1A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.5
2
3    The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
4    of OpenLDAP Software 2.5, a suite of the Lightweight Directory
5    Access Protocol (v3) servers, clients, utilities, and
6    development tools.
7
8    This release contains the following major enhancements:
9
10        * Slapd(8) enhancements
11            - kqueue support for BSD based OSes
12            - cn=config delete support
13            - Don't use copy control support
14            - Threadpool queues
15            - non-blocking TLS support
16            - Configurable TCP read and write buffers
17               for listeners.
18            - LDAP Transaction support
19            - MS AD Lazy commit control
20            - MS AD replication support
21            - DSEE replication support
22            - Sun/Netscape draft persistent search support
23            - HAProxy proxy protocol v2 support
24        * New backends
25            - back-wt: Wiredtiger backend to slapd (Experimental)
26            - back-asyncmeta: Async version of back-meta
27        * Backend updates
28            - back-ldap: CANCHAINOPS
29            - back-meta META_CLIENT_PR
30            - back-monitor is always built as a part of slapd
31        * Retired backends
32            - back-bdb
33            - back-hdb
34            - back-shell
35        * Deprecated backends
36            - back-ndb
37            - back-sql
38            - back-perl
39        * New overlays
40            - autoca
41            - homedir
42            - otp
43            - remoteauth
44        * New password hashing module
45            - argon2
46        * Overlay updates
47            - pcache can access private DB with control
48            - pcache can remove a query from the cache
49               with exop
50            - back-monitor support for pcache
51            - ppolicy updated with password policy
52               draft 10 support
53            - dynlist can now generate (is)memberOf
54               dynamically
55            - dynlist do reverse lookups to find all
56               groups a user belongs to
57            - unique can now do db wide locking to avoid
58               race conditions
59        * New Library
60            - libldif provides an LDIF parsing API
61        * Library updates
62            - libldap_r has been merged with libldap
63            - libldap has TLS channel binding support
64            - libldap has TLS public key pinning support
65            - libldap has TLS SNI support
66            - libldap has GSSAPI channel binding support
67        * Clients and tools
68            - slapmodify for offline updates to cn=config
69        * Significant performance enhancements throughout
70            the client and server code base
71        * New contrib overlays
72            - adremap remaps attributes for PAM/NSS MS AD
73               support
74            - authzid implements RFC 3829 support
75            - datamorph stores enumerated values and fixed
76               size integers
77            - ppm adds additional password checking criteria
78               to the slapo-ppolicy overlay
79            - pw-radius allows bind operations to be
80               passed to the specified radius server(s)
81            - rbac intercepts, decodes and enforces specific
82               RBAC policies per the Apache Fortress RBAC
83               data formats
84            - totp provides one time password support
85            - usn adds MS AD usnCreated and usnChanged
86               operational attributes to entries
87            - variant allows attributes/values to be shared
88               between several entries
89            - vc provides the verify credentials
90               extended operation
91
92    This release includes the following major components:
93
94        * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
95        * lloadd - a stand-alone LDAP load balancing proxy server
96        * -lldap - a LDAP client library
97        * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
98        * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
99        * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utilities
100        * Admin Guide, Manual Pages - associated documentation
101
102    In addition, there are some contributed components:
103
104        * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
105        * Various slapd modules and slapi plugins
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107
108ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
109
110    OpenLDAP Software is developed by the OpenLDAP Project.  The
111    Project consists of a team of volunteers who use the
112    Internet to coordinate their activities.  The Project is
113    an organized activity of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
114
115    OpenLDAP Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP,
116    release 3.3.
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118
119AVAILABILITY
120
121    This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
122    an non-restrictive, "free", open-source license.  Download
123    information is available at:
124
125        https://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
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127
128SUPPORT
129
130    OpenLDAP Software is user supported:
131
132        https://www.openldap.org/support/
133
134    The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick
135    start instructions, is available at:
136
137        https://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/
138
139    In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
140    related to OpenLDAP Software.  A list of mailing lists is
141    available at:
142
143        https://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
144
145    To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
146
147        https://bugs.openldap.org/
148
149    The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
150    and online documentation is available at this URL:
151
152        https://www.OpenLDAP.org/
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154
155SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
156
157    This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like)
158    platforms including Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD
159    and most commercial UNIX systems.  The release has also been
160    ported (in part or in whole) to other platforms including
161    Apple MacOS X, IBM zOS, and Microsoft Windows NT/2000/etc.
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