Platform Release Notes 2.5.0

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 

Feature

Description

Status

Point of Contact

Feature

Description

Status

Point of Contact

Support for Tomcat 8.5+

Adding support for Tomcat 8.5+ and 9

done

@Daniel Kayiwa 

Make all Collectable entities Form Recordable

Added support for making all Collectable Entities Form Recordable

done

@Daniel Kayiwa 

Administration via REST

Extending Administration through REST endpoints for OpenMRS 3.0


done

@Burke Mamlin @Daniel Kayiwa  @Bartłomiej Rasztabiga 

User settings 

Enhancing user_properties to Enable storing  user-specific settings for OpenMRS 3.0

done

@tendo kiiza Martyn  @Burke Mamlin @Daniel Kayiwa 

Mysql Reserved Word

Avoid using MySQL reserved word "rank" as Column Name

done

@Christopher Miiro 

Diagnosis Attribute

Add "Diagnosis Attribute" to data model

done

@Christopher Miiro 

User Password

Cannot delete user who has changed their password

done

@Christopher Miiro 

Security Fix in log4j

Fixing a Security threat in the log4j library which exposes a server to attackers

done

@Ian Bacher 

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 Rasztabiga @Christopher Miiro  @Antony Ojwang  Testers from the QA Team for automating Some tests @Sharif Magembe @Kakumirizi Daud@Christine Gichuki @Irene 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/)

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