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:
9 * Slapd(8) enhancements
10 - Syncrepl enhancements, including push-mode and
12 - Dynamic configuration enhancements, including
13 online schema editing and full access control
14 - Dynamic monitoring enhancements, including
15 cache usage information
17 - Attribute value constraints
18 - Dynamic Directory Services (RFC2589)
19 - Reverse Group Membership maintenance (memberof)
21 - Full support of request/response controls
22 - New ldapexop tool for arbitrary extend operations
23 - Support of DNS SRV records for default server
24 * Significant performance enhancements throughout
25 the client and server code base
26 * Multiple new features in libldap and liblber
27 * Expanded documentation
28 - Function-complete manual pages
29 - Numerous new examples in the Admin Guide
31 This release includes the following major components:
33 * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
34 * -lldap - a LDAP client library
35 * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
36 * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
37 * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utilities
38 * Admin Guide, Manual Pages - associated documentation
40 In addition, there are some contributed components:
42 * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
43 * Various slapd modules and slapi plugins
48 OpenLDAP Software is developed by the OpenLDAP Project. The
49 Project consists of a team of volunteers whose use the
50 Internet to coordinate their activities. The Project is
51 an organized activity of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
53 OpenLDAP Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP,
59 This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
60 an non-restrictive, "free", open-source license. For download
61 information is available at:
63 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
68 OpenLDAP Software is user supported:
70 http://www.openldap.org/support/
72 The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick
73 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 Software. A list of mailing lists is
85 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
87 To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
89 http://www.openldap.org/its/
91 The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
92 and online documentation is available at this URL:
94 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
99 This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like)
100 platforms including Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD
101 and most commercial UNIX systems. The release has also been
102 ported (in part or in whole) to other platforms including
103 Apple MacOS X, IBM zOS, and Microsoft Windows NT/2000/etc.
106 OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
108 Copyright 1999-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City,
109 California, USA. All Rights Reserved. Permission to copy and
110 distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted.