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.
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