I (on Stable Branch) checked for updates and got this:
What does it mean? Specifically what are the red and the blue numbers?
I don’t believe this would be an “update” because 16.3 KB is too small and the May 7 one is the last one here:
You have an update
Currently installed version.
Version to be installed.
Sorry to question your beliefs. 
https://packages.manjaro.org/?query=manjaro-release
If you want to know more generally what it does … it defines the manjaro ‘release’.
It provides /etc/lsb-release.
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID="ManjaroLinux"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="23.0.0"
DISTRIB_CODENAME="Ultima Thule"
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Manjaro Linux"
(the above is yet a different version because I am on Unstable branch)
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Thank you.
So this update would re-define the release of my stable Manjaro install (from red number to blue), but otherwise change nothing else?
I can see there might be an administrative reason to do so. E.g. my install must identify itself as a particular number for something else to go smoothly.
But otherwise, this update does nothing “substantive”?
Manjaro is rolling - and as such - packages are rolled out to end users using snapshots - for testing and stable branch - and the ISO is really just a point-in-time snapshot - usually using stable branch.
The name is a code name - it has no real meaning - they are fictive planets from the a science ficttion universe in Starwars.
The number will indicate when the system was last synced with the repos.
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Gene Roddenberry would like a word with you. 
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He likely would - I have never been good at remembering those tiny details …
Is it Startrek, Starwars, Farscape or …
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It matters not, Padawan, we will always be…Manjorian
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You can always check the package’s file list to see what the package provides:
pacman -Ql manjaro-release
or if the package is not installed:
pacman -Fl manjaro-release
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Somewhere in Spaceplace…
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I prefer Manjalorian. 
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