Can't open the demo with pcbnew

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I installed 2014-12-16 BZR 5324 and tried to open some of the demo projects. All the projects open without any problem but pcbnew won’t open the board file. It always gives the following error. (They worked with the previous version I was using)

IO_ERROR: Layer ‘Dessous.Adhes’ in file ‘/Users/chamod/Desktop/demos/video/video.kicad_pcb’ at line 21, is not in fixed layer hash
from /Downloads/cairo-1.14.0/builddir/kicad/pcbnew/pcb_parser.cpp : parseLayers() : line 818

However, the boards i’ve designed with previous versions open without any issue.

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In my version (5328) of this demo board there is nothing like ‘Dessous.Adhes’. Your version of this demo file might be outdated or corrupt.

It should contain this:

(32 B.Adhes user)
(33 F.Adhes user)

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Thanks, you’re right. My demo is outdated. Earlier I didn’t bother to check because I thought new versions are supposed to be backward compatible.

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They should be. Looks like a valid bug.

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Not a (current) bug as such, since it is not so in upstream. A previous version of kicad, I don’t remember when, was saving layernames translated. This should not be possible anymore.