From: Kurt Zeilenga Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 22:25:56 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Import announcement from 2.0-releng X-Git-Tag: LDBM_PRE_GIANT_RWLOCK~2478 X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=679ef062f4868cd19812612b131ffc40e8305dac;p=openldap Import announcement from 2.0-releng --- diff --git a/ANNOUNCEMENT b/ANNOUNCEMENT index 4d81d8c73a..60922d310b 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCEMENT +++ b/ANNOUNCEMENT @@ -1,102 +1,106 @@ - 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.