Yesterday I documented the changes introduced to LotusScript with Notes 6.0 and the momentum the language had at that time.
Today I wish to jump forward to the next release of Notes - Notes 8.5. The release notes suggest that Notes 8.5 has two new LotusScript statements and 4 new methods/properties being added to existing classes. This blog entry is going to be shorter than I originally thought, because on checking further, it turns out that all of these LotusScript extensions are in fact documented as being part of the 8.0 release. So as it stands, Notes 8.5 will be the first release of Notes in which not a single extension of the language is provided. Even in the dark days of Notes 7.0/IBM Workplace we were still able to get something.
Note: A more complete history of LotuScript since Note 4.0 is included in the .Domino Framework wiki. The following is a summary from the wiki showing the number of extensions made to the LotusScript language since Notes 4.0:-
| Release |
LS Extensions |
New Classes |
New Methods/Properties |
| Notes 4.0 |
? |
n/a |
n/a |
| Notes 4.5 |
? |
26 |
n/a |
| Notes 4.6 |
? |
1 |
6 |
| Notes 5.0 |
13 |
8 |
107 |
| Notes 6.0 |
9 |
40 |
181 |
| Notes 6.5 |
0 |
0 |
35 |
| Notes 7.0 |
0 |
0 |
17 |
| Notes 8.0 |
2 |
4 |
45 |
| Notes 8.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0
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1 Nathan T Freeman Permalink "Notes 8.5 will be the first release of Notes in which not a single extension of the language is provided. "
That is completely untrue. And frankly, you're not in any position
to make such a remark.