- A N N O U N C E M E N T
-
- OpenLDAP 2.0-Alpha
-
- The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
- of OpenLDAP release 2.0-Alpha, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
- Directory Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development tools.
-
- This release is for REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY.
- This release is NOT FOR GENERAL USE.
- This release is NOT feature complete nor well tested.
-
- This release contains the following major enhancements:
-
- * LDAPv3 support
- + RFC2251-2256
- + named referrals
- + DNS SRV location
- * SASL support
- * TLS/SSL support
- * IPv6 support
- * LDAP over IPC support
- * Updated C API
- * Enhanced Standalone LDAP Server:
- + Updated Access Control System
- + Thread Pooling
- + DNS SRV referral backend
- + LDAP backend
- + new (Perl, SQL, TCL) programmable backends
- + Better tools
-
- 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
- * -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
-
- 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
+ A N N O U N C E M E N T
+
+ OpenLDAP 2.0-Beta
+
+ 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 REFERENCE 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.
+
+ 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
+
+ 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
+ * -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
+
+ 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
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 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.
+ OpenLDAP LDAP implementation 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:
+ This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
+ an unrestrictive, "free," OSS-approved open source license.
+ For download information is available at:
- http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
SUPPORT
- OpenLDAP software is user supported
+ OpenLDAP software is user supported
- http://www.openldap.org/support/
+ http://www.openldap.org/support/
- The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
+ The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
- http://www.openldap.org/faq/
+ 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:
+ In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
+ related OpenLDAP. A list of mailing lists is available at:
- http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
- To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
+ To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
- http://www.openldap.org/its/
+ http://www.openldap.org/its/
- The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
- and online documentation is available at this URL:
+ The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
+ and online documentation is available at this URL:
- http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
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 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.
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