For the sake of linking to this download, would it not be beneficial to instead use something like latest.zip?
That would then mean using one link for downloads, especially useful when writing guides, WIKIs or otherwise being always able to give the same link and be assured it’s pointing to the latest version.
My guide was out of date within a couple of weeks as I was linking to the direct download (wget command) to v.9.
From that perspective this would be better. I know Wordpress have been doing it for a while so it’s not unheard of by any means.