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by Beermotor 1098 days ago
RedHat also backports fixes, security patches, and (occasionally) features to existing RPMs without incrementing the minor version.

For example fuzzywhatsit-3.0 in RHEL could be functionally equivalent to 3.5 in another distro.

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They even rebase packages to new upstream versions in point releases (where doing so maintains backwards compatibility, of course).