diff --git a/Release-Announcement b/Release-Announcement index 3ff4020..5d14811 100644 --- a/Release-Announcement +++ b/Release-Announcement @@ -1,10 +1,23 @@ -We're pleased to announce version 0.0.4 of Net::LDAP, the first -pure-Ruby LDAP library. +We're pleased to announce version 0.0.4 of Net::LDAP, the pure-Ruby LDAP library. -This version un-deprecates Net::LDAP#modify, which can be useful with +This version adds an implementation of Net::LDAP#bind_as, which allows +you to authenticate users who log into your applications using simple +identifiers like email addresses and simple usernames. Thanks to Simon Claret +for suggesting the original implementation in his page on the Rails-Wiki, +and for valuable comments and help with testing. + +We have un-deprecated Net::LDAP#modify, which can be useful with LDAP servers that observe non-standard transactional and concurrency semantics in LDAP Modify operations. Note: this is a documentation change, -not a code change. +not a code change. Thanks to Justin Forder for providing the rationale +for this change. + +We added a larger set of special characters which may appear in RFC-2254 +standard search filters. Thanks to Andre Nathan for this patch. + +We fixed a bug that was preventing Net::LDAP#open from being called more +than once on the same object. + Net::LDAP is a feature-complete LDAP client which can access as much as possible of the functionality of the most-used LDAP server implementations.