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Release Notes 3.8.0 DRAFT IDEAS

Release Notes 3.8.0 DRAFT IDEAS

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

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🔦 Key Points

  • 📆 Cut Date: 2026-____

  • 📆 Release Date: 2026-____

  • Release Manager: ______

  • Key Features:

  • Google Summer of Code 2026: Summer of Code 2026

⑴ Patient Visit Summary Printing for OpenMRS O3

⑵ Integrate O3 with the Authentication module

⑶ Improved Appointments Calendar View

⑷ A Native O3 Frontend for the Audit Trail

⑸ Archiving Voided Data

⑹ Extend Audit Log Module

⑺ Support for horizontal scaling of OpenMRS instances

⑻ Service Queues

  • Program Enrolment

    • PIH drafted some requirements & @Dennis Kigen has picked this task

  • Chart Search AI Feature

    • Iterate, incorporate feedback from the community

    • Audit logging for every AI-generated suggestion accepted or rejected by clinicians

  • Growth Chart

  • Billing Features (Continuation)

    • Auto-generation of bills from procedure orders (extending the drug + lab pattern)

  • Security Improvements

    • Continuation

  • Architectural Improvements

    • Migration to React 19

    • Updating Angular Form Engine

    • Move from Concept UUIDs → Concept Mappings, i.e., form schema, conf schema, etc. (for compatibility)

    • Upgrade ESLint and Prettier packages (automatic code formatting)

    • Upgrade LINT rules

    • Creating shared packages for ESLint

    • Shared Config for ESLint and Prettier, Vitest

    • Moving from Prettier to Bio

  • Retrospective Data Entry (RDE)

    • DRC Needs include

      • Capturing of previous legacy/historical lab data

      • Capturing of previous treatments

  • Platform-related

    • @Daniel Kayiwa @Wikum Weerakutti What should we focus on in the next release

  1. ⚠️ Breaking Changes:

    1. _______

  2. Where to find it: Demo at o3.openmrs.org (admin/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, …
PIH:
Palladium:
METS:
MSF Madiro:

Template note: Reach out to @beryl; she will be the primary builder of this list.

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:

Thank you Translation Contributors!

  • [Language] updated by [contributor-name]

Contributor Metrics

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Breakdown of contributors by Organizations, based on # of PRs committed in this release. (Source)

# PRs included: ___

# of Orgs involved: ___

% from OpenMRS Inc. Global Support: ___%

🔦 Highlights for Implementers

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📸 Example Visual Changes

 

 

🔍 Detailed Changelog

Code:

Distro RefApp

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

Frontend Modules

Backend Modules

Tickets:

Platform Tickets: https://openmrs.atlassian.net/projects/O3?selectedItem=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin%3Arelease-page