Neil Wilson - 2017-06-14

The UnboundID LDAP SDK for Java version 4.0.0 has been released. Some of the most significant changes in this release are:

  • The LDAP SDK now requires Java SE 7 or later. Java SE 7 and 8 are officially supported. There are known issues when trying to build the LDAP SDK on Java SE 9 early access builds, but builds of the LDAP SDK should run without issues on Java SE 9. Java SE versions 1.5 and 1.6 are no longer supported.
  • We now provide only a single edition of the LDAP SDK. We used to provide Standard Edition, Commercial Edition, and Minimal Edition versions of the LDAP SDK, but they have been consolidated into a single edition that contains everything that was previously in the Commercial Edition (which was a superset of the Standard Edition, which was itself a superset of the Minimal Edition). That single edition is now called just “UnboundID LDAP SDK for Java” and is still available under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2), the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (LGPLv2.1), and the UnboundID LDAP SDK Free Use License.
  • The GitHub repository for the LDAP SDK has been moved into the Ping Identity organization. The URL to the repository has changed from https://github.com/unboundid/ldapsdk to https://github.com/pingidentity/ldapsdk, but a redirect is in place to ensure that links to the old URL will be automatically transferred to the new location.
  • All copyright notices have been updated to reference Ping Identity, and the LDAP SDK documentation now uses Ping Identity branding.
  • The open source repositories for the LDAP SDK have been updated to become a complete mirror of the internal repository used to create official builds. The biggest change to come from this is that the full set of LDAP SDK unit tests are now publicly available under the same licenses as the rest of the LDAP SDK.
  • This release fixes a bug in the logic for parsing DNs from a string in which one or more RDN values used a BER encoding by starting the value with the octothorpe (#) character. The LDAP SDK would incorrectly use the entire set of bytes (representing the BER type, length, and value) as the attribute value instead of just the BER element value.
  • This release fixes a bug in the LDAP connection pool’s connection handling. If the connection pool is configured with createIfNecessary set to false and the replaceDefunctConnection method is called but unable to create a new connection, then the defunct connection could be destroyed without allowing for a replacement. If this happened enough times, the pool could run out of connections and would refuse to create new connections.
  • This release fixes a bug in processing multi-stage SASL binds. Each bind request in a multi-stage bind should use a different LDAP message ID, but earlier versions of the LDAP SDK would use the same message ID for the later stages that it used for the first stage.
  • This release fixes a bug in the in-memory directory server’s LDIF import code that prevented it from applying the configured schema to the entries being imported.
  • This release fixes a bug in the in-memory directory server’s handling of LDAP subentries. The server could incorrectly return entries that are not LDAP subentries in response to a search request that included the subentries request control.
  • This release fixes bugs various bugs in the ldapsearch and ldapmodify command-line tools, and in the command-line argument parser.
  • The LDAP SDK documentation now includes a number of LDAP reference documents, including a result code reference guide, an OID reference guide, and an LDAPv3 wire protocol reference guide.
  • The set of LDAP-related specifications has been updated to include a number of additional RFCs (including 2926, 2985, 4226, and 6238), and updated versions of IETF drafts (including draft-kille-ldap-xmpp-schema, draft-seantek-ldap-pkcs9, and draft-wibrown-ldapssotoken).
  • When the LDAP SDK is checked out from a git repository, the build process can now capture information about the state of that repository, including the repository URL and the revision ID. This makes it easier to identify the precise source code revision used to create an LDAP SDK build for troubleshooting purposes. Previously, this information was only available if the LDAP SDK was checked out of a subversion repository.