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It seems that 7.3beta ignores the configuration on imports. New imports are just added to the bottom of the list. No sorting or grouping is done.
Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the problem in the current dev build. Could you please crate a simple reproducible test case (source file, import layout formatting options and a type that should be imported) and attach it to the issue? Thanks.
NB 7.3 RC1 still have the same problem - imports sorting seems not supported.