An Update about the Mendix 10 LTS Version

To provide both stability and innovation, Mendix releases monthly and offers Mid Term Supported (MTS) and Long Term Supported (LTS) releases. This ensures that our customers can always use the latest improvements, but also can stabilize on a certain version and only receive bugfixes and (security) patches. Because customer satisfaction is a priority of ours, here are some important changes to our previous release schedule that customers will want to note.

LTS version will be version .24 instead of .21

The currently planned latest version of a major is the .21 version. This will be changed to the .24 version, while keeping the cadence of every two years a new major release in June. The LTS version for Mendix 10 was originally planned to be 10.21, a mere three months after the last MTS version. However, this approach has led to some confusion and questions among customers, as a two-year cycle is linked with 24 months and thus 24 versions – an approach we had previously taken with Mendix 9.

The last three versions of the release will focus on stability and performance

While Mendix is an innovative product, it is used for mission critical and core systems for which stability and predictability is very important. Therefore, the goal for the .22, .23, and .24 is all-around stability while providing the best experience. This means in practice that these versions will be more like patch versions.

However, if possible, and with careful consideration, we will add “small” developer experience improvements (like proposed the idea forum) that make the life of our developers better and more productive but that pose no risk on quality and performance.