Transmission

I´m now back to 1.4 as well, it´s working well so far.

After the disappointing experience with 1.42 I downgraded straight to 1.34 while being in the middle of some downloads just by copying it into the applications folder. It worked without any problems. I tried thereafter the same thing by overwriting 1.34 with 1.40 and 1.41 but both were kind of crash...

... now the downloads are running at acceptable speeds.

If "1.41+ = 1.50 beta" it would have been nice to clearly call 1.42 what it is, a beta. This is slightly alienating I must say.

Yes, exactly my observation as well (see message above on 1.42 download performance). Version 1.42 is definitely not a good one.

This is not really comparison with previous versions, I´ll do that later. It´s just what I found how version 1.42 performs. Since the upgrade to 1.42 I have these issues: 1. Transmission is loosing connections to peers. E.g. during a download it´s at some stage connected to say 8 out of 10 peers and...