State Reporting 21.9.2.0 Release Notes | PowerSchool SIS Compliance

A release announcement will be posted on PowerSchool Community when the installer is available for download. Refer to 2021 State Reporting Releases for release dates.

Reference	Summary	Release Note
PSSR-274229	All States/Provinces: Attendance Page Error Logging Update	The meeting, clock-in/clock-out attendance page has been updated and will no longer throw the following error in the system log: ORA-00936: Missing Expression
PSSR-270907	All States/Provinces: Attendance Profile Report - Perfect Attendance Update	Attendance Profile Report: Version 1.2 The Attendance Profile report now includes students that have blank attendance. Additionally, these students will display the following message to alert end-users as to why there is no attendance listed. No attendance records have been entered for this student.
PSSR-269245	All States/Provinces: Preferred Name Fields Needed	Fields have been added to the S_STU_X table to track a student's preferred first, middle, and last names: Pref_First Pref_Middle Pref_Last These fields are currently only exposed in WI but can be added to the UI via page fragments and other supported methods of customization options.
PSSR-272625	All States/Provinces: Security Updates to Certain HTML tags	It has been identified that certain html tags used in common compliance pages are a security vulnerability. Common compliance pages where these tags were used and all have been updated to address the security vulnerability.
PSSR-274366	Contacts Component Update	The following clarifying language is added to the Student Contacts tab, ‘Additional Address Type’ fields: Only Required when the student has a Part B Referral. The following clarifying language is added to the Student Contacts tab, Additional Address section: Only required when a student has a Part B Referral and neither the Physical or Mailing address has an Additional Address Type of Father, Guardian, Mother or Other.
PSSR-272528	Ed-Fi: Update the Namespace for Medium Of Instruction Descriptor for Sections in Virtual Method Field	Update the Namespace of Medium Of Instruction Descriptor to uri://midatahub.org which corresponds to Virtual Method Field on the UI and its part of sections resource.
PSSR-272803	Ed-Fi: Update Hardcoded Descriptors for Publishing	Updated various descriptor values pointing to namespace uri://www.ed-fi.org for the following resources: calendarDates studentSchoolAssociations grades gradingPeriods sessions staffSchoolAssociations staffEducationOrganizationEmploymentAssociations staffEducationOrganizationAssignmentAssociations
PSSR-272680	Ed-Fi: Update Course and CourseOffering Publishing	Academic Subject Descriptor corresponds to SCED 1 is removed from the publishing JSON of “Courses” resource and added a dependency on Sessions for “CourseOfferring” resource.
PSSR-268151	Official Enrollment Student Roster Report Update - Use New Legal Gender Override	Official Enrollment Student Roster: Version 2.4 The following updates are made: The student address identified as the Address Type of Physical is the Address reported. The Legal Gender is the Gender used for State Reporting when the Preferred Gender is something other than M or F.
PSSR-268145	Third Grade Retention Update - Use New Legal Gender Override	Third Grade Retention: Version 1.2 If the student’s Preferred Gender is not M or F, the Legal Gender is reported.
PSSR-274016	Virtual Learning Contact Form Update	Virtual Learning Contact Form Update: Version 1.2 The following updates are made: ‘Homework’ is removed from the Contact Type on the ‘Virtual Learning Contact Form’. Two-way Communication Log is changed to Two-Way Interaction Log on the Administration and Teacher Portals. The ‘Homework’ Contact Type is no longer selectable on the Two-Way Interaction Log pages and a note is added to explain the option was for the 2020-2021 Pandemic Learning.