Release notes for 0.3: Many more bug fixes. Speed is now basically comparable to Bram's client---at least in my limited experiments. The following are known issues with this release: - Ruby threads don't play well with curses. Non-blocking getch hangs. See [ruby-talk:130620]. So we use ncurses. - Ruby threads don't play well with TCP sockets on Windows. There is a 20-second *global* freeze every time an outgoing connection is made to a non-responsive host. See [ruby-talk:129578], [ruby-core:04364]. As you can imagine, this can be quite a performance hit in a program that can make potentially hundreds of such connections. In fact, it renders RubyTorrent almost useless on Windows. A patch exists (indeed, has existed for many months), and if I bug Matz maybe it'll get in to 1.8.3. :) - Ruby threads don't play well with writing data over TCP sockets. At least, that's what I glean from [ruby-talk:130480], and it might explain the occasional freezing behavior I see (3 to 30 seconds, sporadic) under heavy loads in Linux. Other than that :) everything works. I think.