Maintenance Release

The primary purpose of a maintenance release is to fix bugs in the software, so that components work as originally documented. New features are limited in number and highly constrained. A Java ES maintenance release cannot include major or minor component releases, only update and point-fix releases. A Java ES maintenance release has the following general characteristics:

• The release cannot introduce significant interface changes, new dependencies, or incompatibilities with respect to Java ES components

• The release allows for quick adoption

• Upgrade to the release requires no reconfiguration or migration of component data

• The release involves minimal impact or risk