- 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 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:
-
- * 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
+A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.5
+
+ The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
+ of OpenLDAP Software 2.5, a suite of the Lightweight Directory
+ Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, and
+ development tools.
+
+ This release contains the following major enhancements:
+
+General slapd bits:
+#define LDAP_COLLECTIVE_ATTRIBUTES
+#define LDAP_COMP_MATCH
+#define LDAP_SYNC_TIMESTAMP
+#define SLAP_CONTROL_X_WHATFAILED
+#define SLAP_CONFIG_DELETE
+#define SLAP_AUXPROP_DONTUSECOPY
+threadpool queues
+slapmodify
+non-blocking TLS
+gmtime_mutex
+LDAP_TCP_BUFFER
+Simplify write waiter handling
+
+back-bdb: BDB_MONITOR_IDX
+back-ldap: SLAP_AUTH_DN, FEATURE_CANCHAINOPS
+back-mdb: MDB_MONITOR_IDX
+back-meta: SLAP_AUTH_DN, SLAPD_META_CLIENT_PR
+overlays/syncprov: CHECK_CSN
+overlays/pcache: PCACHE_CONTROL_PRIVDB, PCACHE_EXOP_QUERY_DELETE, PCACHE_MONITOR
+
+ldap.h bits:
+#define LDAP_X_TXN "1.3.6.1.4.1.4203.666.11.7" /* tmp */
+#define LDAP_EXOP_X_TXN_START LDAP_X_TXN ".1"
+#define LDAP_CONTROL_X_TXN_SPEC LDAP_X_TXN ".2"
+#define LDAP_EXOP_X_TXN_END LDAP_X_TXN ".3"
+#define LDAP_EXOP_X_TXN_ABORTED_NOTICE LDAP_X_TXN ".4"
+
+libldap
+channel binding support for OpenSSL, GnuTLS
+Elliptic Curve support for OpenSSL
+
+
+ This release includes the following major components:
+
+ * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory 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 utilities
+ * Admin Guide, Manual Pages - associated documentation
+
+ In addition, there are some contributed components:
+
+ * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
+ * Various slapd modules and slapi plugins
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 developed by the OpenLDAP Project. The
+ Project consists of a team of volunteers who use the
+ Internet to coordinate their activities. The Project is
+ an organized activity of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
- OpenLDAP LDAP implementation is derived from University of
- Michigan LDAP release 3.3.
+ OpenLDAP Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP,
+ release 3.3.
AVAILABILITY
- This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
- an unrestrictive, "free," OSS-approved open source license.
- For download information is available at:
+ This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
+ an non-restrictive, "free", open-source license. Download
+ information is available at:
- http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
SUPPORT
- OpenLDAP software is user supported
+ OpenLDAP Software is user supported:
- http://www.openldap.org/support/
+ http://www.openldap.org/support/
- The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
+ The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick
+ start instructions, is available at:
- http://www.openldap.org/faq/
+ http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/
- In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
- related OpenLDAP. A list of mailing lists is available at:
+ The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
- http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
+ http://www.openldap.org/faq/
- To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
+ In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
+ related to OpenLDAP Software. A list of mailing lists is
+ available at:
- http://www.openldap.org/its/
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
- The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
- and online documentation is available at this URL:
+ To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
- http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
+ 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/
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
- This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like) platforms
- 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.
+ This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like)
+ platforms including Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD
+ and most commercial UNIX systems. The release has also been
+ ported (in part or in whole) to other platforms including
+ Apple MacOS X, IBM zOS, and Microsoft Windows NT/2000/etc.
+
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+OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
+Copyright 1999-2014 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City,
+California, USA. All Rights Reserved. Permission to copy and
+distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted.