- A N N O U N C E M E N T
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- OpenLDAP 2.0-Alpha
-
- The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
- of OpenLDAP release 2.0-Alpha, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
- Directory Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development tools.
-
- This release is for REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY.
- This release is NOT FOR GENERAL USE.
- This release is NOT feature complete nor well tested.
-
- This release contains the following major enhancements:
-
- * LDAPv3 support
- + RFC2251-2256
- + named referrals
- + DNS SRV location
- * Enhanced Access Control System
- * SASL support
- * TLS/SSL support
- * IPv6 support
- * Updated C API
- * Additional SLAPD backends:
- + DNS SRV referral backend
- + LDAP backend
- + Perl programmable backend
- + SQL programmable backend
- + TCL programmable backend
-
- This release includes the following major components:
-
- * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
- * slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
- * -lldap - an LDAP client library
- * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
- * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
- * LDAP gateways - finger, gopher, email to LDAP gateways
- * LDAP mailers - sendmail-compatibile mail delivery agents
- * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utility programs
-
- In addition, there are some contributed components:
-
- * ldapTCL - the NeoSoft TCL LDAP SDK
- * gtk-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written gtk
- * php3-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written php3
- * saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
- * whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
+A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.4
+
+ The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
+ of OpenLDAP Software 2.4, a suite of the Lightweight Directory
+ Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, and
+ development tools.
+
+ This release contains the following major enhancements:
+
+ * Slapd(8) enhancements
+ - Syncrepl enhancements, including push-mode and
+ Multi-Master support
+ - Dynamic configuration enhancements, including
+ online schema editing and full access control
+ - Dynamic monitoring enhancements, including
+ cache usage information
+ * New overlays
+ - Attribute value constraints
+ - Dynamic Directory Services (RFC2589)
+ - Reverse Group Membership maintenance (memberof)
+ * Clients and tools
+ - Full support of request/response controls
+ - New ldapexop tool for arbitrary extend operations
+ - Support of DNS SRV records for default server
+ * Significant performance enhancements throughout
+ the client and server code base
+ * Multiple new features in libldap and liblber
+ * Expanded documentation
+ - Function-complete manual pages
+ - Numerous new examples in the Admin Guide
+
+ This release includes the following major components:
+
+ * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
+ * -lldap - a LDAP client library
+ * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
+ * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
+ * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utilities
+ * Admin Guide, Manual Pages - associated documentation
+
+ In addition, there are some contributed components:
+
+ * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
+ * Various slapd modules and slapi plugins