- A N N O U N C E M E N T
-
- LDAP 3.3
-
- 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.
-
- 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
+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:
- - web500 - an HTTP-to-LDAP gateway
- - whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
- - saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
+ * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
+ * Various slapd modules and slapi plugins
-CHANGES
- Changes since release 3.2 of LDAP include
+ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- - 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
+ 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 Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP,
+ release 3.3.
- 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:
+ 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/
- ftp://terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu/ldap/ldap-3.3.tar.Z
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:
+
+ http://www.openldap.org/support/
+
+ The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick
+ start instructions, is available at:
- ldap-support@umich.edu
+ http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/
- In addition, there is a discussion list for issues relating to this
- implementation of ldap:
+ The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
- ldap@umich.edu -- discussion list
- ldap-request@umich.edu -- to join the list
+ http://www.openldap.org/faq/
- Comments or questions about the LDAP protocol in general should be
- sent to the IETF ASID discussion group:
+ In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
+ related to OpenLDAP Software. A list of mailing lists is
+ available at:
- ietf-asid@umich.edu -- discussion list
- ietf-asid-request@umich.edu -- to join the list
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
- An LDAP 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/its/
+
+ The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
+ and online documentation is available at this URL:
+
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
- http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/ldap/
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 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.
+
+---
+OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
- 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.
+Copyright 1999-2013 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City,
+California, USA. All Rights Reserved. Permission to copy and
+distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted.