Ldap3

- Added LDAPI (LDAP over IPC) support for unix socket communication
- Added mandatory_in and optional_in in server schema for attribute types. Now you can see in which classes attributes are used
- Added last_transmitted_time and last_received_time to Usage object to track time of the last sent and received operation
- Exception SessionTerminatedByServer renamed to SessionTerminatedByServerError and added to ldap3 namespace
- Added get_config_parameter() in ldap3 namespace to read the current value of ldap3 configurable parameters
- Added SASL mechanism name as constants in the ldap3 namespace
- Added escape_filter_chars in utils.conv (thanks Peter)
- Reverted ALL_ATTRIBUTES behaviour in search to 0.9.9.1 (thanks Petros)

- Fixed hasattr() behaviour for Entry object in Python 3
- Allows empty sasl_credentials in SASL bind
- Added POOLING_LOOP_TIMEOUT constant to specify how many seconds the server pooling strategy has to wait before retrying if it did not find an active server (defaults to 10)
- Pooling strategy now allows to specify the number of cycles to try when finding a server (with active=N)
- Pooling strategy now allows to specify how many seconds a server must be considered offline before retrying to check for availabiliry (with exhaust=N)
- Connection.entries defaults to empty list
- ALL_ATTRIBUTES don't send any attribute in the attribute list (was sending '*') while searching
- Added DirSync extended function for Microsoft Active Directory
- Added LDAP_SERVER_DIRSYNC_OID control for Microsoft Active Directory
- Added LDAP_SERVER_EXTENDED_DN_OID control for Microsoft Active Directory
- Added LDAP_SERVER_SHOW_DELETED_OID control for Microsoft Active Directory
- Fixed AD tests for single valued attributes
- Added ACL attribute in the ATTRIBUTES_EXCLUDED_FROM_CHECK list

- Allows empty member values in groups while adding - this should not be as per rfc4511 4.1.7, but some servers expects it (thanks John)
- Faster case insensitive dict while getting and setting key (thanks Pierre)
- Updated setuptools to 18.3.2
- Updated wheel to 0.26
- Tested against Python 2.6 - Python 2.7 - Python 3.3 - Python 3.4 - Python 3.5 - pypy - pypy3

- Fixed boolean value for True value in ASN.1 encoding for certain ldap servers. (thanks Will)
- Fixed follow auto referrals. (thanks WIll)
- Now protocol defined integer values can be used for scope and derefAliases arguments when searching. (thanks Will)
- Added description field in the AttrDef object. (thanks Hogne)
- Added a custom ber decoder. Decoding of received packets is now 10x faster.
- Added new boolean argument fast_decoder in connection object. Defaults to True.
- Highest date correctly managed by the format_ad_timestamp() formatter. (thanks Will)
- Fix for latest gssapi kerberos authentication module (thanks Alex)
- Added freeIPA OID descriptors
- Removed unneeded OidInfo class

- Coerce objectClass to a list in Add operation. (thanks Yutaka)
- ObjectClass attribute values mantain their order in the Add operation. (thanks Yutaka)
- Fixed search filter composition when the value part of the assertion contains = character. (thanks Eero)
- Fixed modify_password extended operation when no hash method is specified. (thanks midnightlynx)
- Added credentials to kerberos authentication. (thanks Alex)
- Target name can be specified in sasl_credentials for Kerberos authentication. (thanks Alex)
- Target name can be read from DNS in sasl_credential for Kerberos authentication. (thanks Alex)
- Fixed connection.entries error when referrals are in the search response. (thanks WIll)

- Backported ssl.match_hostname from Python 3.4.3 standard library to be used in Python < 2.7.10
- Use backports.ssl_match_hostname if present instead of static backported functions for matching server names in ssl certificate (thanks Michal)
- Attributes values are properly printed when not strings in abstract.attribute (thanks hogneh)
- Checking unicode __repr__() in python2
- Added hashing capability to Modify Password extended operation (thanks Gawain)