Hoooooray! I am over the moon, X-mas came early this year... :)
At last, StataCorp invested time and effort to sort out the practical downsides of Stata, such as the absence of graph transparency (bye bye, ggplot...) and markdown (students will appreciate this). It is a bit embarassing, but I have to admit these are the most important updates for me, as they will affect all my routine work with Stata. That said, I'm looking forward to try out the multilevel and Bayesian additions, too.
Greetings from Prague, Czech Republic.