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title: Release Notes
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Bitwarden believes source code transparency is an absolute requirement for security solutions like ours. View full, detailed Release Notes in GitHub using any of the following links:
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- [Server Releases](https://github.com/bitwarden/server/releases){:target="\_blank"}
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- [Web Releases](https://github.com/bitwarden/web/releases){:target="\_blank"}
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- [Desktop Releases](https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/releases){:target="\_blank"}
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- [Browser Extension Releases](https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/releases){:target="\_blank"}
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- [Mobile Releases](https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile/releases){:target="\_blank"}
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- [CLI Releases](https://github.com/bitwarden/cli/releases){:target="\_blank"}
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- [Directory Connector Releases](https://github.com/bitwarden/directory-connector/releases){:target="\_blank"}
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- [jslib Releases](https://github.com/bitwarden/jslib/releases){:target="\_blank"}
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## Release Announcements
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## 2021-01-19
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For the first major release of 2021, the Bitwarden team combined multiple major enhancements to address the critical needs of all users, including:
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- **Emergency Access**: Bitwarden's new Emergency Access feature enables users to designate and manage trusted emergency contacts, who may request access to their Vault in a Zero Knowledge/Zero Trust environment (see [here]({% link _articles/security/emergency-access.md %}) for details).
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- **Encrypted Exports**: Personal users and Organizations can now export Vault data in an encrypted `.json` file (see [here]({% link _articles/importing/encrypted-export.md %}) for details).
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- **New Role**: A Custom role is now available to allow for granular control over user permissions (see [here](https://bitwarden.com/help/article/user-types-access-control/#custom-role) for details).
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- **New Enterprise Policy**: The Personal Ownership policy is now available for use by Enterprise Organization (see [here](https://bitwarden.com/help/article/policies/#personal-ownership) for details).
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- **Biometric Unlock for Browser Extensions**: Using an integration with a native Desktop application, you can now use Biometric input to unlock Firefox and Chromium-based Browser Extensions (see [here](https://bitwarden.com/help/article/biometrics/#enable-biometric-unlock-for-browser-extensions) for details).
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## 2020-11-12
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The latest release of Bitwarden adds SSO-related enhancements to all client applications, including:
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- **New Enterprise Policies:** The Single Organization and Single Sign-On Authentication polices are now available for use by Enterprise Organizations (see [here](https://bitwarden.com/help/article/policies/) for details).
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- **API Key for CLI:** Authenticate into the Bitwarden CLI using an API Key newly available from your Web Vault (see [here](https://bitwarden.com/help/article/personal-api-key/) for details).
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- **Improvements to SSO Onboarding:** We've made some improvements to the way users are onboarded via SSO to prevent potential security risks (see [here](https://github.com/bitwarden/server/pull/945) for details).
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- **GDPR Acknowledgement:** From now on, new users of Bitwarden will be asked to acknowledge a Privacy Policy on registration.
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- **Android 11 Inline Auto-fill**: For devices using Android 11+, enabling the Auto-fill Service will display suggestions inline for IMEs that also support [this feature](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/ime-autofill#workflow) (see [here](https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile/pull/1145) for details).
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## 2020-9-30
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The latest release of Bitwarden adds much-anticipated **Login with SSO** functionality for all client applications, and the Business Portal for Web Vaults. Read this [blog post](https://bitwarden.com/blog/post/bitwarden-launches-sso-authentication/) for more information about Login with SSO, and refer to our [documentation](https://bitwarden.com/help/login-with-sso).
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## Early 2020 releases
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The following items were released between March and September of 2020.
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- [Enterprise Policies](https://bitwarden.com/help/article/policies/)
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- [Vault Timeout Options](https://bitwarden.com/help/article/vault-timeout/)
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- [Trash functionality](https://bitwarden.com/help/article/managing-items/#deleting-an-item)
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- [Password View Permissions - "Hide Passwords"](https://bitwarden.com/help/article/user-types-access-control/#granular-access-control)
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- [Touch ID / Windows Hello for Desktop Applications](https://bitwarden.com/help/article/biometrics/#desktop-applications)
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