Same thing happen to me, on my macbook pro. The updater didn't ask and all my worlds are now screwed. I can't even roll back to the old launcher and play my worlds so many hours wasted
I hope that this is gonna be fixed in the future release so it doesn't update itself and the techniclauncher is compatible with old worlds, so you can enjoy the updates in the same world that your working on.
Another thing is that everytime i open the game i am ask to fix some problems with itemID and afterwards i got to resolve problems with some loose settings. I got no idea what I am doing and it happens everytime i open the game. Pretty annoying. Also when i'm right clicking some of the new items the game crashes. It seems to me that this version 7.2 has alot of problems.