Changes Between Major Versions

Changes from 1.2 to 1.4

• Support for SSL
• LDAP caching
• Improved NT support
• OPENLdap support
• Added AuthLDAPRemoteUserIsDN directive
• Removed AuthLDAPRedundantServers directive
• Split source into multiple files

Changes Between Minor Versions

Changes from 1.4.6 to 1.4.7

• Corrected a serious memory leak. Thanks to Richard Ellerbrock for discovering this.

Changes from 1.4.5 to 1.4.6

• More corrections to problems with ldap_url_parse() in OpenLDAP 2.x.

Changes from 1.4.4 to 1.4.5

• Work around the fact that some version of OpenLDAP don't seem to provide sane defaults in ldap_url_parse().

Changes from 1.4.3 to 1.4.4

• Added support for OpenLDAP 2.0.

Changes from 1.4.2 to 1.4.3

• Added a FAQ.html file.
• Minor bugfixes and changes to documentation.

Changes from 1.4.0 to 1.4.2

• Note: version 1.4.1 was skipped due to a last-minute problem that cropped up just before its release.
• Fixed a bug where multiple users on a "require user" line would prevent authentication of the users.
• Got rid of the spurious "ldap_init" messages that were showing up in the log.
• Got rid of the meaningless "Could not release configuration mutex. Expect deadlocks." message that appeard on Unix-based versions of auth_ldap.
• Added some new flags to the Makefile for compilation on AIX.
• Made use of the -Wall flag optional, since not everybody uses gcc.
• Fixed some indented compiler directives that caused certain compilers to barf.

Changes from 1.3.4 to 1.4.0

• Production release of 1.3.x series
• Documentation rewrite

Changes from 1.3.3 to 1.3.4

• More Makefile tweaks
• Got rid const-correctness warnings when compiling with OpenLDAP

Changes from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3

• Documentation changes only

Changes from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2

• Fixed bugs with logging so that LogLevels would actually work correctly
• Fixed a bug that caused crashes under WinNT
• More Makefile tweaks
• Added OpenLDAP support
• Fixed potential endless loop if all LDAP servers are down
• Removed AuthLDAPRedundantServers directive

Changes from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1

• Various Makefile tweaks and fixes
• Added more fields to the module struct
• Added eprintf for systems that don't correctly link in the GNU C support library
• Added AuthLDAPRemoteUserIsDN directive

Changes from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4

• Documentation changes only

Changes from 1.2.2 to 1.2.3

• Fixed bug with failover logic that would cause spurious auth failures

Changes from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2

• Fixed string constants in source to be ANSI compliant
• Replaced calls to free() with ldap_memfree().This makes a difference under NT.
• First release tested against Apache 1.3

Changes from 1.1 to 1.2.1

• Started using a different version numbering scheme. The second number is even for production releases and odd for beta releases. The third number is used for incremental fixes in releases. Anyone familiar with the Linux kernel will recognize this standard.
• Fixed a bug with log levels
• Started adding NT support

Changes from 1.0 to 1.1

• Added AuthLDAPRedundantServers directive
• Added support for caching LDAP connections
• Started using Airius in all examples (as per other vendors' LDAP documentation)
• Fixed some bugs with non-authoritative authentication