for new project, is it safe to use latest pw 2.6.x dev version ?

[adrianmak]

or just keeping use the 2.5.x stable branch

[adrian]

2.6.1 is the stable version, but 2.7 is due out in about a week, so for a new project I would definitely say go with the dev branch (https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessWire/tree/dev). Just don't use the devns branch yet - it will be the 3.0 version down the road a little!

[Ivan Gretsky]

Come on, adrianmak! You are on the block for a while now and know that all the cool kids use dev branch. I can't live without the Saturday morning presents on the blog and certainly do not want to wait for half a year to get them) There are no hotfixes to stable branch (at least that I know of) so really no point in staying behind.

[SteveB]

So far so good. I've just finished a massive data import to a project I'm working on (it will replace the system it's importing from). Had an earlier 2.6 system going and just to be thorough and clean things up, cleared most of its content, exported a profile, Did a fresh install of 2.6.21 with that profile, checked it out a bit and then ran the lengthy import process. It now has 32074 pages and seems fine.