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There is a new user registration tool that can be enabled in the webclient.

Documentation on this new feature is here: 6.5a i2b2 Webclient User Registration

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NEW 1.7.13! Defines an information source for the new user registration tool. (If showRegistration is true, this parameter must be present.)

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SAML

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SAML Authentication

i2b2 now includes support for SAML-based enterprise authentication via an institutional Identity Provider. To configure this, you need to do the following:

A. Configure the webclient to use SAML:

loginType = "federated" see 1.4.2 Domain Configuration

B. Configure users for SAML authentication

Create a user for each SAML-authenticating user with the user name set to the SAML EPPN. Create a pm_user_param setting authentication_method to SAML. Alternately, configure the user registration tool for federated mode, and it will allow users to create an i2b2 account if they have a valid SAML authentication. (Such users will still not have access to any projects until the administrator adds projects to his/her profile.)

C. Configure Shibboleth (SAML Service Provider) and AJP

Detailed documentation is in the install docs. See SAML setup. Note that this requires site-specific information from your institution's SAML Identity Provider. (DOCUMENTATION IS NOT CORRECTLY IMPORTED FROM KEVIN'S VERSION - https://github.com/kvb2univpitt/i2b2-saml-demo/tree/main/doc/saml_setup)Detailed setup instructions are in Chapter 8 of the Installation Guide.

Improved Totalnum Scripts

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1. Set up an i2b2 project with the ACT ontology.
2. Either download the SyntheticMass 1k sample from TODO LOCATION63k sample in i2b2 format from https://github.com/i2b2/i2b2-synthea, or follow the instructions below to load any Synthea dataset from scratch.

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Loading concept_dimension: You can run  Insert_Concept_FROMTableAccess stored procedure on your db located in edu.harvard.i2b2.data/Release_1-7/NewInstall/Crcdata/scripts/procedures/<db type>/ which will iterate through table_access and load concept_dimension with data corresponding to the  c_table_name metadata tabletables.

Security Enhancements

• i2b2 has been made more secure by addressing parameterization and other potential vulnerabilities according to a Veracode scan.
• Log4J has been upgraded to the latest version. Following jars are updated in lib/axis2.war/WEB-INF/lib folder

1. log4j-api-2.17.1.jar
2. log4j-core-2.17.1.jar
3. log4j-jcl-2.17.1.jar

Improved db Upgrade Process

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• Backup your existing data folder
• Copy all the folders from the extracted download data folder   into your existing  data Upgrade folder
             Example:  Downloads\2b2core-upgrade-1712a\i2b2\data to C:\opt\edu.harvard.i2b2.data\Release_1-7\Upgrade\. This will replace
             existing Crcdata, Hivedata, Metadata, PMdata folders.
   Alternative to above step, navigate to the edu.harvard.i2b2.data\Release_1-7\Upgrade\   directory of your extracted folder
• Copy the db.properties files from your back up into the respective locations(namely Crcdata, Hivedata, Metadata, PMdata )
• Open the command prompt and navigate to  cell folders and run the following upgrade ant commands on your i2b2 database instance, where {db}       can  be Oracle, sqlserver or postgresql.
  Alternative to above Step, you can run individual SQL scripts on your db instance in place of  ant commands.

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