IBM Sametime 9.0.1 available, webcast available 25 May 2016

IBM will release soon today a new IBM Sametime code freeze that will be named 9.0.1 .
To be updated about new features and license entitlement you can follow a webcast at the end of May.


URL: https://apps.na.collabserv.com/meetings/join?id=2897-4178 
When: 25 Maggio 2016
Time:  17-18 (Italian time)

At the end of the session there will be a Q&A that will be posted together the slides inside this  technote.


Here the announcement letter with  the availability planned for today and some descriptions of the updates

A new direct-registration softphone that gives users the ability to use the Sametime desktop client to place and receive phone calls as an extension of your existing telephony system

Optimized support for Citrix XenApp on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Windows desktops

64-bit Microsoft Office support

A more intuitive, easy to use meetings experience

Single Sign-On (SSO) for Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) support for authentication on IBM Connections Cloud

Support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and the US Government's Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)

A native Sametime Web Player browser plug-in (no Java™ dependency) for audio and video and screen sharing in Meetings on Microsoft Windows workstations

Enhanced annotations on the Web and mobile Meetings clients (not available on the desktop meetings client in this release)

Security improvement for safer HTML usage in Meetings

Desktop and browser client support on Apple Mac OS X 10.11 and Microsoft Windows 10