At its European home conference, the OpenSearch Foundation announced a Long-Term Support (LTS) version of OpenSearch. Initially, the current version 3.6 and OpenSearch 2.19 as the final release of the previous major version will receive LTS status. In the future, there will be an LTS variant per major version, which will receive at least 18 months of support. To prevent vendor lock-in, users can decide for themselves which provider will provide the LTS service.