Commit 4cff10f1 authored by Hans Wennborg's avatar Hans Wennborg
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ReleaseNotes: mention the versioning scheme change

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@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ have questions or comments, the `LLVM Developer's Mailing List
<http://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev>`_ is a good place to send
them.

New Versioning Scheme
=====================
Starting with this release, LLVM is using a
`new versioning scheme <http://blog.llvm.org/2016/12/llvms-new-versioning-scheme.html>`_,
increasing the major version number with each major release. Stable updates to
this release will be versioned 4.0.x, and the next major release, six months
from now, will be version 5.0.0.

Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
=================================================
* Minimum compiler version to build has been raised to GCC 4.8 and VS 2015.