I was running 6.0.6 version on Ubuntu 18.04. I downloaded the and installed 6.1.2, like normal.
The recent documents were saved and available to the new version. Yet, the color palettes I had were not placed into the new "share/palette" folder.
I added them - again - to that folder so I can use them again.
So the question is - why not copy the palettes along with the recent document data? Is there any reason I need to keep the ".config/libreoffice" folder?