What does rc mean in angular versions

Question

There are a lot of angular versions here. beta means still incomplete and not to use for production.

but what is the meaning of rc. https://code.angularjs.org/

Taegu

Answer 1

rc is release candidate. This means no new feature will be introduced just a bugfix releases before final release.

Radiate

Well, that's what it's supposed to mean, but the Angular 2 team certainly doesn't seem to use it that way, since between release candidates they've deprecated and replaced the router, and added the new NgModule functionality. – Ivanna

@IanMcLaird Finally angular 2 team admitted it that they broke lot of stuff during rc. So now they will use semver to avoid confusion, and breaking changes will be once in 6 months. – Radiate