A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.3
The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
of OpenLDAP Software 2.3, 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
- Updated slapd "overlay" interface, and several
example (and mostly experimental) overlays.
- Updated LDAP "sync" Engine with replication support,
provider now an "overlay"
- Numerous access control enhancements, including
experimental "don't disclose on error" capability
- Configuration backend
* LDAPv3 extensions, including:
- LDAP Password Policy
- LDAP Component Matching (requires OpenLDAP snacc)
- LDAP Modify Increment
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
* Admin Guide, Manual Pages - associated documentation
* SNACC - ASN.1 development tools for OpenLDAP
In addition, there are some contributed components:
* LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
* Various slapd modules and slapi plugins
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 non-restrictive, "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.
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