Platform Release Notes

Owned by Burke Mamlin
Last updated: Oct 29, 2021 by Ian Bacher
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Latest Platform Release: OpenMRS Platform 2.4.0


Release date :  22/December/2020

Theme: Upgrading our Tech Stack

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



What's New?

This release is OpenMRS Platform 2.4.0 and is a major release version of the OpenMRS API that follows 2.3.2. It contains many under-the-hood updates to have a more modern tech stack. A number of libraries have been upgraded in this release and new features have been added such as support for OpenMRS to run on PostgreSQL, replacing the original FHIR module with the new and improved FHIR2 module which includes support for FHIR R4, upgrading other libraries e.g Log4j 2, JUnit 5, etc, switching domains from hibernate xml mappings to annotations, upgrading of the major core libraries like spring, hibernate and liquibase, adding support for MySQL 5.6 - 8.0, plus Java 8 - 15 support.

Release Manager:  CLIFF GITA, with mentorship from Kaweesi Joseph and Nathan Ruhanga, and support from Herbert Yiga

Feature

Description

Status

Point of Contact

Upgrade FHIR

Replace original fhir module with the FHIR2 module, which includes support for FHIR R4 (star)

DONE

Ian Bacher
Upgrade SpringUpgrade to Spring 5.2.9

DONE

Daniel Kayiwa

Upgrade HibernateUpgrade to Hibernate 5.4.21

DONE

Daniel Kayiwa
Support Java 8 - 15Add support for Java 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 while not losing support for Java 8

DONE

Daniel Kayiwa
Upgrade Liquibase

Upgrade to Liquibase 3.10.2 and Avoid running legacy liquibase changesets. This greatly improves the startup speed by approximately 50%

DONE

Wolf Schlegel

Upgrade Other LibrariesUpgrade a number of other underlying libraries. e.g Log4j 2, JUnit 5, etc

DONE

Pahonsi Bebeto Achile
Support PostgreSQLAdd support for PostgreSQL versions 8.2 up to the latest 12

DONE

Aman Mishra
Support MySQL 5.6 - 8.0Add support for all MySQL versions from 5.6 to the latest 8.0

DONE

Daniel Kayiwa
Improvements to Condition and bug-fixes around Orders

Substantial improvements to Condition (were also included in 2.3.2), including:
Linking a Condition to an Encounter and Making Conditions Form Recordable (obs). Ongoing discussion for other improvements needed is here on Talk.

DONE

CLIFF GITA

Library upgrades

Error rendering macro 'jira' : Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration.
Upgrade Spring and Hibernate 

Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration. Upgrade to Liquibase

Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration. Upgrade org.apache.lucene sub Libraries

Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration. Upgrade Core to Compile and run on OpenJDK 8 ,9,10, 11,12,13,14

Bug fixes

Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration.

Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration.

Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration.

Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration.

Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration.

Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration.



New features with bundled modules

Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration. Add Support for log4j2 based server log

Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration. Add causeOfDeathNonCoded as the updatable Property in REST

Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration. Enhance fulfiller details sub resource to allow updating accession number of an order

Database Changes

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Community Input

Tremendous thanks go to all the great contributors that have greatly gathered their efforts towards this release, Moses Mutesasira, Juliet Wamalwa,  Sharif Magembe  Reagan patrick Makoba, Irene Nyakate, tendo kiiza Martyn, Herbert Yiga , CLIFF GITA, Daniel Kayiwa, Burke Mamlin, Dimitri R, Wyclif Luyima  Aman Mishra Wolf Schlegel Pahonsi Bebeto Achile Samuel Male among many other great contributors.

Bundled Modules

  • REST Web Services v2.29.0
  • OWA v1.12.0
  • FHIR2 v1.1.0

Bundled OWAs

  • Add-on Manager

Download

OpeMRS Platform 2.4.0 download link(https://sourceforge.net/projects/openmrs/files/releases/OpenMRS_Platform_2.4.0/)

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