Novell.Directory.Ldap.NETStandard

What's Changed

• Change access modifier for AsyncEnumerableExtensions.ToListAsync by @PerssonP in #251
• Prefer IEnumerable over IEnumerator and use foreach by @TheConstructor in #252
• Rework Tokenizer by @TheConstructor in #254

New Contributors

• @PerssonP made their first contribution in #251
• @TheConstructor made their first contribution in #252

Full Changelog: 4.0.0-beta5...4.0.0-beta6

net8 as target framework

What's Changed

• Remove dependency on System.Linq.Async by @jcracknell in #203
• Fix Tls hang on disconnect by @Kim-SSi in #225

New Contributors

• @jcracknell made their first contribution in #203

Full Changelog: 4.0.0-beta4...4.0.0-beta5

• Breaking change Connecting using "host:port" and multiple hosts "host1 host2" syntax specified in the host string parameter is not supported anymore. Anyone who is really fond of these features can write them on top of the core api Connect(host, port)
• Implement SASL external authentication with client certificate
• Add LdapConnectionOptions to allow better configuration of how to connect including
  • configure the SslProtocols
  • configure a selector to filter the ip addresses used for connecting
  • connect using SSL
  • configure client certificates
  • configure the certification callbacks
• Fix thread-safety issue - thanks to Marcin Krystianc - https://github.com/marcin-krystianc
• Fix utf encoding issue in filter - thanks to Andrey Chayka - https://github.com/ubik
• Move build to Azure DevOps
  • the tests are running on both netcoreapp3.1/net6/net8
    • the units tests are running on all three major platforms Windows, Linux Ubuntu, MacOS
    • the functional and stress tests are running against OpenLdap on Ubuntu 20.04
  • use Invoke-Build for the build script
• Various small improvements

• Deprecate LibLog. Add back Microsoft.Logging with different versions for the three .net standard version: 1.3, 2.0, 2.1
• Fix GetAttribute documentation

• Build nuget package for .net standard 2.1 too. Tests are now running on net core 3.1.
• The build is running on Ubuntu Xenial

• Fix FetchSchema

• Fix not using timeout when connecting via SSL - thanks to Konrad Kruczyński - https://github.com/konrad-kruczynski

• change ILdapConnection interface to improve testability & mockability
• changes to the public api of the library to improve usability and make it more .net style
• IPv6 support
• SASL support - thanks to Michael Stum - https://github.com/mstum
• Support for ReferralFollowing - thanks to Joseph Petersen - https://github.com/casz
• Add LocalCertificateSelectionCallback - thanks to bmoore - https://github.com/barry-r-moore
• Fix issue in message timeout - thanks to martindrlik https://github.com/martindrlik
• Remove dependency of Microsoft.Extensions.Logging - use LibLog
• Prevents dns lookup if IP is passed to Connect - thanks to mjrist - https://github.com/mjrist

• Added connect timeout

• Disconnect method added to ILdapConnection

• The build matrix is running the stress tests in three ways: with no transport security, with SSL and with TLS.
• Improve TLS support - it used to throw exception in some rare conditions.
• Added new tests for connect with/without SSL/TLS
• Added new tests for search
• Some smaller cleanups

• Added stress tests which are running the functional tests on multiple threads - running in Travis CI using OpenLDAP in a build matrix with different number of threads
• Added functional tests which are running in CI using OpenLDAP as ldap server
• Fixed reader thread hanging when disposing ldap connection after an unsuccesful bind (not sure if was happening in the original library as I didnt check it but very likely it did)
• Code cleanup: delete useless/incorrect finalizers and some general cleanup
• Free the write semaphore in finally

• Fix crashing of reader thread when stopping the thread because of unhandled exception (the reader thread was expecting IOException but not ObjectDisposedException)
• Fix race condition causing null reference on dispose of LdapConnection

• Built against the lowest possible version of .NET Standard: 1.3
• ILdapConnection introduced

• Thread usage: the library was extensively using Abort, Interrupt, ThreadInterruptedException, ... - which is not recommended and also not supported in .NET Core.
• Serialization support for a limited number of types was deleted; not supported on .net core
• Ssl support: the library was using Mono.Security for this. Now is implemented using SslStream from NetStandard
• Implement IDisposable for LdapConnection to allow usage of "using" construct

Original changelog before .NET Standard conversion