I'm not sure what you are expecting to see in the update: I said we might remove it, not that we *already* removed it in the latest version. However, I referring to the first message, about the connection being alive, which is redundant.
The other message won't be removed, because you'll want to know if there was a problem with SODE.
But that's not the point. As I've said already, the program tries to reestablish the communication automatically, but if it can't, it can usually fixed by restarting SODE with its "Reload All" menu option.