And Chuck just proved my point by creating this thread PMS 1.29.1 HW Tonemapping Testing, Questions , and Answers
Clearly, as of right now, 1.29.1. is a separate development branch that started a while ago, and in parallel with 1.29.0. I’d prefer if branches like that, where more testing and feedback is required, were released separately from the regular beta branch, and would not prompt an update from within PMS.