Stable builds
Stable builds are tested and supported builds that all users are encouraged to install or upgrade to. They are unlikely to have incompatibilities with any core activities, and are kept up to date with security and other urgent updates.
These builds are drawn from the rapidly developing development builds through a process of testing and review. At announced intervals -- currently once or more every 6 months -- a relatively stable development build is announced as a release candidate, and tested heavily, updating it only to fix discovered bugs, until a stable build is obtained.
A stable build is changed only for the most urgent changes and patches after it is released; further features are daded to the development builds.
Latest stable build
see OS_images#Latest_Stable_Build