Release Notes 1.9.0 RC4

Release date: May 21st, 2012

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 the release notes for 1.9.0 for the final production-ready release.

What's new since 1.9 RC3?

OpenMRS 1.9.0 RC4 has a number of bug fixes in the core application and some bundled modules. Check below for the complete listing.

We have also made more improvements in the module to help you test this third release candidate using your existing data. Read more about it from: Release Testing Helper Module, and download it from here.

Providing Feedback

We strongly urge all developers/implementers to download OpenMRS 1.9 RC4 and try it out, give us feedback, and potentially bug reports on this release. We especially ask current users try this version out on their own database and with their custom modules.

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, signup for an ?OpenMRS ID first)

Thanks!

A huge thanks to the 71 people that have contributed to the code base and helping us to get this far:

ashishmittal, abbas, amala, asgoyal, rubailly, ajanthan, openbala, gbalaji, bwolfe, bobcstrick, burke, duality72, cliff.mcintosh, corey.sobel, dkayiwa, djazayeri, diptanuc, bisanthe, eurico.jose, selob, gbathla, gauravpaliwal, gobi, goutham, grwarren, deuts20h, harsha, arbaughj, jriley, jeffrey.leegon, jkeiper, jwmajors81, jportela, jtellez, kishoreyekkanti, lara.kellett, gmario, mogoodrich, mblanchette, mseaton, mohammad, monojit, mvorobey, nribeka, peichenauer, pushkar, raff, arahulkmit, rajithd, r.friedman, rowanseymour, sapna, sunbiz, scottmuc, shanakaf, sneha, sophiez, skathol, maurya, 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, dawn.

Download

OpenMRS 1.9 RC4 represents OpenMRS 1.9.0.27471

Download OpenMRS 1.9 RC4

Bundled Modules

These modules are bundled with the 1.9 RC4 openmrs.war download. They will be started automatically and can be removed if they are not wanted.

Logic 0.5.2
HTML Form Entry 1.9.3
Reporting 0.7.1.1
HTML Widgets 1.6.0
Reporting Compatibility 1.5.7
Serialization.xstream 0.2.5
Xforms 4.0.9.4
Patient Flags 1.3.4
HTML Form Entry Extensions 0.9

Changelog since 1.9 RC3

TRUNK-3364	Unable to complete initial setup in openmrs trunk
TRUNK-2138	Add Location Attributes
TRUNK-3290	Override provider.getName method to look at provider.person.name
TRUNK-3297	Error displaying person attributes on user view page
TRUNK-412	Additional Attributes on Concept Mapping
TRUNK-3333	Voiding an encounter "deletes" the provider and the encounter cannot be unvoided
TRUNK-2510	Pretty Error Message for: Patient is missing the following required identifier(s): HAS Dossier Number
TRUNK-3340	Use getUuid instead of field access in BaseOpenmrsObject
TRUNK-3298	concept_reference_term uuids need to remain consistent across implementations during 1.9 upgrade
TRUNK-2644	Convert Global Property column to varchar
TRUNK-3248	Unable to edit multiple Drugs
TRUNK-3039	TRUNK-3034 Refactor FormResource-related code to use the newly-refactored interfaces
TRUNK-3022	Unable to use the the new release testing feature to upgrade a 1.6.4 database
TRUNK-2742	Make rules created by the Arden translation thread safe
TRUNK-3109	Remove java keywords from jsp
TRUNK-3137	Add New Concept Page Broken
TRUNK-1874	CSRF Attack error occur during patient search with Tomcat 7
TRUNK-3272	Cannot log into OpenMRS 1.9.0 after new install

See ?Release Notes for 1.9.0 RC3, Release Notes for 1.9.0 RC2, Release Notes for 1.9.0 RC, Release Notes for 1.9.0 Beta, and Release Notes for 1.9.0 Alpha for other changed made since 1.8.