OPENMRS PLATFORM 2.4.0 RELEASED

Am pleased to announce that the long awaited openmrs platform 2.4.0 was released. The new features in this release include ;

• Replacing the fhir module with fhir2 module and support for R4
• Upgrading spring to 5.2.9.
• Upgrading Hibernate to 5.4.21.
• Adding support for Java 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 while not losing support for Java 8.
• Upgrade to Liquibase 3.10.2 and avoid running legacy liquibase changesets
• Upgrade a number of other underlying libraries. e.g Log4j 2, JUnit 5, etc
• Add support for PostgreSQL versions 8.2 up to the latest 12
• Add support for all MySQL versions from 5.6 to the latest 8.0

The release notes can be found here and the technical road map that has guided us along the way.

Special thanks to Daniel Kayiwa, Ian Bacher, Wolf Schlegel, Mark Goodrich, Ruhanga Nathan, Kawesi Joseph for their tremendous work and effort in this release.

Also special thanks to Grace Potma for the direction and also Aman Mishra , Pahonsi Bebeto Achile for their contributions towards improving the platform during their GSOC 2020 participation.

You may download this release From SourceForge using this link

Please join me in congratulating all the developers, testers and the contributors for their amazing efforts in making this release possible.

Kind Regards,
Cliff Gita
Release Manager