What’s New in This Release

This section includes the following topics:

• Installation

• New Features

Installation

The Instant Messaging Installation Guide has been discontinued. If you are installing Instant Messaging 7 2005Q4 for the first time, see the Sun Java Enterprise System Installation Guide for installation instructions. If you are upgrading from a previous version of Instant Messaging, see the Sun Java Enterprise System Upgrade Guide.

If you are using Access Manager with Instant Messaging you need to install the “Legacy (version 6.x style)” Access Manager using the Java Enterprise System installer. This version of Instant Messaging is not compatible with the “Realm (version 7.x style)” Access Manager.

New Features

This section describes the following new feature added to Instant Messaging in this release:

Failover Support Using Sun^TM Cluster (Solaris Only)

This release of Instant Messaging provides failover support for Solaris, using Sun Cluster. This increases Instant Messaging's availability and providing monitoring of and recovery from software and hardware failures.

See Configuring Instant Messaging for High Availability (Solaris Only) for more information about this feature.