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diff --git a/ANNOUNCEMENT b/ANNOUNCEMENT new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a3869c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/ANNOUNCEMENT @@ -0,0 +1,168 @@ +A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.5 + + The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability + of OpenLDAP Software 2.5, 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 + - kqueue support for BSD based OSes + - cn=config delete support + - Don't use copy control support + - Threadpool queues + - non-blocking TLS support + - Configurable TCP read and write buffers + for listeners. + - LDAP Transaction support + - MS AD Lazy commit control + - MS AD replication support + - DSEE replication support + - Sun/Netscape draft persistent search support + - HAProxy proxy protocol v2 support + * New backends + - back-wt: Wiredtiger backend to slapd (Experimental) + - back-asyncmeta: Async version of back-meta + * Backend updates + - back-ldap: CANCHAINOPS + - back-meta META_CLIENT_PR + - back-monitor is always built as a part of slapd + * Retired backends + - back-bdb + - back-hdb + - back-shell + * Deprecated backends + - back-ndb + - back-sql + - back-perl + * New overlays + - autoca + - homedir + - otp + - remoteauth + * New password hashing module + - argon2 + * Overlay updates + - pcache can access private DB with control + - pcache can remove a query from the cache + with exop + - back-monitor support for pcache + - ppolicy updated with password policy + draft 10 support + - dynlist can now generate (is)memberOf + dynamically + - dynlist do reverse lookups to find all + groups a user belongs to + - unique can now do db wide locking to avoid + race conditions + * New Library + - libldif provides an LDIF parsing API + * Library updates + - libldap_r has been merged with libldap + - libldap has TLS channel binding support + - libldap has TLS public key pinning support + - libldap has TLS SNI support + - libldap has GSSAPI channel binding support + * Clients and tools + - slapmodify for offline updates to cn=config + * Significant performance enhancements throughout + the client and server code base + * New contrib overlays + - adremap remaps attributes for PAM/NSS MS AD + support + - authzid implements RFC 3829 support + - datamorph stores enumerated values and fixed + size integers + - ppm adds additional password checking criteria + to the slapo-ppolicy overlay + - pw-radius allows bind operations to be + passed to the specified radius server(s) + - rbac intercepts, decodes and enforces specific + RBAC policies per the Apache Fortress RBAC + data formats + - totp provides one time password support + - usn adds MS AD usnCreated and usnChanged + operational attributes to entries + - variant allows attributes/values to be shared + between several entries + - vc provides the verify credentials + extended operation + + This release includes the following major components: + + * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server + * lloadd - a stand-alone LDAP load balancing proxy 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: + + https://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/ + + +SUPPORT + + OpenLDAP Software is user supported: + + https://www.openldap.org/support/ + + The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick + start instructions, is available at: + + https://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/ + + In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists + related to OpenLDAP Software. A list of mailing lists is + available at: + + https://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/ + + To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System: + + https://bugs.openldap.org/ + + The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information + and online documentation is available at this URL: + + https://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. + +--- +OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation. + +Copyright 1999-2022 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City, +California, USA. All Rights Reserved. Permission to copy and +distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted. |