The new version of Notes/Domino shipping later this year will now be a single Lotus Notes/Domino Social Edition 8.5.4 release. Based on your feedback here, similar comments in Design Partner reviews, and some challenges we were having with explaining the whole thing to our extended IBM team, I revised our release strategy. Everyone kept calling the thing '8.5.4', though my team had worked hard to establish Notes Social Edition as a stand-alone name for the new release. the general attitude we have had since Notes/Domino 8 of shipping the new features without requiring them to be enabled.

Other new features were taking extra effort to keep firewalled between the MR and the feature release, vs.

A new introductory experience, called the 'discovery' page, looks awesome but we were struggling with how to set it up for 8.5.4 users versus Social Edition users. Notes/Domino Social Edition would deliver the 'Project Vulcan' vision, including the updated UI, embedded application experiences, a great update to iNotes, an incremental Notes set of features, and the Notes browser plug-in.Ībout the same time, internally we were facing a few decisions about the new release.

Our logic at the time was, the 8.5.4 maintenance release would be the most stable Notes/Domino 8.5.x release for those who just wanted a quality version update. Questions abounded as to the difference between the two, how many times you would have to touch the desktop, why separate them at all? Put simply, the strategy of releasing both a Notes/Domino 8.5.4 'maintenance release' and a Notes Social Edition 'feature release' simultaneously was confusing. The feedback was a little surprising, though consistent with a thought I had started to hear on the road. About six weeks ago, I posted a graphic that showcased the 'OneUI' look of the Notes 8.5.4 Social Edition client as a teaser of the work going on towards this year's new Lotus Notes/Domino release.

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