Sametime 12.0.4 is out. What is new and what fixes does it contain?
- For more information on what’s new in this release, see the HCL Sametime and HCL Sametime Premium 12.0.4 Release Information article.
- What’s New in HCL Sametime 12.0.4
- For more information on what’s fixed in this release, see the HCL Sametime 12.0.4 Fix List.
- For a list of minimum system requirements for Sametime 12.0.4 servers and clients, see the System Requirements article.
- HCL Sametime 12.0.4 Documentation
New Features
HCL Sametime v12.0.4 is designed to eliminate collaboration friction, streamline platform administration, and drive meaningful business outcomes. This release introduces powerful new end-user features, deeper ecosystem integration, and enterprise-grade infrastructure modernizations.
Key Enhancements at a Glance:
- Enhanced Chat Experience: Native message editing and advanced chat history search.
- Modern Team Collaboration: Persistent, topic-based Channels with full moderator controls.
- Interactive Meetings: Real-time on-screen emoji reactions.
- AI-Powered Insights: Intelligent meeting transcripts and summaries powered by HCL Domino IQ.
- Unified Workspace: Fully embedded web chat inside the HCL Notes 14.5.1 client.
- Platform Infrastructure: Streamlined OIDC authentication and transition to Traefik Ingress.
Enhanced Chat Experience
Managing everyday conversations is easier than ever with several highly requested usability features:
- Message Editing: Users can now modify sent messages to quickly correct typos or update information in real time, ensuring clear and accurate communication.
- Advanced Chat Search: Finding past discussions is instantaneous. A robust new search engine allows users to locate critical information across their entire chat history in seconds.
Modern Team Collaboration with Channels
Sametime v12.0.4 introduces Channels, the modern evolution of legacy Chat Rooms. Channels provide persistent, topic-based spaces designed to centralize team discussions, file sharing, and long-term project management in a clean, contemporary interface.
- Control & Focus: New built-in channel management capabilities provide administrators and owners with granular control over member permissions and conversation flows to ensure focused, secure collaboration.
Interactive Meeting Reactions
Boost live interaction and expressive feedback during video sessions. Sametime v12.0.4 introduces real-time meeting reactions, allowing participants to instantly share emojis that float on-screen for all attendees. This feature enables audience members to express alignment, agreement, or appreciation without needing to unmute, keeping the meeting flow completely disruption-free.
Meeting Summarization with HCL Domino IQ
Collaboration is now smarter with HCL Domino IQ. Sametime v12.0.4 introduces intelligent, built-in capabilities to help teams maintain momentum and productivity. Never miss a critical action item again—Sametime can now generate real-time meeting transcripts and secure, AI-driven summaries powered natively by Domino IQ.
HCL Notes 14.5.1 Integration: Embedded Web Chat
We’ve heard your feedback! Sametime v12.0.4 brings a deeply unified experience to the HCL Notes 14.5.1 client:
- Integrated Web Chat: Bring the complete, feature-rich Sametime web experience—including editing, channels, read receipts, reactions, and search—directly embedded into your Notes workspace.
- Seamless Admin Setup: Transitioning your organization is effortless. Administrators can globally switch users from the legacy Eclipse-based sidebar to the new web chat interface using a centrally managed site policy.
Enterprise-Grade Platform Updates
To ensure HCL Sametime remains the most secure, stable, and modern enterprise collaboration platform, v12.0.4 includes significant infrastructure improvements:
- Transition to Traefik Ingress: Following the retirement of NGINX Ingress, v12.0.4 officially moves the supported deployment lane to Traefik. This provides a more robust, high-performance, and future-proof ingress controller for Kubernetes environments.
- Streamlined OIDC Support: Simplified OpenID Connect (OIDC) configurations make it faster and easier for IT teams to deploy modern, secure authentication across Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes environments.
Fix List
Chat
| Component | Summary |
| Proxy Cloud Native | Taking unusually long time to send messages to user |
| Community Server | convomapSA optimizations to detect and prevent large convomaps from causing interruptions |
| Meeting Server | Search can be slow in a heavily loaded chat database |
| Web Chat Client | [Usable Bug] Provided input text in search field gets removed when the focus moves out to edit field |
| Web Chat Client | User search input and popover are cleared and hidden when focus is changed |
| Web Chat Client | webChatClient_sending a very long message and then sending a single line text is not scrolling automatically down |
| Web Chat Client | Web chat client performance is slower relative to previous release |
| Web Chat Client | Settings menu item strings are truncated in German (and possibly other) languages |
| Web Chat Client | When using mobile number for quickfind, results are not displayed in web client |
| Web Chat Client | [WCAG 2.2 2.4.7] There’s no visible focus indicator for the “Sort by” list. |
| Web Chat Client | WebChatClient_ Add team member – header highlighted in blue color. |
Meetings
| Component | Summary |
| Client Platform | File downloads in n-way are getting 404 responses when the user should have access |
| Meeting Client | Unable to change the camera device in prejoin page |
| Meeting Client | Meeting Client: Filmstrip View Becomes Enlarged After Stopping YouTube Video. |
| Meeting Client | MeetingClient_When Moderator locks the meeting owner is unable to join the meeting. |
| Meeting Client | Top banner not scaling with window size |
| Meeting Client | Meeting toolbar auto hide functionality does not work until a chat message is sent and/or viewed in the meeting client |
| Meeting Client | Meeting name field label is not translated on new meeting create UI |
| Meeting Client | Date picker for reports does not respect REPORT_EXPIRES_IN_DAYS setting |
| Meeting Client | MeetingClient- Meetings page appears blank when user selects date from Recent list and then clears date field. |
| Meeting Client | The default date format for the date picker in the meeting client always shows the expected format as mm/dd/yyyy even when other locales are used |
| Meeting Client | When pasting a meeting url into the “join meeting” prompt in the meeting center, issues occur |
| Meeting Server | meetingClient_when added user in manage members, advanced settings are automatically getting turned off |
| Meeting Server | MeetingClient: Summary Report Shows Empty for Short Recordings in Meeting Client. |
| Meeting Server | Transcription posting ???? for non-English language spoken word |
| Meeting Server | Meeting reports are not accessible with PAC 2024 |
| Meeting Server | CORS header with wildcard causes ‘blank’ meeting page |
| Meeting Server | post processing recording fails with 500 error |
Administration
| Component | Summary |
| Community Server | Improve logging when UserInfoSA fails to connect to LDAP with TLS in some scenarios |
| Community Server | Upgrade of 12.0.x ENTRY to 12.0.3 does not correctly update the branding info |
| Community Server | stpoc – mongo restart causes convomap to fail to recover. |
| Community Server | notes migration utility exception – need better handling/logging |
| Community Server | ldap recovery – has something changed? |
| Community Server | UserInfo service fails to send server hostname extension in TLS handshake – |
| Community Server | windows server – when configuring mux to use TLS it fails to start |
| Meeting Server | AdminClient_admin client auto login is not working when logged in to chat client |
| Meeting Server | Duplicate HSTS headers being set – |
| Meeting Server | 12.0.3 Limited – Grafana does not work in admin area |
| Proxy Cloud Native | Windows server – Stproxy service does not allow for adding a ‘domainList’ entry for StProxyConfig.xml |
| Server Login | meetingClient_SAML_when tried to login as authenticated user after logging as guest user, proxy exception triggered |
| Meeting Client | Server privacy setting for Enabled isn’t respected when editing meeting |
| Meeting Server | When privacy settings are missing from meeting, shareRecordings option takes precedence |
| Meeting Server | Startup issues with podman on rhel/rocky 9.4 |