Short Lived branches are supported for 3 months.Releases alternate between Long Lived and Short Lived branches.This nvidia devtalk forum post suggests the following: I also don't know if there is a regular release cadence. I am not sure if there is a fixed number of Short Lived branches between a Long Lived branch or not. When it comes to release cadence things are not as clear.
Like with Ubuntu LTS releases sometimes the Long Lived branch is the latest branch available. Other people want the latest and greatest so they install the latest Short Lived branch, this is like running an Ubuntu interim release. Some people choose to stick with Long Lived ( LTS) branches so that they don't need to be upgrading all the time (and possibly they are more stable?). Given the list above you can see that it makes sense to think about Nvidia driver versions like you think about Ubuntu LTS versions. Long Lived and Short Lived are not a measure of stability they are a measure of how long the branch will receive updates.Long Lived branches will get updates for a longer period than Short Lived branches (this is similar to how LTS vs non LTS Ubuntu releases work).Some branches are Long Lived ( 430) and some branches are Short Lived ( 435).A number of different branches may be getting updates concurrently (at the time of writing both the 430 and 435 branches are being updated).Branches with higher numbers are newer ( 435 is newer than 430).Major version numbers are branches (eg 430.x is the 430 branch).
There are a few rules of thumb that can help you: I agree that Nvidia driver versions are confusing, since 4xx Nvidia have introduced the concept of Long Lived, Short Lived and Beta branches, hopefully this will help make things a bit clearer.
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