As a late Christmas present find the first beta as usual on The Patches Scrolls: http://www.patches-scrolls.de/patch/4647/7/74145

Once the final is released the GOG version will be updated to it. For now you only need this if you want to play the plus patch!

Version Changelog:
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v9.7 28.12.2016
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+Restored Chateau Hotel to ending, thanks EntenSchreck and Psycho-A.
+Swapped clone Brujah at solo ending with Toreador for male Brujah.
+Made Gary gift different bloodpacks and fixed missing Kathayan bug.
+Stopped shaking Malkavian lines in Ocean House and at observatory.
+Made crypt ghosts vanish and added missing door to Chinese Theatre.
+Fixed map details, cleaned files and updated SDK, thanks Psycho-A.
+Removed Lotus Blossom patron with bad shadow and fixed green drips.
Switched badly fixed missing Tommy line with better fitting float.
Fixed Kilpatrick's line making it possible to restart Carson quest.
Recreated floats and subtitles, thanks miracle.flame and Psycho-A.
Fixed four level holes at the Ocean House and one in Venture Tower.
Mirrored SM area maps and improved details of others, thanks IanW.
Fixed unbalanced XP of Bad Luck Farmer quest and minor text issues.
Corrected Luca, Damsel, Bertram, Gary and Skelter dialogue issues.
Removed confusing left over corpse and gone cars in parking garage.
Fixed Zhao exploit and walkthrough errors, thanks to sunsmountain.
Corrected lip-sync of prostitutes in cemetery and her dialogue bug.
Improved Empire Hotel mafia TV room sound switch and music radius.
Disabled bump mapping option because of issues with improved water.
Fixed Nadia sequence, frozen zombies and Ming endgame camera shot.
Repaired bad icons and flickering for upper Venture tower elevator.

Update for the second 9.7 beta:

Made Santa Monica blueblood return after Domination, thanks Malkav.
Corrected and improved Linux Wine loader script, thanks Wrzlprmft.
Disabled low poly model LOD in engine.dll, thanks Drog Black Tooth.
Fixed weird camera after endgame Cabbie discussion and a cut line.

Update for the third 9.7 beta:

Repaired museum combat area and added model tutorial, thanks Icicle.

Update for the fourth 9.7 beta:

Repaired broken Asylum door music and two Blood Hunt Asylum holes.
Improved Sabbat issues in the tutorial and restored one Chunk line.
Put 4GB patch in Patch_Extras/Player Mods, thanks Daniel Pistelli.
Fixed invincible burning Lasombra and signs and curtain at theatre.
Corrected freeze during Beckett's "Wait" cutscene when Obfuscated.

Now that it's out, gog might as well re-patch the game, they started with 9.5 and updated the game with 9.6 the second time.

They usually wait for the final version...

If 9.7 were the final update, might as well call it...You done so much work for the unofficial basic and plus version, unless you going to add more stuff to fix. Because I already beaten the game the 9.5 version without any glitches or minor issues sticking out like a sore thumb. By the way, back when people are complaining about the pisha side mission of regarding the camera dude being stuck in one area and refusing to go to the elevator, THAT glitch can most likely occur if the players go into the skyline apartment before starting Necromantic or do any side mission related that has to do with the skyline apartment, which is best to do pisha's missions first before entering the tenant and once again before doing any side quests. Just letting you know whether it could be fix or not, but I did spot the issue. The Dexterity in the character creation can be a bit buggy I think, when I added some exp, there the Dexterity increased, but no points where added on sneak and lockpick

Final version of patch 9.7. Right now it's at 9.7 Beta1.

WESP!!!!

You are MAGNIFICENT!

Long time fan: recently just wandered back onto the GoG scene and was overjoyed to find Vtm:B with the Unofficial Patch here.

You are truly doing The Father's work sir!

A new second beta of 9.7 has been released and can be downloaded from The Patches Scrolls. Beside recompilation of all new maps with the updated SDK which might change the lighting a bit, only very minor issues have been fixed except for:

Made Santa Monica blueblood return after Domination, thanks Malkav.
Corrected and improved Linux Wine loader script, thanks Wrzlprmft.
Disabled low poly model LOD in engine.dll, thanks Drog Black Tooth.
Fixed weird camera after endgame Cabbie discussion and a cut line.

Thanks as always, wesp5. :)

Beta 3 is out, no major changes! Get it here: http://www.patches-scrolls.de/patch/4647/7/74109

Thank you. It's great to see this game still getting so much attention after so many years.

Here, have a blood bag I pilfered from work (Red Cross)!







(Alright, so it was a joke and I would not steal blood in reality)

Great job as always Wesp5 :D

I am definitely looking forward to the game being updated (i.e. to 9.7):

Is there a way to "encourage" GOG to do this?

P.S. The entry for VtM:B in my Library still reads "Read to install - English - 1.2 (UP 9.6 Basic)". Honest.

GOG usually updated the patch, once the final is out. We are still in beta...

Ah! I should have guessed. I hope it's "going to plan"!