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-Alpha, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
7 Directory Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development tools.
9 This alpha release is for REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY.
10 This alpha release is NOT for GENERAL USE.
11 This alpha release is NOT feature complete nor well tested.
13 This release contains the following major enhancements:
22 * LDAP over IPC support
24 * Enhanced Standalone LDAP Server:
25 + Updated Access Control System
27 + DNS SRV referral backend
31 This release includes the following major components:
33 * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
34 * slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
35 * -lldap - an LDAP client library
36 * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
37 * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
38 * LDAP gateways - finger, gopher, email to LDAP gateways
39 * LDAP mailer - sendmail-compatibile mail delivery agents
40 * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utility programs
42 In addition, there are some contributed components:
44 * ldapTCL - the NeoSoft TCL LDAP SDK
45 * gtk-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written gtk
46 * php3-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written php3
47 * saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
48 * whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
53 OpenLDAP is developed by a team of volunteers whose use
54 the Internet to coordinate their activities. The project is
55 managed by the OpenLDAP Foundation.
57 OpenLDAP LDAP implementation is derived from University of
58 Michigan LDAP release 3.3.
63 This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
64 an unrestrictive, "free," OSS-approved open source license.
65 For download information is available at:
67 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
72 OpenLDAP software is user supported
74 http://www.openldap.org/support/
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. A list of mailing lists is available at:
83 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
85 To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
87 http://www.openldap.org/its/
89 The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
90 and online documentation is available at this URL:
92 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
97 This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like) platforms
98 including FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and most commericial
99 UNIX systems. The release has also been ported (in part or in whole)
100 to other platforms including BeOS, MacOS, and MS Windows NT/2000.