1 A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.5
3 The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
4 of OpenLDAP Software 2.5, a suite of the Lightweight Directory
5 Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, and
8 This release contains the following major enhancements:
11 #define LDAP_COLLECTIVE_ATTRIBUTES
12 #define LDAP_COMP_MATCH
13 #define LDAP_SYNC_TIMESTAMP
14 #define SLAP_CONTROL_X_WHATFAILED
15 #define SLAP_CONFIG_DELETE
16 #define SLAP_AUXPROP_DONTUSECOPY
22 Simplify write waiter handling
24 back-bdb: BDB_MONITOR_IDX
25 back-ldap: SLAP_AUTH_DN, FEATURE_CANCHAINOPS
26 back-mdb: MDB_MONITOR_IDX
27 back-meta: SLAP_AUTH_DN, SLAPD_META_CLIENT_PR
28 overlays/syncprov: CHECK_CSN
29 overlays/pcache: PCACHE_CONTROL_PRIVDB, PCACHE_EXOP_QUERY_DELETE, PCACHE_MONITOR
32 #define LDAP_X_TXN "1.3.6.1.4.1.4203.666.11.7" /* tmp */
33 #define LDAP_EXOP_X_TXN_START LDAP_X_TXN ".1"
34 #define LDAP_CONTROL_X_TXN_SPEC LDAP_X_TXN ".2"
35 #define LDAP_EXOP_X_TXN_END LDAP_X_TXN ".3"
36 #define LDAP_EXOP_X_TXN_ABORTED_NOTICE LDAP_X_TXN ".4"
39 channel binding support for OpenSSL, GnuTLS
40 Elliptic Curve support for OpenSSL
43 This release includes the following major components:
45 * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
46 * -lldap - a LDAP client library
47 * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
48 * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
49 * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utilities
50 * Admin Guide, Manual Pages - associated documentation
52 In addition, there are some contributed components:
54 * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
55 * Various slapd modules and slapi plugins
60 OpenLDAP Software is developed by the OpenLDAP Project. The
61 Project consists of a team of volunteers who use the
62 Internet to coordinate their activities. The Project is
63 an organized activity of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
65 OpenLDAP Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP,
71 This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
72 an non-restrictive, "free", open-source license. Download
73 information is available at:
75 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
80 OpenLDAP Software is user supported:
82 http://www.openldap.org/support/
84 The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick
85 start instructions, is available at:
87 http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/
89 The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
91 http://www.openldap.org/faq/
93 In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
94 related to OpenLDAP Software. A list of mailing lists is
97 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
99 To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
101 http://www.openldap.org/its/
103 The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
104 and online documentation is available at this URL:
106 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
111 This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like)
112 platforms including Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD
113 and most commercial UNIX systems. The release has also been
114 ported (in part or in whole) to other platforms including
115 Apple MacOS X, IBM zOS, and Microsoft Windows NT/2000/etc.
118 OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
120 Copyright 1999-2015 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City,
121 California, USA. All Rights Reserved. Permission to copy and
122 distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted.