The OpenLDAP project has announced the release of version 2.5.7 of their LDAP directory server. Changes in this release include:
- Fixed an issue that could cause the server to become unresponsive after multiple changes to the configuration
- Fixed an issue that could cause the server to crash when adding multiple values to an attribute that is defined without an equality matching rule
- Fixed an issue that could prevent certain types of changes from being logged properly
- Fixed an issue that could cause excessive logging for entries without a password changed time
- Fixed an issue that could leave transactions open when using the back-sql backend
- Fixed an issue that prevent password policy from working properly in conjunction with the back-sql backend
- Fixed an issue that could cause the server to return duplicate password expiration controls
- Fixed potential issues with tracking the state of client connections
- Fixed an issue that could cause the server to incorrectly report that a configuration entry was missing a structural object class
- Fixed an issue that could cause the server to incorrectly report the number of operations being processed
- Added documentation improvements