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A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.0
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The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
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of OpenLDAP 2.0, a suite of the Lightweight Weight Directory
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Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development tools.
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This release contains the following major enhancements:
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* LDAPv3 support
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+ RFC 2251-2256
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+ Language Tags (RFC 2596)
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+ SASL (RFC2829)
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+ TLS (RFC2830) and SSL (ldaps://)
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+ named references
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+ DNS SRV location
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* IPv6 support
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* LDAP over IPC support
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* Updated C API
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* LDIFv1 (RFC2849)
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* Enhanced Standalone LDAP Server:
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+ Updated Access Control System
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+ Thread Pooling
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+ DNS SRV referral backend (experimental)
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+ LDAP backend (experimental)
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+ SQL backend (experimental)
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+ Better tools
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This release includes the following major components:
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* slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
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* slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
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* -lldap - an LDAP client library
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* -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
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* LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
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* LDAP gateways - finger, gopher, email to LDAP gateways
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* LDAP mailer - sendmail-compatible mail delivery agents
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* LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utility programs
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In addition, there are some contributed components:
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* ldapTCL - the NeoSoft TCL LDAP SDK
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* gtk-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written gtk
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* php3-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written php3
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* saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
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* whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
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This release contains a number of major code changes. It
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might be a bit rough around the edges. Use with appropriate
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caution.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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OpenLDAP is developed by a team of volunteers whose use
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the Internet to coordinate their activities. The project is
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managed by the OpenLDAP Foundation.
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OpenLDAP LDAP implementation is derived from University of
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Michigan LDAP release 3.3.
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AVAILABILITY
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This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
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an unrestrictive, "free," OSS-approved open source license.
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For download information is available at:
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http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
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SUPPORT
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OpenLDAP software is user supported:
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http://www.openldap.org/support/
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The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick
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start instructions, is available at:
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http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/
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The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
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http://www.openldap.org/faq/
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In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
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related OpenLDAP. A list of mailing lists is available at:
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http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
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To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
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http://www.openldap.org/its/
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The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
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and online documentation is available at this URL:
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http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
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SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
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This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like) platforms
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including FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and most commercial
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UNIX systems. The release has also been ported (in part or in whole)
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to other platforms including BeOS, MacOS, and MS Windows NT/2000.
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