389 Directory Server 2.8.0
The 389 Directory Server team is proud to announce 389-ds-base version 2.8.0.
The new packages and versions are:
Source tarballs are available for download at GitHub Releases page
Highlights in 2.8.0
- Enhancements
- Issue 1793 - RFE - Implement dynamic lists
- Issue 7044 - RFE - index sudoHost by default
- Issue 7035 - RFE - memberOf - adding scoping for specific groups
- Issue 6805 - RFE - RFE - Multiple backend entry cache tuning
- Issue 6181 - RFE - Allow system to manage uid/gid at startup
- Bug fixes
- Security fixes
Installation and Upgrade
See Download for information about setting up your DNF repositories.
To install the server use dnf install 389-ds-base
To install the Cockpit UI plugin use dnf install cockpit-389-ds
After rpm install completes, run dscreate interactive
For upgrades, simply install the package. There are no further steps required.
There are no upgrade steps besides installing the new rpms.
See Install Guide for more information about the initial installation and setup.
See Source for information about source tarballs and SCM (git) access.
Feedback
We are very interested in your feedback!
Please provide feedback and comments here:
If you find a bug, or would like to see a new feature, file it in our GitHub project: https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base
Changelog between 389-ds-base-2.7.0 and 389-ds-base-2.8.0:
- Bump version to 2.8
- Fix UI for dynamic lists in MDB
- Issue 1793 - RFE - Dynamic lists - UI and CLI updates
- Issue 7119 - Fix DNA shared config replication test (#7143)
- Issue 7081 - Repl Log Analysis - Implement data sampling with performance and timezone fixes (#7086)
- Issue 1793 - RFE - Implement dynamic lists
- Issue 7128 - memory corruption in alias entry plugin (#7131)
- Issue 7091 - Duplicate local password policy entries listed (#7092)
- Issue 7124 - BDB cursor race condition with transaction isolation (#7125)
- Issue 7132 - Keep alive entry updated too soon after an offline import (#7133)
- Issue 7121 - LeakSanitizer: various leaks during replication (#7122)
- Issue 7115 - LeakSanitizer: leak in
slapd_bind_local_user() (#7116)
- Issue 7109 - AddressSanitizer: SEGV ldap/servers/slapd/csnset.c:302 in csnset_dup (#7114)
- Issue 7056 - DSBLE0007 doesn’t generate remediation steps for missing indexes
- Issue 7119 - Harden DNA plugin locking for shared server list operations (#7120)
- Issue 7084 - UI - schema - sorting attributes breaks expanded row
- Issue 7007 - Improve paged result search locking
- Issue 3555 - UI - Fix audit issue with npm - glob (#7107)
- Issue 6846 - Attribute uniqueness is not enforced with modrdn (#7026)
- Issue 6901 - Update changelog trimming logging - fix tests
- Issue 6901 - Update changelog trimming logging
- Issue 7097 - Bump js-yaml from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 in /src/cockpit/389-console (#7097)
- Issue 7069 - Fix error reporting in HAProxy trusted IP parsing (#7094)
- Issue 7042 - Enable global_backend_lock when memberofallbackend is enabled (#7043)
- Issue 7055 - Online initialization of consumers fails with error -23 (#7075)
- Issue 7078 - audit json logging does not encode binary values
- Issue 7069 - Add Subnet/CIDR Support for HAProxy Trusted IPs (#7070)
- Issue 6660 - CLI, UI - Improve replication log analyzer usability (#7062)
- Issue 7065 - A search filter containing a non normalized DN assertion does not return matching entries (#7068)
- Issue 7071 - search filter (&(cn:dn:=groups)) no longer returns results
- Issue 7073 - Add NDN cache size configuration and enforcement tests (#7074)
- Issue 7041 - CLI/UI - memberOf - no way to add/remove specific group filters
- Issue 7061 - CLI/UI - Improve error messages for dsconf localpwp list
- Issue 7059 - UI - unable to upload pem file
- Issue 7032 - The new ipahealthcheck test ipahealthcheck.ds.backends.BackendsCheck raises CRITICAL issue (#7036)
- Issue 7047 - MemberOf plugin logs null attribute name on fixup task completion (#7048)
- Issue 7044 - RFE - index sudoHost by default (#7046)
- Issue 6979 - Improve the way to detect asynchronous operations in the access logs (#6980)
- Issue 7035 - RFE - memberOf - adding scoping for specific groups
- Issue - CLI/UI - Add option to delete all replication conflict entries
- Issue 7033 - lib389 - basic plugin status not in JSON
- Issue 6753 - Port ticket tests
- Issue 6753 - Port and fix ticket 47823 tests
- Issue 6753 - Add ‘add_exclude_subtree’ and ‘remove_exclude_subtree’ methods to Attribute uniqueness plugin
- Issue 6753 - Port ticket test 48026
- Issue 7023 - UI - if first instance that is loaded is stopped it breaks parts of the UI
- Issue 7027 - 389-ds-base OpenScanHub Leaks Detected (#7028)
- Issue 6966 - On large DB, unlimited IDL scan limit reduce the SRCH performance (#6967)
- Issue 6660 - UI - Improve replication log analysis charts and usability (#6968)
- Issue 6982 - UI - MemberOf shared config does not validate DN properly (#6983)
- Issue 7021 - Units for changing MDB max size are not consistent across different tools (#7022)
- Issue 7018 - BUG - prevent stack depth being hit (#7019)
- Issue 6954 - do not delete referrals on chain_on_update backend
- Issue 6928 - The parentId attribute is indexed with improper matching rule
- Issue 6933 - When deferred memberof update is enabled after the server crashed it should not launch memberof fixup task by default (#6935)
- Issue 7014 - memberOf - ignored deferred updates with LMDB
- Issue 7012 - improve dscrl dbverify result when backend does not exists (#7013)
- Issue 6929 - Compilation failure with rust-1.89 on Fedora ELN
- Issue 6977 - UI - Show error message when trying to use unavailable ports (#6978)
- Issue 6990 - UI - Replace deprecated Select components with new TypeaheadSelect (#6996)
- Issue 6990 - UI - Fix typeahead Select fields losing values on Enter keypress (#6991)
- Issue 6956 - More UI fixes
- Issue 6947 - Revise time skew check in healthcheck tool and add option to exclude checks
- UI - update Radio handlers and LDAP entries last modified time
- Issue 6660 - UI - Fix minor typo (#6955)
- Issue 6910 - Fix latest coverity issues
- Issue 6919 - numSubordinates/tombstoneNumSubordinates are inconsisten… (#6920)
- Issue 6940 - dsconf monitor server fails with ldapi:// due to absent server ID (#6941)
- Issue 6936 - Make user/subtree policy creation idempotent (#6937)
- Issue 6768 - ns-slapd crashes when a referral is added (#6780)
- Issue 6865 - AddressSanitizer: leak in agmt_update_init_status
- Issue 6848 - AddressSanitizer: leak in do_search
- Issue 6850 - AddressSanitizer: memory leak in mdb_init
- Issue 6778 - Memory leak in roles_cache_create_object_from_entry part 2
- Issue 6778 - Memory leak in roles_cache_create_object_from_entry
- Issue 6181 - RFE - Allow system to manage uid/gid at startup
- Issues 6913, 6886, 6250 - Adjust xfail marks (#6914)
- Issue 6468 - CLI - Fix default error log level
- Issue 6339 - Address Coverity scan issues in memberof and bdb_layer (#6353)
- Issue 6897 - Fix disk monitoring test failures and improve test maintainability (#6898)
- Issue 6884 - Mask password hashes in audit logs (#6885)
- Issue 6594 - Add test for numSubordinates replication consistency with tombstones (#6862)
- Issue 6250 - Add test for entryUSN overflow on failed add operations (#6821)
- Issue 6895 - Crash if repl keep alive entry can not be created
- Issue 6893 - Log user that is updated during password modify extended operation
- Issue 6772 - dsconf - Replicas with the “consumer” role allow for viewing and modification of their changelog. (#6773)
- Issue 6680 - instance read-only mode is broken (#6681)
- Issue 6878 - Prevent repeated disconnect logs during shutdown (#6879)
- Issue 6872 - compressed log rotation creates files with world readable permission
- Issue 6859 - str2filter is not fully applying matching rules
- Issue 6756 - CLI, UI - Properly handle disabled NDN cache (#6757)
- Issue 6868 - UI - schema attribute table expansion break after moving to a new page
- Issue 6857 - uiduniq: allow specifying match rules in the filter
- Issue 6838 - lib389/replica.py is using nonexistent datetime.UTC in Python 3.9
- Issue 6377 - syntax error in setup.py (#6378)
- Issue 6822 - Backend creation cleanup and Database UI tab error handling (#6823)
- Issue 6782 - Improve paged result locking
- Issue 6119 - Synchronise accept_thread with slapd_daemon (#6120)
- Issue 6825 - RootDN Access Control Plugin with wildcards for IP addre… (#6826)
Last modified on 13 January 2026