What has always annoyed me about this is that < and > (de)indent but also unselect the text and put you back in normal mode. Why? I often want to indent more than once but don't want to count ahead of time how many it will take, but that means I have to reselect the text N times. Is there a good way around this?
Edit: just found that gv will reselect the last visual mode selection, which makes this much less cumbersome.
Before this release, using shift tab (as well as the function keys and a few other key combos) in the embedded terminal would just output weird junk characters. Now they all get passed through to the terminal correctly and behave like they would in a normal terminal.