Notes/Domino 6.5.6 FP3 Release Notice
April 24, 2008
IBM Lotus announces Domino 6.5.6 Fix Pack 3. IBM strongly recommends upgrading to the latest Fix Pack, since Fix Packs address a small percentage of defects that impact the broadest set of customers. This is a scheduled Fix Pack of a limited number of low-risk/high-impact fixes to help customers safely avoid known problems. Fix Packs are released periodically between Maintenance Releases to provide a greater level of stability for customer environments. Fix Packs go through the same level of fix, regression and interoperability testing that occurs with our Maintenance Releases.
Domino 6.5.6 Fix Pack 3 is the 3rd and final Fix Pack for use on the 6.5.x codestream. This Fix Pack is cumulative and contains all of the fixes from 6.5.6 Fix Pack 2 and may be applied on any language version of Domino 6.5.6.
All fixes in this Fix Pack have already been successfully deployed at customer sites. Fix Pack fixes are included in the next shipping Maintenance Release, but since 6.5.6 was the last MR for 6.5, 6.5.6 FP3 fixes will also ship in 7.0.4 and 8.0.1. Customers unable to upgrade to later Maintenance Releases will want to install Fix Packs to benefit from later fixes made to the product. By providing a small number of fixes, customers are able to accept fewer code changes with lower risk, allowing them to "patch" an older Maintenance Release until a more extensive upgrade to the current Maintenance Release is possible. Fix Packs may be downloaded from the web, but will not be distributed on CD.
While Fix Packs provide important fixes and IBM strongly recommends applying the latest Fix pack available for a Maintenance Release, IBM still recommends that customers upgrade to the latest Maintenance Release + Fix Pack combination to receive the broadest set of fixes available. You will receive more overall fixes with a later Maintenance Release + Fix Pack than with a set of Fix Packs on top of an earlier maintenance Release.
The following is a list of the problems fixed in this 6.5.6 Fix Pack.
Notes:
1. There are 3 fixes below with a plus symbol (+) before the SPR number. This symbol indicates fixes for regression bugs. A regression bug is a bug that was introduced in a Maintenance Release that did not exist in previous releases of that code stream. For example, a bug that appears in R6.5.6 but did not exist in R6.5.4 is a regression.
2. Technote Numbers are displayed in parenthesis following the fix description.
Server:
- +SPR# AJMO6WLKXU - Error "You are not authorized to perform that operation" was displayed after a user with editor access tried to re enable the Out of Office Agent. This regression was introduced in 6.5.6. (TN# 1272355)
- SPR# BGLN789NWZ - Fixed a problem with incorrect time zone choices in custom databases accessed over the Web. The problem was that if a database containing a timezone field was accessed through a browser, a different set of time zone choices would be displayed than if the database was accessed through a Notes client . (TN# 1298010)
- +SPR# KCAR6VLSB6 - Fixed a problem in NSFComputeEvaluateExt where the AllowDWordResults flag was not being honored when more than 64K of data is returned to a field in a web application. This regression was introduced in 7.0.1 FP1 and 6.5.6. (TN# 1260141)
- SPR# MKIN79ERSB - Updated the timezones used by the insrv/inotes directory. This change will read from the OS on W32 Domino Servers so an OS update alone will automatically correct the HTTP $Preferences and TimeZone fields. (TN# 1292003 (Argentina), 1297212 (Chile), 1283693 (Tasmania & Eastern/Southern Aus), 1283013 (Brazil)
- +SPR# MYAA6NM9QF - With this fix, cd to mime conversion will use the same character set for filenames and body text when sending non-ascii text. This regression was introduced in 7.0.1 and 6.5.6. Due to the fix for MYAA6NM9QF, it may be necessary for some users to update their configuration to avoid the behavior described in SPR: TSAO6WQMUP. If after applying 656FP3 the body of non-MIME Internet mail received via SMTP is garbled, users should enable the setting "Use character set auto-detection if message has no character set information" on the MIME - Conversion Options - Inbound tab of the Server Configuration document to allow IBM Lotus Notes Client e-mail users to receive correctly formatted MIME messages from non-MIME Internet e-mail clients. If this setting is not enabled, MIME e-mail messages sent from non-MIME e-mail clients will appear garbled when received by your Notes Client e-mail users.
- SPR# SVRO6YU2QY - This fix addresses multiple DST 2007 items for non-Windows servers, including outbound iCal off by 1 hour when MIME conversion is done by the server instead of the client. Release 6.5.6 and the Fix Pack release of this fix do not include the HTTP $Preferences component of the fix which requires translation. (TN # 1256592 , 1256236, 1292003 (Argentina), 1264550 (New Zealand)
Please see TN 1256819: "Daylight Saving Time (DST) 2007: Details on issues where Notes/Domino references old DST information if the operating system is not Windows" for more information.
- SPR# SVRO74KVS5 - New Zealand update for: Stale Timezone table in Domino causes DST issues in specific areas. (TN# 1264550)
- SPR# SVRO78PSNU - DST/Timezone updates needed for internal Domino timezone table for changes in Brazil, E Australia, Venezuela. (TN# 1272012 (Venezuela), 1283693 (Tasmania & Eastern/Southern Aus), 1283013 (Brazil)
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