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The NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 are now live on the NuGet gallery!
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You can install or update the NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 using the NuGet Package Manager Console, like this:

Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.OData -Version 5.3.0

Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.OData -Version 5.3.0

What’s in this release?

The release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 are now live on the NuGet gallery!
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You can install or update the release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 using the NuGet Package Manager Console,

TL;DR: You can now (legally) use our .NET OData client and ODataLib on Android and iOS.
Backstory
For a while now we have been working with our legal team to improve the terms you agree to when you use one of our libraries (WCF Data Services,

The OData team has been working on updating the OData Validator tool to support the new JSON format validation. We are pleased to announce that the tool now supports validating your V3 service for all three formats – ATOM, old JSON format (aka JSON Verbose) and the new JSON format.

And now for some exciting news: you can finally use WCF Data Services with Entity Framework 6+! Today we are uploading a new NuGet package called WCF Data Services Entity Framework Provider. This NuGet package bridges the gap between WCF Data Services 5.6.0 and Entity Framework 6+.

Recently we released updated NuGet packages for WCF Data Services 5.6.0. You will need the updated tooling (released today) to use the portable libraries feature mentioned below with code gen.
What is in the release:
Visual Studio 2013 Support
The WCF DS 5.6.0 tooling installer has support for Visual Studio 2013.

What are the Request and Response Pipeline configurations in WCF Data Services Client?
In WCF Data Services 5.4 we added a new pattern to allow developers to hook into the client request and response pipelines. In the server, we have long had the concept of a processing pipeline.

Today we are releasing updated NuGet packages and tooling for WCF Data Services 5.6.0. This is an alpha release and as such we have both features to finish as well as quality to fine-tune before we release the final version.
You will need the updated tooling to use the portable libraries feature mentioned below.

WCF Data Services 5.5.0 has officially been released! The 5.5.0 release will be another NuGet-only release as we did not make any updates to the Visual Studio tooling.
The last tooling update was version 5.3.0. Services created using this version of tooling should update the runtime binaries to 5.5.0 with NuGet.

It’s that time again: yesterday we uploaded an RC for the upcoming 5.5.0 release. The 5.5.0 release will be another NuGet-only release.
What is in the release:
This release has two primary features: 1) significant enhancements to the URI parser and 2) public data source providers.