Released 3.3.1 2020-06-29

Changes:

* On MacOS, remove option to make LDAP connections from a file descriptor

when built wit the system libldap (which lacks the underlying function,

``ldap_init_fd``)

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 3.3.0 2020-06-18

Highlights:

* ``LDAPError`` now contains additional fields, such as ctrls, result, msgid

* ``passwd_s`` can now extract the newly generated password

* LDAP connections can now be made from a file descriptor

This release is tested on Python 3.8, and the beta of Python 3.9.

The following undocumented functions are deprecated and scheduled for removal:

- ``ldap.cidict.strlist_intersection``

- ``ldap.cidict.strlist_minus``

- ``ldap.cidict.strlist_union``

Modules/

* Ensure ReconnectLDAPObject is not left in an inconsistent state after

a reconnection timeout

* Syncrepl now correctly parses SyncInfoMessage when the message is a syncIdSet

* Release GIL around global get/set option call

* Do not leak serverctrls in result functions

* Don't overallocate memory in attrs_from_List()

* Fix thread support check for Python 3

* With OpenLDAP 2.4.48, use the new header openldap.h

Lib/

* Fix some edge cases regarding quoting in the schema tokenizer

* Fix escaping a single space in ldap.escape_dn_chars

* Fix string formatting in ldap.compare_ext_s

* Prefer iterating dict instead of calling dict.keys()

Doc/

* Clarify the relationship between initialize() and LDAPObject()

* Improve documentation of TLS options

* Update FAQ to include Samba AD-DC error message

"Operation unavailable without authentication"

* Fix several incorrect examples and demos

(but note that these are not yet tested)

* Update Debian installation instructions for Debian Buster

* Typo fixes in docs and docstrings

Test/

* Test and document error cases in ldap.compare_s

* Test if reconnection is done after connection loss

* Make test certificates valid for the far future

* Use slapd -Tt instead of slaptest

Infrastructure:

* Mark the LICENCE file as a license for setuptools

* Use "unittest discover" rather than "setup.py test" to run tests

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 3.2.0 2019-03-13

Lib/

* Add support for X-ORIGIN in ldap.schema's ObjectClass

* Make initialize() pass extra keyword arguments to LDAPObject

* ldap.controls.sss: use str instead of basestring on Python 3

* Provide ldap._trace_* atributes in non-debug mode

Doc/

* Fix ReST syntax for links to set_option and get_option

Tests/

* Use intersphinx to link to Python documentation

* Correct type of some attribute values to bytes

* Use system-specific ENOTCONN value

Infrastructure:

* Add testing and document support for Python 3.7

* Add Python 3.8-dev to Tox and CI configuration

* Add Doc/requirements.txt for building on Read the Docs

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 3.1.0 2018-05-25

This release brings two minor API changes:

- Long-deprecated functions `ldap.open()` and `ldap.init()` are removed

- `LDAPObject.compare_s()` and `compare_ext_s` return bool instead of 0 or 1

All changes since 3.0.0:

Lib/

* Remove long deprecated functions ldap.open() and ldap.init()

* LDAPObject.compare_s() and LDAPObject.compare_ext_s() now return a bool

instead of 1 or 0.

* Make iteration over cidict yield same values as keys()

* Fail if pyasn1 is not installed

* Fix parsing of PPolicyControl ASN.1 structure

* Use items() when appropriate in dict iteration

* Add support for tracing LDAP calls. Tracing can now be enabled with

the env var PYTHON_LDAP_TRACE_LEVEL and redirected to a file with

PYTHON_LDAP_TRACE_FILE.

(This is mainly intended for debugging and internal testing; the

configuration or output may change in future versions.)

Modules/

* Fix ref counting bug in LDAPmessage_to_python

Doc/

* Remove warning about unreleased version

* Doc: Replace Mac OS X -> macOS

Tests/

* Add tests and coverage for tracing

* Disable warnings-as-errors for Python 3.4

* Fix assertTrue to assertEqual

* Mark several test values as bytes

Lib/slapdtest/

* Fix error message for missing commands

* Make SlapdObject a context manager

* Disable SASL external when missing SASL support

* Make SlapdObject.root_dn a property

* In SlapdObject, build include directives dynamically

* Move import statements to top level

Code style:

* Add Makefile rules for automatic formatting of C and Python code

* Reformat and indent all C files

* Trim white space throughout the project

Infrastructure:

* Add py3-trace tox environment to Travis CI config

* Add new Pytest cache directory to gitignore

General:

* Update all pypi.python.org URLs to pypi.org

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 3.0.0 2018-03-12

Notable changes since 2.4.45 (please see detailed logs below):

* Python 3 support and bytes_mode

see: https://python-ldap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bytes_mode.html

* The module `ldap.async` is renamed to `ldap.asyncsearch`

* New dependencies: pyasn1, pyasn1_modules

* Dropped support for Python 2.6 and 3.3

Changes since 3.0.0b4:

Lib/

* Add bytes_strictness to allow configuring behavior on bytes/text mismatch

Modules/

* Add argument name to bytes mode TypeError

* Use correct integer types for BER encode/decode (fix for big endian machines)

Test/

* Set $LDAPNOINIT in all tests

* Add test for secure TLS default

* Ignore SASL methods in DSE test (fix for restricted environments)

* Remove filterstr workaround from syncrepl test

* Explicitly set TLS_REQUIRE_CERT option to TLS_HARD in test_tls_ext_noca

Doc/

* Link to bytes mode from text-string arguments in the ldap module

Infrastructure:

* Include lber in list of libraries in setup.cfg

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 3.0.0b4 2018-01-10

Changes since 3.0.0b3:

Removed support for Python 3.3, which reached its end-of-life 2017-09-29.

Lib/

* Make default argument values work under bytes_mode

* Update use of map() to use list/set comprehensions instead

Test/

* Refactor syncrepl tests to run with bytes_mode

Doc/

* Document all_records attribute of LDIFRecordList

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 3.0.0b3 2017-12-20

Changes since 3.0.0b2:

The functions `ldap.open()`, `ldap.init()`, `ldif.CreateLDIF()`

and `ldif.ParseLDIF()`, which were deprecated for over a decade,

are scheduled for removal in python-ldap 3.1.

Infrastructure:

* Require setuptools to build

* Start running automatic tests on PyPy

Lib/

* When raising LDAPBytesWarning, give helpful code locations

* Use modern Python idioms in several places

* Avoid reimplementing UserDict.get() in cidict and models.Entry

Doc/

* Use https links

Test/

* Add reproducer for openldap's NSS shutdown/restart issue

* Make testing on non-Linux platforms easier

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 3.0.0b2 2017-12-11

Changes since 3.0.0b1:

The module `ldap.async` is renamed to `ldap.asyncsearch`, due to

`async` becoming a keyword in Python 3.7.

The old module name is deprecated, but will be available as long

as Python 3.6 is supported.

Lib/

* Use custom ldap.LDAPBytesWarning class

* Rename ldap.async to ldap.asyncsearch

Modules/

* Support None for set_option(OPT_TIMEOUT) and OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT

* Fix error reporting of LDAPObject.set_option()

* Change memory handling in attrs_from_List()

Test/

* Remove workaround for OpenLDAP NSS issue

Demo/

* Use uniform shebang in all demos

Doc/

* Provide build deps for Alpine and CentOS

* Move sample workflow out of the main Contributing guide

Infrastructure:

* Add valgrind target to check for memory leaks

* Minimal configuration for pytest

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 3.0.0b1 2017-12-04

Changes since 2.4.45:

(this list includes changes from 2.5.x)

New dependencies (automatically installed when using pip):

* pyasn1 0.3.7+

* pyasn1_modules 0.1.5+

Python 3 support and bytes_mode:

* merged from the pyldap fork (https://github.com/pyldap)

* please see documentation on bytes_mode and text/bytes handling:

https://python-ldap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bytes_mode.html

Removed support for Python 2.6.

Infrastructure:

* Move to Git

* Don't define search path for includes and libs in the default setup.cfg

* Include sasl/sasl.h from the standard path

* Re-format README to ReStructured Text

* Setup for automatic testing using Travis CI

* Add coverage reporting for Python and C

* Add install requires into setup.py

* Remove distclean.sh in favor of make clean

* Use `package`, `depends`, `install_requires` in setup.py

* Add make target for scan-build (static analysis using clang)

* Add make target and suppression file for Valgrind (memory checker)

Modules/

* Remove unused LDAPberval helper functions

* Fix type conversion in page control

* Fix multiple ref leaks in error-handling code

* Fix reference leak in result4

* Fix several compiler warnings

* Fix memory leak in whoami

* Fix internal error handling of LDAPControl_to_List()

* Fix two memory leaks and release GIL in encode_assertion_control

* Allow set_option() to set timeouts to infinity

and, thanks to Michael Ströder:

* removed unused code schema.c

* moved code from version.c to ldapmodule.c

* removed obsolete back-ward compability constants from common.h

* build checks whether LDAP_API_VERSION is OpenLDAP 2.4.x

* _ldap.__author__ and _ldap.__license__ also set from ldap.pkginfo

* assume C extension API for Python 2.7+

Lib/

* Avoid eval() for getting module-level variables to fix running under pytest

* Compability changes for pyasn1 0.3 or newer

and, thanks to Michael Ströder:

* ldap.__version__, ldap.__author__ and ldap.__license__ now

imported from new sub-module ldap.pkginfo also to setup.py

* Added safety assertion when importing _ldap:

ldap.pkginfo.__version__ must match _ldap.__version__

* removed stand-alone module dsml

* slapdtest.SlapdObject.restart() just restarts slapd

without cleaning any data

* The methods SSSResponseControl.decodeControlValue() and

VLVResponseControl.decodeControlValue() now follow the coding

convention to use camel-cased ASN.1 name as class attribute name.

The old class names are still set for back-ward compability

but should not be used in new code because they might be removed

in a later release.

* removed SSSRequestControl from ldap.controls.KNOWN_RESPONSE_CONTROLS

* removed all dependencies on modules string and types

* removed use of .has_key()

* removed class ldap.ldapobject.NonblockingLDAPObject

* new global constant ldap.LIBLDAP_API_INFO

* right after importing _ldap there is a call into libldap to initialize it

* method .decodeControlValue() of SSSResponseControl and VLVResponseControl

does not set class attribute result_code anymore

* always use bytes() for UUID() constructor in ldap.syncrepl

* module ldif now uses functions b64encode() and b64decode()

* fixed pickling and restoring of ReconnectLDAPObject

Lib/slapdtest

* Automatically try some common locations for SCHEMADIR

* Ensure server is stopped when the process exits

* Check for LDAP schema and slapd binaries

* slapdtest is now a package and includes testing certificates

Tests/

* Expand cidict membership test

* Add test suite for binds

* Add test suite for edits

* Add a smoke-check for listall() and attribute_types()

* Add test case for SASL EXTERNAL auth

* Add tests for start_tls

* In CI, treat compiler warnings as fatal errors

* Added tests for ldap.syncrepl

and, thanks to Michael Ströder:

* added explicit reconnect tests for ReconnectLDAPObject

* scripts do not directly call SlapdTestCase.setUpClass() anymore

* added LDIF test with folded, base64-encoded attribute

* added more tests for sub-module ldap.dn

Doc/

* Build documentation without the compiled C extension

* Merge contents from python-ldap.org

* Move reference documentation in its own section

* Document return value of {modify,add,delete}_ext_s() as a tuple

* Add tests for documentation (build & spelling)

* Link to documentation of old versions

* Add a contributing guide

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.45 2017-10-09

Changes since 2.4.44:

Lib/

* Fixed reraising of wrong exception in SimpleLDAPObject._ldap_call()

(thanks to Aigars Grins)

Tests/

* removed work-around in t_cext.py

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.44 2017-09-08

Changes since 2.4.43:

Modules/

* more fine-grained GIL releasing in function l_ldap_result4()

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.43 2017-09-06

Changes since 2.4.42:

Lib/

* fixed passing all arguments from LDAPObject.sasl_non_interactive_bind_s()

to LDAPObject.sasl_interactive_bind_s()

Tests/

* added test for LDAPObject.sasl_external_bind_s()

Doc/

* added docs for SASL bind methods

* more references

* better sorting of LDAPObject methods

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.42 2017-09-04

Changes since 2.4.41:

Lib/

* added new SlapdObject methods _ln_schema_files() and

_create_sub_dirs()

* SlapdObject methods setup_rundir() and gen_config()

are now "public" methods

* removed pseudo test script from module ldap.cidict

Tests/

* added sub-module for testing class ldap.cidict.cidict

* avoid deprecated method alias unittest.TestCase.assertEquals

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.41 2017-07-12

Changes since 2.4.40:

Lib/

* Added support for increment: lines in LDIF changes records

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.40 2017-06-27

Changes since 2.4.39:

Modules/

* fixed memory leaks when using extended controls

(thanks to Erik Cumps)

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.39 2017-05-31

Changes since 2.4.38:

Lib/

* fixed errno-related ldap.TIMEOUT regression

Lib/slapdtest.py

* Removed obsolete assert statements

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.38 2017-04-28

Changes since 2.4.37:

Lib/slapdtest.py

* SlapdObject now evaluates env var SLAPD for optionally pointing

to OpenLDAP's slapd executable (e.g. with OpenLDAP LTB builds)

* added LDAPI support in slaptest.SlapdObject which is internally used

in methods ldapadd() and ldapwhoami()

* added method slaptest.SlapdObject.ldapmodify()

* fixed enabling logger in slaptest

* directory name now contains port to be able to run several SlapdObject

instances side-by-side (e.g. with replication)

* added authz-regexp mapping to rootdn for user running the test

* internally use SASL/EXTERNAL via LDAPI to bind

* SlapdObject.server_id used as serverID in slapd.conf for MMR

* Removed method SlapdObject.started() because SlapdTestCase.setUpClass()

will be used to add initial entries

Tests/

* ReconnectLDAPObject is also tested by sub-classing test class

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.37 2017-04-27

Changes since 2.4.36:

Lib/

* fixed errno-related regression introduced in 2.4.35

Tests/

* added more checks to t_cext.py

* renamed t_search.py to t_ldapobject.py and code-cleaning

* added test for errno-related regression to t_ldapobject.py

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.36 2017-04-26

Changes since 2.4.35:

Lib/

* gracefully handle KeyError in LDAPObject._ldap_call() when

using errno

* added new stand-alone module slapdtest (formerly Tests/slapd.py)

for general use (still experimental)

Tests/

* re-factored t_cext.py and t_search.py

* set env var LDAPNOINIT=1 in t_cext.py and t_search.py to avoid

interference with locally installed .ldaprc or ldap.conf

* by default back-mdb is now used for slapd-based tests

which requires fairly recent OpenLDAP builds but implements

full feature set

* env vars can be set for slapd.py to tweak path names

of executables, temporary and schema data to be used

* new class SlapdTestCase

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.35 2017-04-25

Changes since 2.4.33:

(2.4.34 is missing because of foolish pypi version madness)

Modules/

* use errno in a safer way

* set errno as LDAPError class item

* do not use strerror() which is not thread-safe and platform-specific

Lib/

* LDAPObject._ldap_call() sets LDAPError info to value returned

by platform-neutral os.stderror()

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.33 2017-04-25

Changes since 2.4.32:

Lib/

* faster implementation of ldap.schema.tokenizer.split_tokens()

(thanks to Christian Heimes)

* removed unused 2nd argument of ldap.schema.tokenizer.split_tokens()

* fixed method calls in ReconnectLDAPObject (thanks to Philipp Hahn)

Modules/

* an empty info message is replaced with strerror(errno) if errno is non-zero

which gives more information e.g. in case of ldap.SERVER_DOWN

(thanks to Markus Klein)

* removed superfluous ldap_memfree(error) from LDAPerror()

(thanks to Markus Klein)

Tests/

* re-factored t_ldap_schema_tokenizer.py

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.32 2017-02-14

Changes since 2.4.31:

Running tests made easier:

- python setup.py test

- added tox.ini

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.31 2017-02-14

Changes since 2.4.30:

Tests/

* new test scripts t_ldap_schema_tokenizer.py and t_ldap_modlist.py

on former raw scripts (thanks to Petr Viktorin)

* new test-cases in t_ldapurl.py based on former raw scripts

(thanks to Petr Viktorin)

* new test-cases in t_ldap_dn.py

* moved a script to Demo/

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.30 2017-02-08

Changes since 2.4.29:

Lib/

* compability fix in ldap.controls.deref to be compatible to

recent pyasn1 0.2.x (thanks to Ilya Etingof)

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.29 2017-01-25

Changes since 2.4.28:

Modules/

* Fixed checking for empty server error message

(thanks to Bradley Baetz)

* Fixed releasing GIL when calling ldap_start_tls_s()

(thanks to Lars Munch)

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.28 2016-11-17

Changes since 2.4.27:

Lib/

* LDAPObject.unbind_ext_s() invokes LDAPObject._trace_file.flush()

only if LDAPObject._trace_level is non-zero and Python is running

in debug mode

* LDAPObject.unbind_ext_s() now ignores AttributeError

in case LDAPObject._trace_file has no flush() method

* added dummy method ldap.logger.logging_file_class.flush() because

LDAPObject.unbind_ext_s() invokes it

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.27 2016-08-01

Changes since 2.4.26:

Lib/

* added 'strf_secs' and 'strp_secs' to ldap.functions.__all__

* fixed regression introduced with 2.4.26:

ldif.LDIFParser did not fully parse LDIF records without trailing empty

separator line

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.26 2016-07-24

Changes since 2.4.25:

Installation:

* added ldap.controls.sss to py_modules in setup.py

Lib/

* LDAPObject.unbind_ext() now removes class attribute

LDAPObject._l to completely invalidate C wrapper object

* LDAPObject.unbind_ext() now flushes trace file

* ldap.ldapobject.SimpleLDAPObject:

added convenience methods read_rootdse_s() and get_naming_contexts()

* added functions ldap.strf_secs() and ldap.strp_secs()

* added function ldap.filter.time_span_filter()

* Refactored ldif.LDIFParser

* ldif.LDIFParser.version ís now Integer

* ignore multiple empty lines between records

* Fixed ldap.dn.is_dn()

Modules/

* Fixed #69 Segmentation fault on whoami_s after unbind

(thanks to Christian Heimes and Petr Viktorin)

Tests/

* Fixed result3() being used instead of correct result4()

(see #66, thanks to David D. Riddle)

* Tests/slapd.py honors env var $TMP instead of just using

hard-coded /var/tmp

* Tests/slapd.py now expects schema to be in /etc/openldap/

* Tests/t_ldapurl.py now independent of module ldap

* Tests/t_ldif.py now has more test-cases including change records

* added some more test scripts for sub-modules ldap.dn, ldap.filter and

ldap.functions (not complete yet)

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.25 2016-01-18

Changes since 2.4.23:

(2.4.24 is missing because of foolish pypi version madness)

Lib/

* Fix for attrlist=None regression introduced in 2.4.23

by ref count patch

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.23 2016-01-17

Changes since 2.4.22:

Modules/

* Ref count issue in attrs_from_List() was fixed

(thanks to Elmir Jagudin)

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.22 2015-10-25

Changes since 2.4.21:

Lib/

* LDIFParser now also accepts value-spec without a space

after the colon.

* Added key-word argument authz_id to LDAPObject methods

sasl_non_interactive_bind_s(), sasl_external_bind_s() and

sasl_gssapi_bind_s()

* Hmmpf! Added missing self to LDAPObject.fileno().

* ReconnectLDAPObject.sasl_bind_s() now correctly uses

generic wrapper arguments *args,**kwargs

* Correct method name LDIFParser.handle_modify()

* Corrected __all__ in modules ldap.controls.pwdpolicy and

ldap.controls.openldap

Doc/

* Started missing docs for sub-module ldap.sasl.

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.21 2015-09-25

Changes since 2.4.20:

Lib/

* LDAPObject.read_s() now returns None instead of raising

ldap.NO_SUCH_OBJECT in case the search operation returned emtpy result.

* ldap.resiter.ResultProcessor.allresults() now takes new key-word

argument add_ctrls which is internally passed to LDAPObject.result4()

and lets the method also return response control along with the search

results.

* Added ldap.controls.deref implementing support for dereference control

Tests/

* Unit tests for module ldif (thanks to Petr Viktorin)

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.20 2015-07-07

Changes since 2.4.19:

* New wrapping of OpenLDAP's function ldap_sasl_bind_s() allows

to intercept the SASL handshake (thanks to René Kijewski)

Modules/

* Added exceptions ldap.VLV_ERROR, ldap.X_PROXY_AUTHZ_FAILURE and

ldap.AUTH_METHOD_NOT_SUPPORTED

Lib/

* Abandoned old syntax when raising ValueError in modules ldif and

ldapurl, more information in some exceptions.

* ldap.ldapobject.LDAPObject:

New convenience methods for SASL GSSAPI or EXTERNAL binds

* Refactored parts in ldif.LDIFParser:

- New class attributes line_counter and byte_counter contain

amount of LDIF data read so far

- Renamed some internally used methods

- Added support for parsing change records currently limited to

changetype: modify

- New separate methods parse_entry_records() (also called by parse())

and parse_change_records()

- Stricter order checking of dn:, changetype:, etc.

- Removed non-existent 'AttrTypeandValueLDIF' from ldif.__all__

* New mix-in class ldap.controls.openldap.SearchNoOpMixIn

adds convience method noop_search_st() to LDAPObject class

* Added new modules which implement the control classes

for Virtual List View (see draft-ietf-ldapext-ldapv3-vlv) and

Server-side Sorting (see RFC 2891) (thanks to Benjamin Dauvergne)

Note: This is still experimental! Even the API can change later.

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.19 2015-01-10

Changes since 2.4.18:

Lib/

* Fixed missing ReconnectLDAPObject._reconnect_lock when pickling

(see SF#64, thanks to Dan O'Reilly)

* Added ldap.controls.pagedresults which is pure Python implementation of

Simple Paged Results Control (see RFC 2696) and delivers the correct

result size

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.18 2014-10-09

Changes since 2.4.17:

Lib/

* Fixed raising exception in LDAPObject.read_s() when reading

an entry returns empty search result

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.17 2014-09-27

Changes since 2.4.16:

Lib/

* New hook syncrepl_refreshdone() in ldap.syncrepl.SyncReplConsumer

(thanks to Petr Spacek and Chris Mikkelson)

Modules/

* Added support for getting file descriptor of connection

with ldap.OPT_DESC

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.16 2014-09-10

Changes since 2.4.15:

Lib/

* New convenience function ldap.dn.is_dn()

* New convenience function ldap.escape_str()

* New convenience methods LDAPObject.read_s() and

LDAPObject.find_unique_entry()

* Fixed invoking start_tls_s() in ReconnectLDAPObject.reconnect()

(thanks to Philipp Hahn)

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.15 2014-03-24

Changes since 2.4.14:

Lib/

* Added missing modules ldap.controls.openldap and

ldap.controls.pwdpolicy to setup.py

* Added missing imports to ldap.controls.pwdpolicy

* Fixed ldap.controls.pwdpolicy.decodeControlValue() to decode

string of digits

* Support for X-SUBST in schema element class LDAPSyntax

* Support for X-ORDERED and X-ORIGIN in schema element class AttributeType

* ldapurl: New scope 'subordinates' defined in

draft-sermersheim-ldap-subordinate-scope

Modules/

* New constant ldap.SCOPE_SUBORDINATE derived from ldap.h for

draft-sermersheim-ldap-subordinate-scope

* Fixed constant ldap.sasl.CB_GETREALM (thanks to Martin Pfeifer)

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.14 2014-01-31

Changes since 2.4.13:

Lib/

* Added ldap.controls.openldap.SearchNoOpControl

* New method ldap.async.AsyncSearchHandler.afterFirstResult()

for doing something right after successfully receiving but before

processing first result

* Better log data written when invoking ldap.LDAPLock.acquire() and

ldap.LDAPLock.release()

* LDAPObject and friends now pass `desc' to ldap.LDAPLock() which

results in better logging

* ldapobject.ReconnectLDAPObject now uses internal class-wide

lock for serializing reconnects

* Method signature of ReconnectLDAPObject.reconnect() changed to be able

to call it with separate retry_max and retry_delay values

Modules/

* Added support for retrieving negotiated TLS version/cipher

with LDAPObject.get_option() with the help of upcoming OpenLDAP libs

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.13 2013-06-27

Changes since 2.4.12:

Lib/

* ldapobject.ReconnectLDAPObject._apply_last_bind() now sends

anonymous simple bind request even if the calling application

did not to provoke ldap.SERVER_DOWN in method reconnect()

* ldapobject.ReconnectLDAPObject.reconnect() now also catches

ldap.TIMEOUT exception after reconnection attempt

* Several other fixes for ldapobject.ReconnectLDAPObject

(thanks to Jonathan Giannuzzi)

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.12 2013-06-01

Changes since 2.4.11:

Lib/

* Truly optional import of PyAsn1Error exception which should

not fail anymore if pyasn1 is not installed

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.11 2013-05-27

Changes since 2.4.10:

Lib/

* ldap.controls.DecodeControlTuples() now simply ignores

PyAsn1Error exception raised during decoding malformed

response control values in case of non-critical controls.

* ldif.LDIFWriter.unparse() does not simply skip empty

records anymore.

----------------------------------------------------------------

Released 2.4.10 2012-06-07

Changes since 2.4.9:

Lib/

* ldapobject.ReconnectLDAPObject.reconnect() now preserves

order of options set with LDAPObject.set_option before.

This is needed e.g. for setting connection-specific TLS options.

Demo/

* Better version of Demo/pyasn1/syncrepl.py

(thanks to Ben Cooksley)

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Released 2.4.9 2012-03-14

Changes since 2.4.8:

Lib/

* ldapobject.ReconnectLDAPObject.reconnect() now does kind of

an internal locking to pause other threads while reconnecting

is pending.

* Changes to bind- and startTLS-related operation methods of

class ReconnectLDAPObject for more robustness

* New constant ldap.OPT_NAMES_DICT contains mapping from

integer to variable name for all option-related constants.

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Released 2.4.8 2012-02-21

Changes since 2.4.7:

Lib/

* Fixed overzealous check for non-unique NAMEs in

ldap.schema.subentry.SubSchema.__init__()

* Fixed typos in control decoding method

ldap.controls.simple.OctetStringInteger.decodeControlValue()

* Added experimental support for draft-vchu-ldap-pwd-policy

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Released 2.4.7 2012-12-19

Changes since 2.4.6:

Lib/

* Separate classes for request/response controls for RFC 3829

* Fixed ldap.schema.subentry.SubSchema.attribute_types() to

also eliminate double attribute types in MAY clause of

DIT content rule

Modules/

* Fixed memory leak (thanks to David Malcolm)

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Released 2.4.6 2011-11-27

Changes since 2.4.5:

Lib/

* ldap.controls.ppolicy:

Another fix for decoding the password policy response control

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Released 2.4.5 2011-11-25

Changes since 2.4.4:

Installation:

* defines for SASL and SSL in setup.cfg to be more friendly to

Python setup tools (easy_install)

Lib/

* Fixed typo in ldap.functions._ldap_function_call() which

always released ldap._ldap_module_lock instead of local lock

* ldap.controls.ppolicy:

Fixed decoding the password policy response control

Demo/

* Demo script for ldap.controls.ppolicy

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Released 2.4.4 2011-10-26

Changes since 2.4.3:

Modules/

* Format intermediate messages as 3-tuples instead of

4-tuples to match the format of other response messages.

(thanks to Chris Mikkelson)

* Fixes for memory leaks (thanks to Chris Mikkelson)

Lib/

* New experimental(!) sub-module ldap.syncrepl implementing syncrepl

consumer (see RFC 4533, thanks to Chris Mikkelson)

Doc/

* Cleaned up rst files

* Added missing classes

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Released 2.4.3 2011-07-23

Changes since 2.4.2:

Lib/

* Mostly corrected/updated __doc__ strings

Doc/

* Corrected rst files

* Added missing modules, functions, classes, methods, parameters etc.

at least as auto-generated doc

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Released 2.4.2 2011-07-21

Changes since 2.4.1:

Lib/

Logging:

* pprint.pformat() is now used when writing method/function

arguments to the trace log

ldap.schema.subentry:

* SubSchema.__init__() now has new key-word argument check_uniqueness

which enables checking whether OIDs are unique in the subschema subentry

* Code-cleaning: consequent use of method SubSchema.getoid() instead of

accessing SubSchema.name2oid directly.

* SubSchema.getoid() and SubSchema.getoid() now have key-word argument

raise_keyerror=0 and raise KeyError with appropriate description.

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Released 2.4.1 2011-07-05

Changes since 2.4.0:

Modules:

* New LDAP option OPT_X_TLS_PACKAGE available in OpenLDAP 2.4.26+

to determine the name of the SSL/TLS package OpenLDAP was

built with

Lib/

* ldap.modlist.modifyModlist(): New key-word argument

case_ignore_attr_types used to define attribute types for which

comparison of old and new values should be case-insensitive

* Minor changes to which data is sent to debug output for various