The most trying of all social duties is to appear interested in the things that don't interest you. Release 5.0.4 of Lotus Notes, Domino Designer, Domino Administrator and Domino Server consolidates three encryption strengths, North American, International English, and French, into a single strong encryption level, previously known as North American. Lotus calls 5.0.4 the first Global release. This change became possible when the U.S. Government relaxed restrictions on exporting encryption technology outside North America. The new Global strong encryption can be used everywhere, unless a country's import laws prohibit it.
Lotus says many bugs are fixed.
However, Advisor Labs has seen serious memory leaks and instability with Notes and Domino Release 5 and Windows 98. In contrast, with Windows 2000 Pro, Advisor Labs has experienced much better stability, and few resource problems using Notes and Designer 5.0.4. Advisor Labs' contacts at Lotus and Iris say that stability with Windows NT is similar. A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. We're not lost.