DEVELOPERS NOTE: From this point onwards any new modules which use a pool of connections, or would benefit from a pool of connections but doesn't use the connection API, will not be accepted.

Sounds nice! Out of curiosity: any plans to make LDAP connections persistent and pooled as well? one of my customers has very high numbers of LDAP calls in authorize, and needs to do LDAPS. The TLS session setup load is very uncomfortable right now.