There are two issues with using the Cubit journal files in the repository, which were used to generate meshes 10+ years ago.
Ids are not consistent with the current Cubit versions. Changes to the underlying libraries results in geometric objects having different ids. As a result, the journal files must be updated with the correct ids.
The meshing algorithms are slightly different and biasing does not work in the same way. The meshing schemes might need to be updated in some cases.
There are two issues with using the Cubit journal files in the repository, which were used to generate meshes 10+ years ago.