The most important addition in this release is the inclusion of translations of the IBM Practices to German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean. Contact tech support or your local tech rep to find out how to get these new translations. In addition to the translations the update fixes a number of minor bugs around variability, spell-check, inconsistencies when publishing, and WBM export. See the readme in the installation directory after the update for the complete list. Plus, it ships with the RAM client for version 7.1.1, which allows you to connect to the latest RAM server version.

[updated 03/25]

Key changes are:

• Converting the practice library to a workspace library now also converts tags and process builder definition files
• We improved the presentation of Practice guidance pages in both skins (updated the Relationships table, cleaned up the string resources used)
• Added a few more string resources in the skins files (such as the types of elements used in rich text hyperlinks or the relationship sub-folder in the navigation tree)
• Some fixes for the ClearCase integration (renaming plug-ins in workspace libraries, fixed new Clean Resources function when using CC)
• Work product descriptor pages now show sub-artifacts when including their method content
• Method content element guidance is not replicated to its descriptors anymore: RMC now enforces that a descriptor only lists additional guidance references in respect to the linked method element and does not duplicate such guidance entries during synchronization anymore
• Refined our double-byte character support in URLs (RMC now distinguishes signs like spaces and plus signs from double-byte codes in urls that start with %20)
• Added the missing “supporting plug-in” flags in Practice library and republished all out-of-the-box Practices configurations
• Spell checker fixed for RMC on Linux operation systems

Note, that we also made fixes and improvements for both skins. So if you have your own skins defined make sure you merge in all our changes into your skin files using a compare-merge tool.

The most import changes/fixes:

• Added missing online help sections around Workspace libraries and Birt report design.
• The configuration editor now does not perform a consistency check (that would result in info, warning, and error messages in the Problem view) every time you make a change, which was really degrading performance. Now the check is performed only when you save or press the “show configuration errors” button on the top-right of the editor.
• Several additions to the way copying of process resolves variability relationships on activities as well as the underlying method content. For example, if you perform a deep-copy of a pattern or activity to another process that it also performs an automatic synchronize to pick-up contributors or replacers valid in the target process’ configuration. In particular in the Tailoring perspective you can select a process that has several valid configurations with any of these and get all contributions/replacements that are valid in that configuration. Before this release you could only work with the process’ default configuration.
• The tailoring perspective now supports adding attachments to method elements that show with the respective process elements.  A wizard walks you selecting the attachment and then performs some magic under the covers of creating a contributor and synchronizing the process without the user having to do anything.
• Several fixes around using international characters and fonts in names. Despite those fixes, make sure that when you deploy RMC Web sites that use international characters such as umlauts in the names to configure your web servers to support the respective character sets used.
• Improved loading times of the published Web site, in particular when loading the first page.
• Fixed the issue that the rich text editor’s cursor and scroll area would jump to the top of the text every time you would save, indent text, or drag elements into the editor to create links.
• Fixed miscellaneous bugs around Search in RMC, roll-ups in the published site, contributing attachments, broken report templates introduced in ifix2, missing roles imported from WBM, and many more.

This patch includes some important fixes and minor enhancements so that we generally want to encourage all RMC users to install it. Most important changes:

• Added the ability to select a base configuration when creating a Tailoring Session. This allows you now, for example, to start your tailoring session not only based on the default RUP configuration, but any configuration that includes the RUP processes. Hence, you can now start with the Small RUP for RAD and tailor it to your needs.
• The tailoring wizard will not ask your for a configuration project anymore, but just automatically create/use one specific project for tailoring sessions.
• Added the ability to extend activities from the same process, i.e. applying the same activity more than once in a process.
• Fixed migration and import bug reported here.
• Fixed publishing issues with Activity and Activity Detail diagrams as well as when using activity partitions.
• Fixed the ability to run a report against the whole method library, i.e. without selecting a configuration.
• Fixed issues in which the editors became dirty by just opening an element (such as Steps).
• Fixed the missing links from Guidance pages back to the referencing Activities.
• Resolved some localization issues in Reporting.

Also make sure to check-out the readme file for some remaining open issues.

If you are still using MS Project with RMC (and not the advanced integration with Rational Portfolio Manager ) then get this fix by just starting the Installation Manager and clicking on the “Update Packages” button. It will then guide you through downloading and installing the fix.