Do you remember that after the A7.27b beta has been released, the next version which was the official release candidate was A7.50 (see beta date 2-Sep-2008)??? This was due to a deal with Sybex, because a new big version number has obviously a big selling potential.

So, version numbers should'nt lead to any conclusions... if JCL really has an update iteration problem because he is near A7.99 I guess he considers doing many interim versions like A7.99.1 for betas for instance or he will just rebrand it to A8 without adding brand new super features