Wonder anybody managed to get the Album Sort (sort_order) feature working properly in Admin interface (in 1.1.4).

My observation was that when I drag & drop the Album rows and hit "save order" button they get saved correctly in the database. But when the page is refreshed, it does not honour the 'sort_order'. Albums get displayed in the 'id' order rending the 'sort_order' a useless value because every subsequent update reverses the previously sorted order.

Can anybody try this and confirm whether it is the default behavior?

It works. You have to go to the gallery options and change the album sort order to "Manual". This is something that definitely needs to be made clearer.

It is supposed to be setting the sort order to manual for you. I will check into this.