1 A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.2
3 The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
4 of OpenLDAP Software 2.2, a suite of the Lightweight Directory
5 Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, and
8 This release contains the following major enhancements:
10 * Transactional backend
11 * Improved Unicode handling
13 * Improved Referral handling
14 * SASL authentication/authorization mapping
15 * SASL in-directory storage of authentication secrets
16 * Enhanced administrative limits/access controls
17 * Meta backend (experimental)
18 * Monitor backend (experimental)
19 * Virtual "glue" backend (experimental)
21 * Updated LDAP C and TCL APIs
22 * LDAPv3 extensions, including:
23 - Enhanced Language Tag/Range Support
24 - 'Who am i?' Extended Operation
25 - 'Matched Values' Control
28 This release includes the following major components:
30 * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
31 * slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
32 * -lldap - a LDAP client library
33 * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
34 * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
35 * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utilities
37 In addition, there are some contributed components:
39 * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
40 * ldapTCL - a LDAP TCL SDK
42 This release contains a number of major code changes. It
43 might be a bit rough around the edges. Use with appropriate
49 OpenLDAP Software is developed by the OpenLDAP Project. The
50 Project consists of a team of volunteers whose use the
51 Internet to coordinate their activities. The Project is
52 managed by the OpenLDAP Foundation.
54 OpenLDAP Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP,
60 This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
61 an unrestrictive, "free", open-source license. For download
62 information is available at:
64 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
69 OpenLDAP Software is user supported:
71 http://www.openldap.org/support/
73 The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick
74 start instructions, is available at:
76 http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/
78 The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
80 http://www.openldap.org/faq/
82 In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
83 related OpenLDAP Software. A list of mailing lists is
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)
101 platforms including Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD
102 and most commercial UNIX systems. The release has also been
103 ported (in part or in whole) to other platforms including
104 Apple MacOS X, IBM zOS, and Microsoft Windows 2000.
107 OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
109 Copyright 1999-2003 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City,
110 California, USA. All Rights Reserved. Permission to copy and
111 distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted.