v5.6

New Features:

• GitHub Issue #71, Pull request #287 by hotchandanisagar : Add support for Delta Feed serialization in Web API OData.
• Pull request #280 by OData team : Support UnqualifiedNameCall in ODataRoute attribute.
• GitHub Issue #293, Pull request #297 by OData team : DateTime $filter and $orderby EF support.
• GitHub Issue #319 : Convention and Attribute Routing for Dynamic Property. This built upon a previous pull request #222 by Brad Cleaver: Add support for OpenPathSegment

Bug Fixes:

• GitHub Issue #300 : date() and time() function doesn't work with EF.
• GitHub Issue #317, Pull request #340 by OData team : Support nullable referential constraint with conventional model builder.
• GitHub Issue #331, Pull request #336 by OData team : Support nullable enum prefix free in $filter.
• GitHub Issue #281, Pull request #341 by OData team : OData serialization cannot serializer the derived complex types.
• GitHub Issue #330, Pull request #350 by OData team : Dynamic property name is null use convention routing.
• GitHub Issue #214, Pull request #343 by OData team : Issue about Web API model validation.
• GitHub Issue #294, Pull request #323, #332 by OData team : Formatting <see>true</see>, <see langword="null"/> issue in xml comments about true, false, and null.

OData Web API v5.6 package has a dependency on ODataLib 6.11.

v5.5.1

• Fix the issue: $count segment doesn't work in 5.5 with EF #290

v5.5

This release primarily includes new features for OData v4 Web API as summarized below:

• Abstract entity type without keys or properties #182
• Complex type, Entity reference, Entity, and collection as function/action parameters #7
• Edm.Date & Edm.TimeOfDay support #156
• Open type and dynamic property on un-type scenario #171
• Nested $filter in $expand #127
• Pull requests
  • Update SelectExpandQueryOption.cs #213 by Jordi Scharloo
  • Add support for OpenPathSegment #222 by Brad Cleaver
  • Allow multiple ODataRoutePrefix attributes #228 by Brad Cleaver
  • Fix for issue #248 where a single instance function is queried using $select #249 by Hans van Bakel
  • Support dynamic properties in $filter, $orderby and $select #250 by Hans van Bakel
• Bug fixes
  • EnableCaseInsensitive doesn't work right when $top #214
  • DateTime doesn't work for ETag #224
  • Get parameter alias from ParameterAliasNodes by ODataLib parser #143
  • DeleteRef fails if a navigation property is a derived type and there is no corresponding entity set #231
  • Cannot parse Enum function parameter when its EdmType is nullable #110
  • GetClrType() doesn't work for nullable enum #241
  • Enum prefix free doesn't work for function parameter #243
  • FromODataUri attribute not work for a function's string parameter #223
  • Nested $expand with $levels=max does not have correct expansion depth #148
  • Enum keys not recognized by ODataConventionModelBuilder #139

In this release, we moved the license from Microsoft OpenTech + Apache to Microsoft + MIT.

v4 package has a dependency on ODataLib 6.10.

v5.4

This release primarily includes new features for OData (v4 and v3) Web API as summarized below:

• Referential constraint (v4, v3) #37
• Relax flag for version constraint (v4, v3): By default requests with both v3 and v4 max version headers will no longer fail. #191
• DateTime support (v4) #136
• Case-insensitive support (v4) #11
• StoreGeneratedPattern annotation (v3) #189
• ConcurrencyMode annotation and ETag (v3) #190
• Bug fixes: CodePlex & GitHub

V4 package has a dependency on ODataLib 6.9.