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      1 A N N O U N C E M E N T -- OpenLDAP 2.6
      2 
      3     The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
      4     of OpenLDAP Software 2.6, 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             - Ability to log directly to a file bypassing syslog
     12         * Retired backends
     13             - back-ndb
     14         * Deprecated backends
     15             - back-sql
     16             - back-perl
     17         * lloadd(8) enhancments
     18             - Additional load balancing strategies
     19             - Additional options to improve coherence with certain
     20               controls and extended operations
     21             - Ability to log directly to a file bypassing syslog
     22 
     23     This release includes the following major components:
     24 
     25         * slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
     26         * lloadd - a stand-alone LDAP load balancing proxy server
     27         * -lldap - a LDAP client library
     28         * -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
     29         * LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
     30         * LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utilities
     31         * Admin Guide, Manual Pages - associated documentation
     32 
     33     In addition, there are some contributed components:
     34 
     35         * LDAPC++ - a LDAP C++ SDK
     36         * Various slapd modules and slapi plugins
     37 
     38 
     39 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
     40 
     41     OpenLDAP Software is developed by the OpenLDAP Project.  The
     42     Project consists of a team of volunteers who use the
     43     Internet to coordinate their activities.  The Project is
     44     an organized activity of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
     45 
     46     OpenLDAP Software is derived from University of Michigan LDAP,
     47     release 3.3.
     48 
     49 
     50 AVAILABILITY
     51 
     52     This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
     53     an non-restrictive, "free", open-source license.  Download
     54     information is available at:
     55 
     56         https://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
     57 
     58 
     59 SUPPORT
     60 
     61     OpenLDAP Software is user supported:
     62 
     63         https://www.openldap.org/support/
     64 
     65     The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide, which includes quick
     66     start instructions, is available at:
     67 
     68         https://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/
     69 
     70     In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
     71     related to OpenLDAP Software.  A list of mailing lists is
     72     available at:
     73 
     74         https://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
     75 
     76     To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
     77 
     78         https://bugs.openldap.org/
     79 
     80     The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
     81     and online documentation is available at this URL:
     82 
     83         https://www.OpenLDAP.org/
     84 
     85 
     86 SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
     87 
     88     This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like)
     89     platforms including Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD
     90     and most commercial UNIX systems.  The release has also been
     91     ported (in part or in whole) to other platforms including
     92     Apple MacOS X, IBM zOS, and Microsoft Windows NT/2000/etc.
     93 
     94 ---
     95 OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
     96 
     97 Copyright 1999-2024 The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City,
     98 California, USA.  All Rights Reserved.  Permission to copy and
     99 distribute verbatim copies of this document is granted.
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