The first developer previews of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for Health, and HealthShare® Health Connect 2025.1 have been posted to the WRC developer preview site. Containers can be found on our container registry and are tagged latest-preview.
These developer previews include the feature to migrate to IBM "Open XL C/C++ for AIX" 17.x compiler ensuring compatibility with future AIX builds as older compilers approach end-of-support. This migration focuses on the aixopenssl30 target, supporting SSL3 on AIX 7.2 and 7.3.
Initial documentation can be found at these links below:
- InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2025.1 | Documentation Home Page
- HealthShare Health Connect 2025.1 | Documentation Home Page
Availability and Package Information
This release comes with classic installation packages for all supported platforms. For a complete list, refer to the Supported Platforms document.
Installation packages and preview keys are available from the WRC's preview download site or through the evaluation services website (tick the "Show Preview Software" box).
Is there a list of changes? Release notes document looks very empty
https://docs.intersystems.com/iris20251/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?...
Thank you for pointing that out! The documentation links currently serve as placeholders and will be updated as we get closer to the final build and have more details to share. Since this is an early Developer Preview, some content is still in progress, and we’ll provide full documentation as features are finalized. We appreciate your patience and feedback during this phase!
Hi!
I'm really looking forward to testing the new release, but I seem to be missing a few clues—it's a bit like trying to solve a mystery without any hints! The page at this link is still empty, and I'm wondering if you could share some details about what's changed. It would be a huge help to know what new features have been implemented so we can put them to the test.
Thanks a lot for your assistance!
Hi Andreas! We appreciate your enthusiasm! At this stage, the documentation is still in progress and will be updated as we finalize the release content.
If there are specific areas you're interested in testing, let us know, and we’ll do our best to provide some guidance.
Thanks for your patience!
Today I was pleased to find a new preview version available, 2025.1.0.204.0, but when I tried to use it to upgrade the one I had previously installed (2025.1.0L.198.0 on Windows 11) the installer stopped with the message "A newer version of IRIS is already installed."
Thank you for bringing this to our attention!
The upgrade issue arises from differences between early and later preview versions. Early preview versions were built from a branch that is always considered newer than other branches, which affects the upgrade path. As a result, upgrading from these early versions to later ones may encounter issues.
We recommend installing the latest preview version directly rather than upgrading from an earlier preview.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding.
This is disappointing, and I don't recall seeing any warning with the earlier 2015.1 previews that at some point we wouldn't be able to upgrade them. Please remedy this by making the next 2015.1 preview version capable of upgrading existing 2015.1.0L instances.
I completely understand your frustration, John. We acknowledge that clearer communication on upgrade compatibility would have been helpful, and we’ll work to improve how we document these kinds of changes in future Developer Previews. While we can’t guarantee direct upgrades from early "L" builds to later preview versions, we’re looking into possible ways to mitigate this for future updates. Thanks for your feedback, and we truly appreciate your engagement!
Tried to check 2025.1, but did not find it
$ docker inspect --format '{{ index .Config.Labels "com.intersystems.platform-version" }}' containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris:latest-{em,cd,preview} 2024.1.3.456.0 2024.3.0.217.0 2024.1.3.456.0For some reason, the preview points to em version, why so?
For the community edition,
$ docker inspect --format '{{ index .Config.Labels "com.intersystems.platform-version" }}' containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris-community:latest-{em,cd,preview} 2024.1.2.398.0com 2024.3.0.217.0com 2025.1.0.204.0comAt least here it is 2025.1 version
but, I've noticed that em version now not the same as for enterprise edition
Anyway, where is 2025.1 for the Enterprise version? The community edition is too limited to check everything on it.
The post is two months old at this point, but it's not available.
When I do that exact same thing, I get different results. Have you pulled the latest version of the container?
docker pull containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris:latest-preview ... docker inspect --format '{{ index .Config.Labels "com.intersystems.platform-version" }}' containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris:latest-preview 2025.1.0.204.0I believe this may have been fixed today thanks to the above comment from @Dmitry Maslennikov
Yes, looks like it's solved now, pulled again and got 2025.1 now
great! Thank you @Dmitry Maslennikov for pointing this out!!