- A N N O U N C E M E N T
+ A N N O U N C E M E N T
- LDAP 3.3
+ OpenLDAP 1.1
- 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.
+
+ The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
+ of OpenLDAP release 1.1, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
+ Directory Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development tools.
+
+ OpenLDAP is derived from University of Michigan LDAP release 3.3.
This release includes the following components:
In addition, there are some contributed components:
- - web500 - an HTTP-to-LDAP gateway
- - whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
+ - 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
CHANGES
+ Changes from OpenLDAP 1.0
+ - improved build environment with dynamic library support,
+ - externally configurable client library support: ldap.conf(5),
+ - integrated SDK and tools for MS NT,
+ - platforms updates, and
+ - numerous bug fixes and build changes.
- Changes since release 3.2 of LDAP include
+ Changes from U. Mich release 3.3
- - 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
+ - TCP Wrappers support added to slapd,
+ - Berkely DB2 compatibility added to slapd,
+ - ACL enhancements including Access by Group and POSIX regex(3) support,
+ - platforms updates, and
+ - numerous bug fixes and build changes.
See the CHANGES file in the distribution for more details.
AVAILABILITY
- This software is freely available to anyone for any lawful purpose,
- subject to the U-M copyright notice and disclaimer. The software is
- available for anonymous ftp from the following location:
-
- ftp://terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu/ldap/ldap-3.3.tar.Z
+ This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License.
+ For download information is available at:
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/download.html
SUPPORT
warranty, but there is a bug reporting mail address which is
responded to on a best-effort basis:
- ldap-support@umich.edu
+ OpenLDAP-bugs@OpenLDAP.org
In addition, there is a discussion list for issues relating to this
implementation of ldap:
- ldap@umich.edu -- discussion list
- ldap-request@umich.edu -- to join the list
-
- Comments or questions about the LDAP protocol in general should be
- sent to the IETF ASID discussion group:
+ OpenLDAP-devel@OpenLDAP.org -- discussion list
+ OpenLDAP-devel-request@OpenLDAP.org -- to join the list
- ietf-asid@umich.edu -- discussion list
- ietf-asid-request@umich.edu -- to join the list
+ The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
+ and online documentation is available at this URL:
- An LDAP home page containing lots of interesting information and
- online documentation is available at this URL:
-
- http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/ldap/
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
This release has been ported to many UNIX platforms, including
SunOS 4.1.x, Solaris 2.x, Ultrix 4.3, HP-UX 9.05, AIX 3.2.5,
- SCO, FreeBSD, NetBSD, LINUX, IRIX, Digital Unix (OSF/1), and
+ SCO, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, IRIX, Digital Unix (OSF/1), and
NeXTSTEP 3.2. This release has also been ported to VMS.
The client libraries and some clients have also been ported to
MacOS 7.x, MSDOS (some TCP stacks), and MS Windows 3.1/95/NT.
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