CocoaPods/Core — pull request #75 by luisdelarosa (2014-03-30 01:01:17+00:00)
Title: Fixed #73: Pre-release versions should not be matched when using the < version operator.

This effectively excludes pre-release versions from the algorithm which tries to return the highest version that matches.

It does allow the user to explicitly specify a pre-release version, for example: "MyFavoritePod", "1.0RC3".