I compared org-datetre.el from 7.4 to 7.5 and got the following diff output (edited)
I can see that the regular expression has become more restricted with the addition of \\w+$" at the end. At least I know what to manually change to make orgmode work the way I want it. 105c105 (this is the org-datetree-find-day-create function 7.4: (let ((re (format "^\\*+[ \t]+%d-%02d-\\([0123][0-9]\\)[ \t\n]" year month)) --- 7.5: (let ((re (format "^\\*+[ \t]+%d-%02d-\\([0123][0-9]\\) \\w+$" year month))