I don’t like 1.8 - it feels like a massive failure

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There is a good summary of memory leak related issues to be found here:

Memory leak in Roon?! [Solved: Update to Build 970]

@support I am using Roon with great pleasure for more the two years now. Many thanks for that! The latest 1.8 update is a improvement for me because of the better classical search functions. Still, I have a problem. Since I use Roon, it is constantly ‘eating’ my system memory. Over the course of days and weeks, Roon’s memory usage continues to increase: from 1 Gb in the beginning to 3 Gb and more. Eventually I have to restart Roon. This is a little annoying. I am not the only one complaining …