Archived news


Thursday 10th August 2006 - 1.0.4
This release includes support for Samba password policies and is now also translated to Russian.

Wednesday 5th July 2006 - 1.0.3
This release closes some security related bugs.

Wednesday 24th May 2006 - 1.0.2
This release adds some security enhancements and closes several bugs.

Wednesday 12th April 2006 - 1.0.1
This release fixes several bugs of the 1.0.0 release and adds some basic security checks.

Wednesday 1st March 2006 - 1.0.0
This release introduces a new architecture which supports more account types than just users, groups and hosts.

Wednesday 8th February 2006 - 1.0.rc2
This is the last release candidate of LAM 1.0. Please test it and report any problems.

Wednesday 11th January 2006 - 1.0.rc1
This is the first release candidate of LAM 1.0. The new architecture will support more account types than just users, groups and hosts.

Wednesday 14th December 2005 - 0.5.3
This release fixes some bugs and allows to upload JPG images for users.

Wednesday 16th November 2005 - 0.5.2
LAM 0.5.2 fixes some small bugs and includes a new module to manage SSH keys.

Wednesday 19th October 2005 - 0.5.1
LAM 0.5.1 fixes several bugs which were reported since 0.5.0.

Wednesday 28th September 2005 - 0.5.0
LAM 0.5.0 is ready!
This is the first release which includes the new architecture. It offers a lot of new functions. See the changelog for details.

Thursday 8th September 2005 - 0.5.rc3
LAM 0.5.rc3 is the third and maybe last release candidate of LAM 0.5. Since this is an unstable release do not use it in productive environments.

Thursday 18th August 2005
LAM 0.5.rc2 is the second release candidate of LAM 0.5. Since this is an unstable release do not use it in productive environments.

Monday 8th August 2005
LAM 0.5.rc1 is the first release candidate of LAM 0.5. Since this is an unstable release do not use it in productive environments.

Thursday 28th July 2005
LAM 0.4.10 is now compatible with PHP5.

Thursday 30th June 2005
LAM 0.5.alpha2 is the second and probably last alpha release of LAM 0.5. Since this is an alpha release do not use it in productive environments.

Wednesday 11th May 2005
LAM 0.5.alpha1 is the first release of LAM which contains the new modular architecture. Since this is an alpha release do not use it in productive environments.

Wednesday 9th March 2005
The LDAP Account Manager team is pleased to release another version of LAM. This release fixes some minor bugs of the 0.4.8 release.
There is also a security fix for lamdaemon.pl.

Wednesday 26th January 2005
The LDAP Account Manager team is pleased to release another version of LAM. This release fixes some minor bugs of the 0.4.7 release.

Thursday 27th May 2004
The LDAP Account Manager team is pleased to release another version of LAM. This release fixes some minor bugs of the 0.4.5 release.

Monday 5th April 2004
John H. Terpstra wrote an appendix about LAM in his new book Samba-3 by Example.
It covers installation and usage of LAM. There are also several screenshots.

Sunday 21th March 2004
The LDAP Account Manager team is pleased to release the next version of LAM (0.4.5), which is marked stable. This release fixes some minor bugs and comes with a French translation.

Sunday 29th February 2004
After a year of developing LDAP Account Manager we think that LAM has reached a state where we can declare it stable.

Thanks a lot to all the people that helped us to improve LAM and make it such a great tool.

Special thanks go to:
- Clement Laforet for maintaining LAM in FreeBSD
- Matthew Palmer/Andreas Barth who sponsor LAM for Debian
- Zoltan Lohner/Oota Toshiya for their translations
- Andreas Rehm who wrote a howto for LAM
- John H. Terpstra for writing about LAM in his books
- all the people on lam-public and bug submitters


This version closes a lot of minor bugs. There are no new features.

Monday 9th February 2004
Today the fourth beta release (version 0.4.3) is ready for download in the download section. As in release 0.4.2 not many new features have been added. Please note that this is still a beta release, although we think that there should not be any more critical bugs in this release. Please do not use it in a productive environment unless you know the problems that could occur. The LDAP Account Manager Development Team would be very pleased if you report any bugs you find to our bug tracker.

Wednesday 21th January 2004
Today the third beta release (version 0.4.2) is ready for download in the download section. As in release 0.4.1 not many new features have been added. Please note that this is still a beta release, although we think that there should not be any more critical bugs in this release. Please do not use it in a productive environment unless you know the problems that could occur. The LDAP Account Manager Development Team would be very pleased if you report any bugs you find to our bug tracker.

Tuesday 30th December 2003
The CVS archive has been splitted into the modules "lam" and "lam-0.4".

The lam module contains the new plugin structure and will be unstable for some time. This will be the upcoming 0.5 release.

lam-0.4 contains the 0.4.1 release and will be used until the plugins are stable. There will be also a new release with a configuration wizard and MCrypt removed in the next few weeks.

Monday 29th December 2003
Today the second beta release (version 0.4.1) is ready for download in the download section. Please note that this is still a beta release, although we think that there should not be any more critical bugs in this release. Please do not use it in a productive environment unless you know the problems that could occur. The LDAP Account Manager Development Team would be very pleased if you report any bugs you find to our bug tracker.

Monday 29th December 2003
Debian users now can get LAM directly from unstable. Thanks to Matthew Palmer who is sponsoring the package.

The Mentors repository will still be updated for the next few versions.

Wednesday 29th October 2003
Today the first beta release (version 0.4) is ready for download in the download section. Please note that this is still a beta release, although we think that the number of bugs has been reduced since the last release. Please do not use it in a productive environment unless you know the problems that could occur. The LDAP Account Manager Development Team would be very pleased if you report any bugs you find to our bug tracker.

Sunday 31th August 2003
Today the third alpha release (version 0.3) is ready for download in the download section. Please note that this is still just an alpha release, although we think that the number of bugs has been reduced since the last release. Please do not use it in a productive environment unless you know the problems that could occur. The LDAP Account Manager Development Team would be very pleased if you report any bugs you find to our bug tracker.

Saturday 5th June 2003
Today the second alpha release (version 0.2) is ready for download in the download section. Please note that this is still just an alpha release. Please do not use it in a productive environment. The LDAP Account Manager Development Team would be very pleased if you report any bugs you find to our bug tracker.

Saturday 24th May 2003
Today the first alpha release (version 0.1) is ready for download in the download section. Please note that this is just an alpha release. Please do not use it in a productive environment. The LDAP Account Manager Development Team would be very pleased if you report any bugs you find to our bug tracker.