Blog from April, 2010

 Apache Directory team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Directory Server version 1.5.7, this is mainly a bug fix release.

 Downloads are available at http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/1.5/downloads.html

What's new ?

  • The partition inheritence structure has been refactored to make implementing new partitions easy

ChangeLog

Bug

  • [DIRSERVER-1488] - Accessing schema over JNDI delivers wrong values for mandatory/available attributes

Task

Apache Directory team is pleased to announce the first ever release of the LDAP client API developed in collaboration with OpenDS developers.

Note that this API is still in its preliminary stages and will evolve further in the coming versions.

Features

  • Supports synchronous and asynchronous operations
  • Very convenient API to perform all LDAP related operations
  • Uses MINA version 2.0.0-RC1 in the network layer

We invite interested people to come and participate in this effort to make working with LDAP servers a breeze.

Apache Directory Team

The Apache Directory Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Directory Studio 1.5.3, a bug fix and enhancement update of its Eclipse based LDAP Browser and Directory client.

You can download Apache Directory Studio 1.5.3 as a standalone RCP application for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows here: http://directory.apache.org/studio/downloads.html

You can install it directly in Eclipse using this update site: http://directory.apache.org/studio/update/1.x/

Here are a few highlights of this new version:

  • fixed a critical bug that makes Studio gone into an endless event loop
  • Apache DS plugin comes with the latest 1.5.6 version of Apache DS
  • Apache DS Configuration plugin can now handle correctly the latest 1.5.6 version of Apache DS server.xml file
  • editors now warns the user if they contain modifications and the input is changed
  • various improvements in certificates handling
  • added a new 'Delete All' menu item for entries, bookmarks and searches

Click here to view the ChangeLog.