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@@ -114,6 +114,13 @@ obviously what was expected.
 Please look carefully through the tests. If something more serious than that
 comes up, please report a bug.
 
+#### Failure to restore a database dump created with an older MariaDB version ####
+
+Have a look into the `dump_updates/README.md`. In cases of version
+incompatibilities, the necessary steps to migrate the dump are
+probably described there and scripts for the migrations are provided
+in the same directory.
+
 ## Documentation #
 
 Build documentation in `build/` with `make doc`.