| July 28, 2022
Your HCL Domino Experience Is About to Get Even Better
We are almost done with our development work for the next HCL Domino “Danube” release planned for November. Want to see and test dive the new features? Here’s your chance with our Early Access Program (EAP). Just visit our license and download portal and look for “what’s new.”
In our latest code drop, you can experience a ton of new features for Notes, Domino Designer, Domino Administrator clients, and the Domino server. You can also preview the features made available in our first two code drops already in EAP. We want and need your feedback to help us evolve our Domino platform to meet your business challenges.
So, what are the things that you will notice the most in this early release preview?
Mail improvements
- Mail-in database improvements
- Default mail font policy
Calendar Improvements
- Improvements to the Dynamic Online Meeting features. Support for delegates, repeating meetings, meeting passwords and dial-in numbers
- Free/Busy time lookup for Microsoft Exchange users.
Workspace Improvements
- Further enhancements to the workspace and support for dark mode, too
Database Encryption Improvements
- 128-bit AES is now the default encryption with the option to increase to 256 bit AES if required
Other Enhancements
- Embedded Sametime is updated to version 12.0.0
- Advanced Properties enhanced
- 64-bit Notes Standard client
- Auto update for local NSF ODS to increase performance
- Further performance updates
Don’t forget that there are the previously released features from the EAP Drop #1 and #2 to test as well.
Please join the forum to give us your feedback
We look forward to hearing your thoughts about these exciting new features.
Domino Product Management
Coming Up in Domino Danube – Early Access Program Release 3
| 1 | XPages File Upload Improvements | Designer |
| 2 | Enable Sharing Of Jars Between XPages and Java Agents | Designer |
| 3 | Add Signature Type to Rick Text Field | Designer |
| 4 | Designer Debugger Improvements | Designer |
| 5 | File Viewer Using Apache POI | Notes |
| 6 | DOMI – Calendar Delegation and Recurring Support | Notes |
| 7 | 64-bit Group 1 Language Support | Notes |
| 8 | Default Mail Font Through Policy | Notes |
| 9 | Free Busy Time With O365 | Notes |
| 10 | Default ODS Upgrade for Client | Notes |
| 11 | Workspace UI Update | Notes |
| 12 | Notes Performance Improvements | Notes |
| 13 | Replace IE with MS Edge | Notes |
| 14 | Document Properties Improvements | Notes |
| 15 | Mail Policy For Alternate From Mail-in Databases | Notes |
| 16 | Notes Setup Improvement | Notes |
| 17 | AD Password Sync install improvements | Domino |
| 18 | Upgrade Tika to current version and Apache POI to match version bundled in Tika | Domino |
| 19 | Antivirus scanning by supporting ICAP protocol | Domino |
| 20 | Certificate Manager on AIX | Domino |
| 21 | OpenID Connect (OIDC) bearer token authentication to Domino HTTP | Domino |
| 22 | Backend Large Item Support | Domino |
| 23 | Java console – handling of self signed certs review/improvements | Admin |
| 24 | Admin Client option to delay bulk fulltext index enablement | Admin |
| 25 | Add validjson tool into the admin client | Admin |
Features From Previous Releases
| Feature | Release | |
| 1 | Upgrade CKEditor to 4.18 (change is in Domino) | EAP 1 |
| 2 | daosencmgr tool | EAP 1 |
| 3 | DominoBackup native Windows VSS support | EAP 1 |
| 4 | Security F.6 – 256 bit AES for Database Encryption | EAP 1 |
| 5 | Ability to encrypt a database programmatically | EAP 1 |
| 6 | DQL 12.0.2 Optimization | EAP 1 |
| 7 | Upload support data via server command “Tell Domino Support” | EAP 1 |
| 8 | Linux: Support SELinux in Enforcing Mode | EAP 1 |
| 9 | Linux : Support 5.x Kernel | EAP 1 |
| 10 | Update IDVault (Recertification) without End user intervention | EAP 1 |
| 11 | Update IDVault (Key Rollover) without user intervention | EAP 1 |
| 12 | KeyCloak SAML IdP requires support for HTTP Redirect Binding signing | EAP 1 |
| 13 | Upgrade to OpenSSL 3.0.1 for FIPS 140-2 support | EAP 1 |
| 14 | Update CA root certificates that ship with Notes/Domino | EAP 1 |
| 15 | Add Briefcase icon also to Groupsview in the Domino Directory | EAP 1 |
| 16 | Add Cell Phone Number to Telephone column in Person view in Address Book | EAP 1 |
| 1 | Deprecate ADSync | EAP 2 |
| 2 | View Updating Speed and Throughput Improvements | EAP 2 |
| 3 | Secure OSLoadLibrary Usage, primarily on Windows | EAP 2 |
| 4 | Implement appropriate SCN QOS improvements in OnPrem | EAP 2 |
| 5 | Need NIFNSF tab in Server form | EAP 2 |
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