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Release date :  22/December/2020

Note: This platform release requires at least Java/OpenJDK 1.8 and MySQL 5.6, 5.7



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. 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 original fhir module with fhir2 module with 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.

Library upgrades

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keyTRUNK-5498
Upgrade Spring and Hibernate 

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keyTRUNK-5528
Upgrade org.apache.lucene sub Libraries

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serverOpenMRS Issues
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keyTRUNK-5496
Upgrade Core to Compile and run on OpenJDK 8 ,9,10, 11,12,13,14

Bug fixes

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keyTRUNK-5716

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New features with bundled modules

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serverOpenMRS Issues
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keyRESTWS-773
Add Support for log4j2 based server log

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keyRESTWS-776
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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