[CentOS] RHEL 7.3 released

Fri Nov 4 13:48:09 UTC 2016
Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net>

On 11/04/2016 06:14 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
>
>> On 11/04/2016 04:38 AM, James Hogarth wrote:
>>> As a heads up RHEL 7.3 is released:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> 1.  Is CentOS-7.3 done yet?  Answer:  NO!
>>
>> And it is NOT CentOS-7.3 .. it is CentOS-7 (1611) based on RHEL-7.3
>> Sources.  The main tree will be labeled '7.3.1611' on the mirrors (along
>> side 7.0.1406 and 7.1.1503, and 7.2.1511, all of which are already there)
>>
>>
> Obligatory objection to this version numbering scheme:
>
> Deviating from RHEL in such a basic way is crazy, dumb, stupid, annoying,
> wrong, etc, etc.
>
> There, done.

Obligatory addition - the RPM %{release} tag often includes the RHEL 
minor release, e.g. 7_2 currently, so I will just call it 7.2 and likely 
same when 1611 tree is released.