The changes that occurred for that fix to go in probably had not been implemented in the stable branch yet..otherwise, it would probably
have been pushed in to fix it.
There are a myriad of ways to update your database:
- create a backup and work from that - only pulling in changes from your working db to your live one as you're ready.
- work from sql files so that you can just reapply the changes whenever needed.
There's a lot of ways to do this and I'm sure there are some really good alternatives out there
