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IBM Notes Changelog

What's new in IBM Notes 9.0.1 Social Edition

Jul 18, 2014
  • Performance gains: IBM Notes 9.0 is 20 percent faster than IBM Notes 8.5.3 for database access actions.
  • Faster deployment of OpenSocial gadgets: the enhanced installer speeds deployments throughout organizations.
  • Enhanced IBM Notes Browser Plug-in: provides greater opportunity for collaboration with co-workers. Web based access to social applications with improved application sharing capabilities, streamlined deployment, and multi-user support.

New in IBM Notes 9.0 (Jul 18, 2014)

  • IBM Notes and Domino 9.0 can help you:
  • Increase productivity by eliminating the need to switch to other applications to take action.
  • Improve mobility by supporting "bring your own device" (BYOD) with full-featured mobile collaboration on an extensive range of devices.
  • Integrate, develop and deploy business applications faster and more easily than ever. IBM Domino 9.0 supports Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and Open Standard for Authorization (Oauth).
  • Reduce total cost of ownership with tools to simplify administration and support.
  • Provide a security-rich environment while enabling a more effective workforce.
  • Increase productivity:
  • Provides access to your business applications right from the web with the IBM Notes browser plug-in.
  • Enables you to quickly take action on content and events using a simple user interface for in-context social collaboration with activity streams.
  • Gives you access to business-critical actions from other applications by using embedded experiences.
  • Brings collaboration in context and more tightly integrates throughout IBM iNotes, IBM Connections, IBM Notes, application development (Xpages), and third-party products and services.
  • Integrates with IBM Connections through entitlements to the Files and Profiles applications and access through all clients, browsers and mobile devices.
  • Enhance mobility:
  • Supports Apple iOS, Android, and Symbian. IBM Notes and Domino 9.0 adds support for Windows Phone 7.5 and 7.8; Microsoft Windows Phone 8; Windows 8 Tablet RT and Pro; BlackBerry 10; and IBM i Server.
  • Delivers modern, rich user experience through installed client, browser, or a full range of mobile or tablet devices.
  • Increases collaboration and productivity delivering social capabilities to locations where users choose to work.
  • Delivers enhanced support for IBM Notes Traveler Companion and IBM Notes Traveler ToDo mobile applications.
  • Integrate, develop and deploy business applications:
  • Enables you to make the most of your existing application investments with new levels of integration and collaboration.
  • Includes an OpenSocial component that provides social and web features to make third-party processes available directly in the client user's mail. It supports IBM iNotes® widgets and Live Text, OpenSocial 2.0 gadgets and embedded experiences in IBM Notes and IBM iNotes.
  • Provides updates to XWork Server to support broader and more flexible license terms.
  • Improves IBM Domino Designer and XPages to enable better IBM Notes, web and mobile applications.
  • Provides a range of deployment options. You can take a major step forward on becoming a more efficient and socially driven business, or evolve more conservatively with optional deployment scenarios.
  • Reduce total cost of ownership:
  • Database Management Tool.
  • NetWare Directory Services (NSD) monitor for UNIX.
  • Quality of Service probe.
  • Simplified Notes ID management via SAML support.
  • Single Sign-On (SSO) via SAML support for both web and IBM Notes access.
  • Provide a security-rich environment:
  • Secure Hash Algorithm 2 (SHA) support for encryption.
  • Transport Layer Security (TLS) delivered by IBM.
  • OAUTH credential store to support Embedded Experiences.

New in IBM Notes 8.5.3 (Feb 10, 2012)

  • Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 includes entitlement to the IBM Connections files and profiles components adding significant capabilities to help clients become a social business
  • Enhanced new mail notification which optionally provides a pop up preview (containing both sender and subject) of new mail messages as they arrive.
  • Improved sorting on email subject content that ignores the "Re:" and "Fw:" prefix, from reply & forward respectively, providing a more accurate sorting of your data.
  • A new option to search by sender or subject available when you right click an email.
  • Optionally leave countered meetings on your calendar. Allow countered meetings to show up in a unique color, with the time the meeting was originally scheduled for as well as maintaining the ability to act on the original calendar invite and with hover text indicating the new proposed time.
  • Optionally notify existing invitees when adding or removing attendees from an existing meeting, informing them of the change and updating the invitee list on their calendar invitation, as well as other options which negate the need for a user to process any meeting updates for anything other than a change in time, eg. a reschedule.
  • Significant improvements to recent contacts, allowing end users more control over who gets added to recent contacts and improved data integrity.
  • Geographic and time zone information is be displayed in the business card.
  • Apple Mac usability improvements for e-mail gestures include the ability to drag one or grouped files to the Lotus Notes icon on your dock, and a new mail message will be created with those files attached.
  • Embedded IBM Sametime is upgraded to V8.5.1 with an incremental installer to IBM Sametime 8.5.2, and embedded IBM Lotus Symphony is upgraded to V3.0.
  • Additional platform support includes RHEL 6.0 Desktop, Citrix XenApp 6.0, and enhanced 64-bit toleration for Microsoft Windows.
  • Added ability to remove signature file from a thread

New in IBM Notes 8.5.2 (Dec 3, 2010)

  • Improve your mail experience through the use of managed mail replicas. Many Lotus Notes mail users have optimized their mail experience by accessing a local replica of their mail instead of on the IBM Lotus Domino server. But some users don't know how to create or maintain a local replica. Now, Lotus Domino administrators can create and configure local replicas through policies using the new managed mail replica feature.
  • Easily determine which archive you have open among multiple archives. When you are working in an archive, the title will say "Archive" and then the name of the archive.
  • Save mail messages in a .eml file format
  • View, as well as reserve, rooms and resources in your calendar. And private iCalendar feeds can now be added to your calendar.
  • Make your contacts or groups private, and gain more control over which addresses are added to your recent contacts list.
  • Compliance with 2009 Federal Desktop Core Configuration requirements

New in IBM Notes 8.5.1 (Dec 3, 2010)

  • IBM makes it easier than ever to bring collaboration tools to your employees - when and where they need it. It's simple – you choose the capabilities they need, and select the IBM offering below that provides them. That's it. No longer do you need to pick and choose from individual software offerings – you choose the offering that meets your requirements, and IBM delivers.
  • Take control of your email through integration with Lotus Protector for Mail Security 2.5 software, allowing users to manage personal allow and block lists right within the Lotus Notes 8.5.1 inbox.
  • Quickly create a meeting invitations by dragging an email from the inbox into the day-at-a-glance calendar. The meeting invitees are copied from the email To: and CC: lists, the meeting subject is copied from the email subject, the meeting description is set to the email body – reducing the need to copy and paste between documents.
  • Save time when resizing with tables in email by simply dragging and dropping table corners.
  • Take action quickly on a meeting invitation on the action bar within the preview pane, eliminating the need to fully open the invitation.

New in IBM Notes 8.5 (Dec 3, 2010)

  • Socialize:
  • Share Lotus Notes documents with colleagues in the same way you share web pages through social bookmarks, and discover bookmarks that have been qualified by others with similar interests and expertise.
  • Tap into the knowledge capital within your organization and expand personal networks through profile searching where you can find details on people, for example their organization, location, reporting structure and interests.
  • Grow domain knowledge through new terms and concepts defined by examining search results that others have found useful.
  • Connect:
  • Maintain greater control over your schedule as the line between work and life outside of work continues to blur. Lotus Notes 8.5 software integrates various personal and professional calendars into a single view. Users can subscribe to iCal-based calendars and calendars in activities (meetings and to-dos associated with your current activities), and view their complete schedules in one, easy to use interface.
  • Share contacts across platforms that support the vcard file format, allowing users to exchange business contacts quickly.
  • Access:
  • Make your operating system choice, separate from your collaboration tool choice.
  • Provide broader support for roaming users, for example students and business center users, and reduce the need for dedicated laptops. Users can move from one Lotus Notes 8.5 client to the next and enjoy a consistent experience, bringing along email, applications, client settings and preferences.