This section provides a comprehensive list of the improvements, updates, fixes, and changes in the Ed-Fi ODS / API v3.4 release, with links to the relevant issue in the Ed-Fi Tracker.

Patch Release - v3.4.1

Released 10/2/2020

• [ODS-4562] - CallContext loses values for a previous context when the same value is set for another context

• [ODS-4563] - swagger.json files are generated with the id field marked as required for POST

Ed-Fi ODS / API v3.4 - Release Notes

Important Epics

• [ODS-3933] - Align ODS /API to v3.2b Data Standard

• [ODS-3869] - Build and Deployment Pipeline for PostgreSQL

• [ODS-3908] - Change Query Support in PostgreSQL

• [ODS-3890] - Multi District ODS Support for Collaboratives

General Improvements & Enhancements

• [ODS-2944] - Rename "Admin Web" to "Sandbox Admin Web"

• [ODS-3177] - Add Config support for max Sandbox Per Client Setting

• [ODS-3419] - Upgrade the Visual Studio Template Project to VS 2017

• [ODS-3445] - Remove EdFi.Ods.Api dependency on Entity Framework

• [ODS-3478] - Update solution packages

• [ODS-3479] - Update swagger UI

• [ODS-3523] - Build pipeline setup for shared and year specific instance

• [ODS-3602] - Migrate composite integration tests to postman scripts - Composites constrained by Profiles

• [ODS-3665] - Refresh security metadata cache

• [ODS-3683] - Update the Nuget package name to account for long path error

• [ODS-3696] - Better inform client when data is lost due to key unification issues

• [ODS-3697] - Postman Tests for profiles and unique ids

• [ODS-3762] - Improve startup performance with the OpenApiMetata data

• [ODS-3763] - Updating Pipeline to be Async

• [ODS-3774] - Migrate authorization tests to postman -Assessment

• [ODS-3775] - Migrate authorization tests to postman -Student, Staff & Program

• [ODS-3849] - Rename APILoader.Console to BulkLoadClient.Console

• [ODS-3855] - Add Year to the Dependency Endpoint route for YearSpecific instance

• [ODS-3862] - Change minimal template to Include only edfi descriptors

• [ODS-3863] - Update Sandbox Admin to create test ed-orgs for sandbox

• [ODS-3904] - Sandboxes Creation Timeout for larger dataset

• [ODS-3919] - Migrate profile integration tests to postman scripts- Embedded & Profile definition Features

• [ODS-3920] - Migrate profile integration tests to postman scripts- Profile definition Filter Child & Nested Collections Features

• [ODS-3923] - Migrate profile integration tests to postman scripts- Profile assigned Callers & Profile-specific content type headers

• [ODS-3958] - Support for Ed-Fi Project Templates in Visual Studio 2019

• [ODS-4016] - Update cloud ODS build to use new backup based minimal template

• [ODS-4034] - Migrate Change Queries integration tests to postman scripts

• [ODS-4067] - Add Postman integration test coverage for change queries - entity full life cycle

• [ODS-4119] - Update web config transform for cloud binaries to match enabled features

Bug Fixes

• [ODS-3392] - Nested Commons from Different Schema Error

• [ODS-3778] - Metadata for Ed-Fi Visual studio extension should be updated

• [ODS-3857] - Fix Json response from the Dependencies endpoint

• [ODS-3896] - Composite API fails to apply Profile-based member inclusion/exclusion and collection item filtering in certain cases

• [ODS-3939] - Resources.generated.cs error when adding TPDM to ODS from dev-stable-v3

• [ODS-4078] - Relationship-based authorization of resources with a related EdOrg and Person incorrectly only checks the EdOrg relationship

• [ODS-4086] - Sandbox Admin - Account Activation and Resent Account Activation are not working

• [ODS-4107] - Security Database Isn't Upgraded if Database Already Exists

• [ODS-4120] - Fix LocalEducationAgencyIdToLocalEducationAgencyId Authorization Filter

Ed-Fi ODS / API v3.4 - Known Issues

The table below identifies key areas of functionality that are known to have issues in this release.

You can also view release information in Ed-Fi Tracker here.