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📢 Ed-Fi Data Management Service Release Candidate Now Available!

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Vinaya Mayya
Vinaya Mayya
Senior Technical Program Manager - API

We’re thrilled to announce the Release Candidate 1 / v0.6.0 release milestone for the Ed-Fi Data Management Service (DMS). This release introduces Swagger UI, template databases, and completes critical end-to-end and compatibility testing. It also lays the groundwork for smoother integration and a better developer experience.

📌 Key Updates​

  1. Swagger UI: Adds interactive API documentation support to explore and test DMS endpoints with ease.
  2. Minimal and Populated Templates: Provides minimal and populated template databases to simplify setup and testing.
  3. End-to-End and Compatibility Testing: Includes comprehensive testing using the Smoke Test Utility and Bulk Load Utility.

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🚀 Features Delivered So Far​

  • Resources API
  • Descriptor API
  • Discovery API
  • Dependency API
  • API Extensions
  • PostgreSQL datastore
  • OpenSearch/Elasticsearch integration for high-performance search
  • Realtime Streaming via Kafka
  • API-driven client credential and claim set management
  • Integration with third-party OAuth Identity Provider (Keycloak)
  • Namespace-based authorization
  • Relationship-based authorization (e.g. via student enrollment and staff employment)
  • Docker images and Docker Compose configurations for easy local and cloud-native deployments

🛠️ Try It Out​

Download the v0.6.0 release.

git clone https://github.com/Ed-Fi-Alliance-OSS/Data-Management-Service
cd Data-Management-Service
git checkout v0.6.0

Then, follow the instructions in the Getting Started with the Ed-Fi Data Management Service Platform

📣 Share Your Feedback​

We’d love to hear about your experience with this release — report bugs, suggest improvements, or let us know what you’d like to see next. Join the conversation in the Ed-Fi Slack workspace on the #ed-fi-dms-feedback channel.

📅 Next​

Expect expanded authorization options and the first steps toward multi-tenancy and instance management capabilities. Stay tuned for more exciting updates! For more details on what’s coming, visit Ed-Fi Technology Roadmap.