openldap-announce October 2021

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OpenLDAP 2.6 Release Announcement
by project＠openldap.org 25 Oct '21

25 Oct '21

OpenLDAP Version 2.6 Release Announcement October 25, 2021 The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the general availability of OpenLDAP Software version 2.6, a suite of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, documentation, and development tools. This release contains significant new function that has been contributed by Symas, its customers, and by other organizations and individuals that use OpenLDAP. The Project expects the 2.6 release to be extremely stable in its early releases given the small scope of changes involved. As with all new software, though, the Project recommends that users carefully test the software to ensure it meets their needs. The following new components and capabilities are highlighted for this release: Featured Enhancements New LDAP Load Balancer Capabilities * Additional load balancing strategies * Additional options to improve coherence with certain controls and extended operations * Ability to log directly to a file bypassing syslog New OpenLDAP Server Capabilities General * Ability to log directly to a file bypassing syslog 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, a non-restrictive, "free", open-source license. Download information is available at: https://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/ Binary distributions are available from a number of sources, including Symas and the Linux Toolbox (LTB) Project SUPPORT OpenLDAP Software is user supported: https://www.openldap.org/support/ In addition, commercial support is available from the vendors listed here: https://www.openldap.org/support/ The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick-start instructions, is available at: https://www.openldap.org/doc/admin25/ In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists related to OpenLDAP Software. A list of mailing lists is available at: https://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/ To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System: https://bugs.openldap.org/ The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information and online documentation is available at this URL: https://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 1999-2021 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City, California, USA. All Rights Reserved. Permission to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted.

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OpenLDAP 2.5.9 available
by project＠openldap.org 25 Oct '21

25 Oct '21

OpenLDAP 2.5.9 is now available for download as detailed on our download page: https://www.openldap.org/software/download/ and should soon be available on all official mirrors: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/pub/OpenLDAP/MIRRORS This is a maintenance release and is made available for general use. Users of OpenLDAP Software are encouraged to upgrade. Project contributors: Howard Chu (Symas Corp) Quanah Gibson-Mount (Symas Corp) Ondřej Kuzník (Symas Corp) OpenLDAP 2.5.9 Release (2021/10/25) Fixed slapo-accesslog to initialize minCSN on import of 2.4 databases (ITS#9720) SHA3-512(openldap-2.5.8.tgz)= be0308f9ffcbfafa2c3df88974334b12240d68f43009e688d868aa89c1e73d85d33bc14bb022a2d942ffb1ba8fe7b125ab6ab020d23f7b58c73ea4a922e71152

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OpenLDAP 2.5.8 available
by project＠openldap.org 11 Oct '21

11 Oct '21

OpenLDAP 2.5.8 is now available for download as detailed on our download page: https://www.openldap.org/software/download/ and should soon be available on all official mirrors: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/pub/OpenLDAP/MIRRORS This is a maintenance release and is made available for general use. Users of OpenLDAP Software are encouraged to upgrade. Project contributors: Howard Chu (Symas Corp) Quanah Gibson-Mount (Symas Corp) Ondřej Kuzník (Symas Corp) Community contributors: Anton Avramov David Coutadeur Hamano Tsukasa OpenLDAP 2.5.8 Release (2021/10/11) Fixed libldap ldap_int_tls_connect: isdigit() requires unsigned char (ITS#9668) Fixed libldap memory leak in ldap_get_option LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_PEERCERT (ITS#9696) Fixed slapd to allow normalized values for namingContexts in cn=monitor (ITS#8341) Fixed slapd to normalize the suffix in rootDSE (ITS#9664) Fixed slapd slapadd to avoid destroying configDB prematurely (ITS#9678) Fixed slapd to not spam logs with lastbind information (ITS#9156) Fixed slapd slaptest migration to correctly set olcTSLVerifyClient (ITS#9711) Fixed slapd-mdb multival delete handling (ITS#9712) Fixed slapd-sql ldap_entry_objectclass table for mariadb/mysql (ITS#9679) Fixed slapd-wt multiple issues (ITS#9463) Fixed slapd-wt to close cache db correctly (ITS#9631) Fixed slapo-ppolicy to restore OpenLDAP 2.4 compatibilty (ITS#9671) Fixed slapo-syncprov to free uuid list when finished replaying sessionlog (ITS#6467) Build Fixed libldap result.c compilation on musl systems (ITS#9648) Fixed slapd duplicate definition of peerbv (ITS#9659) Fixed test suite with memberof modular builds (ITS#9464) Contrib Added man page for ppm contrib module (ITS#9644) Fix crash when pwdCheckModuleArg is not defined for ppm (ITS#9656) Documentation Fixed guide download link for heimdal (ITS#9669) Fixed guide documentation for TLSECName (ITS#9687) Fixed guide documentation missing tags (ITS#9693) Fixed guide loadbalancer typo (ITS#9699) Fixed guide synprov-nopresent redundant text (ITS#9689) Fixed guide various typos and fix config alignment (ITS#9706) Removed ppolicy.schema from servers/slapd/schema/README (ITS#9156) Fixed slapd.conf(5)/slapd-config(5) to document default for database monitoring (ITS#9674) Fixed slapd-meta(5)/slapd-asyncmeta(5) verbiage for try-propagate (ITS#9646) Fixed slapo-syncprov(5) to note entryCSN indexing is highly recommended (ITS#9688) SHA3-512(openldap-2.5.8.tgz)= be0308f9ffcbfafa2c3df88974334b12240d68f43009e688d868aa89c1e73d85d33bc14bb022a2d942ffb1ba8fe7b125ab6ab020d23f7b58c73ea4a922e71152

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