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+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.