Release date : 22 December 2021
Theme: Making the Platform support Openmrs 3.0
Note: This platform release requires at least a minimum of Java / OpenJDK 1.8 and MySQL 5.6 and Tomcat 8.5+ to run properly.
What's New?
This release is OpenMRS Platform 2.5.0 and is a major release version of the OpenMRS API that follows 2.4.1. It contains many under-the-hood updates to have a more modern tech stack and security fixes.
Release Manager: tendo kiiza Martyn with support from Daniel Kayiwa
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Make all Collectable entities Form Recordable | Added support for making all Collectable Entities Form Recordable |
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Administration via REST | Extending Administration through REST endpoints for OpenMRS 3.0 |
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Enhancing user_properties to Enable storing user-specific settings for OpenMRS 3.0 |
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Mysql Reserved Word |
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Diagnosis Attribute |
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User Password |
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Security Fix in log4j | Fixing a Security threat in the log4j library which exposes a server to attackers |
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Library upgrades
Adding support for Tomcat 8.5+ and 9
New features with bundled modules
Community Input
Special thanks goes to the following people in the work they've done to make this release a success Daniel Kayiwa for the technical guidance , development and other aspects involved , Burke Mamlin for his untiring support through the Platform Team and Talk , design and business analysis specifically for the features included in this release. And the developers who worked on the various tickets Bartłomiej RasztabigaChristopher Miiro Antony Ojwang Testers from the QA Team for automating Some tests Sharif MagembeKakumirizi DaudChristine GichukiIrene Nyakate Juliet Wamalwa and the Entire QA Team , Grace Potma for interfacing with MFE squad , Ian Bacher Piotr Mankowski from the Fhir squad.
Bundled Modules
REST Web Services v2.30.0
OWA v1.13.0
FHIR2 v1.3.0
Bundled OWAs
Add-on Manager
Data Model Changes since 2.4.0
Delete non-null constraint from column cohort_member.start_date
Adding "form_namespace_and_path" column to encounter_diagnosis table
Adding "form_namespace_and_path" column to the allergy table
Adding 'encounter_id' column to the allergy table
Adding "form_namespace_and_path" column to the orders table
Adding "form_namespace_and_path" column to the patient_state table
Adding 'encounter_id' column to the patient_state table
Increasing user_property.property from VARCHAR(100) to VARCHAR(255)
Changing user_property.property_value from VARCHAR(255) to LONGTEXT
Creating order_attribute_type table
Creating order_attribute table
Create order_referral table
Introduce location column to test_order table
Adding type field to the Location table
Creating diagnosis_attribute_type table
Creating diagnosis_attribute table
Updating foreign key user_who_changed_user to add delete CASCADE
Renaming column rank to dx_rank because rank is a reserved word in MySQL 8.0.2 and later
Download
OpeMRS Platform 2.5.0 download link(https://sourceforge.net/projects/openmrs/files/releases/)