stable vs. latest

[Felix Miata]

Last Debian, Fedora & *buntu releases had 4.8.x. Current Gentoo is 4.8.7. 
Mageia 3 is about to be released with 4.8.7. So, why does the stable/4.8.1.x 
branch even exist?
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