X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCEMENT;h=75d47a04f3744778fb44e0a985761537821990ed;hb=5b2687a0106a77977106b0a726f7e9e9026bdc8c;hp=d73d0092f15a1ea120975c434d1dd98dc8df25be;hpb=c8f7041c095fecae0a7067e7338c7f480265d82b;p=openldap diff --git a/ANNOUNCEMENT b/ANNOUNCEMENT index d73d0092f1..75d47a04f3 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCEMENT +++ b/ANNOUNCEMENT @@ -1,89 +1,87 @@ - A N N O U N C E M E N T - - OpenLDAP 2.0-Beta +A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.4 The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability - of OpenLDAP 2.0-Beta, a suite of the Lightweight Weight - Directory Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development - tools. - - This beta release is for TESTING PURPOSES ONLY. - This beta release is NOT for GENERAL USE. - This beta release is NOT feature complete nor well tested. - This beta release is NOT fully documented. + of OpenLDAP Software 2.4, a suite of the Lightweight Directory + Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, and + development tools. This release contains the following major enhancements: - * LDAPv3 support - + RFC 2251-2256 - + Language Tags (RFC 2596) - + SASL (RFC2829) - + TLS (RFC2830) and SSL (ldaps://) - + named references - + DNS SRV location - * IPv6 support - * LDAP over IPC support - * Updated C API - * LDIFv1 (RFC2849) - * Enhanced Standalone LDAP Server: - + Updated Access Control System - + Thread Pooling - + DNS SRV referral backend (experimental) - + LDAP backend (experimental) - + SQL backend (experimental) - + Better tools + * Slapd(8) enhancements + - Syncrepl enhancements, including push-mode and + Multi-Master support + - Dynamic configuration enhancements, including + online schema editing and full access control + - Dynamic monitoring enhancements, including + cache usage information + * New overlays + - Attribute value constraints + - Dynamic Directory Services (RFC2589) + - Reverse Group Membership maintenance (memberof) + * Clients and tools + - Full support of request/response controls + - New ldapexop tool for arbitrary extend operations + - Support of DNS SRV records for default server + * Significant performance enhancements throughout + the client and server code base + * Multiple new features in libldap and liblber + * Expanded documentation + - Function-complete manual pages + - Numerous new examples in the Admin Guide This release includes the following major components: * 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 tools - A collection of command line LDAP utility programs + * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utilities + * Admin Guide, Manual Pages - associated documentation In addition, there are some contributed components: - * ldapTCL - the NeoSoft TCL LDAP SDK - * 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 + * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK + * Various slapd modules and slapi plugins 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 Software is developed by the OpenLDAP Project. The + Project consists of a team of volunteers who use the + Internet to coordinate their activities. The Project is + an organized activity of the OpenLDAP Foundation. - OpenLDAP LDAP implementation is derived from University of - Michigan LDAP release 3.3. + OpenLDAP Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP, + release 3.3. AVAILABILITY This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License, - an unrestrictive, "free," OSS-approved open source license. - For download information is available at: + an non-restrictive, "free", open-source license. Download + information is available at: http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/ 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/ In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists - related OpenLDAP. A list of mailing lists is available at: + related to OpenLDAP Software. A list of mailing lists is + available at: http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/ @@ -99,8 +97,15 @@ SUPPORT SUPPORTED PLATFORMS - This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like) platforms - including FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and most commericial - UNIX systems. The release has also been ported (in part or in whole) - to other platforms including BeOS, MacOS, and MS Windows NT/2000. + This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like) + platforms including Darwin, 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 MacOS X, IBM zOS, and Microsoft Windows NT/2000/etc. + +--- +OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation. +Copyright 1999-2013 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City, +California, USA. All Rights Reserved. Permission to copy and +distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted.