Comment 1 for bug 236142

I'm the main developer of nss-ldapd as well as the Debian package maintainer and I think 0.5 is good for testing but not yet ready for production use. A number of major and minor bugs were fixed in later releases, some of the fixes were done by some restructuring of the code.

All in all from 0.5 to 0.6.2 there are almost 200 commits in SVN affecting in total roughtly 2000 lines of code (exclusing test code, documentation, comments, etc). Backporting the relevant changes will not be easy (though if the price is right, I might be willing to try). ;-)

As for the stability of 0.6.2, it has received a lot more testing than 0.5 and most of the memory leaks and crashes have been worked out (although you should also watch which version of the OpenLDAP library you are using). There could always be hidden bugs and there is a known problem with reconnects that should be done better (see the Debian BTS for more details). I feel 0.6.2 should work well in most environments.