The server has been certified as LDAPv3 compatible by the Open Group.
Besides LDAP it supports Kerberos 5 and the Change Password Protocol.
It has been designed to introduce triggers, stored procedures, queues and views to the world of LDAP which has lacked these rich constructs.
Here are some key features of "Apache Directory Server":
· Dynamic Schema (1.5.0+)
· LDAP Stored Procedures and LDAP Triggers (1.5.0+)
· SASL/StartTLS (1.5.1+)
· Multi-Master Replication (1.5.x)
· Dynamic configuration (1.5.x)
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· User provided value is not retained during rename operation
· Adding entries with attribute userCertificate;binary fails with "No such attribute"
· Unable to add a JPEG image to an entry due to an 'Invalid Attribute Syntax' error
· Renaming an entry when the RDN uses a case insensitive AT should be possible
· Renaming an existing entry with a DN containing upper cased chars will not store the CN as provided
· Creation of an entry like cn=test1+cn=test2, ou=system should not be allowed
· DN/RDN handling is incorrect when there are some escaped values into them
· Version in Root DSE is reported as '${pom.version}'