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Historically also, they've pushed things out from a LTS release that could have gone in and made people wait for the next non-LTS release because they were too new or experimental. If it's good, it'll be in the next LTS, but if not, it won't and can be removed from the next non-LTS without impacting too much.

Or to use Ubuntu's own terminology: "Interim releases will introduce new capabilities from Canonical and upstream open source projects, they serve as a proving ground for these new capabilities." They also call LTS 'enterprise grade' while interims are merely production-quality. Personally I see these as different levels of stability.



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