- A N N O U N C E M E N T
-
- LDAP 3.3
-
- The University of Michigan is pleased to announce release 3.3 of
- UM-LDAP, an implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access
- Protocol. LDAP is a draft Internet standard directory service
- protocol that runs over TCP/IP. It can be used to provide a
- stand-alone directory service, or to provide lightweight access to
- the X.500 directory. LDAP is defined by RFC 1777 and RFC 1778.
-
- This release includes the following components:
-
- - slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
- - slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
- - ldapd - an LDAP-to-X.500 gateway server
- - centipede - an LDAP centroid generation and maintenance program
- - libldap - an LDAP client library
- - liblber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
- - ldif tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
- - in.xfingerd - a finger-to-LDAP gateway server
- - go500 - a gopher-to-LDAP gateway server for searching
- - go500gw - a gopher-to-LDAP gateway server for searching and browsing
- - rcpt500 - an email-to-LDAP query responder
- - mail500 - an LDAP-capable mailer
- - fax500 - an LDAP-capable mailer that supports remote printing
- - LDAP tools - A collection of shell-based LDAP utility programs
-
- In addition, there are some contributed components:
-
- - web500 - an HTTP-to-LDAP gateway
- - whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
- - saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
-
-CHANGES
-
- Changes since release 3.2 of LDAP include
-
- - slurpd has been rewritten as a single process threaded daemon
- - ldaptools (ldapsearch, etc) now support the LDIF format
- - support for LDAP URLs added to libldap
- - improved support for LDAP referrals in libldap
- - preliminary test scripts included
- - support for additional platforms
- - various bug fixes and build fixes
-
- See the CHANGES file in the distribution for more details.
+ A N N O U N C E M E N T
+
+ 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 contains the following major enhancements:
+
+ * LDAPv3 support
+ - RFC2251 support
+ - named referrals
+ - named aliases
+ * SASL bind support
+ * TLS/SSL support
+ * Updated C API
+ * Additional SLAPD backends:
+ - LDAP backend
+ - Perl backend
+ - TCL 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
+
+
+ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+
+ OpenLDAP is developed by a team of volunteers whose use
+ the Internet to coordinate their activities. The project is
+ managed by the OpenLDAP Foundation.
+
+ OpenLDAP software is derived from University of Michigan
+ LDAP release 3.3.
+