A new maintentance release for the 2.6 Feature series has been released, apart from the usual bug fixes listed below this is what administrators should be aware of:
- a memory leak on back-mdb Add operations has been fixed, this is of general importance (ITS#9942) - remoteauth and deref users are advised memory leaks have been fixed there (ITS#9438, ITS#9924) - the transaction exop has had a memory leak fixed (ITS#9892) - dynlist users might see significant improvements in performance in some configurations and might also need to update their configuration (ITS#9897, ITS#9929) - users replicating cn=config will benefit from greater stability (ITS#9930, ITS#9045, ITS#8102) - users of new `escaping` librewrite/rwm functionality are advised of a memory safety issue (off-by-one error) and memory leaks in certain configurations (ITS#9817)
It is 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
Project contributors: Howard Chu (Symas Corp) Quanah Gibson-Mount (Klarna) Ondřej Kuzník (Symas Corp)
Community contributors: Nadezhda Ivanova Connor Smith
OpenLDAP 2.6.4 Release (2023/02/08) Fixed client tools to remove 'h' and 'p' options (ITS#9917,ITS#8618) Fixed ldapsearch memory leak with paged results (ITS#9860) Fixed libldap ldif_open_urlto check for failure (ITS#9904) Fixed libldap ldap_url_parsehosts check for failure (ITS#9904) Fixed liblunicode UTF8bvnormalize buffer size (ITS#9955) Fixed lloadd memory leaks (ITS#9907) Fixed lloadd shutdown code to protect memory correctly (ITS#9913) Fixed lloadd race in epoch.c (ITS#9947) Fixed lloadd potential deadlock with cn=monitor (ITS#9951) Fixed lloadd to keep listener base around when not active (ITS#9984) Fixed lloadd object reclamation sequencing (ITS#9983) Fixed slapd memory leak with olcAuthIDRewrite (ITS#6035) Fixed slapd free of redundant cmdline option (ITS#9912) Fixed slapd transactions extended operations cleanup after write (ITS#9892) Fixed slapd deadlock with replicated cn=config (ITS#9930,ITS#8102) Fixed slapd connection close logic (ITS#9991) Fixed slapd bconfig locking of cn=config entries (ITS#9045) Fixed slapd-mdb max number of index databases to 256 (ITS#9895) Fixed slapd-mdb to always release entries from ADD operations (ITS#9942) Fixed slapd-mdb to fully init empty DN in tool_entry_get (ITS#9940) Fixed slapd-monitor memory leaks with lloadd (ITS#9906) Fixed slapd-monitor to free remembered cookies (ITS#9339) Fixed slapo-accesslog reqStart ordering matching rule (ITS#9880) Fixed slapo-deref memory leak (ITS#9924) Fixed slapo-dynlist to ignore irrelevant objectClasses (ITS#9897) Fixed slapo-dynlist to avoid unnecessary searches (ITS#9929) Fixed slapo-dynlist to mark internal searches as such (ITS#9960) Fixed slapo-pcache crash in consistency_check (ITS#9966) Fixed slapo-remoteauth memory leaks (ITS#9438) Fixed slapo-rwm memory leaks (ITS#9817) Build Environment Fixed ancient DOS related ifdef checks (ITS#9925) Fixed build process to not use gmake specific features (ITS#9894) Fixed source tree to remove symlinks (ITS#9926) Fixed slapo-otp testdir creation (ITS#9437) Fixed slapd-tester memory leak (ITS#9908) Fixed usage of non-standard C syntax (ITS#9898, ITS#9899, ITS#9901) Fixed usage of bashism (ITS#9900) Fixed test suite portability (ITS#9931) Documentation Fixed ldap_bind(3) to document ber_bvfree in ldap_sasl_bind (ITS#9976) Fixed slapo-asyncmeta(5) to clarify scheduling for target connections (ITS#9941) Fixed slapo-dynlist(5) to clarify configuration settings (ITS#9957) Fixed slapo-unique(5) to clarify when quoting should be used (ITS#9915) Minor cleanup ITS#9935 ITS#9336 ITS#9337 ITS#9985