Nhibernate 3.0 Ready for Production

Question

I just looked at nhforge and saw that the latest version of nhibernate 3.0 is alpha 1. Are these the latest binaries available, or did I skip them?

In addition, nhiberante 3.0 is simple enough to use in a production environment. Does anyone currently use 3.0 for development?

I am starting to develop a new project and wondering if I should stick to 2.12 or navigate 3.0 safely.

Thanks for any thoughts.

EDIT - I just found the following web post - http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/08/NHibernate-3.0 - which contains the following -

"NHibernate has reached version 3.0 Alpha 1 and is a" solid stone, "according to Jason Dentler, author of upcoming Packt Publishing NHibernate 3 Cookbook and interviewed by Scott Hanselman . Dentler also said that even if it is an alpha release, NHibernate 3 already used in production. "

Answer 1

NHiberante does not have an unstable branch. The code in the trunk is stable, but it does not work until release. New features may cause problems, but there are no problems with existing features. You can use the NHiberante barrel in production. Thousands of people are already doing this; you won’t be the first. The boot version is more stable than the alpha-binary version because it contains bug fixes. For NHiberante, the rule is: newer, more stable.

Answer 2

"ready for production" is hard to answer. I believe that since this is alpha, you can simply say no.

However, I use it in a small project that is in production without any problems. I am impressed with the quality and hardness for the alpha release. Please note that I have most of the code using nhibernate covered in integration tests, so my confidence is pretty high.