[announce] Passwd H3 (3.0) (final)

[Jan Schneider]

The Horde Team is pleased to announce the final 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,
Kolab, ADSI, Pine, Serv-U FTP, VMailMgr, vpopmail, and SQL passwords.

The major changes compared to the Passwd version H3 (3.0-RC1) are:
    * Added configuration switch to enable and disable domain realms.
    * Added Slovak translation.
    * Updated German translation.

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-RC1)) can be viewed here:

http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/passwd/docs/CHANGES?r1=1.76&r2=1.79&ty=h

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

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

Patches against version H3 (3.0-RC1) are available at:

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

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

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

MD5 sums for the packages are as follows:

    ca5612500c91c4ef3c838e8e94376332  passwd-h3-3.0.tar.gz
    648430ecf7500d4f0944a6229b29a9a8  patch-passwd-h3-3.0-rc1-h3-3.0.gz

Have fun!

The Horde Team.