1 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.4
3 * Correctly annotate enums in vapi file
5 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.3
7 * Add a new remote session type. These sessions create a temporary local
8 account and authenticate against a remote server. The session is an
9 application that accesses that remote session (e.g. VNC, RDP etc)
10 * Support multiple simultaneous PAM prompts
11 * Set utmp ut_host field to the X display address
12 * Correctly reap unused authentication sessions
14 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.2
16 * Handle clearenv() not being defined
17 * Fix compilation with GCC 4.7
18 * Expose remaining properties in QLightDM::Greeter
19 * Fix utmp records being written before child process created
21 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.1
23 * Fix wrapper path in AppArmor profile (broken since 1.1.1)
24 * Add show-manual-login and allow-guest options to lightdm-set-defaults
25 * Don't set PAM_XDISPLAY or PAM_XAUTHDATA if not supported
26 * Add lock-memory option, enabled by default, to prevent paging memory
28 * Write utmp records for sessions
29 * Install PAM configuration
30 * Run greeters inside the "lightdm-greeter" PAM service
31 * Handle setresgid and setresuid not being available
32 * Use xsession directory from lightdm.conf in liblightdm
34 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.2.0
36 * Backup .xsession-errors on login
37 * Handle failures in pam_setcred
38 * Open log files in append mode
39 * Add extra checks in liblightdm so that it doesn't send invalid messages
41 * Fix gdmflexiserver not being added to the path (broken since 1.1.4)
42 * Fix PAM conversations after authentication from locking up sessions
43 * Fix PAM informational messages locking up autologin
44 * Change XDMCP manage timeout from 10ms to 126s (maximum specified in the
47 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.9
49 * Add --show-users/--hide-users to lightdm-set-defaults
50 * Call initgroups before pam_setcred - this allows pam_setcred to change
51 group membership correctly
53 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.8
55 * Handle PAM interactions that have more than one message in one callback
57 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.7
59 * Add a seat option greeter-allow-guest which controls if the greeter should
60 provide an option to access the guest account.
61 * Add a seat option greeter-show-manual-login which hints to a greeter if it
62 should show a manual username entry if a user list is already present.
64 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.6
66 * Fix session wrapper working the same as it did in 1.1.3
68 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.5
70 * Stop file descriptors leaking into the session processes
72 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.4
74 * Change session directory once user permissions are set so it works
75 on NFS filesystems that don't allow root to access files.
76 * Restructure session code so the PAM authentication is run in its
78 * Set PAM_XDISPLAY and PAM_XAUTHDATA pam items
79 * Don't send session stdout to .xsession-errors
80 * Fix Qt bindings crash when removing a user
82 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.3
84 * Actually return the system default keyboard layout, not just 'us'
85 * Add keyboard layout variants to list of keyboard layouts
86 * Check accountsservice as well as .dmrc for users' layouts
87 * Add lightdm_user_get_layouts() to query the configured list of layouts
89 * Add Lock D-Bus method that locks the seat and provides a hint to the
90 greeter to be in lock mode.
91 * Automatically lock sessions when switching away from them
92 * Add a has-messages property to liblightdm
93 * Add regression tests for PAM modules changing usernames
94 * Don't use g_key_file_unref, it requires glib 2.32
96 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.2
98 * Add regression tests for getting the user language and layout
99 * Stop accidentally distributing libsystem
100 * Fix introspection bindings not containing any methods
101 * lightdm-set-defaults can now set the autologin user
102 * Add Python greeter regression tests (representative of all introspection
104 * Wait for the VT to become active when switching to avoid a suspected
105 race condition somewhere between LightDM, X, ConsoleKit and the kernel.
106 * Stop lightdm_greeter_start_session_sync() blocking on success.
108 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.1
110 * Add a --disable-tests option
111 * Add note to AUTHORS file where to find author list
112 * Update build system to find moc/uic
113 * Fix non-distributed tests/src/lightdm-session
114 * Fix X sessions with arguments in Exec not working
115 * Use previous session for automatic login or if greeter does not request
117 * Set default resolution of VNC to 1024x768, add settings for width, height,
118 depth into lightdm.conf.
119 * AppArmor profile: Fix broken gnome-keyring and dbus/gwibber, and quiesce
120 annoying kernel audit messages for privileges that we definitively do not
122 * Set LOGNAME environment variable
123 * Don't set USERNAME environment variable - this is not specified in POSIX,
124 please report if this causes any major problems.
125 * Drop privileges when reading ~/.dmrc
126 * Move the GTK+ and Qt greeters into their own projects
127 * Fix crash when quitting with newer GLib
128 * Fix crash calling lightdm_get_layout
129 * Support for reading users' backgrounds from Accounts Service
130 * Fix --debug working with new glib
131 * Support PAM requesting a change of password
132 * Update build system to work with automake 1.11.2
133 * Run tests inside their own system D-Bus, simulating ConsoleKit and
135 * Add regression test for users that have their home directory created after
137 * Move lightdm-guest-session from libexec to pkglibexec directory
139 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.0
141 * Remove GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie D-Bus methods
142 * Switching to a user without a password bypasses the greeter
143 * Use LD_PRELOAD to intercept system calls for testing
144 * Removed the --passwd-file option as not required for testing anymore
145 * Rename test-xserver to X and remove --xserver-command option
146 * Make a test session wrapper and remove --session-wrapper option
147 * Remove unused --user-session, --greeter-session, --minimum-vt,
148 --minimum-display-number options
149 * Use 'default' as the default greeter (make a symlink)
150 * GTK greeter now initializes i18n
151 * GTK greeter now remembers last user
152 * Start authentication for automtically selected user in GTK greeter
153 * Don't resize GTK greeter on each click
154 * Start authentication when scrolling through GTK greeter entries
155 * Link liblightdm-qt against QtGui
156 * Fix liblightdm-qt crashing when face images are installed
157 * Set correct permissions on session log files
158 * Introduce a lightdm-guest-session-wrapper session command which MAC
159 systems like AppArmor and SELinux can use for attaching a restrictive
160 policy to guest sessions.
161 * Provide an AppArmor profile for guest session lockdown.
162 * Fix daemon from blocking if Accounts Service does not exist
163 * Fix greeter log file not being written
164 * Don't set LANG environment variable if using Accounts Service.
165 * Fix gdmflexiserver not working due to it not being in PATH
166 * Don't authenticate the greeter user
167 * Allow greeters to be disabled in configure flags
168 * Fix over allocation of read buffer in greeter protocol
169 * Make sure objects are cleaned up on exit
170 * Fix minor memory leaks
171 * Fix reference counting issue in ConsoleKit code
172 * Fix --enable-gtk-greeter=yes not working
174 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.0.0
176 * Explicitly grab keyboard focus in GTK greeter
177 * Fix removed power and a11y menu items in GTK greeter
178 * Put system binary directory into path when running in test mode
179 * Call pam_getenvlist after pam_setcred
181 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.8
183 * GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie are now deprecated. They
184 remain for now but use the XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH
185 environment variables instead.
186 * Change log filenames to be unique across different display types.
187 * Fix up script hooks, add regression tests for them
188 * Complete removal of X code from the core of LightDM, so it can better
189 support various display types
190 * Add ability to set the language of a user from the greeter
191 * Set LANG variable based on the user language
192 * Add language selector into GTK greeter (disabled by default)
193 * Allow TCP/IP connections if xserver-allow-tcp is true
194 * Allow lightdm --version to be run as non-root
195 * Automatically respond to PAM messages without prompts
196 * Create 'AddLocalXSeat' D-Bus method, and require root to use 'AddSeat'
197 * Fix multi-seat configuration picking the same display number
198 * Use correct D-Bus and power interface in liblightdm-qt
199 * Run pam_setcred inside the session process so pam_group works
200 * Make sure one session is always selected in the GTK greeter
202 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.7
204 * Set PAM_TTY to the display name, not the tty device
206 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.6
208 * Only unlock displays if switched to from greeter
209 * Make log file not system readable
210 * Write ~/.Xauthority inside the session process so it cannot be hijacked
211 * Set PAM_TTY and PAM_XDISPLAY when opening PAM session
212 * Add VNC server support
213 * Do not write ~/.dmrc and ~/.Xauthority as root. [CVE-2011-3349]
215 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.5
217 * Use accounts service in the daemon if it is available
218 * Correctly load seat type in multi seat configuration
219 * Add display-setup, session-setup and session-cleanup scripting hooks
220 * Fix cancel button in GTK greeter
221 * Fix line through GTK greeter menu items
222 * Exit daemon if a seat fails which has exit-on-failure set to true
223 * Add HasGuestAccount property to seat D-Bus interface
224 * Fix XDMCP authorization
227 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.4
229 * lightdm-set-defaults enables tweaking the default session and chosen
230 greeter for lightdm. This is useful for derivatives waiting to not ship
231 the whole configuration file of lightdm
232 * Fix crash in GTK+ greeter when a user is added
233 * Move xsessions-directory and xgreeters-directory from [SeatDefaults] to
234 [LightDM]. This is a configuration break, but making it on the assumption
235 that these settings are not likely to have been overridden.
236 * Fix fallback from org.freedesktop.Accounts to passwd format
237 * Fix duplicate user entries being shown when using passwd file
238 * Add AddSeat D-Bus method for adding dynamic seats
239 * Added a dm-tool program that allows user switching and adding seats
240 * Allow remote X servers, e.g. launched using dm-tool add-nested-seat
241 * Fix bug where sessions were started when the greeter quit and the user
242 hadn't been authorized.
243 * Fix bug where sessions used the seat bus name
244 * Don't allow autologin-username to be set to empty
245 * Fix bug where PAM session was not opened before writing to home directory
246 * Fix crash when failing to write X authority
248 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.3
250 * Unlock ConsoleKit sessions when switching to them
251 * Add a gdmflexiserver binary that provides backwards compatibility with
253 * Set XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH environment variables for sessions.
254 * Always set XAUTHORITY environment variable so sudo keeps accessing the
256 * Connect up lightdm_user_get_logged_in in liblightdm-gobject
257 * Ignore sessions that fail TryExec or are hidden
258 * Add missing home_directory User property missing in Vala bindings
260 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.2
262 * Fix annotation and Vala bindings for getting the UserList singleton
263 * Fix GTK+ greeter error label not being shown
264 * Don't set SIGQUIT to ignore in child processes
265 * Reworked the PAM code as ecryptfs users weren't able to log in. They
266 can now but not sure what changed to fix that!?
268 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.1
270 * Fix up translation build system
271 * Add a --with-greeter-user configure option
272 * Fix greeter-user configuration not being used
273 * Abort greeter if attempted to be run as root and greeter-user set
274 * Fix setting session in GTK+ greeter
276 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.0
278 * Fix invalid XAUTHORITY variable being set for second X server.
279 * Fix bug where switching users created X servers without VTs
280 * Release a VT when the X server on it stops
281 * Greeters are now just standard X sessions that are stored in
282 /usr/share/xgreeters.
283 * Binaries now installed in /usr/sbin
284 * Drop most of the configure options, they aren't necessary
286 - Major reorginisation of configuration to make it easier to configure and
287 understand. Users should set [SeatDefaults] section with settings for
288 all seats, and can override each setting in a per seat configuration.
289 - Default seats are now specified using a [Seat:<name>] section. If no seats
290 are specified then one is started. This can be overridden by setting
291 start-default-seat=false in [LightDM].
292 - Support setting autologin user to guest account
293 - Split the user accounts configuration into /etc/lightdm/users.conf so the
294 main config can be private.
295 - The default user session is now "default". Distributions should put a
296 symlink to their chosen default or set one in lightdm.conf.
297 - XDMCP keys now stored in keys.conf
298 * liblightdm API changes:
299 - Both libraries are now version 1 and have API and ABI guarantees.
300 - Face images are now local paths not URIs
301 - liblightdm-gobject now uses lightdm_ prefix instead of ldm_
302 - Non-greeter functions are now moved out of the Greeter class
303 - connect_to_server() is now called connect_sync and blocks until
305 - start_session() is now called start_session_sync and blocks until
306 completion. The quit signal is removed, and the greeter should quit if
307 this method returns TRUE.
308 - login() is now called authenticate()
309 - Greeters now have hints instead of configuration (greeters should load their
310 own configuration from /etc/lightdm if they need it).
311 - liblightdm-gobject uses AccountsService if it is available
312 - Added regression tests for liblightdm-qt
314 - Expose Seats and Sessions on org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
315 - Add a CanSwitch property
316 - Rename ShowGreeter() to SwitchToGreeter()
318 - Drop "example" from the name of the GTK+ and Qt greeters and make them
319 official default greeters.
320 - Use GTK3 for GTK+ greeter.
321 - Removed the Vala and Python GTK+ greeters, they weren't being well
324 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.4
326 * Fix failure to accept XDMCP connections due to invalid assert.
327 * Allow minimum-display-number to be set in lightdm.conf and on the command
329 * Session X authority now written to ~/.Xauthority by default. It can be
330 configured to run from the system location by setting
331 user-authority-in-system-dir=true in lightdm.conf.
332 * When using system authority the authority can be updated by the user.
333 * Written X authority files now checks hostname and display number.
334 * Enironment is no longer passed through to X servers and sessions, this is
335 no longer required now PAM works correctly.
336 * liblightdm API changes:
337 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_is_first() - it was added for testing and doesn't
339 * Fix more errors where authentication messages from previous sessions could
340 be confused with new sessions.
341 * Added XDMCP regression tests.
343 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.3
345 * Don't replace Plymouth if it isn't running on a valid VT
346 * Allow a null username to log in with - the system will prompt for a
348 * liblightdm API changes:
349 - Rename ldm_greeter_provide_secret to ldm_greeter_respond - responses
351 - show-prompt signal now has a PromptType field
352 - show-message signal now has a MessageType field and takes over
353 behaviour of show-error signal
354 * Fix error where an authentication failure from a previous session could
355 be interpreted as a failure in the current session.
356 * Simplify Vala bindings and add missing methods
358 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.2
360 * Fix errors communicating with PAM
361 * Fix interaction with Plytmouth.
362 * Removes the vt option in lightdm.conf, this is no longer required
363 and the active is used for the first display if Plymouth is
364 detected. A new option minimum-vt is added to select the first
365 VT to be used for other displays.
366 * On login switch to an existing session if already logged in with that
368 * Correctly connect up D-Bus interface for user switching
370 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.1
372 * Fix linking issue with -z,defs
373 * Added guest account support
374 * Restart X server if it crashes during a session
375 * Don't set language environment variables, use the daemon values
376 (system default) and leave it to ~/.profile for users to set these
377 * Change greeter library API, starting a session no longer has a language
379 * Fix greeter crash when user accounts change
381 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.0
383 * Fix crash when child processes quit
384 * Fix crash when catching signals
385 * Fix crash when session quits after X server
386 * Add internal checking for NULL object access
387 * Correctly handle signals from external programs (Thanks to Jason Conti)
388 * liblightdm API changes:
389 - ldm_greeter_start_authentication becomes ldm_greeter_login
390 - The existing ldm_greeter_login is now ldm_greeter_start_session
391 and the username parameter is not required.
392 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_default_layout (X controls the layout)
393 * Configuration changes:
394 - Use /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf instead of /etc/lightdm.conf
395 - The "displays" item is now called "seats". LightDM will fallback to
396 "displays" if "seats" is not defined, but this is deprecated and will
397 be removed by version 1.0.
398 - Make X server configuration a separate section and now has new options
399 * Automatic login users now use PAM session lightdm-autologin
400 * Use org.freedesktop.DisplayManager instead of
401 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager for D-Bus name
402 * Add regression tests
403 * Allow many more options to be set from the command line
405 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.7
407 * Fix autologin broken in 0.3.3
409 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.6
411 * Disable Plymouth when starting
412 * Allow display vt setting to be set to "active" to start on active VT
413 * Fix login in Qt example greeter
414 * Fix typo for High Contrast menu item (GTK example greeter)
416 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.5
418 * Set working directory when logging in
419 * Massive improvements to Qt greeter
420 * Fix XDMCP authentication/authorization errors
421 * Have the daemon open a connection to a local X server
422 * Tidy up some debugging messages
424 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.4
426 * Updates to liblightdm-qt
427 * Fix --with-cache-dir not working
428 * Set greeterdir in .pc files to point to where greeter engines should be
431 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.3
433 * Don't run in test-mode if Xephyr cannot be found
434 * Fix daemon using 100% CPU after greeter quits
435 * Fix crash when users don't have GECOS data
436 * Greeters can now detect user add/remove events
437 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken with switch to GDBus
438 * Correctly clean up X processes on exit
439 * Wait for greeter to quit before running user session (fixes problem with
442 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.2
444 * Distribute GTK greeter .ui file
446 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.1
448 * Add greeter login_with_defaults method
449 * Add example to the name of all the greeters
450 * Set the configuration for the default display to use VT 7
451 * Fix the vt setting for displays, it was incorrectly named tty
452 * Fix crash when load-users is false in UserManager
453 * Fix up name of .vapi file so it can be used directly from valac
454 * Tidy up Qt library and greeter
455 * Move menubar in greeters to top of screen
456 * Fix console kit get_can_*() methods
457 * Use GtkBuilder for example GTK greeter
459 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.0
461 * Correctly pass environment variables through to the session
462 * Allow starting virtual terminal to be configured
463 * Replace D-Bus greeter communication with a private pipe
464 * Use GDBus instead of dbus-glib
465 * Use the engine process name instead of a hardcoded value in theme files
466 * Rename ldm_greeter_connect to ldm_greeter_connect_to_server so it doesn't
467 clash with GObject method name
468 * Rename ldm-gtk-greeter to lightdm-gtk-greeter
469 * Rename gnome theme to example-gtk-gnome
470 * Add more annotations to liblightdm-gobject
471 * Add an example PyGObject, Vala and QT greeter
472 * Generate metadata for QT libraries
473 * Move Webkit greeter into separate module
475 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.3
477 * Set correct linking library names in pkg-config files
478 * Handle session executables that take arguments
480 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.2
482 * Make default themedir work when --prefix is not passed to configure
483 * Look for face images in ~/.face and ~/.face.icon
484 * Put .vapi file in unversioned vala directory
485 * Fix compiling without QT
486 * Choose the VT to open the display on
487 * Set correct group memberships for sessions (Yves-Alexis Perez)
488 * Set permissions on xauthority file so it can only be read by the owning
489 user (Yves-Alexis Perez)
490 * Set correct permissions on ~/.dmrc (Yves-Alexis Perez)
491 * Add --enable-liblightdm-gobject, --enable-liblightdm-qt configure option
492 * Set environment variables from PAM (Yves-Alexis Perez)
494 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.1
496 * Use "lightdm" as default PAM service and make it configurable
497 * Rename libldmgreeter to libldmgreeter-gobject
498 * Add libldmgreeter-qt (David Edmundson)
499 * Fix gobject-introspection build
500 * Renamed libldmgreeter to liblightdm
501 * Install a .vapi file
503 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.0
505 * Make default user configuration per-display
506 * Only automatically login the first time
507 * Fix WebKit theme loading and automatic login
508 * Do cross fade for sessions that support it
509 (set X-LightDM-Supports-Transitions=true in their xsession file)
510 * Load user settings from ~/.dmrc
511 * Add configuration for default language/layout
512 * Change language/layout/session when user selected in GTK+ greeter
513 * Set default keyboard layout on first login
514 * Don't run all sessions throught /etc/X11/XSession - make the session
515 wrapper optional and configurable.
516 * Make pkgconfig file require libxklavier
517 * Only compile greeters if have dependencies
518 * Include ck-connector code to reduce library dependencies
519 * Add introspection.m4 to the source tree
520 * Support using no greeter user in lightdm.conf
521 * Flush writes to main log file
522 * Allow non-privilidged user to write greeter log file in /var
523 * Fix bugs stopping running greeter as priviledged user (i.e. root)
524 * Don't default to running greeters with the GDM user - it may not exist!
526 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.2
529 * Make user switcher API work
530 * Add a AddDisplay D-Bus method to start new displays
531 * Feed signals to GLib main loop via a pipe
532 * Add an upstart script
533 * Make theme files more similar to existing themes
534 * Change dbus namespace from org.freedesktop.LightDisplayManager to
535 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager
536 * Write debug log to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log instead of stdout. Use
537 --debug for the previous behaviour
538 * Add exec_prefix into libldmgreeter.pc
539 * Change versioned include and pkgconfig files from 1 to 0
540 * Add themedir variable into pkgconfig file
541 * Connect language list in GTK greeter to login language
543 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.1
545 * Change licence of libldmgreeter from GPL to LGPL
546 * Write X server and session output to log files
547 * Set PATH, DESKTOP_SESSION, GDMSESSION and USERNAME environment variables
548 * Run sessions through Xsession
549 * Close all X servers on exit
550 * Send SIGHUP to X server when returning to greeter (makes all clients quit)
551 * Change authorization after a session ends so previous session does not get
553 * Make shutdown buttons work in GTK+ greeter
554 * Make user manager configurable
555 * Make GTK+ greeter show username entry if no user list
556 * Hide C and POSIX languages in greeter
557 * Load language and layout from .dmrc file
559 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.0
561 * Make --test-mode which runs as the current user
562 * Support displays acting as XDMCP terminals
563 * Support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authorization
564 * Support XDMCP over IPv6
566 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.4
568 * Support XDMCP logins
570 * Clean up resources on exit
571 * Create gettext instance in WebKit greeter
573 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.3
575 * Wait for signal from X server before starting session
577 * Add keyboard layout API
578 * Add gettext support to the WebKit greeter
580 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.2
582 * Fix installation of D-Bus service file
583 * Allow DISPLAY env variable to be passed to X server so can run Xephyr
584 * Handle no automatic login in webkit theme
586 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.1