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Subscribe via EmailSo, it seems that the Lotus version of Harry Potter's 'Cloak of Invisibility', the Design Partner NDA, has been lifted for the forthcoming Notes/Domino 8.5.2 and members of the DP and beta programs can now freely blog about the new features and enhancements - yay!
Others have so far picked out the improvements to XPages and the Domino Designer license changes.
However, I'm a simpler kinda guy, and so my favourite enhancement is very straightforward and also one that has been much requested over the years...
Multi-threaded client replication:
Yes, that's right, the Notes client is now capable of fully multi-threaded replication - and the Replicator tab has been updated to demonstrate this. Replication now happens much faster across the board, and if one particular server or database is unavailable or taking a long time, the rest of your Database replication tasks will not be held up.
As someone with 30+ DBs on my replicator tab, some of which are on servers that are often unavailable, I am really really pleased with this one!
[Just a reminder... The 8.5.2 features discussed/shown are in beta and not guaranteed to be in the product IBM ultimately chooses to ship.]
By: Stuart McIntyre | 4 Comments | On: 19 April 2010 09:46:09 | Tags: 8.5.2 notes replication
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Not exactly a game changer, but definitely something that will improve the user experience. Good stuff.
Ah, but that's the great thing. 'Small' improvements often mean a lot to people. Whereas some vendors focus on big things that they can market (rather than fixing existing problems) the IBM Lotus team continue to make these improvements. There was loads of nice new small improvements in 8.5.1 but they really add up on an average day for users. Point releases aren't just about bug fixes... that shows we care about the customers.
There's a good number of enhancements in 8.5.2 that having you asking 'was that there before?' or 'when did that change?' - features that just seem to fit so well that you wonder whether a change really has been made. Certainly on the Mac, there is a feeling of robustness that wasn't ther ein 8.5.0 or 8.5.1, I'm really impressed so far...
What a superb addition. Can't wait to install this one.
I can think of a bunch of others that I regularly pray for; non-blocking app dialogs, threaded doc open, obliteration of any and all technobabble in the UI. But this is a good one, on top of what 8.51 brought.
Hi,
I'm interested in testing Lotus Notes 8.5.2 beta for Mac. Where could I get it?
Cheers
xtoff {at} mac {dot} com
Hi Christophe, Sorry but you would need to be on the beta or design partner programs. Contact your IBM rep to ask how to do this.