A new maintentance release for the 2.5 Long Term Support 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)
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 2.5.14 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 race in epoch.c (ITS#9947)
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 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 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)
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