Improve the Add Account experience
I'm not sure if this would be considered a "bug" but the new Add Account screen has some design flaws.
In previous versions, simply putting in my username and password was enough to add a Gmail account to the app. It would automatically determine my outgoing name, and the account name was just the email address by default. Having auto-discovered values for this made the initial setup much quicker, and I could still easily change the values if I needed to.
Also, the purpose of those fields was much more clear in the previous version. "Name" is ambiguous - there's no context clues to suggest that it means "the name you'll show up as in the From: field", it could just as easily mean "the name you want this account to show up as in the menu."
In fact, having the two fields be "Name" and "Description" implies that the two are related to each other - that the first is the name of the account and the second is a description of what you use it for. It would be much more clear if you used the same field names as you do in the options - "Your Name" and "Account Name".
I do like the new look of the screen, it's very slick and a good introduction to the app, but it's definitely a step backward for functionality.

Setup screen has been changed, so no more confusion.
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Tim Backer commented
I would add that a manual configuration option should still exist as a button below the initial data entry screen.
I'm thinking many have non "auto-guessable" configurations and would prefer to cut to the chase.