Jonas Walld?n @ Pike developers forum wrote: >Calling it "stabilizing" is not really honest. There's been a steady >flow of substantial core changes up until very recently, e.g. in SSL, >Stdio.File based on String.Buffer, the x86_64 JIT, preprocessor etc. >That doesn't mean it's not a good default choice, but let's not kid >ourselves that the feature set was frozen 11 months ago.
All true. But given the release cycles of Debian, it's better to get 8.0 as the default now, and simply squash any stability issues with an 8.0.xxx during the debian release process. All things considered, 8.0 works quite well for me in production; better than 7.8. -- Stephen.
