[Info-vax] OpenLDAP versions...

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-08-25, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Today I got a mail from VSI saying that there is a new kit
> called LDAP-V0204-59A-1 available. And I guess that one
> supersedes LDAP-V0204-57A-1 which is the one we currently have.
>
> It also says that the new kit is based on OpenLDAP V2.4.59a.
>
> Finally the mail links to
> https://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html
> where one should be able to see the changes. That openLDAP.org
> page talks about OpenLDAP versions 2.5.4, 2.5.5, 2.5.6 and 2.5.7.
>
> Does anyone know how these OpenLDAP versions works? I can understand
> the link from "V0204-59A" to "V2.4.59a". But I do not understand the
> links to "2.5.4, 2.5.5, 2.5.6 and 2.5.7".
>

I don't use OpenLDAP, but I had a quick look since no-one else answered.

It looks like OpenLDAP currently maintain two branches, the current
2.5.x branch and the older 2.4.x branch. The latter one is what VSI
appear to be using.

Based on date stamps, the 2.5.x branch looks to have only become stable
this year, but the changes page linked above looks like it only has the
2.5.x changes and not the 2.4.x changes as well.

BTW, I hope VSI are working with OpenLDAP (and other open source products
within VMS) to actually integrate the VMS specific code into the main
distribution instead of having to modify the standard OpenLDAP distribution
over and over again whenever there is a new release.

Simon.

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