Hi!This is an old can of worms, Bobby.Basically, Quanah & the OpenLDAP developers are not interested in supporting old versions, because it takes away from the time they have to work on the current version. We as users should support this, because the software will stop growing if the devs spend too much time on older versions.
It has nothing to do with not wanting to support old versions. It has to do with ensuring people do not encounter bugs already known to be fixed.
I've followed this policy for the decade or so that I've been using OpenLDAP and been very successful. I am running a large infrastructure of Red Hat OL builds right now - dozens of replicas, with no problems whatsoever.
Then you have either been extremely lucky, or you aren't doing routine comparisons of the validity of your replicated data (assuming you are using syncrepl and not delta-syncrepl).
The other bit you clearly miss is the fact of RH using NSS instead of OpenSSL, which is a whole other can of worms.
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