Thread:Fossiliferous/@comment-26424426-20160206042207/@comment-24668482-20160206092513

It is just a patch that was released yesterday (a 'point 5' not a full new version number). Chances are it has made small changes you won't notice, something they felt needed an adjustment in the android game to warrant a patch (but not a problem in any other device's version of the game). They stopped giving release notes for patches a long time ago, and the changes are often behind the scenes stuff so hard to tell what it did. The only patches really worth getting are the ones that solve game ruining bugs (such a new update that won't play for a lot of players on a device being patch very quickly after original release, those locked out of game by original update would want to get that patch asap), but at the same time there is no harm in installing most patches.

The only risk a patch would have to an existing back up would be if it drastically changed the save file architecture (so new game save files incompatible with old ones), but that has never happened, so no reason to believe it would happen now.

Anyway, download if you want, don't if you don't want. I doubt you will notice any difference either way.