1 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.8
3 * Remove GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie now XDG_SEAT_PATH and
4 XDG_SESSION_PATH exist.
5 * Change log filenames to be unique across different display types.
6 * Fix up script hooks, add regression tests for them
7 * Complete removal of X code from the core of LightDM, so it can better
8 support various display types
9 * Add ability to set the language of a user from the greeter
10 * Set LANG variable based on the user language
11 * Add language selector into GTK greeter (disabled by default)
13 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.7
15 * Set PAM_TTY to the display name, not the tty device
17 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.6
19 * Only unlock displays if switched to from greeter
20 * Make log file not system readable
21 * Write ~/.Xauthority inside the session process so it cannot be hijacked
22 * Set PAM_TTY and PAM_XDISPLAY when opening PAM session
23 * Add VNC server support
24 * Do not write ~/.dmrc and ~/.Xauthority as root. [CVE-2011-3349]
26 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.5
28 * Use accounts service in the daemon if it is available
29 * Correctly load seat type in multi seat configuration
30 * Add display-setup, session-setup and session-cleanup scripting hooks
31 * Fix cancel button in GTK greeter
32 * Fix line through GTK greeter menu items
33 * Exit daemon if a seat fails which has exit-on-failure set to true
34 * Add HasGuestAccount property to seat D-Bus interface
35 * Fix XDMCP authorization
38 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.4
40 * lightdm-set-defaults enables tweaking the default session and chosen
41 greeter for lightdm. This is useful for derivatives waiting to not ship
42 the whole configuration file of lightdm
43 * Fix crash in GTK+ greeter when a user is added
44 * Move xsessions-directory and xgreeters-directory from [SeatDefaults] to
45 [LightDM]. This is a configuration break, but making it on the assumption
46 that these settings are not likely to have been overridden.
47 * Fix fallback from org.freedesktop.Accounts to passwd format
48 * Fix duplicate user entries being shown when using passwd file
49 * Add AddSeat D-Bus method for adding dynamic seats
50 * Added a dm-tool program that allows user switching and adding seats
51 * Allow remote X servers, e.g. launched using dm-tool add-nested-seat
52 * Fix bug where sessions were started when the greeter quit and the user
53 hadn't been authorized.
54 * Fix bug where sessions used the seat bus name
55 * Don't allow autologin-username to be set to empty
56 * Fix bug where PAM session was not opened before writing to home directory
57 * Fix crash when failing to write X authority
59 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.3
61 * Unlock ConsoleKit sessions when switching to them
62 * Add a gdmflexiserver binary that provides backwards compatibility with
64 * Set XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH environment variables for sessions.
65 * Always set XAUTHORITY environment variable so sudo keeps accessing the
67 * Connect up lightdm_user_get_logged_in in liblightdm-gobject
68 * Ignore sessions that fail TryExec or are hidden
69 * Add missing home_directory User property missing in Vala bindings
71 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.2
73 * Fix annotation and Vala bindings for getting the UserList singleton
74 * Fix GTK+ greeter error label not being shown
75 * Don't set SIGQUIT to ignore in child processes
76 * Reworked the PAM code as ecryptfs users weren't able to log in. They
77 can now but not sure what changed to fix that!?
79 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.1
81 * Fix up translation build system
82 * Add a --with-greeter-user configure option
83 * Fix greeter-user configuration not being used
84 * Abort greeter if attempted to be run as root and greeter-user set
85 * Fix setting session in GTK+ greeter
87 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.0
89 * Fix invalid XAUTHORITY variable being set for second X server.
90 * Fix bug where switching users created X servers without VTs
91 * Release a VT when the X server on it stops
92 * Greeters are now just standard X sessions that are stored in
94 * Binaries now installed in /usr/sbin
95 * Drop most of the configure options, they aren't necessary
97 - Major reorginisation of configuration to make it easier to configure and
98 understand. Users should set [SeatDefaults] section with settings for
99 all seats, and can override each setting in a per seat configuration.
100 - Default seats are now specified using a [Seat:<name>] section. If no seats
101 are specified then one is started. This can be overridden by setting
102 start-default-seat=false in [LightDM].
103 - Support setting autologin user to guest account
104 - Split the user accounts configuration into /etc/lightdm/users.conf so the
105 main config can be private.
106 - The default user session is now "default". Distributions should put a
107 symlink to their chosen default or set one in lightdm.conf.
108 - XDMCP keys now stored in keys.conf
109 * liblightdm API changes:
110 - Both libraries are now version 1 and have API and ABI guarantees.
111 - Face images are now local paths not URIs
112 - liblightdm-gobject now uses lightdm_ prefix instead of ldm_
113 - Non-greeter functions are now moved out of the Greeter class
114 - connect_to_server() is now called connect_sync and blocks until
116 - start_session() is now called start_session_sync and blocks until
117 completion. The quit signal is removed, and the greeter should quit if
118 this method returns TRUE.
119 - login() is now called authenticate()
120 - Greeters now have hints instead of configuration (greeters should load their
121 own configuration from /etc/lightdm if they need it).
122 - liblightdm-gobject uses AccountsService if it is available
123 - Added regression tests for liblightdm-qt
125 - Expose Seats and Sessions on org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
126 - Add a CanSwitch property
127 - Rename ShowGreeter() to SwitchToGreeter()
129 - Drop "example" from the name of the GTK+ and Qt greeters and make them
130 official default greeters.
131 - Use GTK3 for GTK+ greeter.
132 - Removed the Vala and Python GTK+ greeters, they weren't being well
135 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.4
137 * Fix failure to accept XDMCP connections due to invalid assert.
138 * Allow minimum-display-number to be set in lightdm.conf and on the command
140 * Session X authority now written to ~/.Xauthority by default. It can be
141 configured to run from the system location by setting
142 user-authority-in-system-dir=true in lightdm.conf.
143 * When using system authority the authority can be updated by the user.
144 * Written X authority files now checks hostname and display number.
145 * Enironment is no longer passed through to X servers and sessions, this is
146 no longer required now PAM works correctly.
147 * liblightdm API changes:
148 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_is_first() - it was added for testing and doesn't
150 * Fix more errors where authentication messages from previous sessions could
151 be confused with new sessions.
152 * Added XDMCP regression tests.
154 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.3
156 * Don't replace Plymouth if it isn't running on a valid VT
157 * Allow a null username to log in with - the system will prompt for a
159 * liblightdm API changes:
160 - Rename ldm_greeter_provide_secret to ldm_greeter_respond - responses
162 - show-prompt signal now has a PromptType field
163 - show-message signal now has a MessageType field and takes over
164 behaviour of show-error signal
165 * Fix error where an authentication failure from a previous session could
166 be interpreted as a failure in the current session.
167 * Simplify Vala bindings and add missing methods
169 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.2
171 * Fix errors communicating with PAM
172 * Fix interaction with Plytmouth.
173 * Removes the vt option in lightdm.conf, this is no longer required
174 and the active is used for the first display if Plymouth is
175 detected. A new option minimum-vt is added to select the first
176 VT to be used for other displays.
177 * On login switch to an existing session if already logged in with that
179 * Correctly connect up D-Bus interface for user switching
181 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.1
183 * Fix linking issue with -z,defs
184 * Added guest account support
185 * Restart X server if it crashes during a session
186 * Don't set language environment variables, use the daemon values
187 (system default) and leave it to ~/.profile for users to set these
188 * Change greeter library API, starting a session no longer has a language
190 * Fix greeter crash when user accounts change
192 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.0
194 * Fix crash when child processes quit
195 * Fix crash when catching signals
196 * Fix crash when session quits after X server
197 * Add internal checking for NULL object access
198 * Correctly handle signals from external programs (Thanks to Jason Conti)
199 * liblightdm API changes:
200 - ldm_greeter_start_authentication becomes ldm_greeter_login
201 - The existing ldm_greeter_login is now ldm_greeter_start_session
202 and the username parameter is not required.
203 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_default_layout (X controls the layout)
204 * Configuration changes:
205 - Use /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf instead of /etc/lightdm.conf
206 - The "displays" item is now called "seats". LightDM will fallback to
207 "displays" if "seats" is not defined, but this is deprecated and will
208 be removed by version 1.0.
209 - Make X server configuration a separate section and now has new options
210 * Automatic login users now use PAM session lightdm-autologin
211 * Use org.freedesktop.DisplayManager instead of
212 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager for D-Bus name
213 * Add regression tests
214 * Allow many more options to be set from the command line
216 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.7
218 * Fix autologin broken in 0.3.3
220 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.6
222 * Disable Plymouth when starting
223 * Allow display vt setting to be set to "active" to start on active VT
224 * Fix login in Qt example greeter
225 * Fix typo for High Contrast menu item (GTK example greeter)
227 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.5
229 * Set working directory when logging in
230 * Massive improvements to Qt greeter
231 * Fix XDMCP authentication/authorization errors
232 * Have the daemon open a connection to a local X server
233 * Tidy up some debugging messages
235 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.4
237 * Updates to liblightdm-qt
238 * Fix --with-cache-dir not working
239 * Set greeterdir in .pc files to point to where greeter engines should be
242 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.3
244 * Don't run in test-mode if Xephyr cannot be found
245 * Fix daemon using 100% CPU after greeter quits
246 * Fix crash when users don't have GECOS data
247 * Greeters can now detect user add/remove events
248 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken with switch to GDBus
249 * Correctly clean up X processes on exit
250 * Wait for greeter to quit before running user session (fixes problem with
253 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.2
255 * Distribute GTK greeter .ui file
257 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.1
259 * Add greeter login_with_defaults method
260 * Add example to the name of all the greeters
261 * Set the configuration for the default display to use VT 7
262 * Fix the vt setting for displays, it was incorrectly named tty
263 * Fix crash when load-users is false in UserManager
264 * Fix up name of .vapi file so it can be used directly from valac
265 * Tidy up Qt library and greeter
266 * Move menubar in greeters to top of screen
267 * Fix console kit get_can_*() methods
268 * Use GtkBuilder for example GTK greeter
270 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.0
272 * Correctly pass environment variables through to the session
273 * Allow starting virtual terminal to be configured
274 * Replace D-Bus greeter communication with a private pipe
275 * Use GDBus instead of dbus-glib
276 * Use the engine process name instead of a hardcoded value in theme files
277 * Rename ldm_greeter_connect to ldm_greeter_connect_to_server so it doesn't
278 clash with GObject method name
279 * Rename ldm-gtk-greeter to lightdm-gtk-greeter
280 * Rename gnome theme to example-gtk-gnome
281 * Add more annotations to liblightdm-gobject
282 * Add an example PyGObject, Vala and QT greeter
283 * Generate metadata for QT libraries
284 * Move Webkit greeter into separate module
286 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.3
288 * Set correct linking library names in pkg-config files
289 * Handle session executables that take arguments
291 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.2
293 * Make default themedir work when --prefix is not passed to configure
294 * Look for face images in ~/.face and ~/.face.icon
295 * Put .vapi file in unversioned vala directory
296 * Fix compiling without QT
297 * Choose the VT to open the display on
298 * Set correct group memberships for sessions (Yves-Alexis Perez)
299 * Set permissions on xauthority file so it can only be read by the owning
300 user (Yves-Alexis Perez)
301 * Set correct permissions on ~/.dmrc (Yves-Alexis Perez)
302 * Add --enable-liblightdm-gobject, --enable-liblightdm-qt configure option
303 * Set environment variables from PAM (Yves-Alexis Perez)
305 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.1
307 * Use "lightdm" as default PAM service and make it configurable
308 * Rename libldmgreeter to libldmgreeter-gobject
309 * Add libldmgreeter-qt (David Edmundson)
310 * Fix gobject-introspection build
311 * Renamed libldmgreeter to liblightdm
312 * Install a .vapi file
314 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.0
316 * Make default user configuration per-display
317 * Only automatically login the first time
318 * Fix WebKit theme loading and automatic login
319 * Do cross fade for sessions that support it
320 (set X-LightDM-Supports-Transitions=true in their xsession file)
321 * Load user settings from ~/.dmrc
322 * Add configuration for default language/layout
323 * Change language/layout/session when user selected in GTK+ greeter
324 * Set default keyboard layout on first login
325 * Don't run all sessions throught /etc/X11/XSession - make the session
326 wrapper optional and configurable.
327 * Make pkgconfig file require libxklavier
328 * Only compile greeters if have dependencies
329 * Include ck-connector code to reduce library dependencies
330 * Add introspection.m4 to the source tree
331 * Support using no greeter user in lightdm.conf
332 * Flush writes to main log file
333 * Allow non-privilidged user to write greeter log file in /var
334 * Fix bugs stopping running greeter as priviledged user (i.e. root)
335 * Don't default to running greeters with the GDM user - it may not exist!
337 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.2
340 * Make user switcher API work
341 * Add a AddDisplay D-Bus method to start new displays
342 * Feed signals to GLib main loop via a pipe
343 * Add an upstart script
344 * Make theme files more similar to existing themes
345 * Change dbus namespace from org.freedesktop.LightDisplayManager to
346 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager
347 * Write debug log to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log instead of stdout. Use
348 --debug for the previous behaviour
349 * Add exec_prefix into libldmgreeter.pc
350 * Change versioned include and pkgconfig files from 1 to 0
351 * Add themedir variable into pkgconfig file
352 * Connect language list in GTK greeter to login language
354 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.1
356 * Change licence of libldmgreeter from GPL to LGPL
357 * Write X server and session output to log files
358 * Set PATH, DESKTOP_SESSION, GDMSESSION and USERNAME environment variables
359 * Run sessions through Xsession
360 * Close all X servers on exit
361 * Send SIGHUP to X server when returning to greeter (makes all clients quit)
362 * Change authorization after a session ends so previous session does not get
364 * Make shutdown buttons work in GTK+ greeter
365 * Make user manager configurable
366 * Make GTK+ greeter show username entry if no user list
367 * Hide C and POSIX languages in greeter
368 * Load language and layout from .dmrc file
370 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.0
372 * Make --test-mode which runs as the current user
373 * Support displays acting as XDMCP terminals
374 * Support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authorization
375 * Support XDMCP over IPv6
377 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.4
379 * Support XDMCP logins
381 * Clean up resources on exit
382 * Create gettext instance in WebKit greeter
384 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.3
386 * Wait for signal from X server before starting session
388 * Add keyboard layout API
389 * Add gettext support to the WebKit greeter
391 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.2
393 * Fix installation of D-Bus service file
394 * Allow DISPLAY env variable to be passed to X server so can run Xephyr
395 * Handle no automatic login in webkit theme
397 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.1