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What's new in Domino 12?
Learn about all of the new features for administrators in HCL Domino® 12.
What's new in 12.0?
HCL Domino 12.0 introduces the following new features.
New features related to the end-user experience
The following features relate to the HCL Notes® end-user experience.
Customize the Notes workspace
You can set a color for the text in the Notes 12 workspace. You can revert the Notes 12 workspace to the Notes 11 design.

What's new in Domino 12?
Learn about all of the new features for administrators in HCL Domino® 12.
- What's new in 12.0.1?
  HCL Domino 12.0.1 introduces the following new features.
- What's new in 12.0?
  HCL Domino 12.0 introduces the following new features.
  - New install and setup features and enhancements
    These are the install and setup features and enhancements provided with Domino 12.
  - New security features and enhancements
    These are the security features and enhancements provided with HCL Domino® 12.
  - New DAOS features and enhancements
    HCL Domino® 12 provides the following new features and enhancements for Domino Attachment and Object Service (DAOS).
  - New features related to the end-user experience
    The following features relate to the HCL Notes® end-user experience.
    - New look for Resource and Reservations
      The Resource and Reservations template in Domino 12 (RESRC12.NTF) provides a fresh look while maintaining existing functionality.
    - Prevent or allow messages that exceed outgoing limits
      For any limit specified in the Set outgoing limits section of a Mail Settings policy, you now control whether to prevent messages that exceed the limit and show an error or to allow them and show a warning.
    - View actions for individual email messages are seen in the action bar
      View actions that are available from a single email message are now seen by default in the action bar in addition to when hovering over a message.
    - Enable partial replication for slow network speed
      Beginning in HCL Notes 12, a client notes.ini setting can be used to change between full and partial replication based on network bandwidth.
    - Enable proper rendering of HTML buttons that use exact positioning
      when Notes users receive external mail messages with HTML-rendered buttons that use exact positioning, the notes.ini setting DontFilterPositionStyling=1 is available to render them properly.
    - Customize the Notes workspace
      You can set a color for the text in the Notes 12 workspace. You can revert the Notes 12 workspace to the Notes 11 design.
    - Enable Notes XTAF spelling dictionaries on the Mac
      As of HCL Notes V12.0, the Mac client uses spelling dictionaries provided through the Mac OS, by default. You can use a client notes.ini setting to switch to using the pre-installed Notes XTAF dictionaries.
  - Replication enhancements
    HCL Domino® 12 provides these replication enhancements.
  - Backup and restore capability
    Backup and restore capability is integrated with Domino 12 servers.
  - Stand-alone Domino directory enhancements
    The new Domino directory design (pubnames.ntf) provides several stand-alone enhancements that improve usability for administrators.
  - Users in Active Directory can sync their Windows passwords
    Active Directory password synchronization enables Windows users whose Active Directory information is synced to Domino to apply their Windows passwords to their Domino HTTP and Notes ID passwords.
  - Administration Process support for updating names in Verse user profiles
    The Administration Process rename person request now updates names in HCL Verse user profiles.
  - New ODS level
    HCL Domino® 12 introduces a new on-disk structure (ODS) version for databases: ODS 55.
  - MarvelClient Essentials integration
    The following improvements have been made to the integration of MarvelClient with Domino.
  - Entitlement tracking
    As of Domino 12.0, a new internal mechanism is provided for collecting the highest entitlement that individual users have across a Domino domain. When a user appears in the ACL of a database with Reader access or above and that person has the right to access the server, the user is said to be an entitled user.
  - Domino OSGI Tasklet Service (DOTS) is available again
    DOTS is available again in Domino 12.
  - New Java™ Runtime Environment
    A new Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE) is provided with HCL Domino® 12 and HCL Domino Designer 12.
  - TCP/IP port buffer size
    Domino 12 has changed the TCP/IP port buffer default size from 4000 to 8000.
- Components no longer included in this release
  The following components are no longer included.

Customize the Notes workspace

You can set a color for the text in the Notes 12 workspace. You can revert the Notes 12 workspace to the Notes 11 design.

For more information, see Configure settings related to the Notes workspace design.