--On Friday, December 10, 2021 8:14 AM +0100 Ulrich Windl Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de wrote:
OpenLDAP 2.6 is the current release series. OpenLDAP 2.4 is no longer in support. As I noted previously, Symas provides pre‑built binaries via a repository as described at https://repo.symas.com/soldap/. Paid support is optionally available as well.
Also, I'd note again that the vendor supplied builds are woefully out of date and are generally unsuitable for a production environment, especially one running business critical applications.
Well, as long as those vendors offer support for their packages it's discussable whether those packages are suitable for production environments. At the moment I'm taking part in some online training, and I found out that the OS of the training environment had its last update in 2019, so probably the effective date of the software is even older. The company offering the training has _lots_ of money, however...
Not all production environment needs bleeding edge software.
I'm not aware of any vendor that offers support for their OpenLDAP packages. RedHat in particular is most known for causing bugs (including serious CVEs) in OpenLDAP with broken patches because they don't understand the code. And the particular version of OpenLDAP 2.4 referenced here is years out of date, with numerous critical bug fixes having occurred since it was released.
Additionally, the packages provided for *free* by Symas are the same packages used in production by our paying support customers, and critical issues found therein are promptly fixed. So *free* users get actual support and benefit from using our packages that are not obtainable via distribution provided packages.
Regards, Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount Product Architect Symas Corporation Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP: http://www.symas.com