A new maintentance release for the 2.5 Long Term Support series has been released, fixing two significant issues. Either issue can result in slapd abruptly terminating.
- ITS#10045 regression introduced in 2.5.15 by the initial fix. All users of OpenLDAP 2.5.15 are advised to upgrade. - ITS#10067 A long standing issue since 2001. All users of back-meta or back-asyncmeta are advised to upgrade.
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: Quanah Gibson-Mount (Klarna) Ondřej Kuzník (Symas Corp)
OpenLDAP 2.5.16 Release (2023/07/31) Fixed slapd cn=config incorrect handling of paused (ITS#10045) Fixed slapd-meta to account for MOD ops being optional (ITS#10067) Fixed slapd-asyncmeta to account for MOD ops being optional (ITS#10067)