From:	 Jonathan Abbey <jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu>
To:	 ganymede-announce@arlut.utexas.edu
Subject: [Ganymede Announce] Ganymede 1.0.8 released
Date:	 Sun, 18 Nov 2001 18:02:40 -0600 (CST)

Ganymede 1.0.8 is now available for download at

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

or

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

Mirrors:

 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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This release has a number of bug and feature fixes.  The Ganymede
database format has been revised slightly so that large arrays of
object pointers, strings, and/or I.P. addresses can be supported in
database fields.  This will allow proper operation with more than 32k
objects owned by an owner group, but the revised Ganymede database
format will not be readable by versions 1.0.7 or earlier of the
Ganymede server.

The XML loader was improved, with support for importing of
Samba-hashed password values, and a revision of the default semantics
of vector element processing, to 'addIfNotPresent' rather than 'add'.

Finally, a good bit of work was done to improve data structure clean
up on the server after using the admin console's schema editor.

There were a number of other small fixes and feature improvements here
and there.  See http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2/CHANGES for full
details.

As always with an incompatible file revision, users upgrading to 1.0.8
should be sure and read the UPGRADE guide and to keep a backup copy of
their existing database in case they need to revert to 1.0.7.

1. [SERVER] Fixed Invid, String, IP array fields disk i/o to handle large arrays
2. [SERVER] Fixed scheduler to allow enabling/disabling of on demand tasks
3. [CLIENT] Fixed exception in timed out querybox
4. [SERVER/XML] Improved password importing support in the XML system
5. [CLIENT/SERVER] Fixed query filtering in Ganymede client and server
6. [SERVER] Fixed nullPointerException throw on empty regexp string
7. [XML/SERVER] Improved semantics of XML vector field handling
8. [ADMIN CONSOLE/SERVER] More fixes to prevent memory pinning with schema editor

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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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