09/15/2016

Android 7 (Nougat) breaks IBM Verse app on Android

On my Nexus Andoid, I accepted the OS update to Android 7.0 (Nougat) that Google pushed last night. I went into my IBM Verse app and there was nothing there. A little later a message popped up that IBM Verse crashed.

I am running the most up-to-date IBM Verse app from the Google Play store. My IBM Notes Traveler server, running on Linux 64-bit, was running Domino 9.0.1.6 and Traveler 9.0.1.11. Incidentally, late last night my Domino server crashed. It never crashes so I assume it had something to do with Traveler.

Today, I upgraded Traveler to 9.0.1.14, THEN I upgrade Domino to R9.0.1.7 everything is working now. I don't think the Domino upgrade was necessary, but 'why not' get on the current version.

IMPORTANT IBM Technote warns that you must be on Traveler 9.0.1.14 BEFORE you upgrade to Domino R9.0.1.7 or the server will crash. On Linux, they must have changed the Traveler installer because I had to install 'unzip' in order for the Traveler installer to work. I have done many Traveler updates to this server over the years and this is the first time unzip came into play.