Syphon72: Both Versions have different patch numbering, but could be the same update for some games? If that is what I understanding. I wish we got better patch notes for our GOG games.
Most of the time we don't get patch notes at all. Only very few devs always add patchnotes here.
The internal versions are very misleading anyway, you are right about that, so are internal build numbers (maybe even more).
The only indicator, if the Galaxy-version of a game is indeed "newer" than the offline version, is the GOG/Galaxy build number. Its a shame that gogdb doesn't show more details. The steamdb also shows what files have been changed from one build to the other. Of course that would compare two Galaxy downloads, but one of them would be the same as contained in the offline installers.