What's New In This Release

This section provides an overview of the new features in v7.3 of the Ed-Fi ODS / API, targeted for deployment starting in the 2024–2025 school year. A comprehensive list of all changes can be found in the Release Notes section.

Detail about each change follows.

Improvements & Enhancements

This section briefly describes the new features and enhancements built into the Ed-Fi ODS / API Platform v7.3 and provides links to additional documentation.

Data Model Changes

Ed-Fi ODS / API v7.3 adds support for Ed-Fi Data Standard v5.2 implementation, with no breaking changes from the previous Data Standard v5.0. Refer to What's New in Data Standard v5 for details. Additionally, Ed-Fi ODS/API v7.3 continues to support Data Standard v4.0 implementation.

Partitioned Cursor Based Paging

Permissions API

Extensible Authorization Filtering

MetaEd IDE v4.5

Implementing extensions in Ed-Fi ODS / API v7.3 requires implementers to update to MetaEd IDE v4.5. Refer to MetaEd 4.5 What's New for details on latest updates and improvements.

Improvements & Enhancements - Previous v7.x

Refer to What's New in Previous v7.x Releases for details on the features added in previous v7.x releases of the Ed-Fi ODS / API.