Is FileMaker Server 21.1.1 safe to use?

Are people experiencing FMS 21.1.1 to be stable?

I'd like to upgrade to this 21 (aka 2024) version, but I keep reading about weird bugs, such as these:

I realize that people generally don't post "Everything is fine" messages, so it's possible these issues are rare or unique.

Anyone out there happy with FMS 21.1.1 ?

FMPro layout mode lockup has been persistent since 20, and remained in 21
The other items are less prevalent, but are widely reported.
There is also the issue that after a deployment, a privilege set is commonly screwed up, and has to be rebuilt.
Also not a bug, per se, but the order of execution of user accounts in Linux has been reported to be alphabetical, not listed order (not tested so hearsay).

There has been a couple more serious bugs in 21 on Linux and Mac, that have caused some of the major FM shops to revert clients to 20 (although same bug reported on 20.3.1 as well), but I've not experienced those issues. The one on large scale data loss is a biggie. Claris has not yet been able to replicate AFAIK

https://community.claris.com/en/s/question/0D5Vy00000BWonuKAD/where-did-the-last-30-days-go

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Thanks @Kirk - crashes and other misbehaviors I can live with, but data corruption issues seem scary. I think I'll stay with my current versions for now and hope FM gets those critical issues fixed (or comes up with setting that prevent it from happening).

The portals only appear to go to zero height by setting an even number of rows, apparently not odd numbers :crazy_face: