- 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
+A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.1
+
+ The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
+ of OpenLDAP 2.1, a suite of the Lightweight Directory Access
+ Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development tools.
+
+ This release contains the following major enhancements:
+
+ * Transactional backend
+ * Improved Unicode handling
+ * Improved DN handlng
+ * Improved Referral handling
+ * SASL authentication/authorization mapping
+ * SASL in-directory storage of authentication secrets
+ * Enhanced administrative limits/access controls
+ * Meta backend (experimental)
+ * Monitor backend (experimental)
+ * Virtual "glue" backend (experimental)
+ * LDAP C++ API
+ * Updated LDAP C and TCL APIs
+ * LDAPv3 extensions, including:
+ - Enhanced Language Tag/Range Support
+ - 'Who am i?' Extended Operation
+ - 'Matched Values' Control
+
+ This release includes the following major components:
+
+ * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
+ * slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication 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 utility programs