D.0 Revision History

The following table outlines all changes made to the LDAP Libraries for C documentation (in reverse chronological order):

July 2008	Added new structures for the LDAP Auditing feature to the Structures chapter.
October 2007	Added a new LDAP extension function ldap_nds_to_x500_dn.
June 2007	Added 2 new standard LDAP functions ldap_nmas_err2string and ldap_nmas_get_errcode.
February 2007	Added information about new 64-bit support for Windows* and Linux* platforms.
June 2006	Added information to the subsection GSSAPI,in the Section 1.3.2, Authentication
March 2006	Fixed formatting issues.
October 2005	Added the following: Information on Section 1.2.6, Setting and Getting the Cipher Level. 3 new session preference options, LDAP_OPT_CURRENT_NAME, LDAP_OPT_PEER_NAME, and LDAP_OPT_TLS_CIPHER_LIMIT. Maximizing the security over the LDAP servers Section 1.3.5, Recommendations. Removed all instances of LDAPSSL_VERIFY_NONE option.
June 2005	Added the following: A new search scope, LDAP_SCOPE_SUBORDINATESUBTREE (page 26). ldap_create_geteffective_control. ldap_create_reference_control. ldap_create_sstatus_control. ldap_parse_reference_control. ldap_parse_sstatus_control.
March 2005	Added 2 new standard LDAP functions, ldap_cancel_ext and ldap_cancel_ext_s. Changed the syntax of two LDAP Extension Function, ldap_backup_object and ldap_restore_object.
October 2004	Added the following: Information on Section 1.5, LDAP Based Backup and GSSAPI. 2 new standard LDAP functions, ldap_gssbind and ldap_gss_error. 2 new LDAP extension functions, ldap_backup_object and ldap_restore_object.
June 2004	Added the following: 2 new LDAP extension function, ldap_destroy, ldap_dup. A new session preference option, LDAP_OPT_SESSION_REFCNT.
February 2004	Renamed the product name from “NDS” to “Novell eDirectory” at relevant instances.
October 2003	Added the following: Support for the HP-UX platform Information about Section 1.7.2, LBURP. 6 new LDAP extension functions, ldap_lburp_end_request, ldap_lburp_operation_request, ldap_lburp_parse_operation_response, ldap_lburp_start_request, ldap_parse_lburp_end_response, and ldap_parse_lburp_start_response. 2 new structures, LBURPUpdateResult, and LBURPUpdateOperationList.
June 2003	Added the following: Changed LDAP event system to eDirectory event system
September 2002	Added the following: Information on referral handling, outlined in Section 1.6, Referral Handling in LDAP v3 2 new session options, LDAP_OPT_REFERRAL_LIST and LDAP_OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT. See Section 1.6, Referral Handling in LDAP v3 and Setting Initial Connection Timeout for conceptual information on these new options. Fixed errors in the ldap_event function descriptions Added the following functions: ldap_multisort_entries
May 2002	Added the following: Information on the new SASL authentication mechanisms, outlined in Authentication. LDAP event system startTLS and stopTLS Added the following functions: ldap_bind_digest_md5_start ldapssl_install_routines ldap_bind_digest_md5_finish ldap_bind_nmas_s ldapssl_start_tls ldapssl_stop_tls
February 2002	Added the following: Information on SSL Certificates, outlined in SSL Certificates. Schema Parsing Functions including: New DirLoad driver for the Novell Import Convert Export utility.
September 2001	Added the following: More information on search filters. More information on time formats. Interactive SSL APIs
June 2001	Added the following: Information on LDAP URLs. Updated the LDAPURLDesc struct to maintain IETF conformance. Update the ldap_get_effective_privileges function with new rights flags. Added documentation for the DELIM handler in the Novell Import Convert Export Utility. Updated the LDAP Utilities documentation. Removed Multi-byte functions. Updated the documentation for the LDAP unibind functions.
February 2001	Added the following: New functions—ldap_set_replication_filter, ldap_get_replication_filter, ldap_create_orphan_naming_context, and ldap_remove_orphan_naming_context. New UTF-8 conversion routines Updated the LDAPMod structure Replaced the LDAP_OPT_ERROR_NUMBER constant with LDAP_OPT_RESULT_CODE Updated the fbuf parameter description for the ber_free function.
September 2000	Added the following: Information to the ldap_url_parse function Runtime information XML rule information to the Novell Import Convert Export utiltiy
July 2000	Added the following: Support for the Solaris and Linux platforms A task for changing a user's password An ldapx_memfree function to free memory allocated by the LDAP extension library ldapadd and Novell Import/Export utility information LDIF examples
May 2000	Added information about functions that allocate and free memory. Added the following new functions: ldap_set_rebind_proc, ldap_is_ldap_url, ldap_is_ldaps_url, ldap_free_urldesc, ldap_url_search, ldap_url_search_s, ldap_url_search_st, and ldap_refresh_server. Added the following structure: LDAPURLDesc.