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+Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.9
+
+    * Correctly set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions that are not autologin.
+
+Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.8
+
+    * Add support for Mir sessions and greeters.
+    * Set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions.
+    * Fix desktop-session-start upstart signal not being emitted since 1.7.5.
+    * Fix greeter log broken in 1.7.5.
+
+Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.7
+
+    * Fix uninitialized pointer introduced in 1.7.3
+    * Enable compile warnings and fix code generating warnings
+
+Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.6
+
+    * Restore greeter hints that were regressed in 1.7.5.
+    * Don't run greeters through session wrapper - regression in 1.7.5
+
+Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.5
+
+    * Quit Plymouth correctly when using the unity seat type
+    * Release the VT when the system compositor fails to start
+    * Load sessions and greeters from /usr/share/lightdm/sessions and
+      /usr/share/lightdm/greeters. The existing directories are checked
+      if the sessions are not in these directories.
+    * Refactor the Display class so that it merges with the Seat class
+    * Support running the greeter and session in different display servers
+      instead of re-using the same one during a login.
+    * Add more regression tests
+    * Documentation fixes
+
+Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.4
+
+    * Set XDG_SEAT and XDG_VTNR environment variables.
+    * Add initial support for Unity (i.e. Mir based) seats.
+    * Add a greeter wrapper option.
+
+Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.3
+
+    * Load configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d.
+    * Fix compile warnings
+    * Fix tests not running from install directory inside checkout.
+
+Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.2
+
+    * Fix incorrectly distributed guest-session apparmor data
+
+Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.1
+
+    * Fix .pc file for liblightdm-qt5-3
+    * Add a new option "autologin-in-background" which lets an autologin happen
+      in a second display while still showing the greeter.
+    * Stop if fail to create default seat
+    * Add option to set seat type in lightdm-set-defaults
+    * Stop using g_file_set_contents - it can leave intermediate files around
+    * Make tests work without installing them
+    * Fix distcheck
+
+Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.0
+
+    * Use logind instead of ConsoleKit if it is available
+    * Use Q_SLOTS and Q_SIGNALS instead of slots and signals.
+    * Ignore stale X server locks
+    * Pass through system locale or set locale from AccountsService/.dmrc
+    * Fix bug where seat failure before D-Bus acquired would not stop daemon
+
 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.6.0
 
     * Allow VNC command to be specified in lightdm.conf