Specifications
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Notes Client Enhancements
This page summarizes several enhancements made to the Lotus Notes Client in Version 8.5. Additional
enhancements made in Version 8.5.1 are covered in Enhancements in 8.5.1
.
Performance
Performance improved for Notes client startup The Notes start-up sequence has been reordered as part of
performance enhancement in this release. Notes users are now prompted to authenticate (log in using their
Notes password) before the Notes workbench appears on-screen.
The new NOTES.INI setting for this sequence is "ENABLE_EARLY_AUTHENTICATION" that has a default
value setting of 1 enabling the new mode. If the ENABLE_EARLY_AUTHENTICATION setting is disabled
(0), the Roaming user functionality introduced in release 8.5 is not functional and performance
enhancements gained in the reordered start-up sequence are not realized.
ENABLE_EARLY_AUTHENTICATION with Lotus Notes Standard client Startup process in Windows
platform
ENABLE_EARLY_AUTHENTICATION Lotus Notes standard client process starting order
1 (default) Notes.exe ==> NLNotes.Exe ==> Notes2.Exe
0 Notes.Exe ==> Notes2.Exe ==> NLNotes.Exe
Process explanation:
Notes.exe : Responsible for initialization of Notes process and service and will exit after dependent services
initialization complete.
nlnotes.exe: Lotus Notes client process and it will launch user password prompt during initialization process.
notes2.exe: Lotus Notes standard client Java process implementation.
Apple Mac OS platform now supported
Support for Notes standard configuration installation and usage on the Apple® Mac OS® platform is
introduced in this release. It supports multi-user installation as well.
Widgets and Live Text code moved to Expeditor layer
The Widgets and Live Text code has been moved from Notes (and the Notes installation kit) to the IBM®
Lotus® Expeditor® layer. The user documentation has been moved to Notes client help.
Widget and Live Text support on Apple Mac OS
Notes 8.5 introduces support for Widgets and Live Text on the Apple® Mac OS® platform; previously it was
available on the supported Windows and Linux platforms only.