[announce] Passwd H3 (3.0-RC1)

[Jan Schneider]

The Horde Team is pleased to announce the first release candidate 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,
Kolab, ADSI, Pine, Serv-U FTP, 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 version H3 (3.0-BETA) are:
    * Extended the expect script to allow setups with passwd as the login shell
    * Display correct error message for failed passwords with LDAP drivers.
    * Fixed updating of shadowlastchange attribute in LDAP driver.
    * Updated documentation.
    * Updated Finnish, French, Russian and Simplified Chinese translations.

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: Kolab, 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 full list of changes (from version H3 (3.0-BETA)) can be viewed here:

http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/passwd/docs/CHANGES?r1=1.68&r2=1.76&ty=h

The Passwd H3 (3.0-RC1) distribution is available from the following locations:

    ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/passwd/passwd-h3-3.0-rc1.tar.gz
    http://ftp.horde.org/pub/passwd/passwd-h3-3.0-rc1.tar.gz

Patches against version H3 (3.0-BETA) are available at:

    ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/passwd/patches/patch-passwd-h3-3.0-beta-h3-3.0-rc1.gz
    http://ftp.horde.org/pub/passwd/patches/patch-passwd-h3-3.0-beta-h3-3.0-rc1.gz

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

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

MD5 sums for the packages are as follows:

    8e8ec177bc1622d4607f182bf18f55b1  passwd-h3-3.0-rc1.tar.gz
    335e4f8222aba43fc9b5be5b707b52c7  patch-passwd-h3-3.0-beta-h3-3.0-rc1.gz

Have fun!

The Horde Team.