OpenEMR Upgrade Guides

If you are not using the Ubuntu/Debian, then upgrading OpenEMR needs to be done manually. The INSTALL file in the main directory of OpenEMR outlines a strategy that should be used when upgrading OpenEMR. Also, as of version 3.1.0 OpenEMR is 100% UTF-8; read HERE if you are upgrading from a previous version to see if it makes sense to also upgrade your mysql database to UTF-8.

Linux original source OpenEMR package

• Upgrade 4.2.0 to 4.3.0 (Plan to release OpenEMR 4.3.0 in early January, 2016)
• Upgrade 4.1.2 to 4.2.0
• Upgrade 4.1.1 to 4.1.2
• Upgrade 4.1.0 to 4.1.1
• Upgrade 4.0.0 to 4.1.0
• Upgrade 3.2.0 to 4.0.0
• Upgrade 3.1.0 to 3.2.0
• Upgrade 3.0.1 to 3.1.0

Ubuntu/Debian OpenEMR package

• Upgrade to 4.2.1 (Plan to release OpenEMR 4.2.1 in early January, 2016)
• Upgrade to 4.2.0
• Upgrade to 4.1.2
• Upgrade to 4.1.1
• Upgrade to 4.1.0
• Upgrade to 4.0.0
• Upgrade to 3.2.0
• Upgrade 3.0.1 to 3.1.0

Windows original source OpenEMR package and the XAMPP package

• Upgrade 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 (Plan to release OpenEMR 4.2.1 in early January, 2016)
• Upgrade 4.1.2 to 4.2.0
• Upgrade 4.1.1 to 4.1.2
• Upgrade 4.1.0 to 4.1.1
• Upgrade 4.0.0 to 4.1.0
• Upgrade 3.2.0 to 4.0.0
• Upgrade 3.1.0 to 3.2.0
• Upgrade 3.0.1 to 3.1.0
• Upgrade 2.9.1 to 3.0.1: This upgrade assumes you do not have sql-ledger installed, and assumes you have php-gacl installed externally.

Windows Pre-installed XAMPP OpenEMR Package

• Simultaneous Upgrades of XAMPP and OpenEMR

OpenEMR Appliance

• OpenEMR 4.1.2 and 4.2.0 Appliances are not available and no plans to support this in the future.
• An up-to-date appliance can be configured via Upgrading the 4.1.1 Appliance to 4.2.0.
• Upgrade 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 [html] [pdf]
• Upgrade 4.0.0 to 4.1.0 [html] [pdf]
• Upgrade 3.2.0 to 4.0.0 [html] [pdf]
• Upgrade 3.1.0 to 3.2.0
• Upgrade 3.0.1 to 3.1.0
• Upgrade 2.8.3 to 3.0.1
• Upgrade 2.8.2 to 2.8.3
• Upgrade 2.8.1 to 2.8.2