What’s New in IBM Notes and IBM Domino

As usual a session about the future of IBM Notes and Domino was a session that was packed with people. You can take Lotusphere out the Connect, but you can’t Lotusphere out of the attendee.

We were presented with a roadmap with the following key points for Domino:

Mail, contacts and calendar support for Microsoft Outlook on Domino will be available during 2016.

Domino Next (which means the next version of Domino) will be out during 2016.

• TLS 1.2 support for all protocols
• Store databases vie windexes outside of NSF file and on the file system, like you do on your mail files today
• Live view refresh
• Support for winmail.dat files
• Java (JVM) will finally be updated to the latest version!

Here are the key points for Domino Designer (which means that there will be a new version of it):

• Designer integration with Bluemix
• Document encryption and signing in Xpages
• API access to ID Vault
• Responsive design with Bootstrap
• Easy to integrate data from relational databases
• Open sourcing of most of Xpages
• Java 8, Dojo, Bootstrap, CK Editor, OSGi and Active Content Filtering will be upgraded to the latest versions

Here are the key points for the Notes Browser plugin:

• It is now rebranded and will be called IBM Client Application Access (ICAA)
• It’s now a stand alone application instead of a browser plugin
• Support for all  @commands
• Can be installed with the IBM Notes Rich Client
• Will now also work on the Mac since it’s stand alone application

Here are the key points for IBM Verse on mobile (Traveler):

• Meeting Moderators can now view who has accpeted a meeting invitation
• Real-time push notifications
• MaaS360 Cloud Exterior support
• Calendar ghosting on unprocessed calendar invitations

Here are the key points for the IBM Notes Client:

• Improved calendar interoperability with winmail.dat
• Display internet style addresses instead of Notes addresses
• Rules will run on existing messages as well as on new messages
• You can now delegate calendar and To Do entries!
• CCM support for the Files plugin
• Template updates
• Windows 10 support

Here are the key points for IBM iNotes (webmail):

• Improved calendar interoperability with winmail.dat
• Delegate calendar and To Do entries
• Open message in Notes client or ICAA when detecting Notes/Lotusscript
• buttons within a message
• Support for mailto: and sendto:
• Support for IE Standard (no-quirks) mode
• Support for Microsoft Edge browser
• Integration with the latest version of Sametime, Docs and Connections

Here are the key points for IBM Verse (the new web mail IBM has been talking a lot about):

• Out of Office support
• Define/Insert signature
• Prevent copying
• Share to blog
• File preview for Microsoft Office files
• Send encrypted and digitally signed mail
• Business card on typeahead
• Team analytics
• It will be on premise during the second half of 2016!