1 A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.3
3 The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
4 of OpenLDAP Software 2.3, a suite of the Lightweight Directory
5 Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, and
8 This release contains the following major enhancements:
10 * Slapd(8) enhancements
11 - Updated slapd "overlay" interface, and several
12 example (and mostly experimental) overlays.
13 - Updated LDAP "sync" Engine with replication support,
14 provider now an "overlay"
15 - Numerous access control enhancements, including
16 experimental "don't disclose on error" capability
17 - Configuration backend
18 * LDAPv3 extensions, including:
19 - LDAP Password Policy
20 - LDAP Component Matching (requires OpenLDAP snacc)
21 - LDAP Modify Increment
23 This release includes the following major components:
25 * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
26 * slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
27 * -lldap - a LDAP client library
28 * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
29 * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
30 * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utilities
31 * Admin Guide, Manual Pages - associated documentation
32 * SNACC - ASN.1 development tools for OpenLDAP
34 In addition, there are some contributed components:
36 * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
37 * Various slapd modules and slapi plugins
42 OpenLDAP Software is developed by the OpenLDAP Project. The
43 Project consists of a team of volunteers whose use the
44 Internet to coordinate their activities. The Project is
45 managed by the OpenLDAP Foundation.
47 OpenLDAP Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP,
53 This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
54 an non-restrictive, "free", open-source license. For download
55 information is available at:
57 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
62 OpenLDAP Software is user supported:
64 http://www.openldap.org/support/
66 The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick
67 start instructions, is available at:
69 http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/
71 The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
73 http://www.openldap.org/faq/
75 In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
76 related OpenLDAP Software. A list of mailing lists is
79 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
81 To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
83 http://www.openldap.org/its/
85 The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
86 and online documentation is available at this URL:
88 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
93 This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like)
94 platforms including Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD
95 and most commercial UNIX systems. The release has also been
96 ported (in part or in whole) to other platforms including
97 Apple MacOS X, IBM zOS, and Microsoft Windows 2000.
100 OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
102 Copyright 1999-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City,
103 California, USA. All Rights Reserved. Permission to copy and
104 distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted.