The Apache Directory Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Directory Studio 1.5.2, a bug fix and enhancement update of its Eclipse based LDAP Browser and Directory client.

You can download Apache Directory Studio 1.5.2 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 does not allow a newly created Apache DS server to be started correctly
• fixed a major bug in DN parsing of certain entries

Click here to view the ChangeLog.

The Apache Directory Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Directory Studio 1.5.1, a bug fix and enhancement update of its Eclipse based LDAP Browser and Directory client.

You can download Apache Directory Studio 1.5.1 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:

• a bug where a modify operation could be sent to the server when refreshing the LDAP Browser view
• correctly handling entries with a hash sign (#) in their DN
• glitches and performance improvements in the UI
• typos in the french translation

Click here to view the ChangeLog.

The Apache Directory Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Directory Studio 1.5, a new major update of its Eclipse based LDAP Browser and Directory client.

You can download Apache Directory Studio 1.5 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:

• LDAP Browser
  • GSSAPI Authentication
  • Entry Editors (ability to open single/multiple editors using tabular
    or LDIF editing mode)
  • Speed improvements when deleting and importing entries
  • Added UUID value Editor
  • Added MS GUID and SID Value Editors
  • Added Certificate Value Editor
  • Better value modification strategy
  • Added Certificate verification for LDAPS and a Certificate Manager
  • Improved referral handling
• LDIF Editor
  • Opened LDIF editors are now restored between launches
• Apache DS
  • Latest version of Apache DS (1.5.5) now bundled
• Apache DS Configuration
  • Support for editing server.xml from the latest version of Apache DS
    (1.5.5)
• Schema Editor
  • Added the ability to get a schema directly from a server
  • Added the ability to merge schemas between projects
  • Various bug fixes
• RCP
  • Eclipse 3.5 Galileo dependencies
• General
  • Reordered preference pages (all under a common 'Apache Directory
    Studio' root)

Click here to view the ChangeLog.

Apache Directory Server 1.5.5 released !

The Apache Directory team is proud to announce that the long expected 1.5.5 version has been released yesterday.

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

What's new ?

• More than 62 bugs have been fixed.
• We switched to MINA 2.0.0-M6
• entryUUID and entryCSN are now injected for every new entry
• Huge search requests don't eat all the memory
• Addition of a Client-API (eliminary work)
• Jetty has been integrated into the server
• Addition of a Journal
• The server.xml file has been modified

Change in Server.xml

<defaultDirectoryService...> takes some new attributes :

• replicaId (an integer) OPTIONAL
• maxPDUSize (an integer, the maximum number of bytes a incoming message can be) OPTIONAL

<interceptors> :

• the <referralInterceptor/> bean must be present

servers : the configuration has changed for all the servers (changePasswordServer, kdcServer,
ntpServer, dnsServer). They all take a <transports> set of transports, instead of sharing some
SocketAcceptor/DatagramAcceptor. For instance :

<kdcServer ipPort="60088">
  <directoryService>#directoryService</directoryService>
  <datagramAcceptor>#datagramAcceptor</datagramAcceptor>
  <socketAcceptor>#socketAcceptor</socketAcceptor>
</kdcServer>

becomes :

<dnsServer>
  <transports>
    <tcpTransport port="8053"/>
    <udpTransport port="8053"/>
  </transports>
  <directoryService>#directoryService</directoryService>
</dnsServer>

The <LdapService> bean has been renamed <LdapServer>, to have a consistent naming scheme.

<LdapServer> supports both LDAP and LDAPS protocols, the transports are used to define
LDAPS if needed. :

<transports>
  <tcpTransport address="0.0.0.0" port="10389" nbThreads="8" backLog="50" enableSSL="false"/>
  <tcpTransport address="localhost" port="10686" enableSSL="true"/>
</transports>

The second transport is used for SSL

<ApacheDS> bean does not contain a reference to a directory service anymore, each server which
need to rely on such a service will refer it into its own configuration.

ChangeLog

Bug

• DIRSERVER-644 - Memory Leak in Persistent search ?
• DIRSERVER-776 - entryUUID only created when entries are added with Mitosis enabled
• DIRSERVER-1106 - Hot partition removal leaves server in inconsistent state (removal is buggy)
• DIRSERVER-1139 - Loop detected on ldapcompare
• DIRSERVER-1157 - Deleting Alias entry failure
• DIRSERVER-1161 - search results are not streamed to the client until final done response is queued
• DIRSERVER-1181 - Too many results when using searchfilter with escaped asterisks \2A
• DIRSERVER-1199 - Improperly named/missing getter/setter for Registries SchemaLoader
• DIRSERVER-1201 - Interceptors not working (XBean)
• DIRSERVER-1226 - Search request causing schema exception on apacheHierarchy attribute type which was probably renamed
• DIRSERVER-1231 - Some operation can't be reverted with a single reverseLdif element
• DIRSERVER-1250 - An error (noSuchObject - code32) should be raised when trying to delete an entry that does not exist
• DIRSERVER-1253 - An error is shown in the log at the first start up of ApacheDS 1.5.4
• DIRSERVER-1254 - An error and a warning are shown in the log when accessing the RootDSE
• DIRSERVER-1255 - unit tests fail on windows (jdbm-store and core-integ)
• DIRSERVER-1256 - bad # hex escape in RDN doesn't throw InvalidNameException
• DIRSERVER-1258 - memory leak (outstanding requests) in SearchHandler
• DIRSERVER-1266 - The new referal handling generate 2 lookup instead of one for every search request
• DIRSERVER-1267 - Searching for a non existing entry now end with NPE inside the server
• DIRSERVER-1269 - Lowercased attributes after modify-replace operation
• DIRSERVER-1272 - The Core API does not handle referrals
• DIRSERVER-1276 - unescaping binary string corrupts values
• DIRSERVER-1278 - Error while trying to create new partition
• DIRSERVER-1279 - kerberos test failing on IBM JDK
• DIRSERVER-1283 - installers/apacheds-noarch no longer builds apacheds-noarch-installer-1.5.5-SNAPSHOT-app.jar
• DIRSERVER-1287 - Substring search with special chars not working
• DIRSERVER-1289 - NTP/KDC not starting
• DIRSERVER-1292 - Enabling NIS schema causes core-integ unit test to NPE
• DIRSERVER-1296 - integer attribute types are not compared correctly
• DIRSERVER-1300 - Only adding from LDIF is possible with injectEntries() in IntegrationUtils
• DIRSERVER-1303 - The documentation should mention that @ApplyLdifFiles annotation is unused
• DIRSERVER-1304 - Searching for a Telephone number don't work
• DIRSERVER-1306 - Searching an attribute which is a DN ends with a 80 Ldap error (Other)
• DIRSERVER-1308 - Can't delete objectClass with mandatory attribute
• DIRSERVER-1311 - Entry with an escaped comma in DN not found in searches with some filters
• DIRSERVER-1313 - Potential NPEs while loading LDIFs in unit tests
• DIRSERVER-1316 - apacheds.bat in noarch installer causes NoClassDefFoundError on Windows
• DIRSERVER-1317 - Apache Studio ldif export
• DIRSERVER-1318 - Binary installer does not allow installation with a simple user
• DIRSERVER-1324 - In default configuration not possible to connect via LDAP and LDAPS from computers other than the one the server has been started from
• DIRSERVER-1326 - Unable to search on a custom attribute of type directory string unless I've set a matching rule
• DIRSERVER-1333 - Server is unable to handle valid 'not' filter
• DIRSERVER-1335 - The windows installer produce errors
• DIRSERVER-1343 - Replacing indexed attribute always grows JDBM database
• DIRSERVER-1344 - DefaultPartitionNexus tries to add the system context entry every time the server is started
• DIRSERVER-1347 - escaping french accents in filter
• DIRSERVER-1348 - Core Integ tests are badly failing on Windows due to the inability to remove the 'server-work' folder
• DIRSERVER-1352 - Infinite Loop when deleting an alias with suffix size > 1
• DIRSERVER-1356 - KeyDerivationServiceIT class fails with an IBM JDK
• DIRSERVER-1365 - Modification on the current init script (at least version 1.5.4) placed under /etc/init.d
• DIRSERVER-1366 - Delete take forever when having a lot of entries
• DIRSERVER-1367 - Protocol error when requesting attribute with the space character only
• DIRSERVER-1368 - Using Extended Objectclass fails
• DIRSERVER-1369 - Concurrent bind and unbind of objects puts ADS in an inconsistent (unusable) state.
• DIRSERVER-1376 - sublevel index grows without limit
• DIRSERVER-1377 - Potential concurrency issue when adding/modifying/deleting entries at a high rate
• DIRSERVER-1379 - ou=system shows multiple time in ldapsearch with different createTimestamps
• DIRSERVER-1381 - problem using apacheds-tools.jar : ClassCastException during import
• DIRSERVER-1383 - There is a confusion between Anonymous access and Access to rootDSE
• DIRSERVER-1384 - Abandonned requests are not abandonned...
• DIRSERVER-1391 - filter "(attr=+)" causes infinite loop
• DIRSERVER-1397 - Removal of an non existing value from an attribute does not generate an error
• DIRSHARED-31 - LdapDN.endsWith(javax.naming.Name) fails for javax.naming.ldap.LdapName

Improvement

• DIRSERVER-639 - allow to run ldaps only
• DIRSERVER-649 - transport explanations in NamingExceptions why searches fail back to the client
• DIRSERVER-666 - Wrap LDIF generated String every 80 characters
• DIRSERVER-785 - When searching the directory with broken search expressions the search never returns (infinite loop)
• DIRSERVER-1048 - Need to improve LDIF load procedures
• DIRSERVER-1122 - Limit the number of messages sent but not yet acknowledged
• DIRSERVER-1165 - Adding some logs when the server has started
• DIRSERVER-1247 - removing unrequired escaping in DNs / filters
• DIRSERVER-1251 - Update the dependencies to the latest version
• DIRSERVER-1257 - some additional unit tests re MODIFY requests
• DIRSERVER-1274 - spelling typo
• DIRSERVER-1280 - make server connection backlog configurable
• DIRSERVER-1288 - put apacheds-server-unit-1.5.4.jar dependencies into Manifest
• DIRSERVER-1297 - Create default index on some attributeTypes like ObjectClass, ...
• DIRSERVER-1298 - Use AT names instead of OIDs for the indexed attributes
• DIRSERVER-1320 - Vestigial attribute workingDirectory in directoryService configuration may no longer be needed
• DIRSERVER-1332 - Create apacheds-all OSGi bundle
• DIRSERVER-1334 - Create module for OSGi bundle
• DIRSERVER-1374 - Use JUnit 4.5 for integration testing framework
• DIRSERVER-1375 - Support variable length salts for SSHA and SMD5
• DIRSERVER-1386 - Get rid of the MANIFEST.MF file of the server-tools project
• DIRSHARED-23 - Organize schema description parsers and value objects

New Feature

• DIRSERVER-1260 - Add a protection agains DoS attacks
• DIRSERVER-1262 - Add a Jetty container

Task

• DIRSERVER-811 - Make schema bootstrap code disregard deleted entries
• DIRSERVER-882 - Adding a tool to convert Schema files to Ldif Files
• DIRSERVER-1218 - Investigate the altered lookup() (returns empty entries) does not cause issues
• DIRSERVER-1329 - Fix expression vs default-value in maven plugins
• DIRSERVER-1337 - Add system level indexes for objectClass, entryCSN and entryUUID attributes
• DIRSERVER-1372 - Switch to MINA-2.0.0-M6 asap

Sub-task

• DIRSERVER-1238 - Move to MINA 2.0 where we can make a bigger impact with the networking code
• DIRSHARED-32 - Create Antlr based DN parser

The second edition of the Ldap Conference is announced :

http://www.symas.com/ldapcon2009/

Two members of the Apache Directory project will do a presentation :

Toolchain for Developers
Leveraging RFC 4533 to build a hetereogenous LDAP server replication system

Registration is open, you are very welcomed !