17 October 2025

Integrations

BETA Only applicable to institutions using the BETA release. Note that BETA documentation may be incomplete or contain errors.

The new and updated features for the 4.49 release are as follows:

AFD Integration
Header Business Impact Affected Topics

AFD security enhancements

ebs AFD integration has been updated to allow an institution to use a user ID and token for authentication, rather than a serial number and password. This change gives increased security and simplifies the setup by removing the need for many different serial numbers.

In 4.49, user ID and token authentication can be used for all phone and email validation in Central and ontrack, plus ontrack dynamic address searching only. Support for all address validation will be added in a future release.

Before switching to user ID and token authentication in ebs, you must request your credentials directly from AFD and ensure they cover email and phone validation if you have these features enabled.

To be confirmed
Intel pi
Header Business Impact Affected Topics

Intel pi version has been upgraded

This ebs release includes the July 2025 release of pi. For more information, go to pi Release notes.

You should also check the release notes for the May and June 2025 releases of pi.

To be confirmed
UCAS
Header Business Impact Affected Topics

UCAS import postcode changes

When UCAS applicant data is imported, the postcode is cleaned and checked to ensure it contains between 5 and 7 characters, the valid length for a UK postcode. If the postcode doesn't meet this requirement, it's blanked to allow the applicant data to import into ebs successfully.

To be confirmed