*** LDAP 3.3b1 BETA Release Announcement ***

LDAP Development Team (ldap-support@umich.edu)
Sat, 06 Apr 1996 00:12:10 -0500

Please try this out. There have been a number of bug fixes and
portability enhancements. As always, the quality of the final
release depends on the quality of timely feedback we receive
from you!
Thanks! -- The LDAP Development Team
(Tim Howes, Mark Smith, Gordon Good)

A N N O U N C E M E N T

*** This is a BETA release ***

LDAP 3.3b1

The University of Michigan is pleased to announce release 3.3b1 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.

This release includes the following components:

- slapd - a stand-alone LDAP directory server
- slurpd - a stand-alone LDAP replication server
- ldapd - an LDAP-to-X.500 gateway server
- centipede - an LDAP centroid generation and maintenance program
- libldap - an LDAP client library
- liblber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
- ldif tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
- in.xfingerd - a finger-to-LDAP gateway server
- go500 - a gopher-to-LDAP gateway server for searching
- go500gw - a gopher-to-LDAP gateway server for searching and browsing
- rcpt500 - an email-to-LDAP query responder
- mail500 - an LDAP-capable mailer
- fax500 - an LDAP-capable mailer that supports remote printing
- LDAP tools - A collection of shell-based LDAP utility programs

In addition, there are some contributed components:

- web500 - an HTTP-to-LDAP gateway
- whois++d - a WHOIS++-to-LDAP gateway
- saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program

CHANGES

Changes since release 3.2 of LDAP include

- slurpd has been rewritten as a single process threaded daemon
- ldaptools now support the LDIF format
- support for LDAP URLs added to libldap
- support for LDAP referrals improved
- preliminary test scripts included
- support for additional platforms
- various bug fixes and build fixes

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-3.3b1.tar.Z

SUPPORT

The software is provided as is without any express or implied
warranty, but there is a bug reporting mail address which is
responded to on a best-effort basis:

ldap-support@umich.edu

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

Comments or questions about the LDAP protocol in general should be
sent to the IETF ASID discussion group:

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/

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, 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.