- A N N O U N C E M E N T
+ A N N O U N C E M E N T
- LDAP 3.3
+ OpenLDAP 1.0
- 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.
+
+ Net Boolean Incorporated is pleased to announce the availability
+ of OpenLDAP release 1.0, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
+ Directory Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development tools.
+
+ OpenLDAP is derived from University of Michigan LDAP release 3.3.
This release includes the following components:
- saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
CHANGES
+ Changes from U. Mich release 3.3
- Changes since release 3.2 of LDAP include
-
- - 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
+ - TCP Wrappers support added to slapd,
+ - Berkely DB2 compatibility added to slapd,
+ - ACL enhancements including Access by Group and POSIX regex(3) support,
+ - platforms updates, and
+ - numerous bug fixes and build changes.
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:
-
- ftp://terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu/ldap/ldap-3.3.tar.Z
+ This software is available under the Net Booloean Public License.
+ For download information is available at:
+ http://www.boolean.net/technlogy/ldap.html
SUPPORT
warranty, but there is a bug reporting mail address which is
responded to on a best-effort basis:
- ldap-support@umich.edu
+ ldap-dev@boolean.net
In addition, there is a discussion list for issues relating to this
implementation of ldap:
- ldap@umich.edu -- discussion list
- ldap-request@umich.edu -- to join the list
-
- Comments or questions about the LDAP protocol in general should be
- sent to the IETF ASID discussion group:
-
- ietf-asid@umich.edu -- discussion list
- ietf-asid-request@umich.edu -- to join the list
+ ldap-dev@boolean.net -- discussion list
+ ldap-dev-request@boolean.net -- to join the list
An LDAP home page containing lots of interesting information and
online documentation is available at this URL:
- http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/ldap/
+ http://www.boolean.net/technlogy/ldap.html
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS