--On Friday, December 10, 2021 8:14 AM +0100 Ulrich Windl
<[email protected]> wrote:
OpenLDAP 2.6 is the current release series. OpenLDAP 2.4 is no longer
in support. As I noted previously, Symas provides pre‑built binaries
via a repository as described at <https://repo.symas.com/soldap/>. Paid
support is optionally available as well.
Also, I'd note again that the vendor supplied builds are woefully out of
date and are generally unsuitable for a production environment,
especially one running business critical applications.
Well, as long as those vendors offer support for their packages it's
discussable whether those packages are suitable for production
environments. At the moment I'm taking part in some online training, and
I found out that the OS of the training environment had its last update
in 2019, so probably the effective date of the software is even older.
The company offering the training has _lots_ of money, however...
Not all production environment needs bleeding edge software.
I'm not aware of any vendor that offers support for their OpenLDAP
packages. RedHat in particular is most known for causing bugs (including
serious CVEs) in OpenLDAP with broken patches because they don't understand
the code. And the particular version of OpenLDAP 2.4 referenced here is
years out of date, with numerous critical bug fixes having occurred since
it was released.
Additionally, the packages provided for *free* by Symas are the same
packages used in production by our paying support customers, and critical
issues found therein are promptly fixed. So *free* users get actual
support and benefit from using our packages that are not obtainable via
distribution provided packages.
Regards,
Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Product Architect
Symas Corporation
Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP:
<http://www.symas.com>
