That’s somewhat irritating*. I have 96 Avatars to recreate.
The backup I took just before upgrading is … different. The ‘People’ data is stored as a large file of ‘vcf’ data in the tar, with pictures encoded in what looks like base64. I’m not quite sure** how to restore the Avatars from that. Sigh.
*I thought I had read the release notes. Oh well. There is a link https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/lost-all-avatars-on-upgrade/5536, which doesn’t work (missing or private), under the title Sailfish OS Forum and T.J.C: Issues reported by the community and fixed in this update, but since it says the issue was fixed, I wasn’t worried. My optimism was unjustified.
**For ‘not quite sure’ read have ‘almost no idea’. Backup restores everything, whereas I’d quite like to choose to restore only People/(Contacts). I’m sure I can hack something up to extract the .jpgs from the vcf data and put them in the appropriate place, but it would be nice if I didn’t have to.