Hi N., > Is this problem a new bug in Org, or is it simply that my capture > templates are wrong and that they've only worked all these years > by some accident?
Have you looked at the incompatible changes described in the release notes? I believe this change (and the migration) are described in "org-capture-templates no longer accepts S-expressions as file names". http://orgmode.org/Changes.html Hope that helps, Josiah