Release Notes 1.9.0 Alpha

November 8, 2011

What's New

Version 1.9.0 of OpenMRS has three (3) major changes. (A larger list can be found below.)

• Grouping encounters into visits
• Multiple providers per encounter
• Additional attributes to concept mapping

A huge thanks to the 55 people that contributed code to this release: abbas, amala, asgoyal, ashishmittal, rubailly, ajanthan, gbalaji, bwolfe, bcstrick, duality72, cliff.mcintosh, corey.sobel, dkayiwa, djazayeri, bisanthe, gbathla, gauravpaliwal, gobi, goutham, grwarren, deuts20h, harsha, arbaughj, jeffrey.leegon, jkeiper, jwmajors81, jportela, jtellez, lara.kellett, gmario, mogoodrich, mblanchette, mseaton, nribeka, peichenauer, raff, arahulkmit, r.friedman, sapna, sunbiz, scottmuc, shanakaf, sneha, suho, sjmckee, stuartgunter, suneeth, surangak, tmdugan, cta, tabdelmaguid, upul, wyclif, zabilcm, zubair

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

Community Input

We welcome any user to download OpenMRS 1.9 Alpha and try it out, give us feedback, and potentially bug reports on this release. We especially ask current users to try this version out on their own database and with their custom modules.

If you are the lead developer of a module, then you should test out your module against this 1.9 alpha, so if you need to make any changes, you can do so well before the final release.

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 1.9 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).

We do not recommend using this in a production environment!

Download

OpenMRS 1.9.0 Alpha represents version 1.9.0.24245 http://openmrs.org

Download OpenMRS 1.9 Alpha

Bundled Modules

These modules are bundled with the 1.9 alpha openmrs.war download. They will be started automatically.

• Logic 0.5
• HTML Form Entry 1.7.3
• Reporting 0.6.2
• HTML Widgets 1.5.7.1
• Reporting Compatibility 1.5.4.1
• Serialization.xstream 0.2.5
• Xforms 4.0.8

User Interface Changes

• The Manage Settings (formerly Global Properties from platform 1.8 downwards)  link has been changed into Settings where the settings (formerly global properties from platform 1.8 downwards)  are grouped according to category. The old style of listing all without grouping can be accessed from the Advanced Settings link.
• The Encounters tab on the patient dashboard is replaced with Visits unless you set the visits.enabled setting to false.

Non-Backwards-Compatible Changes for Developers

Developers take note: unfortunately 1.9 includes a few non-backwards-compatible changes from 1.8.

• Form no longer has the xslt and template properties. Use the new FormResource API.
• Encounter provider is no longer a mere person but has to be in the new provider tables. So a provider may not be a person. And each encounter provider has to be associated with an encounter role.

Changelog

Database

* (Fixed)Modified edit_privilege to correct column size
* (Fixed)Add a table to enable generic storage of serialized objects
* (Fixed)users.retired to BOOLEAN
* (Fixed)Change active_list_type.retired to BOOLEAN
* (Fixed)Change active_list_type.retired to BOOLEAN
* (Fixed)Change concept_name.locale_preferred to BOOLEAN
* Adding index on notification_alert.date_to_expire column
* Adding "date_changed" column to person_address table
* Adding "changed_by" column to person_address table
* Add 'location_behavior' column to patient_identifier_type table
* Drop Not-Null constraint from location_id column in patient_identifier table
* Create table to store concept stop words to avoid in search key indexing
* Inserting the initial concept stop words
* Adding the discontinued_reason_non_coded column to orders.
* Adding 'start_date' column to person_address table
* Adding 'end_date' column to person_address table
* Adding "date_changed" column to patient_identifier table
* Adding "changed_by" column to patient_identifier table
* Adding "date_changed" column to relationship table
* Adding "changed_by" column to relationship table
* Increasing the serialized_data column of serialized_object to hold mediumtext
* Dropping unused date_started column from obs table
* Dropping unused date_stopped column from obs table
* Adding correct foreign key for concept_answer.answer_drug
* Create the person_merge_log table
* Create visit type table
* Create the visit table and add the foreign key for visit_type
* (Fixed)Changed visit.voided to BOOLEAN
* Adding visit_id column to encounter table
* Adding the start_date column to relationship.
* Adding the end_date column to relationship.
* Creating visit_attribute_type table
* (Fixed)Change visit_attribute_type.retired to BOOLEAN
* Refactoring visit_attribute_type table (devs only)
* Creating visit_attribute table
* (Fixed)Change visit_attribute.voided to BOOLEAN
* Increasing maximum length of patient identifier type regex format
* Change all empty concept_source.hl7_code to NULL
* Add unique constraint to the concept_source table
* Adding the outcomesConcept property to Program
* Adding the outcome property to PatientProgram
* Creating location_attribute_type table
* (Fixed)Change visit_attribute.retired to BOOLEAN
* Refactoring location_attribute_type table (devs only)
* Creating location_attribute table
* (Fixed)Change visit_attribute.retired to BOOLEAN
* Converting general address format (if applicable)
* Converting Spain address format (if applicable)
* Converting Rwanda address format (if applicable)
* Converting USA address format (if applicable)
* Converting Kenya address format (if applicable)
* Converting Lesotho address format (if applicable)
* Converting Malawi address format (if applicable)
* Converting Tanzania address format (if applicable)
* Renaming the concept_source table to concept_reference_source
* Adding concept_reference_term table
* (Fixed)Change concept_reference_term.retired to BOOLEAN
* Adding concept_map_type table
* (Fixed)Change concept_map_type.retired to BOOLEAN
* Renaming the concept_map table to concept_reference_map
* Adding concept_reference_term_id column to concept_reference_map table
* Renaming concept_map_type.isHidden to is_hidden
* Inserting core concept map types
* Adding concept_map_type_id column and a foreign key constraint to concept_reference_map table
* Adding changed_by column and a foreign key constraint to concept_reference_map table
* Adding date_changed column and a foreign key constraint to concept_reference_map table
* Adding concept_reference_term_map table
* Creating concept reference terms from existing rows in the concept_map table(For MySQL)
* Creating concept reference terms from existing rows in the concept_map table(For all databases except MySQL)
* Copying concept_map_id column to concept_reference_map.concept_reference_term_id column
* Adding foreign key constraint to concept_reference_map.concept_reference_term_id column
* Dropping foreign key constraint on concept_reference_map.source column
* Dropping concept_reference_map.source column
* Dropping concept_reference_map.source_code column
* Dropping concept_reference_map.comment column
* Remove ON DELETE CASCADE from relationship table for person_a
* Remove ON DELETE CASCADE from relationship table for person_b
* (Fixed)Changing from smallint to BOOLEAN type on BOOLEAN properties
* Updating logging level global property
* Void all attributes that have empty string values.
* Create provider table
* Creating provider_attribute_type table
* Refactoring provider_attribute_type table (devs only)
* Creating provider_attribute table
* Creating encounter_role table
* Creating encounter_provider table
* Inserting the unknown encounter role into the encounter_role table
* Creating providers for persons from the encounter table
* Migrating providers from the encounter table to the encounter_provider table
* Dropping the provider_id column from the encounter table
* Allow Global Properties to be typed
* Allow Global Properties to be typed
* Allow Global Properties to be typed
* Allow Global Properties to be typed
* Add xslt column back to the form table
* Add template column back to the form table
* Add obs.previous_version column (TRUNK-420)
* Fix all the old void_reason content and add in the new previous_version to the matching obs row (POTENTIALLY VERY SLOW FOR LARGE OBS TABLES)

Bugs

New Features