In a busy week for IBM, Notes/Domino Upgrade Pack 1 has shipped today, as announced by Ed Brill. The upgrade pack is important for a number of reasons:
- For customers requiring officially IBM-supported code (an argument I struggle to understand in application development, but that’s beyond the scope of this blog), this provides a supported release of the Extension Library
- It ushers in a new way of delivering additional functionality outside the point release cycle
- It provides updated XPages templates providing mobile UIs for TeamRoom and Discussion Database, which provide useful examples for developers looking to build mobile interfaces using the Extension Library
- It provides JSON-based REST services, of use from XPages or other technologies.
The Upgrade Pack gives additional reason for customers to upgrade to 8.5.3, which is fast becoming a significant release.