Suddenly poor performance Kleo and no auto-update

Hey guys,

I’m suddenly encountering problems with Kleo.
Have you made some updates to the theme recently?

1. I’m now using Kleo 3.0.3 and wanted to do an auto-update to Kleo 3.0.4. but this failed. This is the error that I received:

Downloading update from https://s3.amazonaws.com/marketplace-downloads.envato.com/files/140503327/kleo.zip?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJYG5ROGJ6X7Z3M6Q&Expires=1436193084&Signature=1usOUqpzPPOWul7CueZCYW5aYWs%3D&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B+filename%3Dthemeforest-6776630-kleo-next-level-wordpress-theme-wordpress_theme.zip…

Download failed. Operation timed out after 4992 milliseconds with 11537375 out of 13549131 bytes received

2.
Problems with accessing wp-admin and poor performance of site: I cannot get access to wp-admin or loading dashboard is very slow. My theme is installed on wpengine and they checked the issue, and this is what they’ve found:

…. It looks as though the issue is due to a recent update made to the theme(s) in-use on these installs that is responsible for the errors being seen. Specifically, the Envato suite of themes looks to be making some remote calls that are taking an excessively long amount of time to return resulting in some of the errors being seen: Introducing the new Envato API. We have a stop-gap fix that I have put in place on your installs that will keep HTTP requests from taking up as much time and allow the WordPress dashboard functionality to be mostly restored. The specific change made in this case is the addition of a plugin at wp-content/mu-plugins/force_http_timeout.php:

$ cat wp-content/mu-plugins/force_http_timeout.php
<?php
/*
* Plugin name: Force HTTP Timeout
* Description: Fix envato HTTP timeout by forcing the limit to 5 seconds.
* Author: Jason Stallings, John Dittmar
*/

add_filter(“http_request_args”,”force_http_timeout”, 999, 2);

function force_http_timeout($r, $url)
{
$r[‘timeout’] = 5;
return $r;

Have you guys made some changes that’s now affecting my site?