Lotus Notes & Domino 8.5.2 Goes Gold
On August 10th IBM Lotus announced that the next update for Notes and Domino, release 8.5.2 will be available for general availability on August 24, 2010.
The new release provides enhancements for both the end users of Notes, iNotes, Traveler as well as for developers through updates to Domino Designer.
Notes/Domino 8.5.2 Features and Enhancements Overview:
Lotus Notes Client
- Improved communication using Lotus Sametime unified telephony services
- Improved instant messaging services using Lotus Sametime
- Complies with 2009 Federal Desktop Core Configuration requirements
- Improved integration with Lotus Quickr for attachments
- Ability to save e-mail messages to a file
- Additional preference settings for mail and contacts
- Usability improvements for working sets and XPages
- Enhanced WYSIWYG XPage Editor
- Launch Composite Editor from Designer
- XPage performance improvements
- CKEditor for XPages
- XPages and Designer extensibility APIs
- DXL (Domino XML Language) - Improved design element fidelity when exporting and importing
- IBM JVM V1.6
- Dojo 1.4.1
- Notes UI APIs now support view design elements
- FIPS support for AIX®
- Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT) rules enhancement
- E-mail interoperability enhancements
- ID vault API extension
Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.2 (for Apple/Nokia/WinMo) is planned to ship along with Notes/Domino 8.5.2. The Traveler release for Android is planned for later this year (4Q).
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