OpenLDAP 2.4 Announcement

A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.4

     The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
     of OpenLDAP Software 2.4, a suite of the Lightweight Directory
     Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, and
     development tools.

     This release contains the following major enhancements:

         * Slapd(8) enhancements
             - Syncrepl enhancements, including push-mode and
               Multi-Master support
             - Dynamic configuration enhancements, including
               online schema editing and full access control
             - Dynamic monitoring enhancements, including
               cache usage information
         * New overlays
             - Attribute value constraints
             - Dynamic Directory Services (RFC2589)
             - Reverse Group Membership maintenance (memberof)
         * Clients and tools
             - Full support of request/response controls
             - New ldapexop tool for arbitrary extend operations
             - Support of DNS SRV records for default server
         * Significant performance enhancements throughout
             the client and server code base
         * Multiple new features in libldap and liblber
         * Expanded documentation
             - Function-complete manual pages
             - Numerous new examples in the Admin Guide

     This release includes the following major components:

         * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
         * -lldap - a LDAP client library
         * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
         * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
         * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utilities
         * Admin Guide, Manual Pages - associated documentation

     In addition, there are some contributed components:

         * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
         * Various slapd modules and slapi plugins


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

     OpenLDAP Software is developed by the OpenLDAP Project.  The
     Project consists of a team of volunteers who use the
     Internet to coordinate their activities.  The Project is
     an organized activity of the OpenLDAP Foundation.

     OpenLDAP Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP,
     release 3.3.


AVAILABILITY

     This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
     an non-restrictive, "free", open-source license.  Download
     information is available at:

         http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/


SUPPORT

     OpenLDAP Software is user supported:

         http://www.openldap.org/support/

     The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick
     start instructions, is available at:

         http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/

     The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:

         http://www.openldap.org/faq/

     In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
     related to OpenLDAP Software.  A list of mailing lists is
     available at:

         http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/

     To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:

         http://www.openldap.org/its/

     The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
     and online documentation is available at this URL:

         http://www.OpenLDAP.org/


SUPPORTED PLATFORMS

     This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like)
     platforms including Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD
     and most commercial UNIX systems.  The release has also been
     ported (in part or in whole) to other platforms including
     Apple MacOS X, IBM zOS, and Microsoft Windows NT/2000/etc.

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