I agree about the non-configurable upload functionality. Year/Month may not be the most appropriate storage convention for everyone (and in order to make the entire blog consistent, I had to manually move my old uploads into the current directory structure underneath “uploads”, and then manually edit posts that referenced those files; fortunately, only a few posts were affected).

I like the way the upload changes work with respect to posting/editing now, however. I don’t use the WYSIWYG editor (it’s just a blog post, after all), so I don’t know how the functionality differs between it and the HTML editor; however, the upload functionality in the HTML editor has options for the images that allow configuring how the image is displayed: thumbnail linked to image page, image linked to image page, or stand-alone image. The “send to editor” command accomplishes the same thing as WYSIWIG drag-and-drop, IMO.

I really don’t think there’s much inherent difference between user “levels” and “roles”, assuming levels were used consistently. If so, then “roles” are nothing more than pre-defined levels. Regardless, it might be a bit more intuitive to think in terms of roles than numbers.

But, all-in-all, I do like the new release!