1A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.4 2 3 The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability 4 of OpenLDAP Software 2.4, a suite of the Lightweight Directory 5 Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, and 6 development tools. 7 8 This release contains the following major enhancements: 9 10 * Slapd(8) enhancements 11 - Syncrepl enhancements, including push-mode and 12 Multi-Master support 13 - Dynamic configuration enhancements, including 14 online schema editing and full access control 15 - Dynamic monitoring enhancements, including 16 cache usage information 17 * New overlays 18 - Attribute value constraints 19 - Dynamic Directory Services (RFC2589) 20 - Reverse Group Membership maintenance (memberof) 21 * Clients and tools 22 - Full support of request/response controls 23 - New ldapexop tool for arbitrary extend operations 24 - Support of DNS SRV records for default server 25 * Significant performance enhancements throughout 26 the client and server code base 27 * Multiple new features in libldap and liblber 28 * Expanded documentation 29 - Function-complete manual pages 30 - Numerous new examples in the Admin Guide 31 32 This release includes the following major components: 33 34 * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server 35 * -lldap - a LDAP client library 36 * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library 37 * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd 38 * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utilities 39 * Admin Guide, Manual Pages - associated documentation 40 41 In addition, there are some contributed components: 42 43 * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK 44 * Various slapd modules and slapi plugins 45 46 47ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 48 49 OpenLDAP Software is developed by the OpenLDAP Project. The 50 Project consists of a team of volunteers who use the 51 Internet to coordinate their activities. The Project is 52 an organized activity of the OpenLDAP Foundation. 53 54 OpenLDAP Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP, 55 release 3.3. 56 57 58AVAILABILITY 59 60 This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License, 61 an non-restrictive, "free", open-source license. Download 62 information is available at: 63 64 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/ 65 66 67SUPPORT 68 69 OpenLDAP Software is user supported: 70 71 http://www.openldap.org/support/ 72 73 The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick 74 start instructions, is available at: 75 76 http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/ 77 78 The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful: 79 80 http://www.openldap.org/faq/ 81 82 In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists 83 related to OpenLDAP Software. A list of mailing lists is 84 available at: 85 86 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/ 87 88 To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System: 89 90 http://www.openldap.org/its/ 91 92 The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information 93 and online documentation is available at this URL: 94 95 http://www.OpenLDAP.org/ 96 97 98SUPPORTED PLATFORMS 99 100 This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like) 101 platforms including Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD 102 and most commercial UNIX systems. The release has also been 103 ported (in part or in whole) to other platforms including 104 Apple MacOS X, IBM zOS, and Microsoft Windows NT/2000/etc. 105 106--- 107OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation. 108 109Copyright 1999-2011 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City, 110California, USA. All Rights Reserved. Permission to copy and 111distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted. 112