I've been working with the release candidates for a while for my Shopify-based Bootstrap theme (http://bootstrapforshopify.com/), and while it's been a bit of a tough ride sometimes (with pretty significant changes from release to release), I'm really impressed with what v3 brings to the table.
Hopefully, the way the new styles are laid out will encourage more people to treat Bootstrap as a starting point rather than the end game for layout and styling (although it's a pretty good starting point in of itself).
Edit: And, of course, massive thanks to Mark and Jacob (plus the ever-increasing community) for all of the work they've put in over the last two years :).
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.
Hopefully, the way the new styles are laid out will encourage more people to treat Bootstrap as a starting point rather than the end game for layout and styling (although it's a pretty good starting point in of itself).
Edit: And, of course, massive thanks to Mark and Jacob (plus the ever-increasing community) for all of the work they've put in over the last two years :).