- A N N O U N C E M E N T
-
- OpenLDAP 2.0-Gamma
+ A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.0
The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
- of OpenLDAP 2.0-Gamma, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
- Directory Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development
- tools.
-
- This gamma release is for TESTING PURPOSES ONLY.
- This gamma release is NOT for GENERAL USE.
+ of OpenLDAP 2.0, a suite of the Lightweight Directory Access
+ Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development tools.
- This gamma release contains the following major enhancements:
+ This release contains the following major enhancements:
* LDAPv3 support
+ RFC 2251-2256
* 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 mailer - sendmail-compatible mail delivery agents
* LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utility programs
In addition, there are some contributed components:
* saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
* whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
+ This release contains a number of major code changes. It
+ might be a bit rough around the edges. Use with appropriate
+ caution.
+
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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/
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like) platforms
- including FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and most commericial
+ including FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and most commercial
UNIX systems. The release has also been ported (in part or in whole)
to other platforms including BeOS, MacOS, and MS Windows NT/2000.