Lotus Symphony 1.1 can be downloaded now. Here is the new feature list:
What's New in Symphony 1.1
Performance enhancements:
- Reduced memory footprint
- Enabled Expeditor Client Management support and added Enterprise Management Agent setting in preferences page.
- Added Mail Merge feature to Documents by which user can send out batches of letters that merge fields from a data source.
- Improved macro enablement in the following aspects:
- Enabled macro security policy in preferences page.
- Removed "Author list", "New author" and "New path" options from Macro Security preferences page.
- Added "Safe Mode" option in Macro Security preferences page.
- Macro run time supports the "safe mode" running mode.
- Enabled macro to be triggered by UI events.
- Created new file type icons
- Defect fixes for copy/paste operation on picture with hyperlink, paragraph alignment, text font size and encoding.
- The latest sidebar state is retained when user opens or creates a file
- Supports copying/pasting object/page with their applied animations.
- Fixed the conflict between Heading 1/2 and 1. Heading1/2 in Table of Contents and they can be included in Table of Contents at the same time.
- Revision enhancement.
- Supports Windows MSI Installer multi-user installation and users can create their own workspace.
- Improved Developers' guide by refining both the content and format, adding toolkit introduction in part 1 chapter 4, adding two chapters to introduce the newly added sample plug-ins presentation and C2A, and changing all example code from image into text.
- Added two sample plug-ins presentation and C2A.
- Added a feature and an update site for those sample plug-ins.
- Defect fixes and code refactoring of sample plug-ins
- Refined the API Java DOC
- Enhanced help content for Documents.
- Re-organized table of contents for Documents in on-line help system.
Lots of bugs fixed as well.
Performance has seen a major increase, as much as 8.0.2 has on my machine. I prefer to run Symphony as a stand-alone app, not within Notes, for no other reason for personal preference. Do not listen to all the negativity out there, the performance increase is very noticeable. Great progress for a .1 point release. Now we just need a scripting language in the product ... which I expect sooner than later :-)
Oh, and for those asking about the mac version, it is coming. Expect it around the same time as the Notes 8.5 mac client.