IBM just released lotus notes 8.5.3, available from IBM Passport Advantage website.
This is the new features of lotus notes 8.5.3
Lotus Notes 8.5.3 delivers significant enhancements to support social businesses and help users get their work done fast, for example:
- Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 includes entitlement to the IBM Connections files and profiles components adding significant capabilities to help clients become a social business
- Enhanced new mail notification which optionally provides a pop up preview (containing both sender and subject) of new mail messages as they arrive.
- Improved sorting on email subject content that ignores the “Re:” and “Fw:” prefix, from reply & forward respectively, providing a more accurate sorting of your data.
- A new option to search by sender or subject available when you right click an email.
- Optionally leave countered meetings on your calendar. Allow countered meetings to show up in a unique color, with the time the meeting was originally scheduled for as well as maintaining the ability to act on the original calendar invite and with hover text indicating the new proposed time.
- Optionally notify existing invitees when adding or removing attendees from an existing meeting, informing them of the change and updating the invitee list on their calendar invitation, as well as other options which negate the need for a user to process any meeting updates for anything other than a change in time, eg. a reschedule.
- Significant improvements to recent contacts, allowing end users more control over who gets added to recent contacts and improved data integrity.
- Geographic and time zone information is be displayed in the business card.
- Apple Mac usability improvements for e-mail gestures include the ability to drag one or grouped files to the Lotus Notes icon on your dock, and a new mail message will be created with those files attached.
- Embedded IBM Sametime is upgraded to V8.5.1 with an incremental installer to IBM Sametime 8.5.2, and embedded IBM Lotus Symphony is upgraded to V3.0.
- Additional platform support includes RHEL 6.0 Desktop, Citrix XenApp 6.0, and enhanced 64-bit toleration for Microsoft Windows.
- Added ability to remove signature file from a thread
What is interesting is that is now lotus notes can sort the subject easily, without problem.
Prior this version, user have difficulties to sort emails based on their subject, because the “Re: ” and the “Fw: ” are treated differently. Outlook users do not have this kind of problem, but now lotus notes client too 
. Better late than never.
Hope that IBM much more open mind to user inputs than before.
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10 Reasons to upgrade to Lotus Notes 8.52
IBM just release their latest Lotus Notes client, Lotus Notes 8.52. It have many improvements or features specially for the user interface, that most my users will be happy to have.
These are the list what the new improvements or features that I like the most.
1. Save as EML
What my users like the most, save email as eml, so now they can ‘attach’ email as attachment. Many companies who have tight security, maybe do not like this feature, but for other companies, they just love this feature. It better than IBM can disable or enable this feature depend on the company policy.
2. Close email after Forward/Reply
Now, you can choose if your email will be automatically close after you forward or reply it.
3. Group Icon
Now you can quickly see that the email address is a group or not right from your type-ahead list. There will be an icon in the front of email address indicate the the email address is a group or not.
4. Default font for email
Now you can set your default font for your email.
5. Forward from Trash folder
Previously, you need to restore email in case you need to forward it. But now you can forward it right from your trash folder.
6. Pretty Signature
Now you can use rich text as your signature, rather than that boring plain text or that confusing html file. To bad, you still can’t have multiple signatures.
7. Make Contact / Group private
You can share your contacts to others people if you give them the right to access it, but now you can also make your contacts or groups private, so only you who can see it. Other people who have access to open your contacts will not see it.
8. Better Recent contacts management
Now you can have the option to include all to your recent contacts list or o Do not put cc and bcc into recent contacts.
You can delete recent contact straight from type-ahead list (just like outlook)
9. Better replication
You have better replication view, now in show in percentage in the right and also can run multiple replication in the same time.
10. View Calendar entries by category
If you like to add category on everything, including calendar entries than you going to love this feature. Now you can view your calendar entries based on their categories, much more easy to find and manage your calendar.
There are many more features that I do not include in this list, what I like the most about the new features is this features mostly affect on users, better user interface, while usually the new features are on the servers, only a few on the users.
For complete list about all the new features of Lotus Notes 8.52 you can go here.
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New features in Lotus Notes 8.5 (A very quick review)
I just got my copy of Lotus Notes 8.5, and this is just a quick look on what new and interesting features in the new lotus notes 8.5 client.
This is just a quick look, so don’t expect a full review of lotus notes 8.5 client.
New signature
Now users can create a more beautiful signature rather than text only signature or user have to create a html file. Users can create a colorful signature or even attach a picture.
Export Contact
Now users can export their contact into csv or vcf file. It will be easier for users to copy their contacts to others email clients.
Default email, calendar and contact
After we finished install and configure lotus notes 8.5 client, it will ask if we want to setup lotus notes as our default email, calendar and contact program. Before it will only ask for default email program.
New Right Click
Lotus Notes 8.5 have a new right click menu, and much more cleaner and nicer than the lotus notes 8.02.
Those three new features that I quickly recognize after I setup the lotus notes 8.5 client. I will added more in this post, if I have found more features.
Have fun with the new Lotus Notes 8.5 client.
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