Release Notes 1.8.0 RC

April 22, 2011

This version of OpenMRS is a prerelease and not considered worthy for production use. Its function is to give users an idea of what to expect in the upcoming major release (1.8.0) and help discover any possible obscure new bugs.

What's new since 1.8 Beta2?

OpenMRS 1.8.0 RC has a number of bug fixes made in the past couple of weeks in the core application and some bundled modules like reporting and form entry. Check below for the complete listing of the bug fixes in the core application.You can download OpenMRS 1.8 RC to try/test it.

We do not recommend using this in a production environment!

Community Input

We welcome any user to download OpenMRS 1.8.0 RC and try it out, give us feedback, and potentially bug reports on this release. We especially ask current users try this version out on their own database and with their custom modules.

Even if you don't have time to do any thorough testing, we'd really appreciate it if you can upgrade a copy of your database to the 1.8 data model, and report on any errors than may occur in the upgrade script.

If a new bug is found, send an email to one of the mailing lists or create a new JIRA ticket (click upper right icon) Signup for an OpenMRS ID

Thanks!

A huge thanks to the 49 people that have contributed to the code base and helping us to get this far: ajanthan, aravindm, ashishmittal, astelmashenko, bobcstrick, bmamlin, bwolfe, crecabarren, cristian.chircu, diptanuc, djazayeri, dkayiwa, dthomas, ehkimme, firzhan, gigix, hablutzel1, harsha.cse, jKeiper, knoll_frank, l0s, luzhuangwei, mblanchette, mcunderlik, mharrison, misha680, mogoodrich, msambath, mseaton, ndutta, nribeka, n.nehete, r0bb, raff, shazin, slorenz, sneha, stuartgunter, sunbiz, surangak, syhaas, thadk, tks423, uday_rayala, umashanthi, upul, wyclif, yhemanth, zabilcm

Not to mention all the people that contributed in countless other ways to support this release and be a great part of the shaping of this release: pbiondich, mdowney, dawn, nareesa, zeshan.

Download

OpenMRS 1.8.0 RC represents version 1.8.0. 19572

Download OpenMRS 1.8 RC

Bundled Modules

This module is bundled with 1.8 RC and is marked as a core module.  It can be upgraded, but cannot be removed:

These modules are bundled with the 1.8.0 RC openmrs.war download. They will be started automatically.

Changelog since 1.8 Beta2

 

Changes made in 1.8.x branch since 1.8.0 Beta2 was released

Author

TRUNK-2054

OpenMRS in-app Help is not helpful

bobcstrick

TRUNK-2213

error en el tag obsValueField - error in the obsValueField tag

djazayeri

TRUNK-2225

removing DWRAlertService from headerMinimal

jkeiper

TRUNK-2034

Trying to create a user account for an existing patient actually duplicates the person

wyclif

TRUNK-2225

adding DWR engine and DWRAlertService to headerMinimal

jkeiper

TRUNK-296

Fixing the name of the purge patient programs privilege in 1.8.x branch

mseaton

TRUNK-2201

Back porting, Remove concept name rows for removed names on the concept form without requiring a void reason

wyclif

TRUNK-2117

backporting, fixed banner bar for legacy theme (and minor change to footer)

jkeiper

TRUNK-2144

Back porting, Removing 'View Observations' privilege from Anonymous user

wyclif

TRUNK-2144

Back porting, Don't display encounter index page when a user isn't authenticated

wyclif

TRUNK-2120

Remove dojo imports from patient dashboard

ehkimme

TRUNK-2103

Spinning wheel never stops on patient search page

wyclif

TRUNK-2123

Fixing TRUNK-2123 - Loading a module with an extension of an incorrect class makes the system unusable

ashishmittal

TRUNK-2129

fix for TRUNK-2129: When saving voided Person PersonSaveHandler should make sure the personVoidReason field is not empty, not the (patient) voidReason

mogoodrich

TRUNK-2117

jkeiper backporting TRUNK-2117 to branches/1.8.x - fixed user and banner bars to enable links

jkeiper

TRUNK-2049

djazayeri Backporting fix to TRUNK-2049 - Liquibase upgrade failure with users.user_id foreign key

djazayeri

TRUNK-2100

djazayeri Fixing TRUNK-2100 - Upgrading to 1.8 fails if your scheduler_task_config table doesn't have a default value for date_created

djazayeri

TRUNK-1687

mblanchette Backporting fix for ant-contrib in pom and Ant build

mblanchette

TRUNK-2063

mblanchette Backporting fix for date comparison in ShortPatientFormValidator test

mblanchette

TRUNK-2051

jkeiper TRUNK-2051 - backporting to branches/1.8.x - follow-up fix to content padding (too much space up top)

jkeiper

TRUNK-2051

backporting TRUNK-2051 to branches/1.8.x - fixed ever-present horizontal scrollbar in chrome (IE and FF still work)

jkeiper

TRUNK-2043

Maven tests depend on machine locale

raff

TRUNK-1845

Fix runtime properties file lookup in InitializationFilter

surangak

TRUNK-1943

committing missing unit test which was meant to be added as a part of TRUNK-1943 to 1.8.x line

mseaton

TRUNK-2032

Adding a new module from within OpenMRS web application reports an error

bwolfe

 

fixed annoying double underline in patient tabs ... for linux and windows

jkeiper

See ? Release Notes for 1.8 Beta2, Release Notes for 1.8.0 Beta, and Release Notes for 1.8.0 Alpha for other changes made since 1.7.