Hey, a manual update is required.
Is this an intentional slow rollout to catch serious bugs with them effecting as few people as possible at once or is this version not compatible with the current auto updating system?
Both, we haven't officially announced it as we iron at the last issues. The new update system is also not compatible with the old one. Once we're confident with everything we're going to notify all users of the old app that there's an update available for them via the itch.io homepage (when viewed in the app).