A N N O U N C E M E N T
- OpenLDAP 1.0
+ OpenLDAP 1.1
The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
- of OpenLDAP release 1.0, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
+ 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.
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 U. Mich release 3.3
+ 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,
- - Berkely DB2 compatibility 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.
This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License.
For download information is available at:
- http://www.OpenLDAP.org/download.html
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
SUPPORT
OpenLDAP-bugs@OpenLDAP.org
- In addition, there is a discussion list for issues relating to this
- implementation of ldap:
+ 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/
- OpenLDAP-devel@OpenLDAP.org -- discussion list
- OpenLDAP-devel-request@OpenLDAP.org -- to join the list
The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
and online documentation is available at this URL:
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
- NeXTSTEP 3.2. This release has also been ported to VMS.
+ 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
- MacOS 7.x, MSDOS (some TCP stacks), and MS Windows 3.1/95/NT.
+ MS Windows 95/NT.