-A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.2
+A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.3
The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
- of OpenLDAP Software 2.2, a suite of the Lightweight Directory
+ of OpenLDAP Software 2.3, a suite of the Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, and
development tools.
This release contains the following major enhancements:
* Slapd(8) enhancements
- - LDAP "sync" Engine with replication support
- - Updated Transactional backend (back-bdb)
- - Hierarchial backend (back-hdb)
- - Enhanced native API with Overlay support
- - Proxy Cache Overlay
- - Dynamic Group Overlay
- - NS SLAPI support
- * Updated LDAP C API
+ - Updated slapd "overlay" interface, and several
+ example (and mostly experimental) overlays.
+ - Updated LDAP "sync" Engine with replication support,
+ provider now an "overlay"
+ - Numerous access control enhancements, including
+ experimental "don't disclose on error" capability
+ - Configuration backend
* LDAPv3 extensions, including:
- - LDAP Content Synchronization ('Sync') Operation
- - LDAP Cancel Operation
- - LDAP Paged Results Control
- - LDAP Pre/Post Read Controls
- - LDAP Assertion Control
+ - LDAP Password Policy
+ - LDAP Component Matching (requires OpenLDAP snacc)
+ - LDAP Modify Increment
This release includes the following major components:
* -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 utilities
+ * Admin Guide, Manual Pages - associated documentation
+ * SNACC - ASN.1 development tools for OpenLDAP
In addition, there are some contributed components:
* LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
- * LDAP SASL - An "auxprop" plugin for Cyrus SASL
-
- This release contains a number of major code changes. It
- might be a bit rough around the edges. Use with appropriate
- caution.
+ * Various slapd modules and slapi plugins
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AVAILABILITY
This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
- an unrestrictive, "free", open-source license. For download
+ an non-restrictive, "free", open-source license. For download
information is available at:
http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
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+Copyright 1999-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City,
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