Domino 8 - Best of
Here are a few – at least to me – interesting facts on Domino 8, that I collected at several sessions during Lotusphere 2007:
- ND8 adds support for 2048 bit keys for users and servers and 4096 bit key for certifiers
- Weak and medium encryption options have been removed from NSF file encryption (Existing databases using Weak or Medium encryption still supported)
- Still no support for CRLs, but for OCSP (RFC 2560) for checking revocation status of X.509 certificates.
- OCSP is the way to go, as David S. Kern, resident Paranoid Lotus Software put it, as I asked him in the lab.
- And … drumroll please … against all odds, A-Trust allready supports OCSP. Now I am a happy camper. :)
- OCSP must be enabled to be used: OCSP_RESPONDER, OCSP_LOGLEVEL, OCSP_CERTSTATUS notes.ini variables for a Domino server
- Thanks to Jason Gary of the Deployments, Performance, & Interoperability (DPI) Lab for listening to me and sending me over to David Kern.
- OCSP is the way to go, as David S. Kern, resident Paranoid Lotus Software put it, as I asked him in the lab.
- Internet Password Lockout „3 strikes” for http (about time, I would say), but you can overrule it with user security policies for
for CEOs or other users with special needs
(rotfl)- Internet Password Lockout automatcially creates Inetlockout.nsf on each server and contains current lockout state
- Deleting a users entry in inetlockout.nsf on the correct server will unlock
- Each Inetlockout.nsf has the same replica ID, but replication is disabled by default
- Lockout history is logged via DDM
- Custom Login Forms can be created for locked out users
- More development centric (some of this stuff is allready available in 7.0.2 but the sold it as „new in 8” ;) ):
- Need to add attributes to the <html> tag? In Domino 8, just use the „$$HTMLTagAttributes” field.
- Want to controll the doctype of the html-document and other „pre”-html-tag stuff? Use the „$$HTMLFrontMatter”. At last, we are able to „choose” the quirks-mode of the browser.
- $$HTMLOptions controls HTML generation at the form or field level. Valid (name=value pairs) are RowAtATimeTableAlt, ForceSectionExpan, ForceOutlineExpand, DisablePassThruHTML and TextExactSpacing.
- DisablePassThruHTML will be a way to prevent end-users from putting HTML tags into fields
- There is JSON support in Domino 8 URLs!!! And word of mouth has it, that this also works in Domino 7 (try it out ;). Just add „$OutputFormat=JSON” to „?ReadViewEntries”.
See Codestore: Putting Domino’s JSON to Use for more details. - New C-API to allow stand alone applications to access Notes documents and get back HTML. There are also routines for accessing URLs. This will make Rod Boothby very happy. ;)
- $Abstract – This field will hold the first n Bytes of Body field for display in a view
- Domino 8 will have an I/O reduction by 50% (no new hardware necessary?)
- New ODS version (optional on update) with these benefits:
- design document compression will lead up to 50 % smaller templates
- On demand Collations -> no additional view index for every sort-option in a view
- Enhanced User Activities
- Transaction logging optimization
- General Availability for DB2 as a datastore
- DB2->Notes user mapping eliminated for Query Views
- official support for mail databases
- Special fields (columns like Server, DBName) in DB2 Access Views
- HTTP Parameterized Query Views -> @URLQueryString to use HTTP-parameters in SELECT-statements
- Persistend Mail Threads – threads will render, even if the root of the message.exchange is not present
And this is just an excerpt, watch out for more.
Tagged as: Domino, Ein_Tag_im_Leben, LotusNotes, lotusphere, lotusphere2007 | Author: Martin Leyrer
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