InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health 2020.2 previews are published

Preview releases are now available for the 2020.2 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and IRIS Studio!

The build number for these releases is 2020.2.0.196.0.

Container images, components, and evaluation license keys are available via the WRC's preview download site.

Community Edition containers can also be pulled from the Docker store using the following commands:

• docker pull store/intersystems/iris-community:2020.2.0.196.0
• docker pull store/intersystems/irishealth-community:2020.2.0.196.0

InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2020.2 adds support for TLS 1.3, which provides enhanced security and better performance.   It also includes a variety of efficiency improvements and minor enhancements.

InterSystems IRIS for Health 2020.2 includes all of the enhancements of InterSystems IRIS. In addition, this release includes bi-directional data transformations between FHIR R4 and SDA, support for the IHE RMU profile, and other minor enhancements.

 These are detailed in the documentation:

• InterSystems IRIS 2020.2 documentation and release notes
• IRIS for Health 2020.2 documentation and release notes

InterSystems IRIS Studio 2020.2 is a standalone development image supported on Microsoft Windows. It works with InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health version 2020.2 and below, as well as with Caché and Ensemble.

As this is a CD release, it is only available in OCI (Open Container Initiative) a.k.a. Docker container format.  Container images are available for OCI compliant run-time engines for Linux x86-64 and Linux ARM64, as detailed in the Supported Platforms document.