@nick@norden.social @nick@hhmx.de Not maintenance – as mentioned, we'll have two big updates every year, with lots of new features, exactly the same as now. Nothing changes in the release engineering.
Re: the other point, it's not about advertising. Many people are using old versions of LibreOffice, and having a year+month version number (and communicating that well) can help. For the vast majority of end users, that year+month number says more than just some arbitrary thing that we choose. That's our view anyway 😊