No, they do not.
2019.1 was released on April 16, 2019
2019.2 was released on July 30, 2019 ← 3 months later
2019.3 was released on January 28, 2020 ← 6 months later
2020.1 was released on July 23, 2021
2020.2 was release on December 15, 2020 ← 5 months later
2021.1 was release on March 23, 2021
And 5 months later and I’d say we’re still at least a month or more away from 2021.2.
So your premise is wrong, stop repeating it.
This is absolutely false.
I cannot.
So, I’m ending the thread with my last comment… as I really think it had all the information needed… and this thread will be a source for those wondering about such a topic.
So, thank you everyone for enriching the thread with your contributions, comments, suggestions, and making this forum a thriving and a better place! Have a nice day everyone, and stay safe! (:
Also for prosperity in case anyone stumbles upon this thread, this thread contains a lot of misinformation and wrong assumptions and core misunderstandings of what an LTS is and what it is for, what is Unity’s release schedule and why they switched from 3 Tech releases to 2.
And the OP completely ignores the update cycle in modern games, and the need to sustain and maintain a game over years after release, whilst Operating Systems, platforms and end user hardware are upgraded.
LTS is good for production, at two years, but it needs at least another 2 years of sustained consideration for the life of games made with it, for updates and maintenance after they’re released.
Otherwise, just gotta buy Unity source access. Which is probably the way Unity intended it.
In my opinion they should get rid of the TECH releases entirely.
There’s no point in spending effort to stabilize a version that is going to be abandoned as soon as the new one comes around and erases all that work with a bunch of sweeping changes, deprecations, new bugs and regressions.
And since there’s no guaranteed support period for TECH releases there’s no telling how stable it will be when the plug gets pulled. It could be either good like 2019.2 or a dumpster fire like 2020.1.
Yeah, that’s my opinion as well.
They could have a year long beta program for those that want to jump to the latest stuff, consequences be damned, then they do 1 release which should be in “this should work” state, which a couple months later will hit LTS status (it doesn’t even have to be a different “release” it can just be a stage, alpha → beta → release → LTS).