Under Preferences, you can specify whether the "New Terminal" menu entry opens it in a window or a tab.
Separate shortcuts (Shift+Ctrl+N and Shift+Ctrl+T by default) are still available.
This was a change done in mainstream gnome-terminal; I have no idea what was the intent behind it. I have no opinion either whether it's better or worse than the old one was. I recommend you to accept it this way and get used to it :)
Under Preferences, you can specify whether the "New Terminal" menu entry opens it in a window or a tab.
Separate shortcuts (Shift+Ctrl+N and Shift+Ctrl+T by default) are still available.
This was a change done in mainstream gnome-terminal; I have no idea what was the intent behind it. I have no opinion either whether it's better or worse than the old one was. I recommend you to accept it this way and get used to it :)