Notes & Domino 8.5.3 - coming soon.

Ian Raffle  30 September 2011 12:40:28

Notes/Domino 8.5.3 has been announced as being released on 4th October. All good Admins will be booked up to the LotusUserGroup webinar thingy on 6th October to listen in to the launch announcements.

The list of fixes for this release at the time of writing stands at 1170! It's worth scanning through the list, which is available here, to see if anything catches your eye .

Of more interest is the list of new features. Sadly, this one seems jealously guarded but Ed Brill's blog, states:

Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 provides numerous feature enhancements that benefit end-users, developers and administrators. ....... Lotus Notes and iNotes improvements for Mail and C&S; expanded device support, usability and administrative enhancements for Lotus Notes Traveler; performance/scalability improvements for XPages; Domino Designer productivity improvements; and expanded virtualization and data storage enhancements for Domino. In the last but certainly not least category, ..... 8.5.3 accelerates your ability to find people and content as you embark on becoming a social business.

Not sure what the last sentence really means but it sounds good.

I think I'm most interested in some of the new features in Traveler 8.5.3, in particular the enhanced Android support, including Android OS 3.0 and encrypted mail support. Planetlotus list a number of enhancements here.

If you'd like to discuss upgrading your systems to this new release, please give us a call.

Not long now......