389 Directory Server 2.8.1

The 389 Directory Server team is proud to announce 389-ds-base version 2.8.1.

• 389-ds-base-2.8.1

Source tarball: GitHub Releases

Highlights in 2.8.1

• Security fix for CVE-2026-9064 by limiting controls per operation.
• Fix large subtree moddn crashes and obsolete entrydn index handling.
• Add thread names, work queue metrics, and support for additional dsidm user types.
• Fix MemberOf deferred-update crashes, replication-agreement validation, and substring index failures.
• Improve password policy controls and WebUI replication management.

See Download for package installation and Install Guide for setup.

Changelog between 389-ds-base-2.8.0 and 389-ds-base-2.8.1:

• Bump version to 2.8.1
• Issue 7519 - Ignore obsolete entrydn index when entryrdn is enabled #7526
• Issue 7514 - Crash when doing moddn on very large subtree
• Issue 7516 - dblayer_bulk_nextdata should not return an error when maxrecords is hit
• Issue 7503 - CVE-2026-9064 - Add a limit to the number controls per operation
• Issue 7300 - RFE - Add OS-level thread names to all server threads #7301
• Issue 7307 - RFE - Expose work queue and worker utilization metrics #7308
• Issue 7464 - CLI - allow dsidm to work with other user types
• Issue 7457 - Refactor memberOf perf test #7458
• Issue 7452 - UI - password polices - reorganize settings
• Issue 7431 - password policy - passwordBadWords is ignored in local policies
• Issue 7155 - build_candidate_list - Database error 11 with range search #7156
• Issue 7417 - UI - global password policy syntax settings missing passwordMaxRepeats
• Issue 3555 - UI - Fix audit issue with npm - brace-expansion #7411
• Issue 7088 - Change log level for “Can’t locate CSN” error message
• Issue 7423 - cleanup pblock after freeing pre/post entries
• Issue 7418 - Use-after-free in deferred memberof #7419
• Issue 7407 - dbscan -k option display entries that do not match the specified key
• Issue 7394 - UI - Manual typing of ports can leave out digits #7395
• Issue 7277 - UI - Fix Japanese translation errors errors in Cockpit UI #7386
• Issue 7126 - WARN - keys2idl - received NULL idl from index_read_ext_allids #7127
• Issue 7246 - correct formatting of ‘Gen as CSN’ in dsctl get-nsstate output #7247
• Issue 7370 - Runtime LSan/TSan injection for pytest #7371
• Issue 7378 - Make sure suffix entry always gets assigned ID 1
• Issue 7380 - Internal op with negative wtime and large optime #7381
• Issue 7362 - UI - Some FormSelect onChange parameters are reversed
• Issue 7368 - UI - global password policy page is missing passwordmintokenlength
• Issue 7366 - Memory leaks in syncrepl plugin during persistent search operations #7367
• Issue 7271 - Add test for retrocl trimming shutdown crash #7356
• Issue 3555 - UI - Fix audit issue with npm - flatted, picomatch #7364
• Issue 7277 - UI - Fix Japanese translation for “Successfully updated group” in Cockpit UI #7278
• Issue 7275 - UI - Improve password policy field validation in Cockpit UI #7276
• Issue 7279 - UI - Fix typo in export certificate dialog #7280
• Issue 6758 - Fix Enable Replication dropdown not opening #7262
• Issue 6758 - Use OUIA selectors for WebUI plugin tests #7182
• Issue 6758 - Fix WebUI monitoring test failure due to FormSelect component deprecation #7004
• Issue 6758 - Fix failing webUI tests
• Issue 1704 - DNA plugin creates invalid shared config entry with port 0 #7352
• Issue 6753 - Removing ticket 477828 test and porting to DSLdapObject #6989
• Issue 7346 - DS does not handle escape char in bind user #7347
• Issue 7322 - Fix cherry-pick error (reject repl agmt that points to itself)
• Issue 7322 - Reject adding a replication agreement that points to itself
• Issue 7342 - CI - repl config regression #7343
• Issue 7291 - Crash when configuring a replica with an incorrect nsds5ReplicaRoot #7292
• Issue - UI - Improve suffix import LDIF table
• Issue 7325 - UI - new error parser missing import
• Issue 7325 - UI - create an error parser for cockpit spawn errors
• Issue 7319 - Action menu for certificates remains in empty certificate list #7320
• Issue 7265 - CI - fix retro changelog maxage validation test
• Issue 7093 - A password policy can be created even when an identical policy already exists #7283
• Issue 7233 - test_produce_division_by_zero fails with IsADirectoryError in conftest.py #7234
• Issue 7271 - Add new plugin pre-close function check to plugin_invoke_plugin_pb
• Issue 7304 - retrocl should not cache DN
• Issue 7265 - Add dse modify callback to validate retrocl trimming settings
• Issue 7152 - ns-slapd fails to shutdown when deferred memberof update is in progress #7187
• Issue 3555 - UI - Fix audit issue with npm - ajv, minimatch #7298
• Issue 7271 - implement a pre-close plugin function
• Issue 7295 - changelog max age validation cherry-pick error
• Issue 7265 - changelog maxage validation is not strict enough
• Security fix for CVE-2025-14905
• Issue 7273 - In a chaining environment binding as remote user causes an invalid error in the logs
• Issue 7271 - plugins that create threads need to update
• Issue 5853 - Update concread to 0.5.10
• Issue 7053 - Remove memberof_del_dn_from_groups from MemberOf plugin #7064
• Issue 7223 - Remove integerOrderingMatch requirement for parentid #7264
• Issue 7243 - UI - fix certificate table and modal
• Issue 7066/7052 - allow password history to be set to zero and remove history
• Issue 7223 - Use lexicographical order for ancestorid #7256
• Issue 7213 - (2nd) MDB_BAD_VALSIZE error while handling VLV #7258
• Issue 7184 - (2nd) argparse.HelpFormatter _format_actions_usage() is deprecated #7257
• Issue - CLI - dsctl db2index needs some hardening with MBD
• Issue 7248 - CLI - attribute uniqueness - fix usage for exclude subtree option
• Issue 7231 - Sync repl tests fail in FIPS mode due to non FIPS compliant crypto #7232
• Issue 7224 - CI Test - Simplify test_reserve_descriptor_validation #7225
• Issue 7150 - Compressed access log rotations skipped, accesslog-list out of sync #7151
• Issue 7121 - (2nd) LeakSanitizer: various leaks during replication #7212
• Issue 6947 - Fix health_system_indexes_test.py
• Issue 7076 - Fix revert_cache() never called in modrdn #7220
• Issue 7076, 6992, 6784, 6214 - Fix CI test failures #7077
• Issue 7096 - (2nd) During replication online total init the function idl_id_is_in_idlist is not scaling with large database #7205
• Issue 7223 - Add dsctl index-check command for offline index repair
• Issue 7223 - Detect and log index ordering mismatch during backend startup
• Issue 7223 - Add upgrade function to remove ancestorid index config entry
• Issue 7223 - Add upgrade function to remove nsIndexIDListScanLimit from parentid
• Issue 7223 - Revert index scan limits for system indexes
• Issue 6476 - Fix build failure with GCC 15
• Issue 6542 - RPM build errors on Fedora 42
• Issue 7213 - MDB_BAD_VALSIZE error while handling VLV #7214
• Issue 7027 - (2nd) 389-ds-base OpenScanHub Leaks Detected #7211
• Issue 7184 - argparse.HelpFormatter _format_actions_usage() is deprecated
• Issue 7189 - DSBLE0007 generates incorrect remediation commands for scan limits
• Issue 7172 - (2nd) Index ordering mismatch after upgrade #7180
• Issue 7172 - Index ordering mismatch after upgrade #7173
• Issue - Revise paged result search locking
• Issue 7096 - During replication online total init the function idl_id_is_in_idlist is not scaling with large database #7145
• Issue 7049 - RetroCL plugin generates invalid LDIF