Question on Unity 2020 LTS

Note: This should be answered ONLY by the Unity development team unless anyone else has inside information. And if you do have inside information, make sure it's accurate !

I was previously using non-LTS versions. I was recommended to use Unity LTS by other more experienced users / programmers in this forum and I've been using them since then. However, I now noticed that we are in 2020 and I haven't seen any 2020 LTS versions. Are you developers planning to release one soon?

I'm asking this because I wrote an app in 2019.x and I need to reopen it or worse case scenario, rewrite it in 2018 LTS version. I know I can download 2019.x with the java tools but I prefer all mine to be in the same version for ease of access. Could someone from the Unity development team please be kind enough to answer this issue?

 

LTS is always at the very end of the life cycle of the year in question.
2020 is still in beta, there isn't going to be an LTS for it until either near the end of the year or next year.

The team has already answered this though in their latest blog post on their 2020 roadmap.
https://blogs.unity3d.com/2020/04/0...ping-the-tech-and-solutions-coming-this-year/

Edit: This is a public forum, which is why I answered. I've rarely ever seen a Unity Employee having general chatting in general discussion so I saved you some time. However if you do have 2020 questions, perhaps direct it to the correct forum next time so you don't seem snarky in your question demanding only the team answer, that's pretty rude.

https://forum.unity.com/forums/2020-1-beta.377/

 

OK thank you. I didn't think other people might know about this because since they develop the latest versions, I didn't expect anyone else to know what was going on. My opinion was wrong - my apologies if you got offended.

 

FWIW. UT have made it quite public how the cycle of releases leads up to an LTS version:

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/04/0...g-the-tech-and-long-term-support-lts-streams/

 

@sxa the only difference is, there will only be 3 this cycle, rather than 4 per cycle. .2020.1, 2020.2 and 2020.3LTS.
They are more focused on stability this cycle, rather than 4 releases.

 

Yeah, but the overall cycle and how LTS fits into that has been explained

 

Apologies, I didn't follow every piece of news.

 

Yeah I wasn't debaiting that lol. I just wasn't sure if you knew it would be 3 this cycle rather than 4 as that link is old. So just wanted to make sure you knew that in general.

 

When in doubt, it's always good to check the unity blog https://blogs.unity3d.com/
Very useful information on important things are there.

 

Thanks. I've bookmarked it.

 

I'm quite amused seeing threads which say things like ONLY UNITY DEVS REPLY, because the community forums isn't the place to make such a demand. Generally the Unity devs who do venture onto the forums are doing so on their own time as a courtesy, and threads which specify Unity devs to reply pretty much never get one. I'm convinced it is to specifically discourage such threads on the forum. Quite funny to watch.

This part confuses me. If you just want to be on an LTS release, the release of 2019.4 LTS is imminent, and is really just the latest patch release of 2019.3 with stricter standards on check ins. Just continue on 2019.3.x and move to 2019.4 LTS when it drops.

 

You forgot to mention that the vast majority of them never visit General Discussion. If you want an actual answer from an official developer then you need to go to the section relevant to that developer to find them. This is one of the reasons why this section is marked as NOT a support section. Because the people who provide support aren't in it.