bradymiller wrote on Sunday, August 21, 2016:
Hi,
With goal of releasing OpenEMR 5.0.0 by end of September. Started the release planning/tracking wiki page here:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/QA/Release_Process#Version_5.0.0
The main goal of this release is Complete EHR MU2 certification.
-brady
OpenEMR
robertdown wrote on Friday, September 23, 2016:
We should take a look at the remaining and determine what is blocking the release. Prioritize our work
bradymiller wrote on Friday, September 23, 2016:
Hi,
These are the only things that I would consider a block on the release(1 PR and 2 Issues):
-brady
matthewvita wrote on Saturday, September 24, 2016:
@Brady: is this release getting pushed back a month considering the MU2 update?
bradymiller wrote on Sunday, September 25, 2016:
Hi Matthew,
Plan to postpone 5.0.0 until get the Complete MU2 certification(guessing about 3 weeks). In a way this is a good thing, because allows us time to get the tab layout to production quality and also get the registration feature more mature.
-brady
OpenEMR
bradymiller wrote on Tuesday, November 22, 2016:
Hi,
Just letting everybody know that the wheels are beginning to turn on the release process. Hopefully will be turning in the MU2 application to ONC this week. At that point, will branch the release and begin to prepare it to go out right after we get the certification (assuming we get it 
).
Any person or company whom has contributed any time or resources is free to place themselves on the acknowledgemnts page, which then ends up in the Acknowledgments page in OpenEMR. Either enter it into the following wiki page(or give me your information and I’ll do it for you):
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Acknowledgments
thanks,
-brady
OpenEMR
bradymiller wrote on Friday, December 09, 2016:
Hi,
MU2 certification is getting very close (ZH is finishing up a paper report(WCAG report for item e1) with infogard and then the MU2 application will go to ONC (I am told the turn around time is about 1-2 weeks with ONC)).
Plan to release right when get MU2 certification. So, have begun to prepare for the release process and have branched off the planned 5.0.0 release (rel-500) on github.
Now is a good time to start your testing and reporting of bugs.
The demo for the planned release can be found here:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Development_5.0.0_Demo
You can download the packages for the planned release here(these are daily builds):
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Downloads#Daily_snapshots
Can follow the process of the release here:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/QA/Release_Process#Version_5.0.0
Feel free to add or let me know of any additional features that I may of missed:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Features#Version_5.0.0
And feel free to add yourself to the acknowledgements wiki page(I am also glad to add you upon request)(these acknowledgments are used to build the acknowledgents page in OpenEMR):
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Acknowledgments
thanks,
-brady
OpenEMR
bradymiller wrote on Friday, December 09, 2016:
Note I haven’t brought in the finalized translation tables yet. Will plan to do that over the weekend.
-brady
jackfruit501 wrote on Wednesday, January 25, 2017:
I tested Version_5.0.0 on LinuxMint 18.1 and I find that the install script place Openemr in /var/www instead of /var/www/html ( apache2) . I also get an error when I try to port openemr.sql data base from version 4.2.2 to this version.
visolveemr wrote on Wednesday, January 25, 2017:
Hi Jackfruit501,
The path where OpenEMR is placed is not an issue because the default DocumentRoot is configured in apache configuration.
The default DocumentRoot for Apache will be either /var/www/html or /var/www/. In your case, the default DocumentRoot is taken as var/www/
Note: These paths are described in the Apache’s configuration file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. You can make changes in this file if required.
Kindly share the screen shot of the error you are getting while import.
bradymiller wrote on Wednesday, January 25, 2017:
Hi Jackfruit501,
Did you install the development ubuntu package (I am guessing you did since have git-openemr for the path). Note this is a development package that collects the most recent development codebase(5.0.1-dev). It installs to path /var/www and sets up a alias with apache, so it should work in /var/www path. This package should be plug and play (easy easy removal/install to keep testing out most recent codebase), so if there were any issues after install, then would be a bug.
If you are bringing in a 4.2.2 database, then will need to run the sql_upgrade.php script(and set selector to 4.2.2; note it will default to 5.0.0 since this is version 5.0.1; also note the upgrade can take a really long time because it is converting database to innodb).
-brady
OpenEMR
jackfruit501 wrote on Wednesday, January 25, 2017:
Thanks for the information. I installed the Development package but did not use the sql_upgrade script .Git-Openemr was installed to /var/www from the script and apache2 cannot open it in Firefox. I had to copy the whole directory to /var/www/html as root to get it to be work. I did not change apache2 to point to /var/www as I have other programs needing apache2 at var/www/html. Strangely Version-4.2.2. is pointed to /var/www and works!
bradymiller wrote on Wednesday, January 25, 2017:
Hi Jackfruit501,
What files do you have in the following directory:
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
-brady
OpenEMR
jackfruit501 wrote on Wednesday, January 25, 2017:
2 files found 000-default.conf and openemr.conf.
Version 5 dev worked fine after running the sql_upgrade.php script . Version 4.2.2 database was imported as well.
premnath21 wrote on Thursday, February 02, 2017:
When are you releasing the v5.0, Brady?
Thanx,
Premnath Borkar
VPS Techub Pvt Ltd
bradymiller wrote on Thursday, February 02, 2017:
Hi Premnath,
It will be released about 1 week after OpenEMR gets complete MU2 certification (I roughly estimate OpenEMR will get MU2 complete certification sometime over the next 1 to 4 weeks).
-brady
OpenEMR
bradymiller wrote on Tuesday, February 14, 2017:
Hi,
MU2 certification is complete, so going to try to push out 5.0.0 this weekend.
Please test above 5.0.0 packages and demos and report bugs.
-brady
OpenEMR
bradymiller wrote on Tuesday, February 14, 2017:
Also,
This is the last call for being placed in the acknowledgements page:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Acknowledgments
(this listing also gets included in OpenEMR)
(either add your entry to the wiki page or let me know, and I’ll add it)
-brady
OpenEMR
bradymiller wrote on Thursday, February 16, 2017:
OpenEMR 5.0.0 has just been released!!!
It can be downloaded here:
http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Downloads
Installation instructions can be found here:
http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Installation_Guides
Upgrading instructions can be found here:
http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Upgrade_Guides
New feature list in OpenEMR 5.0.0:
-2014 ONC Complete Certified EHR
-New Modern Tab Based User Interface
-New Modern Ophthalmology/Optometry Module.
-New Logo
-New Login Screen
-User Interface improvements
-New Recurrent Appointment Widget on Patient Summary Page
-New Daily Summary Report
-New User Interface Themes
-New Feature to Import and Set holidays
-New Product Registration Feature
-Patient Tracker Board Improvements
-Patient Billing Statement improvements
-ICD10 Code Set Updated
-Form Validation Improvements
-Patient Appointment Display Improvements
-Fee Sheet Improvements
-EDI Module Improvements
-Supported in 33 Languages
-Numerous Bug Fixes
-Numerous Security Fixes and Security Improvements
-Converted Database Engine to InnoDB
-Migrated Main Codebase Repository to GitHub
Plan a press release in 1-2 days with more details.