And from reading their announcement, they have not said if they will or will not make the source and all later bug fixes to the LTS releases available. They could in fact keep those behind their own corporate servers and let the qt github site just include the original release of the LTS branch for the public to use.
Their release statement seemed to create more questions than answers. From reading this, it sounds like we will need to basically be like ARCH and keep upgrading just to get a few bug fixes.
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Starting with Qt 5.15, long term support (LTS) will only be available to commercial customers. This means open-source users will receive patch-level releases of 5.15 until the next minor release will become available. This means that we will handle Qt 5.15 in the same way as e.g. 5.13 or 5.14 for open source users.
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The fact is right now, Qt LTS 5.12.6 (6 releases of fixes in place) is still very very broken on many levels and does not get the attention it needs while they (Qt) steamroll ahead with new versions that are just as broken just in new ways. Without some actual attempts to get critical fixes in place, why would anyone want to pay for access to a LTS release.
My guess is they will try to control access to Qt 5.15 LTS source release in some way. But, that is just a guess.