IBM Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1 is now available for download.
Beside a long list of bug fixes Notes 8.5.1 FP 1 finally (and officially) supports Windows 7, Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.2), and RHEL 5.4. Hopefully other IBM products like Quickr Connector will follow to support Windows 7 soon.
As promised, IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5 with many improvements and fundamental changes of the underlying technology has been released today and is downloadable from IBM Passport Advantage and IBM Partnerworld.
Beside major changes in the underlying technology (Websphere, Websphere, not Domino, Websphere, DB2 and erm, yes, Websphere) Sametime 8.5 will contain many significant changes like
Notes & Domino 8.5.1 language packs for Japanese, Korean, Catalan, German, Italian, French, Brazilian, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish and Chinese are now available from IBM Partnerworld & IBM Passport Advantage.