Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success.
I like this. I've taken advantage of this project with the Jessie-based BunsenLabs "Deuterium" (which was like a point release of BunsenLabs "Hydrogen"), keeping it running here past four years since Jessie was first released. That's gone smoothly, and I'm even thinking that I'll hang onto that one until the Buster-based BL "Lithium" comes out later this year.
I may do something similar with my Debian Stretch Openbox/Fluxbox installation; I'm in no hurry to move to Debian 10 ("Buster") with that one.
I'm also using Kubuntu 18.04, which is an LTS release; my first go-round with a Long Term Support release from the Ubuntu side started back around 2006, with Kubuntu 6.06. There are situations that come up where an LTS release can really come in handy, so it's nice that Ubuntu and Debian offer them. I try to find a way to make sure I have an up-to-date web browser (maybe go outside of the repos for that), but as for other software, often there's no real need for the "latest and greatest".
Some good Debian LTS info here:
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using
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