Thus far, thanks to the work of many amazing community members and the leadership of community members like @dkayiwa, @ibacher, and @suthagar23 and others, there are some very meaningful updates we can expect for OpenMRS Platform 2.4 in 2020:
- An upgraded FHIR module (fhir2) bundled with the platform, supporting HL7 FHIR v4
- Upgrade to Spring 5.2.6
- Upgrade to Hibernate 5.4
- Support for newer version of Java (Java 11, 13, and 14) while still supporting Java 8
Some parallel efforts we are tracking:
- The MF Squad is making good progress and I’ll work with them soon to define some 2020 goals
- We’re developing a vision for ETL
- The OCL Squad is making good progress and the broader OCL service & backend, under @paynejd’s leadership, OCL is undergoing some major improvements. We’re expecting OCL to bring some significant improvements to the OpenMRS Community in the 2nd half of 2020.
- We’d love to upgrade to a newer version of Liquibase. Based on findings from @ibacher, this may mean targeting 3.1.1 for now and then waiting for 4.0 to be released before we upgrade to it.
- Cheer on and support our GSoC 2020 students in their projects, which includes support for postgresql, additional upgrades to core libraries, work on FHIR support (search and narratives), and improving DHIS2 integration.