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Upgrading to This Release

This section contains specific instructions applicable to upgrading to this major release. These instructions supplement Upgrading from an Earlier Version in the Installation Guide.

If you are upgrading to this release from a version prior to the last major release, you should also refer to the upgrade instructions for the last major releaseOpens in a new tab, as well as any other major release which your upgrade skips over.

Note:

A special upgrade procedure is required when upgrading from Health Connect 15.03. For details, see the InterSystems IRIS In-Place Conversion Guide, which is available from the InterSystems WRC DocumentsOpens in a new tab page.

New “Configure Secure Communication” Option in the Installer Wizard

The Configure SSL Access dialog in the Installer Wizard has been renamed to Configure Secure Communication. In the new dialog you must now specify an SSL/TLS Configuration in order to make the secure communication settings Active. A default value of HS.Secure.Demo is entered for the SSL/TLS Configuration setting upon upgrade.

If you had an active configuration in the Configure SSL Access dialog before you upgraded, identify the correct SSL/TLS configuration for your instance in the new Configure Secure Communication dialog after you complete your upgrade but before you reactivate your namespaces.

Upgrading Containers

Because a containerized application is isolated from the host environment, it does not write persistent data; whatever it writes inside the container is lost when the container is removed and replaced by a new container. Therefore, an important aspect of containerized application deployment is arranging for data to be stored outside of the container and made available to other and future containers.

The durable %SYS features enables persistent storage of instance-specific data — such as user definitions, audit records, and the log, journal, and WIJ files — when Health Connect is run in a container, allowing a single instance to run sequentially in multiple containers over time. For example, if you run an Health Connect container using durable %SYS, you can upgrade the instance by stopping the original container and running a new one that uses the instance-specific data created by the old one. For information about upgrading, see Upgrading InterSystems IRIS Containers; for detailed information on durable %SYS, see Durable %SYS for Persistent Instance Data.

Important:

In this release, the distribution container has a nonroot default user. This improves the security of your container. If you are using a durable %SYS from a 2019.2 or earlier instance, you need to change some file ownerships in the host’s durable directory before running Health Connect 2022.1. Please contact your InterSystems sales engineer or the InterSystems Worldwide Response CenterOpens in a new tab for instructions on changing the file ownerships. If you do not make these changes, the container will encounter an error starting Health Connect.

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