It has an automatic recovery system that checks all data that has been handled after an improper shutdown. A host of views offer information on the peers and seeds to which the user is connected, including how much data is being downloaded from each and to how much data is being uploaded by each. BitTorrent has several statistical, tabular and graphical views that allow a user to see what events are happening in the background. The current client includes a range of features, including multiple parallel downloads. The BitTorrent client enables a user to search for and download torrent files using a built-in search box ("Search for torrents") in the main window, which opens the BitTorrent torrent search engine page with the search results in the user's default web browser. Since version 6.0, which was released on September 18th 2007, the BitTorrent client has been a rebranded version of μTorrent. Version 5.30 of the client which is snapshotted at Internet Archive is the latest open source version. Version 4.20 of the client was dubbed Allegro by BitTorrent Inc., in reference to protocol extensions developed by the company to accelerate download performance and ISP manageability. Versions 4.0 and 5.3 were relicensed under the GPL.
The source code for versions 4.x and 5.x was released under the BitTorrent Open Source License, a modified version of the Jabber Open Source License.
Versions up to and including 3.4.2 were distributed under the MIT license. Very early versions released prior to Decemwere released into the public domain without a license. Prior to version 6.0, BitTorrent was written in Python, and was free software. It is now maintained by Cohen's company BitTorrent, Inc. Programmer Bram Cohen designed the protocol in April 2001 and released a first implementation of the BitTorrent client on 2 July 2001.
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