A N N O U N C E M E N T
- OpenLDAP 1.1
+ OpenLDAP 2.0-Alpha
The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
- of OpenLDAP release 1.1, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
+ of OpenLDAP release 2.0-Alpha, 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:
-
- - 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
+ 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:
- - 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),
- - improved password security features include SHA1, MD5, crypt(3)
- user and root passwords instead of clear-text password
- - integrated SDK and tools for MS NT,
- - platforms updates, and
- - numerous bug fixes and build changes.
-
- Changes from U. Mich release 3.3
- - TCP Wrappers support added to slapd,
- - Berkeley 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.
+ * 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 LDAP implementation is derived from University of
+ Michigan LDAP release 3.3.
+
AVAILABILITY
- This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License.
+ This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
+ an unrestrictive, "free," OSS-approved open source license.
For download information is available at:
+
http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
+
SUPPORT
- The software is provided as is without any express or implied
- warranty, but there is a bug reporting mail address which is
- responded to on a best-effort basis:
+ OpenLDAP software is user supported
- OpenLDAP-bugs@OpenLDAP.org
+ http://www.openldap.org/support/
+
+ The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
+
+ http://www.openldap.org/faq/
In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
related OpenLDAP. A list of mailing lists is available at:
- http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
+
+ To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
+
+ http://www.openldap.org/its/
The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
and online documentation is available at this URL:
- http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
+
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like) platforms
- including AIX, Digital UNIX (OSF/1), FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux,
- NetBSD, NexTSTEP, OpenBSD, SCO, Solaris, SunOS, and Ultrix.
-
- The client libraries and some clients have also been ported to
- MS Windows 95/NT.
+ including FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and most commericial
+ UNIX systems. The release has also been ported (in part or in whole)
+ to other platforms including BeOS, MacOS, and MS Windows NT/2000.