Release Notes 1.9.0 Beta

December 22, 2011

This version of OpenMRS is a prerelease and not considered worthy for production use. Its function is to give users an idea of what to expect and help discover any possible obscure new bugs.
See release notes for 1.9.0 for the final production-ready release.

Whats New Since 1.8

Version 1.9.0 of OpenMRS has three (3) major changes. (A larger list can be found below.)

  • Grouping encounters into visits

  • Multiple providers per encounter

  • Additional attributes to concept mapping

A huge thanks to the 55 people that contributed code to this release: abbas, amala, asgoyal, ashishmittal, rubailly, ajanthan, gbalaji, bwolfe, bcstrick, duality72, cliff.mcintosh, corey.sobel, dkayiwa, djazayeri, bisanthe, gbathla, gauravpaliwal, gobi, goutham, grwarren, deuts20h, harsha, arbaughj, jeffrey.leegon, jkeiper, jwmajors81, jportela, jtellez, lara.kellett, gmario, mogoodrich, mblanchette, mseaton, nribeka, peichenauer, raff, arahulkmit, r.friedman, sapna, sunbiz, scottmuc, shanakaf, sneha, suho, sjmckee, stuartgunter, suneeth, surangak, tmdugan, cta, tabdelmaguid, upul, wyclif, zabilcm, zubair

Not to mention all the people that contributed in countless other ways to support this release and be a great part of the shaping of this release: pbiondich, mdowney

Community Input

We welcome any user to download OpenMRS 1.9 Beta and try it out, give us feedback, and potentially bug reports on this release. We especially ask current users to try this version out on their own database and with their custom modules.

If you are the lead developer of a module, then you should test out your module against this 1.9 beta, so if you need to make any changes, you can do so well before the final release.

Even if you don't have time to do any thorough testing, we'd really appreciate it if you can upgrade a copy of your database to the 1.9 data model, and report on any errors than may occur in the upgrade script.

If a new bug is found, send an email to one of the mailing lists or create a new JIRA ticket (click upper right icon).

We do not recommend using this in a production environment!

Release Testing Helper Module

We have also released this module to help you test 1.9 beta using your existing data.
You can get more information about this module from: Release Testing Helper Module

Download

Download OpenMRS 1.9 Beta

Download Release Testing Helper Module

Bundled Modules

These modules are bundled with the 1.9 beta openmrs.war download. They will be started automatically and can be removed if they are not wanted.

  • Logic 0.5.0.1

  • HTML Form Entry 1.8.2

  • Reporting 0.7.0.1

  • HTML Widgets 1.6.0

  • Reporting Compatibility 1.5.4.1

  • Serialization.xstream 0.2.5

  • Xforms 4.0.9

User Interface Changes

  • The Manage Global Properties link has been changed into Settings where the global properties are grouped according to category. The old style of listing all without grouping can be accessed from the Advanced Settings link.

  • The Encounters tab on the patient dashboard is replaced with Visits unless you set the visits.enabled setting to false.

Non-Backwards-Compatible Changes for Developers

Developers take note: unfortunately 1.9 includes a few non-backwards-compatible changes from 1.8.

  • Form no longer has the xslt and template properties. Use the new FormResource API.

  • Encounter provider is no longer a mere person but has to be in the new provider tables. So a provider may not be a person. And each encounter provider has to be associated with an encounter role.

The module developer migration guide can be found at: Module Developer Migration Guide

Changelog since 1.9 alpha

Database

  • Changing global_property.property from varbinary to varchar

  • Creating concept reference terms from existing rows in the concept_map table

  • Inserting Auto Close Visits Task into 'schedule_task_config' table

  • Deleting non-existing roles from the role_role table

  • Associating daemon user with a person

  • Setting super user gender

  • Fix empty descriptions on relationship types

Bugs

TRUNK-2913

Simplify display of visit on Visits tab

TRUNK-1637

Clarify what the startup error "Waiting for changelog lock...." means

TRUNK-2961

Saving user options for the default super user should not throw error message on second and subsequent times

TRUNK-2917

AuditableInterceptor throws an NPE at startup, preventing OpenMRS from running

TRUNK-2792

Starting a task whose class cannot be found should display a user friendly error message

TRUNK-2785

Saving person attribute type with missing description should give a user friendly error message

TRUNK-2783

Limit of maximum encounters to show on patient dashboard should be optional and configurable

TRUNK-2786

Saving relationship type with missing description should give a user friendly error message

TRUNK-2503

Include inherited roles when searching for users

TRUNK-412

Additional Attributes on Concept Mapping

TRUNK-2686

Provider Identifiers should be unique

TRUNK-2956

Search widget row highlight fails on verbose row when home/end/pageup/pagedown keys are used

TRUNK-2664

Change the priority when setting a preferred name for a concept

TRUNK-2791

Pressing start, stop, delete button without selecting any task should tell the user to first select at least one task

TRUNK-2023

Allow second user to see progress of update wizard

TRUNK-2586

Include a mock library in the core

TRUNK-2855

ERROR - RequestContextAwareTag.doStartTag(82) Theme 'theme': No message found under code 'jqueryui.theme.name' for locale 'en_US'

TRUNK-2922

Daemon user has no associated person

TRUNK-2948

1.9 Demo dataset sql file with the 5k patients needs a few more pieces of data

TRUNK-2055

Localize messages in the initialization and update wizard

TRUNK-2954

Rename visit configuration URL, jsp, controller and related files

TRUNK-2928

fix breaking test ConceptServiceImplTest.saveConcept_shouldSetDefaultPreferredNameToASynonymThird

TRUNK-2926

Add changeset to delete incorrect entries in role_role table

TRUNK-2914

Incorrect error message when trying to create an encounter and put it in a visit with incompatible start/end date

TRUNK-2796

Cannot save new visit and encounters at the same time

TRUNK-2909

1.9 Demo dataset needs a few more pieces of data

TRUNK-2923

Fix concept reference term to use random generated UUIDs

TRUNK-2821

Merge Patients page should be displayed on a separate pop-up screen

TRUNK-422

Edit / View of previous forms should merge into a single interface paradigm

TRUNK-2915

Manage Encounter should show date+time widget for encounterDatetime

TRUNK-2921

ConceptValidator should not compare names of a retired concept against the names of other concepts

TRUNK-2910

Add/Edit visit page needs to look like other OpenMRS pages

TRUNK-2152

Add upgrade script to set a preferred identifier for patients without one

TRUNK-2639

Drugs are not showing up in the concept search in the concept dictionary

TRUNK-2911

When you create a visit, it should take you back to the patient dashboard

TRUNK-2907

HibernateEnumType not finding module methods

TRUNK-2680

Automatically convert empty string properties on OpenmrsObjects to null before persisting in the database

TRUNK-2887

Add a label for encounters not assigned to any visit on the visit tab on the patient dashboard

TRUNK-2901

Obs.newInstance() method should include both voided and non-voided group member obs

TRUNK-2332

Fix EncounterService.getCountOfEncounters() and getEncounters(String, Integer, Integer, Boolean)

TRUNK-2900

Cannot parse address layout (fresh installation)

TRUNK-2644

Convert Global Property column to varchar

TRUNK-1677

Concept Proposal Management- Synonym function failed

TRUNK-2711

TRUNK-2696 Change active visits in header

TRUNK-2784

Add Encounter for Visit Extension

TRUNK-2889

Autocomplete widgets should not lose initial value on losing focus

TRUNK-222

Unable to find patients if their name is less than 3 characters

TRUNK-1993

UUID used by equals and hashCode in OpenmrsObject

TRUNK-2623

Concept::getAnswers(true) (for include retired ) should behave identically to Concept::getAnswers()

TRUNK-256

Preferred Patient Identifier should be required

TRUNK-2870

Field widgets that use autocomplete should show a visual indication of invalid entry

TRUNK-2793

Creating location tag without a name should display error message adjacent to the empty name textbox

TRUNK-2318

Do not allow creating, modifying, or deleting ConceptDatatype from the API

TRUNK-363

The web interface needs to support time obs when adding a new observation

TRUNK-2787

Cannot unretire relationship type

TRUNK-2766

Cannot upgrade from 1.8 to 1.9

TRUNK-2810

Adding ConvSet form field having a member concept without a description should not throw a NullPointerException

TRUNK-2814

Encounters should not be assigned to visits which stopped before the encounter date

TRUNK-2807

Unbounded coded concepts should not throw a NullPointerException when trying to answer them

TRUNK-299

WebModuleUtil should handle DWR <init> tags in dwr section of config.xml

TRUNK-420

Add obs.previous_version column

TRUNK-2780

Advanced setup install method should use default values in existing runtime properties file

TRUNK-2842

Fix spelling of Identifer Location on Add new Patient / Short Form

TRUNK-2849

Aware of module feature causes OpenMRS to crash

TRUNK-1668

Module engine will execute sqldiff based on the String ordering

TRUNK-2428

ConcurrentModificationException in ConceptNameSaveHandler

TRUNK-2697

Fix concept validator to allow duplicate concept names that are voided

TRUNK-2799

Missing description when saving program should give user friendly error message