Ldap3

- New feature 'offline schema' to let the client have knowledge of schema and DSA info even if not returned by the server
- Offline schema for Novell eDirectory 8.8.8
- Offline schema for Microsoft Active Directory 2012 R2
- Offline schema for slapd 2.4 (Openldap)
- Added server.info.to_json() and server.info.to_file to JSON serialize schema and info from Server object
- Added Server.from_json() and Server.from_file() to create a Server object from a JSON definition
- Added response_to_json() and response_to_file() to Connection object to serialize search response entries in JSON as a string or as a file
- New exception hierarchy LDAPConfigurationError includes library configuration exceptions
- New exception LDAPInvalidConfigurationDefinitionError
- Dsa info and schema are not read twice when binding (thanks phobie)
- LDAPStartTLSError exception is merged with exception raised from ssl packaged
- Digest-MD5 SASL authentication accepts directives with list attributes (thanks John)
- Fixed caseInsensitiveDictionary for keys() and values() methods
- Fixed matching of certificate name in ssl with Python2
- Attributes names and formatters are checked even if schema is not read by the server
- Fixed fractional time when parsing generalized time
- Specific decoder for Active Directory ObjectGuid and ObjectSid
- Added additional checking for unicode in Python 2
- Tested against Python 3.4.2, 2.7.8, 2.6.6
- Updated setuptools to 7.0

- Fixed security issue in lazy connections (thanks Moritz)
- Added ldap3.utils.dn with parse_dn(dn) to verify dn compliance with RFC4514
- Added safe_dn(dn) to properly escape dn (if possible)
- Added ldap3.utils.uri with parse_uri(uri) to verify uri compliance with RFC4516
- Check for trailing slashes in hostname (thanks Dylan)
- Timeout for socket connect operation. Server.connect_timeout = seconds_to_wait_for_establishing_connection (thanks Florian)
- Closing socket error doesn't raise exception anymore
- ServerPool can be implicity defined with a list of server names (even when defining a connection)

- elements returned in schema and dsa info are in a case insensitive dictionary (can be changed in ldap3.CASE_INSENSITIVE_SCHEMA_NAMES = True|False)
- attributes name returned in searches are now case insensitive (can be changed in ldap3.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ATTRIBUTE_NAMES = True|False)
- change parameter name from separe_rdn to separate_rdn in ldap3.utils.conv.to_dn()
- sync dev from Bitbucket to GitHub
- schema attributes are explicitly read (useful for Active directory and 389 Directory Server)
- new extended operation: list_replicas (Novell)
- new extended operation: get_replica_info (Novell)
- new extended operation: partition_entry_count (Novell)
- renamed convert_to_ldif() to _convert_to_ldif()

- fixed LDAPOperationResult.__str__ (thanks David)
- added to_dn() in utils.conv to convert a dn string to a list of components (strings or tuples)
- added __version__ in ldap3
- don't raise exception if the schema cannot be read in unauthenticated state
- server.address_info is now a property

- getaddrinfo called only once
- real_server machinery removed - messageId is now global and monotonic for the whole library
- attributes are returned formatted if schema is read and check_names = True, removed checked_attributes
- bind result is populated again when successful (was removed in 0.9.2.1)
- exception is now raised if you receive multiple extended response to a single extended request. This is not allowed by RFC 4511

- added support for IPv6 (thanks Robert)
- auto_bind can be used even for establishing tls, possible values (defined in ldap3) are: AUTO_BIND_NONE, AUTO_BIND_NO_TLS, AUTO_BIND_TLS_AFTER_BIND, AUTO_BIND_TLS_BEFORE_BIND
- refactored extend package to use classes
- new extended operation: get_universal_password (Novell)
- new extended operation: set_universal_password (Novell)
- added parsing of hostname in scheme://hostname:hostport format. This has the precedence on the parameters (thanks Sorin)
- added extra checks when the schema is read (with the get_info parameter) but nothing is returned by the server
- updated setuptools to version 5.4.1
- when check_name is True and schema is read attributes are checked and formatted in "checked_attributes" as specified by RFCs following the server schema
- added formatter for generalizedTime syntax as specified in RFC4517 (ASN.1)
- custom formatter can be added in Server definition