OpenDS 1.3.0-Build004 is now available

Opends Logo TagWe 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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Getting started with OpenDS Translations

OpenDS for the International crowd...Pavel Heimlich, the lead for the French translation for OpenDS, kindly posted an How To Guide for using CTI for the OpenDS community led translations, on the OpenDS Wiki.

If you’re interested in testing your translation skills with OpenDS messages, check the page, it gives a pretty good idea on how simple it is to use the tool… The hard part is really in providing good and consistent translation !

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