1.) I set the image sorting for a Gallery category to “Caption”. 

2.) I then create an album in that category, but it defaults to “Recently” updated. 

 

Shouldn’t the former setting control the default for the latter? And if not, what is the former setting even for?

And finally: How to set “Caption” as a default order for newly created albums?

Yeah, Id tend to agree. Will get a bug report opened for that. 

This has now been resolved in our latest 4.7.6 release. Please upgrade to that release if you are seeing this issue. If you have the same problem after upgrading, please let us know.

I don’t see a change after the update. 

Looks like this may not have made it, and its in the next release. Sorry about that