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**Does Begin of the deletion theEnd of the deletion OpenProject provide software releases with Begin of the insertionLong Term Support (LTS)?**End of the insertion Begin of the deletion long-term-support?**End of the deletion

The OpenProject team does **not** provide Begin of the insertionLong Term Support.End of the insertion Begin of the deletion long-term support.End of the deletion The main reasons are:

* Backporting to older releases creates high development, quality assurance, and support costs. This time is better invested in building software releases that solve problems.

* Supporting parallel versions discourages incremental upgrades, which over time accumulate complexity and create upgrade challenges for all users. The goal of the OpenProject team is to make incremental upgrades (and installations) as simple as possible.

* Even though OpenProject invests heavily in test automation, those automated tests cannot avoid all regressions when backporting bug fixes. This results in significant additional effort for the development and QA teams.


OpenProject provides free hosting as part of its Cloud Begin of the insertionedition.End of the insertion Begin of the deletion Edition.End of the deletion With the Cloud Begin of the insertionedition,End of the insertion Begin of the deletion Edition,End of the deletion admins do not need to worry about software upgrades.

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