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Welcome to MarvelClient

14.0!

Thank you for taking your time to read our release notes.
Here you will find all information about MC 1214.0.0, as well as any subsequent MC 1214.0.x releases, as they become available.

Latest Versions

Config: 20230626130900 20231205133700
Analyze: 20230626130900 20231106123200
dll/dylib: 1214.0.682
Upgrade: 1214.0.420
Eclipse plugin: 1214.0.3

What's new?

An overview of some of the more prominent changes; for more in-depth information consult the other sections further down, especially the detailed release notes.

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MarvelClient Everywhere

As with HCL Notes/Domino 10, 11 and 1112, MarvelClient is also included in V12. The V14:

• MarvelClient Essentials is included with all Windows and Mac clients, there's nothing you have to install!
• MarvelClient is included with all versions of HCL Nomad: iOS, Android, and Web
• The MarvelClient template installer can be found on the Domino server

New No-Touch Activation of MarvelClient Essentials

And just like Domino 12, your Domino 12 14 server has MarvelClient Essentials activation built-in to the Domino Directory. Go to the new MarvelClient view in the Directory and activate MC Essentials on all your Notes 12 clients by simply creating a few documents and flipping a switch in the Directory Profile. No client configuration required! See About MarvelClient and Notes/Domino >= V12 for details.

MarvelClient Upgrade 25 Free

Need help upgrading your Notes clients to V12? We have a new special offer that lets you use MarvelClient Upgrade on a small number of clients for free, so you can try it out. For a link to the offer, along with a detailed webinar from the Notes 12 launch event that demonstrates MC Upgrade and highlights many of the ways that MarvelClient can help your Notes 12 clients run smoothly, see this blog entry: Domino Dozen or The Wonders of MarvelClient.

MarvelClient Included in All HCL Nomad Clients

MarvelClient is now included with HCL Nomad Web (as of version 1.0.1). This means that MarvelClient comes with all versions of HCL Nomad: iOS, Android, and Web. See our Knowledge Base for more information, or watch our webinar: Nomad For Web Browsers and MarvelClient: A Match Made in Heaven

Change Logging in the Config Database

The MarvelClient Config database has a new Change Logging feature, that logs all the changes you make to actions. If something seems different when your MarvelClient actions run, go to the Advanced - Logs view and see what changed! Requires template version 20210122121100 or higher.

New Cleanup Configuration in the Analyze Database

Is your Analyze database getting too large? Try the new Cleanup Configuration options in the Administration section and get rid of those old or duplicate documents.

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What's new?

An overview of some of the more prominent changes; for more in-depth information consult the other sections further down, especially the detailed release notes.

Windows 64-Bit Client Support

HCL released the Windows 64-bit Notes client starting with version 12.0.2, and with Notes 14 your only choice for Notes clients on Windows is 64-bit. MarvelClient Essentials was bundled with that release, and the full MarvelClient binary is ready to work with 64-bit clients from day one. We have also overhauled the Config and Analyze templates to fully support 64-bit API calls. For more information, please see MarvelClient Support for HCL Notes 64-Bit Windows Clients.

Background Replication Now Supported

Creating new local replicas of databases at startup is now even easier. In previous versions of MarvelClient, you were required to create a "stub" replica and enable replication at startup to create local replicas. Starting with MarvelClient 14, we added an option to tie in to the standard Notes replication process to trigger the creation+replication directly in the background, just like the Notes client does.

Update Your User's Mail Templates When You Update The Client

MarvelClient now offers two ways to automate replacing the design of a user’s mail database if the mail template version is not up to date:

1. With MarvelClient Upgrade you can initiate replacing the design of the user’s mail database immediately after a Notes client is upgraded, using the "success" email generated by the upgrade process.
2. Based on user data (Notes version and current mail template name) in the MarvelClient Analyze database, you can replace the design of a user’s mail database using a scheduled agent.

This can be useful for updating a user's mail template to the latest version after the Notes client is upgraded to a new client version. It can also be used to deploy a customized mail template to specific users.

Attention - Action Required

You'll find all these in the detailed release notes as well.

HCL Notes

14 support

MarvelClient versions older than 12 14 will not work on Notes 1214, so make sure to update MarvelClient before upgrading Notes.

Location and Connection actions on Nomad

On newer Nomad clients, existing Location and Connection actions will not work unless you have a Config database template version 20210708 or higher, and you resave the actions with Nomad platforms selected. This is because certain Location and Connection options are not appropriate for Nomad clients, and we want to make sure you don't accidentally push these settings out to Nomad clients without reviewing them first.

System Requirements

End-Users

Rich client:
Version: 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, 10.x, 11.0.0, 11.0.1, 12.0.0, 12.0.1, 12.0.2, 14.0.0. This includes Basic, Standard and ICAA/HCAA clients (note: HCAA requires MC 11.0.18+ to work properly).
Operating system: Windows 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, 7, 8, 10, 11, and Citrix/WTS. Apple macOS Catalina, BigSur, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma. Linux.
Note: Support is limited for platform and release combinations not supported by HCL.

Nomad:
Version: 1.0.4 and higher
Operating system: all iOS/iPadOS, Android, and browser versions that are supported by above versions of Nomad.

Administrators

For certain administrative tasks, such as OnlineUpdate, administrators are required to use at least Notes 9.0.1 FP8 and are limited to Notes clients running on Windows.
The Config and Analyze databases will have some additional limitations when used from Nomad. No XPages for content display, no Java limiting several features like manually starting the audit agent or performing OnlineUpdate.

Servers

Any Domino and OS version supported by HCL.

Platform-specific limitations

Some functionality is not available on all Notes client operating systems.

Nomad Web/iOS/iPadOS/Android

Generally, we support most functionalities of the Manage, Migrate and Analyze modules (= MarvelClient Basic), as well as Automate. Some features will behave differently, and some functionalities are absent due to technical platform limitations:

• The runtypes "Shutdown" and "Exit Notes" are not supported
• The runtype "First Server Access" is there, but simply runs one minute after start, regardless of a successful server access
• No Rollback
• No Run Program actions
• No Recent Contacts managementNo Smart File Downloader
• Extended XML Export: No keyfile export
• .ini Management is limited to notes.ini and MC variables - no other .ini files
• No DLL Update (not needed; MarvelClient is built into HCL Nomad)
• A few Analyze features are limited as well

Linux

Our support for Linux is generally limited, newer features will not be available. A list of major functionality that is absent:

• Eclipse Management
• Skinning
• Realtime
• Zip/Unzip
• Attachment Blocking 
• Runtypes: "Before Login - Init", "After Login - After Write", "On first server access", "Background - Init" and "Background"

MacOS

• Skinning
• Realtime
• Zip/Unzip
• Attachment Blocking

Windows 64-bit client

• Desktop compact
• Relocator
• Recent Contacts
• Skinning

Detailed Release Notes

There is one document per component, each document contains all 1214.0.x releases in reverse chronological order.