X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCEMENT;h=b437917ff99b54943b306a3e54c98e8ab7d8f4cd;hb=a6883d270464bb74e86141435dc4324e5a5a6b6a;hp=0075060e709f79413bb850bb0ad360109104b645;hpb=42e0d83cb3a1a1c5b25183f1ab74ce7edbe25de7;p=openldap diff --git a/ANNOUNCEMENT b/ANNOUNCEMENT index 0075060e70..b437917ff9 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCEMENT +++ b/ANNOUNCEMENT @@ -1,15 +1,14 @@ - 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 1.2 - 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 1.2, 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 @@ -26,65 +25,69 @@ - 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 + - ldapTCL - the NeoSoft TCL LDAP SDK + - 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 1.1 + - ldappasswd tool, password prompting, salted MD5/SHA1 support + - ldaptcl, a TCP LDAP API from NeoSoft + - platforms updates, and + - numerous bug fixes and build changes. + + 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: + This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License. + For download information is available at: - ftp://terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu/ldap/ldap-3.3.tar.Z + 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.