Is the Sphinx beta okay to use in production?

Question

I'm having to recompile Sphinx (thanks to this issue – if you can help I'd be impressed!).

Is the Sphinx beta ready for use in a production environment?

I know that Sphinx 0.9.9 has been feature-frozen for a long time, and the Sphinx beta has a number of really wonderful features. But beta is scary.

Do I have anything to worry about?

Answer 1

From this page: http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads.html

It said:

Note that 'beta' only applies to new features (RT indexes etc), 
everything else is stable.

I also use beta in production for more than a year, without any problem.