[hibernate-dev] Regarding release versioning

Hi, I have seen the frustration from the Spring Data team trying to keep up with our code changes that break their integrations, and I was wondering if we should use some Release candidates prior to releasing a start of a branch, even if it's a minor one. This way, instead of 5.2.0, we could release 5.2.0.RC1 or something like that to mark it as an intermediary release that's aimed for early adopters/integrators. Do you think this is feasible or is there something to prevent us from doing this? Vlad