I notice some people have had weird start screen behaviour, which I've not had. I hope that gets fixed for those cases, because I've gone from thinking the start screen was a pain in the neck to thinking it's great. For me, pops up immediately, does exactly what I need it to do.
 
I'm usually hopping around, say, three or four different projects any given week, and the start screen is now really working well for that.
 

John T
I notice some people have had weird start screen behaviour, which I've not had. I hope that gets fixed for those cases, because I've gone from thinking the start screen was a pain in the neck to thinking it's great. For me, pops up immediately, does exactly what I need it to do.
 
I'm usually hopping around, say, three or four different projects any given week, and the start screen is now really working well for that.

Blank screen issue is resolved:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Solved-Start-screen-blank-with-no-projects-icons-m3290856.aspx
 

sharke
The last couple of updates with synth recording and now aux track routing and patch points have revolutionized Sonar for me. It's a HUGE workflow boost. I got so sick of traveling back and forth between the tracks and buses, whether in the track view or in the console view. If you're going to route all of your drums to a bus, what was the advantage in having that drum bus all the way behind the "curtain"? That separation had a negative psychological impact on my workflow, in that I felt disorganized and jumbled. 
 
Now my track philosophy is thus: 
 
Instead of grouping tracks to a bus I put all of those tracks in a folder and add an aux track to it, routing all of the tracks to the aux. All of the tracks are together in the folder. 
 
If I'm using an effects return that's only for a group of tracks that I have grouped in a folder, I'll set up the return as an aux track. For instance, I might be using a room reverb or a delay that's only being used for drums. It goes in the drums folder instead of behind the curtain. Far more logical and organized. 
 
If I'm using an effects return that's used widely across the whole project, I'll set up a bus for that as usual. It can stay behind the curtain, out of the way. 
 
The old way of doing things seems so archaic already. 
 
Synth recording is another major workflow improvement. It's now so much easier to print synth parts and draw a line under them. The old way of exporting or bouncing was a drag. I would be too lazy to do it, and as a result would twiddle with synth controls ad infinitum to the point where I was just chasing my tail. Now it's so easy to just record the synth, get rid of the MIDI track and turn the synth off so that I'm committed to it. 
 
And yes, it's definitely snappier for me. I can feel a good performance boost in synth heavy projects. 
 

Sounds great. Think you could maybe post a screen cap of how you're doing things.  It would be very helpful.
 
ThanksE6!
 

Have most of the people who reported problems using windows 10?

Working fine here...

The program now starts quickly as it used to... Thanks...

Though I haven't had any practical need for the new routing yet, I'm pleased to know its there for if/when I need it.

Tested it and so far it works fine. Logical and intuitive...

But they didn't change the Layer Zoom issues yet, so I'm still badly wanting...

Red4Con1
Have most of the people who reported problems using windows 10?

Driver issues are mainly OS specific. There have been no specific issues reported with Sonar and Windows 10, that's unlikely to change.

Not a good update for me unfortunately. After 4 goes at updating and rolling back, I've had to contact Support on this one. I loaded a project I had been working on and some of the soft synths I had suddenly had a weird timing issue...started playing a couple seconds after they were meant to and continued playing after project stopped. Whilst this occurred with some newer synths I had recently purchased, it was even doing it with Zeta. On one occasion, I tried the upscaling real time thing, and that just made it worse...so perhaps it's related? 
 
So then I tried a reset/re-scan and it stalled on a Wave plug-in. 
 
All other updates have been perfect but this is the first update after upgrading to Win 10...hope it's not because of that as 10 seems pretty good otherwise.

Fabio Rubato
Not a good update for me unfortunately. After 4 goes at updating and rolling back, I've had to contact Support on this one. I loaded a project I had been working on and some of the soft synths I had suddenly had a weird timing issue...started playing a couple seconds after they were meant to and continued playing after project stopped. Whilst this occurred with some newer synths I had recently purchased, it was even doing it with Zeta. On one occasion, I tried the upscaling real time thing, and that just made it worse...so perhaps it's related? 
 
So then I tried a reset/re-scan and it stalled on a Wave plug-in. 
 
All other updates have been perfect but this is the first update after upgrading to Win 10...hope it's not because of that as 10 seems pretty good otherwise.

There are a number of waves threads scattered around the forums since Jamaica. Chances are (if I may be so bold to speculate) one of them will get that issue resolved.

The other issue, there has been in more than one thread from memory, well fingers crossed the regression release (which I hope is coming TBC, certainly bakers have confirmed they have already fixed some regression bugs) will resolve it.

I would be extremely surprised if any issues are win10 specific, esp as I assume you were running Sonar fine on windows 10 before.

Working fine here -

works great here,i like the routing options the most.