1 A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.0
3 The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
4 of OpenLDAP 2.0, a suite of the Lightweight Weight Directory
5 Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development tools.
7 This release contains the following major enhancements:
11 + Language Tags (RFC 2596)
13 + TLS (RFC2830) and SSL (ldaps://)
17 * LDAP over IPC support
20 * Enhanced Standalone LDAP Server:
21 + Updated Access Control System
23 + DNS SRV referral backend (experimental)
24 + LDAP backend (experimental)
25 + SQL backend (experimental)
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 - an LDAP client library
33 * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
34 * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
35 * LDAP gateways - finger, gopher, email to LDAP gateways
36 * LDAP mailer - sendmail-compatible mail delivery agents
37 * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utility programs
39 In addition, there are some contributed components:
41 * ldapTCL - the NeoSoft TCL LDAP SDK
42 * gtk-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written gtk
43 * php3-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written php3
44 * saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
45 * whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
50 OpenLDAP is developed by a team of volunteers whose use
51 the Internet to coordinate their activities. The project is
52 managed by the OpenLDAP Foundation.
54 OpenLDAP LDAP implementation is derived from University of
55 Michigan LDAP release 3.3.
60 This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
61 an unrestrictive, "free," OSS-approved open source license.
62 For download information is available at:
64 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
69 OpenLDAP software is user supported:
71 http://www.openldap.org/support/
73 The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick
74 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. A list of mailing lists is available at:
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) platforms
99 including FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and most commercial
100 UNIX systems. The release has also been ported (in part or in whole)
101 to other platforms including BeOS, MacOS, and MS Windows NT/2000.