[Info-vax] OpenLDAP versions...

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-08-27 kl. 17:38, skrev Craig A. Berry:
> 
> On 8/26/21 12:36 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> It's a little odd that the OpenLDAP site only has release notes for the
> 2.5.x series when they are clearly maintaining both 2.4.x and 2.5.x for
> now.  Most likely VSI put the link in their documentation when the site
> reflected 2.4.x.  I did find the following message in the archives of
> the OpenLDAP announcement mailing list regarding the 2.4.59 release,
> which just came out in June:
> 
> <https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-announce@openldap.org/message/UREG3X43QNEQGAVSKLHKO752QVVNRQPP/> 
> 
> 
>> 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.
> 
> It's nice to see when it happens, but I seriously doubt they have the
> resources to do that for everything.  A lot of open source projects now
> require active involvement and proof of testing or even continuous
> integration.
> 

I see little reason to follow every new release as long as everything
"works" fine as it is.

We currently have what is based on 2.4.57a and according to VSI, the
2.4.59a just released the other day is mainly minor bugfixes. Maybe
I'll put that into our test system anyway before rolling out LDAP
in our prod environment...