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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.
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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.