1 A N N O U N C E M E N T
5 The University of Michigan is pleased to announce release 3.3 of
6 UM-LDAP, an implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access
7 Protocol. LDAP is a draft Internet standard directory service
8 protocol that runs over TCP/IP. It can be used to provide a
9 stand-alone directory service, or to provide lightweight access to
10 the X.500 directory. LDAP is defined by RFC 1777 and RFC 1778.
12 This release includes the following components:
14 - slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
15 - slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
16 - ldapd - an LDAP-to-X.500 gateway server
17 - centipede - an LDAP centroid generation and maintenance program
18 - libldap - an LDAP client library
19 - liblber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
20 - ldif tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
21 - in.xfingerd - a finger-to-LDAP gateway server
22 - go500 - a gopher-to-LDAP gateway server for searching
23 - go500gw - a gopher-to-LDAP gateway server for searching and browsing
24 - rcpt500 - an email-to-LDAP query responder
25 - mail500 - an LDAP-capable mailer
26 - fax500 - an LDAP-capable mailer that supports remote printing
27 - LDAP tools - A collection of shell-based LDAP utility programs
29 In addition, there are some contributed components:
31 - web500 - an HTTP-to-LDAP gateway
32 - whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
33 - saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
37 Changes since release 3.2 of LDAP include
39 - slurpd has been rewritten as a single process threaded daemon
40 - ldaptools (ldapsearch, etc) now support the LDIF format
41 - support for LDAP URLs added to libldap
42 - improved support for LDAP referrals in libldap
43 - preliminary test scripts included
44 - support for additional platforms
45 - various bug fixes and build fixes
47 See the CHANGES file in the distribution for more details.
51 This software is freely available to anyone for any lawful purpose,
52 subject to the U-M copyright notice and disclaimer. The software is
53 available for anonymous ftp from the following location:
55 ftp://terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu/ldap/ldap-3.3.tar.Z
59 The software is provided as is without any express or implied
60 warranty, but there is a bug reporting mail address which is
61 responded to on a best-effort basis:
63 ldap-support@umich.edu
65 In addition, there is a discussion list for issues relating to this
66 implementation of ldap:
68 ldap@umich.edu -- discussion list
69 ldap-request@umich.edu -- to join the list
71 Comments or questions about the LDAP protocol in general should be
72 sent to the IETF ASID discussion group:
74 ietf-asid@umich.edu -- discussion list
75 ietf-asid-request@umich.edu -- to join the list
77 An LDAP home page containing lots of interesting information and
78 online documentation is available at this URL:
80 http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/ldap/
84 This release has been ported to many UNIX platforms, including
85 SunOS 4.1.x, Solaris 2.x, Ultrix 4.3, HP-UX 9.05, AIX 3.2.5,
86 SCO, FreeBSD, NetBSD, LINUX, IRIX, Digital Unix (OSF/1), and
87 NeXTSTEP 3.2. This release has also been ported to VMS.
89 The client libraries and some clients have also been ported to
90 MacOS 7.x, MSDOS (some TCP stacks), and MS Windows 3.1/95/NT.