Note: Some features require an IBM LotusR DominoR 8 server -- you will not be able to see them if your home server is a Domino 7 server.

General

• A new Widgets and Live Text feature, enabling you to create and share your own widgets, use widgets that were created and installed for you, and see and act on Live Text in any NotesR document.
• Better control on feature install and update from Eclipse or NSF-based update sites. Users who have been provisioned to use the Eclipse update manager (File > Application > Install and File > Preferences > Install/Update menu sequences) can benefit from update site controls that their administrator has configured for them.
• The Blog (dominoblog.ntf) template has been updated to be more consistent with the new look and feel of Lotus NotesR that was introduced in 8.0. Improvements to the blog template include simplified forms for creating posts and comments, easier attachment handling, and an emphasis on using tags instead of categories. In addition, blog administrators have control over which users can access configuration views. The Web Administrator client rich text editor has been updated to the Dojo rich text editor. All existing users automatically get the updated rich text editor, however, the layout of the editor does not update automatically so that any custom enhancements are not lost. To refresh the Web-based Administrator rich text editor to the new look and feel, click Advanced > HTML Templates > Web Client Templates, and then click Reset Web Templates.
• Better single log-on integration. For more information, see Synchronizing your Windows NTR password with your Notes password.
• Name change from "Welcome Page" to "Home Page."
• Terminology change from "database" to "application."
• Print tab labels when printing a tabbed table; or print each tab of tabbed tables independently.
• Additional table "Undo" operations.
• Multi-level Undo.
• For advanced users, a set of advanced menus that are targeted for administrators or designers, and include options such as archiving or deleting applications,
• Usability improvements in the Open Application dialog and on the Replication page.
• An enhancement to support URL lengths greater than 250 characters.
• Improved options for Network Failover/Network Awareness.
• Creating a local replica is simpler, and the Replication page has been redesigned.
• See your spelling errors as you type.
• Access the Notes Getting Started Page using Help > Getting Started Page from the main menu.
• Choice of preview pane location, below list or beside list.
• New Open button to open applications.
• Ability to set a user preference to determine how Window tabs display.
• New embedded Web browser is provided, with option to set default to your chosen browser.
• Finding and working with Location documents is easier.
• Help has a new user interface that lets you keep the Help pane open as you work.
• Sidebar provides easy access and mini views of SametimeR Instant Contacts, Feed Reader, Calendar, Activities, and My Widgets.

The former Notes and Domino Personal Address Book is now called Contacts; functionality that was previously included in your Personal Address Book is now included in your Contacts. New features available with Contacts include:

• Ability to include a photograph of the contact in the contact record.
• Improvements to the Contact, Group, and Preview forms, and to the Preferences UI. For more information, see Creating a new contact entry,Creating a group entry, and Setting preferences in Contacts.
• Ability to view contacts By Company
• Deleted contact records are held in Trash for a specified period of time before they are permanently deleted.
• Ability to delegate access to Contacts to another user.
• Recent Contacts view that shows users with whom you have recently interacted, such as e-mail correspondence or chats.
• Includes the ability to show contact entries as Business Cards.

• Unaccepted calendar entries display as "ghosted" entries in the Calendar view for new meeting and reschedule notices. This feature is turned off by default; users must enable this feature in the Calendar Preferences.
• Entries with short durations, for example 1 minute, display in time slot views with a duration of 15 minutes, to allow the user to see more information about the appointment. This feature is turned on by default.
• Calendar form UI improvements.
• Users can locate free time for a subset of their Invitee list.
• Canceled meetings can be displayed automatically in the calendar or removed outright. This feature is turned off by default; users must enable this feature in the Calendar Preferences.
• All Day events now display in the full day rather then just in the top area.
• Scheduling an IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte online meeting from a Notes meeting invitation.
• Calendar preference for saving and reusing conference call information in meeting invitations.

• An improved Mail form, with easier-to-access menu bar choices, requiring fewer "clicks" to perform desired actions.
• Simplified Mail preferences.
• Updated and additional Letterhead choices.
• User settings to display additional information when composing or opening mail (From, Sent By, Send Options).
• Improved Out of Office dialog box with new features, such as specifying hours.
• Improved choices for "Reply to All," "Include History," and "Include Attachments."
• When replying to a mail thread, the thread layout is displayed. Within the Inbox, you can see all related messages in a thread. Two different options: one that collapses all messages under the most recent response; another that provides the 'thread' on-demand from the Inbox.
• The ability to right-click operations for an entire mail thread, such as deleting a thread or moving a thread to a folder. For more information, see Viewing conversations.
• Message Recall capability.

• Improved Search syntax allows for web-style queries of application content.
• New centralized search interface for queries and results (Domain Search, Find People, Find Application, Web/Intranet Searches available as search scopes).
• Help has a new Search capability that searches across all "books" in the help system, such as Lotus Notes Help and Activities Help.
• If installed, Desktop Search can be launched by right-clicking Live names, and is also available in the Search scope drop-down menu.

• You can create your own personal Web logs (blogs) from within Notes, using the Blog (dominoblog.ntf) template. You add content to the blog using either Notes or a Web browser.
• If you attempt to save a document in an application on a server and the server is not available, the document is saved to another available server, and a message displays giving you this information.
• Ability to view a collaboration history to see the most recent interactions you have had with another user, such as e-mail correspondence, saved chat transcripts, or shared documents.
• Composite applications make it convenient for a user to access a collections of components (applications) that address a business need for a particular group of users.
• Enhancements have been made to the Feeds user interface to improve usability and simplify feeds-based authentication.
• Enhancements have been made in controlling user access to Eclipse update sites and NSF-based update sites.

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