This version's improvements with the UI and new features is great: a big improvement.

However, I am now getting mysterious quits and crashes almost 50% of the time. This is with the exact same sort of encoding I have always done (h.264, 2-pass, 800kbps, stereo mixdown). I have to queue and re-queue the same disk over and over... sometimes it rips a whole disk fine, other times it quits half-way through a track, I restart it, then it goes fine. It's intermittently unreliable, and it does not seem related to individual tracks or settings: just random crashes. It's enough to make me want to go back to an older version.