Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and what in fact did happen. You don't know how to make a good report? See http://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback Your bug report will be posted to the Org-mode mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7.5 correctly exports the \footnote latex commands when exporting to beamer, version 7.8 escapes the {} resulting in a the { being in the footnote text instead intended text. I have attached a simple test case, the correct output and the failed out put.