{"id":4246,"date":"2016-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/azcopy-5-1-release"},"modified":"2025-06-12T08:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:28:49","slug":"azcopy-5-1-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/azcopy-5-1-release\/","title":{"rendered":"AzCopy 5.1.1 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are pleased to announce the&nbsp;release of&nbsp;AzCopy 5.1.1, and have made the following updates&nbsp;in this release:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Integration of Data Movement Library&nbsp;into AzCopy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A request we get&nbsp;often&nbsp;is&nbsp;&#8220;how does&nbsp;AzCopy work?&#8221; With this release, we have now&nbsp;integrated DMLib into AzCopy, which allows you to see exactly how our transfer logic works. 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