X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCEMENT;h=e0824363ef80494312cb97c661035d4fc851dbc5;hb=fa8aa9b2f9afcc9efe51f3c52f1213bde87b9913;hp=0075060e709f79413bb850bb0ad360109104b645;hpb=42e0d83cb3a1a1c5b25183f1ab74ce7edbe25de7;p=openldap diff --git a/ANNOUNCEMENT b/ANNOUNCEMENT index 0075060e70..e0824363ef 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCEMENT +++ b/ANNOUNCEMENT @@ -1,90 +1,100 @@ - 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.