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 106 107 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. 117 118 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/ 126 127 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/ 153 154 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. 162 163--- 164OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation. 165 166Copyright 1999-2021 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City, 167California, USA. All Rights Reserved. Permission to copy and 168distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted. 169