- 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 1.1
- 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.
+ The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
+ of OpenLDAP release 1.1, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
+ Directory Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development tools.
- This release includes the following components:
+ OpenLDAP is derived from University of Michigan LDAP release 3.3.
+
+ This release includes the following components:
- slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
- slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
- fax500 - an LDAP-capable mailer that supports remote printing
- LDAP tools - A collection of shell-based LDAP utility programs
- In addition, there are some contributed components:
+ In addition, there are some contributed components:
- - web500 - an HTTP-to-LDAP gateway
- - whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
+ - 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
CHANGES
-
- 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
-
- See the CHANGES file in the distribution for more details.
+ Changes from OpenLDAP 1.0
+ - improved build environment with dynamic library support,
+ - externally configurable client library support: ldap.conf(5),
+ - improved password security features include SHA1, MD5, crypt(3)
+ user and root passwords instead of clear-text password
+ - integrated SDK and tools for MS NT,
+ - platforms updates, and
+ - numerous bug fixes and build changes.
+
+ Changes from U. Mich release 3.3
+ - TCP Wrappers support added to slapd,
+ - Berkeley 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 OpenLDAP Public License.
+ For download information is available at:
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
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:
-
- ldap-support@umich.edu
+ 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:
- In addition, there is a discussion list for issues relating to this
- implementation of ldap:
+ OpenLDAP-bugs@OpenLDAP.org
- ldap@umich.edu -- discussion list
- ldap-request@umich.edu -- to join the list
+ In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
+ related OpenLDAP. A list of mailing lists is available at:
- Comments or questions about the LDAP protocol in general should be
- sent to the IETF ASID discussion group:
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
- ietf-asid@umich.edu -- discussion list
- ietf-asid-request@umich.edu -- to join the list
+ The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
+ and online documentation is available at this URL:
- 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.OpenLDAP.org/
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 AIX, Digital UNIX (OSF/1), FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux,
+ NetBSD, NexTSTEP, OpenBSD, SCO, Solaris, SunOS, and Ultrix.
+
+ The client libraries and some clients have also been ported to
+ MS Windows 95/NT.
- 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.
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