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PowerSchool SIS 21.4.5.4

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PowerSchool SIS version 21.4.5.4 is available as of May 18, 2022. When the installers are available for download, an announcement will be posted on PowerSchool SIS Release Notification on PowerSchool Community.

Resolved Issues

Product Area

Description

Reference

Security

A potential privilege escalation vulnerability in the Restore Session functionality of PowerSchool SIS has been addressed.

Customers who are unable to upgrade should disable the Allow users to restore sessions that have been timed out due to inactivity setting. This setting is found on the Security Settings page. You can access Security Settings by clicking System, then System Settings, then Security Settings.

This issue has already been addressed in the PowerSchool SIS 22.5.0.0 release.


Security

Apache Struts has been updated to version 2.5.30 as a precautionary measure against CVE-2021-31805

This issue has already been addressed in the PowerSchool SIS 22.5.0.0 release.


Removed Features/Future Deprecation

Feature

Description

Reference

PowerTeacher Gradebook

PowerTeacher Gradebook will be removed from PowerSchool SIS with the 22.5.0.0 release. To ensure that teachers can start using the more advanced features in PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook when you update PowerSchool SIS, make a plan to transition to PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook by the beginning of the 2022-2023 School Year.

Moving to PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook

PowerSchool Components

PowerSchool SIS comprises several software components, each versioned independently from one another. This allows for greater flexibility of component updates as new features and bug fixes become available. Some updates may include dependencies between components. These dependencies will be communicated and built into the component update installers to prevent PowerSchool SIS from being misconfigured. The following table identifies the version number for each PowerSchool SIS component in this release compared to the previous release:

ComponentVersion Number


21.4.5.2

21.4.5.4

PowerSchool SIS Server

21.4.5.2

21.4.5.4

PowerTeacher Gradebook

2.8.0.25

2.8.0.25

ReportWorks

1.5.1.37

1.5.1.37

PowerScheduler

3.0.2

3.0.2

Oracle

12.2.0.1 or 19c

12.2.0.1 or 19c

State Reporting

21.9.2.0

21.9.2.0

Report SDK

1.26.0.0

1.26.0.0
Amazon Corretto Java1.8u2621.8u262
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