What's new

Find out what's new for installing and migrating IBM® Connections.

IBM Connections 5.0 CR3

IBM Connections Cumulative Refresh 3 (CR3) consists entirely of the fixes described in Fix list for IBM Connections 5.0 CR3.

IBM Connections 5.0 and CR1 and CR2

  • New Cognos® installation verification tool and simplified installation and configuration.
  • Simplified post-installation tasks for IBM Connections Content Manager for Libraries.
  • Updated system requirements (new support).
  • IBM Connections Content Manager is now supported on IBM i in IBM Connections 5.0. IBM Connections Content Manager for the Libraries on IBM i only supports an existing FileNet deployment.
  • For Cumulative Refresh (CR) 1 and 2, FileNet Collaboration Services is now a component of IBM Content Navigator 2.0.3, and the installer package names reflect this new delivery mechanism, for example, IBM_CONTENT_NAVIGATOR-2.0.3-AIX.bin.
  • After installing IBM Connections, you can update directly to CR2, which encompasses all updates from CR1.
  • If you already updated to CR1, update to CR2 to receive the latest fixes.

Migrating to this release

  • You can migrate directly from any Connections version 4.0, 4.0 CRx, 4.5, or 4.5 CRx to version 5.0.
  • After migration to IBM Connections 5.0, you can reuse content stores from 4.5.
  • After migrating to this release, update to CR2 to receive all fixes released since 5.0.