Board Thread:General Discussion and Questions/@comment-172.79.13.13-20160117121350/@comment-24668482-20160117141729

There is no newer version available for you. A lot of people are suffering from this glitch.

My best guess is that it is a problem with how the game handles cross platform friendships (android players with iOS players with Kindle players with Windows players). Each platform has the same main version of the game, which right now is the Christmas update or version 1.3. Occassionally there will be small problems with one platform and so a patch is released for them. It does not contain any new game content, just fixes small problems in the existing game. It is not a full update (changing version number 1.3 to 1.4) but a patch of exisiting version (changing 1.3.0 to 1.3.1 etc). If the problems in the game that require a patch are only on one platform, they are the only ones to get the patch. Right now, the majority of players are on version 1.3.0 of the game, but android players have had a patch released to solve problems, so their version is 1.3.1. The two versions are identical in terms of game content, but technicallly 1.3.1 is newer than 1.3.0. So the game mistankenly thinks you are an update behind and asks you to update to interact with those friends on 1.3.1. There is no version 1.3.1 released for any other platform (none of them needed it), so until the next proper update to the game is released (version 1.4) you will continue to have this problem (unless of course enough people complain the developers do release a 1.3.1 for everyone else that fixes the problem).

Essentially they have added a bit of code to force people to update their games when big new updates come out, but there is a problem with how they implemented it so it is too senstive (taking patches into account, when they are rarely universal) and will also probably cause huge problems when there are delays in releases of updates down the line (unlikely that iOS, android,kindle, windows will all get updates on same day or even same week). Hopefully they will either fix or remove this stupid feature.