Dear Community
It’s been a while, but there have been no less 3 further alpha releases done since the last alpha.3, two of which (alpha.4 and alpha.5) went so fast that they weren’t even announced
Anyway, here we go through an alpha.6 bundle! ![]()
We are pleased to let you all know that Ozone 1.0.0-alpha.6 was released on August 9th ![]()
What’s new in 1.0.0-alpha.6
In this release:
- Ozone’s O3 is upgraded to Ref App 3.0.0-beta.13:
- The OpenMRS config is validated at build time with Iniz validator.
- Upgraded version 5.x of the app shell, which is designed to improve performance over slower connections.
- Released form-builder 2.0.1, resolving an issue that would display an error to the user every time they accessed the app.
- Improved the speed at which forms are loaded.
- Addition of a maintenance mode service that automatically serves the maintenance page when the underlying service is down (thanks Traefik!)
- The maintenance page is configurable - and beautiful
, thanks @pauladams 
- The maintenance page is configurable - and beautiful
- Fixed the patients data extract report of Common Reports.
- (It used to report patients multiples time if they had multiple identifiers)
- (Pro only) Improved SENAITE packing.
- (Pro only) Opting in/out of demo data happens through a configurable separate service.
- (Pro only) Ability to unmask the password on the Keycloak login page.
More techy or internal items:
- Ozone’s own CI/CD was improved a lot, which helps the Ozone devs and QAs to be so much more on top of things.
- Ozone’s own OpenMRS config, that adds bit and bobs to the Ref App config, is also validated at build time with Iniz validator.
- Ozone’s own QA processes were improved a lot and are now mostly automated - kudos to @kdaud for that

Try out 1.0.0-alpha.6
- Ozone Pro can be used here:
- https://demo.ozone-his.com
- jdoe / password
- Ozone FOSS can be trialed using the Gitpod button.
Any feedback on this release will be eagerly welcome either here on Talk or on Slack’s channel #ozone.
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