Eldap Release Notes — eldap v1.2.16

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# Eldap Release Notes

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This document describes the changes made to the Eldap application.

## Eldap 1.2.16

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- With this change eldap's 'not' function will have specs fixed.

  Own Id: OTP-19658 Aux Id: PR-9859

## Eldap 1.2.15

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Enhance specs of timeout for improving documentation and dialyzer analysis.

  Own Id: OTP-19604 Aux Id: PR-9574

### Improvements and New Features

- Fixed licenses in files and added ORT curations to the following apps: otp, eldap, erl_interface, eunit, parsetools, stdlib, syntax_tools, and ERTS.

  Own Id: OTP-19478 Aux Id: PR-9376, PR-9402, PR-9819

- The license and copyright header has changed format to include an `SPDX-License-Identifier`. At the same time, most files have been updated to follow a uniform standard for license headers.

  Own Id: OTP-19575 Aux Id: PR-9670

## Eldap 1.2.14.1

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- With this change eldap's 'not' function will have specs fixed.

  Own Id: OTP-19658 Aux Id: PR-9859

## Eldap 1.2.14

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Corrected dialyzer spec for usage of TLS options. The incorrect usage for the options in `eldap` could cause dialyzer warnings in user code referring to `eldap` specs.

  Own Id: OTP-19281 Aux Id: PR-8906

## Eldap 1.2.13

### Improvements and New Features

- The documentation has been migrated to use Markdown and ExDoc.

  Own Id: OTP-18955 Aux Id: PR-8026

## Eldap 1.2.12

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Add missing dependency to asn1 application

  Own Id: OTP-18810

## Eldap 1.2.11

### Improvements and New Features

- Added a new function eldap:info/1 that returns the socket and the transport protocol for the eldap connection.

  Own Id: OTP-18480

## Eldap 1.2.10

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Fix eldap extensibleMatch dnAttributes option.

  According to the ldap ASN1 the dnAttributes should be a bool, instead it was generated as a string.

  Own Id: OTP-17877 Aux Id: PR-5615

### Improvements and New Features

- Implemented paged searches according to https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2696.txt

  Own Id: OTP-17924 Aux Id: PR-5538

## Eldap 1.2.9

### Improvements and New Features

- Add ability to specify size limit on ldap requests

  Own Id: OTP-17166 Aux Id: PR-2904

## Eldap 1.2.8

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Fix dialyzer warnings in eldap when not matching the return value of ssl:close/1.

  Own Id: OTP-15775

## Eldap 1.2.7

### Improvements and New Features

- Back port of bug fix ERL-893 from OTP-22 and document enhancements that will solve dialyzer warnings for users of the ssl application.

  This change also affects public_key, eldap (and inet doc).

  Own Id: OTP-15785 Aux Id: ERL-929, ERL-893, PR-2215

## Eldap 1.2.6

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- A race condition at close could cause the eldap client to exit with a badarg message as cause.

  Own Id: OTP-15342 Aux Id: ERIERL-242

## Eldap 1.2.5

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Improved documentation.

  Own Id: OTP-15190

## Eldap 1.2.4

### Improvements and New Features

- Update to use the new string api instead of the old.

  Own Id: OTP-15036

## Eldap 1.2.3.1

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- A race condition at close could cause the eldap client to exit with a badarg message as cause.

  Own Id: OTP-15342 Aux Id: ERIERL-242

## Eldap 1.2.3

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Removed all old unused files in the documentation.

  Own Id: OTP-14475 Aux Id: ERL-409, PR-1493

## Eldap 1.2.2.1

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- A race condition at close could cause the eldap client to exit with a badarg message as cause.

  Own Id: OTP-15342 Aux Id: ERIERL-242

## Eldap 1.2.2

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- If the underlying tcp connection is closed and an LDAP operation returned tcp_error, the client applications tend to close the ldap handle with eldap:close. This will cause a `{nocatch, {gen_tcp_error, ...}}` exception.

  Such errors are now ignored during close, because the socket will be closed anyway.

  Own Id: OTP-13590 Aux Id: PR-1048

### Improvements and New Features

- Modernize test suites

  Own Id: OTP-13566

## Eldap 1.2.1

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- ELDAP did not send an `'unBind'` request before closing the connection.

  Own Id: OTP-13327

### Improvements and New Features

- Handles the `referral` result code from LDAP servers. Adds the return value `{ok, {referral,UrlList}}` to some functions. See the Eldap reference manual for details.

  Own Id: OTP-12272

## Eldap 1.2

### Improvements and New Features

- Support added for LDAP Password Modify Extended Operation (RFC 3062). Thanks to danielwhite.

  Own Id: OTP-12282

## Eldap 1.1.1

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Corrects that `eldap:close/1` returned a tuple instead of the specified atom `ok`.

  Own Id: OTP-12349

### Improvements and New Features

- Clarification in the reference manual for `eldap:modify_dn/5`, `eldap:search/2` and `eldap:start_tls/3`.

  Own Id: OTP-12354

- The eldap test suites are extended and re-organized.

  Own Id: OTP-12355

## Eldap 1.1

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Fixed that eldap:open did not use the Timeout parameter when calling ssl:connect. (Thanks Wiesław Bieniek for reporting)

  Own Id: OTP-12311

### Improvements and New Features

- Added the LDAP filter `extensibleMatch`.

  Own Id: OTP-12174

## Eldap 1.0.4

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- `eldap:open/2` and `eldap:open/3` gave wrong return values for option errors.

  Own Id: OTP-12182

### Improvements and New Features

- Nearly all TCP options are possible to give in the `eldap:open/2` call.

  Own Id: OTP-12171

## Eldap 1.0.3

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Application upgrade (appup) files are corrected for the following applications:

  `asn1, common_test, compiler, crypto, debugger, dialyzer, edoc, eldap, erl_docgen, et, eunit, gs, hipe, inets, observer, odbc, os_mon, otp_mibs, parsetools, percept, public_key, reltool, runtime_tools, ssh, syntax_tools, test_server, tools, typer, webtool, wx, xmerl`

  A new test utility for testing appup files is added to test_server. This is now used by most applications in OTP.

  (Thanks to Tobias Schlager)

  Own Id: OTP-11744

- Add support for IPv6 connections, By including the [inet6] option in eldap:open/2. Default value is still [inet] (Thanks to Edwin Fine)

  Own Id: OTP-11753

- Fixed bug where eldap:search returned binaries instead of strings. (Thanks Simon MacMullen for the report)

  Own Id: OTP-11768

## Eldap 1.0.2

### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Removed {verify,0} from ssl-options because eldap does not support peer verification. Thanks to Florian Waas for reporting.

  Own Id: OTP-11354

### Improvements and New Features

- The ldap client eldap now supports the start_tls operation. This upgrades an existing tcp connection to encryption using tls, if the server supports it. See eldap:start_tls/2 and /3.

  Own Id: OTP-11336

## Eldap 1.0.1

### Improvements and New Features

- Fixed various dialyzer warnings

  Own Id: OTP-10403 Aux Id: kunagi-258 [169]

- Configure the SSL options fully in eldap.

  Own Id: OTP-10728

## Eldap 1.0

New application.