Since most changes take place under the hood, the public at large won’t immediately recognize them, except for one. It was first proposed by Bram Cohen in 2008 and updated and improved along the way. The most crucial one is the implementation of the BitTorrent v2 protocol specification.īitTorrent v2 is an improved version of the early BitTorrent standards and includes several technical changes. This new version comes with many changes that eventually will make their way to torrent clients. This week, Norberg announced the latest release of Libtorrent version 2.0. This includes uTorrent Web, Deluge, and qBittorrent.

It’s his code that makes a wide variety of torrent clients function properly. Over the years many new features were added, including DHT, UDP trackers, peer-exchange, and support for streaming.Īs developer of one of the leading BitTorrent libraries, Libtorrent, Arvid Norberg has been closely involved in the protocol’s development. While it was swiftly embraced by the masses, the protocol itself was far from perfect. Meanwhile, an even smaller group is actively involved in shaping the future of the file-sharing protocol.īitTorrent was first made public by inventor Bram Cohen nearly two decades ago. Millions of people use BitTorrent every day but only a few know all the ins-and-outs of how it works.

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