>>> Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]> schrieb am 10.12.2021 um 18:00 in Nachricht <2A5F43DA950658AE64FEE654@[192.168.1.3]>:
> > --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 You are right insofar as Redhat and SUSE both moved from openLDAP to 389ds in their current releases, but before they actually back-ported fixes to their OpenLDAP software packages. > 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 years out of date, with numerous critical bug fixes having occurred since 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 > > > -- > > Quanah Gibson-Mount > Product Architect > Symas Corporation > Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP: > <http://www.symas.com>
