docs: add a note about the new version scheme

Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Paul <brianp@vmware.com>
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(HTTP).
</p>
<p>
Starting with the first release of 2017, Mesa's version scheme is
year-based. Filenames are in the form <tt>mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz</tt>, where
<tt>Y</tt> is the year (two digits), <tt>N</tt> is an incremental number
(starting at 0) and <tt>P</tt> is the patch number (0 for the first
release, 1 for the first patch after that).
</p>
<p>
When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/beta/">here</a>.