That is weird, did you encounter this with the latest alphas? (There was an issue with one of the previous alphas but I haven't had similar reports since then)
I think I was on 5.549 early today but I was tired of losing my clipboard so nuked all the app support files and bettertouchool.app and reinstalled stable from scratch with my preset imported.
It's been happening for the last 2 weeks on and off
Does the website version get updated manually? I installed from there and got v5.536 which I had assumed as stable but looks like the appcast says v5.444?
Yes there are multiple steps during a release cycle. Automated rollouts (via appcast) always happen last because they can cause the biggest damage.
Ah okay cool. Makes sense 
@Andreas_Hegenberg My PRs have been merged and are now live!
Users can use brew install bettertouchtool or brew install bettertouchtool@alpha.
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Thanks @yougotwill, that was quick! brew automatically downgraded to the latest stable.
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Auto-downgrades can be pretty problematic though 
No worries! The homebrew team are pretty quick to respond which is great.
@Andreas_Hegenberg Yeah I was a little concerned about that but I do know you store databases per version so should hopefully be fine 
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I did change between different versions a lot when making bettertouchtool@alpha and downloading the zip from the website with no issues. Only the experimental syncing occasionally brought back deleted actions but I have cleaned up my preset.
Hopefully this should only happen this one time and when you next update the stable release it will all be resolved. 
For any homebrew users reading this, I highly recommend using GitHub - buo/homebrew-cask-upgrade: A command line tool for upgrading every outdated app installed by Homebrew Cask to manage your cask upgrades. It warns me about versions, doesn't update them if you are ahead and and let's you pin the current version of an application.
some users will be fine, but some will loose data. BTT doesn't keep the databases forever
(it's a weird behavior of brew to auto downgrade stuff, have never met an app updater that would do this in any scenario)
Damn. Well hopefully it only happens this time I did set up the formulas that you cannot have both formulas installed at the same time which should prevent issues down the line
If I am reading this right it should not downgrade automatically 
Maybe the --greedy flag was used or something similar?
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Indeed, it was a bit "problematic" for me, a widget I created on the Notch Bar got removed. When restoring from a preset backup, there was still something wonky (clicking the widget didn't work), so now I'm on the alpha cask.
And yes, I got used to using --greedy ages ago, and never had a problem.
Thanks for sharing brew-cask-upgrade, I'll give it a shot!