General enhancements

The following enhancements are provided in HCL Notes 14.5.

JVM upgrade

  • 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 following version of Java 21 LTS release:
    openjdk version "21.0.3" 2024-04-16 LTS
IBM Semeru Runtime Open Edition 21.0.3.0 (build 21.0.3+9-LTS)
Eclipse OpenJ9 VM 21.0.3.0 (build openj9-0.44.0, JRE 21 Windows 10 amd64-64-Bit Compressed References 20240416_179 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
OpenJ9   - b0699311c7
OMR      - 254af5a04
JCL      - ac8f341bc20 based on jdk-21.0.3+9)

Eclipse upgrade

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

XULRunner upgrade

The embedded web browser XULRunner, which Notes uses to ensure secure signin with Notes federated login and to render external emails in Notes for Mac, is upgraded from version 43 to 45.

InstallShield upgrade

The Notes client for Windows now uses InstallShield 2023 R1.

64-bit Notes Basic client available

Available again in Notes 14.5 is the ability to run the Notes client in Basic mode. The shortcut for the program must be amended to include a "-sa" switch.

The administrator must edit the target in the client's Shortcut properties and then provide the shortcut to the user. The target to use to launch a Standard client in Basic mode is as follows:
  • notes.exe -sa

This 64-bit 14.5 Basic client has no feature loss when compared to the 12.0.x Basic client, and is available in the same languages as were available in that client.