Update ldap3 to 2.9

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This PR updates ldap3 from 1.4.0 to 2.9.

Changelog

2.9

- new feature: SafeRestartable strategy (SAFE_RESTARTABLE) for using a restartable Connection object in a multi-threading program
 - tested against Python 3.9
 - added requirements-dev.txt
 - fixed logging unicode exceptions in python2.7
 - added more granular control over use of reverse dns with Kerberos (thanks Azaria)
 - support MS Active Directory persistent search (thanks eLeX)
 - added support for LDAP signing when using DIGEST-MD5 authentication (thanks Augustin-FL)
 - check only for searchResEntries in LDIF conversion (thanks Jay)
 - modify-increment now works properly in mock strategies (thanks Saint-Marcel)
 - objectGUID are now converted properly (thanks Janne)
 - default timeout in asynchronous strategies raised to 20 seconds

2.8.1

- fixed regression in 2.8 for members returned in AD auto-range search (thanks Felix)
 - fixed regression in 2.8 for attribute error in restartable class (thanks Christian)
 - try to use Crypto library if present for hashing NTLM password on python interpreter missing the MD4 OpenSSL algorithm (thanks Doron)

2.8

- new feature: SafeSync strategy (SAFE_SYNC) for using a synchronous Connection object in a multi-threading program
 - new feature: LDIF_LINE_LENGTH for specifying line length wrapping in ldif-content output (default to 78 as per RFC 2849)
 - fixed requirements for pyasn1
 - fixed regression for ldapi connections
 - fixed issue with lazy connection requesting server info on every operation
 - fixed searching by objectGUID in hex format (thanks Matt)
 - added iso_format parameter to utils.format_json to return dates in ISO format (thanks Hugh)
 - fixed issue with Referral attributes not returned by the referral server (thanks Nazarii)
 - fixed lost error message in auto_bind (thanks cfelder)
 - fixed delete_old_dn in mock connections (thanks kpinc)
 - fixed a ResourceWarning with lazy connections
 - fixed entry_to_json() that in python2 modified the original entry value (thanks Dirk-Jan)
 - tests doesnt' raise Exception if real server is not present (thanks Matej)

2.7

- tested against Python 3.8.1 and pyasn1 0.4.8
 - re-enabled ssl exception raising on bad certificate when only 1 server is present in the server pool
 - removed Python 2.6 from Travis configuration (thanks gliptak)
 - added support for source specifications in LDAP connections (thanks Azaria)
 - added support for allowing special AD security identifier (SID) in DN (thanks John)
 - fixed pickling of entry and attribute (thanks cfelder)
 - close connection when auto_bind fails (thank Hrishikesh)
 - operational attributes can be used in Abstraction Layer (thanks Sohalt)
 - additional SSL options can be used in Tls object (thanks Nazarii)
 - threading.Event replaces loop checking in async strategy. ASYNC strategy should be much faster now (thanks Yang)
 - adding a key that is already an alias that contains other aliases in CaseInsensitiveWithAliasDict() now works properly (thanks Mark)
 - when searching for GUID, UUID and SID the backslash character (0x5C) is properly managed (thanks Nocturem)
 - LDIF output properly formatted when controls are missing (thanks Tom)
 - operational attributes are not returned in MOCK strategies when not requested (thanks kpinc)
 - undecodable values are returned as raw bytes when using the pyasn1 decoder

2.6.1

- tested against pyasn1 0.4.7
 - added eDirectory 9.1.4 (EDIR_9_1_4) to offline schemas
 - added json converter for timedelta (thanks dirkjanm)
 - strip parameter defaults to False in utils.dn.parse_dn()
 - escaped space is allowed as trailing character in attribute_value in utils.dn.parse_dn() (thanks phi1010)
 - connection.extend.standard.paged_search doesn't raise exceptions when raise_exceptions is False
 - the Search operation returns the entries fetched by the server when size or time limits are reached even if raise_exceptions is set to True
 - Handle the minimum value that can be stored in an Int64 in format_ad_timedelta (thanks mprahl)
 - EntryState: `entry_raw_attributes` is populated instead of `raw_attributes` (thanks Christian)
 - Removed restriction to perform rename and move simultaneously in modify_dn (thanks Fabian)
 - fixed checking for hexdigits in parse_dn (thanks Michael)
 - fixed escaping when multiple backslashes are present in parse_dn (thanks Phillip)
 - fixed multiple NoneType exceptions in entry_to_json() (thanks David and cfelder)
 - allowing Microsoft specific syntax (<WKGUID=xxx>) for WellKnownObjects in DN (thanks David)
 - connection.extend.standard.paged_search() now follows referrals when auto_referrals=True (thanks kprativa)
 - fixed a bug in decoding replica list in connection.extend.novell.list_replicas()
 - fixed a bug when adding duplicate alias in CaseInsensitiveWithAliasDict()
 - added ignore_duplicates=False in set_aliases in CaseInsensitiveWithAliasDict() to ignore a duplicate alias (either in aliases or in keys)
 - Schema info now uses CaseInsensitiveWithAlias dict as default so object and attributes can also be referentiated with OID (thanks ahoffm11)
 - added block mode and timeout parameters to next() method of persistent_search
 - when using the pyasn1 decoder raw_dn is not returned as a pyasn1 object anymore but as bytes
 - Return offset timezone aware datetime for max AD timestamp (thanks Jussi)

2.6

- fixed empty digestMd5.py file in 2.5.2 package
 - explicitly declare digest module md5 in util.ntlm (thanks adawalli)
 - change object passed to modify() was unexpectedly mutated (thanks John)
 - added LDAPInfoError exception
 - added Server.has_control(control) method to check if a server has a specific control
 - added Server.has_extension(extension) method to check if a server has a specific extension
 - added Server.has_feature(feature) method to check if a server has a specific feature
 - fixed checking of \\ in safe_dn (thanks Maxim)
 - fixed uuid checking with 5c byte value
 - added single=True parameter to the ServerPool object definition. Servers state is shared between connections using the same pool
 - updated copyright notice

2.5.2

- when starting tls before binding the connection is automatically open
 - fixed changelog date (thanks Adam)
 - support for AD timedeltas (thanks mprahl)
 - fixed WhoAmI in mock strategies (thanks mprahl)
 - prevent unnecessary exception in extend/standard/ModifyPassword (thanks Johnny)
 - added support for external gssapi credentials to be passed to the sasl connection (thanks Firstyear)
 - added support for gssapi store in sasl connection (thanks clhendrick)
 - fixed LdifProducer (thanks antoinell)
 - fixed NTLM bind (thanks ribx)
 - server state in ServerPool is now a namedtuple "ServerState" (thanks Krisztian)
 - fixed error when adding member to AD group with unsafe DN (thanks Maxim)
 - properly restore lazy status in reusable strategy (thanks Krisztian)
 - ServerState namedtuple converted to class in core/pooling (thanks Krisztian)
 - empty schema doesn't raise exception in Abstraction Layer (thanks ghost)

2.5.1

- connection.result is populated when exception raised with raise_exceptions=True
 - fixed objectSid in mocking strategies
 - fixed circular reference in exception history
 - added objectSid validator
 - byte values are properly searched in MOCK strategies (thanks dyj216)
 - exception history refactored (thanks Tamas)
 - connections in context manager don't bind anymore when auto_bind is set to AUTO_BIND_NONE (Thanks Tim)
 - Cython compatible build (thanks Pedro)
 - more detailed exception message in Mock strategy (thanks Janne)
 - exceptions flow refactored in reusable strategy (thanks kxt)
 - pwdlastset accept any positive integer (thanks abenbecker)
 - fixed an exception while logging packet with pyasn1 decoder
 - fixed importing abc from collections for Python 3.8

2.5

- abstract layer now handles auxiliary classes
 - pwdLastSet in AD is valid for 0 and -1 (thanks Taylor)
 - fixed extend.novell.get_universal_password (thanks Fernando)
 - entryUUID is properly validated in search filters (thanks FriedrichI)
 - custom attribute formatters are properly applied when parsing the search filter
 - REUSABLE strategy now honours credentials when changed in the original connection (thanks Prof Hase)
 - add operation doesn't change passed attribute dict anymore (thanks Daniele)
 - missing entry's attribute return False when searching instead of raising an exception (thanks Maxsond)
 - fixed ad_timestamp evaluation for integers (thanks Flynn)
 - wrong exception raised when user name is empty in simple binding (thanks Ivan)
 - exception is raised if size limit is exceed when searching in mocking strategies with raise_exceptions=True (thanks David)
 - fixed validator for novell guid
 - fixed validator for openldap EntryUUID
 - fixed validator for AD objectGUID, now follows MS-DTYP
 - fixed formatter for AD objectGUID
 - fixed exception when adding binary values (thanks guidow)
 - added escape_rdn_chars() to ldap3.utils.dn for safe checking untrusted input while building DNs (thanks Alex)
 - fixed search for binary values in mock strategies
 - fixed exception with unicode chars in subfilters for python 2 (thanks Friedrich)
 - connection.extend.paged_search() doesn't miss the last entries anymore when size limit is exceeded on the server (thanks Friedrich)
 - validators are not applied when loading data from json dump in Mock strategies (thanks Derek)
 - additional validator to check for erroneous bytes to string conversion in Python 3 (thanks Brian)
 - additional formatter and validator to check for generalizedTime with 0 year (thanks Brian)
 - added ADDITIONAL_CLIENT_ENCODINGS parameter
 - fixed AD dir_sync extended operation (thanks Lucas)
 - ad_unlock_account works properly (thanks Francowxu)
 - added Microsoft security descriptor control (thanks Dirk-jan)
 - fixed search in mock strategies when raise_exceptions=True (thanks Derek)
 - formatters never raise exceptions but return the raw_value when unable to format
 - fixed controls duplication in paged search (thanks Dirk-jan)

2.4.1

- tested against pyasn1 from version 0.1.8 up to version 0.4.2, Python 2.6.6, Python 2.7.14, Python 3.6.4
 - auto_encode parameter is honored when binding (thanks jkolo)
 - fixed organizationalName definition in oid (thanks mingulov)
 - automatic byte to int conversion working again (thanks Brian)
 - mock connection searchs correctly escape filters (thanks kiddick)
 - fixed bind with not unicode characters in Python 2 (thanks jkolo)
 - extended filter attributes should work again with pyasn1 0.4.1 (thanks Dirk-jan)
 - fixed error when reading incomplete server info
 - NOT keyword properly handled in dit_content_rules (thanks Michael)
 - operational attributes are prorerly returned in Cursor whit get_operational_attributes = True (thanks a23s4a)
 - start_tls() is properly executed with AD when raise_exceptions=True (thanks Andrew)
 - reopening a Connection honours auto_bind setting (thanks calken)
 - an attribute returned with no value from a flaky server doesn't raise exception anymore (thanks Terrence)
 - pwdLastSet in AD is valid only for -1 (thanks Thane)
 - fixed docs for ldifProducer (thanks lhoekenga)
 - fixed monkeypatching of pyasn1 for Boolean Value in BER encoding (thanks tmarlok88)
 - check_names was not honoured while validating attribute values (thanks ymcymc)
 - locks refactored in Connection and in Async strategy
 - socket properly closed when checking availability of an invalid server

2.4

- security fix in the rebind() method of the Connection object (thanks Daniel)
 - fix for Sasl credentials in Python 3 (thanks Busuwe)
 - fixed bug when checking for equality in MockBase
 - added validator parameter to Server object for custom validators
 - attribute values are now validated in add/compare/modify operations in the Connection object
 - Python types can now be used in add/compare/modify operations
 - compatible with the pyasn1 library from version 0.1.8 up to latest (0.3.3 for now) version
 - fixed compatibility with Twisted on Windows on Python 2.7 (thanks Pmisik)
 - fixed paged_search behaviour in Reader object
 - fixed regression in MockBase (thanks Markus)
 - fixed invalid filter sequence in MockBase (thanks SignedBit)
 - added compatibility with Cython (thanks Pedro)
 - fixed auto_encode check in validate_attribute_value for unknown attrs (thanks CFelder)
 - don't encode response_value as extended_response_to_dict expects a decoded value (thanks Matthias)
 - compatible with the pyasn1 library from version 0.1.8 up to latest (0.3.7 for now) version
 - added LDAPObjectDereferenceError exception
 - LDAPObjectDereferenceError is raised when an object tries to dereference itself in the Abstraction Layer (thanks Daniele)
 - async module renamed to asynchronous for compatibility with Python 3.7 (thank Barry)
 - long integer are properly checked in mocking strategies (thanks gregn610)
 - NUMERIC_TYPES includes long for Python 2

2.3

- compatible with the pyasn1 library from version 0.1.8 up to latest (0.3.1 for now) version
 - MockAsync strategy is available
 - added __ne__ method to Attribute in abstraction layer (thank Rodrigo)
 - added LDAPUserNameIsMandatoryError exception in simple bind when user name is empty
 - search referrals are properly decoded with fast decoder
 - paged search works in mock strategies
 - paged_search in extend.standard namespace raises an exception of class LDAPOperationResult if the search returns an error
 - search_paged() method of Cursor object now return the whole list of entries if generator=False
 - updated docs for defaults parameters (thanks Guarnacciaa)
 - fixed mockBase for integer matching (thanks Jijo)
 - boolean values are now uppercase in LDIF (thanks Linus)
 - fixed timeout in ssl connection on Linux and Mac (thanks Allan)
 - changed some internal functions to private in ldap3.utils.dn
 - operational attribute entryDN is properly managed in Mock strategies (thanks Mark)
 - new rdn in renamed entry is properly set in Mock strategies (thanks Mark)
 - metrics are now updated for Mock strategies, except that for received bytes (thanks joehy)
 - better managing of missing schema from the server (thanks Deborah)
 - fixed error while schema is not in string format (thanks Alexandre)
 - SNI support added when the underlying python library allows it (thanks Edmund)
 - added pool_keepalive parameter to Connection object for REUSABLE strategy
 - connection.extend.microsoft.modify_password returns False when change is not successful (thanks Ashley)
 - added validators for uuid and uuid_le
 - fixed error while searching for bytes
 - fixed pickling and unpickling of datetime values (thanks David)
 - fixed error that resulted in valid generalizedTime strings not being parsed (thanks Busuwe)
 - fixed error with modify operation on referrals (thanks Busuwe)
 - fixed error in mockBase add_entry() with raw rdn (thanks Chad)
 - fixed error when stdin has not encoding in config.py (thanks cronicryo)
 - fixed error when optional field are not present in pyasn1 requests (thanks Ilya)
 - added DEFAULT_SERVER_ENCODING config parameter, should always be utf-8
 - DEFAULT_ENCODING config parameter renamed to DEFAULT_CLIENT_ENCODING
 - ADDITIONAL_ENCODINGS config parameter renamed to ADDITIONAL_SERVER_ENCONDINGS
 - additional encodings are applied to all data received from the server
 - additional encodings are not applied to client data
 - added from_server=False parameter to to_unicode() to not try client encoding while decoding data from server

2.2.4

- leading and trailing spaces in server name don't raise exception anymore
 - DitContentRule is properly read from the schema
 - added validator for Active Directory timestamp
 - Mock strategies raise an exception if a non-bytes value is added to the schema when no offline schema is provided (str and int are automatically converted)
 - added custom_validators property to Mock strategies
 - modifying objectClass with bytes values doesn't raise an exception anymore (but it may fail anyway because of server constraints)
 - ensure that config sequence parameters are properly set
 - allow case insensitive attribute and class names in config parameters
 - added server.schema.is_valid() to check if the schema is available
 - empty schema properties are set to empty dict() instead of None
 - schema definitions with trailing and leading spaces are now properly parsed and don't raise an LDAPSchemaError exception anymore
 - fixed error when flaky servers (OpenLDAP) don't return the correct response with StartTls

2.2.3

- abstraction layer query converts int values to string (thanks dgadmin)
 - CaseInsensitiveDictWithAlias doesn't raise an exception anymore if alias is set multiple times to the same key
 - friendly names in AttrDef are properly managed when performing commits in Writer cursors
 - no more errors when server returns an empty schema (thanks Glen)
 - range attributes in entries are properly recognized when auto_range is False
 - fixed random errors in auto_range searches (thanks James)
 - fixed checking of malformed schema
 - added configuration parameter IGNORE_MALFORMED_SCHEMA to not raise exception for servers that don't follow the LDAP RFCs (defaults to False)
 - test config moved to test/config.py
 - testcase_id generated randomly for each test
 - added ATTRIBUTES_EXCLUDED_FROM_OBJECT_DEF parmeter to exclude some attribute from automatic populate of ObjectDef in Abstract Layer (helpful for AD)
 - added IGNORED_MANDATORY_ATTRIBUTES_IN_OBJECT_DEF parmeter to exclude some attribute from mandatory attribute list in ObjectDef in Abstract Layer (helpful for AD)
 - fixed error when using implicit assigning in WritableEntry
 - added LDAPInvalidValueError Exception
 - in Python 3 byte filter are converted to unicode before parsing
 - RESPONSE_DN_ENCODING parameter renamed to ADDITIONAL_ENCODINGS
 - to_unicode(value, encoding=None, additional_encodings=False) now checks for additional encoodings in ADDITIONAL_ENCODINGS list if additional_encoding is set to True
 - Reusable strategy uses not lazy Restartable connections
 - Reusable strategy doesn't keep requesting the schema
 - connection pool size in Reusable strategy defaults to 5
 - optimized usage of configuration parameters

2.2.2

- PLAIN mechanism added to SASL authentication (thanks Janusz)
 - added RESULT_RESERVED return code (thanks Rak)
 - added RESPONSE_DN_ENCODING in config for flaky servers that return non utf-8 encoded DN. Set it to a list of encoding to sequentially try for decodign DNs.
 - removed StopIteration in generators (deprecated by PEP 479)
 - fixed a bug when converting AD datetimes on Windows systems
 - added compatibility with pyasn1 0.2.3
 - fixed NTLM authentication with pyasn1 0.2.3
 - fixed an error when installing via executable on Windows (thanks TrumSteven)
 - added 'raw_dn' key in search response dictionary. It contains the DN byte value returned for DN by the server
 - attributes with ";binary" tag can now be retrieved in abstraction layer with the usual entry.atttribute syntax
 - updated tests for OpenLDAP
 - fixed error when in add/remove extend operation for case mismatch in user or group dn
 - integer validator now automatically convert valid string numbers to int
 - invalid timezone are checked when validating Generalized Time Format
 - added test cases for validators
 - updated tests for OpenLDAP

2.2.1

- tested against pyasn1 0.2.2 (thanks Ilya)
 - get_response() has an optional new parameter "get_request" to return the request too, helpful in asynchronous strategies
 - connection.request, connection.response and connection result are now properly blanked in async strategies
 - ldap3.utils.dn.safe_dn() now checks for AD names only if no equal sign is present in the dn
 - abstraction layer properly works with asynchronous strategies
 - added a named tuple "Operation" used to store the request, result and response of an LDAP operation in Cursor history
 - cursors in the Abstraction Layer keep history of executed LDAP operations for the last Cursor operation in the cursor.operation property
 - Cursors in the Abstraction Layer keep history of errors for the last Cursor operation in the cursor.errors property
 - if any error has occurred in the last operation of a Cursor the cursor.failed property is set to True
 - added a named tuple "Operation" for storing request, result and response of an LDAP operation in Cursor history
 - Cursor honours raise_exception parameter of the Connection.
 - Cursor commit() return True if operations are successful and False if not. All pending commits are executed even if some fail
 - new entries that have no additional mandatory attributes other those defined in dn are properly managed in Writers (thanks Matt)
 - CaseInsensitiveDict now properly strips blanks from keys
 - updated hashing alghoritm SHA to SHA1 (thanks Satoh)
 - added match_dn(dn) to Cursor for matching entries with specified text in DN
 - added match(attributes, value) for matching entries with specified value in one or more attribute values. It checks values and raw_values
 - Cursors have simple match capability. When key is a string Cursor tries to match it against the DN of entries found.

2.2.0

- tested againsts Python 3.6.0, Python 2.7.13 and Python 2.6.6
 - updated docs regarding search response attributes (thanks James)
 - fixed LDIF representation for operation_to_ldif (thanks m7four)
 - fixed rebind for pooled connections
 - fixed custom sort order in LDIF representation of entry
 - added Active Directory GUID syntax for safe_dn() (thanks dinhngtu)
 - added pre-post read control (thanks Elizabeth)
 - added add_members_to_groups in microsoft.extend namespace for Active Directory
 - added remove_members_to_groups in microsoft.extend namespace for Active Directory
 - refactored internal extend.microsoft and extend.novell structures
 - fixed auto_escape for extended characters (thanks asand3r)
 - validators now transform the Python value to a valid LDAP value when appropriate (thanks Sjd-Risca)
 - added validator for boolean types
 - added validator for date types
 - fixed representation of binary data in Abstraction Layer for Python 2
 - added auto_encode parameter to Connection object (defaults to True)
 - limited auto_escape feature only to filter values
 - escape_filter_chars doens't try anymore to guess if the value is already escaped.
 - added ldap3.conv.is_filter_safe() (thanks Robert)
 - added auto_escape parameter to connection.search() to override connection auto_escape behaviour (defaults to None)
 - auto_escape is not applied to filter value if already escaped
 - automatically encode output to stdout encoding for repr() and str() (for printing and logging attributes values).
 - binary data are converted to a hex values string in repr() and str() (for printing and logging attributes values).
 - auto_encoding is performed only for well known attribute types that use Unicode format in LDAP
 - CLASSES_EXCLUDED_FROM_CHECK and ATTRIBUTES_EXCLUDED_FROM_CHECK moved to ldap3.utils.config and made available via get_config_parameter()
 - added UTF8_ENCODED_SYNTAXES in ldap3.config.utils and made available via get_config_parameter()
 - added UTF8_ENCODED_TYPES in ldap3.config.utils and made available via get_config_parameter()
 - config parameters made available only via get_config_parameters()
 - removed to_bytes() and check_escape() from ldap3.utils.conv (ambiguous functions)
 - added connection.request to MockSync (thanks Fabian)
 - tags are properly managed in add, compare and modify requests (thanks guidow)
 - in Mock strategies single-valued attributes are properly managed
 - in Mock strategies attributes type names are properly managed
 - implemented extended operation machinery in MockBase
 - implemented WhoAmI [RFC4532] in Mock strategies
 - implemented GetBindDn [NOVELL] in Mock strategies
 - implemented operational attributes machinery in MockBase
 - implemented entryDN [RFC5020] operational attribute in MockBase
 - Sphinx updated to 1.5.1

2.1.1

- Mock strategy uses case insensitive matching when appropriate
 - fixed error when adding a virtual attribute in the abstract Entry object
 - fixed error messages in Entry moving and renaming
 - Reverted default connection strategy to SYNC (thanks Mauro)
 - Fixed tutorials (thanks Mauro)
 - Fixed checking of schema in ObjectDef (thanks Pierre)
 - Fixed checking of stdin in config (thanks Oleg)
 - fixed commit of entry with async strategies
 - fixed reading of entries in async strategies
 - added cipher argument to Tls (thanks Nicolas)
 - fixed bug when using the abstraction layer with lazy connections
 - fixed case matching while adding new entry in Writer cursor (thanks t0neg)
 - disabled auto_escape for byte values
 - fixed auto_escape for python 2
 - fixed tutorials (thanks Ivano)

2.1.0

- changed default Connection strategy from SYNC to RESTARTABLE
 - enable automatic escaping of assertion values
 - fixed decoding error with check_name=False
 - added auto_escape parameter in connection, for trying automatic filter and attribute values escape
 - fixed checking of schema in MockBase
 - SASLBindInProgress doesn't raise an exception anymore with raise_exceptions=True
 - standard formatters are applied in mocking strategies when serching for exact match

2.0.9

- removed sanitization of DN in bind operation because some servers accept non standard DN for Simple Bind

2.0.8

- included referral caching (thanks TWAC)

2.0.7

- FIRST RELEASE OF LDAP3 V2
 - changed signature of ldap3.abstract.Reader object
 - removed search_size_limit(), search_time_limit() and search_types_only in the Reader cursor
 - fixed SASL in progress error (thanks Styleex)
 - fixed ALL_ATTRIBUTES in MOCK_SYNC strategy (thanks Belgarion)
 - ncorrect attribute type error message now includes the name of the attribute (Thanks Andrej)
 - relaxed dn checking for Active Directory UserPrincipalName
 - relaxed dn checking for Active Directory SamAccountName
 - added checking of attribute name in add, compare and search operations
 - added checking of class name in add operation
 - renamed exception LDAPTypeError to LDAPAttributeError
 - in sync strategies LDAP operations populate the last_error attribute of the connection in case of not RESULT_SUCCESS
 - connection.return_empty_attributes defaults to True
 - escaped filter by default
 - fixed escaping of filter
 - add move and rename to abstraction layer entry
 - ldap3 namespace decluttered
 - RESULT_CODES moved to ldap3.core.results
 - compatibility constants removed
 - exceptions removed from ldap3 namespace, defined in ldap3.core.exceptions only
 - ADDRESS_INFO_REFRESH_TIME is now configurable via set_config_parameter
 - Operational attribute prefix set to 'OA_'
 - Allows cert and key file in the same file (thanks Jan-Philip)
 - Removed logging info when logging is disabled (thanks Dan)
 - Updated copyright notice
 - Refactored abstraction layer with full support for CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) abstract operations
 - Added WritableEntry and WritableAttribute to abstraction layer
 - Added standard validators for attribute types and syntaxes defined in the standard LDAP schema
 - Added custom validators for attribute values
 - Added update capability to abstraction layer
 - Fixed typo in docs (thanks Gerardwx)
 - Fixed Object and Attribute representation in schema (superior class not shown)
 - ObjectDef automatically populates attributes from schema, following object_class hierarchy
 - Added attributes parameter to search* methods of Cursor, so that only needed attributes are read even if attr_defs defines more
 - Fixed connect_timeout not honored while wrapping socket in tls (thanks Kyle)
 - Added 'set' to SEQUENCE_TYPES (thanks Christian)
 - Entries returned by search are now writable via the abstraction layer
 - LDAPReaderError exception renamed to LDAPCursorError
 - auto_range parameter in Connection defaults to True (thanks Ashley)
 - get_info defaults to SCHEMA while defining Server object
 - Included ordereddict 1.1 ( Copyright (c) 2009 Raymond Hettinger) in ldap3.utils.ordDict for backporting OrderedDict in Python 2.6
 - Added config parameter RESET_AVAILABILITY_TIMEOUT to reinsert invalid address in candidate_addresses while checking connection, defaults to 5 seconds
 - Fixed inability to connect to a server if the connection starts when the server is unavailable and then it becomes available again
 - All DNs are sanitized if connection.check_names is True
 - LDAPControlsError exception renamed to LDAPControlError
 - LDAPChangesError exception renamed to LDAPChangeError
 - The following older constants in ldap3 have been removed, please use the suggested ones:
 - AUTH_ANONYMOUS = ANONYMOUS
 - AUTH_SIMPLE = SIMPLE
 - AUTH_SASL = SASL
 - SEARCH_SCOPE_BASE_OBJECT = BASE
 - SEARCH_SCOPE_SINGLE_LEVEL = LEVEL
 - SEARCH_SCOPE_WHOLE_SUBTREE = SUBTREE
 - SEARCH_NEVER_DEREFERENCE_ALIASES = DEREF_NEVER
 - SEARCH_DEREFERENCE_IN_SEARCHING = DEREF_SEARCH
 - SEARCH_DEREFERENCE_FINDING_BASE_OBJECT = DEREF_BASE
 - SEARCH_DEREFERENCE_ALWAYS = DEREF_ALWAYS
 - STRATEGY_SYNC = SYNC
 - STRATEGY_ASYNC_THREADED = ASYNC
 - STRATEGY_LDIF_PRODUCER = LDIF
 - STRATEGY_SYNC_RESTARTABLE = RESTARTABLE
 - STRATEGY_REUSABLE_THREADED = REUSABLE
 - STRATEGY_MOCK_SYNC = MOCK_SYNC
 - STRATEGY_MOCK_ASYNC = MOCK_ASYNC
 - POOLING_STRATEGY_FIRST = FIRST
 - POOLING_STRATEGY_ROUND_ROBIN = ROUND_ROBIN
 - POOLING_STRATEGY_RANDOM = RANDOM
 - GET_NO_INFO = NONE
 - GET_DSA_INFO = DSA
 - GET_SCHEMA_INFO = SCHEMA
 - GET_ALL_INFO = ALL

Links

• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/ldap3
• Changelog: https://pyup.io/changelogs/ldap3/
• Repo: https://github.com/cannatag/ldap3