Historically we've been sticking with the last release number in the master branch. However that's a bit confusing, people can't easily figure out whether they're using a release or a work-in-progress snapshot. Only the commit hash appended to the version number may help, but that's not very explicit and disappears when using a tarball. We could bump the version in master to the next release number. However during the RC cycle there would be a downgrade from 1.8 to 1.8-rc1. Also it would be hard to tell the difference between a stable release and an old snapshot. This patch introduces a new pre-release identifier, "dev". It's alphabetically before "rc" so it should be correctly sorted by semver comparisons. "dev" is upgraded to "rc" (and then to stable) when doing a release. The master branch always uses a "dev" version, only release branches use "rc" or stable versions.master
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