OpenMRS Platform 2.5.0 Released

Am delighted to let all know that OpenMRS Platform 2.5.0 is released !

Something exciting and worth mentioning about this release is several features have been added with OpenMRS 3.0 in mind and that it’s beta phases have succesfully powered Refapp 2.12.0 and openmrs 3.0 with no issue/s recorded

As such expect to find the following features in this Release :-

• Adding support for Tomcat 8.5+ and 9
• Added support for making all Collectable Entities Form Recordable
• Extending Administration through REST endpoints for OpenMRS 3.0
• Enhancing user_properties to Enable storing user-specific settings for OpenMRS 3.0
• Avoid using MySQL reserved word “rank” as Column Name
• Security Fix in log4j
• Add Diagnosis Attribute to data model
• User Password

Important Links :

• Release Notes 1
• Downloads page at sourceforge
• Live testing of 2.5.0 can be done through qa-refapp server

Special thanks to the following people for the great support and contributions in terms of development , bug fixing e.t.c , rendered to make this a success . @dkayiwa @burke @ibacher @miirochristopher @aojwang @navareth

And the QA team @kdaud @sharif @irenyak1 @christine @grace which revolutionalized the testing process

Tendo Martin,

OpenMRS Platform 2.5.0 Release Manager