From e48a03460b491db7abfc80cefb41944c34abe073 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Kostyshak Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 22:32:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] RELEASE-NOTES: document creation of backup file We now create a backup file when overwriting a file with a new file format. See #9554 and cc83dfa8. This is now documented in RELEASE-NOTES. Thanks to Livu. --- lib/RELEASE-NOTES | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES index 3812ff8734..1f5a2be286 100644 --- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -154,3 +154,13 @@ package option "Automatic" is selected. In order to use babel, select "Always babel" instead. This may be needed if a document uses code that is specific to babel. + +* As usual, when opening and saving a document that was created by a previous + major version of LyX (in this case 2.1.x), the file format is changed to + the new file format (in this case 2.2.x). What is different starting with + 2.2.0 is that when we save a file that was not originally in the current LyX + format, we create a backup of the original file. We put it in the backup + directory, if one exists, otherwise in the directory the original file is + in. This is the same strategy as for normal backups. This backup file can be + helpful in case a bug in lyx2lyx caused data loss. For more information, see + #9554.