Sametime 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1 (8.5.1.1) is now available for download from Fix Central.   Technote 1450776 About IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5.1.1 has all the details. The technote references the Fix List though I don’t see anything listed under 8.5.1.1 there yet. 8.5.1.1 is cumulative of any previously released fixes for 8.5.1 Direct Link to 8.5.1.1 download on Fix Central (Login Required)

I guess the delay was less then two weeks

If you are running the Sametime Gateway you might notice that you lost your connection to Google Talk in the last week, and can’t get it back.  The answer can be found in Technote 1408488 Customers using Lotus Sametime Gateway lost connection with Google on October 21, 2009 and cannot re-establish it.

This issue was first reported to Sametime Support on October 21, 2009. Sametime support established the root cause to be a recent change to Hostnames Google used for their incoming connection server IP’s (talkz.l.google.com). The following is one example of the change: Remote Host IP = 209.85.162.129″ HostName = el-out-f129.google.com”. was changed to Remote Host IP = 209.85.162.129″ HostName = el-out-f129.1e100.net”. This change broke the handshake sequence that Sametime Gateway follows to establish the XMPP connection and impacts all sametime gateway versions. A fix has been developed for Sametime Gateway Gateway version 8.0.2 and can be downloaded from Fix Central. Sametime Support strongly recommends upgrading to Sametime Gateway 8.0.2 HF3 before applying this fix.

You can download Hot Fix 3 for version 8.0.2 from Fix Central and there is a fix in test for 8.0.1.  If you are on an earlier version of the gateway it looks like there is an upgrade in your future.

My good friend Andy Yiu,  will be presenting a Webcast on June 10th at 10 AM Eastern time.

Sametime quickfind, Notes Inbox awareness, and many other features can generate a substantial number of name resolutions requests. These requests can severely impact performance and capacity in a production environment. Join us on Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT (14:00 GMT) in this IBM Webcast as we talk about several recommendations and solutions you can implement today to reduce impact of name lookups on your Sametime infrastructure.

Webcast: Sametime resolve, Notes IM, and LDAP performance considerations – 10 June 2009

Adam Garetenberg blogged about many of the new features in Sametime 8.0.1 yesterday.  Carl points out some of his favorites, including AdminP support to update contact lists (finally!!) note this is currently on Windows only. For me one of the things I have been looking for is the ability to control screen sharing across two monitors, see Adam’s post for a screenshot, I have been waiting for this for a long time. On the Sametime Gateway side, there is now support for SIP Connections that are using NAT Addresses.   I have spoken to many people who want to deploy the gateway, but this was a big obstacle for them because of internal policies regarding placement of servers in the DMZ, so this should help more people deploy the gateway. I also had a pleasant surprise this morning when I went to download Sametime 8.0.1, the IBM Passport site where customers download software has been improved, I was actually easily able to find Sametime 8.0.1 to download, and for those of you who use the Passport site you know that is really saying something. Of course don’t forget to follow Sametime on Twitter (although it is running a bit behind as it forgot to Tweat the release of 8.0.1 🙂 ) Detailed system requirements for Sametime 8.0.1