Tag stripping in caption

After searching through the forums to see if there were comments/issues concerning the stripping of code from the caption field in the image uploader, all I was able to find were mentions of issues concerning links.

My issue is a bit wider in scope as it involves actual css and formatting elements which worked just fine in that field, until version 3.1. Because of the nature of the photos I use and credits required, I could do one caption with something like <small><b>Pomerlo - <em>Quartier populaire</em></b><br />Production: <a href="https://tonicproductions.com" target="_blank">Tonic Productions</a> - Tous droits réservés</small> and it would spit out exactly what I needed for THAT photo, and I could move on to the next with whatever was required for it.

I don’t use the visual editor, only the html side. My question is simple: am I stuck just coding the caption straight in the post once the picture is inserted or is there a way to keep my code in the uploader as it was prior to 3.1?