


Long-term servicing channel retains the major build number from when the OS was released (1607 in Server 2016's case) because it doesn't get feature updates. Big Green Man wrote: If you want to pay for SA to get on the semi-annual channel, you can keep up with the Windows 10 build numbers.

Windows Server release Version Build number Availability Mainstream support end date Extended support end date Windows Server 2022 (Long-Term Servicing Channel) (Datacenter, Standard) 21H2: 20348.169.210806-2348: : : :.
