1 A N N O U N C E M E N T
5 The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
6 of OpenLDAP 2.0-Gamma, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
7 Directory Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development
10 This gamma release is for TESTING PURPOSES ONLY.
11 This gamma release is NOT for GENERAL USE.
13 This gamma release contains the following major enhancements:
17 + Language Tags (RFC 2596)
19 + TLS (RFC2830) and SSL (ldaps://)
23 * LDAP over IPC support
26 * Enhanced Standalone LDAP Server:
27 + Updated Access Control System
29 + DNS SRV referral backend (experimental)
30 + LDAP backend (experimental)
31 + SQL backend (experimental)
34 This release includes the following major components:
36 * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
37 * slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
38 * -lldap - an LDAP client library
39 * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
40 * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
41 * LDAP gateways - finger, gopher, email to LDAP gateways
42 * LDAP mailer - sendmail-compatibile mail delivery agents
43 * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utility programs
45 In addition, there are some contributed components:
47 * ldapTCL - the NeoSoft TCL LDAP SDK
48 * gtk-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written gtk
49 * php3-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written php3
50 * saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
51 * whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
56 OpenLDAP is developed by a team of volunteers whose use
57 the Internet to coordinate their activities. The project is
58 managed by the OpenLDAP Foundation.
60 OpenLDAP LDAP implementation is derived from University of
61 Michigan LDAP release 3.3.
66 This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
67 an unrestrictive, "free," OSS-approved open source license.
68 For download information is available at:
70 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
75 OpenLDAP software is user supported
77 http://www.openldap.org/support/
79 The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
81 http://www.openldap.org/faq/
83 In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
84 related OpenLDAP. A list of mailing lists is available at:
86 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
88 To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
90 http://www.openldap.org/its/
92 The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
93 and online documentation is available at this URL:
95 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
100 This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like) platforms
101 including FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and most commericial
102 UNIX systems. The release has also been ported (in part or in whole)
103 to other platforms including BeOS, MacOS, and MS Windows NT/2000.