I have had this same issue since the last version. I also asked the same question on the announcement thread last week and didnt get a response so I thought it was just me.
What happens to me is I hunt for a few hours till my main pack is almost full, then I salvage everything in the main pack, in the order that all the items are in, which is random. Then I select to Sort it by material, which is exactly what I have done in the past. Only now, it sorts all the items in the main pack by salvage type, but not by work. It sorts each salvage within each catagory randomly. So I might have 24 items that are steel, but they are not grouped in any specific order. I have tried the reverse sort and it does the same thing, only the groups of salvage are reversed order.
Before I would use the exact same technique I am using now but the finished result would be all items in main pack would be first grouped by salvage type, and then by workmanship. Now it is grouped by salvage type, and then sorted randomly NOT by workmanship.


