Briefly on Notes/Domino 8.5.2

I have lots more to write about doing less with Notes/Domino in the upcoming months, but yet I can’t help taking a peek at some of what’s coming in 8.5.2.

I’m ignoring all the XPages fixes/refinements as I’m really not actively using that anywhere at the moment. All the fixes and additions sound good, but when none of your customers have any need to use a technology it’s hard to get excited about it.

Interesting things:

• The official removal of NSFDB2 makes me wonder, how many people ended up actively using this? They’re bound to be left in an interesting situation right now.
• Silent failover sounds good.. but it’d better be better than the previous failover options with clustering, which were a usability nightmare.
• Full REST API – I’m very interested to see how this one pans out. For a long time a Domino server has been an incredibly versatile piece of network infrastructure. Adding RESTful capabilities to this can only add to that versatility. I do wonder slightly about potential security issues with it enabled (as it can be disabled globally).

Random musings:

In the past few months I’ve had a lot of frustratingly random “weird” behaviours with the 8.5.1 Designer client. Nothing major, just a lot of little annoying glitches and frustrations. I realise that saying that alone and now cataloging them and going into more information is a bit pointless, but when you’re incredibly busy and lose a few hours in a day due to a software glitch you sometimes don’t have time to sit down and write about it.

How this relates to 8.5.2? Well, all I can say is that I hope some of these are addressed in this release because right now it really feels painful to develop in Domino compared to the other environments I use. The thought that some of you out there do it daily and manage to keep your sanity is pretty scary.

Link: 8.5.2 Notes/Domino @ Erik Brooks

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