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+A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.2
+
+ The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
+ of OpenLDAP Software 2.2, a suite of the Lightweight Directory
+ Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, and
+ development tools.
+
+ This release contains the following major enhancements:
+
+ * Slapd(8) enhancements
+ - LDAP "sync" Engine with replication support
+ - Updated Transactional backend (back-bdb)
+ - Hierarchial backend (back-hdb)
+ - Enhanced native API with Overlay support
+ - Proxy Cache Overlay
+ - Dynamic Group Overlay
+ - NS SLAPI support
+ * Updated LDAP C API
+ * LDAPv3 extensions, including:
+ - LDAP Content Synchronization ('Sync') Operation
+ - LDAP Cancel Operation
+ - LDAP Paged Results Control
+ - LDAP Pre/Post Read Controls
+ - LDAP Assertion 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 utilities
+
+ In addition, there are some contributed components:
+
+ * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
+ * LDAP SASL - An "auxprop" plugin for Cyrus SASL
+
+ This release contains a number of major code changes. It
+ might be a bit rough around the edges. Use with appropriate
+ caution.
+
+
+ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+
+ OpenLDAP Software is developed by the OpenLDAP Project. The
+ Project consists of a team of volunteers whose use the
+ Internet to coordinate their activities. The Project is
+ managed by the OpenLDAP Foundation.
+
+ OpenLDAP Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP,
+ release 3.3.
+
+
+AVAILABILITY
+
+ This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
+ an unrestrictive, "free", open-source license. For download
+ information is available at:
+
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
+
+
+SUPPORT
+
+ 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/
+
+ In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
+ related OpenLDAP Software. A list of mailing lists is
+ available at:
+
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
+
+ To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
+
+ http://www.openldap.org/its/
+
+ The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
+ and online documentation is available at this URL:
+
+ http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
+
+
+SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
+
+ This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like)
+ platforms including Darwin, 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 MacOS X, IBM zOS, and Microsoft Windows 2000.
+
+---
+OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
+
+Copyright 1999-2004 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City,
+California, USA. All Rights Reserved. Permission to copy and
+distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted.