13 June 2007 - 13:53Red Hat Updates(?) OpenLDAP
In a security exposure announcement, Secunia tells us Red Hat has issued updated RPMs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3. They Red Hat has released a new RPM for OpenLDAP 2.0.27!? That was originally released in late September of 2002, going on five years ago. By any rational measure, that's ancient. Symas ships 2.3.35(?), less than a couple of months old, to subscribers and we're talking about HUGE performance, manageability, and reliability improvements in five years.
Sigh. ... Marty
PS: Marty's original note said August 2004, which is actually when 2.2.15 was released. I've corrected this. RedHat is, as usual, woefully out of date shipping something that was obsoleted several years ago. -- Howard
two comments:
That may be true, but going from 2.0 to 2.3 would also involve testing interoperability with configuration files and various libraries (and their dependencies). This RPM would be for already deployed systems where you simply want to keep things running, and not add any new functionality.
Well, nice to see their lightning-fast response. We found and fixed the relevant bug in June of 2006. (And another PS: it would be nicer if these folks would use the original ITS numbers in their bug announcements, so all of these things can be correlated more easily.)
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