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.
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The following paper and presentation are now available from the
OpenLDAP Publications web page: http://www.openldap.org/pub/
Title: OpenLDAP 2.4 Highlights: Features of the Upcoming Release
Author: Howard Chu, Symas Corp.
URL: http://www.openldap.org/pub/hyc/LDAPcon2007.pdf (paper)
URL: http://www.openldap.org/pub/hyc/LDAPcon2007s.pdf
Abstract:
OpenLDAP is the premier implementation of LDAP client and server
software, providing full support of LDAPv3 and most popular standard
and draft (work in progress) LDAP extensions. It has evolved over the
years from its origins in the University of Michigan's reference
implementation of LDAPv2 as a vehicle for experimentation into a
mature, commercial grade package capable of supporting the most
demanding environments. The current release has been proven to scale
to hundreds of millions of objects in data volumes in excess of a
terabyte, with performance in excess of 22,000 queries per second at
sub-millisecond latencies. Reliability in production deployments has
been flawless, with hardware failure being the principal cause of
unscheduled downtime. This paper presents a brief overview of
features in the newest release, along with a brief history and
motivation for the new developments.