We'd ideally like to get this merged and released through the main package. Could you let us know what the procedure would be?

I can do that! Its very easy on my side to release new versions. Ideally all features should have tests along side them. I realize testing against a kerberos system is.... unpleasant ... do you have any way you could include tests? Even the pg-protocol stuff typically ships with unit tests. Its very high likelyhood without tests sometime within the next 10 years this code will change and/or break without them.

Cool, I'll try to take a stab at writing some tests for this change and circle back afterwards. Thanks!

Also, is CI not configured to run automatically on changes to the branch?