Platform Release Notes 2.5.0

Owned by tendo kiiza Martyn
Last updated: Dec 23, 2021
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Release date :  22 December 2021

Theme: Making the Platform support Openmrs 3.0

Note: This platform release requires at least a minimum of Java / OpenJDK 1.8 and MySQL 5.6 and Tomcat 8.5+ to run properly.


What's New?

This release is OpenMRS Platform 2.5.0 and is a major release version of the OpenMRS API that follows 2.4.1. It contains many under-the-hood updates to have a more modern tech stack and security fixes.

Release Manager:  tendo kiiza Martyn  with support from Daniel Kayiwa 

FeatureDescriptionStatusPoint of Contact
Support for Tomcat 8.5+Adding support for Tomcat 8.5+ and 9

DONE

Daniel Kayiwa 
Make all Collectable entities Form RecordableAdded support for making all Collectable Entities Form Recordable

DONE

Daniel Kayiwa 

Administration via RESTExtending Administration through REST endpoints for OpenMRS 3.0

DONE

Burke Mamlin Daniel Kayiwa  Bartłomiej Rasztabiga 

User settings 

Enhancing user_properties to Enable storing  user-specific settings for OpenMRS 3.0

DONE

tendo kiiza Martyn  Burke Mamlin Daniel Kayiwa 

Mysql Reserved WordAvoid using MySQL reserved word "rank" as Column Name

DONE

Christopher Miiro 
Diagnosis AttributeAdd "Diagnosis Attribute" to data model

DONE

Christopher Miiro 
User PasswordCannot delete user who has changed their password

DONE

Christopher Miiro 
Security Fix in log4jFixing a Security threat in the log4j library which exposes a server to attackers

DONE

Ian Bacher 

Library upgrades

Adding support for Tomcat 8.5+ and 9

New features with bundled modules

Community Input

Special thanks goes to the following people in the work they've done to make this release a success Daniel Kayiwa  for the technical guidance , development and other aspects involved , Burke Mamlin  for his untiring support through the Platform Team and Talk , design and business analysis specifically for the features included in this release.  And the developers who worked on the various tickets Bartłomiej Rasztabiga Christopher Miiro  Antony Ojwang  Testers from the QA Team for automating Some tests Sharif Magembe Kakumirizi DaudChristine Gichuki Irene Nyakate  Juliet Wamalwa and the Entire QA Team , Grace Potma for interfacing with MFE squad , Ian Bacher  Piotr Mankowski from the Fhir squad.

Bundled Modules

  • REST Web Services v2.30.0
  • OWA v1.13.0
  • FHIR2 v1.3.0

Bundled OWAs

  • Add-on Manager

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
  • Adding type field to the Location table
  • Creating diagnosis_attribute_type table
  • Creating diagnosis_attribute table
  • Updating foreign key user_who_changed_user to add delete CASCADE
  • Renaming column rank to dx_rank because rank is a reserved word in MySQL 8.0.2 and later

Download

OpeMRS Platform 2.5.0 download link(https://sourceforge.net/projects/openmrs/files/releases/)

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