Hi,
I hope someone can clear up my confusion about the three different Xwiki branches
- stable
- recommended
- lts
Our Xwiki instance is currently running on version 15.10.2 (repo: http://maven.xwiki.org stable/), because I thought that “stable” in this case meant “for production”. But as defined on the official Xwiki versioning page, it is merely “This is the version recommended if you wish to try out the new features from the current Cycle (see below for an explanation of what a Cycle is). It’s possible to use those in production.”
The last time I had contact with the Xwiki support (end of 2023), they told me we should switch over to the LTS branch at the beginning of 2024, because LTS is the one they recommend for production use.
I was surprised to learn that stable is not LTS in Xwiki and we decided to switch to the LTS branch (http://maven.xwiki.org recommended/ as described by the Xwiki support).
But now, browsing the repo on https://maven.xwiki.org/, I saw there’s a difference between lts and recommended there, because lts is on version 15.10.4, but recommended is on 15.5.4.
If I want a stable and production-ready repository, should I choose recommended or LTS now? I’m leaning towards LTS, because of your versioning scheme we’re already on 15.10.1, but if there’s a better way, I’m open to input.
Thanks in advance!