notes for version 4

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We're pleased to announce version 0.0.4 of Net::LDAP, the first We're pleased to announce version 0.0.4 of Net::LDAP, the pure-Ruby LDAP library.
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 LDAP servers that observe non-standard transactional and concurrency
semantics in LDAP Modify operations. Note: this is a documentation change, 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 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. possible of the functionality of the most-used LDAP server implementations.