It has been long rumored that odd-year versions of Revit (ie. 2017, 2019, 2021, etc.) are more unstable than even-year versions. This is due to the history of new features being introduced in odd years and flushed out before they are stabilized in even years. Hence the preference to use even-year versions of Revit.
When Autodesk licenses were based on years (ie. You could choose to purchase only that year’s software way back if you can remember), companies were more inclined to purchase even-year versions of Revit. Even well flushed BIM Execution plans listed specifically that only even-year versions were to be used and projects were never to upgrade into odd-year versions.
With that said, this doesn’t seem to be the case for Revit 2022 since new features like filtering by family and family type are now possible in schedules. In versions 2021 and prior, this feature was not possible.
Another new feature is multi-leader tagging which allows you to use one tag to tag multiple elements of the same category, which is useful for saving space on the drawing and avoiding overlapping tags just to clean up the drawing.
Because of this, It’s hard to tell if the even-years are still considered the stable years when new features like these are rolled out in an even-year version. Though, it is refreshing to see so many new features and fixes in Revit 2022. It’s been a while.
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