Project Online Odata 45 Field limit

Hi all, according to the below TechNet article
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-project-online-help/project-online-software-boundaries-and-limits-HA104063425.aspx If you use the Odata feed and Project Online you are limited to a max of 45 custom enterprise fields. I heard at the
WPC last week that this is no longer strictly true but when I searched online I couldn't find any updates to the above article.
Does anyone know what the current situation is? Ie are we still limited to the 45 fields?
Many thx

This is a limitation specific to OData. All available ECFs are just the 45. That is why it is listed as a limitation.
You can create hundreds of custom fields, but you won’t be able to see them in the OData feed. It is a hard stop on the 45 limit – maybe 45 isn’t an absolute limit, but is instead a safe - conservative limit.

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