Most Recommended LabVIEW Version for Windows 11?

[Bryan]

I know that LabVIEW 2022Q3 is the earliest version that supports W11 based on NI's website.  However, I'd like to know from others in here what is the most stable/recommended W11 compatible version.  

We're currently using LabVIEW 2020 for development on some older W11 machines, but new machines that we're being given for some reason are giving us problems when we try to install the development environment (Forces Windows into a recovery loop after installation).  So, we figured it's about time to migrate to a newer version.  

We don't 'upgrade' very often, so we want to make sure that whatever version we pick will work for us for as long as possible until we must upgrade again.

Edited 4 hours ago by Bryan

[crossrulz]

I've generally been recommending using at least 2025 because the project dependency list is no longer saved in the project file (it got recalculated at loading anyways), making GIT commits cleaner. And the in-place save for previous (introduced with 2024) is really nice to have.

I have been using 2026Q1 for my development, including a major refactoring of my HAL architecture. I've had very few issues, almost all of which were fixed by clearing the object compile cache regularly (something I have a habit of doing anyways since at least 2016).

And just to throw it out there, we are expecting 2026Q3 to drop any day now. No promises from NI on a date, but we are in Q3 now.

[Mads]

2020 was my favourite for a long time as we had issues on RT with many of the later versions. 2025 Q3 has been stable both on Win 11 and RT although the Linux RT Images are too bloated for some of the smaller sb/cRIO targets 😞.

I did try to switch to 2026 when it came out, but ran into serious VISA issues on RT with it (which NI says has been fixed now).

The next version we will move to is the upcoming 2026Q3 unless any issues show up during testing. It will include "native" SBOM-support which is good to have for the EU CRA requirements that kick in later this year (Still hoping for more significant feature updates soon though. The 40 year anniversary would have been a great time for some of those... 😮)