# MINOR - Final Review of Extensions Mechanism update available for comment

**URL:** <https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/minor-final-review-of-extensions-mechanism-update-available-for-comment/417>\
**Category:** Standard\
**Created:** [13 June 2023 14:54 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/minor-final-review-of-extensions-mechanism-update-available-for-comment/417 "2023-06-13T14:54:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![marion.galley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@marion.galley](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/marion.galley)\
**Post date:** [13 June 2023 14:54 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/minor-final-review-of-extensions-mechanism-update-available-for-comment/417/1 "2023-06-13T14:54:19Z")

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Hi all,

This post is to share a Pull Request containing a MINOR update to the 360Giving package schema for review by the Stewardship Committee and 360Giving community. The committee has already approved the a proposal detailing this update by email.

This update to the 360Giving Data Standard will create a mechanism for Extensions such as the DEI Extension to be recognised and validated by our tools, including the [Data Quality Tool](https://dataquality.threesixtygiving.org/). This is a technical change giving effect to the previous decision of the committee [at their March 2021 meeting](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/standard-stewardship-committee-minutes/161/7) to approve an extension being adopted in the Standard.

[Link to Pull Request](https://github.com/ThreeSixtyGiving/standard/pull/361).

This is the ‘Final Review’ stage as set out in the [360Giving Data Standard revision process](https://standard.threesixtygiving.org/en/latest/about/governance/#final-review-and-release), which states that proposed updates be made available for review by the committee and the 360Giving community for at least two weeks before final approval.

Please feel free to post comments or raise any queries or points of clarification.

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**Author:** ![marion.galley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@marion.galley](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/marion.galley)\
**Post date:** [13 June 2023 17:10 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/minor-final-review-of-extensions-mechanism-update-available-for-comment/417/2 "2023-06-13T17:10:29Z")

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Please [see here the proposal](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oNPnRM9Kww_4We_cjZm5Pu55M1WGXaTh/view?usp=sharing) that was shared with the committee, and sets out the purpose of the update, the details of the proposed extension mechanism and the impact assessment for it.

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**Author:** ![360Giving](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.threesixtygiving.org/360giving/32/100_2.png) [@360Giving](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/360Giving)\
**Post date:** [26 March 2024 14:31 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/minor-final-review-of-extensions-mechanism-update-available-for-comment/417/3 "2024-03-26T14:31:37Z")

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I’m pleased to announce that the extensions mechanism and our first extension for DEI are live! This takes the Standard to version 1.4.

The [release notes for version 1.4 are available here](https://github.com/ThreeSixtyGiving/standard/releases) and include several other PATCH updates that have passed governance since 1.4 was approved and were therefore incorporated into one release. Here are the corresponding forum posts for the [MINOR Extensions mechanism update](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/minor-final-review-of-extensions-mechanism-update-available-for-comment/417), the [first PATCH update](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-various-housekeeping-updates/419) and the [second PATCH update](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-new-extensions-information-in-metadata-documentation/420) that were incorporated into this release.

Although the Standard update for the Extensions mechanism was approved last year, we decided to wait to make the changes live until we had developed guidance to make it easier for users to prepare valid DEI data alongside their 360Giving data. This is now ready, and you can read the guidance about [Extensions](https://standard.threesixtygiving.org/en/latest/extensions/) in general and the [DEI extension](https://standard.threesixtygiving.org/en/latest/extensions/dei/) in particular on our Standard documentation site.