LR 5.3 bug: local adjustments not saved in XMP

Hi,
I'm seeing the following bad bug on my mac, with LR5.3
If I save metadata to disk and immediately reload, I lose some adjustments, like brushes, tone curves, etc.
I compared some old .xmp and the .xmp saved by LR5.3 and indeed there are some sections missing.
Can anyone confirm? This looks like a P0 bug to me. What's the procedure for notifying Adobe?

did you wait for LR to save all the 10000 XMPs?
yes, I waited... 24 hours. but again, time is not the issue. This happens even for a single picture, albeit it does not happen for any picture.
I open a picture, save metadata, switch to finder/terminal, look at the .xmp manually and I see all the legitimate differences (e.g. softwareAgent changed from LR4.1 to LR5.3), but also a lot of sections are missing.
If I switch back to LR and re-read metadata from the file, I lose all the local edits, etc.
are you sure the Write rights of the restored files are OK?
Have you tried the same operation on the local disk?
yes and yes.
I think I found the pattern:
this happens for pictures that have been upgraded from PV2010 to PV2012 in LR4.
If I edit one of these pics in LR, it shows "Process version 2012", and in history I see "Update to current process (2012)".
However, the .xmp file on the disk says: "crs:processVersion = 5.7" (which is 2010, IIRC).
If I select "Process Version 2010" and then again "Process Version 2012", and I re-save the xmp, then it looks good.
Do you have any clue of what's going on?

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