OpenDS 2.3.0-build003 is now available…

We have just uploaded OpenDS 2.3.0-build003, a new snapshot from the development branch of the OpenDS project, to the promoted-build repository.

OpenDS 2.3.0-build003 is built from revision 6502 of our source tree.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build003/OpenDS-2.3.0-build003.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build003/OpenDS-2.3.0-build003-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build003/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build003, including the detailed change log

Major changes since OpenDS 2.3.0 build002 include :

• Provides support for the MS Permissive Modify control (#4238)
• Adds support for multiple superior objectclasses in schema (#615)
• Updated Berkeley DB Java Edition to version 4.0.103
• Several enhancements and fixes in the External Changelog: Reliability in special cases like disabling replication domains, naming entries by ChangeNumber (Issue #4537), performance of searches with bounded filters (#4507), supporting operational attributes…
• Resolves an issue (#4546) during shutdown that could cause deadlock in replication
• Resolves an issue (#4554) on Windows with the Windows services
• Some enhancements in the GUI look and feel and in 508 compliance
• Resolves some issues (#4529, #3891, #3404, #3402) with specific replication conflict resolution
• Improves the startup time of the server and detection of services tags
• Resolves an issue (#4553) with the referential integrity plugin when several attributes are configured but only one is in a user entry
• Fixes an issue (#4386) when adding an entry with duplicate values, resulting in a NPE
• Fixes an issue (#4468) with the way values in filters and indexes are normalized
• Resolves some performance issue (#4384) in replication monitoring
• Improves reliability of replication initialization protocol (Issues #3395 #3998)
• Resolves several issues (#3966, #4406, #4536 with clients tools and control panel when the server disconnect on error
• Fixes some issues with MakeLDIF utility
• Resolves a few issues (#4520) within Import
• Improves the SSHA password storage scheme to be compatible with hashes from other servers (#4558)
• Resolves an issue (#4232) with Windows specific LDIF files during Import
• Adds an option to log replications CSNs in the Access Logs, like Sun Directory Server does
• Resolves an issue (#4556) with the Password Modify extended operation when some validation must be skipped for administrators
• Resolves an issue (#2748)with the order of message logged in the access logs
• Resolves an issue where password policies subentries are not applied after replicated

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OpenDS 2.3.0-build002 is now available…

We have just uploaded OpenDS 2.3.0-build002, a new snapshot from the development branch of the OpenDS project, to the promoted-build repository.

OpenDS 2.3.0-build002 is built from revision 6400 of our source tree.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build002/OpenDS-2.3.0-build002.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build002/OpenDS-2.3.0-build002-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build002/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build002, including the detailed change log

Major changes since OpenDS 2.3.0 build001 include :

• Multiple improvements on the Control Panel and the Setup
• Multiple incremental improvements with the External Changelog, including reliability and performance (Issue #4478)
• Upgraded the version of the Berkeley DB Java Edition to 4.0.95
• Final fix for issue #4367, removing the need for BDB logging configuration via properties
• Fixes some memory leaks with lots of connects and disconnects (Issue #4491)
• Resolves a NPE when using Extensible Matching filters without matching rule OID (Issue #4385)
• Fixes an issue (#4539) with the DSML gateway with JAXB and some Application Servers
• Fixes an issue (#4492) in ACI where an NPE would occur when the base entry contains a single RDN component
• Improves the reliability of the OpenDS Windows Services (Issues #4084 and #4381)
• Resolves issue #4523 where ACI and sub-entry caches were not updated on replicas
• Resolves issue #4538 where Virtual attributes would not be retrieved when the entry cache is configured
• Fixes an issue with access controls that would give different results for cn=Directory Manager and plain user (Issue #4547)
• Enhances the support and compliance of LDAP subentry, Collective attributes and Password Policy
• Resolves several issues with Replication including Issues #4514, #4533 and #4534, and enhance the way Replication servers are electing servers they connect to (Issue #4343)
• Renamed the extensions directory to “experimental”. The only experimental extension is the ArisID privacy control
• Fixes several issues related to building OpenDS, especially on Windows.

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OpenDS 2.3.0-build001 is now available…

In December, the team had released OpenDS 2.2.0, a stable release of the LDAP directory server written for the Java platform. While the quality assurance team was testing and making sure the level of quality and reliability was there, the developers continued to add features on the trunk.

So today, I’m happy to announce the promotion of OpenDS 2.3.0-build001, the first development build on the path to OpenDS 2.4, a stable release currently planned for Summer 2010.

OpenDS 2.3.0-build001 is built from revision 6353 of our source tree and contains 2 major features :

• The import code has been refined to improve performances, especially with very large data set. Tests have been run with 1,000,000,000 entries and the file imported in about 40 hours.
• This version of OpenDS provides support for Subentries in LDAP [RFC 3672] and Collective Attributes for LDAP [RFC 3671]. In addition to the support of the Collective attribute standard, OpenDS supports a more user friendly notation, allowing to make use of Collective attribute definitions with standard attributes. More on this subject in a future article, although if you want to understand how to use it, Anton already wrote a description on the OpenDS Wiki.

These 2 features are just started to be seriously tested by the OpenDS team, so they cannot be considered as fully stable yet. There are already some issues being investigated, with the rebuild-index and verify-index commands. If you do find an issue with this OpenDS build, please report it in Issue Tracker.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build001/OpenDS-2.3.0-build001.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build001/OpenDS-2.3.0-build001-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build001/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build001, including the detailed change log

Major changes since OpenDS 2.2.0 include :

• Multiple improvements on the Control Panel and the Setup including display of equivalent command-line commands, cosmetic aspects, messages, referral handling…
• Multiple incremental improvements with the External Changelog, including reliability and performance
• Revision 6190 – Upgraded the version of the Berkeley DB Java Edition to 4.0.73
• Revision 6192 (Issue #4360) – Improves responsiveness of the OpenDS server when hammered with large searches and slow clients
• Revisions 6198, 6209 (Issue #4371) – Solves an issue with PKCS12 certificates that do not have alias
• Revision 6208 (Issue #4373) – Improves time to start the replication service
• Revision 6292 (Issue #3601) – Adds the ability to update or delete schema attribute types and object classes definitions in the Control Panel
• Revision 6332 (Issue #4472) – Fixes the way a Workflow element is checked to be a parent of another Workflow element
• Revision 6334 (Issue #4464) – Solves an issue where reading the RootDSE could take too long when External Changelog is enabled
• Revision 6336 (Issue #4477) – Increases the maximum size of DB log files from 10MB to 100MB
• Revision 6351 – Support for localization in Catalan (ES_CA)
• Revision 6353 (Issue #4489) – Resolve an issue where Java would not be detected even though JAVA_HOME variable was set

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OpenDS 2.2 has been released !

The OpenDS development team is very happy to announce the immediate availability of OpenDS 2.2.0.

The Sun team is also announcing the release of Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 2.2, a commercial offering based on OpenDS 2.2.0.

OpenDS is an LDAPv3 compliant directory service written entirely in Java. With less than 5 months since the availability of OpenDS 2.0, the new release brings several new features and enhancements :

• New scalable Import and Indexing feature allows to import 10 M entries in less than a half hour
• External Changelog is activated with Replication to search and retrieve data updates
• Fractional Replication, to specify which attributes to include or exclude in replication
• Extensible matching rules for date and time based attributes to define time based access control rules
• Support for custom syntaxes based on substitutions, regular expressions or enumerations
• Remote server management in the Control Panel
• Improved replication management and grouping, tested with up to 8 masters
• Recurrent Tasks in the Control Panel to automate backups
• Dsconfig script friendly mode

OpenDS 2.2.0 is the promotion of OpenDS 2.2.0-RC4, built with revision 6181 of the b2.2 branch, to stable status.

You can download it as a Zip file or install it now with the Java WebStart Installer.

As with previous stable releases, we’ve taken a snapshot of the documentation wiki. Links are still being verified and some screenshots might be updated in the coming days, but the content is complete.

You can find more information about OpenDS 2.2 in the release notes. And if you’re considering deploying in production and you’re looking for support options, please check Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 2.2, built on the same code.

I’d like to thank all the members of the community who have helped us to make OpenDS 2.2 a better release, and especially those who helped with translations : Marek Roszkowski and Bartłomiej Pelc for the Polish translation, Christian Brennsteiner for the German one, and all those who have created issues in the Issue Tracker : crstop, robdale, ajangity, swtet2003, soonleong, stroeder, ogr. My thanks are also going to the chatters on the IRC channel that are providing enormous feedback.

New features and enhancements have already been committed on the trunk and are available for test in daily builds. Please check the OpenDS roadmap for more details on coming features, and possible contribute to it.

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OpenDS 2.2.0 Release Candidate 4 is now available

Last week, the OpenDS 2.2.0 Release Candidate 4 has been made available on our website. This new release candidate was mostly done to accommodate with some late changes to messages being localized, and give more time for testing to OpenDS 2.2 and the Sun branded product based on it.

OpenDS 2.2.0-RC4 is built from revision 6147 of the b2.2 branch of the source tree.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC4/OpenDS-2.2.0-RC4.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC4/OpenDS-2.2.0-RC4-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC4/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC4, including the detailed change log

Major changes incorporated since OpenDS 2.2.0-RC3 include:

• Revision 6150 (Issue #4355) – Fixes a caching issue with the Control Panel when aborting a search
• Revisions 6156, 6160, 6172 (Issue #4358, #4329, #4340) – Resolve several issues with the External Change Log at initialization or shutdown
• Revision 6181 (Issue #4325) – Resolves an issue with values of Enumeration Syntax not being case insensitive in Add or Modify operations

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OpenDS 2.2.0 Release Candidate 3 is now available

The OpenDS development team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of OpenDS 2.2.0-RC3.

OpenDS 2.2 offers the following new features from OpenDS 2.0 :

• Scalable import and indexing
• External changelog compliant with the Internet-Draft "Definition of an Object Class to Hold LDAP Change Records", draft-good-ldap-changelog-04.txt
• Fractional replication
• Extensible matching rules for time base attributes
• Support for custom syntaxes based on substitution, regular expressions or enumeration
• Remote server management in control panel
• Recurrent tasks in control Panel
• Default automatic Backup in the control panel
• Separation of LDAP Servers and Replication Servers for replication
• Ability to merge disjoint replication topologies
• Dsconfig script friendly mode

The purpose of the Release Candidate is to solicit one last round of testing before the final release. So please test the OpenDS release with your client applications, in your environment or on your favorite platform.

If you do find a bug, please report it with Issue Tracker.

We welcome feedback. Please report you experience with OpenDS on our mailing lists, or on #opends IRC channel on Freenode.

OpenDS 2.2.0-RC3 is built from revision 6147 of the b2.2 branch of the source tree.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC3/OpenDS-2.2.0-RC3.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC3/OpenDS-2.2.0-RC3-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC3/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC3, including the detailed change log

Major changes incorporated since OpenDS 2.2.0-RC2 include:

• Revision 6100 (Issue #4337) – Resolves an issue in which importing large LDIF files would consume a lot of disk space
• Revision 6102 (Issue #4298) – Fixes a problem with Replication changelog that could grow out of bound
• Revisions 6108, 6123 (Issue #4283) – Resolves an issue in the Control Panel when adding operational attributes to an entry
• Revision 6109 (Issue #4292) – Changes the Control Panel to abandon the systematic use of the ManageDSAIT Control
• Revision 6111 (Issue #4264) – Fixes an issue in the Control Panel when doing multiple modifications on a single entry
• Revision 6113 (Issue #4302) – Fixes unexpected errors in the Control Panel Manage Entries screen with concurrent searches
• Revision 6117 (Issue #4322) – Provides a way in the Control Panel to rebuild all indexes
• Revision 6118 (Issue #4328) – Resolves an issue where the Control Panel would freeze on Ubuntu
• Revision 6119 (Issue #4332) – Resolves an issue on Windows with installation path names containing spaces
• Revision 6120 (Issue #4269) – Fixes a problem with the External Changelog changenumber not being reset when the database was re-initialized
• Revision 6122 (Issue #4296) – Publishes External Changelog base DN in the root DSE entry
• Revision 6126 (Issue #4350) – Changes the way replication domain names are created with the dsreplication utility
• Revision 6129, 6147 (Issue #4336) – Changes the Control Panel to provide the ability to refresh the suffix and entries in the Manage Entries window
• Revision 6131 (Issue #4335) – Fixes the way scrolling works in the Control Panel
• Revision 6134 (Issue 4293) – Resolves issues when verifying newly created indexes
• Revision 6138 (Issue 4338) – Changes the default Global Access Controls to provide better secure by default permissions for users to update their own entry

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OpenDS 2.2.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available

The OpenDS development team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of OpenDS 2.2.0-RC1 which is the first release candidate for OpenDS 2.2.

OpenDS 2.2 offers the following new features from OpenDS 2.0 :

• Scalable import and indexing
• External changelog compliant with the Internet-Draft "Definition of an Object Class to Hold LDAP Change Records", draft-good-ldap-changelog-04.txt
• Fractional replication
• Extensible matching rules for time base attributes
• Support for custom syntaxes based on substitution, regular expressions or enumeration
• Remote server management in control panel
• Recurrent tasks in control Panel
• Default automatic Backup in the control panel
• Separation of LDAP Servers and Replication Servers for replication
• Ability to merge disjoint replication topologies
• Dsconfig script friendly mode

We’ve also captured a first snapshot of the OpenDS 2.2 documentation and hosted it on it’s own wiki: https://docs.opends.org/2.2/. The documentation is not complete yet, but will be almost at the same time we will do the final release of OpenDS 2.2.

The purpose of the Release Candidate is to solicit one last round of testing before the final release. So please test the OpenDS release with your client applications, in your environment or on your favorite platform.

If you do find a bug, please report it with Issue Tracker.

We welcome feedback. Please report you experience with OpenDS on our mailing lists, or on #opends IRC channel on Freenode.

OpenDS 2.2.0-RC1 is built from revision 5941 of our source tree.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC1/OpenDS-2.2.0-RC1.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC1/OpenDS-2.2.0-RC1-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC1/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC1, including the detailed change log

Major changes incorporated since OpenDS 2.1.0-build002 include:

• Revisions 5870, 5888 (Issue #4181) – Resolves a Null pointer exception in DSML Gateway with specific substring search filters
• Revision 5871 (Issue #4217) – Fixes an issue with ACI containing parenthesis in the description field
• Revision 5874 – Improves the rebuild-index processing for performances
• Revision 5880 (Issue #4252) – Fixes a replication issue between OpenDS 2.1/2.2 and OpenDS 2.0
• Revision 5883 (Issue #4203) – Fixes an issue where restore -l (list the available backups) would exit with return code 1
• Revision 5926 (Issue #4257) – Fixes an error raised when deleting recurrent tasks

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OpenDS 2.1.0-build002 is now available

We have just uploaded OpenDS 2.1.0-build002, built from revision 5868 of our source tree, to our promoted builds folder.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.1.0-build002/OpenDS-2.1.0-build002.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.1.0-build002/OpenDS-2.1.0-build002-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.1.0-build002/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.1.0-build002, including the detailed change log

Major changes incorporated since OpenDS 2.1.0-build001 include:

• Multiple fixes to the new Import code and new Public ChangeLog feature.
• Revision 5783 (Issue #4171) – Fixes a hang in replica initialization when the replication servers are unreachable.
• Revision 5804 – Performance and scalability improvements with monitoring.
• Revision 5842 (Issue #4194) – Resolves an issue where objectclasses would disappear when modified.
• Revision 5843 – Upgrade the underlying Berkeley DB JE to version 3.3.87.
• Revision 5847 (Issue #4164) – Fixes a decoding problem .
• Revision 5848 (Issue #4229) – Resolves an issue where the connection handler thread hangs and cause potential DoS attack.
• Revision 5849 (Issue #4226) – Improves the PartialDateOrTime matching rule to match on time as well as date.
• Revision 5854 (Issue #4240) – Resolves an issue in the Control-Panel when displaying attributes with a syntax that has no name.
• Revision 5863 & 5867 (Issue #4117) – Resolves an issue with MODDN operation that could impact ability to export and reimport from LDIF.
• Revision 5865 (Issue #4060) – Prevents a new server process to start while OpenDS server is shutting down. Also preserves the server.pid when in-core restart is performed.

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OpenDS 2.1.0-build001 is now available

We have just uploaded OpenDS 2.1.0-build001, built from revision 5775 of our source tree, to our promoted builds folder. This is the first development build past 2.0, on the path to the 2.2 release planned for October 2009.

In addition to many corrections, the build includes the following new features:

• Scalable import
• External changelog compliant with the Internet-Draft “Definition of an Object Class to Hold LDAP Change Records”, draft-good-ldap-changelog-04.txt
• Fractional replication
• Extensible matching rules for time base attributes
• Support for custom syntaxes based on substitution, regular expressions or enumeration
• Remote server management in control panel
• Recurrent tasks in control Panel
• Default automatic Backup in the control panel
• Separation of LDAP Servers and Replication Servers for replication
• Ability to merge disjoint replication topologies
• Dsconfig script friendly mode

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.1.0-build001/OpenDS-2.1.0-build001.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.1.0-build001/OpenDS-2.1.0-build001-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.1.0-build001/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.1.0-build001, including the detailed change log

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OpenDS 2.0.0 Release Candidate 4 is now available

A couple of blocking issues have been found in OpenDS2.0 Release Candidate 3 and so a new release candidate is now available. Hopefully this will be the last one, and we’re doing the last round of non-regression tests before the final release of OpenDS 2.0, around mid July.

OpenDS 2.0.0-RC4 is built from revision 5494 of the b2.0 branch of our source tree.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.0.0-RC4/OpenDS-2.0.0-RC4.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.0.0-RC4/OpenDS-2.0.0-RC4-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.0.0-RC4/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.0.0-RC4.

This new candidate includes the following changes to OpenDS 2.0.0 RC3:

• Revisions 5487, 5490 (Issue #4070) – Fix a bad encoding in a couple of LDAP extensions : PSearch Entry Change Notification Control and Password Policy State Extended Operation
• Revision 5492 – Resolves a possible replication issue with future versions of OpenDS and Replication protocols.

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OpenDS 2.0.0 Release Candidate 3 is now available

The OpenDS development team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of OpenDS 2.0.0-RC3, the third and probably last release candidate for OpenDS 2.0.

OpenDS 2.0 has a number of new features over OpenDS 1.2.0 that was released in February 2009 :

• A new mode for Multi-Master Replication providing greater consistency and availability of data: Assured Replication
• Recurring tasks allow an administrator to schedule repeated tasks such as backups
• New extensible matching rules and indexing allowing comparing, ordering of data according to specific locales and languages
• Better monitoring information for the server and for Replication
• Full compliance with RFC 4518 and matching of UTF-8 in attributes with a DirectoryString syntax
• VLV indexes are now built during the Import
• Several improvements in the Control Panel
• Works with IBM JVM (Java 6 SR4 required)
• Works by default with JConsole and VisualVM when JMX Connection Handler is enabled
• Default settings and ergonomics have been improved reducing the need for tuning parts of the server
• Greatly improved performances and stability over time of those performances
• Resolved a possible security issue when Pre-ReadEntry, Post-ReadEntry and Assertion Controls were enabled

Overall, over 170 issues have been fixed.

The purpose of the Release Candidate is to solicit one last round of testing before the final release.

So please test the OpenDS release with your client applications, in your environment or on your favorite platform.

Our quality team will be doing the same during the next 2 to 3 weeks.

If you do find a bug, please report it with Issue Tracker.

We welcome feedback. Please report you experience with OpenDS on our mailing lists, or on #opends IRC channel on Freenode.

OpenDS 2.0.0-RC3 is built from revision 5460 of the b2.0 branch of our source tree.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.0.0-RC3/OpenDS-2.0.0-RC3.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.0.0-RC3/OpenDS-2.0.0-RC3-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.0.0-RC3/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.0.0-RC3.

Major changes incorporated since OpenDS 2.0.0 RC2 include:

• Revision 5436. Delivers updated localization bundles
• Revision 5439 (issue #4047) – Resolves an issue with uninstalling OpenDS.
• Revision 5440 (Issue #4049) – Fixes an issue in the Control Panel where monitoring information was not available for all Connection Handlers.
• Revision 5441 (Issue #4045) – Fixes an issue with start-ds -F so it reports snmp build information.
• Revision 5452 (Issue #3713) – Resolves an issue where sockets could be leaked when replication connection fails due to SSL handshake.
• Revision 5459 (Issue #4057) – Fixes an issue where restoring the schema from a backup would silently fail and prevent the server from working.

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OpenDS 2.0.0 Release Candidate 2 is now available

The OpenDS development team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of OpenDS 2.0.0-RC2, the second and probably last release candidate for OpenDS 2.0.

OpenDS 2.0 has a number of new features over OpenDS 1.2.0 that was released in February 2009 :

• A new mode for Multi-Master Replication providing greater consistency and availability of data: Assured Replication
• Recurring tasks allow an administrator to schedule repeated tasks such as backups
• New extensible matching rules and indexing allowing comparing, ordering of data according to specific locales and languages
• Better monitoring information for the server and for Replication
• Full compliance with RFC 4518 and matching of UTF-8 in attributes with a DirectoryString syntax
• VLV indexes are now built during the Import
• Several improvements in the Control Panel
• Works with IBM JVM (Java 6 SR4 required)
• Works by default with JConsole and VisualVM when JMX Connection Handler is enabled
• Default settings and ergonomics have been improved reducing the need for tuning parts of the server
• Greatly improved performances and stability over time of those performances
• Resolved a possible security issue when Pre-ReadEntry, Post-ReadEntry and Assertion Controls were enabled

Overall, over 170 issues have been fixed.

The purpose of the Release Candidate is to solicit one last round of testing before the final release.

So please test the OpenDS release with your client applications, in your environment or on your favorite platform.

Our quality team will be doing the same during the next 2 to 3 weeks.

If you do find a bug, please report it with Issue Tracker.

We welcome feedback. Please report you experience with OpenDS on our mailing lists, or on #opends IRC channel on Freenode.

OpenDS 2.0.0-RC2 is built from revision 5417 of the b2.0 branch of our source tree.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.0.0-RC2/OpenDS-2.0.0-RC2.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.0.0-RC2/OpenDS-2.0.0-RC2-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.0.0-RC2/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.0.0-RC2.

Major changes incorporated since OpenDS 2.0.0 RC1 include:

• Revisions 5376, 5388, 5390 (Issues #3997, 4006 and 3993) – Improvements to the schema parsing mechanism.
• Revision 5378 (Issue #3898) – Make all information from a BIND request accessible from AuthenticationInfo.
• Revision 5381 (Issue #4009) – Fixes to the upgrade facility.
• Revision 5384 (Issue #3856) – Improvements to the way in which connections and extended operations are logged.
• Revision 5386 (Issue #3996) – Fix a problem that could result in lost delete operations within a replication topology.
• Revision 5392 (Issue #4010) – Fix an exception in the DSML implementation.
• Revision 5394 (Issue #4014) – Improve the information showed by start-ds.
• Revision 5395 (Issue #4013) – Fix an encoding error for the server side sort response control.
• Revision 5396 (Issue #4011) – Correct a problem with indexing after an upgrade.
• Revisions 5398, 5400, 5403 & 5412 – Localization improvements.
• Revision 5402 (Issue #4007) – Improve performance when importing entries containing attributes with many values.
• Revisions 5404 & 5409 (Issue #4020) – Allow help links in the control panel to be customized.
• Revision 5406 (Issue #4022) – Fix a Java exception when using dsconfig -m/unit-time.
• Revision 5407 (Issue #4027) – Fix an NPE when configuring network groups.
• Revision 5411 (Issue #3988) – Improve throughput stability and GC performance under heavy connect/disconnect loads.
• Revision 5414 (Issue #4062) – Enable the deregistering of add/change/delete configuration listeners.
• Revision 5415 (Issue #4012) – Improve the import task to handle missing include branches.
• Revision 5417 (Issue #4023) – Restart the server after scheduling a restart task.

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OpenDS 2.0.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available

The OpenDS development team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of OpenDS 2.0.0-RC1 which is the first release candidate for OpenDS 2.0.

OpenDS 2.0 has a number of new features over OpenDS 1.2.0 that was released in February 2009 :

• A new mode for Multi-Master Replication providing greater consistency and availability of data: Assured Replication
• Recurring tasks allow an administrator to schedule repeated tasks such as backups
• New extensible matching rules and indexing allowing comparing, ordering of data according to specific locales and languages
• Better monitoring information for the server and for Replication
• Full compliance with RFC 4518 and matching of UTF-8 in attributes with a DirectoryString syntax
• VLV indexes are now built during the Import
• Several improvements in the Control Panel
• Works with IBM JVM (Java 6 SR4 required)
• Works by default with JConsole and VisualVM when JMX Connection Handler is enabled
• Default settings and ergonomics have been improved reducing the need for tuning parts of the server
• Greatly improved performances and stability over time of those performances
• Resolved a possible security issue when Pre-ReadEntry, Post-ReadEntry and Assertion Controls were enabled

Overall, over 150 issues have been fixed. However, there are still a few issues with the release candidates, and more specifically upgrading from an earlier version is not functional. This should be fixed in the next release candidate.

Localization of the OpenDS messages is still work in progress and thus some messages can still appear in English when running a localized version of the server.

The purpose of the Release Candidate is to solicit one last round of testing before the final release.

So please test the OpenDS release with your client applications, in your environment or on your favorite platform.

If you do find a bug, please report it with Issue Tracker.

We welcome feedback. Please report you experience with OpenDS on our mailing lists, or on #opends IRC channel on Freenode.

OpenDS 2.0.0-RC1 is built from revision 5374 of the b2.0 branch of our source tree.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.0.0-RC1/OpenDS-2.0.0-RC1.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.0.0-RC1/OpenDS-2.0.0-RC1-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.0.0-RC1/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.0.0-RC1.

Major changes incorporated since OpenDS 1.3.0-build006 include:

• Revision 5318 (Issue #3969) – Provide support for wildcards in dsconfig certificate management.
• Revision 5321 (Issue #3962) – Fix memory leaks after Bind – Unbind
• Revision 5323 (Issue #3971) – Enable Windows to detect the JVM automatically on install.
• Revision 5336 (Issue #3981) – Fix uncontrolled memory growth under heavy connect/disconnect load.
• Revision 5338 (Issue #3977) – Fix memory leak in Control Panel.
• Revision 5347 (Issue #3938) – Improve the speed of dsconfig in non-interactive mode.
• Revision 5364 (Issue #3995) – Fix an error that caused replication to stop if the queue-size-bytes maximum was reached.
• Revision 5365 (Issue #3250) – Fix a problem that could cause replication initialization to fail.
• Revision 5369 (Issues #3984 & #3989) – Fix security issues with Assertion, Pre-Read, and Post-Read Controls.
• Revision 5374 – Upgrade JE to the latest official release (3.3.82).

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OpenDS 1.3.0-Build006 is now available

We have just uploaded OpenDS 1.3.0-build006, built from revision 5309 of our source tree, to our promoted builds folder.

Note that now that this build has been promoted, we’ve made a branch on the OpenDS code repository to produce the OpenDS 2.0 release. The next promoted build will be a release candidate.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/1.3.0-build006/OpenDS-1.3.0-build006.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/1.3.0-build006/OpenDS-1.3.0-build006-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/1.3.0-build006/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

There are still issues with upgrading with the QuickSetup tool and reverting to build earlier than revision 5134 is not supported.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/1.3.0-build006.

Major changes that have been incorporated since the last promoted build (OpenDS 1.3.0-build004) include:

• Revision 5185 (Issue #3609) – Added the ability to deregister delayed listeners on a configuration entry.
• Revision 5187 (Issue #3194) – Ensure that ldapcompare checks for superfluous arguments.
• Revision 5193 (Issue #3915) – Ensure that abandon operations do not block request handlers.
• Revision 5195 – Addition of localized resource files with new translations.
• Revision 5196 – (Issue #3686) – Fix an issue that prevented make-ldif from parsing redirects to file based attributes.
• Revision 5197 (Issue #2764) – Fix a problem with the ldapsearch –countEntries option.
• Revision 5199 (Issue #3779) – Fix an issue that caused a merge with real attribute to show only the virtual attribute value.
• Revision 5201 (Issue #2070) – Add validation of the DB cache size before applying it to the JE.
• Revision 5208 (Issue #2642) – Fix a problem that prevented ldif-diff from detecting differences in encoded values.
• Revision 5209 (Issue #3814) – Fix a problem that caused the start-ds script to return before the server had started.
• Revision 5210 (Issue #3913) – Fix a problem that caused OpenDS to stop accepting connections after being ping by specific Load Balancers.
• Revision 5214 – Add support for numSubordinates in NDB Backend
• Revision 5218 (Issue #3001) – Fix a performance bottleneck in GeneralizedTimeSyntax.format.
• Revision 5219 (Issue #3445) – Provide normalization of multi-valued RDNs.
• Revision 5223 (Issue #3925) – Fix a problem with dsreplication.
• Revision 5224 (Issues #2273 & #3482) – Add more stringent pattern checks to make sure that only files that could have been named by the TimeStampNaming policy are accepted by the filename filter.
• Revision 5226 (Issue #3638) – Ensure that referrals are properly managed for bind operations.
• Revision 5230 (Issue #2896) – The server should return a "Protocol Error" after a bind with an unrecognised version number.
• Revision 5233 (Issue #2671) – Fix a problem that caused invalid values to be accepted for VLV index configuration.
• Revision 5234 (Issue #3827) – Ensure that the import-ldif command takes into account the –skipfile option.
• Revision 5235 (Issue #3926) – Ensure that import-ldif creates inherited objectclass attributes.
• Revision 5236 (Issue #3343) – Fix a problem with virtual attribute rules.
• Revision 5237 (Issue #3918) – Restore the behavior where an empty controls context-specific BER sequence is not encoded if the LDAP message has no controls.
• Revision 5238 (Issue #2608) – Fix a problem that caused stop-ds to fail when the connection with the smtp-server failed.
• Revision 5241 (Issues #3842 & #3770) – Validate recurring task day against the actual maximum of a given calendar instance.
• Revision 5243 (Issue #3773) – Remove recurring task iterations completely upon recurring task removal.
• Revision 5244 (Issue #2233) – Log a notice when a task starts and ends execution.
• Revision 5247 (Issue #3336) – Take the appropriate action for failed dependencies for scheduled tasks.
• Revision 5249 (Issue #2725) – Prevent completed tasks from causing exceptions if the task class is disallowed after it has completed.
• Revision 5254 (Issue #3179) – Fix a thread left in the system after shutdown.
• Revision 5256 – Use the platform mbean server by default to allow access to the server monitoring data from VisualVM and similar monitoring tools.
• Revision 5257 & 5259 (Issues #3387 & #3388) – Fix issues with attribute name exceptions.
• Revision 5260 – Improve the monitoring code in the case of a server being slow to answer.
• Revision 5261 (Issue #2977) – Fix an exception that occurred during Replication Server database trimming.
• Revision 5264 (Issue #3602) – Change the masks for user-defined and 3rd-party messages so that messages no longer have the top-bit set.
• Revision 5265 (Issue #3047) – For export-ldif, change the default access rights of the exported file from 644 to 600.
• Revision 5266 (Issue #2624) – Correct an issue that caused ldapsearch to return the wrong return code if no password was provided.
• Revision 5268 – Various improvements to the task scheduler.
• Revision 5272 – Avoid ConcurrentModificationException when removing completed task iterations.
• Revision 5273 (Issue #3928) – Fix a problem that caused the wrong error message to be sent to the access log.
• Revision 5276 (Issue #3939) – Improve memory allocation when sending search result entries.
• Revision 5281 (Issue #3943) – Make the installation path across consistent across tools.
• Revision 5283 (Issue #3949) – Unknown trailing ASN.1 elements are now ignored when decoding the Password Modify extended operation value.
• Revision 5285 (Issue #3951) – Fix an issue that was causing the Control Panel to use the admin port for ldap operations.
• Revision 5286 (Issue #3948) – Correct the display of monitoring information in the Control Panel.
• Revision 5287 (Issue #3931) – Fix a problem with virtual attributes generating data multiple times.
• Revisions 5288 & 5289 (Issues #3944 & #3945) – Fix licensing issues with the upgrade utility.
• Revision 5290 (Issue #3952) – FIx a problem with log files on Windows.
• Revision 5292 (Issue #3444) – Fix a problem where only a single name form was allowed per structural object class.
• Revision 5297 (Issue #3964) – Improve JE backend cleaner scalability.
• Revision 5299 (Issue #3949) – Fix an issue in the ASN.1 parsing code to support LDAP implied extensibility.
• Revision 5300 (Issue #3965) – Revert is not supported from 2.0 to a previous version. This change introduces the corresponding flag day.
• Revision 5301 (Issue #3958) – Support upgrading from a standard OpenDS server to a branded OpenDS server of the same version.
• Revision 5302 (Issue #3968) – Fix a problem that caused dsconfig –displayCommand to provide invalid values.
• Revisions 5305 & 5306 (Issue #3964) – Enable high priority check-pointer by default for more robust out of the box performance.

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OpenDS 1.3.0-Build004 is now available

We have just uploaded OpenDS 1.3.0-build004, built from revision 5184 of our source tree, to our promoted builds folder.

Note that this is a jump from OpenDS 1.3.0-build002 to OpenDS 1.3.0-build004. OpenDS 1.3.0-build003 was done with specific compilation to enable the MySQL Cluster NDB Backend, but not promoted with the regular builds.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/1.3.0-build004/OpenDS-1.3.0-build004.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/1.3.0-build004/OpenDS-1.3.0-build004-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/1.3.0-build004/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Upgrade from 1.0 or 1.2 is still broken, but upgrade from 1.3.0-build002 should work. However, a Flag Day was raised with revision 5134 which requires a rebuild of all indexes, or even better export the database to LDIF and re-import it.

Compared to 1.2.0, OpenDS 1.3.0-build004 contains the following new features and major improvements :

• Assured Replication that provides stronger consistency and availability for replicated data
• Supports Recurring Tasks allowing an administrator to schedule repeated tasks such as backups
• Improves defaults settings and ergonomics for some server properties
• Now builds VLV indexes during Import
• A new internal ASN.1 encoding / decoding library that delivers better and more stable performances
• Improves the Control Panel in various area
• Now works well / better with IBM JVM
• Full compliance with RFC 4518. Now DirectoryString matching fully supports UTF-8 characters
• Supports languages specific matching rules for DirectoryStrings, for comparing and ordering, as well as support for indexing according to those rules
• Provides better monitoring information for Replication
• Full support for negotiating encryption through SASL and stacking encryption channels with TLS
• Many performance improvements in the Core server and in Replication

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/1.3.0-build004.

Major changes that have been incorporated since the last promoted build (OpenDS 1.3.0-build002) include:

• Revision 5124 (Issue #3626) – Replace occurrences of grep, cat, etc. with built-in shell commands.
• Revision 5125 (Issue #3896) – Fix an issue that prevented users from creating a sub-suffix with the Control Panel.
• Revision 5126 (Issue #3826) – Fix an exception in the Control Panel that occurred if a node existed as a non-suffix node.
• Revision 5129 (Issues # 3295 & 3899) – Fix an SNMP exception at startup and a resource issue on Windows platforms.
• Revision 5130 (Issue #3297) – Fix a problem that caused localised answers to be rejected by certain commands.
• Revision 5131 (Issue #3528) – Check that the start time entered for scheduled tasks has not already passed.
• Revision 5132 – Remove keytool dependencie by using the keystore API, integrate Andy Wang’s IBM JVM/JDK changes, provide a Platform class to put platform and JDK version-specific code in a single location, provide APIs for core matching rules.
• Revision 5133 (Issue #2616) – Fix an ldapsearch error when parsing command-line arguments.
• Revision 5134 (Issue #3880) – Provide support for unicode characters in core matching rules.
• Revision 5135 – Create a flag day for changes in revision 5134.
• Revision 5136 (Issue #3555) – Refresh the DIT view in the Manage Entries menu of the Control Panel.
• Revision 5138 (Issue #3582) – Fix a problem that caused reverts to fail with the error “no valid existing backup locations”.
• Revision 5139 (Issue #3451) – Use a specific error message with ldapcompare if a specified file cannot be read.
• Revision 5141 (Issue #3894) – Fix a potential data corruption issue when writing binary attributes/blobs.
• Revision 5143 (Issue #3903) – Fix a problem that caused the “Start Server when the Upgrade has Completed” option to fail when upgrading using QuickSetup.
• Revision 5145 (Issue #3455) – Correct an error that occurred when deleting a VLV index.
• Revision 5147 (Issue #2793) – Ensure that incremental backups work as expected when an empty directory is specified.
• Revision 5148 – Provide localized resource files.
• Revision 5149 (Issue #3893) – Correct a problem that caused dsreplication enable between an OpenDS 1.2 server and an OpenDS 1.3 server to fail.
• Revision 5150 & 5153 (Issue #3629) – Remove duplicate dsconfig error messages.
• Revision 5151 (Issue #3793) – Provide the ability to create extensible indexes using dsconfig.
• Revision 5152 (Issue #3910) – Ensure that Base64 encoding works with UTF-8 characters.
• Revision 5155 (Issue #3908) – Fix a problems with ChangeNumber generators.
• Revision 5156 (Issue #3892) – Make ACI evaluation optional when returning entries and references to clients.
• Revision 5157 (Issue #3900) – Fix an error that occurred when importing / adding LDIF due to trailing spaces.
• Revision 5158 (Issue #3505) – Fix a confusing ACI targetscope message.
• Revision 5159 (Issue #2667) – Fix a problem that occurred when configuring VLV indexes with dsconfig.
• Revision 5160 (Issue #3312) – Change aci and ds-cfg-global-aci equality matching rules to octetStringMatch instead of CaseIgnoreIA5EqualityMatchingRule.
• Revision 5161 (Issue #2624) – Ensure that ldapsearch returns the correct return code when no password is provided.
• Revision 5167 (Issue #3828) – Prevent a connection to the server from being tied up while waiting for the user to enter a password.
• Revision 5168 (Issue #3321) – Fix an error raised during index creation and delete with dsconfig.
• Revision 5169 (Issue #3270) – Ensure that ldappasswordmodify takes into account the password history count.
• Revision 5171 (Issue #3251) – Fix the LDIFReader rejectLastEntry, which printed an incorrect entry.
• Revision 5172 (Issue #2963) – Fix a problem that caused dsreplication status to display an incorrect value for missing changes.
• Revision 5173 (Issue #3907) – Provide a pkg(5) delivery.
• Revision 5174 (Issue #3904) – Complete the replication referral URL configuration regular expression implementation.
• Revision 5175 (Issue #3748) – Ensure that all admin tools use 4444 as the default admin port.
• Revision 5176 (Issue #3856) – Fix a problem that caused LDAPS connections to be logged as LDAP connections in the access log.
• Revision 5177 (Issue #3673) – Ensure that the server checks for port availability on Windows.
• Revision 5178 (Issue #3528) – Ensure that scheduled tasks check that the start time has not passed.
• Revision 5179 (Issue #2965) – Add the missing-changes to cn=monitor for replication servers.
• Revision 5180 & 5181 (Issue #3119) – Prevent a null pointer exception that occurred when disabling the referential integrity plugin.
• Revision 5184 (Issue #3914) – Fix a problem that prevented the server state from being updated.

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