This is a feature release announcement template. Although targeting ApacheDS please feel free to modify it for other Apache Directory subprojects and add the altered template to this guide for facilitating future release announcements.
ApacheDS X.5.Y: A Feature Release The Apache Directory team is pleased to announce the release of ApacheDS X.5.Y, a pure-Java LDAP server and more. Our primary vision is to build an enterprise directory server platform and its components where other Internet services snap in to store their data within the directory so they may be managed using LDAP. Those services include LDAP itself, DNS, DHCP, Change Password and Kerberos. This release introduces many new features into the server: * <fill in the list of new features here> <verbage condition="if certified by the OpenGroup add the following verbage if not remove it"> This release has been certified by the Open Group as a compliant LDAPv3 server. Thanks to the gracious contributions of the Open Group, the Apache Directory Team was able to freely certify ApacheDS. As of now, only 3 LDAP servers, of which ApacheDS is one, have passed the latest version of the compliance test suite provided by the Open Group. </verbage> For all the features in ApacheDS added in the past please refer to <add link to complete feature list>. WARNING: Although this release is stable in general having passed several quality assurance tests and performance metrics the new features introduced should be considered experimental. Regardless all previous features deemed stable in previous major releases can still be considered stable. The Apache Directory team is looking for more developers and of course users to help grow the community and give feedback. Mailing list information is at: http://directory.apache.org/mail-lists.html. Check ApacheDS at http://directory.apache.org for more information. The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and infrastructure support for a broad range of open source software projects. The Foundation provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits contributors' potential legal exposure. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, Apache projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large communities of users.