@foxmask, you’re probably not going to like this but I think the best solution is to uninstall and reinstall the app and resync. I’ve just tried upgrading v174 on a device that didn’t have the recent releases and it works fine.
I guess I’m using these “soft” releases to GitHub as a way to test the app on my own devices but I’ll avoid doing this in the future as I see quite a few people are relying on them. Maybe I’ll create a “joplin-beta” GitHub repo where I’ll releases these tests.