-A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.1
+A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.2
The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
- of OpenLDAP Software 2.1, a suite of the Lightweight Directory
+ of OpenLDAP Software 2.2, a suite of the Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, and
development tools.
This release contains the following major enhancements:
- * Transactional backend
- * Improved Unicode handling
- * Improved DN handlng
- * Improved Referral handling
- * SASL authentication/authorization mapping
- * SASL in-directory storage of authentication secrets
- * Enhanced administrative limits/access controls
- * Meta backend (experimental)
- * Monitor backend (experimental)
- * Virtual "glue" backend (experimental)
- * LDAP C++ API
- * Updated LDAP C and TCL APIs
+ * Slapd(8) enhancements
+ - LDAP "sync" Engine with replication support
+ - Updated Transactional backend (back-bdb)
+ - Hierarchial backend (back-hdb)
+ - Enhanced native API with Overlay support
+ - Proxy Cache Overlay
+ - Dynamic Group Overlay
+ - NS SLAPI support
+ * Updated LDAP C API
* LDAPv3 extensions, including:
- - Enhanced Language Tag/Range Support
- - 'Who am i?' Extended Operation
- - 'Matched Values' Control
- - 'NOOP' Control
+ - LDAP Content Synchronization ('Sync') Operation
+ - LDAP Cancel Operation
+ - LDAP Paged Results Control
+ - LDAP Pre/Post Read Controls
+ - LDAP Assertion Control
This release includes the following major components:
In addition, there are some contributed components:
* LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
- * ldapTCL - a LDAP TCL SDK
-
- This release contains a number of major code changes. It
- might be a bit rough around the edges. Use with appropriate
- caution.
+ * LDAP SASL - An "auxprop" plugin for Cyrus SASL
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- OpenLDAP Software is developed by a team of volunteers whose use
- the Internet to coordinate their activities. The project is
+ OpenLDAP Software is developed by the OpenLDAP Project. The
+ Project consists of a team of volunteers whose use the
+ Internet to coordinate their activities. The Project is
managed by the OpenLDAP Foundation.
OpenLDAP Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP,
ported (in part or in whole) to other platforms including
Apple MacOS X, IBM zOS, and Microsoft Windows 2000.
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