Topics

Client

Calendaring and Scheduling - Location change notification
Lotus now provides the ability for the Chairperson of a meeting to add a room or change the location of a meeting and have it automatically send a reschedule notification to all invitees.


Directories

Directory Assistance
Beginning in R5.0.4, directory assistance can now failover to an alternate replica of a secondary directory without a server restart. For further details, refer to New Features in the What's New section of the R5.0.4 Release Notes.

Directory Catalogs
R5.0.4 brings improvement in the area of Directory Catalogs by supporting the use of selection formulas to use only a subset of documents from secondary directories. Server directory catalogs now support full functionality for R4.6 clients. For further details, refer to New Features in the What's New section of these R5.0.4 Release Notes.

LDAP
LDAP services are enhanced by providing support of more name formats for members of external LDAP directory groups, providing more flexibility in the storage of telephone numbers, returning the base entry on subtree searches, and LDAP recognition of group membership changes in a Domino Directory. Additional enhancements include the removal of case-sensitivity when searching the mail attribute as well as returning better results when doing wildcard searches on the mail attribute. For further details, refer to New Features in the What's New section of these R5.0.4 Release Notes.


Java

JVM Upgrade in Domino for AIX and Linux
The Java Virtual Machine in Domino for AIX has been upgraded to 1.1.8-6 and the JVM in Domino for Linux has been upgraded to 1.1.8-2.

Remote access to Domino back-end objects from WebSphere
A new jar file called NCSOW (Notes Client-side Objects for WebSphere) is provided which allows an IBM WebSphere application to access the resources of a Domino server which is on a separate machine using the Domino back-end objects. Previously, WebSphere could only access Domino resources if they were running on the same machine.


Programmability

Additional parameter for LotusScript OpenView method
The OpenView method of NotesUIDatabase has a new, fourth parameter called replaceView. For additional information, refer to the Domino 5 Designer Help section of the Documentation Updates chapter in these Release Notes.

Security

Notes and Domino consolidated to a Global encryption
Beginning in Release 5.0.4, the Domino server, Notes client, Administrator client, and Designer client products have all consolidated three encryption strengths, North American, International English, and French editions, into one strong encryption level resulting in a single "Global" release of the products. The R5.0.4 Global release adopts the encryption characteristics previously known as North American. This change is a result of the relaxation of U.S. Government export restrictions which allows for export of strong encryption technology outside of North America. Therefore, the strong encryption in the Global products can be used worldwide, except in countries whose import laws prohibit it. More detailed information can be found in the Security section of the Things you need to know chapter of these Release Notes.


Server

Webmail performance improvements
The Domino server has been enhanced to yield improved performance of Webmail on all platforms. Some enhancements have yielded further performance improvements on the Unix platforms.

Partitioning Enhancements
Beginning in R5.0.4, support is added for a new notes.ini variable called "PercentAvailSysResources". This parameter allows administrators to limit the amount of physical memory allocated to each partition on the server. It is also applicable to client partitions running on a Citrix MetaFrame server or Windows Terminal Server. For further details, refer to New Features in the What's New section of the R5.0.4 Release Notes.