ANN: python-ldap-2.3.0

[Michael Ströder]

Find a new release of python-ldap:

  http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/

python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory
servers from Python programs. It mainly wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for
that purpose. Additionally it contains modules for other LDAP-related
stuff (e.g. processing LDIF, LDAPURLs and LDAPv3 schema).

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Released 2.3.0 2007-03-27

Changes since 2.2.1:

* OpenLDAP 2.3+ required now to build.
* Added support for Cancel operation ext. op. if supported
in OpenLDAP API of the libs used for the build.

Modules/
* Removed deprecated code for setting options by name
* Added l_ldap_cancel()
* Some modifications related to PEP 353 for
  Python 2.5 on 64-bit platforms (see SF#1467529, thanks to Matej)
* Added new function l_ldap_str2dn(), removed functions
  l_ldap_explode_dn() and l_ldap_explode_rdn()
  (see SF#1657848, thanks to David)

Lib/
* Added method ldapobject.LDAPObject.cancel()
* ldap.schema.subentry.urlfetch() now can do non-anonymous
  simple bind if the LDAP URL provided contains extensions
  'bindname' and 'X-BINDPW'. (see SF#1589206)
* ldap.filter.escape_filter_chars() has new a key-word argument
  escape_mode now which defines which chars to be escaped
  (see SF#1193271).
* Various important fixes to ldapobject.ReconnectLDAPObject
* Moved all DN-related functions to sub-module ldap.dn,
  import them in ldap.functions for backward compability
* ldap.dn.explode_dn() and ldap.dn.explode_rdn() use the new
  wrapper function ldap.dn.str2dn() (related to SF#1657848)
* changetype issue partially fixed (see SF#1683746)