for the version, to my understanding .35 was leaked, then 1.16xxx was leaked. It's not really that hard to leak apps once you have them. with the SDK installed on your phone (and a beta tester or not) you can backup everything off your phone, then pull your apk files and then just post away on the net. Sad yes... but most people wont bother, hackers tweakers and others will. I'd definitely pay for swype if they ever came to the market just to get the updates as they come out.
I didn't post any links because I thought that it was a no no on these forums to do so.
but I will point you to the place that points you to location of the file. Which I assume is better than some of these other posts. heh.
here you will find devs various version of Swype (what they've modified there are different versions from the .35 and 1.16 because different people have unzipped the apk files and modified stuff inside case in point pulled out help images, pulled out help files, pulled out langauges, optimized various images that really were not and more), but you have to read to get to the right stuff your looking for. Since there are at least 4 versions of the leaked 1.16xxxt
Version 1.16xxxxt is faster than the .35 versions previously leaked. I'm using the 1MB 1.16 version which is very fast, I dont need anything more than English, and I dont need help files so its very slim.
Swype for Android 1.5 - Page 20 - xda-developers
when I get some time i plan on changing swype myself for a different color scheme in photoshop so there will be yet another version posted there.