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A N N O U N C E M E N T
A N N O U N C E M E N T
LDAP 3.3
OpenLDAP 1.1
The University of Michigan is pleased to announce release 3.3 of
UM-LDAP, an implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol. LDAP is a draft Internet standard directory service
protocol that runs over TCP/IP. It can be used to provide a
stand-alone directory service, or to provide lightweight access to
the X.500 directory. LDAP is defined by RFC 1777 and RFC 1778.
The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
of OpenLDAP release 1.1, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
Directory Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development tools.
OpenLDAP is derived from University of Michigan LDAP release 3.3.
This release includes the following components:
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In addition, there are some contributed components:
- web500 - an HTTP-to-LDAP gateway
- whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
- gtk-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written gtk
- php3-tool - a demonstration ldap interface written php3
- saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
- whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
CHANGES
Changes from OpenLDAP 1.0
- improved build environment with dynamic library support,
- externally configurable client library support: ldap.conf(5),
- integrated SDK and tools for MS NT,
- platforms updates, and
- numerous bug fixes and build changes.
Changes since release 3.2 of LDAP include
Changes from U. Mich release 3.3
- slurpd has been rewritten as a single process threaded daemon
- ldaptools (ldapsearch, etc) now support the LDIF format
- support for LDAP URLs added to libldap
- improved support for LDAP referrals in libldap
- preliminary test scripts included
- support for additional platforms
- various bug fixes and build fixes
- TCP Wrappers support added to slapd,
- Berkely DB2 compatibility added to slapd,
- ACL enhancements including Access by Group and POSIX regex(3) support,
- platforms updates, and
- numerous bug fixes and build changes.
See the CHANGES file in the distribution for more details.
AVAILABILITY
This software is freely available to anyone for any lawful purpose,
subject to the U-M copyright notice and disclaimer. The software is
available for anonymous ftp from the following location:
ftp://terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu/ldap/ldap-3.3.tar.Z
This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License.
For download information is available at:
http://www.OpenLDAP.org/download.html
SUPPORT
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warranty, but there is a bug reporting mail address which is
responded to on a best-effort basis:
ldap-support@umich.edu
OpenLDAP-bugs@OpenLDAP.org
In addition, there is a discussion list for issues relating to this
implementation of ldap:
ldap@umich.edu -- discussion list
ldap-request@umich.edu -- to join the list
OpenLDAP-devel@OpenLDAP.org -- discussion list
OpenLDAP-devel-request@OpenLDAP.org -- to join the list
Comments or questions about the LDAP protocol in general should be
sent to the IETF ASID discussion group:
The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
and online documentation is available at this URL:
ietf-asid@umich.edu -- discussion list
ietf-asid-request@umich.edu -- to join the list
An LDAP home page containing lots of interesting information and
online documentation is available at this URL:
http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/ldap/
http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
This release has been ported to many UNIX platforms, including
SunOS 4.1.x, Solaris 2.x, Ultrix 4.3, HP-UX 9.05, AIX 3.2.5,
SCO, FreeBSD, NetBSD, LINUX, IRIX, Digital Unix (OSF/1), and
SCO, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, IRIX, Digital Unix (OSF/1), and
NeXTSTEP 3.2. This release has also been ported to VMS.
The client libraries and some clients have also been ported to
MacOS 7.x, MSDOS (some TCP stacks), and MS Windows 3.1/95/NT.

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OpenLDAP Change Log
Changes included in OpenLDAP 1.1-Alpha (from -devel)
CVS Tag: OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_1_1_BETA
Added ldap.conf support
Added configuration preservation support
Updated shared library version to release 1
Fixed lib-shared.mk handling of static library
Fixed no-ldapd make install bugs
Fixed slapd/detach-join thread bug
Fixed slapd/nextid-atol bug
Updated slapd to use ch_strdup()
Moved ldapfriendly to datadir
Updated $(MKDIR) handling to always use -p
Updated test007 to skip test if slurpd is not built
Modified ud to accept "host" in ud.conf
Updated contributed software
Updated manuals and other docs
Fixed LinuxThread handling on alpha/sparc
Autoconf:
Added --with_subdir added
Added pthread_create consistency check
Added additonal caching of results
Fixed REENTRANT defines
Updated Kerberos support
Changes included in OpenLDAP 1.1-Alpha (from -devel)
CVS Tag: OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_1_1_ALPHA3
Changed LDBM default to sync on writes

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% ./configure
configure OpenLDAP for current platform
% [env settings] ./configure [options]
this will configure the build system
% make depend
this will create dependency information