16.2. Who needs FreeBSD-stable?

If you are a commercial user or someone who puts maximum stability of their FreeBSD system before all other concerns, you should consider tracking stable. This is especially true if you have installed the most recent release ( 2.1.0-RELEASE at the time of this writing) since the stable branch is effectively a bug-fix stream relative to the previous release.

Please note that the stable tree endevors, above all, to be fully compilable and stable at all times, but we do occasionally make mistakes (these are still active sources with quickly-transmitted updates, after all). We also do our best to thoroughly test fixes in current before bringing them into stable, but sometimes our tests fail to catch every case. If something breaks for you in stable, please let us know immediately! (see next section).