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Release date :  22/December/2020

Theme: Upgrading our Tech Stack

Note: This platform release requires at least Javaleast a minimum of Java/OpenJDK 1.8 and MySQL 5.6 , 5to run properly.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. 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  OpenMRS to run on PostgreSQL, replacing original fhir replacing the original FHIR module with fhir2 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)

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Ian Bacher
Upgrade SpringUpgrade to Spring 5.2.9

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Daniel Kayiwa

Upgrade HibernateUpgrade to Hibernate 5.4.21

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

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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%

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Wolf Schlegel

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

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titleDone

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

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

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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.

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CLIFF GITA

Library upgrades

Jira Legacy
serverOpenMRS Issues
serverId45c5771b-fa4b-3e43-b34a-c19dc45ccc95
keyTRUNK-5498
Upgrade Spring and Hibernate 

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Jira Legacy
serverOpenMRS Issues
serverId45c5771b-fa4b-3e43-b34a-c19dc45ccc95
keyTRUNK-5528
Upgrade org.apache.lucene sub Libraries

Jira Legacy
serverOpenMRS Issues
serverId45c5771b-fa4b-3e43-b34a-c19dc45ccc95
keyTRUNK-5496
Upgrade Core to Compile and run on OpenJDK 8 ,9,10, 11,12,13,14

Bug fixes

Jira Legacy
serverOpenMRS Issues
serverId45c5771b-fa4b-3e43-b34a-c19dc45ccc95
keyTRUNK-5716

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Jira Legacy
serverOpenMRS Issues
serverId45c5771b-fa4b-3e43-b34a-c19dc45ccc95
keyTRUNK-5403



New features with bundled modules

Jira Legacy
serverOpenMRS Issues
serverId45c5771b-fa4b-3e43-b34a-c19dc45ccc95
keyRESTWS-773
Add Support for log4j2 based server log

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Jira Legacy
serverOpenMRS Issues
serverId45c5771b-fa4b-3e43-b34a-c19dc45ccc95
keyRESTWS-776
Enhance fulfiller details sub resource to allow updating accession number of an order

Database Changes

Jira Legacy
serverOpenMRS Issues
serverId45c5771b-fa4b-3e43-b34a-c19dc45ccc95
keyTRUNK-4830

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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