Hi all,
We are happy to announce the release of Bahmni Lite 2.0! 
This is a major release for Bahmni Lite, bringing a modernized frontend, FHIR R4 adoption across core clinical workflows, a redesigned consultation experience, and significant infrastructure and security upgrades.
What is Bahmni Lite? Bahmni Lite is a lightweight distribution of Bahmni, designed for smaller facilities and implementers who want a fully functional EMR with a smaller footprint, simpler setup, and faster time-to-deploy, while retaining the core clinical workflows implementers rely on.
Learn more about this release: Full Release Notes
Major Features / Changes
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New React 19-based frontend for Home, Registration, and Clinical modules, replacing the legacy AngularJS UI.
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FHIR R4 adoption across core workflows — Registration (Patient create/update/fetch), Clinical (Observations, Conditions, AllergyIntolerance, MedicationRequest, Vaccinations, ServiceRequest, DocumentReference, Appointments), and Lab Entry (DiagnosticReport $submit-bundle and search) now run on FHIR R4 APIs.
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New Home Page — fully React-based, with a location switcher, module tile grid with privilege-controlled visibility, and privilege-gated legacy tiles for backward compatibility during migration.
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Redesigned Registration — new React UI with collapsible sections, patient photo capture, configurable ContactInfo/Additional Info fields via PersonAttributes, and additional patient identifier support.
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New Consultation Pad — a unified, event-driven consultation experience covering diagnoses, allergies/conditions, medications, lab/radiology/procedure orders, vaccinations, patient documents, and appointments, with a responsive 40/60 split-screen dashboard–consultation layout and a global command palette for patient search (by phone/email).
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Forms 2.0 (form2-controls) — complete migration to the Carbon Design System for atomic (NumericBox, Date, DateTime, Textbox, Dropdown) and composite (Section, ObsControl, Table, CodedControl, Image/Video, AddMore) controls; published as an npm library; includes form pinning, search, and config-driven form restriction. Note: legacy forms with event scripts must be republished to formDefVersion: 2.0 (base64-encoded scripts).
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Lab Entry refactor — updated to FHIR R4 APIs, with per-test data point entry, report file uploads, radiology report review with ImagingStudy and image-quality assessment, and program-filtered lab orders.
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New Patient Documents app — dedicated upload/view/audit flow, routed from the Home Page, with single file upload per visit.
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Core platform upgrades — OpenMRS Core 2.5.14 → 2.6.15, OpenMRS database image now on MySQL 8.0, openmrs-module-snomed upgraded to v3.0.0-SNAPSHOT, CIEL package upgraded to v2026-06-13.
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Security fixes — critical vulnerabilities patched across Docker images (including bahmni-core), floating base image tag fixed in the bahmni-apps-frontend Dockerfile, Axios upgraded, and a fix for web clients leaking connections on failed API calls.
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Data migration tooling — scripts and validation provided for migrating legacy diagnoses to FHIR Conditions, legacy lab results to FHIR DiagnosticReport, legacy document observations to FHIR DocumentReference, and medication notes (order_reason_non_coded → comment_to_fulfiller) — see bahmni-scripts tag 2.0.0-lite.
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Developer experience — refreshed README/setup docs, a new Storybook environment for form2-controls (local support only, run via yarn storybook), new implementer guides (Print Latest Medications, Patient Documents, CIEL), a new training video library, and unique element IDs added across the UI for test automation.
In total, this release closes out 75 issues tracked for Bahmni Lite 2.0.
Installation
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Prerequisites and setup: see the Bahmni Docker / Helm umbrella chart repos for the latest deployment instructions.
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Docker: GitHub - Bahmni/bahmni-docker: Bahmni docker compose setup to run LITE and STANDARD images · GitHub (tag 2.0.0-lite)
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Helm umbrella chart: GitHub - Bahmni/helm-umbrella-chart: Helm Umbrella Chart for Bahmni · GitHub
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If you’re upgrading from Bahmni Lite 1.0.x, please review the Data Migration section in the release notes before upgrading — several data migration and validation scripts need to be run as part of the upgrade path.
Known Issues / Limitations
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Legacy Observation Forms with event scripts need to be republished, since form event scripts must now be base64 encoded.
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Post CIEL upgrade, the CIEL dictionary has been verified for English; a few concepts in “es” (Spanish) are currently duplicated.
Feedback
We’d love to hear from you — please share questions, issues, or feedback on this thread, or reach out to us on the bahmni channel on Bahmni Slack.
Thanks to everyone in the Bahmni community — engineers, implementers, and clinical partners — for contributing to this release!
Regards,
Team Bahmni
