They switched to 3.0 quite some time ago:
> Our production instances made the final switch in the week leading up to Thanksgiving
Writing this blog post probably wasn't very high priority.
> How did this happen?
Maybe they were busy creating a great product instead of obsessing about perfect architecture and optimising prematurely?
I think you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who believes that ensuring all of the servers are running the same code is a 'premature optimization'.
They switched to 3.0 quite some time ago:
> Our production instances made the final switch in the week leading up to Thanksgiving
Writing this blog post probably wasn't very high priority.
> How did this happen?
Maybe they were busy creating a great product instead of obsessing about perfect architecture and optimising prematurely?