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 release 2.0-Alpha, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
7 Directory Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development tools.
9 This release is for REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY.
10 This release is NOT FOR GENERAL USE.
11 This release is NOT feature complete nor well tested.
13 This release contains the following major enhancements:
22 * LDAP over IPC support
24 * Enhanced Standalone LDAP Server:
25 + Updated Access Control System
27 + DNS SRV referral backend
29 + new (Perl, SQL, TCL) programmable backends
32 This release includes the following major components:
34 * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
35 * slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
36 * -lldap - an LDAP client library
37 * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
38 * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
39 * LDAP gateways - finger, gopher, email to LDAP gateways
40 * LDAP mailer - sendmail-compatibile mail delivery agents
41 * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utility programs
43 In addition, there are some contributed components:
45 * ldapTCL - the NeoSoft TCL LDAP SDK
46 * gtk-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written gtk
47 * php3-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written php3
48 * saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
49 * whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
54 OpenLDAP is developed by a team of volunteers whose use
55 the Internet to coordinate their activities. The project is
56 managed by the OpenLDAP Foundation.
58 OpenLDAP LDAP implementation is derived from University of
59 Michigan LDAP release 3.3.
64 This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
65 an unrestrictive, "free," OSS-approved open source license.
66 For download information is available at:
68 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
73 OpenLDAP software is user supported
75 http://www.openldap.org/support/
77 The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
79 http://www.openldap.org/faq/
81 In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
82 related OpenLDAP. A list of mailing lists is available at:
84 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
86 To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
88 http://www.openldap.org/its/
90 The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
91 and online documentation is available at this URL:
93 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
98 This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like) platforms
99 including FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and most commericial
100 UNIX systems. The release has also been ported (in part or in whole)
101 to other platforms including BeOS, MacOS, and MS Windows NT/2000.