Lol there is no next update
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That certianly appears to be how it works. Although, a lot of people don't seem to grasp it so maybe it's not universally obvious.
Or maybe it's just more obvious if you follow the Patreon, which people following the free releases likely won't be.
It certainly looks like the current release series is 0.3.x(a/b/etc.)
With the free/itch version always being at .x-1. But, I assume, the most complete iteration of it.
So those of us paying on the Patreon get 0.3.4, which has had three sub-releases so far. But, I assume, once 0.3.5 starts to come out on Pateron, the itch.io version will then be 0.3.4c
But it will "appear" like the Patreon version is the only one getting obvious movement. However, only because the "latest" version seems to get released in smaller chunks. The itch.io version will make fewer, but larger, jumps, to the latest of the previous release.