Sending gifts works fine if you use the 'farmers helping me' under the 'all farmers' tab or one of the other choices except 'recently sent to'. this choice might work later on but just now I could not get any neighbors under that choice only, all the rest of them worked.
I just tried boosting my train and it worked. I used the 'farmers helping me' list for this also. Forgot to mention that this tain had only 2 days to go on it's trip, so it is not one that I just sent out.
The only thing I have noticed that is wonky is that my 'farm town wall requests' list is squished over to the left hand side. Everything still works, but there are only 3 or 4 words in each sentence of the work request, so only 2 request posts fit on the screen.