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.