Platform 2.5.0-alpha Release Notes

Release Date: , October 4, 2021(to be extended)

What's New

Some interesting features in the 2.5 line will be:

• Support for Tomcat 8.5+
• Support for FormRecordable for more than just Obs and Condition 
• Administration via REST
• Patient Lists (Cohort Module changes)
• User settings TRUNK-6020 - Add support for storing user-specific settings for OpenMRS 3.0 Code Review (Post-Commit)
• ServiceOrder Class
• Moving OrderTest toward ServiceOrder to support Referrals at sub-tasks at TRUNK-6029
• Referral Order

Download

Get it at https://sourceforge.net/projects/openmrs/files/prereleases/OpenMRS_Platform_2.5.0-alpha.3/

Feedback Welcome!

As always, we look forward to getting your feedback about this release. Share your thoughts on http://talk.openmrs.org.

For example there are a couple of significant features that still need significant work before making it into the final release, such as:

Data Model Changes since 2.4.0

• Delete non-null constraint from column cohort_member.start_date
• Adding "form_namespace_and_path" column to encounter_diagnosis table
• Adding "form_namespace_and_path" column to the allergy table
• Adding 'encounter_id' column to the allergy table
• Adding "form_namespace_and_path" column to the orders table
• Adding "form_namespace_and_path" column to the patient_state table
• Adding 'encounter_id' column to the patient_state table
• Increasing user_property.property from VARCHAR(100) to VARCHAR(255)
• Changing user_property.property_value from VARCHAR(255) to LONGTEXT
• Creating order_attribute_type table
• Creating order_attribute table
• Create order_referral table
• Introduce location column to test_order table

Priority Ticket Statuses at the time of the Alpha release