Changes for version 0.40 - 2010-03-11

  • Avoid 'cookie parsing error' on OpenLDAP 2.3 [Mathieu Parent]
  • Added e-syncRefreshRequired constant [Mathieu Parent]
  • Minor typo fix in documentation [Quanah Gibson-Mount]
  • Update CREDITS for Mathieu Parent
  • Remove runtime dependency on DATA handle for constants
  • Clarify documentation for gen_password
  • Allow caller to pass Authen::SASL client_new object
  • fix typo [Peter Marschall]
  • use current IO::Socket::SSL's method start_SSL instead of deprecated function socketToSSL; raise required IO::Socket:SSL version appropriately [Peter Marschall]
  • FilterMatch.pm: fix regex treatment in _{cis,exact}_substrings(). [Peter Marschall]
  • FilterMatch.pm: correct # of args in function declarations/definitions [Peter Marschall]
  • Don't duplicate documentation [Mathieu Parent]
  • Added numcmp option to compare attributes numerically. [Kartik Subbarao]
  • Avoid infinite loop when authenticating with EXTERNAL mechanism
  • Add Net::LDAP::Extension::Refresh as described in RFC2589 [Etienne Bagnoud]
  • RT#40068 Fix tests to work with 2.4.11
  • Add ldif method to Net::LDAP::Entry
  • RT#46111 Make LWP::Protocol::ldap return ldif when requested
  • RT#51165 Compact multiple consecutive spaces in Net::LDAP::Util::canonical_dn
  • RT#46125 Add LWP::Protocol::ldaps to support ldaps: urls
  • RT#44110 Fix Net::LDAP::LDIF->current_lines
  • perl-ldap 0.39 -- Mon Oct 27 15:02:37 CDT 2008
  • Bug Fixes
    • Several fixes to the handling of IntermediateMessage and LDAP Content synchronisation
    • Fix dsmt test to not fail on win32
    • Fix Net::LDAP::Util to not cause Undefined subroutine &Net::LDAP::Util::ldap_error_desc
  • perl-ldap 0.38 -- Sun Sep 21 09:17:25 CDT 2008
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fix bug in Net::LDAP::Extension using wrong field for resultCode
    • Fix Net::LDAP::Control::PasswordPolicy decoding bug.
  • Enhancements
    • Net::LDAP::Extension::SetPassword now supports controls
  • perl-ldap 0.37 -- Thu Aug 28 07:48:13 CDT 2008
  • Bug Fixes
    • Pass correct hostname to SASL when connecting to a round-robin
    • Return the SASL error message when sasl client_start fails
  • Enhancements
    • Add Modify Increment (RFC 4525) support
    • Add Content Synchronization (RFC 4453) support
  • perl-ldap 0.36 -- Mon Apr 21 10:00:09 CDT 2008
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed Net::LDAP::constant to return correct names for values 0 - 9
    • Fixed DSML test to be more tolerant of whitespace
  • Enhancements
    • Added controls for PreRead & PostRead
  • perl-ldap 0.35 -- Sun Mar 30 13:35:04 CDT 2008
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fix wrapping in Net::LDAP::LDIF
    • Patch from Gergely Santa to allow entries with no attributes in LDIF
    • Fix modr?dn to fetch values in sclar context
    • send packets in sizes that IO::Socket::SSL can chew
    • Avoid attept to use undef as hash reference in ->sync
    • Ensure Bind.pm presents final server response to SASL object
  • Enhancements
    • Added vendorName/vendorVersion (RFC 3045) to root_dse()
    • add option to support IPv6
    • Allow Entry->deleted to be called with a single value is well as array ref
    • Added Net::LDAP::Control::PasswordPolicy to support draft RFC
  • perl-ldap 0.34 -- Sat Feb 10 17:39:49 CST 2007
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improve dealing with mixed case attributes in Net::LDAP::Entry
    • Documentation fixes & updates
    • Don't let Net::LDAP->bind() die on SASL errors
    • Fix case-folding in Net::LDAP::Util::ldap_explode_dn()
    • Saner default for ldapi socket
    • Update test suite to work with recent OpenLDAP versions
    • The usual bunch of typo fixes
    • Fix escaping on non-ascii characters in Net::LDAP::Filter
  • Enhancements
    • Flexible handling of line ends in Net::LDAP::LDIF when reading
    • Improve writing speed in Net::LDAP::LDIF
    • Net::LDAP accessor methods for scheme, host, port, URI connected to
    • New checkcrl option to Net::LDAP->new() to do CRL checking
    • New package Net::LDAP::Filtermatch for client side filtering
    • More ASN1 messages handled in Net::LDAP:ASN: IntermediateResponse
    • Option 'raw' to return Perl UTF-8 strings from queries (requires Perl 5.8)
    • Support Active Directory's extendedAttributeInfo schema information
    • Method to find matchingrule for an attribute in Net::LDAP:Schema
    • Updated build dependecies: GSSAPI support, ..
  • perl-ldap 0.33 -- Mon Apr 25 08:02:26 CDT 2005
  • Bug Fixes
    • Removed superfluous "print" in Net::LDAP::LDIF before _write_attr on writing
    • Base64 encode any value starting with < in Net::LDAP::LDIF
    • Documentation updates
    • Fix case insensitivity issues in contrib/ldifdiff.pl
  • Enhancements
    • Added Net::LDAP::Extension::WhoAmI
    • Added write_version() and handle() methods to Net::LDAP::LDIF
    • Updated Net::LDAP::Control::ProxyAuth to support new OID from latest rfc-draft
    • Added contrib/recursive-ldap-delete.pl
    • Added ability to do case in comparisons to contrib/ldifsort.pl
  • perl-ldap 0.3202 -- Mon Jul 19 11:44:08 BST 2004
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed case typo in Makefile.PL
  • perl-ldap 0.3201 -- Wed Jul 14 21:52:59 BST 2004
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed dependancies in Makefile.PL
  • perl-ldap 0.32 --
  • Bug Fixes
    • Documentation updates
    • Fixed LDIF output from ldapsearch command
    • Return an error if no filter is passed to Net::LDAP::filter->parse
    • Fixed bug handling comments in LDIF parser
    • Fix to ldapsearch for passing scope with -s
    • Do not send a fake userid in SASL binds
    • Net::LDAP::Schema->parse() now returns undef on errors
  • Enhancements
    • Added supportedFeatures to the default list of attributes fetched by ->root_dse
    • Added option to sort attributes in LDIF output, with objectclass being first floowed by all other attributes in alphabetical order
    • Add escape/unescape filters/DN utility functions
    • Added support for reading LDIF URL attributes using file://
    • The socket created by new can now be bound to a local address & port
    • Any controls returned by the server with each entry as a result from a search are now available in the callback function
    • Added classes for EntryChange, PersistentSearch and ManageDsaIT controls
    • Allow options passed to Net::LDAP::Entry-.update to be passed to the Net::LDAP method that is finally called
  • perl-ldap 0.31 1 Jan 2004
  • Fixed bug that could cause methods to return an integer instead of an object
  • Fixed bug causing Schema.pm to ignore superior classes that had no attributes
  • Documentation updates
  • Updates to LDIF module
  • perl-ldap 0.30 17 Oct 2003
  • Documentation updates
  • Fixed bug checking return value of client_step in bind()
  • Fixed bug in Entry.pm causing method calls on unblessed references
  • perl-ldap 0.29 24 Jun 2003
  • Workaround bug in IO::Socket::SSL when startTLS fails
  • Fix reference loop memory leak problem
  • Add a SIGNATURE to the distribution
  • Re-added support for :all in the import list to get all constants
  • New methods error_name, error_text, error_desc added to Message.pm
  • perl-ldap 0.28 19 May 2003
  • Net::LDAP::Entry object can now be cloned
  • New class Net::LDAP::RootDSE
  • Net::LDAP->new can now accept URLs for the host
  • Added support for ldapi:
  • Now supports Notice of disconnection
  • Net::LDAP::Constant now implements its own import function, it no longer inherits from Exporter. So :all and /^LDAP_CONTROL/ etc are no longer valid arguments for import. The result is that Net::LDAP::Constant only defined the subs that are needed.
  • perl-ldap 0.27 27 Jan 2003
  • Default protocol version is now version 3
  • Fixed support for multiple hosts to be passed to new
  • perl-ldap 0.26 18 Jul 2002
  • canonical_dn and ldap_explode_dn have a new implementation.
  • Net::LDAP::DSML reimplemented using XML::SAX
  • Net::LDAP::Schema reimplemented. API needed to change to fix many bugs in previous implementation
  • Added support for version number in Net::LDAP::LDIF (support for fill version still todo)
  • perl-ldap 0.251 15 May 2002
  • Added support for Adamson's SASL authentication
  • Both Cyrus SASL and Perl SASL modules are sought
  • perl-ldap 0.25 29 Oct 2001
  • Added support for EXTERNAL SASL authentication
  • Caller can now specify attributes to return from root_dse
  • More scripts added to contrib
  • Various bug fixes
  • Caller can now specify sslversion for LDAPS and start_tls
  • perl-ldap 0.24 17 July 2001
  • Added support for startTLS
  • Better error checking in Net::LDAP methods
  • VLV control now works
  • Can now use oid or name for the matchingRule in filter extensible matches
  • Major overhaul of LDIF.pm
  • $schema->name2oid is now context sensetive
  • test suite now works with openldap2
  • perl-ldap 0.23 April 20 2001
  • Fixed bug in Net::LDAP::Filter when the filter contained an escaped *
  • Fixed SASL bind to call challenge with serverSaslCreds
  • Fixed some uninit errors in Net::LDAP::Entry
  • Various documention updates
  • Added Net::LDAP::Util::canonical_dn
  • Net::LDAP::LDIF will now call canonical_dn for any DN which contains non-printable characters
  • Added support for matchingruleuse, ditstructurerules, ditcontentrules and nameForms into Net::LDAP::Schema
  • The ->schema method in Net::LDAP has changed how it finds the schema to return. The new method is more correct, but there may be a possibility that this change has created an incompatability.
  • New control module Net::LDAP::Control::ProxyAuth from Olivier Dubois added
  • Added support for moddn in Net::LDAP::LDIF.
  • Minor fixes to the DSML output (fixing illegal XML.)
  • perl-ldap 0.22 September 14 2000
  • Quick release to fix memory problem with 5.6.0
  • perl-ldap 0.21 September 12 2000
  • Change ->get back to return what 0.19 returned
  • Deprecate ->get in favor of ->get_value
  • Net::LDAP::Schema now supports matchingRules
  • Added experimental onerror option to ->new
  • New FAQ by Clif Harden
  • perl-ldap 0.20 August 3 2000
  • Added INSTALL and CREDITS files
  • Net::LDAP::Entry ->get and ->attributes methods now support options
  • Added Net::LDAP::DSML from Mark Wilcox
  • Added Net::LDAPS from Chris Ridd
  • Many documentation updates
  • Several fixes to ::Control::* classes, they should now work as intended.
  • Net::LDAP::Entry->get now always returns a scalar result as documented.
  • bin/ldapsearch now requires URI-1.08
  • perl-ldap 0.19 June 8 2000
  • Fixed bug which caused 2nd and subsequent binds to be anonymous.
  • Fixed bug in moddn.
  • Fix bug which caused a call to ->pop_entry or ->shift_entry to hang forever.
  • perl-ldap 0.18 May 22 2000
  • Now passes -wc with 5.004, 5.005_03 and 5.6.0
  • Bundle now correctly references Convert::ASN1 instead of the non-existant Convert::ASN
  • Net::LDAP::Filter will now catch the case of unmatched ()'s and return an error
  • as_struct, which was broken in the changeover to Convert::ASN1, now works again.
    • KNOWN PROBLEMS
    • Test t/02filter.t fails with perl 5.6.0 compiled with threads enabled This is due to a bug in 5.6.0 when compiled with threads, see http://bugs.perl.org/perlbug.cgi?req=tidmids&tidmids=20000409.003&range=32323&format=h
  • perl-ldap 0.17 May 12 2000
  • Change to use asn_read instead of asn_resc. This seems to have fixed the known problem with 0.16
  • Various bug fixes, see ChangeLog
  • perl-ldap 0.16 April 27 2000
  • This is the first release which uses Convert::ASN1 instead of Convert::BER. This should show an increase in performance.
  • Added support for LDAPv3 controls. Controls supported are
    • VirtualListView
    • Sort
    • Paged
  • HTML version of the documentation is now included in the distribution
  • Added Bundle::Net::LDAP
  • Net::LDAP->schema can now be told where to search for the schema.
    • KNOWN PROBLEMS
      • In a pre-release of 0.16 it has been seen that a search result may not contain all entries and $mesg->code will be LDAP_DECODING_ERROR. This has been seen when the client is running on NT or Linux and the server is an Exchange server.

Documentation

A script to display a jpeg picture from jpegPhoto attribute of a LDAP directory entry.
A script to load a jpeg picture into the jpegPhoto attribute of a directory entry.
A (simplified) ldapmodify clone written in Perl.
Generates LDIF change diff between two sorted LDIF files.
Sorts an LDIF file by the specified key attribute. The sorted version is written to standard output.
Culls unique entries from a reference file with respect to a comparison file.
A script to do LDAP directory lookups, edits, and displaying directory schema information.
PERL LDAP by Example
Frequently Asked Questions about Net::LDAP
List of related RFC's
search reference
Security issues with LDAP connections

Modules

A bundle for Net::LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
Constants for use with Net::LDAP
LDAPv3 control object base class
LDAPv3 Entry Change Notification control object
LDAPv3 Manage DSA-IT control object
LDAPv3 Paged results control object
LDAPv3 Password Policy control object
LDAPv3 Persistent Search control object
LDAPv3 Post-Read control object
LDAPv3 Pre-Read control object
LDAPv3 Proxy Authentication control object
Server Side Sort (SSS) control object
Server Side Sort (SSS) result control object
LDAPv3 Sync Done control object
LDAPv3 Sync Request control object
LDAPv3 Sync State control object
LDAPv3 Virtual List View control object
LDAPv3 Virtual List View server response
A DSML Writer for Net::LDAP
An LDAP entry object
LDAPv3 Refresh extension object (RFC 2589)
LDAPv3 Modify Password extension object
LDAP "Who am I?" Operation
Load extra Net::LDAP methods
representation of LDAP filters
LDAP entry matching
LDAPv3 intermediate response object base class
LDAPv3 Sync Info Message object
LDIF reading and writing
Message response from LDAP server
An LDAP RootDSE object
Load and manipulate an LDAP v3 Schema
Object returned by Net::LDAP search method
Utility functions
use LDAP over a UNIX domain socket
use LDAP over an SSL connection

Provides

in lib/LWP/Protocol/ldap.pm
in lib/LWP/Protocol/ldaps.pm
in lib/Net/LDAP/ASN.pm
in lib/Net/LDAP/Bind.pm
in lib/Net/LDAP/DSML.pm
in lib/Net/LDAP/DSML.pm
in lib/Net/LDAP/Extension.pm
in lib/Net/LDAP/FilterMatch.pm
in lib/Net/LDAP/Message.pm
in lib/Net/LDAP/Search.pm