The Vocera Messaging Platform (VMP) provides an enterprise messaging solution designed to address the unique communication challenges of healthcare. Users can leverage the communication capabilities of VMP from the Vocera Collaboration Suite, Vocera Secure Texting, the VMP Web Console, and the Vocera badge and Smartbadge.

For detailed documentation on Vocera Messaging Platform, refer to Vocera Messaging Platform.

For the previous versions of the release notes, refer to the Vocera Release Notes Library.

Before you can install this release of the Vocera Messaging Platform, you must install version 5.6 or later of the Vocera Voice Server and version 5.0.6 or later of the Vocera Smartbadge firmware. See the Known Issues section of these release notes for more details.

This release includes the following new features and functionality.

• New option for forwarding messages to distribution lists

  A new option in the VMP Administrator can specify that if a user has forwarded messages to a distribution list, this list receives a copy of all messages sent to existing conversations that include the forwarding user in addition to new conversations.

• Windows Server 2022 validated

  VMP has now been validated for use with Windows Server 2022.

The following list contains fixes and improvements made to version 5.9.0 of Vocera Messaging Platform.

• CMSG-14271 In the VMP Web Console, the panel containing the list of conversations can now be resized when the browser is not in full-screen mode.

• CMSG-14339 If a user who has left a conversation returns to it, all users who have left the conversation are now not returned.

• CMSG-14426 In the VMP Web Console, if you open a template whose fields are all required and then open a template with optional fields, the optional fields are no longer marked as required.

• CMSG-14465 When the VMP Server is disconnected from the Vocera Voice Server and a Vocera Smartbadge user logs out while the server is disconnected, the logout is now properly indicated when the server is reconnected.

• CMSG-14466 If a Vocera Smartbadge user starts a login sequence but does not complete it, the VMP Server no longer indicates that the user is logged in.

• CMSG-14494 The voice enunciation information that the VMP Server sends to the Vocera Voice Server with each text message is now compatible with versions 5.7 and earlier of the Vocera Voice Server.

• CMSG-14535, CMSG-14580 If the VMP Server loses its SQL connection, it now does not send wakeup notifications to iOS devices in SE mode.

• CMSG-14563 When you are creating a new message in the VMP Web Console, if you type a sequence of characters in the recipient field, scroll to the bottom of the returned search results, and then scroll back up, you can now select a recipient from the results.

• CMSG-14566 Multiple concurrent SOAP requests no longer fail due to closed SQL connections.

• CMSG-14634 The condition that occasionally caused a "VoceraNotificationConnection: Error converting data type varchar to bigint" message to appear in the VMP logs has now been fixed.

• CMSG-14690 The patient date of birth is now displayed properly in the VMP Web Console.

• CMSG-14416, CMSG-14550, CMSG-14451 The VMP Server now sends fewer error messages as email alerts.

This section lists known issues and limitations in this release of the Vocera Messaging Platform.

• CMSG-14773 In the VMP Web Console, if you send a mass alert with a large message body and many multiple-choice responses, the scroll bar may disappear if the browser size has been reduced. Maximizing the browser window resolves this problem.