Yeah, sorry about those changes in the RCs. Really we used the wrong label and are sorry about that. All in all though, everything with those pre-releases worked out really well. Just a naming thing :).
I appreciate the apology. I updated a site on the assumption that RC1 was a release candidate and not a work in progress. Now I need to update the site again. Ugh.
I generally prefer using Major.minor.1 or Major.minor.2 of a new version (as many more bugs get fixed in those versions, after the stable version is used in production environment) or the last major version with all bug fixes.