I would not say LTO reached its steady state from technological perspective (although sales among tape vendors might).

Check the LTO Roadmap – we are on LTO7 now.

@Dashrender I'll see what I can find.

@scottalanmiller When you used @ I did not get email notifications - is that expected?

Ok, my third post in a row

V-ESSSTD-VS-P01AR-0 this is indeed the Veeam licensing package.
V-ESSSTD-VS-P01YP-0 this looks like a one additional year of maintenance prepaid for Veeam Backup Essentials Standard 2 socket bundle for VMware

But better reach anyone from sales to confirm before purchasing

@Danp You can open a support case let our support team investigate it.