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title: "Kopia v0.5"
linkTitle: "v0.5"
weight: -50
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### Key Changes

* Creation of both a [governance structure](https://github.com/kopia/kopia/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md) for Kopia as well as the adoption of a [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/kopia/kopia/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
* Addition of better encryption schemes (AES256-GCM-HMAC-SHA256 and CHACHA20-POLY1305-HMAC-SHA256) and deprecation of some weak ciphers.
* Object Storage: Support for Azure Blob and AWS Session Tokens
* [KopiaUI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHJjSpasWIo) - desktop client that runs kopia in the background allows quick access to UI from system tray
* Robustness testing framework
* Revamped logging of repository layer and made it pluggable
* Refactored hashing, encryption and splitters into separate packages
* Added ability to embed credentials in kopia connection configuration.
* Cleaned up console output to be less noisy
* Build system now supports macOS, Linux and Windows - all CLI binaries and KopiaUI can be built on all the environments.
* Automatic update notification about new Kopia versions available on GitHub
* Improvements to repository maintenance tooling (compaction, garbage collection, verification)
* New policy options to ignore errors when reading files and directories
* Repository now remembers hostname at connection time to prevent spontaneous changes when changing networks
* Lots of improvements to server HTTP API - now supports running over TLS, dynamic ports and using random password

See full change log on [GitHub](https://github.com/kopia/kopia/releases/tag/0.5.2).
