanceof, Text Blocks, and Switch Expressions — all reached their final, production-ready status simultaneously.https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/java21/java21-overview/Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/java21/java21-overview/Why Java 21 Is Different Every third Java release is an LTS — Long-Term Support. Java 21 is the fourth LTS after Java 8, 11, and 17. But unlike previous LTS releases, which were largely incremental, Java 21 delivers features that fundamentally change how you write concurrent code, how the JVM manages memory and GC, and how Java competes with dynamic languages for expressiveness. Three years of Project Loom work lands as Virtual Threads — production-ready, requiring zero framework changes for most Spring Boot or Jakarta EE applications.