The release of OpenLDAP 2.6.0 has been published, offering a cross-platform implementation of the LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) for organizing and accessing directory services. The project develops a modular server component that supports various storage and data access backends, a proxy balancer, client utilities, and libraries. The code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD-like OpenLDAP Public License.
In the new release:
- The lloadd proxy balancer has implemented additional load balancing strategies and options to improve consistency during extended operations.
- The slapd and lloadd have added a logging mode that writes directly to a file, bypassing syslog.
- The back-sql (translating LDAP queries to SQL-supporting databases) and back-perl (invoking arbitrary Perl modules for processing specific LDAP requests) backends have been deprecated. The back-ndb (storage based on the MySQL NDB engine) backend has been removed.
Source: opennet.ru
