The start of a 2.4 branch

ANNOUNCEMENT

+A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.4
+
+    The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
+    of OpenLDAP Software 2.4, a suite of the Lightweight Directory
+    Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, and
+    development tools.
+
+    This release contains the following major enhancements:
+
+        TBD
+
+    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.
+
+---
+OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
+
+Copyright 1999-2006 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City,
+California, USA.  All Rights Reserved.  Permission to copy and
+distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted.

README

-OpenLDAP Devel README
-	This software was obtained from the development branch (HEAD) of
-	the OpenLDAP Software Repository.  This copy is likely already
-	not current, the development branch changes frequently.  These
-	changes include code implementing experimental features and
-	unproven bug fixes.  Please do NOT redistribute copies of the
-	development branch.
-
-	The OpenLDAP Developer's FAQ is available at:
-		http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?file=4
-
-	Client developers seeking a suitable development platform
-	should use "release" or "stable" versions.
-		http://www.openldap.org/software/
-
-Contributing
-
-	See http://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html for how to
-	contribute code or documentation to OpenLDAP.  Use the Issue Tracking
-	System <http://www.openldap.org/its/> to submit contributions.
-	While you are encouraged to coordinate and discuss the development
-	activities on the openldap-devel@openldap.org mailing list prior
-	to submission, it is noted that contributions must be submitted
-	using the Issue Tracking System to be considered.
+OpenLDAP 2.4 README
+    For a description of what this distribution contains, see the
+    ANNOUNCEMENT file in this directory.  For a description of
+    changes from previous releases, see the CHANGES file in this
+    directory.
+
+    This is 2.4 release, it includes significant changes from prior
+    releases.
+
+REQUIRED SOFTWARE
+    Building OpenLDAP Software requires a number of software packages
+    to be preinstalled.  Additional information regarding prerequisite
+    software can be found in the OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide.
+
+    Base system (libraries and tools):
+        Standard C compiler (required)
+        Cyrus SASL 2.1.18+ (recommended)
+        OpenSSL 0.9.7+ (recommended)
+        POSIX REGEX software (required)
+
+    SLAPD:
+        BDB and HDB backends require Sleepycat Berkeley DB 4.2 or later
+
+    SLURPD:
+        LTHREAD compatible thread package
+            [POSIX threads, Mach Cthreads, select others]
+
+    CLIENTS/CONTRIB ware:
+        Depends on package.  See per package README.
+
+
+MAKING AND INSTALLING THE DISTRIBUTION
+    Please see the INSTALL file for basic instructions.  More
+    detailed instructions can be found in the OpenLDAP Admnistrator's
+    Guide (see DOCUMENTATION section).
+
+
+DOCUMENTATION
+    The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide is available in the
+    guide.html file in the doc/guide/admin directory.  The
+    guide and a number of other documents are available at
+    <http://www.openldap.org/doc/guide/admin/guide.html>.
+
+    The distribution also includes manual pages for most programs
+    and library APIs.  See ldap(3) for details.
+
+    The OpenLDAP website is available and contains the latest LDAP
+    news, releases announcements, pointers to other LDAP resources,
+    etc..  It is located at <http://www.OpenLDAP.org/>.
+
+    The OpenLDAP Software FAQ is available at
+    <http://www.openldap.org/faq/>.
+
+
+SUPPORT / FEEDBACK / PROBLEM REPORTS / DISCUSSIONS
+    OpenLDAP Software is user supported.  If you have problems, please
+    review the OpenLDAP FAQ <http://www.openldap.org/faq/> and
+    archives of the OpenLDAP-software and OpenLDAP-bugs mailing lists
+    <http://www.openldap.org/lists/>.  If you cannot find the answer,
+    please enquire on the OpenLDAP-software list.
+
+    Issues, such as bug reports, should be reported using our our
+    Issue Tracking System <http://www.OpenLDAP.org/its/>.  Do not
+    use this system for software enquiries.  Please direct these
+    to an appropriate mailing list.
+
+
+CONTRIBUTING
+    See <http://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html> for
+    information regarding how to contribute code or documentation
+    to the OpenLDAP Project for inclusion in OpenLDAP Software.
+    While you are encouraged to coordinate and discuss the development
+    activities on the <openldap-devel@openldap.org> mailing list
+    prior to submission, it is noted that contributions must be
+    submitted using the Issue Tracking System
+    <http://www.openldap.org/its/> to be considered.
 
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