I just tried importing a stereo wav file into a strip in track view and it worked as expected.
 

I decided to roll back. That took care of most of my issues. Not to rub it in, but in addition to what I previously mentioned, I was seeing things like the Now Time marker bleeding through the Console View and the Console Emulator in ProChannel not accepting input.

Update on my post. Rolled back and still the same zoom glitch. Bounced audio to clip and it's behaving as expected now in both the previous and new version.

Ok had my first issue with the update last night.  Well I have had issues with importing waves files.I re-did them and tested them in Sound Forge first this time.  Unfortunately, there were a lot of noise issues after I imported them.  I do this all the time so I know it can be done successfully...that is..er...until last night.
 
Any thoughts or suggestions on this issue.  It is a critical one for the way I work with Sonar Platinum.
 
No problems, however,   recording/mixing or using plugins.  All seems normal there.  The import feature is the only issue so far.

I tested the Audio Export issue with 2017.02, (see my post above - apparently you can't quote your own posts anymore,...lol), and nothing's changed so I rolled back to 2017.01 and the Smart Tool issues are now in .01! 
 
In addition to that, I saw this interesting behavior.  After comping an audio track I selected all the clips and attempted to Bounce To Clip.  I got this message: An unknown error occurred during processing possibly caused by an invalid parameter".  I closed the DB and re-selected the clips and it worked as expected except that the resulting wave form showed "Busy" and just set there!  Sonar showed "running" in the Task Manger and I ended up having to shut Sonar down, and try again.  After several attempts, it worked. 
 
This happened for several tracks I had been comping and then I abruptly stopped getting the error message and I was able to edit and bounce for the rest of the session without issues, (other than the a fore mentioned Smart Tool problems).  Yes I re-booted several times.
 
Likely unrelated but my Audio Playback just stopped working last night.  Tried everything including shutting Sonar down and trying to play an audio file in Windows.  Nothing!  I had to turn off my interface and turn it back on again.  It only happened that one time.  Strange stuff has been happening.  Very frustrating!
 
Any thoughts?  Thanks.
 
Paul

tested 02 with a new load of my firmware/driver update for MOTU Ultralite mk4.  Loaded a lite and complex mix and things seemed normal.  I later noticed an issue after I tried to load a new plugin and it didn't seem to load.  The 'check on startup' scan seemed to work, but when I ran the full rescan, the scan module kept crashing... i had to remove the old LP EQ & MB plugs before the scan would continue to find the new plug.  It also didn't like scanning the cake Drop Zone and Tube plugs... Bitmap not found error.  After sending those plugs to the recycle bin the rescans were smooth.  Even excluding the plugs didn't keep the scan from crashing.  Good for now.

Ok troops.  Apparently, when this update installed my PreSonus drivers got corrupted.  Have no idea how that could have happened.  Nevertheless, after totally removing the driver and absolutely all traces or paths to it, I re-installed the drivers and all is well.  I did have to go back and delete a couple of projects that had recorded the noisy parts, but fortunately, I was just beginning both projects and had the original clean parts backed up.  All seems to be working fine now and truth is, I do believe that Sonar Platinum is loading a bit faster on some of my larger projects.  The only thing I can figure out at this point is that while the download was installing somehow the sound drivers were being used by something else and there in lies the conundrum of just how things got screwed up. 
 
Bottomline:  Even though, Command Center still refuses to download any updates, I am still a happy camper because my daw is working smoothly once again.

i just tried jamstix (latest) in platinum (latest) and put it in the multidock without issue. don't use jamstix often, the learning curve put me off, but that was my experience from just trying it fwiw

It somehow fixed the plugin manager for Sonar 8.53 so I'm happy.

timidi
It somehow fixed the plugin manager for Sonar 8.53 so I'm happy.

that is a common component between versions, isn't it?

Seems to be using more CPU. What's that called CPU clipping? seems to not handle as many plugins as passed updates...I have had more of a solid feel, no crashing and audio drop outs have fallen off, way better then other updates.