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IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5 Release Notes About this release
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Improved slide conversion and scaling
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Improved annotation tools, for both slides and the Whiteboard, including: editable text,
highlighter/laser pointer tools, and easier line width/color controls
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Simplified screen sharing interface
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"Now Sharing" icon displays next to user who is sharing their screen, so you can easily identify
whose screen is being shared.
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Easier permissions handling, plus defaults to easily make everyone able to present
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Indicator when new group chat message is entered
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Improved telephony controls, including controls that let users mute and unmute their own lines
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Ability to enter polling questions before sending them out
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Options to sort and filter the participant list (e.g., show only presenters, sort by entry time, sort by
order of hand raise)
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Improved connectivity, with improvements in user experience, pop-up coexistence, and connection
resilience, specifically:
Meeting Room Client
- Client starts first, and then establishes a connection
- If connection is lost, the client stays open and tries to re-establish a connection
- Icons in the status bar indicate the connection status
- Pop-up messages inform users of actions to take
Pop-ups
- Many pop-ups eliminated
- Users receive feedback when pop-up blockers are invoked
Connectivity
- Fall-back options (TCP automatically falls back to HTTP)
- Persistent connection not required
Meeting and Client Help documentation
Help documentation is available from both the Sametime Meeting and Sametime Connect clients. Click
Help - Help Topics to display the Help in either client. Note that the contents of both Help systems are not
yet final, and may not always reflect the current product implementation.
Release notes: Updated information available on-line
The Release Notes that are available on-line are more up-to-date than the Release Notes that are
shipped with this product. This is due to production schedules; after the product ships, updates are
sometimes made to the Release Notes and posted on the Lotus developerWorks website.
To ensure that you have the very latest version of the Sametime Release Notes, please visit the Lotus
Documentation page at:
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/doc
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