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Is this really a dupe, considering this is the final release, and that was the RC?

It's a tough call, but I think it has to be this way, or we'd have popular projects getting major threads with every incremental state change. That's fine in itself, of course, but front page slots are the most limited resource HN has.

(This is in no way a criticism of jQuery or its fine 3.0 release.)

I hope that this is applied on a case-by-case basis, e.g. Rails 5 RC1 was released more than a month ago, and the official release of Rails 5 will be major news when it happens and it would be a shame if it were 'dupe'd off of the front page.

fwiw, I'm glad that this article was on the front page, if only momentarily, because I had missed or forgotten about the previous RC announcement and am interested in this news.

That makes sense. Thanks for the well-thought-out explanation.

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