New features in Lotus Domino 8 software

• Eligible users of Lotus Notes 8.0.1 software or Lotus Domino Web Access 8.0.1 software may request entitlement to a new wireless e-mail option, called Lotus Notes Traveler, which provides real-time synchronization of Lotus Domino 8.0.1 e-mail and personal information management (PIM) data on a Microsoft Windows Mobile 5 or 6 mobile device (smartphone or Pocket PC).
• Support for database compression, which significantly reduces the storage size of Lotus Domino databases.
• Support for IBM AIX® 6.1 and IBM i5/OS® V6R1M0
• Lotus Domino 64 bit native support option for Microsoft® Windows 2003 and IBM AIX® platforms. 64 bit support enables Lotus Domino software to address more far larger memory on the server than in prior releases of Lotus Domino.
• Support for Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 standards encryption for Lotus Notes email.
• Greater extensibility through Lotus Notes widgets
• Deployment enhancements to Lotus Domino that enable administrators to free up time and focus on other areas.
• A new mode for Lotus Domino Web Access optimized for bandwidth. It addresses the needs of users who are traveling or are constrained with dial-up connections.
• Linked to other components of the Lotus portfolio including integration with IBM Lotus Quickr™, IBM Lotus Connections, increased support for IBM Lotus Sametime® 8.0 (include Lotus Sametime Unyte)

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Mail server enhancements

• Recall e-mail as controlled by administrators. If authorized, users simply click a button in their IBM Lotus Notes 8 client to recall a message sent in error.
  

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• Specify the hour in addition to the dates that users will be away from the office with enhanced out of office capabilities. And colleagues who send mail to an user that is out of the office may receive notification of their absence almost immediately.
• Keep mail threads remain intact even if an intermediate email in the thread is deleted. Mail threads can also include emails to and from mail systems other than Lotus Domino through support for Internet standard RFC822 "In-Reply-To" and "References" headers.
• Potentially improve both Lotus Domino server and Lotus Notes client performance by optionally selecting to remove either read, or both read and unread, documents from the inbox if they are older than a specified number of days.
• Specify how the router handles messages that are forwarded by a user mail rule "Send copy to" action. The 'reverse-path' setting enables you to determine the address to use for the reverse path, which may avoid issues with anti-spam filters that reject messages with a null reverse path.
• Specify the number of protocol errors that can be returned for a session before the session connection is terminated
• Deliver delay reports to message authors when a pending message has been in the router's message queue longer than a specified time.

Openness and interoperability enhancements

• Easily integrate line of business (LOB) solutions and data into new types of applications called composite applications that aggregate components on the screen to present content from multiple systems in a single interface for users.
  

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• Leverage Lotus Domino as a Web services consumer and provider, enabling a standard method of communication between diverse software applications running on different platforms.
• Use IBM DB2® 9.1 software as an alternate data store, rather than the traditional Lotus Notes storage facility (NSF). Take advantage of new relational database capabilities by easily building applications that blend collaborative services with SQL-based relational data stored in DB2 databases.
• Administer both Lotus Domino 8.0 servers and IBM WebSphere® Portal servers from the WebSphere Portal server administration user interface.
• Forward all events, not just events from operating system probes, to IBM Tivoli® Enterprise Console and be view them alongside other enterprise applications events in a single interface.

Administration enhancements

• Centrally manage initial deployment and upgrades of Lotus Notes 8 software and composite applications with server managed provisioning, that complements the existing Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade feature. You can also deploy different Lotus Notes 8 features to different users, such as the integrated IBM Lotus Symphony software, and files and templates.
• Update client references to databases if they are moved to another Lotus Domino server using the administration process. When users click a bookmark for the application, they are automatically redirected to open the database on the new server.
• Validate whether your Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) searches are returning results within specified thresholds with new Lotus Domino domain monitoring (DDM) probes. Specify reports you want closed automatically if they have been inactive for a specified period of time.
• Identify all the issues associated with a database with a new view available in DDM.
• Quickly see the versions of Lotus Notes software deployed in your user community with a new view in DDM.
• Reduce the size of design notes with optional design note compression feature.
• Realize improved cluster replication performance with event-driven streaming cluster replication.
• Set a threshold value for Internet password authentication failures for attempts to use Web-enabled Lotus Domino applications or Lotus Domino Web Access software, helping prevent brute force and dictionary attacks.
• License Lotus Domino software for use less than the full processor core capacity of your machine with optional subcapacity licensing, used within one or more partitions using a supported partitioning technology.

Security enhancements

• Support for 2048-bit keys for user and server IDs, and 4096 bit keys certifier IDs.
• Enable recovery of lost or corrupted IDs directly through custom, organization wide management systems directly through an application programming interface (API).
• Support for Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP), RFC 2560, that determines the revocation state of an X.509 certificate, giving more up-to-date information that a certification revocation list.
• Configure single sign-on with the LtpaToken2 format supported within IBM WebSphere Application Server Versions 5.1.1 and later.

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