I had to go back to the first announcement where they used the terms Part 1 and Part 2. It sounds to me like it goes like this. "Announcement 1 is that 0.26.0 is now available subscribers, and announcement 2 is that 0.25.0 is available to the public." So if you want to stick with the freely available version you will be one update behind.
Overall it's a good system that's more than fair. It's just worded in a way that's hard to understand. I'm still not sure I got it right so don't quote me on this.