[Dravu]

Originally Posted by Dr. McKay Well, I've never had any problems with them. :/

Officially, they're considered unstable dev versions. They rarely have issues, but the developers wouldn't want to call them stable and feel liable if one of their changes had unforseen negative side effects (crashes, memory corruption, etc).

[Dr. McKay]

Originally Posted by Dravu Officially, they're considered unstable dev versions. They rarely have issues, but the developers wouldn't want to call them stable and feel liable if one of their changes had unforseen negative side effects (crashes, memory corruption, etc).

Makes sense.

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by asherkin No they aren't.

I'm bookmarking this post so that the next time someone says that, I can link to it.

[psychonic]

Originally Posted by Powerlord I'm bookmarking this post so that the next time someone says that, I can link to it.

That was a poor choice of wording, or rather, lack of clarification.

The snapshots from the current stable branch, as labeled on the snapshots page, are intended to be stable.

But as I've said in other posts, I recommend staying on release versions unless you are experiencing a specific issue that you know was fixed in a snapshot or if you intend on testing new features from the development branch.