switched the versioning scheme and "feature releases" are named with
three-dotted decimal digits that ends with ".0" (e.g. "1.9.0").
-The last such release was 2.10 done on Sep 2nd, 2016. You can expect
+The last such release was 2.11 done on Nov 29th, 2016. You can expect
that the tip of the "master" branch is always more stable than any of
the released versions.
four dotted decimal, named after the feature release they are updates
to (e.g. "1.8.5.1" was the first maintenance release for "1.8.5"
feature release). These days, maintenance releases are named by
-incrementing the last digit of three-dotted decimal name (e.g. "2.9.3"
-is the third maintenance release for the "2.9" series).
+incrementing the last digit of three-dotted decimal name (e.g. "2.10.2"
+is the second maintenance release for the "2.10" series).
New features never go to the 'maint' branch. This branch is also
merged into "master" to propagate the fixes forward as needed.