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The latest Connect ID SDK versions can be found here:

• .NET
• Java
• PHP

Release notes for Sprint 231

Released to PRODUCTION on 2024-10-07.

• [.NET SDK][6.2.99]
• [Java SDK][6.2.963]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1624]

• SDK
  • An optional data field for Club Training Category (ClubTrainingCategory) has been added to OrganisationLocalType. This field can now be included when registering new organisations or updating existing ones. Changes to this field will be synchronised from Connect ID to TMS starting from the TMS release on 2024-12-10 so we don't recommend updates before that date.
    
    
  • An optional data field for Compliance and Payment Manager (ComplianceAndPaymentManager) has been added to OrganisationLocalType. It contains name and email address. This field can now be included when registering new organisations or updating existing ones. Changes to this field will be synchronised from Connect ID to TMS starting from the TMS release on 2024-12-10 so we don't recommend updates before that date.
    The following email validation pattern is used on the server:
    const string Pattern = @"^(([^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s@""]+(\.[^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s@""]+)*)|("""".+""""))@(([^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s@""]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,})$"
    
    
  • [Java] RegistrationFacadeAdapter and FifaConnectIdClientAdapter have now been marked as deprecated for deletion in the beginning of 2025. See https://support.id.ma.services/support/solutions/articles/7000090316-java-sdk-legacy-fifa-data-standard-pojo-mapping for guidance on migration. Please note that adapters don't support the fields mentioned above.
    
    
• Admin Console 
  • Organisation details page will now contain Club Training Category as part of its primary Details section.
  • Organisation details page will now contain Compliance and Payment Manager  as part of its secondary Contact details section.
  • Organisation details page now displays its Logo picture if it is available.
  • Fixed a bug, which was causing export to fail, when called on any other page than the first one in Persons, Organisations and Facilities registrations lists pages.

Release notes for Sprint 230

Released to PRODUCTION on 2024-09-18.

• [.NET SDK][6.2.98]
• [Java SDK][6.2.956]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1623]

• Fixed a bug in logs which, in the case of an error in Service Bus message processing, prevented developers from seeing details of the message (e.g. Sender) to see access to https://fci-devtools-prod.azurewebsites.net/tests/persons/PE02 allowing to manually test if the listener is operational.

Release notes for Sprint 226

Released to PRODUCTION on 2024-08-06.

• [PHP SDK][6.1.1621]
  
  
• (THIS IS A BREAKING CHANGE) The following are a breaking change if HashedPersonProcessorInterface has a custom implementation. For most users, no action is necessary:
  • HashedPersonType was moved from namespace Fifa\ConnectId\Sdk\Api\Model\ to Fifa\ConnectId\Sdk\Model\
  • HashedPersonType no longer has a constructor, setter methods should be used instead
  • Various properties from HashedPersonType were removed, they were not used anywhere
    
    

Release notes for Sprint 225

Released to PRODUCTION on 2024-07-09.

• [.NET SDK][6.2.94]
• [Java SDK][6.2.948]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1618]

• [SDK] URL mask for the club's website (when MA is creating/updating a club and includes their website as one of the parameters) was updated to allow local characters to be part of the URL (e.g. http://www.landsås.no). New rules are already released on the server side but in order to get a validation on the client, a new SDK needs to be installed. New RegEx for developers implementing a client side validation in their NRS-es:

• Fixed a bug which prevented access to https://fci-devtools-prod.azurewebsites.net/tests/persons/PE02 allowing to manually test if the listener is operational.

Release notes for Sprint 220

Released to PRODUCTION on 2024-05-23.

• [.NET SDK][6.2.92]
• [Java SDK][6.2.945]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1614]

• The Connect ID SDK documentation has been revised to better guide users through the integration process.
• JavaDocs have been enabled for the Connect Service Bus SDK.

Release notes for Sprint 216

Released to PRODUCTION on 2024-03-05.

• [PHP SDK][6.1.1612]

• Known compatibility issues were fixed to ensure better experience for users using PHP 7.4 in their NRS.
  
  

Release notes for Sprint 213

Released to PRODUCTION on 2024-01-25.

• [.NET SDK][6.2.87]
• [Java SDK][6.2.939]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1610]

• Improved validation for WebAddress and Email properties in OrganisationLocal and FacilityLocal. Only one email address and one web address is accepted. Properties remain optional, so users are free to provide either NULL or a correct value.

Release notes for Sprint 208

Released to PRODUCTION on 2023-11-09.

• Admin Console - existing "Reports" section was replaced by "Power BI Reports" section. Users have access to all the reports they previously had access to (Persons, Audit Trail, Organisations & Facilities). An additional report (Trends) is available. Note that visibility rights are in place: an MA user will only see their own data and statistics. Any feedback regarding the new reports will be most welcome! Just drop us an email and we will follow up.

Release notes for Sprint 205

Released to PRODUCTION on 2023-10-09.

• [.NET SDK][6.2.81]
• [Java SDK][6.2.932]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1601]

• The Receive and RenewLock methods were removed from SDKs. Instead, only methods PeekLock and Delete should be used.

Release notes for Sprint 203

Released to PRODUCTION on 2023-08-29.

• [.NET SDK][6.2.80]
• [Java SDK][6.2.928]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1599]

• The FifaConnectServiceBusClient class no longer includes the CreateTopic and DeleteTopic methods, effectively preventing the creation of queues or topics.

Release notes for Sprint 201

Released to PRODUCTION on 2023-08-21.

• [.NET SDK][6.2.79]
• [Java SDK][6.2.927]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1598]

• Improved system ID validation for persons, preventing users from registering person with an invalid System ID.
• SB SDK methods now throw TooManyRequestsException for requests which were throttled by FIFA Connect ID APIs.

Release notes for Sprint 199

Released to PRODUCTION on 2023-07-19.

• [.NET SDK][6.2.73]
• [Java SDK][6.2.918]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1591]

• [All SDKs] XML-based methods for:
  - persons registering,
  - persons force registering,
  - getting potential duplicates for person
  were removed. Methods were marked as deprecated in Sep 2022 (Sprint 176). Object-based equivalents should be used instead.
• [PHP, .NET] Fixed a bug: personRegistrationContext was missing from a string representation of PersonDuplicateType.

Release notes for Sprint 197

Released to PRODUCTION on 2023-06-15.

• [Java SDK][6.2.912]

• [Java SDK] Removed the ModelMapper library (org.modelmapper : modelmapper : 2.3.5) as a dependency, to allow users to upgrade to Java 17.
  
  

Release notes for Sprint 195

Released to PRODUCTION on 2023-05-09.

• [.NET SDK][6.2.68]
• [Java SDK][6.2.910]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1583]

• Restrictions on who is allowed to perform the merge operation on two persons have been relaxed. This was done to allow clients who registered duplicates with inactive registrations to merge them into existing records. Previously such a merge was not possible because having an active registration was required. The change has been done on the server side so there is no need to update SDKs but new packages contain updated documentation. All the details concerning the new logic can be found in the article Merging rules explained
• [PHP SDK] Fixed a potential security issue

Release notes for Sprint 191

Released to PRODUCTION on 2023-03-24.

• [.NET SDK][6.2.67]
• [Java SDK][6.2.908]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1581]

• [All SDKs] Date of person's record registration in the Connect ID was added to the model in deduplication scenarios. This information should be used to determine a primary record during person merges. Details can be found in the article.
• [All SDKs] FifaDuplicatedEntityFoundException, thrown by FIFA Connect ID Client's methods for persons registration and update, has been renamed to FifaDuplicatedPersonFoundException for clarity. This is a breaking change. Exception handling of the following methods needs to be reviewed:
  • [.NET] FifaConnectIdClient.RegisterPersonAsync() & FifaConnectIdClient.UpdatePersonAsync()
    
  • [Java] FifaConnectIdClient.registerPerson() & FifaConnectIdClient.updatePerson()
    
  • [PHP] FifaConnectIdClient->getPersonApi()->register() & FifaConnectIdClient->getPersonApi()->updatePerson()
• [.NET SDK & Java SDK] Fixed a bug in the caching mechanism. It prevented SDK from automatically refreshing a public key of a message recipient as designed, i.e. after 24 hours. Note that this caused problems on the recipient side only if:
  • they renewed their public key
  • they did not implement the recommended mechanism of decrypting messages with previous (old) key
• [.NET SDK & Java SDK] Fixed a bug which on very rare occasions caused a wrong (too low) score to be saved in the Connect ID and later displayed in the deduplication scenario. Problem would only appear if a given person was registered with two sets of names and one name would be a subset of another, e.g. ['John Smith', 'John Smith-Doe'].

Release notes for Sprint 188

Released to PRODUCTION on 2023-02-08.

• [Java SDK][6.2.903]

• [Java SDK] Fixed an issue which caused SDK version not to evaluate properly in certain setups.

Release notes for Sprint 166

Released to PRODUCTION on 2022-04-05.

• [.NET SDK][6.1.1569]
• [Java SDK][6.2.702]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1260]

• [All SDKs] Service Bus notifications when the player's date of birth, gender or name changed. To learn more about notifications please read this article.
• [All SDKs] New API endpoints used internally in the SDK. If behind a firewall, please make sure to update your whitelist configuration. You can find the list of URLs that need to be enabled here. We strongly recommend to test the setup in Preproduction, before the Production release.
• [All SDKs] New exception type - TooManyRequestsException. Throttling policies may be enacted if an increased load is experienced on our servers, limiting the number of requests in a given period. Whenever a request would exceed the limit the SDK would throw a TooManyRequestsException. The exception will contain information as to the time when the operation can safely be retried. No throttling policy is enabled by default since the intention is to enable it only as a reaction to a single user's mistake causing high load and issues with system's availability for other users.
  
  

Release notes for Sprint 164

Released to PRODUCTION on 2022-03-08.

• [PHP SDK][6.1.1224]

• [PHP SDK] When PeekLock and Receive did not get any messages an error was logged and NoMessagesAvailableException was thrown. This exception will no longer be thrown, instead when no message is found a 'null' will be returned and a debug message will be logged. This is a breaking change.

Release notes for Sprint 163

Released to PRODUCTION on 2022-02-24.

• [.NET SDK][6.1.1478]
• [Java SDK][6.2.662]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1218]

Release notes for Sprint 147

Released to PRODUCTION on 2021-07-12.

• added server-side validation for the correctness of the FIFA_ID for Persons, Organisations & Facilities. From now on if the format of the FIFA_ID is wrong, the user will receive a client-side error and the request will not be sent.
• person merge: corrected a bug which allowed to execute operations on the [secondary] merged record
• person merge: corrected a bug which allowed to merge person into an already merged record
• person update: corrected a bug which, in rare circumstances, prevented an update operation from being displayed in Audit Trail

Release notes for Sprint 146

Released to PRODUCTION on 2021-06-22

• [.NET SDK][6.1.1364]
• [Java SDK][6.2.565]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1091]
  
  
• [Java SDK] Fix formatting for log "Updating registration with force: %s for request: %sfalse".
• [All SDKs] Adjust documentation to contain information about setting up a logger and how to pass Logger to RegistrationFacade

Release notes for Sprint 144

Released to PRODUCTION on 2021-05-28.

Member Associations based on PHP with versions [6.1.1052] or [6.1.1062] need to upgrade to at least version [6.1.1065] due to a bug in PHP SDK (see below).

• [.NET SDK][6.1.1339]
• [Java SDK][6.2.554]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1078]
  
  
• [.NET] Fixes an issue with XmlDeserializationException causing a NullReference exception when there are no validation errors
• [All SDKs] Removes an optional flag useAsyncApi that could be passed to RegistrationFacade to switch the internal implementation of the API calling mechanism.

Release notes for Sprint 142 (PHP SDK hotfix)

Released to PRODUCTION on 2021-04-30.

• [PHP SDK][6.1.1065]
  
  
• [PHP] Reverts a change that caused the contentType parameter to be required when creating instances of PictureEmbedded & DocumentEmbedded. This bug causes the code to fail when creating objects like PersonLocal or WorkPermit (in DomesticTransferDeclaration) if the parameter is missing. Only PHP MAs that do not use contentType parameter are affected.

Release notes for Sprint 142

Released to PRODUCTION on 2021-04-29.

• [.NET SDK][6.1.1295]
• [Java SDK][6.2.542]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1062]
  
  
• [All SDKs] Documentation improvement: more detailed code samples of Clearing House messages
• [Server] Authorisation change: limiting the ability of special systems (e.g. TMS) to make data changes. Non-NRS systems will now only have jurisdiction over their own records (i..e marked with the relevant SystemID).

Release notes for Sprint 141

Server part released to PRODUCTION on 2021-04-13. SDKs released on 2021-04-13 but see an important comment below. 

• [.NET SDK][6.1.1283]
• [Java SDK][6.2.534]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.1052]

Server side (released to Production)

• added server side validation to fix a problem that was allowing MA to register a person with multiple registrations for the same sport (in rare situation)

SDK side

• minor improvements to SDK documentation for all technologies
• moved the logic of calculating a Primary Data Provider (PDP) from SDK to the server side. PDP is an MA that is chosen to be asked for details of a potential duplicate.
• [.NET SDK] fixed a problem that was preventing cache DB to be cleaned for those MAs who implemented DeleteOlderThan method
• [Java SDK] CacheCleanJob interface was introduced, implemented by PersonDetailsCacheCleanJob (formerly PersonDetailsCacheCleanJobImpl). 
• [Java SDK] Cache clean job is no longer run by default when configuring the listener. To start it alongside the listener, please provide it as a parameter to the configureListener method in the RegistrationFacade
• Clearing House Messages changes are documented separately for each technology (downloads available above):
  • .NET
  • Java
  • PHP

Release notes for Sprint 138

Released to PRODUCTION on 2021-03-05.

• [.NET SDK][6.1.1202]
  
  
• [.NET SDK] minor changes in the GetAllOrganisations(...) response
  • amendedTotalHits to mean the total size instead of the batch size
  • renamed ScrollId to NextBatchToken
    
    

Release notes for Sprint 137

Released to PRODUCTION on 2021-02-25.

• [.NET SDK][6.1.11]
  
  
• [.NET SDK] possibility to fetch all organisations registered in the given Member Association (GetAllOrganisations method)

Release notes for Sprint 136

Released to PRODUCTION on 2021-02-15.

• [.NET SDK][6.1.1184]
• [Java SDK][6.2.486]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.982]

• [All SDKs] SearchAdvanced(...) method for searching organisations has been replaced with a new Find(...) method. We recommend migration from both Search(...) and SearchAdvanced(...) to Find(...). Differences:
  • new method aims at limiting search results. This is achieved by replacing OR with AND clause for all search conditions. For example, providing "Club Name" and "MA" as parameters for Find(...) will return clubs with a similar name from a given MA. At the same time the Search(...) would return all clubs from a given MA sorted by how well the name matches.
  • improvements have been implemented to Find(...) method for better matching of phrases with dots and abbreviations (e.g."F.C."). Those improvements have not been implemented for the Search(...) method.
  • new method includes the "score" field (as returned by the search engine) which in some cases may help in gauging how similar the search results are (this said, the score is not normalized, so the functionality is quite limited).
  • new method takes all the same parameters as SearchAdvanced so the migration is very easy 
• [All SDKs] possibility to include PDF documents has been added to a Domestic Transfer Declaration message (previously only JPGs were supported)
• [.NET SDK] TMS is now able to ask for details of an Amateur player as well as a Professional (Clearing House scenario)

Release notes for Sprint 135

Released to PRODUCTION on 2021-01-20.

Improvements:

• [DevTools] Reset button added in PE17 and PE18 allowing MA to fix the record potentially broken by the testing

Bug fixes:

• fixed a bug preventing Persons Report in Admin Console (https://console.id.ma.services/Report/Persons) from being filtered by the "last operation date" (Advanced filters)
• fixed a bug in the OrganisationSearchAdvanced method causing a wrong ModificationDate to be returned to the client

Release notes for Sprint 134

Released to PRODUCTION on 2021-01-08.

• [.NET SDK][6.1.1156]
• [Java SDK][6.2.459]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.933]

• [All SDKs] Listener logging improved and consolidated across the SDKs
• [.NET SDK] Prevented unhandled exceptions from message handlers stopping the Listener
• [Java SDK] Added proxy support for auth calls
• [Java SDK] Brought back the ability to provide a custom implementation of hashing algorithm for person's local system ID

Release notes for Sprint 130

Released to PRODUCTION on 2020-11-20.

• [.NET SDK][6.1.1133]
• [Java SDK][6.2.425]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.900]

• [All SDKs] Documentation improvement: expected behaviour for IPersonDetailsCache's GetByCorrelationId described
• [All SDKs] New method added for getting Member Association of a child organisation (e.g. a club)
• [.NET SDK] Custom validation for API models implemented - invalid requests to register organisations will now fail on the client without being sent to the server
• new test added to DevTools (https://fci-devtools-beta.azurewebsites.net/tests/persons/pe19) allowing a Member Association to verify if they use personLocalId field during the persons' registration

Release notes for Sprint 129

Released to PRODUCTION on 2020-10-29.

• [.NET SDK][6.1.1081]
• [Java SDK][6.2.403]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.862]

• [All SDKs] Migration from Azure Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) to Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL)

Release notes for Sprint 128

Released to PRODUCTION on 2020-10-07.

• [.NET SDK][6.1.1053]
• [Java SDK][6.2.375]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.837]

• [All SDKs] Documentation improvements - personLocalId described, updated code snippets, mentioned size limit for player's photo
• [Java SDK] Fixed error which led to NullPointException during initialization of FifaConnectIdClientImpl.

Release notes for Sprint 126

Released to PRODUCTION on 2020-09-21.

• [.NET SDK][6.1.1033]
• [Java SDK][6.2.351]

• [.NET SDK] XML documentation attached (IntelliSense available in Visual Studio)
• [.NET SDK] Turkish currency code fixed
• [Java SDK] Organizations without pictureLink can be retrieved using an adapter

Release notes for Sprint 124

Released to PRODUCTION on 2020-08-05.

• [.NET SDK][6.1.1026]
• [Java SDK][6.2.330]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.807]

• [All SDKs] Added a new property to TMS-related messages: Domestic Transfer Confirmation & First Pro Registration Confirmation, containing an error in case TMS failed to process a request.
• [All SDKs] Added response to a TMS-related message Proof Of Payment.
• [All SDKs] Various documentation improvements.

Release notes for Sprint 122

Released to PRODUCTION on 2020-07-08.

• [.NET SDK][6.1.989]
• [Java SDK][6.2.282]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.778]

• [.NET SDK] Improved error message when XSD schema files cannot be loaded. The algorithm used to locate the files has been changed. If you encounter an unexpected error related to scenarios.xsd file, please refer to the chapter 3.1.3.1 (Prepare data for XML serialization) in the SDK documentation. 
• [.NET SDK] There is no need to implement own IPathResolver in order to indicate a custom location of XSD schema files. More on this in the chapter 3.1.3.1 (Prepare data for XML serialization).
• [Java SDK] Further improvements to fix memory leaks during registration.
• [Java SDK] Documentation improvements - code snippets updates.

Release notes for Sprint 121

Released to PRODUCTION on 2020-06-26.

• [.NET SDK][6.1.970]
• [Java SDK][6.2.256]
• [PHP SDK][6.1.762]
• support for the Clearing House communication - more on this here
• [Java SDK] improved exception handling
• [Java SDK] introduced JavaDocs
• [Java SDK] added HttpProxy setting to RegistrationFacadeSettings
  Allow passing http proxy information to registration facade to set up a proxy between SDK and internet facing server. It is helpful in some scenarios where the infrastructure doesn't allow to set a direct connection between SDK hosting machine and Service Bus infrastructure.
• bug fixes
  • [PHP SDK] fixed error that in rare cases could lead to the loss of information about person details (when deserializing person-details messages created "manually", i.e. without the use of a default serializer plus using a custom namespace instead of a default one).
  • [Java SDK] fixed an issue causing memory leak when persons were registered with the use of PersonLocal instead of PersonData.
  • [.NET SDK] added a missing declaration of SearchAdvancedOrganisation in IFifaConnectIdClient interface
• general improvements to the documentation

Release notes for Sprint 116

Released to PRODUCTION on 2020-05-05.

• [Java SDK][6.2.159] [.NET SDK 6.1.839] [PHP SDK 6.1.839] - new search method for organisations - SearchAdvancedOrganisation. (When searching using SearchAdvancedOrganisation date and time is used for filtering against ModifiedAt. In SearchOrganisation only date is used.)
  New version of certificate console (console doesn't close automatically on error)
• [Java Service Bus SDK][3.0.46] [.NET Service Bus SDK 3.0.428] [PHP Service Bus SDK 3.0.414] - new version of certificate console (console doesn't close automatically on error)

Release notes for Sprint 115

Released to PRODUCTION on 2020-04-27.

• [Java SDK][6.2.156] Fixed an internal problem causing the code to send the empty SDK version along with the Person details message. This problem had no negative consequences to the user.

Release notes for Sprint 112/113

Released to PRODUCTION on 2020-03-25.

• [PHP SDK] Providing SDK version failed due to wrong path resolution (slash problem). For a user there was no problem but Connect ID Team could not know which SDK version was in use.
• [Java SDK] PersonLocalXmlSerializerImpl deserialization failed when either regionOfBirth or localSystemMAId was empty. Fifa Connect Data Standard does not require these fields, so deserialization should have worked correctly.

Release notes for Sprint 111

Released to PRODUCTION on 2020-02-05.

• [.NET SDK] Bugfix - fixed error while initializing RegistrationFacade
• [.NET SDK] SecondNationality property in PersonLocal type made nullable. 
• [.NET SDK] An option to specify a custom path to XSD file added.

Release notes for Sprint 107

Released to PRODUCTION on 2019-12-23.

• new FIFA Data Standard (ver. 3.3) released (more here)
• all SDKs upgraded to follow the newest standard. Full release notes are available here. Upgrade is required until 2020-02-29.
• server side upgraded to follow the FIFA Data Standard (ver. 3.3)
• [Java SDK] Upgraded libraries & dependencies for Java, including Guava library

Release notes for Sprint 106

Released to PRODUCTION on 2019-12-10.

• [Java SDK] Upgraded Java version to 11. This is a breaking change.
  • SDK method names and signatures remained the same
  • Some external libraries have been updated. SDK might not be compliant with solutions based on earlier versions of Java.
• [SDK] Internal feature added to help Connect ID Team. PersonDetails message now includes SDK version as its property.

The next version of Java SDK is expected within the next few weeks. This time all external dependencies will have been upgraded (including Guava library). There will be no breaking changes in the newest version when compared to this one.

Release notes for Sprint 97

Released to PRODUCTION on 2019-08-08.

• New features & improvements:
  • [SDK] Extended list of supported countries: Montenegro.

Release notes for Sprint 93

Released to PRODUCTION on 2019-06-19.

• New features & improvements:
  • [preview, available only for Admin users] Power BI based reports showing statistics for Persons and Audit Trail operations
  • [PHP only] improved error handling. More information is now available in logs.
  • documentation now explains better when it is required to use IPersonDetailsCache
  • new version of the deduplication algorithm for Organisations/Clubs. It is now returning 93% less false positives while still being able to catch some real duplicates.

Release notes for Sprint 91 & 92

Released to PRODUCTION on 2019-05-29.

• New features & improvements:
  • [available on request] Report showing the date & type of different operations executed in Connect ID by Member Associations. Report shows aggregated data and can be used to follow up with less active MAs and help them solve any potential problems they might be having with the system.
  • step-by-step procedure was improved to prepare Member Associations for a situation when they get a potential duplicate in their own MA (but not registered by their system)
  • [TMS][SDK] when querying all the clubs created/modified within the time range, it is now possible to see the time of creation/modification (added ModifiedAt property)
  • [TMS][SDK] messages to register/update players in TMS now also contain information about the source organisation (SourceOrganisationID)
  • [TMS][SDK] provided a method allowing to query all MAs to understand whether they are on-boarded or not
  • [Admin Console] in person reports section we changed the label "Date of Registration" to "Last Operation Date" and provided an additional explanation in a tooltip to avoid confusion
• [released to Preproduction environment only]
  • We updated the deduplication algorithm for Organisations/Clubs. It is now returning 93% less false positives while still being able to catch some real duplicates. The new algorithm has been deployed to Preproduction environment for verification by a couple of clients.

Release notes for Sprint 90

Released to PRODUCTION on 2019-05-08.

• New features & improvements:
  • [SDK] Unified IsOnboarded method with GetNationalAssociationOnboardedStatus. GetNationalAssociationOnboardedStatus can be used for verifing whether given Member Associations or all Member Associations have joined the Connect Programme or not.
  • [SDK] Added ModifiedFromDate and ModifiedToDate parameters to organizations Search method.

Release notes for Sprint 89

Released to PRODUCTION on 2019-04-17.

• New features & improvements:
  • [SDK] Added IsOnboarded method to verify whether given Member Association has joined the Connect Programme or not.

Release notes for Sprint 88

Released to PRODUCTION on 2019-04-01.

• New features & improvements:
  • [SDK] Added method to query for details for a specific player by FIFA_ID. Access is restricted to professional players.

Release notes for Sprint 84 - 86

Released to PRODUCTION on 2019-03-14.

• New features & improvements:
  • [SDK] Extended list of supported countries (Kosovo, Curacao, South Sudan)
  • Documentation improvements
    
    
• Bug fixes
  • [SDK][.NET] Fixed issue which would cause the inability to locate the path to the resources file when application has been started from different directory than root

Release notes for Sprint 82 & 83

Released to PRODUCTION on 2019-01-23.

• New features & improvements:
  • [SDK/.NET] method for updating player details in TMS has been added to .NET SDK
  • [SDK/PHP] methods for creating and updating players in TMS have been added to PHP SDK
  • documentation improvements
  • new article explaining the meaning of score and type of variants returned by Connect ID in case of duplicates
  • [Admin Console] Menu entry "[Beta] Reports" changed into "Reports"
• Bug fixes
  • [Admin Console] fixed issue which would cause the link to a merged person appear in Admin Console even if the merged person has been deleted

Release notes for Sprint 81

Released to PRODUCTION on 2019-01-03.

• New features & improvements:
  • [Admin Console/Reports] "Table" reports showing persons/clubs statistics per MA now allow export to CSV
  • [SDK][PHP] Improved level of detailing when logging exceptions of type RegistrationFacadeException
• Bug fixes
  • [Server] Fixed bugs in organisations/facilities de-duplication, resulting in excessive number of potential duplicates during registration. In particular:
    • (major fix) In documentation (https://idservice.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/7000011999-algorithm-of-duplicate-detection-for-organisations-and-facilities) we describe 50% similarity rule (by double asterisk - **). That rule was not applied and two names have been considered similar too often.
    • (minor fix) Levenhstein distance was not taken into consideration which resulted in too few duplicates
    • (minor fix) LocalShortName was not considered as a part of de-duplication algorithm. Instead of it, algorithm tried to match LocalName with ShortName field.
  • [SDK] Fixed bug which prevented to update person's gender alone (without updating his/her name or date of birth)

Release notes for Sprint 76

Released to PRODUCTION on 2018-10-17.

• New features & improvements:
  • [SDK] Added bulk deactivation functionality (more information and code example in Section 3.2.10 Bulk deactivating registrations in SDK documentation)
  • [SDK] Improved documentation with easier navigation
  • [SDK][PHP] Made Level in PlayerRegistrationType validation case insensitive

Release notes for Sprint 72 & 73

Released to PRODUCTION on 2018-09-10.

• New features & improvements:
  • [SDK] Added functionality that takes care of generating FIFA Data Standard compliant XML document with Person Details when responding to other MAs. Clients will no longer need to create XML manually and communication via Service Bus will become more reliable. To know more, refer to PersonLocalXmlSerializer code.
  • [SDK] Added functionality to validate any XML content against FIFA Data Standard (XsdSchemaValidator). 
  • [SDK][PHP] fixed problem which under certain circumstances would cause MA to send multiple (thousands) messages as a reply to person details request (multiplying default event handlers when running configureEventHandlers() method in a loop).
  • [Admin Console] Fixed tooltips
  • [Admin Console] Improvements to Reports pages:
    • Data grids (tables) now support up to 8 digits when displaying numerical values
    • Added filtering by registration status on Persons dashboard
    • Added multi-choice filtering by discipline on Persons dashboard
    • Added multi-choice filtering by gender on Persons dashboard
  • [SDK] Separate tools for generating private/public keys and uploading public keys, have been combined. As a result they are now simpler to use and the process is less error prone.
  • [SDK] [.NET] Add Resources folder from the SDK package to the root folder of your project to use PersonLocalXmlSerializer.
• New articles with a step-by-step instruction of why & how to provide person details to other MAs:
  • PHP version
  • .NET version
  • Java version

• It was released together with the following versions of the SDKs:

  • fifa-connectid-sdk-net-6.1.407.zip
  • fifa-connectid-sdk-java-6.1.312.zip
  • fifa-connectid-sdk-php-6.1.303.zip

Release notes for Sprint 70

Released to PRODUCTION on 2018-07-28

• new features & improvements
  • support for System ID (multiple football management systems per MA) - see a short FAQ section below.

For this version an upgrade to a new SDK is recommended.  Without update, it will not be possible to find duplicates in the member associations that store data in external systems. See a short FAQ section below.

It was released together with the following versions of the SDKs:

• fifa-connectid-sdk-net-6.1.343.zip
• fifa-connectid-sdk-java-6.1.263.zip
• fifa-connectid-sdk-php-6.1.249.zip

Service Bus SDKs are included in the packages above. If you use separate SDK for Service Bus, download the new version from the list below:

• fifa-connectservicebus-sdk-net-3.0.246.zip
• fifa-connectservicebus-sdk-java-3.0.271.zip
• fifa-connectservicebus-sdk-php-3.0.243.zip

Will I receive a support when upgrading the SDK?

Of course. If you run into any trouble, we'll be happy to help. Please open a ticket directly in the portal or send an e-mail to support.id@fifa.org.

Release notes for Sprint 57

Released to PRODUCTION on 2018-01-24

• SDK changes (Connect Service Bus)
  • Added support for the new environments to the SDK and console app (certificate uploader),
  • The mechanism of the authentication has been slightly rebuilt (.NET only):
    • AuthenticationInformation class: main constructor has been changed. Service url is no longer required.
    • IAuthenticationResourceBuilder interface: BuildResourceUri has been modified. Service url is no longer required.
    • ConnectServiceBusAuthenticationResourceBuilder class: The interface has been updated and a new constructor has been added which requires passing the environment code to which the application connects. List of all environment codes can be found in the documentation.
    • ConnectServiceBusEnvironment class: main constructor has been removed. In order to create an environment class use predefined properties or newly created factory method: "Create(string environmentCode)".
• SDK changes (Connect Id)
  • Added support for the new environments,
  • Authentication (.NET only):
    • ConnectIdAuthenticationResourceBuilder class: The class has been rebuilt. It no longer implements the base class AuthenticationResourceBuilderBase, but instead implements the interface: IAuthenticationResourceBuilder. In order to create instance of this class use one of the two available factory methods: ForIdDirectory() or ForHashing() and pass environment code of the used environment.
    • ConnectIdEnvironmentclass: main constructor has been removed. In order to create an environment class use predefined properties or newly created factory method: "Create(string environmentCode)".

      
      

Release notes for Sprint 42 & 43 & 44

Released to PRODUCTION on 2017-07-17.

• new features & improvements
  • [Admin Console] added exact match on 'Country' fields
  • [Admin Console] information about parent organisation id is replaced by name of parent organisation
  • [Admin Console] added information about merge operations in Persons view
  • [Admin Console] improved search for organisations in facility. It's possible to filter organisations / facilities by their parent or nature.
  • [Admin Console] Organisation / facility now have a link to list of sub-organisations/facilities
  • [Admin Console] added possibility to export more than 10K records (new limitation is 100K)
  • Organisations are now additionally validated by nature during registration/update (e.g. Confederation cannot be registered under NationalAssociation)
  • [Deduplication Console] support for identifiers containing letters (Connect Platform case) added
  • [Deduplication Console] total number of hashes is displayed as part of the diagnostics information
• SDK changes
  • added additional parameter (MA identifiers) in the person duplicate search to allow searching for duplicates only within a specific MA(s)
  • added additional method for getting duplicates by FIFA_ID (useful during person renewal to learn whether any new duplicates of a person were registered since the last update of a person)
  • full support for asynchronous API was introduced
• fixes
  • [Deduplication Console] fixed grouping issue that occasionally caused wrong (not optimal) groups to be displayed
  • [Deduplication Console] fixed information about number of found duplicates (related to the previous issue)
  • changed error message in Swagger when user belongs to more than one organization
  • calls to Google translate will now retry in case of a timeout

For this version an upgrade to a new SDK is recommended.

It was released together with the following versions of the SDKs:

• fifa-connectid-sdk-net-6.1.155.zip
• fifa-connectid-sdk-java-6.1.141.zip
• fifa-connectid-sdk-php-6.1.81.zip

Service Bus SDKs are included in the packages above. If you use separate SDK for Service Bus, download the new version from the list below:

• fifa-connectservicebus-sdk-net-3.0.116.zip
• fifa-connectservicebus-sdk-java-3.0.148.zip
• fifa-connectservicebus-sdk-php-3.0.104.zip

Full release notes are available in JIRA:

• Sprint 42
• Sprint 43
• Sprint 44

Release notes for Sprint 41

Released to PRODUCTION on 2017-06-08.

• new features & improvements
  • [Admin Console] when session times out an error message is displayed instead of a page silently failing as before
  • [Admin Console] interface cleaned up (unused elements removed from the UI)
• SDK changes
  • method added for unmerging a club
• fixes
  • all queues were changed to non-partitioned ones. This fix removes occasional 60 sec. delays in transferring messages to and from Singapore MA.

For this version an upgrade to a new SDK is recommended.

It was released together with the following versions of the SDKs:

• fifa-connectid-sdk-net-6.1.77.zip
• fifa-connectid-sdk-php-6.1.45.zip
• fifa-connectid-sdk-java-6.1.72.zip

Full release notes are available in JIRA:

• Sprint 41

No upgrade of Service Bus SDK is required.

Release notes for Sprint 40

Released to PRODUCTION on 2017-05-24.

• new features & improvements
  • [Admin Console] information about the number of child organisations has been added to a single organisation and single facility view (e.g. how many clubs a certain MA has)
• SDK changes (bring full compatibility with FIFA Data Standard 3.2)
  • Method RemoveRegistrations removed in order to prevent mistakes (registrations should be deactivated)
  • Changed type name OrganisationType to OrganisationLocalType and FacilityType to FacilityLocalType. This allows to store more information about a certain entity (e.g. local name in non-latin script and not only international name). This allows to store more information about the Organisation and Facility, however please note, that localName, localLanguage and localCountry are mandatory properties as per Data Standard.
  • Added properties LocalName, LocalShortName, LocalSystemMAId, LocalLanguage, LocalCountry to OrganisationLocalType and FacilityLocalType
  • Changed names for collections in FacilityLocalType and OrganisationLocalType
  • Changed ParentOrganisationId to ParentOrganisationFIFAId in OrganisationLocalType
  • Added support for LocalPersonName collection in PersonType.
  • Renamed property from MatchType to DuplicateMatchType in PersonDuplicateType
  • Renamed type from PersonMatchType to PersonDuplicateMatchType
  • Order of parameters changed in method FifaConnectIdClient.UpdatePersonAsync
  • Added new exception type FifaConflictException. It might be thrown when merging or unmerging persons.

  • Facility.GroundNatureType changed from "HardPitch" to "hard pitch". Other values of Facility.groundNatureType return only lower case now (accept all cases).

  • we no longer accept time part for some of the properties that have been of DateTime type before

    • Person.DateOfBirth

    • Organisation/Facility.foundationDate

    • Organisation/Facility.dissolutionDate

    • Organisation.NationalIdentifierType.dateFrom

    • Organisation.NationalIdentifierType.dateTo

This version contains breaking changes (note the change of a major version from 5 to 6). Upgrade to a new SDK will require a few coding changes but is recommended.

Please note that ver. 4 of the SDK/API is no longer officially supported.

The following versions of the SDKs are part of the release:

• fifa-connectid-sdk-net-6.1.34.zip
• fifa-connectid-sdk-java-6.1.40.zip
• PHP SDK - planned for end of May

Full release notes are available in JIRA: Sprint 40.

No upgrade of Service Bus SDK is required.

Release notes for Sprint 38 & 39

Released to PRODUCTION on 2017-05-12.

• new features & improvements
  • support for Gender has been added to both SDK and Admin Console. Gender is now an optional attribute of a Person (to avoid the need to do a data migration immediately)
  • support for RegistrationNature ("Registration" or "Loan") has been added to registrations in SDK and Admin Console
  • [Admin Console] "Organisation force registered" and "Facility force registered" events have been added to Audit Trail; filtering added as well
  • it is now possible to remove a person completely from ConnectID (contact with Helpdesk is required)
  • [SDK] idempotency concept has been implemented for person force registration. Clients should start passing LocalIDs to ConnectID which will prevent the system from creating multiple identical persons in case the code fails and "force" flag is used.
  • [SDK] validation against null values has been introduced, resulting in more meaningful 40x errors instead of 50x as before
• fixes
  • Admin Console now shows empty fields for facility's width/length/latitued/longitude if these values were not passed to Connect ID (before it was 0)
  • full phone mask validation is now working correctly in all technologies. Before it was possible to pass an incorrect value after the phone number extension (mask was not validating beginning and end of the string)

For this version an upgrade to a new SDK is recommended.

It was released together with the following versions of the SDKs:

• fifa-connectid-sdk-net-5.1.93.zip
• fifa-connectid-sdk-php-5.1.74.zip
• fifa-connectid-sdk-java-5.1.82.zip

Full release notes are available in JIRA:

• Sprint 38
• Sprint 39

No upgrade of Service Bus SDK is required.

Release notes for Sprint 37

Released to PRODUCTION on 2017-04-13.

• new features & improvements
  • [Admin Console]
    • full text search introduced for Organisations and Facilities view - up to now you could only search by FIFA_ID
    • reporting on transfers within FIFA Connect ID is now possible; you can report per time/age/level/MA/Confederation
    • added filtering Persons view by date of birth (from/to)
    • added filtering Persons view by Member Association
• fixes
  • search for duplicates of Facilities is now done within the same MA only
  • fixed an issue causing notifications about changed date of birth to display "0" instead of a valid FIFA_ID
  • [SDK][PHP] fixed an issue with FacilityType::valid() method which did not properly validate phone number (there was no effect on the Production system)

Release notes for Sprint 36

Released to PRODUCTION on 2017-03-28.

• new features & improvements
  • [Admin Console]
    • Notification centre screen is now available, providing overview of all notifications generated for a specific MA
    • go-to-last-page button in each table now displays a tooltip explaining the reason it is sometimes not available
  • Notification e-mail body is now enriched with the URL to notifications centre
  • Notification e-mail body now indicates that the time given is UTC
  • [SDK] - breaking changes present
    • introduced national duplicate check when registering/updating Organisations and Facilities. New message code needs to be handled (409) on the client side. Documentation on how the algorithm works can be found here.
    • introduced optional force parameter in RegisterOrganisationAsync and UpdateOrganisationAsync methods
    • feature added that allows to filter messages if the client does not want to respond when asked for person details by a certain MA. Technically: changed signature of method GetPersonDetails in IPersonDetailsProvider interface. Instance of PersonDetailsRequest is passed as an argument of GetPersonDetails. PersonDetailsRequest contains information about person UniqueFifaId and organisation asking for information (ReplyTo).
    • phone number validation modified for Organisations and Facilities (new mask)
• fixes
  • fixed an issue which would prevent non-Ascii user name to be passed to Connect ID as actor/user details
  • [PHP] fixed an issue which could cause Service Bus listener to hang during PeekLock

For this version an upgrade to a new SDK is recommended, however 1 change is not backward compatible. Until the SDK is upgraded from ver. 4, the system will be operational but new features cannot be used.

This version was released together with the following versions of the SDKs (notice that major version of API has been increased to 5):

• fifa-connectid-sdk-net-5.1.31.zip
• fifa-connectid-sdk-php-5.1.24.zip
• fifa-connectid-sdk-java-5.1.20.zip

Full release notes are available in JIRA: Sprint 36.

No upgrade of Service Bus SDK is required.

Release notes for Sprint 35

Released to PRODUCTION on 2017-03-15.

• new features & improvements
  • [Admin Console]
    • added export to csv/Excel from every table (Person/Organisation/Facility/Audit trail)
    • added support for searching and filtering Audit trail by so called actor details (users of Football Management System/FMS)
    • default dashboard (MA) is now cleaned - there is no longer menu, logo or other potentially distracting elements of the UI
    • [Admins only] added possibility to export/import dashboards and reports
  • Notification e-mail body is now enriched with the name of the user of FMS who performed the operation (if passed from the FMS) 
  • [SDK]
    • added support for passing actor details (user of FMS)
    • added Unmerge method for unmerging persons merged by mistake
    • [PHP only] it is now possible to configure location of the cache folder (in particular to place it outside of application directory)

For this version an upgrade to a new SDK is recommended. Changes are backward compatible but upgrade is needed to use new features.

This version was released together with the following versions of the SDKs:

• fifa-connectid-sdk-net-4.1.183.zip
• fifa-connectid-sdk-php-4.1.128.zip
• fifa-connectid-sdk-java-4.1.213.zip

Full release notes are available in JIRA: Sprint 35.

If you use Service Bus SDK alone, use the following versions:

• fifa-connectservicebus-sdk-net-3.0.85.zip
• fifa-connectservicebus-sdk-php-3.0.66.zip
• fifa-connectservicebus-sdk-java-3.0.106.zip

Release notes for Sprint 34

Released to PRODUCTION on 2017-03-03.

• new features & improvements
  • [Admin Console]
    • added a Single Person view
    • added a Single Organisation view
    • added a Single Facility view
    • navigation between pages improved
    • support for printing Person/Organisation/Facility added
  • [Reporting, Admin Console]
    • new dashboard added "MA Dashboard"
    • security introduced - you cannot see data from other Member Associations
    • you can now use OrganisationName and ConfederationName in reports instead of FIFA_ID
  • [Service Bus] limitation of 250KB per message has been lifted. Service Bus now allows to transfer messages as big as 10MB.
• fixes
  • fixed issue which occasionally caused errors during bulk registration of persons for Norway and Cyprus (time-outs from Hashing service)
  • Microsoft fixed the issue which caused occasional time-outs from Service Bus in mid-February

This version does not require upgrade of SDK.

Full release notes are available in JIRA: Sprint 34.

Release notes for Sprint 33

Released to PRODUCTION on 2017-02-15.

• new features & improvements
  • [Admin Console] added filtering Person's view by
    • role (Player, MatchOfficial, TeamOfficial, OrganizationOfficial)
    • level (Professional, Amateur)
    • sub-role (e.g. Referee, TeamCoach, etc.)
  • [Admin Console] total number of records added to each table
  • [Admin Console] component for paging improved
  • Notifications (e-mail) are now enhanced with date of operation and organisation who performed the operation
  • improved documentation of Service Bus to address users' feedback
• fixes
  • none

This version does not require upgrade of SDK.

Full release notes are available in JIRA: Sprint 33.

Release notes for Sprint 31 & Sprint 32

Released to PRODUCTION on 2017-01-31.

• new features & improvements
  • [Admin Console] filtering by Discipline introduced
  • [Admin Console] filtering by Registration Status introduced
  • new Notifications introduced (see more TODO)
  • Notifications feature is now available for everyone (subscription via opening Support Portal tickets); see more (TODO)
  • [SDK, .NET] ServiceBus & ConnectID Client are now thread safe - this will prevent concurrency issues when client generates too many threads by mistake
• fixes
  • fixed bug when listener would stop when it couldn't decrypt the message from the queue (instead of retrying)
  • address data for FIFA organisation corrected
  • minor fixes in documentation for SDK (POJO/POCO registration)
  • [PHP] fixed an issue which would cause missing documentation from the Service Bus package

For this version an upgrade to a new SDK is recommended.

This version was released together with the following versions of the SDKs:

• fifa-connectid-sdk-net-4.1.147.zip
• fifa-connectid-sdk-php-4.1.94.zip
• fifa-connectid-sdk-java-4.1.180.zip

Full release notes are available in JIRA:

• Sprint 31
• Sprint 32

Release notes for Sprint 30

Released to PRODUCTION on 2017-01-05.

• new features & improvements
  • [Admin Console] support for Admin Console access rights
    • MA user can only see relevant Audit Trail operations
    • MA user can only see Persons with active registrations of their MA (or no active registrations at all)
  • first version of Notifications released in BETA (only for selected users)
  • [Admin Console] on-line help now available for Admin Console
  • FIFA IDs are now case insensitive everywhere in the system
• fixes
  • [Admin Console] fixed an issue causing entry in Audit Trail (Admin Console) to show for Facility or Organisation update even if now field has been changed

Release notes for Sprint 29:

Released to PRODUCTION on 2016-12-22.

• new features & improvements
  • [SDK] first version of search for Organisation and Facility feature added
  • [SDK] documentation to SDK reorganised and extended after users' feedback
• fixes
  • [Admin Console] fixed error with "Create Facility" event not showing up properly in Audit Trail
  • [SDK, PHP] fixed error causing details of only one duplicate to be returned via SendAndWait() even if there were more duplicates
  • [SDK, Java] PersonDetails class is now serializable in Java SDK

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