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The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
of OpenLDAP release 1.1, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
Directory Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development tools.
OpenLDAP is derived from University of Michigan LDAP release 3.3.
This release includes the following components:
- slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
- slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
- ldapd - an LDAP-to-X.500 gateway server
- centipede - an LDAP centroid generation and maintenance program
- libldap - an LDAP client library
- liblber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
- ldif tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
- in.xfingerd - a finger-to-LDAP gateway server
- go500 - a gopher-to-LDAP gateway server for searching
- go500gw - a gopher-to-LDAP gateway server for searching and browsing
- rcpt500 - an email-to-LDAP query responder
- mail500 - an LDAP-capable mailer
- fax500 - an LDAP-capable mailer that supports remote printing
- LDAP tools - A collection of shell-based LDAP utility programs
In addition, there are some contributed components:
- 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
Changes from OpenLDAP 1.0
- improved build environment with dynamic library support,
- externally configurable client library support: ldap.conf(5),
- improved password security features include SHA1, MD5, crypt(3)
user and root passwords instead of clear-text password
- integrated SDK and tools for MS NT,
- platforms updates, and
- numerous bug fixes and build changes.
- Berkeley DB2 compatibility added to slapd,
- ACL enhancements including Access by Group and POSIX regex(3) support,
- platforms updates, and
- numerous bug fixes and build changes.
See the CHANGES file in the distribution for more details.
This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License.
For download information is available at:
http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
The software is provided as is without any express or implied
warranty, but there is a bug reporting mail address which is
responded to on a best-effort basis:
OpenLDAP-bugs@OpenLDAP.org
In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
related OpenLDAP. A list of mailing lists is available at:
The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
and online documentation is available at this URL:
This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like) platforms
including AIX, Digital UNIX (OSF/1), FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux,
NetBSD, NexTSTEP, OpenBSD, SCO, Solaris, SunOS, and Ultrix.
The client libraries and some clients have also been ported to
MS Windows 95/NT.