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OpenLDAP 1.1 BETA Available
A N N O U N C E M E N T
OpenLDAP 1.1 BETA
The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
of OpenLDAP BETA Release 1.1, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
Directory Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development tools.
OpenLDAP is derived from University of Michigan LDAP release 3.3.
This release includes the following components:
- slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
- slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
- ldapd - an LDAP-to-X.500 gateway server
- centipede - an LDAP centroid generation and maintenance program
- libldap - an LDAP client library
- liblber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
- ldif tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
- in.xfingerd - a finger-to-LDAP gateway server
- go500 - a gopher-to-LDAP gateway server for searching
- go500gw - a gopher-to-LDAP gateway server for searching and browsing
- rcpt500 - an email-to-LDAP query responder
- mail500 - an LDAP-capable mailer
- fax500 - an LDAP-capable mailer that supports remote printing
- LDAP tools - A collection of shell-based LDAP utility programs
In addition, there are some contributed components:
- gtk-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written gtk
- php3-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written php3
- saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
- whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
CHANGES
Changes from OpenLDAP 1.0
- improved build environment with dynamic library support,
- externally configurable client library support: ldap.conf(5),
- improved password security features include SHA1, MD5, crypt(3)
user and root passwords instead of clear-text password,
- integrated SDK and tools for MS NT,
- platforms updates, and
- numerous bug fixes and build changes.
Changes from U. Mich release 3.3
- TCP Wrappers support added to slapd,
- Berkely DB2 compatibility added to slapd,
- ACL enhancements including Access by Group and POSIX regex(3) support,
- platforms updates, and
- numerous bug fixes and build changes.
See the CHANGES file in the distribution for more details.
AVAILABILITY
This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License and is
available at:
ftp://ftp.OpenLDAP.org/pub/OpenLDAP/openldap-1.1-beta.tgz
SUPPORT
The software is provided as is without any express or implied
warranty, but there is a bug reporting mail address which is
responded to on a best-effort basis:
OpenLDAP-bugs@OpenLDAP.org
In addition, there is a discussion list for issues relating to this
implementation of OpenLDAP:
OpenLDAP-devel@OpenLDAP.org -- discussion list
OpenLDAP-devel-request@OpenLDAP.org -- to join the list
The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
and online documentation is available at this URL:
http://www.OpenLDAP.org/