View500, Version 5.1, was released on the 25th of July 2001.

Native LDAP
This was the first version of View500 that contained native LDAP support. Removing the need for an X.500/LDAP gateway, Native LDAP provided performance and reliability benefits for View500.

LDAP Data Interchange Format
LDIF, the LDAP Data Interchange Format, also became supported. This allowed View500 to bulk-load large volumes of data in an efficient manner, which is especially useful for loading information from other directories.

OpennSSL Enhancements
The security of directory information, whilst in transmission, was increased with the support for LDAP over SSL. OpenSSL libraries being used by View500 were updated to support SSLv3 and TLSv1, in addition to the already existent SSLv2.
Other security enhancements included the support for securely retrieving passwords from the directory. This feature allowed password values to be obtained from the directory in a hashed format.

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