ART-DECOR® – Release 3.9.4

Release notes 24 November 2025

Introduction

We are delighted to announce Release 3.9.4. As we are continuously busy to offer / deliver high quality software, we have decided to have another intermediate release that fixes 3 issues we found during intense regression testing and due to client/user reports.

In total, 5 tickets were handled, subsumed in the following two paragraphs. This is the Release Note with more details.

Terminology

• A problem was fixed that when importing a LOINC panel, a dataset schema error appeared; this has been fixed [AD30-2214]
• When inheriting dataset concept groups, an associated valueset is no longer referenced into the project; this has been fixed [AD30-2237]
• A Decor check for valueset references after inherit was introduced [AD30-2238]

Testing and Validation

The compilation of projects missed an ident for templates from an external project, now ident is added when returning the template (in a compiled project, needed for publications) [AD30-2236]

Hints for Updating an ART-DECOR® Release for local installations

For all our hosted servers we do planned and announced updates of the server software regarding backend and frontend, comprised of ART-DECOR Vue and ART-DECOR http-proxy.

Please Note

When you have a local installation of ART-DECOR and want to update to this release, please consider reading our Updating an ART-DECOR® Release documentation.

Thank you

A BIG thank you!

We are always thankful for any comments and suggestions.

Special thanks for the feedback regarding the Template Viewer and Editor to the colleagues from ELGA (Austria) and HL7 Italy / Ernst&Young (EY) and for Dataset and Questionnaire editor to the Berlin Institute of Health @ Charité team.

Especially in the terminology and questionnaire sector we got great feedback from the Dutch ICT Institute in Health Care (Nictiz). Thanks to Gunter Haroske working for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pathologie / German Association of Pathology pointing to shortcomings and missing features in our Questionnaire functions and to the Dutch Uitkomstgerichte Zorg Program for contributions in the same area.

Special thanks also to the mio42 GmbH team, Agence du Numérique en Santé (ANS) and our partners at Kereval / IHE Europe for testing, feature suggestions and bug fix requests.

Please don't hesitate to write us with suggestions for improvements or feature requests to our email address provided for this purpose: feedback@art-decor.org, also easily reachable through the Services Card at our ART-DECOR landing page (the link with the bulb 😃).

Outlook

Current development is heading towards Release 3.10 which focuses on further enhancements and features for Questionnaire Management. We might have an intermediate minor release 3.9.5 in between. We are also working hard on our new FHIR Profile Editor utilizing FHIR Shorthand (FSH), here a sneak preview.

At the same time we are currently also working on the ART-DECOR Release 4 series. This will imply a big update on the frontend as we switch to Vue 3, also the backend will make use of the new eXist-db Database Release v6.4.0.

As you can see: more on that to come. Thank you for your patience. Stay tuned.