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> 7.0 is perfectly stable and is recommended for production use. It's not
> bleeding edge code. That's 8.0-CURRENT which is NOT for production use.
> Unless you have a particular reason for using 6.x I would go with 7.0 It's
> fully tested.

nothing is ever fully tested ;) but yes, 7.0 can be classified stable. i 
would recommend 7.1-BETA install as some bugs are fixed there