There was a few issues with updating the patcher.
Normally you only very rarely update the updater itself. The recent cluster of updates was from fixing a few bugs with the brand new compression.
Also, note that you only truly 'have' to update to the minimum version. When that window pops up, so long as your current version is >= to the minimum version you don't actually have to update and can just tell it to not ask you.
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