--On Monday, December 6, 2021 9:50 AM +0000 santoshk.sethi@tcs.com wrote:

Thanks for the reply Ulrich ....

I have checked some redhat sites .. it says "Starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4, the openldap-servers package has been deprecated and will not be included in a future major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux"

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2440481

We have currently openldap-servers-2.4.23-31.el6.x86_64 and want to upgrade to whatever is the latest stable version. We have checked 2.4.44-24.el7_9 is the latest version comes with RHEL7.9.

Also looking at the openldap.org site, not sure which version is the stable one and not software is available anything as RPM.

The openldap project only provides source. It does not provide binaries.

Symas provides current OpenLDAP builds for RHEL7 and later at:

https://repo.symas.com/soldap/

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

Thanks Emmanuel, Is it a stable version we can reply upon? Because the request is for a production environment which are running critical business applications

As part the OS upgrade (6.4 to 7.9), the default OpenLDAP comes in RHEL7.9 is openldap-servers-2.4.44-24.el7_9.

This is a existing setup in production. We just want to upgrade it (rpm -Uvh) :) on the exisitng RPMs.

#rpm -qa | grep -i openldap openldap-2.4.23-31.el6.x86_64 compat-openldap-2.3.43-2.el6.x86_64 openldap-devel-2.4.23-31.el6.x86_64 openldap-servers-2.4.23-31.el6.x86_64 openldap-clients-2.4.23-31.el6.x86_64

Thanks Santosh

--On Tuesday, December 7, 2021 8:39 AM -0800 Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah@symas.com wrote:

--On Tuesday, December 7, 2021 9:57 AM +0000 santoshk.sethi@tcs.com wrote:

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Thanks Emmanuel, Is it a stable version we can reply upon? Because the request is for a production environment which are running critical business applications

As part the OS upgrade (6.4 to 7.9), the default OpenLDAP comes in RHEL7.9 is openldap-servers-2.4.44-24.el7_9.

This is a existing setup in production. We just want to upgrade it (rpm -Uvh) :) on the exisitng RPMs.

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.

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

--On Monday, December 13, 2021 6:41 AM +0000 santoshk.sethi@tcs.com wrote:

2.5.x is not yet a stable version. You can check under stable directory from the below link:

https://www.openldap.org/software/download/OpenLDAP/

The "openldap-stable" directory is historic and was retired nearly a decade ago. It is left for historic purposes.

OpenLDAP 2.5 (released April 2021) is not a stable version.

https://www.openldap.org/software/roadmap.html

Nothing on the roadmap says that 2.5 is not a stable release.

I'm literally the release engineer for the OpenLDAP project (https://www.openldap.org/project/). I'm telling you two things:

a) 2.4 is historic and no longer supported.

b) 2.5 is the current stable release.

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