Old behaviour:

• Start with a playlist containing 8 tracks, named "One", ..."Eight".
• Select "Five"
• Hold CTRL
• Press UP. "Five" is swapped with "Four"; "Five" is still highlighted
• Press UP. "Five" is swapped with "Three"; "Five" is still highlighted
• etc.
• Release CTRL

New behaviour:

• Start with a playlist containing 8 tracks, named "One", ..."Eight".
• Select "Five"
• Hold CTRL
• Press UP. "Five" is swapped with "Four"; no item is now highlighted; focus is on "Four"
• Release CTRL
• Press UP. "Five" is now selected
• Hold CTRL
• Press UP. "Five" is swapped with "Three"; no item is now highlighted; focus is on "Three"
• Release CTRL
• etc

Because the moved item has lost the highlight and the focus, it's no longer possible to quickly move items a long way.

I get the same new behaviour using the toolbar buttons; I never tried these with the older version.


Possibly related: in older versions, if several contiguous items were selected, they all moved together with CTRL-UP etc; now only one of them moves.