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 * Slapd(8) enhancements
11 - LDAP "sync" Engine with replication support
12 - Updated Transactional backend (back-bdb)
13 - Hierarchial backend (back-hdb)
14 - Enhanced native API with Overlay support
16 - Dynamic Group Overlay
19 * LDAPv3 extensions, including:
20 - LDAP Content Synchronization ('Sync') Operation
21 - LDAP Cancel Operation
22 - LDAP Paged Results Control
23 - LDAP Pre/Post Read Controls
24 - LDAP Assertion Control
26 This release includes the following major components:
28 * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
29 * slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
30 * -lldap - a LDAP client library
31 * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
32 * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
33 * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utilities
35 In addition, there are some contributed components:
37 * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
38 * LDAP SASL - An "auxprop" plugin for Cyrus SASL
40 This release contains a number of major code changes. It
41 might be a bit rough around the edges. Use with appropriate
47 OpenLDAP Software is developed by the OpenLDAP Project. The
48 Project consists of a team of volunteers whose use the
49 Internet to coordinate their activities. The Project is
50 managed by the OpenLDAP Foundation.
52 OpenLDAP Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP,
58 This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
59 an unrestrictive, "free", open-source license. For download
60 information is available at:
62 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
67 OpenLDAP Software is user supported:
69 http://www.openldap.org/support/
71 The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick
72 start instructions, is available at:
74 http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/
76 The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
78 http://www.openldap.org/faq/
80 In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
81 related OpenLDAP Software. A list of mailing lists is
84 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
86 To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
88 http://www.openldap.org/its/
90 The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
91 and online documentation is available at this URL:
93 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
98 This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like)
99 platforms including Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD
100 and most commercial UNIX systems. The release has also been
101 ported (in part or in whole) to other platforms including
102 Apple MacOS X, IBM zOS, and Microsoft Windows 2000.
105 OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
107 Copyright 1999-2004 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City,
108 California, USA. All Rights Reserved. Permission to copy and
109 distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted.