Release of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify 4.0.21

We are pleased to announce the release of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify 4.0.21

A part of the iHRIS Suite of software, iHRIS Manage maintains health worker deployment, performance, and attrition information while iHRIS Qualify tracks training, certification, and licensure.

Final Feature Release
In order to concentrate our development efforts on the 4.1 series of iHRIS, this will be our final feature release for iHRIS in the 4.0 Series. The only new releases of 4.0.X will be to address high-priority security issues or critical bugs.

Release Changes

This release includes several improvements and bug fixes, including:
• Reports generate much much faster
• Bug causing a failure on a system update 853936
A complete list of changes since version 4.0.19 can be found here: https://www.ihris.org/wiki/IHRIS_Suite_4.0_Development#4.0.21

New Documentation

New documentation can be found on our wiki:
• Decentralized iHRIS Structure (Thanks Sovello!)
https://www.ihris.org/wiki/Decentralized_iHRIS_Structure
• Generating Reports Periodically
https://www.ihris.org/wiki/Generate_Reports_Automatically
• Archiving Reports Automatically
https://www.ihris.org/wiki/Archive_Reports_Automatically

New Code Bounties

iHRIS Development is a team effort. We appreciate all the help you have given us with bug reporting, documentation and coding. We are now starting to offer code bounties to help encourage more development and documentation of the iHRIS Software.
• XML Representation of Field Data:

• Translation into Arabic:

If you are interested in the code bounties, please contact Brooke Buchanan at bbuchanan@capacityplus.org for details on the application process.

Installation

For complete installation instructions, please visit this link:
https://www.ihris.org/wiki/Linux_%28Ubuntu%29_Installation

For your convenience we have included links to important downloads:
• iHRIS Suite:
http://launchpad.net/i2ce/4.0/4.0.21/+download/ihris-suite-4.0.21.tar.bz2
• iHRIS Qualify:
http://launchpad.net/ihris-qualify/4.0/4.0.21/+download/ihris-qualify-full-4.0.21.tar.bz2
• iHRIS Manage:
http://launchpad.net/ihris-manage/4.0/4.0.19/+download/ihris-manage-full-4.0.19.tar.bz2

Translations

Thanks goes out to the launchpad and translatewiki translation community for continuing to support translation of iHRIS. The complete list of language options in 4.0.21 includes Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Malian French, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, and Tagalog.