Each quarter, there's a new version of Lotus Connections out there. This quarter we shipped Lotus Connections 2.0.1 (on Halloween). I didn't post anything on Friday, 'cause I thought sharing some baby pictures in his costume was a tad more important. Also, the new version was very well covered by Stuart and Mitch.
If you are upgrading, you can download it from IBM's Fix Central. One question that I'm continuously asked is: "what's new in Lotus Connections v2.0.1?". Well, here's a list of what I've gathered:
- Quickr integration with Activities - Push-button publication from an Activity into one of your Quickr Places for permanent document storage
- Quickr integration with Communities - Allows communities to use Quickr as their content repository and document collaboration platform.
- Enhanced person card
- E-mail is no longer a required attribute (great for external implementations)
- New feeds inside of Communities
- New feeds for forums
- New APIs for Activities, Blogs, Communities, Homepage (federated search), Profiles
- Hidden support for STLinks (more about this tomorrow)
- User Interface and Usability enhancements, for example:
- Can now save members as part of an activity template
- Drag-n-drop activities entries
- Uploading images to a blog is now easier
- Improvements in the Activities widget
- Easier way to work with multiple bookmarks
- A couple of bug fixes