What is the most robust version of Unity right now (Dec. 7th, 2017)?

Jesus Christ I wish Unity would sort these things out, stop adding features and fix what we do have.

 

Yeah I'm the same, I oddly enough think updating to the latest version of Unity might fix the various issues I have with the editor. Nope! lol

 

I suggest you go with 2017.2.0 *patch 4* (released Dec 4, 2017). We were also hurt by the UI bug on 2017's initial release, they fixed in it patch 1 or 2. We skipped patch 3 and patch 4 has now been really solid for us.

I always scour the release notes before deciding to go with a release or build, then try it myself for a while before telling the company to go forward, but with 2017.3, which we are looking forward to, I'll add an extra step of waiting longer and seeing what else pops up in bug reports, forums. Some of the latest bugs that have been pushed through frighten me. Even now 2017.3's release candidate 1's UI gameobject enable/disable bug solidified my decision on that.

But so far 2017.2 p4 has been great for us!
https://unity3d.com/unity/qa/patch-releases?version=2017.2

 

I usually just read patch notes and see if there's anything we need in the new version, then weigh that version's known issues against how bad we want the new things.

 

2017.3.0f1 was released, this isn't an RC right? At that point, f1 is a final release, no? Has anyone tried it out?

 

Yeah same except this time I'm going to watch actual bug reports and forums as bugs "become known" just b/c some of the ones lately have been huge.

 

It's not final, their RC nomenclature is the "f<x>" then they just decide a particular one is "official". I'm not touching it mainly because of this issue that was *introduced* in it!
https://forum.unity.com/threads/new...dered-objects-permanently-spanks-them.507138/

 

Unity applies fixes to newest beta (or alpha?) and then backports and these fixes trickle down with backports.

I wanted to go to 2017.2 but it was way too unstable.
I wanted to go to 2017.3 but it's way too unstable.

Now I'm on Unity 2017.1.2p3 and it only crashes some of the time.

I'm just gonna be patient about it all cos lets face it - nothing new there. The theory of what Unity is doing is a good one, that eventually everything will heal over time, annoying though.

 

As a general rule with virtually any software, if you need stability you never use a beta and never use an x.x.0 build.

2017.3 is still in beta phase, regardless that they have moved to the RC build names. 2017.2 is really 2017.2.0, since Unity just leaves off their .0's in their version numbers.

So without even looking at the release notes, my first assumption would be 2017.1.2 would be the latest stable build I'd consider if stability was of chief importance. I'd be willing to bet I'm correct on that. That isn't a knock on Unity's 2017.2 and 2017.3 versions, it is just how software development works with large very complex products like Unity.