General Availability of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect 2025.1

InterSystems Announces General Availability of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect 2025.1

The 2025.1 release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS^® for Health^TM, and HealthShare^® Health Connect is now Generally Available (GA). This is an Extended Maintenance (EM) release.

Release Highlights

In this exciting release, users can expect several new features and enhancements, including:

1. Advanced Vector Search Capabilities
   • A new disk-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) index significantly accelerates vector search queries, yielding sub-second responses across millions of vectors. Access the following exercise to learn more - Vectorizing and Searching Text with InterSystems SQL .
2. Enhanced Business Intelligence
   • Automatic dependency analysis in IRIS BI Cube building and synchronization, ensuring consistency and integrity across complex cube dependencies.
3. Improved SQL and Data Management
   • Introduction of standard SQL pagination syntax (LIMIT... OFFSET..., OFFSET... FETCH...).
   • New LOAD SQL command for simplified bulk import of DDL statements.
   • Enhanced ALTER TABLE commands to convert between row and columnar layouts seamlessly.
4. Optimized Database Operations
   • Reduced journal record sizes for increased efficiency.
   • Faster database compaction, particularly for databases with lots of big string content.
   • Increased automation when adding new databases to a mirror.
   • New command-line utility for ECP management tasks.
5. Strengthened Security Compliance
   • Support for cryptographic libraries compliant with FIPS 140-3 standards.
6. Modernized Interoperability UI
   • Opt-in to a revamped Production Configuration and DTL Editor experience, featuring source control integration, VS Code compatibility, enhanced filtering, split-panel views, and more.  Please see this Developer Community article for more information about how to opt-in and provide feedback.
7. Expanded Healthcare Capabilities
   • Efficient bulk FHIR ingestion and scheduling, including integrity checks and resource management.
   • Enhanced FHIR Bulk Access and improved FHIR Search Operations.
8. New Developer Experience Features
   • Embedded Python support within the DTL Editor, allowing Python-skilled developers to leverage the InterSystems platform more effectively. Watch the following video to learn more - Using Embedded Python in the BPL and DTL Editors.
9. Enhanced Observability with OpenTelemetry
   • Introduction of tracing capabilities in IRIS for detailed observability into web requests and application performance.

Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.

Documentation

Details on all the highlighted features are available through these links below:

• InterSystems IRIS 2025.1 documentation and release notes.
• InterSystems IRIS for Health 2025.1 documentation and release notes.
• Health Connect 2025.1 documentation and release notes.

In addition, check out the upgrade impact checklist for an easily navigable overview of all changes you need to be aware of when upgrading to this release.

In particular, please note that InterSystems IRIS 2025.1 introduces a new journal file format version, which is incompatible with earlier releases and therefore imposes certain limitations on mixed-version mirror setups. See the corresponding documentation for more details.

Early Access Programs (EAPs)

There are many EAPs available now. Check out this page and register to those you are interested.

Download the Software

As usual, Extended Maintenance (EM) releases come with classic installation packages for all supported platforms, as well as container images in Docker container format.

Classic Installation Packages

Installation packages are available from the WRC's InterSystems IRIS page for InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health, and WRC’s  HealthShare page for Health Connect. Kits can also be found in the Evaluation Services website.

Availability and Package Information

This release comes with classic installation packages for all supported platforms, as well as container images in Docker container format.  For a complete list, refer to the Supported Platforms document.

The build number for this Extended Maintenance release is 2025.1.0.223.0.

Container images are available from the InterSystems Container Registry. Containers are tagged as both "2025.1" and "latest-em".