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(Get the code!)
I am one of the upstream developers. What I can say about this 2.2.4 version is
* we have unit tests for the code, but I would not qualify them as extensive
* as of versions 2.2.x, we have a rather extensive test repository that checks whether our file export routines (which is the main purpose of LyX after all) work well.
* as the last release of the 2.2.x series, LyX 2.2.4 has been build very conservatively, so that it would not introduce new problems. It does fix 56 bugs, among which crashes like bug #1737429.
* I do not remember of any new problem introduced in 2.2.4. Unfortunately, we did not create a "2.2.4" version in our bug tracker, so I cannot substantiate that.
* the only new feature is the possibility to read/write LyX 2.3.x files, which is very valuable in itself.
I am not sure this fulfill the SRU rules, but I want to emphasize that long term releases is the main target of a release such as this one. We have a stable release manager whose job is to sure that people can upgrade stable releases with low risk, and is twice as cautious for the last one in a series.