[GNC] Preferences reset problem?

[incoming-gnucash at sabot.com]

After gnucash 4.5 was announced, I tested upgrading to it on a
standalone test machine (running flatpak on ubuntu 20.04), and
I encountered the issue later described here:

  https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798194

where all my gnucash settings were lost.  On that same test machine, I
tried downgrading to 4.4, but my settings were still gone.  This
seemed kind of scary, so I put off upgrading my real machine pending a
fix.

I see that the bug report linked to above includes some manual
migration steps to export/re-import settings as a workaround, so I
plan to just go ahead and try that (and I will go direct from 4.4 to
4.6, skipping 4.5).  But I thought I'd check in to make sure that
there was no other pending/better way or automatic approach to this,
or is the manual workaround the way to go?

If this issue affects all flatpak users, perhaps the release notes
should reference the preferences issue and describe or link to the
appropriate workaround?

--gary