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 2.0-Beta, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
7 Directory Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development
10 This beta release is for TESTING PURPOSES ONLY.
11 This beta release is NOT for GENERAL USE.
12 This beta release is NOT feature complete nor well tested.
13 This beta release is NOT fully documented.
15 This release contains the following major enhancements:
19 + Language Tags (RFC 2596)
21 + TLS (RFC2830) and SSL (ldaps://)
25 * LDAP over IPC support
28 * Enhanced Standalone LDAP Server:
29 + Updated Access Control System
31 + DNS SRV referral backend (experimental)
32 + LDAP backend (experimental)
33 + SQL backend (experimental)
36 This release includes the following major components:
38 * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
39 * slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
40 * -lldap - an LDAP client library
41 * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
42 * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
43 * LDAP gateways - finger, gopher, email to LDAP gateways
44 * LDAP mailer - sendmail-compatibile mail delivery agents
45 * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utility programs
47 In addition, there are some contributed components:
49 * ldapTCL - the NeoSoft TCL LDAP SDK
50 * gtk-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written gtk
51 * php3-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written php3
52 * saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
53 * whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
58 OpenLDAP is developed by a team of volunteers whose use
59 the Internet to coordinate their activities. The project is
60 managed by the OpenLDAP Foundation.
62 OpenLDAP LDAP implementation is derived from University of
63 Michigan LDAP release 3.3.
68 This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
69 an unrestrictive, "free," OSS-approved open source license.
70 For download information is available at:
72 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
77 OpenLDAP software is user supported
79 http://www.openldap.org/support/
81 The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
83 http://www.openldap.org/faq/
85 In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
86 related OpenLDAP. A list of mailing lists is available at:
88 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
90 To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
92 http://www.openldap.org/its/
94 The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
95 and online documentation is available at this URL:
97 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
102 This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like) platforms
103 including FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and most commericial
104 UNIX systems. The release has also been ported (in part or in whole)
105 to other platforms including BeOS, MacOS, and MS Windows NT/2000.