What's new in Domino 12?
Learn about all of the new features for administrators in HCL Domino® 12.
- What's new in 12.0.2?
  HCL Domino 12.0.2 introduces new features and enhancement several areas.
- What's new in 12.0.1?
  HCL Domino 12.0.1 introduces the following new features.
- What's new in 12.0?
  HCL Domino 12.0 introduces the following new features.
  - New install and setup features and enhancements
    These are the install and setup features and enhancements provided with Domino 12.
  - New security features and enhancements
    These are the security features and enhancements provided with HCL Domino® 12.
  - New DAOS features and enhancements
    HCL Domino® 12 provides the following new features and enhancements for Domino Attachment and Object Service (DAOS).
  - New features related to the end-user experience
    The following features relate to the HCL Notes® end-user experience.
  - Replication enhancements
    HCL Domino® 12 provides these replication enhancements.
  - Backup and restore capability
    Backup and restore capability is integrated with Domino 12 servers.
  - Stand-alone Domino directory enhancements
    The new Domino directory design (pubnames.ntf) provides several stand-alone enhancements that improve usability for administrators.
  - Users in Active Directory can sync their Windows passwords
    Active Directory password synchronization enables Windows users whose Active Directory information is synced to Domino to apply their Windows passwords to their Domino HTTP and Notes ID passwords.
  - Administration Process support for updating names in Verse user profiles
    The Administration Process rename person request now updates names in HCL Verse user profiles.
  - New ODS level
    HCL Domino® 12 introduces a new on-disk structure (ODS) version for databases: ODS 55.
  - MarvelClient Essentials integration
    The following improvements have been made to the integration of MarvelClient with Domino.
  - Entitlement tracking
    As of Domino 12.0, a new internal mechanism is provided for collecting the highest entitlement that individual users have across a Domino domain. When a user appears in the ACL of a database with Reader access or above and that person has the right to access the server, the user is said to be an entitled user.
  - Domino OSGI Tasklet Service (DOTS) is available again
    DOTS is available again in Domino 12.
  - New Java™ Runtime Environment
    A new Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE) is provided with HCL Domino® 12 and HCL Domino Designer 12.
  - TCP/IP port buffer size
    Domino 12 has changed the TCP/IP port buffer default size from 4000 to 8000.
- Components no longer included in this release
  The following components are no longer included in Domino 12.

MarvelClient Essentials integration

The following improvements have been made to the integration of MarvelClient with Domino.

New way to enable You can now enable or disable the client part of MarvelClient Essentials directly from the Domino directory. To find the new setting, open the Domino directory and then open the Directory profile by selecting Actions > Edit Directory Profile. In the Enable MarvelClient Essentials field, select one of the following options to control whether "pmc.dll" is added to or removed from the EXTMGR_Addins entry in the notes.ini of clients:
- Enable Enables MarvelClient Essentials on all Notes clients.
- Disable Disables MarvelClient Essentials on all Notes clients.
- Leave as is (Default) Retains the current state. This is useful if you already have MarvelClient and don't want to change anything or if you intend to only deploy Essentials to a subset of users through other means.
For more information, see Enabling MarvelClient in the Directory Profile in the MarvelClient documentation in the panagenda Knowledgebase.
Simplified configuration The Domino directory now contains a view to configure a few introductory features to get started with MarvelClient without the need for a Configuration database. The view can be seen in the Domino Directory or through the Administrator client.

You can collect Client data for analysis or configure a one-time migration of your Notes clients to HCL Nomad for Web, when that client becomes available.

For more information, click MarvelClient Readme. You can find links to additional resources there or you can head directly to documentation on this new functionality in the panagenda Knowledgebase.