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Which version of FieldTrip should I download?
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Although initially we considered to have version 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, etc., eventually
we decided against it. We have a smooth development path and sofar we have been
able to maintain backward compatibility quite well. The latest version of the
toolbox will generally work with your older scripts. There is a limited number
of people that can directly change the code, and they take their responsibility
to the other users very seriously. When we add or change functionality in the
code, we always test it prior to committing it to the code repository.

We release daily versions of FieldTrip, with the name fieldtrip-YYYYMMDD, where
YYYY, MM and DD are the year, month and day. These are generated following the
process described on https://www.fieldtriptoolbox.org/development/releasing/,
and contain the most up-to-date code. Besides the normal daily release, there
is also a lite version that does not contain the binary *.mat files. These mat
files contain templates used for plotting source reconstructions and they do
not change very often. The lite version is only approximately 80 MiB, whereas
the normal version (which includes the anatomical templates) is around 400 MiB.

In general, you should download the most recent release. It contains the most
features and all known bugs will be fixed in that version. If you encounter
a problem and think that that is caused by a bug in the code, you should
download the latest version of that moment. If the problem still persists,
please inform us about it through the email discussion list.