I've been using this sin about 2015. no problem. in the last week I've not been able to get stuff automatically. I started looking at the logs of the apps that weren't acting right, mainly the -arrs, Radarr, and Sonarr. I noticed that they were complaining about Privoxy. I've been using this version of rTorrent to use the privoxy through it. I turned off 'use proxy' in Radarr and Sonarr and now they are working as expected.
Not sure how binhex or whoever combined them but that needs to be looked into.