- A N N O U N C E M E N T
-
- OpenLDAP 2.0-Beta
+A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.4
The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
- of OpenLDAP 2.0-Beta, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
- Directory Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development
- tools.
-
- This beta release is for TESTING PURPOSES ONLY.
- This beta release is NOT for GENERAL USE.
- This beta release is NOT feature complete nor well tested.
- This beta release is NOT fully documented.
+ of OpenLDAP Software 2.4, a suite of the Lightweight Directory
+ Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, and
+ development tools.
This release contains the following major enhancements:
- * LDAPv3 support
- + RFC 2251-2256
- + Language Tags (RFC 2596)
- + SASL (RFC2829)
- + TLS (RFC2830) and SSL (ldaps://)
- + named references
- + DNS SRV location
- * IPv6 support
- * LDAP over IPC support
- * Updated C API
- * LDIFv1 (RFC2849)
- * Enhanced Standalone LDAP Server:
- + Updated Access Control System
- + Thread Pooling
- + DNS SRV referral backend (experimental)
- + LDAP backend (experimental)
- + SQL backend (experimental)
- + Better tools
+ * Slapd(8) enhancements
+ - Syncrepl enhancements, including push-mode and
+ Multi-Master support
+ - Dynamic configuration enhancements, including
+ online schema editing and full access control
+ - Dynamic monitoring enhancements, including
+ cache usage information
+ * New overlays
+ - Attribute value constraints
+ - Dynamic Directory Services (RFC2589)
+ - Reverse Group Membership maintenance (memberof)
+ * Clients and tools
+ - Full support of request/response controls
+ - New ldapexop tool for arbitrary extend operations
+ - Support of DNS SRV records for default server
+ * Significant performance enhancements throughout
+ the client and server code base
+ * Multiple new features in libldap and liblber
+ * Expanded documentation
+ - Function-complete manual pages
+ - Numerous new examples in the Admin Guide
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
+ * -lldap - a 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 mailer - sendmail-compatibile mail delivery agents
- * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utility programs
+ * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utilities
+ * Admin Guide, Manual Pages - associated documentation
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
+ * 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:
+ an non-restrictive, "free", open-source license. Download
+ information is available at:
http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
SUPPORT
- OpenLDAP software is user supported
+ OpenLDAP Software is user supported:
http://www.openldap.org/support/
+ The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick
+ start instructions, is available at:
+
+ http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/
+
The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
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:
+ related to OpenLDAP Software. A list of mailing lists is
+ available at:
http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
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.
+
+---
+OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
+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.
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