I guess this is where we are at.
Announcements by the team are made on Discord.
The team, May or may not duplicated them here on the forum.
On the HOME page of the app there is a
NEWS section (which seems to be implemented as a set of links to posts in the forum). New version announcements should appear there, or do Totem think that a new version is not news !
Totem gave us a promise not to share our personal information with third parties - but now in order to enjoy the full functionality that we previously had we are required to give that data away ourselves. I am not happy about that and never will be though, reluctantly, I have to accept it. However, I can not fully accept that important information such as the release of a new version is hidden from us.
In passing, I find it unfortunate that the news section is now very much less prominent on the home page than it previously was. I now have to scroll down to see that the news section even exists, let alone be able to read it.
Apparently .516 has some changes to setting up a new account that they wanted to test
Which would make it a beta, but it's the default download from the web page and is the version available via the "check for updates" link on app's the settings page. So, is it a beta or not? I am still ***** on this matter.