The 2024.2 releases of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect are now Generally Available (GA).

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

2024.2 is a Continuous Delivery (CD) release. Many updates and enhancements have been added in this release:

Enhancing Developer Experience

• Studio removal - 2024.2 Windows installations do not include the Studio IDE, and upgrading an existing instance removes Studio from the instance’s bin directory. Developers who wish to keep using Studio should download the 2024.1 Studio independent component from the WRC component distribution page.
• Foreign Tables are now fully supported - With the 2024.2 release, we have addressed feedback from early access users, including better metadata management, improved predicate pushdown and further alignment with the LOAD DATA  command that ingests rather than projects external data into IRIS SQL tables.
• Flexible Python Runtime for Microsoft Windows - Customers running Microsoft Windows are now able to select the Python runtime used for Embedded Python.

Enhancing AI & Analytics

• InterSystems IRIS BI - Added standard KPI plugins to calculate standard deviation and variance based on measures from fact tables as well as better integration with the PowerBI connector privileges so that the PowerBI user has access to all cubes that are not restricted by a resource or are public cubes
• InterSystems Reports - New version of Logi Report 2024.1 SP2 including enhancements to PDF exports.  For additional details, see the Logi Report release notes. 

Enhancing Interoperability and FHIR 

• NEW HL7 DTL Generator: A new addition to the Productivity Toolkit intended to help users reduce time-to-value when a) migrating from other vendors OR b) building new DTLs. Based on source and target message pairs, the DTL Generator creates a skeleton DTL with simple transformation logic for the interface engineer to validate and review for any missing more complex logic required.
• X12 / CMS0057 Support: In anticipation of the upcoming CMS0057 Prior Authorization requirements, support for additional schema packages include HIPAA 4010, HIPAA 5010, and HIPAA 6020.
  • Additionally, now included is support for X12 long segments.
• New FHIR Configuration REST API (Control Plane): Configuration for multi-namespace FHIR Servers is made easier with a single REST Handler to support each entire instance. A new control plane endpoint (BaseURL: /csp/fhir-management/api) is available offering enhanced security allowing only namespace authorized users access to the control plane REST API.
• Enhanced IRIS OAuth Server Customization: Customizing IRIS for Health OAuth is now simplier with an out-of-the-box supported and documented framework with an IRIS OAuth server customization logic embedded in an IRIS for Health setting. Default values for "Customization Options" are populated when selecting the appropriate OAuth class hook.
• Improved UI for FHIR Server Configuration & Bulk FHIR Configuration:
  • The improved FHIR Server Configuration Dashboard enhances the user's experience by taking advantage of updated back-end APIs for configuring a FHIR server.
  • The improved Bulk FHIR Coordinator enhances the user's experience by creating an intuitive workflow when configuring Bulk FHIR servers.

Platform Updates

• IRIS 2024.2 now supports Ubuntu 24.04, to go along with support for Ubuntu 22.04.
• Containers are now based on Ubuntu 24.04.

DOCUMENTATION

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

• InterSystems IRIS 2024.2 documentation, release notes and deprecated & discontinued technologies and features.
• InterSystems IRIS for Health 2024.2 documentation, release notes and deprecated & discontinued technologies and features.

Here’s the always-handy InterSystems IRIS upgrade checklist for 2024.2.

HOW TO GET THE SOFTWARE

As usual, Continuous Delivery (CD) releases come 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 page.

Classic installation packages

Installation packages are available from the WRC's Continuous Delivery Releases page. Additionally, kits can also be found in the Evaluation Services website. InterSystems IRIS Studio is still available in the release, and you can get it from the WRC's Components distribution page.  

Containers

Container images for both Enterprise and Community Editions of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health and all corresponding components are available from the InterSystems Container Registry web interface.

✅ Build number for this release is: 2024.2.0.247.0, except for the OpenSSL 1.0 AIX kits which are 2024.2.0.247.1. If you're in the ICR, containers are tagged as "latest-cd".