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 contains the following major enhancements:
18 * Additional SLAPD backends:
23 This release includes the following major components:
25 * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
26 * slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
27 * -lldap - an LDAP client library
28 * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
29 * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
30 * LDAP gateways - finger, gopher, email to LDAP gateways
31 * LDAP mailers - sendmail-compatibile mail delivery agents
32 * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utility programs
34 In addition, there are some contributed components:
36 * ldapTCL - the NeoSoft TCL LDAP SDK
37 * gtk-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written gtk
38 * php3-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written php3
39 * saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
40 * whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
45 OpenLDAP is developed by a team of volunteers whose use
46 the Internet to coordinate their activities. The project is
47 managed by the OpenLDAP Foundation.
49 OpenLDAP software is derived from University of Michigan
55 This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License.
56 For download information is available at:
58 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
63 OpenLDAP software is user supported.
65 http://www.openldap.org/support/
67 To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
69 http://www.openldap.org/its/
71 The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
73 http://www.openldap.org/fag/
75 In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
76 related OpenLDAP. A list of mailing lists is available at:
78 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
80 The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
81 and online documentation is available at this URL:
83 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
88 This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like) platforms
89 including AIX, Digital UNIX (OSF/1), FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux,
90 NetBSD, NexTSTEP, OpenBSD, SCO, Solaris, SunOS, and Ultrix.
91 The release has also be ported (in part or in whole) to other
92 platforms including BeOS, MacOS, and MS Windows 95/NT.