Matching between Firely versions and FHIR versions

[luisgmgouveia]

Hi,

I'm using Firely for 1 year now. It's great, I'm very happy with it!

I'm contacting you because you don't seem to publish a table where we can see the correspondence between Firely versions and FHIR versions. Something like this:
https://hapifhir.io/hapi-fhir/docs/getting_started/versions.html

For instance:
1 - I believe I'm using FHIR 4.6.0 with Firely 3.7.0, but how can I confirm it?
2 - Which is the latest Firely version that is still compatible with FHIR 4.6.0? I would like to install the latest stable version (Firely 4.0.0) but I'm afraid it's already following FHIR 5.0.0 specs.

Thank you!

[mbaltus]

The name of the package indicates which FHIR version is supported by that library. So, for example, if you have included Hl7.Fhir.R4B you are working with FHIR R4B (also referred to as FHIR version 4.6.0). So you can update that library without having to be worried that you get support for a different FHIR version. Please do make sure to read the change log, to see if updating the library may have consequences for your code.

The table of the different packages - each supporting 1 specific FHIR version - can be found here: https://github.com/FirelyTeam/firely-net-sdk#getting-started

[luisgmgouveia]

Hi,

Thank you for the quick answer. I'm sorry but I would like to ask 3 other questions:

1 - Can you provide me a link where I can confirm FHIR R4B is equivalent to 4.6.0 ?
2 - I am using Firely 3.7.0 R5. Which FHIR version is this if not 4.6.0?
3 - I know your R5 branch is compatible with .NET Core. Is R4B also compatible with .NET Core?

Thank you!

[mbaltus]

1. Yes, but I do apologize because R4B is actually 4.3.0 and NOT 4.6.0 - I did not realize it when I answered before. This can be found here: http://hl7.org/fhir/directory.html. 4.6.0 is the FHIR R5 preview.
2. See 1. for my mistake between 4.3.0 and 4.6.0. But if you use Hl7.Fhir.R5, it is probably the 5.0.0-snapshot1 version. @marcovisserFurore Is there anywhere we could check this?
3. Yes, all the Hl7.Fhir libraries are .NET Core compatible. You can also check on https://www.nuget.org/packages/.

[luisgmgouveia]

Thanks!

[marcovisserFurore]

You can see the relationship between the Firely .NET SDK version and the FHIR version here (last line).

Next week we are going to release a new version of the Firely .NET SDK (version 4.1) which shall contain the new official FHIR R4B (4.3.0), which has been released by Hl7 at the end of last month.

[luisgmgouveia]

Thanks!