Upgrading to v1.5.1 from v1.4

1. Download the OpenVPMS installation files from here. Unzip the installation pack onto your OpenVPMS server: this should create an openvpms-release-1.5.1 folder.
    
2. Back up your OpenVPMS database.
    
3. Stop Tomcat:
   1. Right-click on Computer;
   2. Click Manage;
   3. Click Services and Applications | Services;
   4. Click on Apache Tomcat n.n;
   5. Click on Stop.

   
    

4. Navigate to db folder. Open Command Prompt (Ctrl-Shift-Right Click):

   
    

5. Start the mysql command line client and enter the following commands highlighted in yellow (don't leave out the semi-colon):
   mysql -u root -p. Enter your password. Mysql prompt appears.
   mysql> use openvpms;
   mysql> source migrate-1.4-to-1.5.sql;

   
    

6. Allow command to run then quit;.

   
    

7. Copy connector.jar
   from c:\openvpms-release-1.4\lib
   to c:\openvpms-release-1.5.1\lib.

   
   This file should already be in your Program Files\Tomcat n.n\shared\lib\ folder.
    

8. Browse to bin folder and open command prompt (Ctrl-Shift-Right Click):
   Run archload. Close window when complete.

   
    

9. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat n.n\webapps.
   Select and delete both the openvpms folder and the the openvpms.war file.

   
    

10. Copy .war file from c:\openvpms-release-1.5\lib
    to C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat n.n\webapps:
    
     
11. Close everything. Restart Tomcat. Start openVPMS.