phpldapadmin/doc/ChangeLog

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* Version 0.9.4b, 2004-05-11

 * Notes:
    
    This follow-on release fixes one critical bug contained in 0.9.4 
    relating to session.auto_start and schema caching.

 * Changes

   - Fixed bugs (all duplicates of single bug):
     947981
     951003
     951140
   - Fixed binary attribute creation (create.php)

* Version 0.9.4a, 2004-05-08

 * Notes:
 
    This follow-on release fixes several critical bugs contained in 0.9.4.

 * Changes:

   - Fixed bugs:
     949500  Error while adding New User Account
     949500  Creating a new uid under ou=People
     948695  is_executable() error using phpldapadmin - windows
     948741  Level: E_WARNING
     948413  Undefined variable: lang (E_NOTICE) after install   
	
* Version 0.9.4, 2004-05-04

 * Notes:
    
    This release adds many new features and fixes many minor bugs.
    General performance has improved, especially for handling large data
    sets. Of particular note is that users can page through search results, 
    flag individual attributes as read-only, view in-line jpegPhotos in 
    search results, export DSML, all from the comfort of their own language. 
    phpLDAPadmin is now availble in 11 languages.

 * Changes:
   - Fixed bug 936223 by adding more robust error-handling to the binary
       attr viewing code.
   - Improved support for Microsoft Active Direcotry
       Added many new icons and logic to detect "special" Active Directory
       objects.
       Fixed a bug which prevented phpLDAPadmin's tree viewer from
       properly browsing an Active Directory.
   - Improved support for Novell eDirectory
       Added many new icons and logic to detect Novell eDirectory (NDS)
       entries.
   - Enhanced export form
       Users can specify the type of export, line ends, search scope, and more
       from one handy form similar in appearance to phpMyAdmin export forms (though
       more simple). As a result, I cleaned up the links at the top of the default
       mod template (removed mac | win | unix links, for example).
   - Cleaned up the entry browser link
       It now better aligns itself with neighboring form elements.
   - Fixed several E_NOTICE bugs
   - Added paging to search results    Search results are now paged into groups
       of 50 entries and users can step through the pages like Google. This is not
       only a nicety, but with large searches users may have waited for hours for
       their browser to render all the entries. That problem is fixed by paging.
   - DNs are pretty-printed
       DNs in the tree viewer and else-where are now "syntax-highlighted".
   - Faster schema surfing
       You can "jump to" schema elements without rendering all other elements in
       the schema browser. This is a major speed enhancement.
   - Configurable: hide "Create new"
       Thanks to a patch from Deon George, users can hide the "create new" link in the
       tree viewer if desired.
   - DSML exports
   - Various XHTML fixes supplied by Uwe Ebel.
   - More binary safety:
       get_object_attrs() is now completely binary safe. Developers can use it to
       fetch jpegPhotos and any other binary data.
   - Re-order the search criteria menu
       Users can re-order the search criteria drop-down box (for simple search
       form) as desired from the config.
   - Obfuscated passwords with ****
       Users can configure PLA to display userPasswords as ****** if desired.
   - Tree browser displays child counts
       We found a fast solution to display child counts below each node without
       having to expand the node in the tree viewer. Works great.
   - "Used by" hyperlinks
       The "used by" list in matching rules are now hyper-linked to attributes in
       the schema viewer.
   - jpegPhotos in the search results.
       When a search result includes jpegPhotos, they will be displayed inline
       with other attributes. Very handy for address books!
   - We can draw any jpeg now
       Modified the infrastrucutre to draw any jpegPhoto attribute, regardless of
       its name.
   - Added a groupOfNames template
       For editing groupOfNames and groupOfUniqueNames
   - Fixes to the entry browser
       The entry browser can be clicked and closed before it's finished loading
   - Read-only attributes
       Users can now mark certain attributes as read-only, and PLA will refuse to
       modify them (ie, objectClasses) and display them without form input fields. 
   - Configurable handling of aliases and referrals
       Admins can configure how phpLDAPadmin should handle aliases and
       referrals with fine-grained control.
   - Schema caching
       Network traffic between the web server and LDAP server has been reduced
       drastically and user page loads should run much faster thanks to a
       two-level session-based and memory-based schema cache.
   - Low bandwidth mode
       Users who have a slow link between their LDAP server and web server can
       run phpLDAPadmin in low-bandwidth mode to discourage excessive network
       traffic.
   - Fixed DN explosion
       A bug in PHP's LDAP API caused common segmentation faults in
       ldap_explode_dn(). We have re-implemented this function in PHP and have
       eliminated all segmentation faults.
   - Almost complete localization
       phpLDAPadmin is 100% internationalized with the exception of creation
       templates, available in 11 languages.
   - Added support for IBM LDAP and ISODE M-Vault LDAP servers.
   - Linkable displayed DNs
       When a user views an attribute that contains a DN, an arrow will appear
       to the left side. When clicked, the user is taken to the referenced DN.
   - Recursive copy fliters
       When users copy a sub-tree, they may apply a filter to the copy such
       that only entries that match the filter will be copied. 
   - Auto uidNumber enhancements
       Admins can now specify a DN to bind with when auto-searching for the next
       available uidNumber.
   - Schema code cleanups
       Applied object-oriented inheritance to schema items and cleaned up
       access functions. No affect on end user, just a developers' itch.
   - Custom creation template usability enhancements
   - Fixed session bugs
       If PHP is auto-starting sessions, we will not throw errors anymore.
   - Added new auth_type: http
       Users can now use http auth_types for form-based logins. Their
       DN/password will be stored on the server in memory rather than in 
       a cookie on the client.
   - TLS fixes
       More robust coverage. If users have configured 'tls' = true in
       config.php, we use TLS for all transactions with the LDAP
       server.
   - Error handling fixes
       pla_verbose_error() is more tolerant of crappy input (ie, bad LDAP
       error codes).
   - Cleaned up default mod template
       Editing entries is now much cleaner-looking. Buttons at the top are
       in two columns. The browser doesn't have to be full-screen anymore
       to edit an entry.
   - Minor cosmetic fixes to custom creation template
   - Added phpDoc commentary to all functions in functions.php and
       schema_functions.php, and export_functions.php. This allows us to 
       auto-doc the code using phpDocumentor.

* Version 0.9.3, 2003-12-19

 * Notes:
    This release focused almost entirely on finding and fixing bugs. 
    The schema viewer has also been streamlined to save bandwidth (and several
    endangered species), while template configuration has been moved to its
    own file located in the templates directory. Over all, phpLDAPadmin has
    been made more solid thanks to testing and reporting by hundreds of users.
    Thansk for all your reports! Special thanks goes out to Matt Perlman for
    the IBM work-around and Uwe Ebel for the enhanced schema viewer.
 * Changes:
    As this was primarily a bug-fix release, here's the list of significant
    fixes:
   	862225 an E_NOTICE on delete fixed
	861730 (and many duplicates of it) an E_NOTICE on determining the
           language in 'auto' lanuage mode for browsers who don't
           set HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE (like Opera).
    861491 (and many duplicates of it) Anonymous form-based logins 
           often failed due to several E_NOTICE problems.
    856832 IBM LDAP servers refernece SUP attributes by OID, not name.
           A patch was provided to accomodate this circumstance.
    860179 Another anonymous form-based login bug.
    858611 (lots of dups of this one) Fixed the error handler so that
           it will not cause a "cannot send header information" message.
    844547 A coulpe E_NOTICE bugs in the posix group creation template.
    841816 An E_NOTICE bug during creation of an entry.
    844340 A sprintf error during login
   - Many many more bug fixes.
   - The schema viewer was also streamlined.
   - Support work-around for IBM LDAP Server was added.
   
* Version 0.9.2, 2003-11-14

  * Notes:
    This release has undergone major code hardening as we've subjected it to 
    the most stringent standard of PHP error reporting. The result is 
    fewer unhandled errors, improved usability, and better performance.
    We've given more attention to internationalization as well, 
    and that effort is nearly 80% complete. Translators and coders are still 
    needed to help complete the localization effort. We've added a whole new
    custom callback infrastructure that is event driven. Users can write their 
    own custom code to be executed as the result of LDAP events. Events include
    entry creation, entry deletion, and entry modification. Users can define
    custom code to execute automatically before and after each of these events.
    See "custom_functions.php" for details and documentation. Lots of other new
   features and bug fixes are outlined in the ChangeLog. phpLDAPadmin finally
    has a roadmap included with each release. Find it in the file called "ROADMAP"
    in the root of the install. This roadmap will be constantly updated to 
    list our goals for each release. Enjoy 0.9.2! As always, your feedback
    is most welcome on the development mailing list and on the SourceForge
    bug tracker.
  
  * Changes:
    - Localization work continues. About 80% complete.
    - New languages: Ialian, German, Catala
    - Fixed major encoding bugs. All pages are now true UTF-8 encoded
    - Support for auto-determining user's language based on the browser
    - Custom event callbacks infrastructure (see custom_functions.php). Users can now 
        define custom code to execute as a result of LDAP events (ie, new entries, 
        modifications, etc).
    - Major code cleanup. Removed all E_NOTICE messages and enabled E_ALL error_reporting.
    - Added support for smd5 and ssha passwords
    - Added configurable hints throughout the application
    - Added template-based entry editing. The infrastructure is now in place to use custom 
        templates for editing LDAP entries. No templates are being shipped with 0.9.2, but 
        they are on the way for 0.9.3.
    - Added photo display support for non-jpegPhoto photo attributes.
    - Added mass deletion. If enabled in the configuration, users can mass-delete multiple 
        entries from the tree browser with checkboxes.
    - Much improved schema retrieval code. Now PLA uses the Root DSE (or any relevant DN) 
        to fetch the schema based on the RFC-complian subSchemaSubEntry value.
    - Added support for viewing schema for attributes with ";" in their names (like 
        userCertificate;binary or sn;lang-fr)
    - Schema code is 100% object oriented.
    - Enhanced search code can handle large searches without running out of memory.
    - Fixed minor XSS vulnerabilities in several creation templates.
    - Enhanced the server information viewer to actively retrieve attributes that the server 
        may not give voluntarily.
    - Made the tree viewer more intelligent for failed binds.
    - Added better caching of the base DN for the tree viewer, which speeds up page loads 
        considerably with multiple servers all configured to auto-determine the base DN.
    - Added intelligence around password updates on the currently logged-in user entry.

* Version 0.9.1, 2003-09-24

  * Notes:
    We fixed a mountain of bugs for this release and implemented the 
    most popular feature requests.  The result is a much more robust LDAP
    management tool that supports a wider range of harsh environments and spoken
    languages. This release was over a month in the making and it shows. We've
    had great feed back from users.  Special thanks to Nick Burch, Xavier
    Renard, Uwe Ebel, Schuller Tom, and Marius Reider for their code
    contributions. Thanks to everyone who contributed code and bug reports! 

  * Changes:
    - Preliminary support for LDIF imports.
    - Binary attribute support for viewing, deleting, and adding.
    - Users can specify attributes to hide while editing entries.
    - Schema browser now displays which objectClasses each attribute is used in.
    - Preliminary multi-language support (some localization, infrastructure in place).
    - New template for creating posixGroup entries.
    - Optional read-only mode of operation.
    - Error dialog beautified.
    - Localization effort begun, now available in German and French.  
    - New samba user template.

  * Bugs fixed:
    - I18n support was made more robust (UTF-8 problems fixed in *many* places).
    - Improved LDIF exports with better LDIF comments and cleaner IE support.
    - Cleaned up code in edit.php.
    - After updates, modified attribute(s) now highlighted properly.
    - Many realpath() fixes to allow symlink installs with multiple configs.
    - Simple search form 'Starts with' '*' searches produced PHP error.
    - Entry creation now adds the new entry to the tree browser in sorted order.  
    - Complete re-work of schema browser, much more efficient parser.
    - Began effort to remove all E_NOTICE notices. 

* Version 0.9.0, 2003-08-12

  * Notes:
    This is the first release of phpLDAPAdmin. It should be stable enough and
    ready for use on your production LDAP servers. This is still a beta release
    and the paranoid may want to wait.  phpLDAPAdmin is based on an improved
    version of DaveDAP 0.8.4.

  * Changes:
    phpLDAPAdmin was DaveDAP. Changes since DaveDAP 0.8.4 include:

    - Better LDAP compliance when copying entries.
    - Fixed boolean attribute support.
    - jpegPhoto scaling when necessary.
    - More robust schema browser.
    - Added internal attributes support.
    - Slightly improved look and feel.