On June 1, 2004, Shareaza 2.0 was released, along with the source code, under the GNU General Public License (GPL-2.0-or-later), making it free software.

This enables languages to be easily changed, updated and tested without compiling an entire binary.

In this mode, users can see different tabs (windows) simultaneously, providing a lot of control about the things happening.

This mode also makes it possible to personalize the look of the client to perfectly fit the needs of the respective user.

These channels are located on the P2PChat servers and can also be joined by any normal IRC client or via a Java addon on the Shareaza homepage.

[citation needed] Over the next two years Stokes coded in support for the eDonkey 2000 network, BitTorrent and a rewritten gnutella-based protocol which he named Gnutella2.

No ads, no spyware, no guilting you to upgrade to a commercial version", stating that the developers "[couldn't] stand that kind of crap.

From the first version Shareaza has supported swarming, metadata, library management, and automatic file hashing.

The domain owner Jon Nilson was forced to sell it as a part of a settlement with La Societe Des Producteurs De Phonogrammes En France.

Content is limited to the DRM-protected music that can be bought in Discordia's online music store; Discordia is a company based in Cyprus, closely related to the RIAA and unrelated to the Shareaza development team.

v2.4.0.0 Version 2.4.0.0 of Shareaza was released on October 1, 2008, with many bug fixes and major changes to provide better stability of the client.

There were also updates to the Gnutella and eD2k implementation, such as extended support for GGEP, large files and chat.

The IRC implementation of v2.4.0.0 was reworked to free it of the bugs that made it partially unusable in the previous version.

Download manager capabilities were extended, Internet Explorer integration added, and BugTrap included to speed up and simplify reporting crashes.

Shareaza v2.5.3.0, released on June 13, 2010, focused on internal changes and optimizations; the only significant addition was a scheduler that allows full control over what the application does at a given time while running unattended.

[17] Shareaza v2.5.5.0, released on May 29, 2011, further improved UPnP support and included DC++ and Gnutella updates, enhanced anti-spam protection during searches, and multi-file download merging.

V2.6.0.0 was released on 3 June 2012, adding support for BitTorrent (Mainline) DHT and UDP trackers as well as containing interface optimizations for Windows 7.

[17] It contained major improvements to the BitTorrent support, eDonkey uploading and the built-in media player.