Comment 3 for bug 1422296

On 2015-02-16 11:26 (+0100), Diederik van Lierop wrote:
> The easiest thing to do would be to change the defaults; I don't see
> any other way than that really. But that will only become visible
> when we release 0.92, so that doesn't solve anything on the short
> term.

... and just changing the snap settings in the default template(s) won't help when editing files created with older Inkscape versions (except 0.48.4), either.

What should we do for the moment - keeping this report open (confirmed) so that bug searches will show it (I assume this will get reported again)?

@Diederik - maybe you could update/expand the release notes about snapping and describe this changed behavior there?
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.91#Snapping