Compatibility Notes

This section lists the features that have been removed or deprecated in this release and also mentions the features or commands that might be removed in the next release:

• In the password policy, the DS5-compatible-mode interoperability mode is deprecated. In this version, you must use the DS6–mode interoperability mode.

• Some version 5.2 commands are removed in Directory Server 7.0, as described in Command Line Changes in Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Upgrade and Migration Guide

• The following legacy scripts have been replaced with the commands:

  Legacy Script	New Command
  start-slapd	dsadm start
  ldif2db	dsadm import
  db2ldif	dsadm export
  bak2db	dsadm restore
  db2bak	dsadm archive
  restart-slapd	dsadm restart
  stop-slapd	dsadm stop

  For more information, see Command Line Changes in Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Upgrade and Migration Guide.

• Before migrating a replicated server topology, review Chapter 5, Migrating a Replicated Topology, in Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Upgrade and Migration Guide.

• When you create a Directory Server instance, password policy is configured initially backwards-compatible. After upgrading, you should change the compatibility mode to enable richer password policy configuration. Directory Server manages the conversion. In a future release, the backwards-compatible password policy configuration might be removed.

• When you create a Directory Server instance, support for the modify DN operation is disabled. After upgrading all the server instances in your replication topology, the modify DN operation can be replicated properly. At that point, you can enable support for the modify DN operation on each server instances. Use the dsconf set-server-prop moddn-enabled:on command for this purpose.

  The modify DN operation is disabled during server instance creation to provide compatibility with version 5.2 instances.

• The db-path suffix property (dsconf set-suffix-prop suffix-name db-path:/new/directory and dsconf create-suffix --db-path) is deprecated and might be removed in a future release. Use the db-path server property to store all the suffixes in a different directory than the instance directory.

• Sun is currently working on resolving issues with the stability of the dsadm repack subcommand under stress. As a safety measure, Sun has temporarily disabled the dsadm repack subcommand for the 7.0 release.

  Therefore, if you try to run dsadm repck, it will display the following message:

  :[19/Oct/2009:11:51:50 +0200] - WARNING<99999> - conn=-1 op=-1 msgId=-1 - The repack function is temporarily disabled for the 7.0 release.

  Contact your support representative for more details.

• Chapter 2, Changes to the Plug-In API Since Directory Server 5.2, in Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Developer’s Guide details plug-in API changes. Interfaces identified there as deprecated might be removed in a future release.

• Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 does not provide any changes to Identity Synchronization for Windows.

  The current version for Identity Synchronization for Windows product is 6.0.

  Before upgrading Identity Synchronization for Windows, read Chapter 8, Migrating Identity Synchronization for Windows, in Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Upgrade and Migration Guide.

• Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 does not provide any changes to Directory Server Resource Kit.

• The LDAP utility manual pages on Sun Solaris systems do not document the version of the LDAP utilities ldapsearch, ldapmodify, ldapdelete, and ldapadd delivered with Directory Server Enterprise Edition. The commands might no longer be delivered separately on Solaris systems, but instead integrated with the commands provided by the operating system in a future version. See Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Man Page Reference for the manual pages for the LDAP client tools.