IBM announced today the official release of Lotus Notes & Domino 8.5.1 on October 12.
This long-awaited release brings support for the iPhone via ActiveSync, which allows wireless synchronization of email (including attachments), calendar, and contacts with the iPhone's native applications. If you're wondering how that works, the best way to describe it is, install or upgrade to the 8.5.1 Domino server with Traveler, make a few taps on the iPhone, and "it just works." Windows Mobile and Symbian support are also improved.
In addition, Lotus Notes 8.5.1 adds a bevy of long-awaited end user features such as auto-correction of common spelling and typing errors, easier link sending, attachment visibility, vCards in signatures, more business card integration, and more intuitive archive features. Power users will notice better table resizing controls and a roaming Workspace. In addition, Sametime chats are now in their own thread so you can chat if Notes is busy working on another task.
Administrators will be pleased with enhancements to policies, like the ability to push and enforce client contact synchronization settings, and improvements to DAOS (the amazing disk storage recovery feature) and compression that reduce network utilization.
Developers will benefit from performance improvements in Designer and support for Xpages in the Notes client. Also, as of Notes 8.5.1, the Domino Designer client is available free of charge. Anyone who wants it will be able to download it and use it. The trick is that if you want to deploy any applications you build to a Domino server, then you will have to license the server and/or clients.
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