docs/manual: update 'releases' to reflect LTS changes

With the release of 2025.02, LTS releases are now made every two years
with a 3-year support.

This reflect the table showed at https://lts.buildroot.org/#releases.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Perale <thomas.perale@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
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== Release Engineering
=== Releases
The Buildroot project makes quarterly releases with monthly bugfix
releases. The first release of each year is a long term support
release, LTS.
The Buildroot project makes quarterly stable releases with monthly bugfix
releases. Starting with 2025.02, the first release of every odd-numbered year
is a long-term support (LTS) release supported for three years.
- Quarterly releases: 2020.02, 2020.05, 2020.08, and 2020.11
- Bugfix releases: 2020.02.1, 2020.02.2, ...
- LTS releases: 2020.02, 2021.02, ...
- LTS releases: 2025.02, 2027.02, 2029.02 ...
- Non-LTS releases: 2025.05, 2025.08, 2025.11, 2026.02, ...
- Bugfix releases: 2025.02.1, 2025.02.2, ...
Releases are supported until the first bugfix release of the next
release, e.g., 2020.05.x is EOL when 2020.08.1 is released.
LTS releases are supported for three years, with a one-year overlap with the
next LTS release, e.g., 2025.02.x is EOL when 2028.02 is released.
LTS releases are supported until the first bugfix release of the next
LTS, e.g., 2020.02.x is supported until 2021.02.1 is released.
Non-LTS releases are supported until the next release, e.g., 2025.05.x is EOL
when 2025.08 is released.
See the table at https://lts.buildroot.org/#releases[lts.buildroot.org].
=== Development