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1. REST service for getting running version #115
2. Fixed an exception when restarting an instance persisted on PostgreSQL #116
3. Fixed some misbehaviors introduced with JPA 2.0 http://code.google.com/p/syncope/source/detail?r=1007

0.5 (May 10th, 2011)

With great pleasure and pride we announce the availability of the new 0.5 Syncope release, on perfect schedule (check it on the roadmap).
In a nutshell the most important new features:

1. Password encryption scheme for users can now be configured #88
2. The original Identity Connectors framework has been forked into the brand new ConnId project #89; for more information take a look at project website
3. The overall build process has been made for standard, powerful and flexible by the adoption of maven 3 #90
4. A technology update has been performed in order to make Syncope compatible with J2EE 6 containers by upgrading to JPA 2.0 #91
   Alongside with these new features, some bugfixes are also coming:
5. #87
6. #108
7. #109
8. #110

As you can check on getting started page, the maven archetype has also been updated to reflect all the changes described above.