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What's New in HCL Sametime 12.0.4

HCL Sametime v12.0.4 is designed to eliminate collaboration friction, streamline platform administration, and drive meaningful business outcomes. This release introduces powerful new end-user features, deeper ecosystem integration, and enterprise-grade infrastructure modernizations.

Key Enhancements at a Glance:

  • Enhanced Chat Experience: Native message editing and advanced chat history search.
  • Modern Team Collaboration: Persistent, topic-based Channels with full moderator controls.
  • Interactive Meetings: Real-time on-screen emoji reactions.
  • AI-Powered Insights: Intelligent meeting transcripts and summaries powered by HCL Domino IQ.
  • Unified Workspace: Fully embedded web chat inside the HCL Notes 14.5.1 client.
  • Platform Infrastructure: Streamlined OIDC authentication and transition to Traefik Ingress.

Enhanced Chat Experience

Managing everyday conversations is easier than ever with several highly requested usability features:

  • Message Editing: Users can now modify sent messages to quickly correct typos or update information in real time, ensuring clear and accurate communication.
  • Advanced Chat Search: Finding past discussions is instantaneous. A robust new search engine allows users to locate critical information across their entire chat history in seconds.

Modern Team Collaboration with Channels

Sametime v12.0.4 introduces Channels, the modern evolution of legacy Chat Rooms. Channels provide persistent, topic-based spaces designed to centralize team discussions, file sharing, and long-term project management in a clean, contemporary interface.

  • Control & Focus: New built-in channel management capabilities provide administrators and owners with granular control over member permissions and conversation flows to ensure focused, secure collaboration.

Interactive Meeting Reactions

Boost live interaction and expressive feedback during video sessions. Sametime v12.0.4 introduces real-time meeting reactions, allowing participants to instantly share emojis that float on-screen for all attendees. This feature enables audience members to express alignment, agreement, or appreciation without needing to unmute, keeping the meeting flow completely disruption-free.

Meeting Summarization with HCL Domino IQ

Collaboration is now smarter with HCL Domino IQ. Sametime v12.0.4 introduces intelligent, built-in capabilities to help teams maintain momentum and productivity. Never miss a critical action item again—Sametime can now generate real-time meeting transcripts and secure, AI-driven summaries powered natively by Domino IQ.

HCL Notes 14.5.1 Integration: Embedded Web Chat

We’ve heard your feedback! Sametime v12.0.4 brings a deeply unified experience to the HCL Notes 14.5.1 client:

  • Integrated Web Chat: Bring the complete, feature-rich Sametime web experience—including editing, channels, read receipts, reactions, and search—directly embedded into your Notes workspace.
  • Seamless Admin Setup: Transitioning your organization is effortless. Administrators can globally switch users from the legacy Eclipse-based sidebar to the new web chat interface using a centrally managed site policy.

Enterprise-Grade Platform Updates

To ensure HCL Sametime remains the most secure, stable, and modern enterprise collaboration platform, v12.0.4 includes significant infrastructure improvements:

  • Transition to Traefik Ingress: Following the retirement of NGINX Ingress, v12.0.4 officially moves the supported deployment lane to Traefik. This provides a more robust, high-performance, and future-proof ingress controller for Kubernetes environments.
  • Streamlined OIDC Support: Simplified OpenID Connect (OIDC) configurations make it faster and easier for IT teams to deploy modern, secure authentication across Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes environments.

Fixes

See the HCL Sametime and HCL Sametime Premium 12.0.4 Fix List article for a list of fixes included in this release.

Prerequisites and Requirements

See HCL Sametime and HCL Sametime Premium 12.0.4 System Requirements.

Download and Installation Instructions

HCL Sametime v12.0.4 is available for download at My HCLSoftware. For additional information, refer to the Knowledge Article, What is My HCLSoftware?

For installation instructions, refer to the HCL Sametime Administration Guide 12.0.4.