1 A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.4
3 The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
4 of OpenLDAP Software 2.4, 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 - Syncrepl enhancements, including push-mode and
13 - Dynamic configuration enhancements, including
14 online schema editing and full access control
15 - Dynamic monitoring enhancements, including
16 cache usage information
18 - Attribute value constraints
19 - Dynamic Directory Services (RFC2589)
20 - Reverse Group Membership maintenance (memberof)
22 - Full support of request/response controls
23 - New ldapexop tool for arbitrary extend operations
24 - Support of DNS SRV records for default server
25 * Significant performance enhancements throughout
26 the client and server code base
27 * Multiple new features in libldap and liblber
28 * Expanded documentation
29 - Function-complete manual pages
30 - Numerous new examples in the Admin Guide
32 This release includes the following major components:
34 * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
35 * -lldap - a LDAP client library
36 * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
37 * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
38 * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utilities
39 * Admin Guide, Manual Pages - associated documentation
41 In addition, there are some contributed components:
43 * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
44 * Various slapd modules and slapi plugins
49 OpenLDAP Software is developed by the OpenLDAP Project. The
50 Project consists of a team of volunteers who use the
51 Internet to coordinate their activities. The Project is
52 an organized activity of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
54 OpenLDAP Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP,
60 This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
61 an non-restrictive, "free", open-source license. Download
62 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:
76 http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/
78 The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
80 http://www.openldap.org/faq/
82 In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
83 related to OpenLDAP Software. A list of mailing lists is
86 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
88 To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
90 http://www.openldap.org/its/
92 The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
93 and online documentation is available at this URL:
95 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
100 This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like)
101 platforms including Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD
102 and most commercial UNIX systems. The release has also been
103 ported (in part or in whole) to other platforms including
104 Apple MacOS X, IBM zOS, and Microsoft Windows NT/2000/etc.
107 OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
109 Copyright 1999-2017 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City,
110 California, USA. All Rights Reserved. Permission to copy and
111 distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted.