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+version: 0.13.0
+date: 2026-01-04
+title: User API Keys & Security Updates  
+social_post: • User API keys with fine-grained permissions\n• API versioning and access controls\n• Improved connection error handling\n• Enhanced web security headers\n• Topology sort preference saved
+contributors: Maya
+---
+
+## New Features
+
+- Add user API keys functionality with support for fine-grained permissions and network scoping, enabling secure programmatic access to user data ([#419](https://github.com/scanopy/scanopy/pull/419)).
+- Introduce API versioning and gate access to user API keys based on billing plan, providing clearer developer integration and improved account security ([#419](https://github.com/scanopy/scanopy/pull/419)).
+
+## Improvements
+
+- Improve connection error handling in the daemon and remove local host_id caching, increasing reliability and simplifying host management ([#421](https://github.com/scanopy/scanopy/pull/421)).
+- Persist topology sorting strategy in localStorage so your preferred view settings are retained between sessions ([#406](https
+
+---
+
+**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/scanopy/scanopy/compare/v0.12.10...v0.13.0