1 A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.1
3 The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
4 of OpenLDAP Software 2.1, 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 a team of volunteers whose use
50 the Internet to coordinate their activities. The project is
51 managed by the OpenLDAP Foundation.
53 OpenLDAP Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP,
59 This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
60 an unrestrictive, "free", open-source license. For download
61 information is available at:
63 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
68 OpenLDAP Software is user supported:
70 http://www.openldap.org/support/
72 The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick
73 start instructions, is available at:
75 http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/
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 Software. A list of mailing lists is
85 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
87 To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
89 http://www.openldap.org/its/
91 The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
92 and online documentation is available at this URL:
94 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
99 This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like)
100 platforms including Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD
101 and most commercial UNIX systems. The release has also been
102 ported (in part or in whole) to other platforms including
103 Apple MacOS X, IBM zOS, and Microsoft Windows 2000.