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If you're a module developer, or your site relies on a module, please test it against the 1.9 Alpha release and post your feedback below. The alpha standalones can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmrs/files/prereleases/OpenMRS_1.9.0_Alpha/ . The login is admin , password Admin123 Admin123 .
If your module has been mavenized, you should attempt to run your module unit tests against the 1.9 Alpha release. This can be done by updating the "openMRSVersion" property defined in the main module pom to "1.9.0-alpha" and then running a "mvn clean install". Note that if you were previously building against a version of OpenMRS prior to 1.8.0, you'll have to (temporarily) modify your openmrs dependencies in your poms as noted here. Also, if you have any test data sets defined in your module you may have to (temporarily) modify any concept_name entries to include the new locale_preferred property added in OpenMRS 1.7.0.
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