[$] What's coming in OpenLDAP 2.5

If pressed, I will admit to thinking that, if NIS was good enough for Charles Babbage, it'sgood enough for me. I am therefore not a huge fan of LDAP; I feel I can detect in it the heavy hand of the ITU,which seems to wish to apply X.500 toeverything. Nevertheless, for secure, distributed, multi-platform identitymanagement it's quite hard to beat. If you decide to run an LDAP serveron Unix, one of the major free implementations is slapd, the coreengine of the OpenLDAP project.Howard Chu is the chief architect of the project,and spoke at FLOSS 2018 about the upcoming 2.5 release. Any rumorsthat he might have passed the time while the room filled up by givinga short but nicely rendered fiddle recital are completely true.