Release Notes 1.9.0 RC2

Release date: March 30th, 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 RC?

OpenMRS 1.9.0 RC2 has a number of bug fixes in the core application and some bundled modules. Check below for the complete listing of the bug fixes in the core application.

The standalone version has a new option which configures OpenMRS with the MVP/CIEL dictionary, but without any patient data. If you are familiar with OpenMRS and want to start a new system, this is a good place to start. After logging in, remember to change the user name and password from admin and test respectively.
For developers, the standalone version now lets you specify vm arguments for adjusting memory, running in debug mode, profiling with YourKit, and more as per details from here.

We have also improved the module to help you test this second 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 RC2 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 70 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, 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 RC2 represents OpenMRS 1.9.0.26739

Download OpenMRS 1.9 RC2

Bundled Modules

These modules are bundled with the 1.9 RC2 openmrs.war download. They will be started automatically and can be removed if they are not wanted.

Logic 0.5.2
HTML Form Entry 1.9.1
Reporting 0.7.1
HTML Widgets 1.6.0
Reporting Compatibility 1.5.7
Serialization.xstream 0.2.5
Xforms 4.0.9.2
Patient Flags 1.3.4
HTML Form Entry Extensions 0.9

Changelog since 1.9 RC

TRUNK-3187	Limiting to a maximum number of search widget results doesn't work occasionally
TRUNK-427	Change Patient Identifier Location to be optional
TRUNK-3171	Removing concept mapping is broken
TRUNK-3162	Update Portuguese Translation
TRUNK-3140	Patient Dashboard Encounters are not sorted by date. Clicking on Encounter Date doesn't sort them.
TRUNK-3126	In patientHeader.jsp, the org.openmrs.patientDashboard.afterLastEncounter extension point should be moved outside of the <c:if test="$not visitsEnabled https://tickets.openmrs.org/browse/TRUNK-3126">
TRUNK-3131	Can't update core logic module automatically
TRUNK-3145	When you delete an encounter you are not returned to the dashboard and the dashboard isn't refreshed when click back
TRUNK-3139	Error when removing the patient program completion date: A completion date cannot be before an enrollment date
TRUNK-3130	Unable to start openmrs as web daemon
TRUNK-3156	Unable to add new global properties: Advanced Settings (Global Properties) page doesn't show the save button; Settings page doesn't allow for new properties
TRUNK-2240	Allow "end this visit now" from edit visit page
TRUNK-21	Changing workflow states on dashboard fails silently if date is blank or before date of start of current state
TRUNK-1714	Program/Workflow have problems with concept search
TRUNK-2305	Default locale doesn't work right when creating new users
TRUNK-2996	Initial setup wizard language selection language spellings not correct
TRUNK-3119	Patient merge not working for some locales
TRUNK-3129	Missing options in Concept Drug Management Page
TRUNK-3150	"true" and "false" concepts loaded improperly in ConceptServiceImpl
TRUNK-3136	Missing Link on Dashboard to Edit Encounters
TRUNK-3154	OpenMRS webapp should also map .page and .action to the openmrs servlet
TRUNK-2639	Drugs are not showing up in the concept search in the concept dictionary
TRUNK-2630	Login takes user to last page of previous user
TRUNK-3137	Add New Concept Page Broken
TRUNK-3109	Remove java keywords from jsp
TRUNK-3005	ConceptValidator finds duplicate names only for the current system locale
TRUNK-3048	When searching for patients by name, exact matches should be shown first

See ?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.