Dear KNIMErs,
You're beginning to fall victims to your own success -- downloads fail or take very long right now, must be that the working day is coming to a close and there's been a new release. :-) You might want to look into some sort of CDN or similar. Should be easy to scale this nowadays, though it'll take some fiddling.
Cheers
E
P.S.: Really thrilled about the new features, can't wait to get a full install deployed! Unfortunately I'm not alone in my excitement... ;-)