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When renaming an element or type in the Design view, the user has to hit ENTER to commit. If the user clicks anywhere else outside of the edit field, the changes he made are lost.
This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue. Thanks for your cooperation, NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss