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Caché  2018.1.4 and Ensemble 2018.1.4 maintenance releases are now available.   

Full product installation kits can be downloaded from the WRC Software Distribution site.

This is a maintenance release with many updates across a wide variety of areas.

For information about the corrections in this release, refer to the Release Changes list and the  Release Notes and Upgrade Checklist.  The documentation for Caché and Ensemble includes these as well as the Supported Platforms document, the Class Reference, and a full set of guides, references, tutorials, and articles.

Hello Developer Community!

Once again I'm here to talk about the ObjectScript extension for Visual Studio Code, and this time we are excited to announce the release of version 1.0!

The community has come together in an unprecedented way to deliver this product with InterSystems, and its only fitting that a tool so critical to  developer productivity would be built with community testing, feedback and source code from the very beginning.

What's New

Most of the features in this release have been present since 0.9 and were announced earlier in this post. They have all been enhanced and polished.

Dear HealthShare Customer:

This post is part of the HealthShare HS2020-08 Alert communications process.  The same information is also distributed:

• By Email
• On the Product Alerts & Advisories page
• On the WRC Distribution Page InterSystems Documents

There are 2 alerts in the HealthShare HS2020-08 Alert communication, and outlined in the Alert Summary table below.  The detail is contained in the attached document: HealthShare HS2020-08.

This message contains four recent HealthShare Advisories, which are available below.

GA releases are now published for the 2020.3 version of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and InterSystems IRIS Studio!

A full set of containers for these products is available from the WRC Software Distribution site, including community editions of InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health. In addition, all containers are also available from the new InterSystems Container Registry. This article explains how to use the registry.

The build number for these releases is 2020.3.0.221.0.

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause a build-up of orphaned processes consuming system resources. In extreme cases, this can cause a system to become unresponsive.

This defect affects the following versions:

• Caché and Ensemble 2018.1.4
• InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health 2019.4, 2020.1, and 2020.2
• HealthShare Health Connect (HSAP) 15.032 built on Ensemble 2018.1.4
• HealthShare Health Connect 2020.1

No other InterSystems product versions are affected by this issue.  Specifically, earlier versions of Caché and Ensemble, Health Connect 2019.1 and 2019.1.

This message contains two recent HealthShare Advisories, which are available below.

• Advisory: Consent API allows for the creation of consent policies for non-existing MPI IDs
• Advisory: Issue with Consent Processing in the Operational Data Store

These advisories are also on the InterSystems Product Alerts and Advisories page

September 1, 2020 – Advisory: Consent API allows for the creation of consent policies for non-existing MPI IDs

InterSystems has corrected a defect when using the Consent API, where it is possible to associate a consent policy with an MPI ID that does not yet exist.

Preview releases are now available for the 2020.3 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and IRIS Studio!

The build number for these releases is 2020.3.0.200.0.

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:2020.3.0.200.0

docker pull store/intersystems/iris-community-arm64:2020.3.0.200.0

docker pull store/intersystems/irishealth-community:2020.3.0.200.

GA releases are now available for the first version (v1.0) of InterSystems System Alerting and Monitoring (InterSystems SAM for short)
  
InterSystems SAM v1.0 provides a modern monitoring solution for InterSystems IRIS based products. It allows high-level views of clusters and single-node drilled down metrics-visualization together with alerts notifications.  This first version provides visualization for more than one hundred InterSystems IRIS kernel metrics, and users can extend the default-supplied Grafana template to their liking.
 
V1.0 is meant to be a simple and intuitive baseline.

GA releases are now published for the 2020.2 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and IRIS Studio!

A full set of containers for these products are available from the WRC Software Distribution site, including community editions of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health.

The build number for these releases is 2020.2.0.211.0.

InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2020.2  provides an important security update with the following enhancements:

• Support for TLS 1.3
• Support for SHA-3

InterSystems IRIS for Health 2020.2 includes all of the enhancements of InterSystems IRIS.

AWS has officially released their second-generation Arm-based Graviton2 processors and associated Amazon EC2 M6g instance type, which boasts up to 40% better price performance over current generation Intel Xeon based M5 instances. 

A few months ago, InterSystems participated in the M6g preview program, and we ran a few benchmarks with InterSystems IRIS that showed compelling results. This led us to support ARM64 architectures for the first time.

Now you can try InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health on Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 M6g instances for yourselves through the AWS Marketplace!

This message contains three recent HealthShare Advisories, which are available below.

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can lead to missing resource data in FHIR search results.

This problem exists for:

• HealthShare Unified Care Record 2020.1.0 b7015

This defect occurs due to an incorrect resource being deleted from the search index. Subsequent FHIR Resource requests against the FHIR Repository may return incomplete results due to that missing index. Any type of FHIR resource data can be lost, and depending on when the defect occurs, the same FHIR request could return different result sets.

This defect only affects FHIR resources at the HealthShare ODS.

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause FHIR searches to return incomplete results. The defect manifests because a FHIR update interaction deletes an incorrect resource from the search index. Although the data still exists in the repository, subsequent searches may return incomplete results due to the missing entry in that index.

This defect affects InterSystems IRIS for Health 2020.1 and HealthShare Unified Care Record 2020.1. (In HealthShare, this defect only affects FHIR resources at the ODS.

Dear HealthShare Customer:

This post is part of the HealthShare HS2020-06 Alert communications process.  The same information is also distributed:

• By Email
• On the Product Alerts & Advisories page
• On the WRC Distribution Page InterSystems Documents

There are 2 Health Insight alerts in the HealthShare HS2020-06 Alert communication.

Preview releases are now available for the first version (v1.0) of InterSystems System Alerting and Monitoring (InterSystems SAM for short).
  
InterSystems SAM v1.0 provides a modern monitoring solution for InterSystems IRIS-based products. It allows high-level views of clusters and single-node drilled down metrics-visualization together with alerts notifications.  This first version provides visualization for more than one hundred InterSystems IRIS kernel metrics, and users can extend the default-supplied Grafana template to their liking.
 
V1.0 is meant to be a simple and intuitive baseline. Please help us make it great by trying it and sending us feedback!

SAM can display information from InterSystems-based instance starting with version 2019.4
 
SAM is only available in container format. You will need the SAM Manager container plus a small set of additional open-source components (Prometheus and Grafana) that are added automatically by the composition file.

SAM components and the SAM Manager Community Edition are available from

• The WRC Preview page: as “SAM Components” and “SAM Manager” 
• Externally at the SAM components Github repo & the SAM Manager on Docker Hub if you want to download it before the docker-compose runs (this last link might not be available for few hours but the container is pullable)

If you are traveling or prefer a voice-based  Q&A description on what SAM is, here is a podcast we have prepared for you: 

Preview releases are now available for InterSystems IRIS Advanced Analytics, and InterSystems IRIS for Health Advanced Analytics! The Advanced Analytics add-on for InterSystems IRIS introduces IntegratedML as a key new feature.

The build number for these releases is: 2020.3.0AA.331.0

Full product installation kits, container images, 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-aa-community:2020.3.0AA.331.

Dear HealthShare Customer:

This post is part of the HealthShare HS2020-05 Alert communications process.

InterSystems has corrected two defects that affect online backup of very large databases. Backups taken via external methods, such as snapshots or direct file copies, are not affected. These defects exist in all released versions of all InterSystems products.

The first defect only affects databases with more than 2³¹ blocks. It results in a degraded database after restoring from an online backup. For example, databases that have a block size of 8 KB (the default) are only affected if they are larger than 16 TB. The correction for this defect is identified as RJF437.

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.

This message contains three recent HealthShare Advisories, which are available below.

These advisories are also on the InterSystems Product Alerts and Advisories page

• Advisory: A manager from one facility could view users from another facility
• Advisory: Significant Performance Issues with ListEncounterRelationships()
• Advisory: The Lab Results Table in Clinical Viewer does not display "IM" results.

HealthShare 2020.1 is now Generally Available!

The 2020.

I’m excited to announce that InterSystems will be joining the open source community for InterSystems ObjectScript extension to Visual Studio Code. Early this year I posted that we were on a journey to redefine the future of our IDE strategy, and what came out of that is Visual Studio Code is the IDE that can support that future.

Dear HealthShare Customer:

This post is part of the HealthShare HS2020-04 Alert communications process.

GA releases are now published for the 2020.1 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and IRIS Studio!

A full set of kits and containers for these products are available from the WRC Software Distribution site, including community editions of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health.

The build number for these releases is 2020.1.0.215.0.

InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2020.1  makes it even easier to develop and deploy real-time, machine learning-enabled applications that bridge data and application silos.

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can result in data integrity issues on systems using mirroring.

This defect affects:

• All currently released versions of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health, except 2020.1
• Caché and Ensemble versions beginning with 2011.1.1
• All HealthShare products based on the above Data Platforms versions

This defect is more likely to be encountered in IRIS and IRIS for Health 2019.4. It is highly unlikely to have occurred on deployed systems running any other version.

A releases are now published for the 2020.1 version of HealthShare Health Connect!

Kits and Container images are available via the WRC's WRC Software Distribution site.

The build number for these releases is 2020.1.0.215.0.

HealthShare Health Connect 2020.

Starting in March 2020, Microsoft plans to release a series of security updates that will cause Windows Active Directory (AD) servers to reject unencrypted simple binds. For more details on the changes to Active Directory, see Microsoft’s Security Advisory ADV190023.

Instances of all InterSystems products using LDAP with Windows AD servers for user login can be impacted if they are not already properly configured to use TLS/SSL. The impact is not limited to instances running on Windows versions.

Dear HealthShare Customer:

This post is part of the HealthShare HS2020-03 Alert communications process.  The same information is also distributed:

• By Email
• On the Product Alerts & Advisories page
• On the WRC Distribution Page InterSystems Documents

There are 7 alerts in the HealthShare HS2020-03 Alert communication, including the previously posted "March 25, 2020 Alert: Possible Data Integrity Issues after Compaction or Defragmentation."  The summary is in the table below, and the detail is contained in the attached document: HealthShare HS2020-03.

InterSystems has corrected two defects that, in rare circumstances, can result in data integrity corruption after running global compaction, database compaction, or database defragmentation. InterSystems recommends avoiding these utilities until after applying the corrections listed below.

1. The first defect is caused by database compaction, defragmentation, or global compaction, and can result in database corruption. If you have used one of these utilities on a database, InterSystems recommends that you perform an integrity check on it. This will identify any data corruption that has occurred.