Changelog#

[1.5.2] - 2023-11-20#

Changed#

  • The module is no longer tested with 3.7.

  • LDAP_X_CONNECTING is an accepted return status during binding while using asynchronous connection.

Added#

  • Debug hint about SSL/TLS errors to the documentation (PR #76, thanks to @senfomat)

  • Python 3.12 to the CI pipeline.

Fixed#

  • Type annotation for set_async_connection_class. (PR #77, thanks to @Yanonix)

  • Documentation about setup.cfg for Apple Silicon (PR #81, thanks to @chefkoch-de42)

[1.5.1] - 2022-12-03#

Changed#

  • Improved type annotations, set __all__ attributes for the modules.

Added#

  • py.typed file for type checking. (Issue #74)

  • Python 3.11 to the CI pipeline.

Fixed#

  • UnboundLocalError in AIOConnectionPool.spawn (PR #71, thanks to @rra) and in ConnectionPool.spawn.

  • Parsing LDIF values containing colon as a non-first character in LDIFReader. (Issue #72)

  • Passing keyword arguments to the connect method while opening connections in ConnectionPool.

[1.5.0] - 2022-08-24#

Changed#

  • Closed connections are not put back to the connection pool. (Issue #64, thanks to @rra)

  • Removed poetry as a build requirement. It’s not used for the build, only for the development environment.

  • Using asynccontextmanager for AIOConnectionPool that’s been introduced in Python 3.7.

Added#

  • Setter methods for ACE, ACL and SecurityDescriptor properties.

  • ACE.__eq__ method to check ACE objects’ equality.

  • New is_access_allowed and is_access_denied flags for ACEType.

Fixed#

  • Unnecessary library directories setting in setup.py.

  • SetUp method of the Tornado tests for Tornado 6.2.

[1.4.0] - 2022-03-12#

Changed#

  • Last release with Python 3.6 support, the module no longer will be tested with 3.6.

  • Providing empty user and password with GSSAPI/GSS-SPNGO mechanisms will use the logon credentials for authentication on Windows instead of an anonymous bind.

  • Remove unnecessary read-only property overrides. These properties will raise AttributeError, when trying to set them.

Added#

  • LDAPClient.set_sasl_security_properties method and sasl_security_properties read-only property for setting SASL security properties.

  • TrioLDAPConnection class for supporting trio asynchronous module.

Fixed#

  • Password hash failure, when new password is set with LDAPConnection.modify_password. (Issue #57, thanks to @morian)

  • LDAPConnection.modify_password not returning True, when new password is provided. (Issue #59, thanks to @morian)

[1.3.0] - 2021-08-24#

Changed#

  • Drop support for Python 3.5, the module requires at least 3.6.

  • Allow space in LDAPDN’s attribute type. (Issue #52)

  • LDAPClient.server_chase_referrals is set to False by default.

  • Preventing to set both password and keytab as credentials.

Added#

  • New ignore_referrals attribute for LDAPClient to be able to simply skip LDAP referrals in search results.

  • New submodule for working with Active Directory: ACE, ACL, SecurityDescriptor and UserAccountControl classes.

Fixed#

  • Deadlock when waiting for finishing the init thread on macOS.

[1.2.1] - 2020-12-31#

Changed#

  • Asynchronous connection process during socket initialisation is disabled by default on every platform. It caused TLS errors on newer Ubuntus (18.04+). Use set_connect_async explicitly to enable it.

  • LDAPClient’s server_chase_referrals is set to False automatically before starting a paged_search.

  • Using urllib.parse for LDAPURL, instead of regular expressions.

Fixed#

  • Freeing resources allocated by the LDAP structure during LDAPConnection’s deallocation. (Issue #45)

  • Package name in documentation. (Thanks to @ikreb7)

[1.2.0] - 2020-01-18#

Added#

  • The get_result coroutines to AIOLDAPConnection and TornadoLDAPConnection.

  • LDAPI example to docs. (Thanks to @senfomat)

Fixed#

  • Raising ConnectionError instead of ValueError of invalid file descriptor with AIOLDAPConnection when the server is unreachable. (Issue #27)

  • Raising SizeLimitError when the query hits either the client-side or the server-side limit, fix condition check when acquiring next page. (Issue #31)

  • Race condition for open method of ThreadedConnectionPool and AIOConnectionPool.

[1.1.0] - 2019-04-06#

Changed#

  • Drop support for Python 3.4. From further releases 3.4 related codes will be removed (some asyncio related code has already changed), and the module will require 3.5 or newer Python to be built.

  • Add gevent and tornado as extra requirements for setup.py.

Added#

  • New set_connect_async function to disable/enable asynchronous connection process during socket initialisation. (Thanks to @tck42)

  • New connection pool classes: simple ConnectionPool, ThreadedConnectionPool that can be shared between threads and AIOConnectionPool for asyncio tasks.

Fixed#

  • Defining PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN and changing parameter size variables from int to Py_ssize_t for Python 3.8.

[1.0.0] - 2018-09-09#

Changed#

  • Separate basic search functionality to three different methods in LDAPConnection: search, paged_search and virtual_list_search.

  • LDAPEntry’s DN is listed among its attributes under the dn key.

  • LDAPClient’s set_credentials method uses optional named parameters instead of tuples.

  • LDAPClient’s credentials property returns a dict instead of a tuple.

  • LDAPURL’s filter property and the filter parameters of LDAPConnection’s search methods are renamed to filter_exp.

  • The representation of LDAPEntry honours the last call of its change_attribute method better than previously.

  • Drop Heimdal support for advanced Kerberos capabilities (at least temporarily).

  • The get_tls_impl_name, get_vendor_info, has_krb5_support, and set_debug functions are moved to the utils submodule.

Added#

  • LDIFReader and LDIFWriter objects for handling LDIF format.

  • The delete_old_rdn parameter for LDAPEntry’s rename method. (Issue #17)

  • Kerberos keytab support for set_credentials (Thanks to @Mirraz).

  • Utils submodule with escape_filter_exp and escape_attribute_value functions. (Issue #18)

  • An exclude_dn keyword-only argument to LDAPEntry’s keys, items and values methods to exclude the dn key and value from the return values.

  • Support for ldapi connection in LDAPURL and LDAPConnection.

  • BaseLDAPConnection as a super class for all connection classes.

  • Type annotations for several methods.

Fixed#

  • Several reference counting errors that caused memory leaks. (Issue #19)

  • Escaping brackets in LDAPURL’s regular expressions. (Issue #22)

  • Missing ManageDsaIT control during LDAPConnection’s delete.

  • Honouring timeout settings for network connections, but only on Linux with newer OpenLDAP than 2.4.43. (Issue #21)

  • Typo in documentation (Thanks to @magnuswatn).

[0.9.1] - 2017-12-03#

Changed#

  • LDAPError messages have the original LDAP error codes.

  • TLS initialisation is separated from LDAP struct initialisation.

Added#

  • Async with support for AIOLDAPConnection. (Issue #12)

  • New set_debug module function that enables debug mode.

Fixed#

  • Signalling after LDAP initialisation is failed.

  • Using TLS settings while getting the root DSE in get_rootDSE method.

[0.9.0] - 2017-02-15#

Changed#

  • Python 3.3 is no longer considered to be supported. The package won’t be tested with 3.3 anymore.

  • The LDAPSearchIter object is automatically acquiring the next page during iteration for paged LDAP search by default.

  • Installing the package from source on Mac OS X became simpler with setup.cfg (Thanks to @LukeXuan).

  • When recursive is True, LDAPConnection.delete uses LDAP_SERVER_TREE_DELETE control (if it is possible).

  • LDAPClient.url property became writeable.

Added#

  • LDAPClient.set_auto_page_acquire and auto_page_acquire property for enabling/disabling automatic page acquiring during paged LDAP search.

  • LDAPEntry.change_attribute and LDAPEntry.clear_attribute_changes methods for handling LDAP attributes with explicit modification operation types.

  • Async iterator (async for) support for LDAPSearchIter.

  • LDAPClient.server_chase_referrals property to set chasing LDAP referrals by the server.

  • LDAPReference object for handling LDAP referrals.

  • LDAPURL.__eq__ method to check LDAPURL objects and string equality.

  • LDAPClient.set_url method to set url attribute.

  • LDAPClient.set_managedsait method to support LDAP ManageDsaIT control during search, add and modify operations.

Fixed#

  • The value validation of LDAPDN’s __setitem__ method.

  • The missing asyncio.coroutine decorators of AIOLDAPConnection’s methods.

  • IPv6 parsing for LDAPURL.

[0.8.9] - 2016-11-19#

Changed#

  • Reimplemented LDAPValueList in Python, removed C implementations of ldapvaluelist and uniquelist.

  • Reimplemented LDAPEntry.delete method in Python.

  • LDAPConnection.search method to accept bytes-like object as a filter parameter. (Issue #7)

  • LDAPClient.get_rootDSE method uses anonym bind without any previously set LDAP controls to search for rootDSE.

Added#

  • LDAP_EXTENDED_DN_CONTROL support with LDAPClient.set_extended_dn method and LDAPEntry’s new extended_dn string attribute. (Issue #6)

Fixed#

  • Case sensitivity when checking LDAPDN equality.

[0.8.8] - 2016-07-19#

Changed#

  • LDAPDN object is loaded for the C extension after initialisation once, rather than loading it for every time when an LDAPEntry’s DN is set.

Added#

  • Password policy control support with LDAPClient.set_password_policy on Unix.

  • New exceptions for password policy errors.

  • LDAP Password Modify extended operation support with LDAPConnection.modify_password.

Fixed#

  • AIOLDAPConnection hanging on write events during selecting socket descriptors.

[0.8.7] - 2016-06-27#

Changed#

  • LDAPDN object to validate with regex instead of splitting to tuples.

Added#

  • Optional recursive bool parameter for LDAPConnection.delete method to remove entities in a subtree recursively.

Fixed#

  • Wrong typing for LDAPConnection.search when VLV is set.

  • Py_None return values in C functions.

  • Timeout parameter for operations of Tornado and Asyncio connections.

[0.8.6] - 2016-06-05#

Changed#

  • AttributeErrors to Type- and ValueErrors for invalid function parameters.

  • LDAPConnection.delete and LDAPEntry.rename accept LDAPDN as DN parameter.

Added#

  • New SizeLimitError.

  • Some typing info and typing module dependency for 3.4 and earlier versions.

Fixed#

  • Ordered search returning with list (instead of ldapsearchiter).

  • Setting error messages on Unix systems.

  • Timeout for connecting.

  • Setting default ioloop for TornadoLDAPConnection (Thanks to @lilydjwg).

[0.8.5] - 2016-02-23#

Changed#

  • Removed LDAPConnection’s set_page_size and set_sort_order method.

  • If virtual list view parameters are set for the search, the search method will return a tuple of the results and a dictionary of the received VLV response LDAP control.

  • Renamed LDAPConnection’s async attribute and LDAPClient.connect method’s async parameter to is_async.

  • Improved Mac OS X support: provide wheel with newer libldap libs.

Added#

  • New optional parameters for LDAPConnection’s search method to perform searches with virtual list view, paged search result and sort order.

  • New module functions: get_vendor_info and get_tls_impl_name.

  • NTLM and GSS-SPNEGO support for MS Windows.

  • Automatic TGT requesting for GSSAPI/GSS-SPNEGO, if the necessary credential information is provided. (Available only if optional Kerberos headers are installed before building the module.)

  • LDAPSearchScope enumeration for search scopes.

Fixed#

  • Parsing result of an extended operation, if it is not supported by the server.

  • Binary data handling.

  • LDAPEntry’s rename method do not change the entry’s DN after failure.

[0.8.1] - 2015-10-27#

Changed#

  • Renamed LDAPConnection’s cancel method to abandon.

Added#

  • Timeout support for opening an LDAP connection.

Fixed#

  • Possible deadlock (by constantly locking from the main thread) during initialising an LDAP session on Linux.

[0.8.0] - 2015-10-17#

Changed#

  • New module name (from PyLDAP) to avoid confusion with other Python LDAP packages.

  • LDAPEntry’s clear and get method are rewritten in Python.

  • Connection settings are accessible via properties of LDAPClient.

  • Moved asyncio related code into a separate class that inherits from LDAPConnection.

  • Default async class can be change to other class implementation that can work with non-asyncio based approaches (e.g. like Gevent).

  • Names of the objects implemented in C are all lower-cased.

Added#

  • Full unicode (UTF-8) support on MS Windows with WinLDAP.

  • LDAPConnection.fileno() method to get the socket descriptor of the connection.

  • New methods for LDAPClient to set CA cert, client cert and client key.

  • EXTERNAL SASL mechanism for binding.

  • Use of authorization ID during SASL binding.

  • New classes for supporting Gevent and Tornado asynchronous modules.

  • Timeout parameter for LDAP operations.

Fixed#

  • Own error codes start from -100 to avoid overlap with OpenLDAP’s and WinLDAP’s error codes.

  • New folder structure prevents the interpreter to try to load the local files without the built C extension(, if the interpreter is started from the module’s root directory).

[0.7.5] - 2015-07-12#

Changed#

  • LDAPClient.connect is a coroutine if async param is True. (Issue #1)

  • The binding function on Windows uses ldap_sasl_bind instead of the deprecated ldap_bind.

  • The connection procedure (init, set TLS, bind) creates POSIX and Windows threads to avoid I/O blocking.

  • Optional error messages are appended to the Python LDAP errors.

Added#

  • New open method for LDAPConnection object to build up the connection.

  • New LDAPConnectIter object for initialisation, setting TLS, and binding to the server.

Fixed#

  • LDAPConnection.whoami() returns ‘anonymous’ after an anonymous bind.

  • After failed connection LDAPClient.connect() returns ConnectionError on MS Windows.

[0.7.0] - 2015-01-28#

Changed#

  • The set_page_size method is moved from LDAPClient to LDAPConnection.

Added#

  • Support for asynchronous LDAP operations.

  • Cancel method for LDAPConnection.

  • New LDAPEntry and LDAPConnection Python objects as wrappers around the C implementations.

Fixed#

  • UniqueList contains method.

[0.6.0] - 2014-09-24#

Changed#

  • LDAPClient accepts LDAPURL objects as url.

  • LDAPConnection search accepts LDAPDN objects as basedn parameter.

Added#

  • Method to set certificate policy.

  • Server side sort control.

Fixed#

  • Getting paged result cookie on MS Windows.

  • Segmentation fault of LDAPEntry.popitem().

[0.5.0] - 2014-03-08#

Changed#

  • Module name to lower case.

  • Removed get_entry method.

  • LDAP URL parameters are used for search properly.

Added#

  • New LDAPClient object for managing the connection settings.

  • DIGEST-MD5 support on MS Windows.

  • Raw attribute support: the given attributes will be kept in bytearray form.

  • Paged search control support.

  • Sphinx documentation with tutorial.

Fixed#

  • Several memory management issues.

[0.1.5] - 2013-07-31#

Changed#

  • Errors are implemented in Python.

  • Using WinLDAP on MS Windows for LDAP operations.

Added#

  • UniqueList for storing case-insensitive unique elements.

  • LDAPURL and LDAPDN Python classes for handling LDAP URL and distinguished name.

Fixed#

  • Getting empty list for searching non-existing entries.

[0.1.0] - 2013-06-23#

  • Initial public release.