Odoo releases a long-term support version every 12 to 18 months. A long-term support release comes with bugfixes, improvements, usability, and features. Odoo considers every major release such as V7, V8, V9, and V10 as long-term supported versions and provides support for latest 3 long-term releases under the Odoo enterprise contract in parallel. Odoo supports V8, V9, and V10 at the time of writing:
Odoo online customers benefit from the long-term release cycle as they have an early access to new features on Odoo subscription before they get released under the long-term version for enterprise customers. Odoo keeps its online version up-to-date. On the Odoo online platform the new version releases every 3 months with bug fixes, usability improvements and sometimes new apps, it will be available immediately for the online customers while onsite customers get those features when Odoo releases its long-term stable version. The long-term stable release will be available every 12 to 18 months.
The Odoo LTS version will be named as Odoo 9, Odoo 10, while the SaaS version will be named as saas~14, saas~15, and so on, Odoo supports last three LTS versions under maintenance and migration.
These are great benefits for companies running their business with standard needs; you can evolve quickly with the fast evolution of the Odoo online version.
