1.2. Product Enhancements

Compared to the OpenDJ ${stableServerVersion} release, OpenDJ 4.8.1-SNAPSHOT provides these important enhancements.

OpenDJ 4.8.1-SNAPSHOT includes no new enhancements beyond those included in OpenDJ 2.6.2.

The following improvement is new in OpenDJ 2.6.2.

  • OpenDJ server can now bind to a local address when making outgoing connections (OPENDJ-1565).

    This improvement introduces a new configuration attribute, source-address, that you can set for Replication Domains, Replication Servers, and LDAP Pass Through Authentication Policies. If the source-address property is set to an IP address, OpenDJ binds to the address before connecting to the remote server. The address must be one assigned to an existing network interface.

The following improvements are new in OpenDJ 2.6.1.

  • OpenDJ directory server ships with updated Commons REST, OpenDJ LDAP SDK, and Berkeley DB Java Edition components (OPENDJ-1323).

  • OpenDJ directory server now makes it possible to specify password validators in subentry based password policies (OPENDJ-1295).

    To configure password validators for a subentry password policy, add the auxiliary object class pwdValidatorPolicy and setting the multi-valued attribute, ds-cfg-password-validator, to the DNs of the password validator configuration entries.

  • OpenDJ directory server now orders attributes according to search request attribute list order (OPENDJ-1082).

  • OpenDJ directory server logs information to help you more effectively determine why a directory server replica switches its connection to a different replication server (OPENDJ-1053).

  • The REST LDAP Gateway now supports LDAPS connections and StartTLS (OPENDJ-1033).

    For information on configuring the gateway to use LDAPS or StartTLS, see the comments in the configuration file, opendj-rest2ldap-servlet.json. Find the settings to change in the configuration for "ldapConnectionFactories".