New backend routine: back_attribute

[openldap] / ANNOUNCEMENT

diff --git a/ANNOUNCEMENT b/ANNOUNCEMENT
index c5e6ea505d976f2d4480a10b10406cf9485256e0..4d81d8c73a146afd371b86488c92b5ec403ea065 100644 (file)
--- a/ANNOUNCEMENT
+++ b/ANNOUNCEMENT
@@ -1,24 +1,33 @@
        A N N O U N C E M E N T
 
-       OpenLDAP 2.0-alpha
+       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
+       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 support
-                       - named referrals
-                       - named aliases
-               * SASL bind support
+                       + RFC2251-2256
+                       + named referrals
+                       + DNS SRV location
+               * SASL support
                * TLS/SSL support
+               * IPv6 support
+               * LDAP over IPC support
                * Updated C API 
-               * Additional SLAPD backends:
-                       - LDAP backend
-                       - Perl backend
-                       - TCL backend
+               * Enhanced Standalone LDAP Server:
+                       + Updated Access Control System
+                       + Thread Pooling
+                       + DNS SRV referral backend
+                       + LDAP backend
+                       + new (Perl, SQL, TCL) programmable backends
+                       + Better tools
 
        This release includes the following major components:
 
@@ -28,7 +37,7 @@
                * -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 mailer - sendmail-compatibile mail delivery agents
                * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utility programs
 
        In addition, there are some contributed components:
@@ -46,13 +55,14 @@ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
        the Internet to coordinate their activities.   The project is
        managed by the OpenLDAP Foundation.
 
-       OpenLDAP software is derived from University of Michigan
-       LDAP release 3.3.
+       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/
@@ -60,23 +70,23 @@ AVAILABILITY
 
 SUPPORT
 
-       OpenLDAP software is user supported.
+       OpenLDAP software is user supported
 
                http://www.openldap.org/support/
 
-       To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
-
-               http://www.openldap.org/its/
-
        The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
 
-               http://www.openldap.org/fag/
+               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/
 
+       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:
 
@@ -86,8 +96,7 @@ SUPPORT
 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 release has also be ported (in part or in whole) to other
-       platforms including BeOS, MacOS, and 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.