Export Metadata to 'XMP-dc:subject' and 'XMP-lr:hierarchicalsubject' automatically?

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Export Metadata to 'XMP-dc:subject' and 'XMP-lr:hierarchicalsubject' automatically?

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Hello dear forum members, I just noticed, that during assigning categories, these are automatically :?: :!:
exported to 'xmp-dc:subject' and 'xmp-lr:hierarchicalsubject'.

As far as I remember, I needed to do (could do) this manually with the menu "metadata - update files from database".
Until today, this was my workflow, but now I noticed, that as soon as I assign a category, the xmp-subjects (lr and dc) are instantly created, on most of my JPG's (whereas some JPG's are not showing any XMP data... for which I have not found a reason, so far).

Is that automatic-export a new "feature" I missed or a bug? I could not find any announcement or other reports, regarding this behaviour.

I want to have the option, to export assigned categories as described, but only after I finished assigning (all) categories to all files, not automated, resulting in numerous write-processes. As far as I remember, I have not changed anything in the xnview.ini or my settings.

For reference, you can see my "settings-metadata" and "settings-metadata-sidecar".
Can anybody please give me a hint or advice, please?
Thank you in advance!
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