Very late to this thread.
Can't say what hasn't already been said but here are additional details with my 23 years experience with the program:
+1 for improvements to note-snapping for Staff Roll. Cakewalk Home Studio was really good at this. Having note snap set to 1/16 "To" mode and note length to 16th does not produce results as expected. Example: " 1 e & A " when laid down as expected with expected timings: "1:01:000, 1:01:240, 1:01:480, 1:01:720" often produces note snapping errors like: "1:01:000 1:01:360 1:01:640, 1:01:720" at default ticks per quarter note. This is especially irritating as a main reason I find Cakewalk very comfortable to use is the Staff Roll, where I initially learned music theory.
+1 for VST wrapper stability improvements. More specifically to multiple instances of Rapture Pro, of which I've had crashing over.
+1 For panic-clip ! Save our eardrums ! Please.
+1 For fixing diatonic transposition math. -8 does not in fact lower MIDI data by one octave. I find myself having to make adjustments after transposing.