That says to me that "We have several outstanding issues we need to resolve before we next ship". It doesn't say that they're leftover from previous versions.

And so I find myself defending Flash. Strange things are afoot.

Yes, except "ship" to most people in most contexts means "make available", not "cut a point release". Say there was an egregious typo in an O'Reilly manual—if their spokesman said "we don't ship books with typos," would that imply to you "we're not selling another copy of this book until we fix it" or "we're going to keep selling the version with the typo until we get around to publishing the next edition?"

That's a different situation, as pulping and reprinting books represents a significant outlay. I would interpret that as "we'll give the publisher a new PDF and instruct them to print with that instead, effective immediately".

Wow, good spot.