1 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.2
3 * Move the GTK+ and Qt greeters into their own projects
5 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.1
7 * Add a --disable-tests option
8 * Add note to AUTHORS file where to find author list
9 * Update build system to find moc/uic
10 * Fix non-distributed tests/src/lightdm-session
11 * Fix X sessions with arguments in Exec not working
12 * Use previous session for automatic login or if greeter does not request
14 * Set default resolution of VNC to 1024x768, add settings for width, height,
15 depth into lightdm.conf.
16 * AppArmor profile: Fix broken gnome-keyring and dbus/gwibber, and quiesce
17 annoying kernel audit messages for privileges that we definitively do not
19 * Set LOGNAME environment variable
20 * Don't set USERNAME environment variable - this is not specified in POSIX,
21 please report if this causes any major problems.
22 * Drop privileges when reading ~/.dmrc
24 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.0
26 * Remove GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie D-Bus methods
27 * Switching to a user without a password bypasses the greeter
28 * Use LD_PRELOAD to intercept system calls for testing
29 * Removed the --passwd-file option as not required for testing anymore
30 * Rename test-xserver to X and remove --xserver-command option
31 * Make a test session wrapper and remove --session-wrapper option
32 * Remove unused --user-session, --greeter-session, --minimum-vt,
33 --minimum-display-number options
34 * Use 'default' as the default greeter (make a symlink)
35 * GTK greeter now initializes i18n
36 * GTK greeter now remembers last user
37 * Start authentication for automtically selected user in GTK greeter
38 * Don't resize GTK greeter on each click
39 * Start authentication when scrolling through GTK greeter entries
40 * Link liblightdm-qt against QtGui
41 * Fix liblightdm-qt crashing when face images are installed
42 * Set correct permissions on session log files
43 * Introduce a lightdm-guest-session-wrapper session command which MAC
44 systems like AppArmor and SELinux can use for attaching a restrictive
45 policy to guest sessions.
46 * Provide an AppArmor profile for guest session lockdown.
47 * Fix daemon from blocking if Accounts Service does not exist
48 * Fix greeter log file not being written
49 * Don't set LANG environment variable if using Accounts Service.
50 * Fix gdmflexiserver not working due to it not being in PATH
51 * Don't authenticate the greeter user
52 * Allow greeters to be disabled in configure flags
53 * Fix over allocation of read buffer in greeter protocol
54 * Make sure objects are cleaned up on exit
55 * Fix minor memory leaks
56 * Fix reference counting issue in ConsoleKit code
57 * Fix --enable-gtk-greeter=yes not working
59 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.0.0
61 * Explicitly grab keyboard focus in GTK greeter
62 * Fix removed power and a11y menu items in GTK greeter
63 * Put system binary directory into path when running in test mode
64 * Call pam_getenvlist after pam_setcred
66 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.8
68 * GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie are now deprecated. They
69 remain for now but use the XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH
70 environment variables instead.
71 * Change log filenames to be unique across different display types.
72 * Fix up script hooks, add regression tests for them
73 * Complete removal of X code from the core of LightDM, so it can better
74 support various display types
75 * Add ability to set the language of a user from the greeter
76 * Set LANG variable based on the user language
77 * Add language selector into GTK greeter (disabled by default)
78 * Allow TCP/IP connections if xserver-allow-tcp is true
79 * Allow lightdm --version to be run as non-root
80 * Automatically respond to PAM messages without prompts
81 * Create 'AddLocalXSeat' D-Bus method, and require root to use 'AddSeat'
82 * Fix multi-seat configuration picking the same display number
83 * Use correct D-Bus and power interface in liblightdm-qt
84 * Run pam_setcred inside the session process so pam_group works
85 * Make sure one session is always selected in the GTK greeter
87 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.7
89 * Set PAM_TTY to the display name, not the tty device
91 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.6
93 * Only unlock displays if switched to from greeter
94 * Make log file not system readable
95 * Write ~/.Xauthority inside the session process so it cannot be hijacked
96 * Set PAM_TTY and PAM_XDISPLAY when opening PAM session
97 * Add VNC server support
98 * Do not write ~/.dmrc and ~/.Xauthority as root. [CVE-2011-3349]
100 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.5
102 * Use accounts service in the daemon if it is available
103 * Correctly load seat type in multi seat configuration
104 * Add display-setup, session-setup and session-cleanup scripting hooks
105 * Fix cancel button in GTK greeter
106 * Fix line through GTK greeter menu items
107 * Exit daemon if a seat fails which has exit-on-failure set to true
108 * Add HasGuestAccount property to seat D-Bus interface
109 * Fix XDMCP authorization
112 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.4
114 * lightdm-set-defaults enables tweaking the default session and chosen
115 greeter for lightdm. This is useful for derivatives waiting to not ship
116 the whole configuration file of lightdm
117 * Fix crash in GTK+ greeter when a user is added
118 * Move xsessions-directory and xgreeters-directory from [SeatDefaults] to
119 [LightDM]. This is a configuration break, but making it on the assumption
120 that these settings are not likely to have been overridden.
121 * Fix fallback from org.freedesktop.Accounts to passwd format
122 * Fix duplicate user entries being shown when using passwd file
123 * Add AddSeat D-Bus method for adding dynamic seats
124 * Added a dm-tool program that allows user switching and adding seats
125 * Allow remote X servers, e.g. launched using dm-tool add-nested-seat
126 * Fix bug where sessions were started when the greeter quit and the user
127 hadn't been authorized.
128 * Fix bug where sessions used the seat bus name
129 * Don't allow autologin-username to be set to empty
130 * Fix bug where PAM session was not opened before writing to home directory
131 * Fix crash when failing to write X authority
133 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.3
135 * Unlock ConsoleKit sessions when switching to them
136 * Add a gdmflexiserver binary that provides backwards compatibility with
138 * Set XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH environment variables for sessions.
139 * Always set XAUTHORITY environment variable so sudo keeps accessing the
141 * Connect up lightdm_user_get_logged_in in liblightdm-gobject
142 * Ignore sessions that fail TryExec or are hidden
143 * Add missing home_directory User property missing in Vala bindings
145 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.2
147 * Fix annotation and Vala bindings for getting the UserList singleton
148 * Fix GTK+ greeter error label not being shown
149 * Don't set SIGQUIT to ignore in child processes
150 * Reworked the PAM code as ecryptfs users weren't able to log in. They
151 can now but not sure what changed to fix that!?
153 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.1
155 * Fix up translation build system
156 * Add a --with-greeter-user configure option
157 * Fix greeter-user configuration not being used
158 * Abort greeter if attempted to be run as root and greeter-user set
159 * Fix setting session in GTK+ greeter
161 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.0
163 * Fix invalid XAUTHORITY variable being set for second X server.
164 * Fix bug where switching users created X servers without VTs
165 * Release a VT when the X server on it stops
166 * Greeters are now just standard X sessions that are stored in
167 /usr/share/xgreeters.
168 * Binaries now installed in /usr/sbin
169 * Drop most of the configure options, they aren't necessary
171 - Major reorginisation of configuration to make it easier to configure and
172 understand. Users should set [SeatDefaults] section with settings for
173 all seats, and can override each setting in a per seat configuration.
174 - Default seats are now specified using a [Seat:<name>] section. If no seats
175 are specified then one is started. This can be overridden by setting
176 start-default-seat=false in [LightDM].
177 - Support setting autologin user to guest account
178 - Split the user accounts configuration into /etc/lightdm/users.conf so the
179 main config can be private.
180 - The default user session is now "default". Distributions should put a
181 symlink to their chosen default or set one in lightdm.conf.
182 - XDMCP keys now stored in keys.conf
183 * liblightdm API changes:
184 - Both libraries are now version 1 and have API and ABI guarantees.
185 - Face images are now local paths not URIs
186 - liblightdm-gobject now uses lightdm_ prefix instead of ldm_
187 - Non-greeter functions are now moved out of the Greeter class
188 - connect_to_server() is now called connect_sync and blocks until
190 - start_session() is now called start_session_sync and blocks until
191 completion. The quit signal is removed, and the greeter should quit if
192 this method returns TRUE.
193 - login() is now called authenticate()
194 - Greeters now have hints instead of configuration (greeters should load their
195 own configuration from /etc/lightdm if they need it).
196 - liblightdm-gobject uses AccountsService if it is available
197 - Added regression tests for liblightdm-qt
199 - Expose Seats and Sessions on org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
200 - Add a CanSwitch property
201 - Rename ShowGreeter() to SwitchToGreeter()
203 - Drop "example" from the name of the GTK+ and Qt greeters and make them
204 official default greeters.
205 - Use GTK3 for GTK+ greeter.
206 - Removed the Vala and Python GTK+ greeters, they weren't being well
209 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.4
211 * Fix failure to accept XDMCP connections due to invalid assert.
212 * Allow minimum-display-number to be set in lightdm.conf and on the command
214 * Session X authority now written to ~/.Xauthority by default. It can be
215 configured to run from the system location by setting
216 user-authority-in-system-dir=true in lightdm.conf.
217 * When using system authority the authority can be updated by the user.
218 * Written X authority files now checks hostname and display number.
219 * Enironment is no longer passed through to X servers and sessions, this is
220 no longer required now PAM works correctly.
221 * liblightdm API changes:
222 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_is_first() - it was added for testing and doesn't
224 * Fix more errors where authentication messages from previous sessions could
225 be confused with new sessions.
226 * Added XDMCP regression tests.
228 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.3
230 * Don't replace Plymouth if it isn't running on a valid VT
231 * Allow a null username to log in with - the system will prompt for a
233 * liblightdm API changes:
234 - Rename ldm_greeter_provide_secret to ldm_greeter_respond - responses
236 - show-prompt signal now has a PromptType field
237 - show-message signal now has a MessageType field and takes over
238 behaviour of show-error signal
239 * Fix error where an authentication failure from a previous session could
240 be interpreted as a failure in the current session.
241 * Simplify Vala bindings and add missing methods
243 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.2
245 * Fix errors communicating with PAM
246 * Fix interaction with Plytmouth.
247 * Removes the vt option in lightdm.conf, this is no longer required
248 and the active is used for the first display if Plymouth is
249 detected. A new option minimum-vt is added to select the first
250 VT to be used for other displays.
251 * On login switch to an existing session if already logged in with that
253 * Correctly connect up D-Bus interface for user switching
255 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.1
257 * Fix linking issue with -z,defs
258 * Added guest account support
259 * Restart X server if it crashes during a session
260 * Don't set language environment variables, use the daemon values
261 (system default) and leave it to ~/.profile for users to set these
262 * Change greeter library API, starting a session no longer has a language
264 * Fix greeter crash when user accounts change
266 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.0
268 * Fix crash when child processes quit
269 * Fix crash when catching signals
270 * Fix crash when session quits after X server
271 * Add internal checking for NULL object access
272 * Correctly handle signals from external programs (Thanks to Jason Conti)
273 * liblightdm API changes:
274 - ldm_greeter_start_authentication becomes ldm_greeter_login
275 - The existing ldm_greeter_login is now ldm_greeter_start_session
276 and the username parameter is not required.
277 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_default_layout (X controls the layout)
278 * Configuration changes:
279 - Use /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf instead of /etc/lightdm.conf
280 - The "displays" item is now called "seats". LightDM will fallback to
281 "displays" if "seats" is not defined, but this is deprecated and will
282 be removed by version 1.0.
283 - Make X server configuration a separate section and now has new options
284 * Automatic login users now use PAM session lightdm-autologin
285 * Use org.freedesktop.DisplayManager instead of
286 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager for D-Bus name
287 * Add regression tests
288 * Allow many more options to be set from the command line
290 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.7
292 * Fix autologin broken in 0.3.3
294 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.6
296 * Disable Plymouth when starting
297 * Allow display vt setting to be set to "active" to start on active VT
298 * Fix login in Qt example greeter
299 * Fix typo for High Contrast menu item (GTK example greeter)
301 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.5
303 * Set working directory when logging in
304 * Massive improvements to Qt greeter
305 * Fix XDMCP authentication/authorization errors
306 * Have the daemon open a connection to a local X server
307 * Tidy up some debugging messages
309 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.4
311 * Updates to liblightdm-qt
312 * Fix --with-cache-dir not working
313 * Set greeterdir in .pc files to point to where greeter engines should be
316 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.3
318 * Don't run in test-mode if Xephyr cannot be found
319 * Fix daemon using 100% CPU after greeter quits
320 * Fix crash when users don't have GECOS data
321 * Greeters can now detect user add/remove events
322 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken with switch to GDBus
323 * Correctly clean up X processes on exit
324 * Wait for greeter to quit before running user session (fixes problem with
327 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.2
329 * Distribute GTK greeter .ui file
331 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.1
333 * Add greeter login_with_defaults method
334 * Add example to the name of all the greeters
335 * Set the configuration for the default display to use VT 7
336 * Fix the vt setting for displays, it was incorrectly named tty
337 * Fix crash when load-users is false in UserManager
338 * Fix up name of .vapi file so it can be used directly from valac
339 * Tidy up Qt library and greeter
340 * Move menubar in greeters to top of screen
341 * Fix console kit get_can_*() methods
342 * Use GtkBuilder for example GTK greeter
344 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.0
346 * Correctly pass environment variables through to the session
347 * Allow starting virtual terminal to be configured
348 * Replace D-Bus greeter communication with a private pipe
349 * Use GDBus instead of dbus-glib
350 * Use the engine process name instead of a hardcoded value in theme files
351 * Rename ldm_greeter_connect to ldm_greeter_connect_to_server so it doesn't
352 clash with GObject method name
353 * Rename ldm-gtk-greeter to lightdm-gtk-greeter
354 * Rename gnome theme to example-gtk-gnome
355 * Add more annotations to liblightdm-gobject
356 * Add an example PyGObject, Vala and QT greeter
357 * Generate metadata for QT libraries
358 * Move Webkit greeter into separate module
360 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.3
362 * Set correct linking library names in pkg-config files
363 * Handle session executables that take arguments
365 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.2
367 * Make default themedir work when --prefix is not passed to configure
368 * Look for face images in ~/.face and ~/.face.icon
369 * Put .vapi file in unversioned vala directory
370 * Fix compiling without QT
371 * Choose the VT to open the display on
372 * Set correct group memberships for sessions (Yves-Alexis Perez)
373 * Set permissions on xauthority file so it can only be read by the owning
374 user (Yves-Alexis Perez)
375 * Set correct permissions on ~/.dmrc (Yves-Alexis Perez)
376 * Add --enable-liblightdm-gobject, --enable-liblightdm-qt configure option
377 * Set environment variables from PAM (Yves-Alexis Perez)
379 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.1
381 * Use "lightdm" as default PAM service and make it configurable
382 * Rename libldmgreeter to libldmgreeter-gobject
383 * Add libldmgreeter-qt (David Edmundson)
384 * Fix gobject-introspection build
385 * Renamed libldmgreeter to liblightdm
386 * Install a .vapi file
388 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.0
390 * Make default user configuration per-display
391 * Only automatically login the first time
392 * Fix WebKit theme loading and automatic login
393 * Do cross fade for sessions that support it
394 (set X-LightDM-Supports-Transitions=true in their xsession file)
395 * Load user settings from ~/.dmrc
396 * Add configuration for default language/layout
397 * Change language/layout/session when user selected in GTK+ greeter
398 * Set default keyboard layout on first login
399 * Don't run all sessions throught /etc/X11/XSession - make the session
400 wrapper optional and configurable.
401 * Make pkgconfig file require libxklavier
402 * Only compile greeters if have dependencies
403 * Include ck-connector code to reduce library dependencies
404 * Add introspection.m4 to the source tree
405 * Support using no greeter user in lightdm.conf
406 * Flush writes to main log file
407 * Allow non-privilidged user to write greeter log file in /var
408 * Fix bugs stopping running greeter as priviledged user (i.e. root)
409 * Don't default to running greeters with the GDM user - it may not exist!
411 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.2
414 * Make user switcher API work
415 * Add a AddDisplay D-Bus method to start new displays
416 * Feed signals to GLib main loop via a pipe
417 * Add an upstart script
418 * Make theme files more similar to existing themes
419 * Change dbus namespace from org.freedesktop.LightDisplayManager to
420 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager
421 * Write debug log to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log instead of stdout. Use
422 --debug for the previous behaviour
423 * Add exec_prefix into libldmgreeter.pc
424 * Change versioned include and pkgconfig files from 1 to 0
425 * Add themedir variable into pkgconfig file
426 * Connect language list in GTK greeter to login language
428 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.1
430 * Change licence of libldmgreeter from GPL to LGPL
431 * Write X server and session output to log files
432 * Set PATH, DESKTOP_SESSION, GDMSESSION and USERNAME environment variables
433 * Run sessions through Xsession
434 * Close all X servers on exit
435 * Send SIGHUP to X server when returning to greeter (makes all clients quit)
436 * Change authorization after a session ends so previous session does not get
438 * Make shutdown buttons work in GTK+ greeter
439 * Make user manager configurable
440 * Make GTK+ greeter show username entry if no user list
441 * Hide C and POSIX languages in greeter
442 * Load language and layout from .dmrc file
444 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.0
446 * Make --test-mode which runs as the current user
447 * Support displays acting as XDMCP terminals
448 * Support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authorization
449 * Support XDMCP over IPv6
451 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.4
453 * Support XDMCP logins
455 * Clean up resources on exit
456 * Create gettext instance in WebKit greeter
458 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.3
460 * Wait for signal from X server before starting session
462 * Add keyboard layout API
463 * Add gettext support to the WebKit greeter
465 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.2
467 * Fix installation of D-Bus service file
468 * Allow DISPLAY env variable to be passed to X server so can run Xephyr
469 * Handle no automatic login in webkit theme
471 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.1