openldap-announce August 2026

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OpenLDAP 2.7.0 now available
by project＠openldap.org 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

OpenLDAP Version 2.7 Feature Release Announcement August 6, 2026 The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the general availability of OpenLDAP Software version 2.7, a suite of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, documentation, and development tools. This release contains significant new functions that have been contributed by Symas, its customers, and by other organizations and individuals that use OpenLDAP. As with all new software 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 * libldap enhancements: DNS SRV record support now also supports ldaps Support for TPM chips, smartcards, or hardware security modules Support for the mbedTLS library * back-mdb enhancements: Now using LMDB 1.0 which adds page-level database encryption and/or checksums New OpenLDAP Server Capabilities General * New Access Control Features There is now an explicit "increment" permission for ACLs ACLs can now be applied to operations and controls * New lloadd Configuration support The listen feature can now be modified at runtime * Index keys use 64 bit hashes by default now instead of 32 bit Details Updates to Existing Backends * back-asyncmeta has improved target connection management Updates to Existing Overlays The following updates have been made to existing overlays: * ppolicy: Added support for dynamic policy selection, per-policy default password hashes, rehashing of passwords on simple bind * otp: Added support for the LDAP Compare operation Deprecated Features * GnuTLS is no longer recommended and scheduled for removal in OpenLDAP 2.8 Obsolete Features that have been removed * back-perl and back-sql have been removed See the OpenLDAP 2.7 Administrators Guide Appendix, Section "Changes Since Previous Release" for the full set of new features and enhancements. 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 1999-2026 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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LMDB 1.0.1 now available
by project＠openldap.org 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

LMDB 1.0.1 is now available for use. This is a maintenance release and is made available for general use. Project contributors: Howard Chu (Symas Corp) LMDB 1.0.1 Release (2026/08/06) ITS#10529 - invalidate DBIs in rollback ITS#10534 - update mdb_env_get_maxkeysize() doc ITS#10536 - re-fix mdb_drop(MAIN_DBI) ITS#10538 - fix large writes on Windows ITS#10539 - Windows build fixes ITS#10540 - cleanup outdated license notices ITS#10542 - Windows buffered/writethru write behavior ITS#10551 - fix mdb_page_split nodesize calculation ITS#10553 - Another Windows build fix

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LMDB 0.9.36 now available
by project＠openldap.org 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

LMDB 0.9.36 is now available for use. This is a maintenance release and is made available for general use. Project contributors: Howard Chu (Symas Corp) Community contributors: Lorenz Bauer Josh Soref LMDB 0.9.36 Release (2026/08/06) ITS#7772 - limit sub-page growth when re-adding existing data ITS#8335 - more input validation for put(MDB_MULTIPLE) ITS#8386 - be a bit more precise that mdb_get retrieves data in intro.doc ITS#8590 - suppress SIGPIPE on Mac OSX for mdb_copy/compact ITS#8739 - don't use fdatasync on FreeBSD 11.0 and older ITS#8824 - mdb_dump: cleanup check for MDB_SUCCESS ITS#9388 - fix mdb_stat page counts for dupsort DBs ITS#10054 - fix write of 2GB values ITS#10108 - mdb_dump: fix comment ITS#10454 - fix metapage sync on Mac OSX ITS#10504 - silence linker warning on Mac OSX ITS#10522 - reject 0-length values in DUPSORT DBs ITS#10538 - fix large writes on Windows

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OpenLDAP 2.6.14 now available
by project＠openldap.org 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

OpenLDAP 2.6.14 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 (Dropbox) Ondřej Kuzník (Symas Corp) Community contributors: Nadezhda Ivanova OpenLDAP 2.6.14 Release (2026/08/06) Added libldap support for OpenSSL 4.0 series (ITS#10498) Fixed lloadd to report errors from bindconf_parse (ITS#10525) Fixed lloadd incoming message id validation (ITS#10505) Fixed slapd to report errors from bindconf_parse (ITS#10525) Fixed slapd-mdb IDL code to optimize the intersection of a list and a range (ITS#10526) Fixed slapo-constraint count constraint with more than one attribute (ITS#10491) Fixed slapadd to ignore dynamic attributes in input LDIF (ITS#10501) Minor Cleanup ITS#8064 ITS#9909 ITS#10026 ITS#10467 ITS#10469 ITS#10470 ITS#10471 ITS#10473 ITS#10476 ITS#10479 ITS#10480 ITS#10481 ITS#10482 ITS#10483 ITS#10484 ITS#10485 ITS#10489 ITS#10492 ITS#10493 ITS#10478 ITS#10495 ITS#10496 ITS#10500 ITS#10503 ITS#10510 ITS#10514 ITS#10516 ITS#10524 ITS#10530 ITS#10532 ITS#10533 ITS#10535 ITS#10541 ITS#10543 ITS#10548 ITS#10550 ITS#10554 ITS#10556 ITS#10559

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