Um, obviously it has been polished a lot after receiving all of the feedback from the testers and stuff. I actually wound up sending out three updates to various testers so I'm not sure exactly which one you have. Testing was NOT super well organized.
I don't have a complete codified list of changes from the very first alpha version but here's some of them:
* Combat Slightly Rebalanced (overall slightly easier)
* Monster Bait/Monster Repellent
* Random Encounter Indicator
* New Shop Scene
* New Status Scene
* Water bug fixed (albeit disabling the return of your empty jar for the moment).
* Hintscreen/Loading Screen added.
* Various ergonomic tweaks.
* Various bugfixes (pickaxe back in tool shop etc.)
* Kitchen now starts open.
etc.
I haven't got each and every typo fixed but I'm not that worried about that kind of thing at this stage.