OpenLDAP 2.6.3 and 2.5.13

The OpenLDAP project has announced the release of versions 2.6.3 and 2.5.13 of their LDAP directory server. Changes included in these releases include:

  • Fixed numerous memory leaks and other memory management issues (both versions)
  • Fixed an issue that could crash the server when performing a replication refresh (version 2.6.3)
  • Fixed an issue that could crash the server with both rwm and ppolicy enabled (both versions)
  • Fixed an issue that could interfere with replication if an instance went offline for an extended period of time (both versions)
  • Fixed an issue in which killing a process accessing the a could interfere with other processes accessing the same database (both versions)
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the server from working properly on some types of BSD systems (both versions)
  • Fixed a backward-compatibility issue with the automatic group overlay (both versions)
  • Fixed an issue in which lastbind updates were not properly chained on read-only consumers (version 2.6.3)
  • Fixed an issue in which the rwm overlay did not properly handle DNs with special characters (version 2.6.3)
  • Fixed an issue in which notice of disconnection unsolicited notifications were not properly encoded (version 2.6.3)
  • Added support for case-insensitive matching of Boolean values (version 2.6.3)
  • Added support for allowing empty directory strings (both versions)
  • Updated the 2.2 release of the ppm module (version 2.6.3)