From:	 Jonathan Abbey <jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu>
To:	 ganymede-announce@arlut.utexas.edu
Subject: [Ganymede Announce] Ganymede 1.0.7 released
Date:	 Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:54:04 -0500 (CDT)

Ganymede 1.0.7 is now available for download at

 http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2/

or

 ftp://ftp.arlut.utexas.edu/pub/ganymede/

Mirrors: (may take a short while to update)

 ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/ganymede/ (Planet Mirror, Australia)
 ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/pub/ganymede/ (KDD R&D Labs, Kamifukuoka, Saitama, Japan)
 ftp://ftp2.sinica.edu.tw/pub4/ganymede/ (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/ganymede/ (University of Goettingen, Germany)

Ganymede is a GPL'ed metadirectory system.  Ganymede provides support
for concurrent, team-based management of network directory services.
It features a multithreaded database server with support for plug-in
Java classes to customize the structure, management, and distribution
of network directory data.  Ganymede allows large groups of
administrators to share administrative control over designated
portions of a master network directory database, and provides
transactional reliability and intelligent constraint management to
keep network directories consistent.  Ganymede keeps complete audit
trails for all activity and can send email notification of relevant
directory changes to every member of your admin team, keeping
administrative teams coordinated and effective.  Ganymede's
sophisticated graphical user interface is designed to provide a high
enough level of ease and safety of use to allow even relatively
untrained users to make changes to the directory database.

Ganymede has been designed and implemented over a five year period to
act as the glue that holds your admin teams and your directory
services together.

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Ganymede 1.0.7 fixes a number of rather esoteric issues that have come
up at ARL over the last several months; a check was put in to detect
networking configuration issues on Linux that could render the server
unaccessible from remote systems, and several optimizations were put
into the Ganymede client that will reduce network traffic during
interactive usage.

Most of these refinements won't impact anyone out there, as they don't
affect the simple userKit logic.  People who have written significant
amounts of custom plug-in logic or who are using the GASHARL logic may
find some of these changes worthwhile.  This release should be a
completely compatible upgrade to Ganymede 1.0 or greater, though, and
the network optimizations in the client may be worth upgrading for if
you have users operating over dialup.

The following is an abbreviated list of changes in this release.  See
http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2/CHANGES for full details.

1. [SERVER] Deleted objects now have all of their fields logged
2. [SERVER] Better error message on field creation failure
3. [SERVER] Made sessions smarter about refusing to edit objects during commit
4. [SERVER] Amended wizard shutdown process
5. [SERVER] Put loopback binding check into server startup
6. [SERVER] Objects in the process of being deleted may not be linked to
7. [CLIENT] Optimized out redundant network calls in the GUI client

In addition, a new version of the Ganymede userKit has been released.

Version 1.0.5 of the userKit includes the following minor
improvements:

1. [NPASSWD] Fixed up the npasswd support code some
2. [DOCUMENTATION] Fixed a bash syntax error in README
3. [SOURCE] Made builder tasks log phase 2 execution
4. [SCRIPTS] Simplified directory setting in build scripts

If you are running Ganymede with the current userKit you can easily
forego upgrading to this version of the userKit.  The only really
significant change to the userKit is an improvement to the npasswd
support code.  If you are not using the npasswd libraries with
userKit, there's no need to upgrade the userKit.

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Jonathan Abbey 				              jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu
Applied Research Laboratories                 The University of Texas at Austin
Ganymede, a GPL'ed metadirectory for UNIX     http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2

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