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:
+
+        * Slapd(8) enhancements
+            - Syncrepl enhancements, including push-mode and
+              Multi-Master support
+            - Dynamic configuration enhancements, including
+              online schema editing and full access control
+            - Dynamic monitoring enhancements, including
+              cache usage information
+        * New overlays
+            - Attribute value constraints
+            - Dynamic Directory Services (RFC2589)
+            - Reverse Group Membership maintenance (memberof)
+        * Clients and tools
+            - Full support of request/response controls
+            - New ldapexop tool for arbitrary extend operations
+            - Support of DNS SRV records for default server
+        * Significant performance enhancements throughout
+            the client and server code base
+        * Multiple new features in libldap and liblber
+        * Expanded documentation
+            - Function-complete manual pages
+            - Numerous new examples in the Admin Guide
+
+    This release includes the following major components:
+
+        * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory 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
+
+    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 who use the
+    Internet to coordinate their activities.  The Project is
+    an organized activity of 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.  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 to 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 NT/2000/etc.
+
+---
+OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
+
+Copyright 1999-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City,
+California, USA.  All Rights Reserved.  Permission to copy and
+distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted.

CHANGES

+OpenLDAP 2.4 Change Log
+
+OpenLDAP 2.4.8 Engineering
+	Fixed ldapmodify verbose logging (ITS#5247)
+	Fixed ldapmodify exit code init (ITS#5317)
+	Fixed libldap extended decoding (ITS#5304)
+	Fixed libldap filter abort (ITS#5300)
+	Fixed libldap ldap_parse_sasl_bind_result (ITS#5263)
+	Fixed libldap search timeout crash (ITS#5291)
+	Fixed libldap paged results crash (ITS#5315)
+	Fixed ldapdelete with sizelimit (ITS#5294)
+	Fixed slapd idlcache on adds (ITS#5086)
+	Fixed slapd include handling (ITS#5276)
+	Fixed slapd indexing with component matching (ITS#4112)
+	Fixed slapd modrdn check for valid new DN (ITS#5344)
+	Fixed slapd multi-step SASL binds (ITS#5298)
+	Fixed slapd non-atomic signal variables (ITS#5248)
+	Fixed slapd overlay ordering when moving to slapd.d (ITS#5284)
+	Fixed slapd NULL printf (ITS#5264)	
+	Fixed slapd NULL set values (ITS#5286)
+	Fixed slapd segv with SASL/OTP (ITS#5259)
+	Fixed slapd-bdb segv with bdb4.6 (ITS#5322)
+	Fixed slapd-bdb modrdn to same dn (ITS#5319)
+	Added slapd-bdb/slapd-hdb DB encryption (ITS#5359)
+	Fixed slapd-ldif delete (ITS#5265)
+	Fixed slapd-monitor crash (ITS#5311)
+	Added slapd-sock (ITS#4094)
+	Added slapo-autogroup contrib module (ITS#5145)
+	Added slapo-constraint cross-attribute constraints (ITS#4987)
+	Fixed slapo-memberof objectClass inheritance (ITS#5299)
+	Added slapo-memberof global overlay support (ITS#5301)
+	Fixed slapo-memberof leak (ITS#5302)
+	Fixed slapo-ppolicy only password check with policy (ITS#5285)
+	Fixed slapo-syncrepl hang on checkpoint (ITS#5261)
+	Added slapo-translucent local searching (ITS#5283)
+	Fixed test047 to skip if rwm is not available (ITS#5292)
+	Build Environment
+		Fixed libldap_r threaded library linking (ITS#4982)
+	Documentation
+		DB_CONFIG.example URL wrong in comments (ITS#5288)
+		Add cn=config example for auditlog (ITS#5245)
+		ldapmodify(1) clarification for RFC2849 (ITS#5312)
+
+OpenLDAP 2.4.7 Release (2007/12/14)
+	Added slapd ordered indexing of integer attributes (ITS#5239)
+	Fixed slapd paged results control handling (ITS#5191)
+	Fixed slapd sasl-host parsing (ITS#5209)
+	Fixed slapd filter normalization (ITS#5212)
+	Fixed slapd multiple suffix checking (ITS#5186)
+	Fixed slapd paged results handling when using rootdn (ITS#5230)
+	Fixed slapd syncrepl presentlist handling (ITS#5231)
+	Fixed slapd core schema 'c' definition for RFC4519 (ITS#5236)
+	Fixed slapd 3-way Multi-Master Replication (ITS#5238)
+	Fixed slapd hash collisions in index slots (ITS#5183)
+	Fixed slapd replication of dSAOperation attributes (ITS#5268)
+	Fixed slapadd contextCSN updating (ITS#5225)
+	Fixed slapd-bdb/hdb to report and fail on internal errors (ITS#5232)
+	Fixed slapd-bdb/hdb dn2entry lock bug (ITS#5257)
+	Fixed slapd-bdb/hdb dn2id lock bug (ITS#5262)
+	Fixed slapd-hdb caching on rename ops (ITS#5221)
+	Fixed slapo-accesslog abandoned op cleanup (ITS#5161)
+	Fixed slapo-dds deleting from nonexistent db (ITS#5267)
+	Fixed slapo-memberOf deleted values saving (ITS#5258)
+	Fixed slapo-pcache op->o_abandon handling (ITS#5187)
+	Fixed slapo-ppolicy single password check on modify (ITS#5146)
+	Fixed slapo-ppolicy internal search (ITS#5235)
+	Fixed slapo-syncprov refresh and persist cookie sending (ITS#5210)
+	Fixed slapo-syncprov ignore invalid cookies (ITS#5211)
+	Fixed slapo-translucent interaction with slapo-rwm (ITS#4889)
+	Updated contrib addpartial module (ITS#3593)
+	Build Environment
+		Fixed liblber socket library linking (ITS#5224)
+		Fixed Windows slapd.def rules (ITS#5215)
+	Documentation
+		Fixed grammar errors (ITS#5223)
+		Refint overlay doc contribution (ITS#5217)
+		Dynamic Lists doc contribution to the admin guide (ITS#5216)
+		Fixed ldappasswd(1) and ldapmodify(1) typos (ITS#5269)
+		Fixed domain factor typos (ITS#5237)
+		Fixed slapd.conf(5) maxderefdepth default value typo (ITS#5200)
+		Clarified slapd.conf(5) limits issues in syncrepl (ITS#5243)
+		Fixed slapd-config(5) maxderefdepth default value typo (ITS#5200)
+		Patches for minor typos in man pages (ITS#5228)
+		admin24/replication.sdf spelling (ITS#5270)
+
+
+OpenLDAP 2.4.6 Release (2007/10/31)
+	Initial release for "general use".

COPYRIGHT

-Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation
+Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation
 All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

INSTALL

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ $OpenLDAP: pkg/openldap-guide/release/install.sdf,v 1.16 2002/02/18
 
 This work is part of OpenLDAP Software <http://www.openldap.org/>.
 
-Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

Makefile.in

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # $OpenLDAP$
 ## This work is part of OpenLDAP Software <http://www.openldap.org/>.
 ##
-## Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+## Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 ## All rights reserved.
 ##
 ## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

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 2.1.21+ (recommended)
+        OpenSSL 0.9.7+ (recommended)
+        POSIX REGEX software (required)
+
+    SLAPD:
+        BDB and HDB backends require Oracle Berkeley DB 4.2, 4.4,
+        4.5, or 4.6.  It is highly recommended to apply the patches
+        from Oracle for a given release.
+
+    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/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.
 
 ---
 $OpenLDAP$
 
 This work is part of OpenLDAP Software <http://www.openldap.org/>.
 
-Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

build/config.guess

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ timestamp='2003-07-02-OpenLDAP'
 # configuration script generated by Autoconf, and is distributable
 # under the same distributions terms as OpenLDAP itself.
 
-## Portions Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+## Portions Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 ## All rights reserved.
 ##
 ## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

build/config.sub

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ timestamp='2003-07-04-OpenLDAP'
 # configuration script generated by Autoconf, and is distributable
 # under the same distributions terms as OpenLDAP itself.
 
-## Portions Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+## Portions Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 ## All rights reserved.
 ##
 ## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

build/crupdate

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # $OpenLDAP$
 ## This work is part of OpenLDAP Software <http://www.openldap.org/>.
 ##
-## Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+## Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 ## All rights reserved.
 ##
 ## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@
 
 set -e 		# exit immediately if any errors occur
 
-find . -type f -not -name 'LICENSE*' -print -exec perl -pi -e 's/Copyright ([0-9]{4})([,\-][0-9]{2,4})*,? The OpenLDAP Foundation/Copyright $1-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation/g;' {} \;
+find . -type f -not -name 'LICENSE*' -print -exec perl -pi -e 's/Copyright ([0-9]{4})([,\-][0-9]{2,4})*,? The OpenLDAP Foundation/Copyright $1-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation/g;' {} \;
 

build/dir.mk

 # $OpenLDAP$
 ## This work is part of OpenLDAP Software <http://www.openldap.org/>.
 ##
-## Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+## Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 ## All rights reserved.
 ##
 ## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

build/info.mk

 # $OpenLDAP$
 ## This work is part of OpenLDAP Software <http://www.openldap.org/>.
 ##
-## Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+## Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 ## All rights reserved.
 ##
 ## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

build/lib-shared.mk

 # $OpenLDAP$
 ## This work is part of OpenLDAP Software <http://www.openldap.org/>.
 ##
-## Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+## Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 ## All rights reserved.
 ##
 ## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

build/lib-static.mk

 # $OpenLDAP$
 ## This work is part of OpenLDAP Software <http://www.openldap.org/>.
 ##
-## Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+## Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 ## All rights reserved.
 ##
 ## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

build/lib.mk

 # $OpenLDAP$
 ## This work is part of OpenLDAP Software <http://www.openldap.org/>.
 ##
-## Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+## Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 ## All rights reserved.
 ##
 ## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

build/ltmain.sh

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 # configuration script generated by Autoconf, and is distributable
 # under the same distributions terms as OpenLDAP itself.
 
-## Portions Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+## Portions Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 ## All rights reserved.
 ##
 ## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

build/man.mk

 # $OpenLDAP$
 ## This work is part of OpenLDAP Software <http://www.openldap.org/>.
 ##
-## Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+## Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 ## All rights reserved.
 ##
 ## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ all-common:
 	PAGES=`cd $(srcdir); echo *.$(MANSECT)`; \
 	for page in $$PAGES; do \
 		$(SED) -e "s%LDVERSION%$(VERSION)%" \
-			-e 's%ETCDIR%$(sysconfdir)%' \
+			-e 's%ETCDIR%$(sysconfdir)%g' \
 			-e 's%LOCALSTATEDIR%$(localstatedir)%' \
 			-e 's%SYSCONFDIR%$(sysconfdir)%' \
 			-e 's%DATADIR%$(datadir)%' \

build/missing

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 # configuration script generated by Autoconf, and is distributable
 # under the same distributions terms as OpenLDAP itself.
 
-## Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+## Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 ## All rights reserved.
 ##
 ## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

build/mkdep

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # $OpenLDAP$
 ## This work is part of OpenLDAP Software <http://www.openldap.org/>.
 ##
-## Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+## Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 ## All rights reserved.
 ##
 ## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

build/mkdep.aix

 #! /bin/sh
 ## This work is part of OpenLDAP Software <http://www.openldap.org/>.
 ##
-## Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+## Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 ## All rights reserved.
 ##
 ## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

build/mkrelease

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # $OpenLDAP$
 ## This work is part of OpenLDAP Software <http://www.openldap.org/>.
 ##
-## Copyright 1998-2007 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+## Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
 ## All rights reserved.
 ##
 ## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without