OpenDJ Fixes, Limitations, & Known Issues
This chapter covers the status of key issues and limitations
for OpenDJ ${docTargetVersion} and OpenDJ SDK ${sdkDocTargetVersion}.
For details and information on other issues,
see the OpenDJ issue tracker.
Key Fixes
OpenDJ 2.6.0 and later maintenance releases
include important improvements to replication.
Replication remains fully compatible with earlier versions.
However, some operations that work fine with the current OpenDJ release,
such as replicating large groups
and replicating high volumes of adds and deletes,
can cause issues for earlier versions.
Make sure you upgrade all servers to this version
before allowing clients to take advantage of write operations
that could cause trouble for older servers.
The following important bugs were fixed in this release.OPENDJ-1427: Control-panel reports duplicate ds-sync-hist values for pwdHistoryOPENDJ-1354: replication threads BLOCKED in pendingChanges queueOPENDJ-1190: Under rare circumstances the DS replication recovery thread (RSUpdater) can spinOPENDJ-1146: Memory leak on opendj 2.6.0OPENDJ-1142: OpenDJ setup does not work in Java8 EA - A security class cannot be found in this JVMOPENDJ-452: Manual add of new schema objectclass in 99-user.ldif are not replicatedLimitationsRelease has the following limitations,
none of which are new since .OpenDJ directory server provides full LDAP v3 support, except for
alias dereferencing, and limited support for LDAPv2.When you configure account lockout as part of password policy,
OpenDJ locks an account after the specified number of consecutive
authentication failures. Account lockout is not transactional across a
replication topology, however. Global account lockout occurs as soon as
the authentication failure times have been replicated.OpenDJ is not fully integrated with Microsoft Windows, yet OpenDJ
directory server can be run as a service, and thus displayed in the
Windows Services Control Panel.OpenDJ replication is designed to permit an unlimited number
of replication servers in your topology. Project testing has, however,
focused only on topologies of up to eight replication servers.OpenDJ plugin extensions must follow the guidelines set forth in
the README file delivered in
opendj/example-plugin.zip. When developing your
extension, aim to remain loosely coupled with any particular version of
OpenDJ. Libraries used must be installed in
opendj/lib/extensions/ (or bundle them in your
.jar). Keep your configuration separate from the server configuration.
Also, unless you are reusing standard schema definitions, keep your
schema definitions separate as well.This can affect how your extension works after upgrade. In
particular opendj-accountchange-handler-1.0.0 does
not work with OpenDJ 2.6.0 after upgrade (OPENDJ-991). See that issue for notes on how make that version
of the extension work with OpenDJ 2.6.0.Known IssuesWhen deploying for production, make sure that you follow the
installation instructions on allowing OpenDJ to use at least 64K (65536)
file descriptors, and on tuning the JVM appropriately.The following important issues remained open at the time this release
became available.OPENDJ-1586: Nested Groups fail to return indirect members with db's larger than 10 entriesOPENDJ-1431: Trimming of draftcndb gets stuck, changelog keeps growing in sizeOPENDJ-1375: Subtree delete control can wait forever for an id2subtree lockOPENDJ-1358: Backup task logs path in ID field, and ID in path fieldOPENDJ-1325: An error occurred while attempting to perform index rebuild: The database environment could not be opened: (JE 5.0.73)OPENDJ-1309: First dsreplication enable could warn before replicating schemaOPENDJ-1294: ldappasswordmodify -D <DN> -w - fails without prompting password from stdinOPENDJ-1290: Nested backends handles hasSubordinates attribute incorrectlyOPENDJ-1239: dsreplication logs warnings for each replication server under cn=monitorOPENDJ-1213: LDIFReader should reject LDIF that contains trailing spaceOPENDJ-1189: Integer overflow while sizing scratch files building indexesOPENDJ-1172: Deadlock between replication threads during shutdown.OPENDJ-1169: Exception/error lost when logging ERR_LOOP_REPLAYING_OPERATIONOPENDJ-1158: rebuild-index leaves backend offline if a backup is runningOPENDJ-1151: OpenDJ unable to initialize the SSL context an doesn't startOPENDJ-1138: searchrate throws java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsExceptionOPENDJ-1131: Rest2LDAP fails to start with GlassFish3.1OPENDJ-1094: ECL virtual lastChangeNumber attribute can decrementOPENDJ-1087: OpenDJ Console: Validation checks missingOPENDJ-1056: secure listener should not be created if proper keying material is not available for some reasonOPENDJ-1051: Upgrade: add task to update lastChangeNumber/firstChangeNumber attributes definition when upgrading from 2.4.xOPENDJ-1043: Worker Thread was interrupted while waiting for new work while shutting down OPENDJ-1016: Control panel does not follow static group recommendation from documentationOPENDJ-1009: CryptoManagerTestCase:testStreamEncryptDecryptSuccess failsOPENDJ-1007: InstallHelper: endless loop, etc.OPENDJ-948: unauthorized disclosure of directory contentsOPENDJ-934: Changes to RS window-size property require a server restartOPENDJ-862: Strange ds-privilege-name behaviorOPENDJ-810: Non-atomic password state updatesOPENDJ-640: Text Query Against indexed telephoneNumber Attribute Very SlowOPENDJ-573: mustChangePassword function makes-up password change stateOPENDJ-557: Identical changes recorded in duplicate changelog recordsOPENDJ-527: rebuild-index --rebuildAll corrupts the indexes for certain data sets OPENDJ-518: Cannot log into the administrative control panel with FIPS-140 enabled in certain casesOPENDJ-505: dsreplication enable fails when hostname contains an underscoreOPENDJ-431: Server side sort control only works on result sets of less than 100000 entriesOPENDJ-412: Blocked persistent searches may block all worker threadsOPENDJ-365: Potential deadlock in JE backend while performing a mix of update operationsOPENDJ-270: dsreplication disable takes a long timeOPENDJ-49: Replication replay does not take into consideration the server/backend's writability mode.