Apache Directory team is pleased to announce the release of Apache
Directory Server version 1.5.6, numerous enhancements and
bug fixes were included in this release.
Downloads are available at
http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/1.5/downloads.html
What's new ?
* Schema subsystem was completely refactored and rewritten
* LDIF based schema support
* A new testing framework was designed with annotation support to
start and stop DirectoryService/LdapServer
* The new client LDAP API has been used in server integration tests
* A new partition implementation using LDIF files as backend
* ApacheDS now uses MINA 2.0.0-RC1
ChangeLog
Bug
* [DIRSERVER-935] - Test hangs on non-existant schema entry lookup
* [DIRSERVER-1214] - Searches done with an empty baseDN are not
accepted, except for the rootDSE
* [DIRSERVER-1314] - Helpless error message while a LDIF import
fails in unit tests
* [DIRSERVER-1340] - Search the schema partition for
(objectClass=metaTop) returns no results
* [DIRSERVER-1401] - Infinite loop on moddn, when moving an entry
below itself
* [DIRSERVER-1404] - NullPointerException when a client disconnects
* [DIRSERVER-1459] - Adding members to a groupOfNames results in
polynomial increase in JDBM partition size
* [DIRSERVER-1462] - Empty Depends field in .deb package breaks
repository
* [DIRSERVER-1465] - objectClass, entryUUID, entryCSN indices not
used in search optimizer
* [DIRSERVER-1470] - Error code 80 - OTHER is thrown when trying to
remove a value from the objectClass attribute
* [DIRSERVER-1473] - The typesOnly flag is not correctly handled
* [DIRSERVER-1474] - IllegalStateException when restarting the
LdapServer programmatically
* [DIRSERVER-1475] - The sizeLimit must be a long, not an int
* [DIRSERVER-1476] - Incorrect attribute description value set for
AttributeValueAssertion in the transformFilter( ExprNode ) method of
LdapTransformer
* [DIRSHARED-47] - Testfailures on jdk1.5, jdk1.6 works in
shared-ldap-schema-manager
Improvement
* [DIRSERVER-1466] - Support SHA-256 for userPassword values
* [DIRSERVER-1472] - Use Generic Type Parameter for ID in XDBM
instead of Long
* IRSHARED-13] - Replace the MultiHashMap in RDN by a MultiValueMap
* [DIRSHARED-15] - Create a Fast DN parser handling simple DNs
* [DIRSHARED-49] - Add i18n translation for error messages and other
Task
* [DIRSHARED-43] - Rename LdapDN to DN
* [DIRSHARED-44] - Rename Rdn to RDN
* [DIRSHARED-45] - Rename AttributeTypeAndValue to AVA
Apache Directory Team
