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GNU Health HMIS 4.0.1 patchset released!

Item posted by Luis Falcon <meanmicio> on Tue 08 Mar 2022 05:05:42 PM UTC.

Dear community

GNU Health 4.0.1 patchset has been released !

Priority: High

Table of Contents

• About GNU Health Patchsets
• Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center
• Summary of this patchset
• Installation notes
• List of other issues related to this patchset

About GNU Health Patchsets

We provide "patchsets" to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your
production system up-to-date with the latest patches.

Patches and Patchsets maximize uptime for production systems, and keep your system updated, without the need to do a whole installation.

NOTE: Patchsets are applied on previously installed systems only. For new, fresh installations, download and install the whole tarball (ie,
gnuhealth-4.0.1.tar.gz)

Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center

Starting GNU Health 3.x series, you can do automatic updates on the GNU Health HMIS kernel and modules using the GNU Health control center
program.

Please refer to the administration manual section (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Control_Center)

The GNU Health control center works on standard installations (those done following the installation manual on wikibooks). Don't use it if you use an alternative method or if your distribution does not follow the GNU Health packaging guidelines.

Summary of this patchset

Update Python dependencies

We needed to pin some underlying python libraries dependencies. We also included defusedxml library, included in a trytond security patch

• progressbar
• defusedxml
• pycountry

GNU Health control center (gnuhealth-control) and gnuhealth-setup packages have also been updated to 4.0.1 and ready at GNU.org

Installation Notes

You must apply previous patchsets before installing this patchset. If your patchset level is 4.0.0, then just follow the general instructions. You can find the patchsets at GNU Health main download site at GNU.org (https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/health/)

In most cases, GNU Health Control center (gnuhealth-control) takes care of applying the patches for you. 

Pre-requisites for upgrade to 4.0.1: None

Now follow the general instructions at

• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Control_Center

After applying the patches, make a full update of your GNU Health database as explained in the documentation.

When running "gnuhealth-control" for the first time, you will see the following message:
"Please restart now the update with the new control  center"
Please do so. Restart the process and the update will continue.

• Restart the GNU Health server

List of other issues and tasks related to this patchset

• bug #62154 Missing dependency: defusedxml

For detailed information about each issue, you can visit https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=health

For detailed information about each task, you can visit https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?group=health

For detailed information you can read about Patches and Patchsets

• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Patches_and_Patchsets

Happy and healthy hacking !

Luis