New LibreCAD Versions Destroy Preferences and Settings

Every time I've upgraded LibreCAD on my iMac, I've lost my preferences settings.  When I went to a nightly build version, that gave me a few extra features, I found my previous preferences and settings got clobbered.  A few times I upgraded to a newer nightly build and lost them, too.  I just went from a nightly build to 2.0.10 and, again, I've lost my customized settings.  This includes the templates directory, but also my arrangement of the toolbars and the Current Drawing Preferences.

Also, now, the mouse is back to normal mouse behavior and I can't find an option to "Select Input Device" so I can have it act as a trackpad again.

Is there a way to keep these from version to version, or are there files they are stored in that I can backup before I upgrade and restore after the upgrade?

2.1.0-alpha will reset your settings, because it saves them to a different (correct) location.
The 2.0 branch saves settings in an improper way, yet still works.

You will never share the same settings between 2.0.10 and 2.1.0 from this point.
This is actually beneficial since the widget layouts aren't compatible.

Also, you "downgraded" to 2.0.10
All bug fixes that were included in that release are in 2.1.0-alpha.

So what I'm seeing going on is that 2.0 and 2.1 versions have different preferences, so when I go from one to the other, I seem to lose something. So if I stuck with 2.1 and the nightly builds there, I'd keep the 2.1 settings.

Is that right?

Yes; I imagine you will find your settings restored if you use alpha-11.

Thank you.  Did it and they are there.  Now I'm happy!