What's New in OpenDJ Compared to the OpenDJ release, OpenDJ
provides the following new features.OpenDJ now lets you use more TLS cipher suites in SSFs, including
those provided by Bouncy Castle and IBM (OPENDJ-826).OpenDJ now provides native RESTful access over HTTP to directory
data (OPENDJ-808). See the procedure, To Set Up REST
Access to OpenDJ Directory Server, to activate this
feature.OpenDJ REST LDAP gateway lets clients access directory data in remote
LDAP servers over HTTP (OPENDJ-757). See the procedure, To Install
OpenDJ REST LDAP Gateway, to get started.OpenDJ now lets you escape characters in make-ldif
templates (OPENDJ-800).Persistent connections can now be identified when querying
cn=monitor for the LDAP client connection handler.
(OPENDJ-677).OpenDJ now runs more reliably as a Windows Service (OPENDJ-617).Country String syntax now validates ISO 3166 codes (OPENDJ-562).OpenDJ now sets isMemberOf on groups as well as
user entries (OPENDJ-513).OpenDJ now supports the PBKDF2 password storage scheme (OPENDJ-510).Performance has been significantly improved for searches with a
virtual attribute in the filter (OPENDJ-508).OpenDJ now includes attribute syntax validation for X.509
certificate values (OPENDJ-482).The OpenDJ rebuild-index command now provides
an option, , to forcefully clear
the state of an unused index for a newly created attribute (OPENDJ-473).Import now performs better when handling LDIF entries with
attributes that have many values, such as large static group entries
(OPENDJ-469).The OpenDJ upgrade process and upgrade command
have changed to facilitate native packaging on more platforms and to
make upgrade easier to handle over time (OPENDJ-455).Also, you can now force OpenDJ upgrade to complete if errors occur in
non-interactive mode (OPENDJ-522).See Upgrading to
OpenDJ for
instructions.The mechanism to determine during setup whether the configuration
has been modified runs a more effective check (OPENDJ-446).OpenDJ now provides a read-only, non-searchable operational
attribute, ds-pwd-password-expiration-time, to make
it easier to read the password expiration time for an account (OPENDJ-441).OpenDJ now logs only fatal errors, severe errors, warnings, and
notices at startup time (OPENDJ-438).OpenDJ now lets you setup the server in command-line mode without
creating a default backend (OPENDJ-435).OpenDJ now computes last login time as UTC time when the value is
expressed in GeneralizedTime syntax (OPENDJ-418).OpenDJ now includes an ETag attribute for optimistic concurrency
control (OPENDJ-409).OpenDJ now provides Debian and RPM packages (OPENDJ-408).OpenDJ now provides the rebuild-index
--rebuildDegraded command for rebuilding degraded indexes
(OPENDJ-406).OpenDJ schema for configuration attributes has been cleaned up
(OPENDJ-393).OpenDJ now exposes the je.log.fileCacheSize
property through the ds-cfg-db-log-filecache-size
configuration attribute (OPENDJ-383).OpenDJ now exposes the je.log.fileCacheSize
property through the ds-cfg-db-log-filecache-size
configuration attribute (OPENDJ-383).OpenDJ verify and rebuild index commands now use JE 5 disk ordered
cursoring (OPENDJ-372).OpenDJ now uses Berkeley JE 5, which brings many performance
improvements (OPENDJ-371, OPENDJ-662).More OpenDJ tools now prompt for a bind password when none is
provided (OPENDJ-358).OpenDJ DSML gateway now allows authentication using an ID rather
than a DN (OPENDJ-352).OpenDJ now lets you filter access and audit logs to focus on
messages that interest you. OpenDJ supports many criteria for flexible
log filtering (OPENDJ-308).The OpenDJ dictionary password validator can now check whether a
password value contains dictionary words as substrings (OPENDJ-295).OpenDJ now logs use of the proxied authorization V1 control with
obsoleteProxiedAuthzV1Control (OPENDJ-283).OpenDJ DSML gateway can now connect over SSL to the LDAP
server (OPENDJ-269).OpenDJ now lets you delegate authentication to another LDAP
directory service, such as Active Directory. The feature is called
pass through authentication (PTA) (OPENDJ-262).
With PTA, OpenDJ replays a user's simple bind operation against the remote
directory service. If the bind is successful, OpenDJ considers the user
authenticated to perform subsequent operations like searches and updates
in OpenDJ.For PTA to work, OpenDJ must be able to match its OpenDJ entry for
the user with the user's entry on the remote directory service. The two
entries must correspond in one of the following ways.Both the OpenDJ entry and the remote entry have the same
DN.The OpenDJ entry has an attribute that holds the DN of the entry
on the remote directory service.The OpenDJ entry and the remote entry share an attribute that
has exactly the same value.If user entries do not match originally, you can no doubt add an
attribute to users' OpenDJ entries when configuring them to use pass
through authentication.To configure PTA, you set up an LDAP pass through authentication
policy in OpenDJ's configuration, and then assign the policy to users in
the same way you would assign a password policy. See the
Administration Guide for details.OpenDJ now lets you configure attributes to be removed or renamed
on update (OPENDJ-258).Subordinate indexes id2children and
id2subtree can now be disabled on OpenDJ JE backends to
improve performance when repeated adds and deletes are performed beneath
the same entry (OPENDJ-250).OpenDJ now calls Account Status Notification Handlers when an
account in enabled or disabled by the manage-account
(OPENDJ-248).OpenDJ now adds Unindexed to access log response
messages for unindexed searches, making it easier to identify searches
rejected by default (OPENDJ-246).OpenDJ can now synchronize Samba password attribute values with the
userPassword attribute value, ensuring that when users
change their LDAP passwords in OpenDJ or change their LanMan or NT
passwords in Samba, their password attribute values all stay in sync
(OPENDJ-233, OPENDJ-511). To activate this feature, configure the OpenDJ Samba
Password plugin by using the dsconfig command.OpenDJ now supports checking that entries of new group members
exist (OPENDJ-221). OpenDJ can now ensure both that members' entries
exist when they are added to groups, and also that members are removed
from groups when their entries are deleted.OpenDJ now better supports more, and larger static groups
(OPENDJ-197).Change log content and configuration has been improved in this
release (OPENDJ-194).Default database cache size, request handler counts, and replication
purge delay are now set more sensibly for default installations
(OPENDJ-116, OPENDJ-186).The character set password validator now supports optional character
sets (OPENDJ-168). Also, The character set password validator now
understands classes like "All non-Latin characters" (OPENDJ-620)Collective attributes can now be applied based on the values of
virtual attributes (OPENDJ-76).OpenDJ now lets you configure the access log to display LDAP
controls (OPENDJ-60).OpenDJ now lets you execute control-panel as any user, not only the
user who installed OpenDJ (OPENDJ-19).