[announce] Passwd H3 (3.0-BETA)

[Jan Schneider]

The Horde Team is pleased to announce the first beta release of the Passwd
Horde password changing application version H3 (3.0).

Passwd provides fairly complete support for changing passwords via poppassd,
LDAP, Unix expect scripts, the Unix smbpasswd command for SMB/CIFS passwords,
servuftp, vmailmgr, vpopmail, and SQL passwords.

This is a preview version that should not be used on production systems.  This
version is considered feature complete but there might still be a few bugs.
You should not use this preview version over existing production data.

We encourage widespread testing and feedback via the mailing lists or our bug
tracking system.  Updated translations are very welcome, though some strings
might still change before the final release.

The major changes compared to the Passwd 2.x versions are:
    * Compatible with Horde 3.
    * New composite driver to change several passwords at once.
    * New drivers: Pine, proc_open(), Samba LDAP, and Windows (ADSI and
      PSPASSWD)
    * Additional password policy checks.
    * TLS and SSL support for LDAP driver.
    * Support for shadowLastChange and shadowMin LDAP attributes.
    * Bind variables in SQL drivers.
    * New translations: Catalan and Persian.
    * More configuration options.

The Passwd H3 (3.0-BETA) distribution is available from the following locations:

    ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/passwd/passwd-h3-3.0-beta.tar.gz
    http://ftp.horde.org/pub/passwd/passwd-h3-3.0-beta.tar.gz

Or, for quicker access, download from your nearest mirror:

    http://www.horde.org/mirrors.php

MD5 sums for the packages are as follows:

    9ea299d2822c9d3ca5efca03ce6a23a4  passwd-h3-3.0-beta.tar.gz
    

Have fun!

The Horde Team.