Notes 8.5.3
Upgrades by Applicable

4th October 2011 - The latest generation of Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 was launched with a plethora of new features and licensing entitlements.  The highlights include:

• Significant usability enhancements to support social businesses and help users get work done fast
• Calendar and mail enhancements:
• Auto processing, which automatically applies updates to meetings that you have previously accepted
• Counter proposals so that when you propose a new time for a meeting, you can choose to leave a placeholder for the original meeting time on the calendar
• Enhanced new mail notification, which provides a pop up preview of new mail messages as they arrive
• Notification to existing invitees when adding or removing attendees from an existing meeting, informing them of the change and updating the invitee list on their calendar invitation
• Entitlement to IBM Connections Files and Profiles, for no additional charge, allows you to tap into the knowledge of networks of professionals with a single click. Users can quickly find skills within their organisation and easily share content with other people - removing the need to send large files through email.
• Greater platform flexibility and improved hardware efficiency through expanded virtualisation support.
• Lotus Domino Designer 8.5.3 continues to deliver innovation for developers with enhancements focused on performance and scalability and enhanced user experience. 
• Improved XPages support for industry-standard web application models makes it easier to bring applications to mobile devices.
  
• Availability of a Domino Server trial makes it easy for customers to try before they buy.
• Lotus Notes Traveler support for Nokia Symbian 3 devices allows you to expand the reach of the business to more devices. For Android users, additional Lotus Traveler enhancements improve usability, performance, and deployment in the areas of additional operating system support, calendar, mail, and deployment. The capability to wipe only Lotus Traveler Mail, Calendar, and Contact data from an Apple iOS device is also available.
• Lotus iNotes 8.5.3 delivers productivity gains with enhancements to improve the deployment experience.​