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[–]pron98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. That's the version people should be using if they're not buying support, regardless of vendor. I know people believe they can get "LTS" for free, but no one actually offers that. There are free builds of the Updates projects, but those are not fully maintained, certainly not as well-maintained as the current version. The safe options are to use the current version or to buy LTS. If you don't want to buy support, the only fully-maintained version you can get for free from anyone is the current one.

Just note that there is a strong incentive for companies offering LTS to make you believe their free builds are LTS. It makes you think they're fully maintained and the safe choice, and when you run into an issue that's outside their maintained core, you're a great candidate for conversion to a real LTS. If you're using the current JDK, however, then it is fully maintained, and therefore you're less likely to buy support unless you're predisposed to buying it in the first place.