This should not be the case of course.
We wrote a migration script that should migrate all your old settings to the version structure. But since your columns are gone, there must went something wrong during your update. Can you check the following for me?
– Is the table wp_admin_columns available in your database (wp_ might be prefixed differently)
– If so, is that table populated with rows/column settings?
– are the settings pages also completely empty or do you see the default columns?
Fortunately, we don’t remove the old column settings during the migration, so you can safely downgrade to the previous version to make everything work again as before until we found out what went wrong. So any information that you can provide, will help us understand the issue. You can send me the information also at [email protected].