General updates

Several upgrades and updates are provided in HCL Notes and Domino 14.5.

JVM updates

  • The target platform for Notes/Domino jar files is set to 1.8. That means they can be used with any JVM that supports a target release of 1.8 or above.
  • JVM has been upgraded to the Java 21 LTS release.
  • For IBM i, the JVM has been upgraded from Java 8 to Java 17. Therefore, only IBM i 7.4 and IBM i 7.5 are supported, at the required patch level listed for Java 17. For more information, see HCL Domino 14.5 for IBM i Software Requirements.

Eclipse upgrade

Standard Notes, Domino Administrator, Domino Designer, and XPages are upgraded from Eclipse 4.22 to 4.30.

Extension Manager Changes

On Windows, if a fully qualified path is not specified for a library to be loaded, the Extension Manager API (invoked by the ExtMgr_Addins notes.ini variable) no longer searches the path for the library.

Instead, by default, this API searches the Notes or Domino executable directory, the Windows System directory, and the Windows directory. You can use notes.ini variables of the format ExtMgr_Dir<#>=<path> to specify up to nine additional locations to search.

Example: ExtMgr_Dir3=d:\Application\Libraries
Note: In certain circumstances, such as when the value includes a space, you must enclose it in quotation marks.

Notes.ini default change for Windows server

  • In 14.5 the default setting for the OS_DISABLE_CACHESET notes.ini is changed to OS_DISABLE_CACHESET=1, as setting it to 0 can cause performance issues on the newer Windows OS versions supported by Domino (Windows Server 2019 and later). This change prevents the Domino code from manipulating the Windows File System cache on these operating systems.

Dojo upgrade

Dojo is upgraded from 1.9.7 to 1.17.3.

Panagenda upgrade

Domino now includes panagenda v.14.5.0.

OnTime upgrade

The version of OnTime Group Calendar included with Domino is updated to the latest version, providing enhancements to the client user interface for the group calendar.

For information on installing, configuring, and implementing clients for OnTime Group Calendar, see the OnTime for Domino documentation on the OnTime website.

Increased size limit for descriptions in external meeting invitations

Previously, for meetings having one or more invitees from outside the organization, the size of any content on the invitation's Description tab was restricted to a total of 40 KB. In Notes 14.5 this is increased to 1 MB. See Limits of Notes for more information.

Domino C API Toolkit

  • New Mac C API Kit released with upgraded compiler.
  • For information on what's new in HCL Domino C API's, see the new features section of the Domino C API documentation.