RawTherapee 5.3 Released

Probably joking, right?
I can’t reboot my system just every time I want to use RT. Nevertheless, it’s still taking much too long to start, because 7-8 seconds just to launch a program is far too long imho.
And BTW, clicking on ‘preferences’ and then still waiting for a few seconds is not normal when using your system. Especially when for all other tasks my system is very fast.

I thought RT 5.3 is getting mature and a serious piece software; so just trying to get it to work seriously should be the goal. Or am I expecting too much?

In the mean time, I have fired up Process Monitor from Sysinternals to see what RT is doing, when started. Although I filtered on just “rawtherapee” to exclude other stuff, it’s an enormous load of logging data. Where I can start searching/looking?