[Pkg-openldap-devel] Upcoming 2.4.14 changes

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 10:22:40AM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> Just an FYI, as I know the next debian stable release is being worked on. ;)

> 2.4.14 has a number of modifications over 2.4.13 that would be relevant to 
> Debian:

> (a) TLS support has been broken down to be modular, for OpenSSL, GnuTLS, 
> and NSS.
> (b) GnuTLS support has been updated for the latest APIs
> (c) The connection code has been rewritten.  Some of this is specifically 
> because of epoll() related isues.

> I figured the GnuTLS bits would be of the most interest. ;)

Thanks for the heads-up; unfortunately we're stuck at 2.4.10 (I think?
Don't have it in front of me) due to the requirement to switch database
versions.  Are any of these GnuTLS fixes in 2.4.14 critical enough that we
should consider backporting them for lenny?

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