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Symas™Connexitor™ Directory Services (CDS) 3.7

Symas™ has released the eighth distribution in the Connexitor™: Directory Services (CDS) 3 family. CDS 3.7 incorporates significant updates to the OpenLDAP software on all platforms, as well as upgrades to the bundled Cyrus SASL and OpenLDAP software.OpenLDAP 2.3.

CDS Gold 3.7 is immediately available for Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 4 for x86_64 and Enterprise Linux 3 for i686 operating systems. Support for other operating systems and processors is forthcoming, so check back periodically or contact Symas for more information.

More information about Connexitor Directory Services can be found on its Product Overview page.

Release Content

CDS 3.7 contains the enhancements in OpenLDAP 2.3, the first functional release in over a year and a half. CDS 3.7 incorporates OpenLDAP 2.3.35. The primary enhancements include:

• Configuration Engine / Backend: OpenLDAP (slapd) now has a completely dynamic configuration capability. Administrators can modify the configuration of the Directory during operation using LDAP itself. This includes the ability to add indexes without stopping the Directory, running slapindex and then restarting the Directory; indexes are built in background tasks managed by slapd.
• Overlay interface enhancements and additional Overlays
• Backend interface enhancements
• Conversion of sync replication to an overlay for significant slapd performance improvement

Howard Chu and Symas continued to be the dominant contributors to the OpenLDAP project. Symas's contributions to OpenLDAP 2.3 were partly funded by the Hewlett Packard Company.

CDS 3.7 also includes (for release level information, please see the Release Notes in the download section of the Website):

• OpenSSL
• Cyrus SASL
• Oracle Berkeley DB