I did get a problem with flapping switch ports and devices that suddenly ethernet ports started to malfunction, going on and off or having very limited capability with versions after 6.29 and had to install 6.33rc3 on those devices to get them stabilized again.
Right now I am using 6.32.1 on majority of production devices and 6.32.2 on a few.
The schema for patching looks very much to the AIX calendar (and for sure many other vendors uses similar patch cycles).