This section provides a comprehensive list of the improvements, updates, fixes, and changes in the Ed-Fi ODS / API for Suite 3 v6.0 release, with links to the relevant issue in the Ed-Fi Tracker.

Ed-Fi ODS / API v6.0 - Release Notes

Important Epics

• [ODS-5335] - Align ODS /API to v4.0a Data Standard

• [ODS-2571] - Implement Record Ownership Authorization Strategy

• [ODS-5163] - Change Queries Delete Tracking

• [ODS-5239] - Update .net framework to version 6

• [ODS-5263] - Allow combining Authorization Strategies

• [ODS-5321] - External Cache Feature

• [ODS-5432] - Destructive SDK SmokeTests

General Improvements & Enhancements

• [ODS-3415] - Update Security database schema to ensure uniqueness of claim URL

• [ODS-3536] - Case sensitivity with "Changes" feature

• [ODS-4021] - Add metadata to claim set records so that Admin App can determine which to present and which to treat as default/read-only

• [ODS-4916] - Add Health Checks to Applications

• [ODS-4928] - Update Bootstrap for Sandbox Admin

• [ODS-5045] - Optimize oauth/token request

• [ODS-5151] - Make PostgreSQL 13 the minimum supported version

• [ODS-5221] - Add Postman tests for Record Ownership feature

• [ODS-5226] - Include main api area base urls in the version endpoint

• [ODS-5259] - Update security visualization tool to visualize multiple auth strategies

• [ODS-5285] - Make SQL server 2019 the minimum version

• [ODS-5289] - Support for Visual Studio 2022

• [ODS-5291] - Switch to openapi-generator in SdkGen

• [ODS-5292] - DefaultPageSizeLimit configuration should be used as the page size when limit parameter is not specified

• [ODS-5293] - Change query delete endpoint paging

• [ODS-5296] - Bring edorg trigger generation logic to codegen

• [ODS-5298] - Improve Error Reporting for Bad Connection String

• [ODS-5301] - Authorization simplifications to filtering architecture to take advantage of EducationToEducationOrganizationId table

• [ODS-5308] - Clearing expired tokens in background could potentially allow access via expired tokens

• [ODS-5312] - Move clearing of expired client access tokens to configurable API background task

• [ODS-5313] - Documentation on provisioning agent jobs for SQL Server and PostgreSQL.

• [ODS-5326] - Add Modified Date to API GET Responses

• [ODS-5332] - Rename Logical Files When Creating Sandboxes

• [ODS-5333] - Postman Tests for Get Many Resources with Multiple Authorization Strategies

• [ODS-5354] - Add PublishToIIS publish profiles for Swagger and Sandbox Admin

• [ODS-5355] - Eliminate EdOrg cache and supporting components and tests

• [ODS-5368] - Investigate and fix dotnet test errors in Unix

• [ODS-5392] - EdFi API/ODS - IdentitiesController - Improve error handling

• [ODS-5417] - Web API and Sandbox Installers: Update create Sql login function to prompt for existing credentials

• [ODS-5424] - Update Tests to run against Postgres

• [ODS-5435] - Remove namespace from message for Namespace-based authorization failures

• [ODS-5453] - Change error for Relationship Authorization Strategy Filter to remove USI from error message

• [ODS-5459] - Create AuthorizationContextDataProvider for role-named ResponsibilitySchoolId in Discipline Action

• [ODS-5461] - PostgreSQL databases update to 13.7 version

• [ODS-5462] - Single-item authorization of OrganizationDepartment should use ParentEducationOrganizationId

• [ODS-5464] - Change Queries MetaEd plugin is incorrectly substituting the extension schema in place of the base table's schema in the SQL Server delete triggers

• [ODS-5491] - Change GradebookEntry authorization strategy to NamespaceBased

• [ODS-5497] - Include API Client Id in the logs

• [ODS-5505] - Enhance Namespace-based authorization to support prefixed Namespaces

• [ODS-5511] - availableChangeQueries OpenApi Spec definition is incorrect

• [ODS-5528] - Swagger UI: Disable configUrl and url parameters

• [ODS-5529] - Nodes should share cached records when using an external cache

• [ODS-5533] - Index TargetEducationOrganizationId in edorg tuple table

Bug Fixes

• [ODS-4944] - NHibernate case sensitivity issue could break GET

• [ODS-4997] - Wrong HTTP response when bulk uploading descriptors with invalid key and secret

• [ODS-5070] - Getting Incomplete Validation Message for Bad Descriptor Reference for some resources

• [ODS-5179] - Security visualization utility shows incorrect authorization strategy

• [ODS-5184] - WebApi Postgres install does not include port number in connection string in appsettings

• [ODS-5186] - Dependency order endpoints don't list update order

• [ODS-5270] - Security visualization tool doesn't reflect AuthorizationStrategyOverrides

• [ODS-5279] - Timeouts when creating Sandboxes with larger dataset

• [ODS-5294] - Date format in references

• [ODS-5307] - Unable to bulk upload descriptors to extensions with compound names

• [ODS-5344] - Stage deployment is failing to create sandboxes

• [ODS-5388] - performanceEvaluationRatings should use same auth strategy as PerformanceEvaluation

• [ODS-5391] - Load Test Build is silently failing a test

• [ODS-5444] - Unable to delete a sandbox in IIS

• [ODS-5466] - Console bulk loader uses incorrect grant type

• [ODS-5481] - Improve handling of proxy headers received from AWS Elastic Load Balancer

Ed-Fi ODS / API v6.0 - 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.