Best firmware recommended to use & initial release date in KB articles

[Olivier421]

Hello Netgear engineers,

Could you please consider 2 things about firmware KB pages (I'm interested in M4300s but this is general request):

1. Clearly mention Firmware release date, because we cannot rely on Article last modified date.

As an example, firmware 12.0.17.10 is having an older date https://kb.netgear.com/000065410/M4300-Firmware-Version-12-0-17-10 than for an older  firmware 12.0.17.9 https://kb.netgear.com/000065245/M4300-Firmware-Version-12-0-17-9

or even 12.0.17.7. 

Time elapsed between 2 firmware release is an indication of whether the firmware seems stable or not.

2. What is the best recommended firmware to use in a series (such as M4300)  for Production usage.

The latest firmware 3 weeks ago is most probably not the recommended one, and we're kind of lost when seeing 4 firmwares released in a quarter (most probably. can't be sure as no creation date is mentionned), mixing both bug fixes and new features in same time (classically bringing new bugs)

FYI, I've raised support ticket 46843940 for the same, been advised to publish here as having also for publicity.

Thanks.

Regards,

Olivier