Editor and engine evolve in parallel and usually synchronize once every 2 weeks — on stable channel. But the editor and engine have different approaches to releases: engine needs stability, so there is a testing and quality assurance period. The editor does not need such guarantees since it’s easier to push an editor fix to developers than to push an engine fix to players. This means “stable” is only about the engine. On editor-alpha channel there is always the most up to date version of an editor, but also a stable version of an engine. Hence, editor-alpha is recommended. Channel names are not very good at describing this situation, but it wasn’t too annoying for us so far to rename them.
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