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Release Notes 3.5 (Goal: 2025-08)

Release Notes 3.5 (Goal: 2025-08)

[ 1 🔦 Key Points ] [ 2 👷 Contributors ] [ 3 🔦 Highlights for Implementers ] [ 4 📸 Example Visual Changes ] [ 5 🔍 Changelogs ]

🔦 Key Points

  • 📆 Cut Date: Mid-July (eg July 15ish; flexible)

  • 📆 Release Date: 2025-08-30 (flexible, but finished before conference sept 15)

  • Release Manager: ________

  • Key Features

    Features:

    • Core v6.3.1 & v7 to improve performance and devex and reduce memory exhaustion (details)

    • React v19 upgrade: For maintenance & new compiler tooling.

    • Clinician Homepage (epic)

    • Visits History Screen (TBC)

    • OpenmrsDatePicker improvements including: 1) to use consistently across all apps, closer to parity with Carbon Date Picker (same one in Registration App DOB & Form Engine), and 2) fix quirks such as styling for disabled mode and more (Epic)

    • E2E: End-to-end automated test coverage expansion.

    • OMOD Java version updates to v21,v24 with backwards compatibility, as-available (TBC)

    • Madiro Priorities (TBC): e.g. Form History ordering fixes; Timed editing allowance; body diagram

    Defered:

    • Reference Range Alerts - Labs examples (needs validation)

    • Reference Range Alerts - Vitals BPs

    • Allergies in Medication Ordering

    • Print Feature (labels) (needs feedback)

    • (TBC) Core 2.8 upgrade - support for ingredients for Horizontal Scaling: ElasticSearch, S3 storage service, infinispan distributed cache

  • ⚠️ Breaking Changes:

    1. _______

  • Where to find it: Demo at o3.openmrs.org (credentials: username: admin, password: Admin123) or download here: openmrs.org/download/

👷 Contributors

Special thanks to the following community PR reviewers:

DIGI: @Ian Bacher
OpenMRS: @Dennis Kigen, @Jayasanka Weerasinghe, @nethmi, @Rafal Korytkowski, @Samuel Male
PIH:
Palladium:
METS:
MSF Madiro:

Thank you so much to the following contributors - you make releases like this possible! Alphabetically by Organization affiliation:

  • CSaude:

  • Health IT (UoN):

  • ICRC:

  • Intellisoft:

  • Madiro:

  • Mekom:

  • METS:

  • OpenMRS Support:

  • Palladium-Kenya:

  • PIH:

  • UCSF:

  • UW ITECH DIGI:

  • Independent Contributors:

Contributor Metrics

(CHART HERE)

# PRs included: 243

# of Orgs involved: 9

% from OpenMRS Inc. Global Support: 33%

🔦 Highlights for Implementers

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📸 Example Visual Changes

 

 

🔍 Changelogs

Code:

Distro RefApp

  • Reference Application 3.5.0 (<-- needs hyperlink like this)

Frontend Modules

Backend Modules