Recommended upgrade cadence for sanoid / syncoid

OpenZFS Sanoid
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Beginner question: What upgrade cadence is recommended for sanoid and syncoid?

It looks from the release history like the “major” versions are those numbered 2.x.0; is it reasonable to wait to upgrade for a 2.x.0 release? Or is it better to keep up-to-date with the point releases in between?

My usage of sanoid is very basic: just regular generation of hourly, daily, and monthly snapshots, locally on my ZFS machine. (I have no friends or family with a ZFS machine with whom I could set up mutual off-site backup (unless I build them one, which may happen someday).)

Thanks.

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It’s better to keep up to date; we are very conservative in our release schedule. Running directly from master is actually pretty common (not that I’m recommending it) because we are generally quite cautious with what we pull in at all, let alone what makes it into a release.

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Thanks, Jim. Makes sense.