I know what semantic versioning is, I'm saying I don't think the dev is using it. The way the updates have been described we would be 85% of the way to the end, and the versions have been skipping numbers, and they use ABCDE for patch updates on the same version number
Normally, there are also small updates within a single patch. For example, people often think that version 0.85E is the latest one, but actually 0.85E can contain several minor updates inside it similar to
0.85E build 1, 2, 3.
I told Shiroin to use that versioning scheme, but he said that many players don’t even know which version is the newest. So giving the update a long, detailed name isn’t necessary and would only confuse people even more. Because of that, the game itself won’t know whether that 0.85E version is actually the latest version or not, to trigger the auto update.