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+A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.6
+
+ The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
+ of OpenLDAP Software 2.6, 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
+ - Ability to log directly to a file bypassing syslog
+ * Retired backends
+ - back-ndb
+ * Deprecated backends
+ - back-sql
+ - back-perl
+ * lloadd(8) enhancments
+ - Additional load balancing strategies
+ - Additional options to improve coherence with certain
+ controls and extended operations
+ - Ability to log directly to a file bypassing syslog
+
+ 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.