1 A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.4
3 The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
4 of OpenLDAP Software 2.4, a suite of the Lightweight Directory
5 Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, and
8 This release contains the following major enhancements:
9 To be completed before BETA release
11 This release includes the following major components:
13 * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
14 * slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
15 * -lldap - a LDAP client library
16 * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
17 * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
18 * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utilities
19 * Admin Guide, Manual Pages - associated documentation
21 In addition, there are some contributed components:
23 * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
24 * Various slapd modules and slapi plugins
29 OpenLDAP Software is developed by the OpenLDAP Project. The
30 Project consists of a team of volunteers whose use the
31 Internet to coordinate their activities. The Project is
32 an organized activity of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
34 OpenLDAP Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP,
40 This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
41 an non-restrictive, "free", open-source license. For download
42 information is available at:
44 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
49 OpenLDAP Software is user supported:
51 http://www.openldap.org/support/
53 The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick
54 start instructions, is available at:
56 http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/
58 The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
60 http://www.openldap.org/faq/
62 In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
63 related OpenLDAP Software. A list of mailing lists is
66 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
68 To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
70 http://www.openldap.org/its/
72 The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
73 and online documentation is available at this URL:
75 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
80 This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like)
81 platforms including Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD
82 and most commercial UNIX systems. The release has also been
83 ported (in part or in whole) to other platforms including
84 Apple MacOS X, IBM zOS, and Microsoft Windows 2000.
87 OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
89 Copyright 1999-2006 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City,
90 California, USA. All Rights Reserved. Permission to copy and
91 distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted.