- A N N O U N C E M E N T
-
- LDAP 3.3
-
- 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.
-
- This release includes the following components:
-
- - slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
- - slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
- - ldapd - an LDAP-to-X.500 gateway server
- - centipede - an LDAP centroid generation and maintenance program
- - libldap - an LDAP client library
- - liblber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
- - ldif tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
- - in.xfingerd - a finger-to-LDAP gateway server
- - go500 - a gopher-to-LDAP gateway server for searching
- - go500gw - a gopher-to-LDAP gateway server for searching and browsing
- - rcpt500 - an email-to-LDAP query responder
- - mail500 - an LDAP-capable mailer
- - fax500 - an LDAP-capable mailer that supports remote printing
- - LDAP tools - A collection of shell-based LDAP utility programs
+A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.1
+
+ The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
+ of OpenLDAP 2.1, a suite of the Lightweight Directory Access
+ Protocol 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
+ * LDAPv3 extensions, including:
+ - Enhanced Language Tag/Range Support
+ - 'Who am i?' Extended Operation
+ - 'Matched Values' Control
+
+ This release includes the following major components:
+
+ * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
+ * slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
+ * -lldap - a LDAP client library
+ * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
+ * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
+ * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utility programs
In addition, there are some contributed components:
- - web500 - an HTTP-to-LDAP gateway
- - whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
- - saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
+ * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
+ * ldapTCL - a LDAP TCL SDK
-CHANGES
+ This release contains a number of major code changes. It
+ might be a bit rough around the edges. Use with appropriate
+ caution.
- 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
+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 LDAP implementation is derived from University of
+ Michigan LDAP release 3.3.
- 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:
+ This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
+ an unrestrictive, "free," OSI-approved open source license.
+ For download information is available at:
+
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
- ftp://terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu/ldap/ldap-3.3.tar.Z
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:
+ 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/
- ldap-support@umich.edu
+ In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
+ related OpenLDAP. A list of mailing lists is available at:
- In addition, there is a discussion list for issues relating to this
- implementation of ldap:
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
- ldap@umich.edu -- discussion list
- ldap-request@umich.edu -- to join the list
+ To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
- Comments or questions about the LDAP protocol in general should be
- sent to the IETF ASID discussion group:
+ http://www.openldap.org/its/
- 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.OpenLDAP.org/
- http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/ldap/
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 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's MacOS and Microsoft's Windows 2000.
- 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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