[389-announce] Announcing 389 Directory Server 2.2.8

389 Directory Server 2.2.8

The 389 Directory Server team is proud to announce 389-ds-base version 2.2.8

Fedora packages are available on Fedora 37

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=101293586

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-560cd47894 - Bohdi

The new packages and versions are:

• 389-ds-base-2.2.8-2

Source tarballs are available for download at Download 389-ds-base Source

Highlights in 2.2.8

• New LDAP Alias Entries plugin
• Provide a history for LastLoginTime
• New Password Administrator feature to skip updating the target entry's password state attributes
• New Account Policy plugin features allows you to to enforce both inactivity and expiration at the same time
• UI - replication monitor report can be loaded and saved in the .dsrc file

Installation and Upgrade

See Download for information about setting up your yum repositories.

To install the server use dnf install 389-ds-base

To install the Cockpit UI plugin use dnf install cockpit-389-ds

After rpm install completes, run dscreate interactive

For upgrades, simply install the package. There are no further steps required.

There are no upgrade steps besides installing the new rpms

See Install_Guide for more information about the initial installation and setup

See Source for information about source tarballs and SCM (git) access.

Feedback

We are very interested in your feedback!

Please provide feedback and comments to the 389-users mailing list: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/389-users.lists.fedoraproject.org

If you find a bug, or would like to see a new feature, file it in our GitHub project: https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base

• Bump version to 2.2.8
• Issue 5752 - RFE - Provide a history for LastLoginTime (#5753)
• Issue 5770 - RFE - Extend Password Adminstrators to allow skipping password info updates
• Issue 5768 - CLI/UI - cert checks are too strict, and other issues
• Issue 5765 - Improve installer selinux handling
• Issue 5643 - Memory leak in entryrdn during delete (#5717)
• Issue 152 - RFE - Add support for LDAP alias entries
• Issue 5052 - BUG - Custom filters prevented entry deletion (#5060)
• Issue 5704 - crash in sync_refresh_initial_content (#5720)
• Issue 5738 - RFE - UI - Read/write replication monitor info to .dsrc file

• Issue 5749 - RFE - Allow Account Policy Plugin to handle inactivity and expiration at the same time

• Bump version to 2.2.7-2
• Issue 5734 - RFE - Exclude pwdFailureTime and ContextCSN (#5735)
• Issue 5726 - ns-slapd crashing in ldbm_back_upgradednformat (#5727)
• Issue 5714 - UI - fix typo, db settings, log settings, and LDAP editor paginations
• Issue 5710 - subtree search statistics for index lookup does not report ancestorid/entryrdn lookups (#5711)
• Issue 1081 - Stop schema replication from overwriting x-origin
• Bump webpack from 5.75.0 to 5.76.0 in /src/cockpit/389-console (#5699)
• Issue 5598 - (3rd) In 2.x, SRCH throughput drops by 10% because of handling of referral (#5692)
• Issue 5598 - (2nd) In 2.x, SRCH throughput drops by 10% because of handling of referral (#5691)
• Issue 5687 - UI - sensitive information disclosure
• Issue 4583 - Update specfile to skip checks of ASAN builds
• Issue 5550 - dsconf monitor crashes with Error math domain error (#5553)
• Issue 3604 - UI - Add support for Subject Alternative Names in CSR
• Issue 5600 - buffer overflow when enabling sync repl plugin when dynamic plugins is enabled
• Fix build break
• Issue 5640 - Update logconv for new logging format
• Issue 5545 - A random crash in import over lmdb (#5546)
• Issue 5490 - tombstone in entryrdn index with lmdb but not with bdb (#5498)
• Issue 5408 - lmdb import is slow (#5481)
• Issue 5162 - CI - fix error message for invalid pem file
• Issue 5598 - In 2.x, SRCH throughput drops by 10% because of handling of referral (#5604)
• Issue 5671 - covscan - clang warning (#5672)
• Issue 5267 - CI - Fix issues with nsslapd-return-original-entrydn
• Issue 5666 - CLI - Add timeout parameter for tasks
• Issue 5567 - CLI - make ldifgen use the same default ldif name for all options
• Issue 5162 - Lib389 - verify certificate type before adding
• Issue 5630 - CLI - need to add logging filter for stdout
• Issue 5646 - CLI/UI - do not hardcode password storage schemes
• Issue 5640 - Update logconv for new logging format
• Issue 5652 - Libasan crash in replication/cascading_test (#5659)
• Issue 5658 - CLI - unable to add attribute with matching rule
• Issue 5653 - covscan - fix invalid dereference
• Issue 5648 - Covscan - Compiler warnings (#5651)
• Issue 5630 - CLI - error messages should goto stderr
• Issue 2435 - RFE - Raise IDL Scan Limit to INT_MAX (#5639)
• Issue 5632 - CLI - improve error handling with db2ldif
• Issue 5578 - dscreate ds-root does not normalize paths (#5613)
• Issue 5560 - dscreate run by non superuser set defaults requiring superuser privilege (#5579)
• Issue 5624 - RFE - UI - export certificates, and import text base64 encoded certificates
• Issue 4293 - RFE - CLI - add dsrc options for setting user and group subtrees
• Issue 5497 - boolean attributes should be case insensitive

--   Directory Server Development Team