1 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.0
3 * Add man page for lightdm-set-defaults
4 * Use xzip for distribution, don't distribute old metadata
5 * Correctly check if display is active when session quits
6 * Relicense liblightdm to LGPL-2/LGPL-3 so GPL-2 code can link against it
7 * Selectively lock memory rather than calling mlockall for main daemon
9 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.1
11 * Fix autologin PAM configuration
13 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.0
15 * Correctly implement and test autologin timeouts
16 * Add greeter-show-remote-login hint
17 * Correctly annotate enums in vapi file
18 * QLightDM: Add default constructor to Qt power interface
19 * QLightDM: Expose image path in UserModel
20 * QLightDM: Add parameter to session model to show either local or remote
22 * Fix race conditions in tests
24 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.3
26 * Add a new remote session type. These sessions create a temporary local
27 account and authenticate against a remote server. The session is an
28 application that accesses that remote session (e.g. VNC, RDP etc)
29 * Support multiple simultaneous PAM prompts
30 * Set utmp ut_host field to the X display address
31 * Correctly reap unused authentication sessions
33 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.2
35 * Handle clearenv() not being defined
36 * Fix compilation with GCC 4.7
37 * Expose remaining properties in QLightDM::Greeter
38 * Fix utmp records being written before child process created
40 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.1
42 * Fix wrapper path in AppArmor profile (broken since 1.1.1)
43 * Add show-manual-login and allow-guest options to lightdm-set-defaults
44 * Don't set PAM_XDISPLAY or PAM_XAUTHDATA if not supported
45 * Add lock-memory option, enabled by default, to prevent paging memory
47 * Write utmp records for sessions
48 * Install PAM configuration
49 * Run greeters inside the "lightdm-greeter" PAM service
50 * Handle setresgid and setresuid not being available
51 * Use xsession directory from lightdm.conf in liblightdm
53 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.2.0
55 * Backup .xsession-errors on login
56 * Handle failures in pam_setcred
57 * Open log files in append mode
58 * Add extra checks in liblightdm so that it doesn't send invalid messages
60 * Fix gdmflexiserver not being added to the path (broken since 1.1.4)
61 * Fix PAM conversations after authentication from locking up sessions
62 * Fix PAM informational messages locking up autologin
63 * Change XDMCP manage timeout from 10ms to 126s (maximum specified in the
66 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.9
68 * Add --show-users/--hide-users to lightdm-set-defaults
69 * Call initgroups before pam_setcred - this allows pam_setcred to change
70 group membership correctly
72 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.8
74 * Handle PAM interactions that have more than one message in one callback
76 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.7
78 * Add a seat option greeter-allow-guest which controls if the greeter should
79 provide an option to access the guest account.
80 * Add a seat option greeter-show-manual-login which hints to a greeter if it
81 should show a manual username entry if a user list is already present.
83 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.6
85 * Fix session wrapper working the same as it did in 1.1.3
87 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.5
89 * Stop file descriptors leaking into the session processes
91 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.4
93 * Change session directory once user permissions are set so it works
94 on NFS filesystems that don't allow root to access files.
95 * Restructure session code so the PAM authentication is run in its
97 * Set PAM_XDISPLAY and PAM_XAUTHDATA pam items
98 * Don't send session stdout to .xsession-errors
99 * Fix Qt bindings crash when removing a user
101 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.3
103 * Actually return the system default keyboard layout, not just 'us'
104 * Add keyboard layout variants to list of keyboard layouts
105 * Check accountsservice as well as .dmrc for users' layouts
106 * Add lightdm_user_get_layouts() to query the configured list of layouts
108 * Add Lock D-Bus method that locks the seat and provides a hint to the
109 greeter to be in lock mode.
110 * Automatically lock sessions when switching away from them
111 * Add a has-messages property to liblightdm
112 * Add regression tests for PAM modules changing usernames
113 * Don't use g_key_file_unref, it requires glib 2.32
115 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.2
117 * Add regression tests for getting the user language and layout
118 * Stop accidentally distributing libsystem
119 * Fix introspection bindings not containing any methods
120 * lightdm-set-defaults can now set the autologin user
121 * Add Python greeter regression tests (representative of all introspection
123 * Wait for the VT to become active when switching to avoid a suspected
124 race condition somewhere between LightDM, X, ConsoleKit and the kernel.
125 * Stop lightdm_greeter_start_session_sync() blocking on success.
127 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.1
129 * Add a --disable-tests option
130 * Add note to AUTHORS file where to find author list
131 * Update build system to find moc/uic
132 * Fix non-distributed tests/src/lightdm-session
133 * Fix X sessions with arguments in Exec not working
134 * Use previous session for automatic login or if greeter does not request
136 * Set default resolution of VNC to 1024x768, add settings for width, height,
137 depth into lightdm.conf.
138 * AppArmor profile: Fix broken gnome-keyring and dbus/gwibber, and quiesce
139 annoying kernel audit messages for privileges that we definitively do not
141 * Set LOGNAME environment variable
142 * Don't set USERNAME environment variable - this is not specified in POSIX,
143 please report if this causes any major problems.
144 * Drop privileges when reading ~/.dmrc
145 * Move the GTK+ and Qt greeters into their own projects
146 * Fix crash when quitting with newer GLib
147 * Fix crash calling lightdm_get_layout
148 * Support for reading users' backgrounds from Accounts Service
149 * Fix --debug working with new glib
150 * Support PAM requesting a change of password
151 * Update build system to work with automake 1.11.2
152 * Run tests inside their own system D-Bus, simulating ConsoleKit and
154 * Add regression test for users that have their home directory created after
156 * Move lightdm-guest-session from libexec to pkglibexec directory
158 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.0
160 * Remove GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie D-Bus methods
161 * Switching to a user without a password bypasses the greeter
162 * Use LD_PRELOAD to intercept system calls for testing
163 * Removed the --passwd-file option as not required for testing anymore
164 * Rename test-xserver to X and remove --xserver-command option
165 * Make a test session wrapper and remove --session-wrapper option
166 * Remove unused --user-session, --greeter-session, --minimum-vt,
167 --minimum-display-number options
168 * Use 'default' as the default greeter (make a symlink)
169 * GTK greeter now initializes i18n
170 * GTK greeter now remembers last user
171 * Start authentication for automtically selected user in GTK greeter
172 * Don't resize GTK greeter on each click
173 * Start authentication when scrolling through GTK greeter entries
174 * Link liblightdm-qt against QtGui
175 * Fix liblightdm-qt crashing when face images are installed
176 * Set correct permissions on session log files
177 * Introduce a lightdm-guest-session-wrapper session command which MAC
178 systems like AppArmor and SELinux can use for attaching a restrictive
179 policy to guest sessions.
180 * Provide an AppArmor profile for guest session lockdown.
181 * Fix daemon from blocking if Accounts Service does not exist
182 * Fix greeter log file not being written
183 * Don't set LANG environment variable if using Accounts Service.
184 * Fix gdmflexiserver not working due to it not being in PATH
185 * Don't authenticate the greeter user
186 * Allow greeters to be disabled in configure flags
187 * Fix over allocation of read buffer in greeter protocol
188 * Make sure objects are cleaned up on exit
189 * Fix minor memory leaks
190 * Fix reference counting issue in ConsoleKit code
191 * Fix --enable-gtk-greeter=yes not working
193 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.0.0
195 * Explicitly grab keyboard focus in GTK greeter
196 * Fix removed power and a11y menu items in GTK greeter
197 * Put system binary directory into path when running in test mode
198 * Call pam_getenvlist after pam_setcred
200 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.8
202 * GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie are now deprecated. They
203 remain for now but use the XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH
204 environment variables instead.
205 * Change log filenames to be unique across different display types.
206 * Fix up script hooks, add regression tests for them
207 * Complete removal of X code from the core of LightDM, so it can better
208 support various display types
209 * Add ability to set the language of a user from the greeter
210 * Set LANG variable based on the user language
211 * Add language selector into GTK greeter (disabled by default)
212 * Allow TCP/IP connections if xserver-allow-tcp is true
213 * Allow lightdm --version to be run as non-root
214 * Automatically respond to PAM messages without prompts
215 * Create 'AddLocalXSeat' D-Bus method, and require root to use 'AddSeat'
216 * Fix multi-seat configuration picking the same display number
217 * Use correct D-Bus and power interface in liblightdm-qt
218 * Run pam_setcred inside the session process so pam_group works
219 * Make sure one session is always selected in the GTK greeter
221 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.7
223 * Set PAM_TTY to the display name, not the tty device
225 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.6
227 * Only unlock displays if switched to from greeter
228 * Make log file not system readable
229 * Write ~/.Xauthority inside the session process so it cannot be hijacked
230 * Set PAM_TTY and PAM_XDISPLAY when opening PAM session
231 * Add VNC server support
232 * Do not write ~/.dmrc and ~/.Xauthority as root. [CVE-2011-3349]
234 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.5
236 * Use accounts service in the daemon if it is available
237 * Correctly load seat type in multi seat configuration
238 * Add display-setup, session-setup and session-cleanup scripting hooks
239 * Fix cancel button in GTK greeter
240 * Fix line through GTK greeter menu items
241 * Exit daemon if a seat fails which has exit-on-failure set to true
242 * Add HasGuestAccount property to seat D-Bus interface
243 * Fix XDMCP authorization
246 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.4
248 * lightdm-set-defaults enables tweaking the default session and chosen
249 greeter for lightdm. This is useful for derivatives waiting to not ship
250 the whole configuration file of lightdm
251 * Fix crash in GTK+ greeter when a user is added
252 * Move xsessions-directory and xgreeters-directory from [SeatDefaults] to
253 [LightDM]. This is a configuration break, but making it on the assumption
254 that these settings are not likely to have been overridden.
255 * Fix fallback from org.freedesktop.Accounts to passwd format
256 * Fix duplicate user entries being shown when using passwd file
257 * Add AddSeat D-Bus method for adding dynamic seats
258 * Added a dm-tool program that allows user switching and adding seats
259 * Allow remote X servers, e.g. launched using dm-tool add-nested-seat
260 * Fix bug where sessions were started when the greeter quit and the user
261 hadn't been authorized.
262 * Fix bug where sessions used the seat bus name
263 * Don't allow autologin-username to be set to empty
264 * Fix bug where PAM session was not opened before writing to home directory
265 * Fix crash when failing to write X authority
267 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.3
269 * Unlock ConsoleKit sessions when switching to them
270 * Add a gdmflexiserver binary that provides backwards compatibility with
272 * Set XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH environment variables for sessions.
273 * Always set XAUTHORITY environment variable so sudo keeps accessing the
275 * Connect up lightdm_user_get_logged_in in liblightdm-gobject
276 * Ignore sessions that fail TryExec or are hidden
277 * Add missing home_directory User property missing in Vala bindings
279 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.2
281 * Fix annotation and Vala bindings for getting the UserList singleton
282 * Fix GTK+ greeter error label not being shown
283 * Don't set SIGQUIT to ignore in child processes
284 * Reworked the PAM code as ecryptfs users weren't able to log in. They
285 can now but not sure what changed to fix that!?
287 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.1
289 * Fix up translation build system
290 * Add a --with-greeter-user configure option
291 * Fix greeter-user configuration not being used
292 * Abort greeter if attempted to be run as root and greeter-user set
293 * Fix setting session in GTK+ greeter
295 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.0
297 * Fix invalid XAUTHORITY variable being set for second X server.
298 * Fix bug where switching users created X servers without VTs
299 * Release a VT when the X server on it stops
300 * Greeters are now just standard X sessions that are stored in
301 /usr/share/xgreeters.
302 * Binaries now installed in /usr/sbin
303 * Drop most of the configure options, they aren't necessary
305 - Major reorginisation of configuration to make it easier to configure and
306 understand. Users should set [SeatDefaults] section with settings for
307 all seats, and can override each setting in a per seat configuration.
308 - Default seats are now specified using a [Seat:<name>] section. If no seats
309 are specified then one is started. This can be overridden by setting
310 start-default-seat=false in [LightDM].
311 - Support setting autologin user to guest account
312 - Split the user accounts configuration into /etc/lightdm/users.conf so the
313 main config can be private.
314 - The default user session is now "default". Distributions should put a
315 symlink to their chosen default or set one in lightdm.conf.
316 - XDMCP keys now stored in keys.conf
317 * liblightdm API changes:
318 - Both libraries are now version 1 and have API and ABI guarantees.
319 - Face images are now local paths not URIs
320 - liblightdm-gobject now uses lightdm_ prefix instead of ldm_
321 - Non-greeter functions are now moved out of the Greeter class
322 - connect_to_server() is now called connect_sync and blocks until
324 - start_session() is now called start_session_sync and blocks until
325 completion. The quit signal is removed, and the greeter should quit if
326 this method returns TRUE.
327 - login() is now called authenticate()
328 - Greeters now have hints instead of configuration (greeters should load their
329 own configuration from /etc/lightdm if they need it).
330 - liblightdm-gobject uses AccountsService if it is available
331 - Added regression tests for liblightdm-qt
333 - Expose Seats and Sessions on org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
334 - Add a CanSwitch property
335 - Rename ShowGreeter() to SwitchToGreeter()
337 - Drop "example" from the name of the GTK+ and Qt greeters and make them
338 official default greeters.
339 - Use GTK3 for GTK+ greeter.
340 - Removed the Vala and Python GTK+ greeters, they weren't being well
343 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.4
345 * Fix failure to accept XDMCP connections due to invalid assert.
346 * Allow minimum-display-number to be set in lightdm.conf and on the command
348 * Session X authority now written to ~/.Xauthority by default. It can be
349 configured to run from the system location by setting
350 user-authority-in-system-dir=true in lightdm.conf.
351 * When using system authority the authority can be updated by the user.
352 * Written X authority files now checks hostname and display number.
353 * Enironment is no longer passed through to X servers and sessions, this is
354 no longer required now PAM works correctly.
355 * liblightdm API changes:
356 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_is_first() - it was added for testing and doesn't
358 * Fix more errors where authentication messages from previous sessions could
359 be confused with new sessions.
360 * Added XDMCP regression tests.
362 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.3
364 * Don't replace Plymouth if it isn't running on a valid VT
365 * Allow a null username to log in with - the system will prompt for a
367 * liblightdm API changes:
368 - Rename ldm_greeter_provide_secret to ldm_greeter_respond - responses
370 - show-prompt signal now has a PromptType field
371 - show-message signal now has a MessageType field and takes over
372 behaviour of show-error signal
373 * Fix error where an authentication failure from a previous session could
374 be interpreted as a failure in the current session.
375 * Simplify Vala bindings and add missing methods
377 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.2
379 * Fix errors communicating with PAM
380 * Fix interaction with Plytmouth.
381 * Removes the vt option in lightdm.conf, this is no longer required
382 and the active is used for the first display if Plymouth is
383 detected. A new option minimum-vt is added to select the first
384 VT to be used for other displays.
385 * On login switch to an existing session if already logged in with that
387 * Correctly connect up D-Bus interface for user switching
389 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.1
391 * Fix linking issue with -z,defs
392 * Added guest account support
393 * Restart X server if it crashes during a session
394 * Don't set language environment variables, use the daemon values
395 (system default) and leave it to ~/.profile for users to set these
396 * Change greeter library API, starting a session no longer has a language
398 * Fix greeter crash when user accounts change
400 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.0
402 * Fix crash when child processes quit
403 * Fix crash when catching signals
404 * Fix crash when session quits after X server
405 * Add internal checking for NULL object access
406 * Correctly handle signals from external programs (Thanks to Jason Conti)
407 * liblightdm API changes:
408 - ldm_greeter_start_authentication becomes ldm_greeter_login
409 - The existing ldm_greeter_login is now ldm_greeter_start_session
410 and the username parameter is not required.
411 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_default_layout (X controls the layout)
412 * Configuration changes:
413 - Use /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf instead of /etc/lightdm.conf
414 - The "displays" item is now called "seats". LightDM will fallback to
415 "displays" if "seats" is not defined, but this is deprecated and will
416 be removed by version 1.0.
417 - Make X server configuration a separate section and now has new options
418 * Automatic login users now use PAM session lightdm-autologin
419 * Use org.freedesktop.DisplayManager instead of
420 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager for D-Bus name
421 * Add regression tests
422 * Allow many more options to be set from the command line
424 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.7
426 * Fix autologin broken in 0.3.3
428 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.6
430 * Disable Plymouth when starting
431 * Allow display vt setting to be set to "active" to start on active VT
432 * Fix login in Qt example greeter
433 * Fix typo for High Contrast menu item (GTK example greeter)
435 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.5
437 * Set working directory when logging in
438 * Massive improvements to Qt greeter
439 * Fix XDMCP authentication/authorization errors
440 * Have the daemon open a connection to a local X server
441 * Tidy up some debugging messages
443 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.4
445 * Updates to liblightdm-qt
446 * Fix --with-cache-dir not working
447 * Set greeterdir in .pc files to point to where greeter engines should be
450 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.3
452 * Don't run in test-mode if Xephyr cannot be found
453 * Fix daemon using 100% CPU after greeter quits
454 * Fix crash when users don't have GECOS data
455 * Greeters can now detect user add/remove events
456 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken with switch to GDBus
457 * Correctly clean up X processes on exit
458 * Wait for greeter to quit before running user session (fixes problem with
461 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.2
463 * Distribute GTK greeter .ui file
465 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.1
467 * Add greeter login_with_defaults method
468 * Add example to the name of all the greeters
469 * Set the configuration for the default display to use VT 7
470 * Fix the vt setting for displays, it was incorrectly named tty
471 * Fix crash when load-users is false in UserManager
472 * Fix up name of .vapi file so it can be used directly from valac
473 * Tidy up Qt library and greeter
474 * Move menubar in greeters to top of screen
475 * Fix console kit get_can_*() methods
476 * Use GtkBuilder for example GTK greeter
478 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.0
480 * Correctly pass environment variables through to the session
481 * Allow starting virtual terminal to be configured
482 * Replace D-Bus greeter communication with a private pipe
483 * Use GDBus instead of dbus-glib
484 * Use the engine process name instead of a hardcoded value in theme files
485 * Rename ldm_greeter_connect to ldm_greeter_connect_to_server so it doesn't
486 clash with GObject method name
487 * Rename ldm-gtk-greeter to lightdm-gtk-greeter
488 * Rename gnome theme to example-gtk-gnome
489 * Add more annotations to liblightdm-gobject
490 * Add an example PyGObject, Vala and QT greeter
491 * Generate metadata for QT libraries
492 * Move Webkit greeter into separate module
494 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.3
496 * Set correct linking library names in pkg-config files
497 * Handle session executables that take arguments
499 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.2
501 * Make default themedir work when --prefix is not passed to configure
502 * Look for face images in ~/.face and ~/.face.icon
503 * Put .vapi file in unversioned vala directory
504 * Fix compiling without QT
505 * Choose the VT to open the display on
506 * Set correct group memberships for sessions (Yves-Alexis Perez)
507 * Set permissions on xauthority file so it can only be read by the owning
508 user (Yves-Alexis Perez)
509 * Set correct permissions on ~/.dmrc (Yves-Alexis Perez)
510 * Add --enable-liblightdm-gobject, --enable-liblightdm-qt configure option
511 * Set environment variables from PAM (Yves-Alexis Perez)
513 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.1
515 * Use "lightdm" as default PAM service and make it configurable
516 * Rename libldmgreeter to libldmgreeter-gobject
517 * Add libldmgreeter-qt (David Edmundson)
518 * Fix gobject-introspection build
519 * Renamed libldmgreeter to liblightdm
520 * Install a .vapi file
522 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.0
524 * Make default user configuration per-display
525 * Only automatically login the first time
526 * Fix WebKit theme loading and automatic login
527 * Do cross fade for sessions that support it
528 (set X-LightDM-Supports-Transitions=true in their xsession file)
529 * Load user settings from ~/.dmrc
530 * Add configuration for default language/layout
531 * Change language/layout/session when user selected in GTK+ greeter
532 * Set default keyboard layout on first login
533 * Don't run all sessions throught /etc/X11/XSession - make the session
534 wrapper optional and configurable.
535 * Make pkgconfig file require libxklavier
536 * Only compile greeters if have dependencies
537 * Include ck-connector code to reduce library dependencies
538 * Add introspection.m4 to the source tree
539 * Support using no greeter user in lightdm.conf
540 * Flush writes to main log file
541 * Allow non-privilidged user to write greeter log file in /var
542 * Fix bugs stopping running greeter as priviledged user (i.e. root)
543 * Don't default to running greeters with the GDM user - it may not exist!
545 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.2
548 * Make user switcher API work
549 * Add a AddDisplay D-Bus method to start new displays
550 * Feed signals to GLib main loop via a pipe
551 * Add an upstart script
552 * Make theme files more similar to existing themes
553 * Change dbus namespace from org.freedesktop.LightDisplayManager to
554 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager
555 * Write debug log to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log instead of stdout. Use
556 --debug for the previous behaviour
557 * Add exec_prefix into libldmgreeter.pc
558 * Change versioned include and pkgconfig files from 1 to 0
559 * Add themedir variable into pkgconfig file
560 * Connect language list in GTK greeter to login language
562 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.1
564 * Change licence of libldmgreeter from GPL to LGPL
565 * Write X server and session output to log files
566 * Set PATH, DESKTOP_SESSION, GDMSESSION and USERNAME environment variables
567 * Run sessions through Xsession
568 * Close all X servers on exit
569 * Send SIGHUP to X server when returning to greeter (makes all clients quit)
570 * Change authorization after a session ends so previous session does not get
572 * Make shutdown buttons work in GTK+ greeter
573 * Make user manager configurable
574 * Make GTK+ greeter show username entry if no user list
575 * Hide C and POSIX languages in greeter
576 * Load language and layout from .dmrc file
578 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.0
580 * Make --test-mode which runs as the current user
581 * Support displays acting as XDMCP terminals
582 * Support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authorization
583 * Support XDMCP over IPv6
585 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.4
587 * Support XDMCP logins
589 * Clean up resources on exit
590 * Create gettext instance in WebKit greeter
592 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.3
594 * Wait for signal from X server before starting session
596 * Add keyboard layout API
597 * Add gettext support to the WebKit greeter
599 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.2
601 * Fix installation of D-Bus service file
602 * Allow DISPLAY env variable to be passed to X server so can run Xephyr
603 * Handle no automatic login in webkit theme
605 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.1