1 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.13
3 * Handle not getting an X connection when attempting to get X layouts.
4 * Read config data from both XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS.
6 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.12
8 * Ensure X authority is written before X server is started
9 * Activate after unlocking a logind session
11 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.11
13 * Don't use g_hash_table_get_keys_as_array, it's a glib 2.40 feature
15 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.10
17 * Honour session type requested by greeter for guest sessions
18 * Log to wtmp and btmp.
19 * Implement guest-session config option
21 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.9
23 * Handle signals being received in child processes instead of treating them
24 like they are received in the daemon.
25 * Set utmp ut_line to the display name (i.e. :0) to match what other
26 programs expect (e.g. 'w').
27 * Fix lightdm_greeter_ensure_shared_data_dir_sync returning the wrong value.
28 * Fix shared data tests so you can run test suite without root again.
29 * Be extra careful not to call any non thread safe function after a fork.
30 * Fix some small memory leaks detected by valgrind.
31 * Fix process shutdown code to stop generating confusing warnings
32 * Fix more double removal of source IDs.
35 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.8
37 * Add support for shared user data directories between the greeter and user sessions.
38 * Refactor LightDMUser and User classes to use the same code internally.
40 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.7
42 * Correctly invoke PAM to change authentication token.
43 * Make xdg-seat a core property of a seat and always pass it to X servers.
44 * Qt bindings: properly hand over prompt and message type.
45 * Add warning flags where they are missing and fix the resulting warnings.
47 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.6
49 * Support Mir sessions in xlocal seats by starting a unity system compositor
51 * Add --screen and --fullscreen options to "dm-tool add-nested-seat"
52 * Don't try to compile liblightdm-qt if liblightdm-gobject will not be
54 * Stop greeters warning if sessions directories not present or lightdm.conf
55 doesn't exist - this is valid.
56 * Fix log name for Mir display servers
57 * Fix double removal of source IDs
59 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.5
61 * In the unity seat, if we don't have proper VT support, fake VT 0 instead
62 of a real VT number. This matches what logind expects.
64 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.4
66 * Fix issue where VTs are double used when switching sessions.
67 * Remove lightdm-set-defaults and gdmflexiserver.
68 * Add new ability to specify a list of seat types to try, rather than just
70 * Allow Mir sessions in the surfaceflinger seat.
71 * Rename the guest session wrapper to have a simpler name.
72 * Make sure sessions are associated with the display server before starting
74 * Add a dm-tool man page.
76 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.3
78 * Don't pass system user accounts from AccountsService to greeters.
79 * Fix crash if switching to greeter and it isn't installed.
81 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.2
83 * Implement missing guest-wrapper functionality and enable it for Ubuntu.
84 * Update AppArmor scripts to work in Ubuntu 13.10.
86 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.1
88 * Correctly set $XDG_SESSION_CLASS for greeters. This was regressed in 1.7.5
89 for ConsoleKit and was never passed to logind. logind/ConsoleKit treat
90 greeter sessions without this set as user sessions. This causes greeters
91 to show the lightdm user able to be logged in with.
92 * Set $USER when running the session-setup-script. This is a regression from
94 * Fix notification of sessions being logged out. This is a regression from
95 1.7.5 and caused greeters to show sessions logged in after they had been
97 * Refactor liblightdm user scanning to be simpler and more reliable. This
98 fixes bugs where some properties wouldn't be updated when they changed in
100 * Add support for a "display-stopped-script" field in lightdm.conf. The
101 "display-stopped-script" field allows us to run a script right after
102 stopping the display server.
103 * Allow dm-tool to run outside of a session if it doesn't need to be.
104 * Set $MIR_SERVER_NAME to assign a name to launched sessions. Also use a
105 "greeter-" prefix for greeter sessions for the benefit of
106 unity-system-compositor.
108 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.0
110 * Fix crash when starting with existing X servers. This was introduced in
111 rev 1651 (lightdm 1.7.0).
112 * Fix crash where Process objects are accessed after unref
114 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.8.0
116 * Add regression test for corrupt X authority files.
118 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.18
120 * Set session environment variables for guest sessions (1.7 regression).
121 * Don't fail writing X authority if reading it had an error.
122 * Update environment variables that we pass to Mir.
124 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.17
126 * surfaceflinger: Set XDG_VTNR=0 if VTs are not available
127 * Allow compiling of liblightdm-qt without liblightdm-gobject
128 * Add missing documentation for xremote seat options.
130 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.16
132 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken in 1.7.5
134 * Add support for running Surfaceflinger sessions
136 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.15
138 * Set XDG_VTNR=1 as a fallback if using SeatUnity without a functioning
139 compositor or working VT switching, so that logind will recognize the VT
142 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.14
144 * Correctly set permissions on Xauthority file.
146 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.13
148 * Correctly set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for non-autologin sessions
149 * Fix overallocation of array for strings from greeter.
150 * Fix truncation writing card32 in XDMCP server.
152 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.12
154 * Add xdg-seat config setting
155 * Notify Unity System Compositor of the session being authenticated
157 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.11
159 * Fix crash when greeter quits due to read watch not being removed
160 * Correctly setup Unity System Compositor environment
161 * Improve log messages
163 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.10
165 * Fix session locking broken in 1.7.5
166 * Load lightdm.conf after lightdm.conf.d/*.conf
167 * Also support loading config from /usr/share
168 * When switching sessions show a greeter if authentication required
169 * Set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP if specified in the xsession file
170 * Change logging prefixes to make it easier to troubleshoot multiseat setups
171 * Bring Ubuntu packaging in-tree
173 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.9
175 * Correctly set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions that are not autologin.
177 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.8
179 * Add support for Mir sessions and greeters.
180 * Set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions.
181 * Fix desktop-session-start upstart signal not being emitted since 1.7.5.
182 * Fix greeter log broken in 1.7.5.
184 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.7
186 * Fix uninitialized pointer introduced in 1.7.3
187 * Enable compile warnings and fix code generating warnings
189 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.6
191 * Restore greeter hints that were regressed in 1.7.5.
192 * Don't run greeters through session wrapper - regression in 1.7.5
194 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.5
196 * Quit Plymouth correctly when using the unity seat type
197 * Release the VT when the system compositor fails to start
198 * Load sessions and greeters from /usr/share/lightdm/sessions and
199 /usr/share/lightdm/greeters. The existing directories are checked
200 if the sessions are not in these directories.
201 * Refactor the Display class so that it merges with the Seat class
202 * Support running the greeter and session in different display servers
203 instead of re-using the same one during a login.
204 * Add more regression tests
205 * Documentation fixes
207 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.4
209 * Set XDG_SEAT and XDG_VTNR environment variables.
210 * Add initial support for Unity (i.e. Mir based) seats.
211 * Add a greeter wrapper option.
213 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.3
215 * Load configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d.
216 * Fix compile warnings
217 * Fix tests not running from install directory inside checkout.
219 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.2
221 * Fix incorrectly distributed guest-session apparmor data
223 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.1
225 * Fix .pc file for liblightdm-qt5-3
226 * Add a new option "autologin-in-background" which lets an autologin happen
227 in a second display while still showing the greeter.
228 * Stop if fail to create default seat
229 * Add option to set seat type in lightdm-set-defaults
230 * Stop using g_file_set_contents - it can leave intermediate files around
231 * Make tests work without installing them
234 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.0
236 * Use logind instead of ConsoleKit if it is available
237 * Use Q_SLOTS and Q_SIGNALS instead of slots and signals.
238 * Ignore stale X server locks
239 * Pass through system locale or set locale from AccountsService/.dmrc
240 * Fix bug where seat failure before D-Bus acquired would not stop daemon
242 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.6.0
244 * Allow VNC command to be specified in lightdm.conf
245 * Register enums with QObject meta type system.
247 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.3
249 * Fix build with gobject-introspection 1.35.9
250 * Fix authentication cancel regression caused in 1.5.2
252 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.2
254 * Fix stale X server being left behind when using LockSession D-Bus API
255 * Adjust AppArmor profile to also work with logind
256 * Don't use GIO to access X authority files - it uses GVFS which is
257 unnecessary overhead/complexity
258 * Handle over/underflows when reading from greeter
259 * Improve warning message when XDMCP packet has length mismatch
260 * Only report test command line if it fails
261 * Add more regression tests
263 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.1
265 * QLightDM: Add Qt5 version of the library: liblightdm-qt5-2
266 * QLightDM: Add some missing role names in UsersModel
267 * QLightDM: Add a backgroundPath role to UsersModel
268 * QLightDM: Fix potential crash in QLightDM::UsersModel closedown.
269 * Improve guest session apparmor
270 * Run each test in its own /tmp dir so they can't interfere with eachother
271 * Fix script hooks no longer working with latest glib
272 * Fix display clean up code
274 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.0
276 * Add man page for lightdm-set-defaults
277 * Use xzip for distribution, don't distribute old metadata
278 * Correctly check if display is active when session quits
279 * Relicense liblightdm to LGPL-2/LGPL-3 so GPL-2 code can link against it
280 * Selectively lock memory rather than calling mlockall for main daemon
282 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.1
284 * Fix autologin PAM configuration
286 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.0
288 * Correctly implement and test autologin timeouts
289 * Add greeter-show-remote-login hint
290 * Correctly annotate enums in vapi file
291 * QLightDM: Add default constructor to Qt power interface
292 * QLightDM: Expose image path in UserModel
293 * QLightDM: Add parameter to session model to show either local or remote
295 * Fix race conditions in tests
297 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.3
299 * Add a new remote session type. These sessions create a temporary local
300 account and authenticate against a remote server. The session is an
301 application that accesses that remote session (e.g. VNC, RDP etc)
302 * Support multiple simultaneous PAM prompts
303 * Set utmp ut_host field to the X display address
304 * Correctly reap unused authentication sessions
306 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.2
308 * Handle clearenv() not being defined
309 * Fix compilation with GCC 4.7
310 * Expose remaining properties in QLightDM::Greeter
311 * Fix utmp records being written before child process created
313 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.1
315 * Fix wrapper path in AppArmor profile (broken since 1.1.1)
316 * Add show-manual-login and allow-guest options to lightdm-set-defaults
317 * Don't set PAM_XDISPLAY or PAM_XAUTHDATA if not supported
318 * Add lock-memory option, enabled by default, to prevent paging memory
320 * Write utmp records for sessions
321 * Install PAM configuration
322 * Run greeters inside the "lightdm-greeter" PAM service
323 * Handle setresgid and setresuid not being available
324 * Use xsession directory from lightdm.conf in liblightdm
326 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.2.0
328 * Backup .xsession-errors on login
329 * Handle failures in pam_setcred
330 * Open log files in append mode
331 * Add extra checks in liblightdm so that it doesn't send invalid messages
333 * Fix gdmflexiserver not being added to the path (broken since 1.1.4)
334 * Fix PAM conversations after authentication from locking up sessions
335 * Fix PAM informational messages locking up autologin
336 * Change XDMCP manage timeout from 10ms to 126s (maximum specified in the
339 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.9
341 * Add --show-users/--hide-users to lightdm-set-defaults
342 * Call initgroups before pam_setcred - this allows pam_setcred to change
343 group membership correctly
345 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.8
347 * Handle PAM interactions that have more than one message in one callback
349 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.7
351 * Add a seat option greeter-allow-guest which controls if the greeter should
352 provide an option to access the guest account.
353 * Add a seat option greeter-show-manual-login which hints to a greeter if it
354 should show a manual username entry if a user list is already present.
356 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.6
358 * Fix session wrapper working the same as it did in 1.1.3
360 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.5
362 * Stop file descriptors leaking into the session processes
364 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.4
366 * Change session directory once user permissions are set so it works
367 on NFS filesystems that don't allow root to access files.
368 * Restructure session code so the PAM authentication is run in its
370 * Set PAM_XDISPLAY and PAM_XAUTHDATA pam items
371 * Don't send session stdout to .xsession-errors
372 * Fix Qt bindings crash when removing a user
374 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.3
376 * Actually return the system default keyboard layout, not just 'us'
377 * Add keyboard layout variants to list of keyboard layouts
378 * Check accountsservice as well as .dmrc for users' layouts
379 * Add lightdm_user_get_layouts() to query the configured list of layouts
381 * Add Lock D-Bus method that locks the seat and provides a hint to the
382 greeter to be in lock mode.
383 * Automatically lock sessions when switching away from them
384 * Add a has-messages property to liblightdm
385 * Add regression tests for PAM modules changing usernames
386 * Don't use g_key_file_unref, it requires glib 2.32
388 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.2
390 * Add regression tests for getting the user language and layout
391 * Stop accidentally distributing libsystem
392 * Fix introspection bindings not containing any methods
393 * lightdm-set-defaults can now set the autologin user
394 * Add Python greeter regression tests (representative of all introspection
396 * Wait for the VT to become active when switching to avoid a suspected
397 race condition somewhere between LightDM, X, ConsoleKit and the kernel.
398 * Stop lightdm_greeter_start_session_sync() blocking on success.
400 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.1
402 * Add a --disable-tests option
403 * Add note to AUTHORS file where to find author list
404 * Update build system to find moc/uic
405 * Fix non-distributed tests/src/lightdm-session
406 * Fix X sessions with arguments in Exec not working
407 * Use previous session for automatic login or if greeter does not request
409 * Set default resolution of VNC to 1024x768, add settings for width, height,
410 depth into lightdm.conf.
411 * AppArmor profile: Fix broken gnome-keyring and dbus/gwibber, and quiesce
412 annoying kernel audit messages for privileges that we definitively do not
414 * Set LOGNAME environment variable
415 * Don't set USERNAME environment variable - this is not specified in POSIX,
416 please report if this causes any major problems.
417 * Drop privileges when reading ~/.dmrc
418 * Move the GTK+ and Qt greeters into their own projects
419 * Fix crash when quitting with newer GLib
420 * Fix crash calling lightdm_get_layout
421 * Support for reading users' backgrounds from Accounts Service
422 * Fix --debug working with new glib
423 * Support PAM requesting a change of password
424 * Update build system to work with automake 1.11.2
425 * Run tests inside their own system D-Bus, simulating ConsoleKit and
427 * Add regression test for users that have their home directory created after
429 * Move lightdm-guest-session from libexec to pkglibexec directory
431 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.0
433 * Remove GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie D-Bus methods
434 * Switching to a user without a password bypasses the greeter
435 * Use LD_PRELOAD to intercept system calls for testing
436 * Removed the --passwd-file option as not required for testing anymore
437 * Rename test-xserver to X and remove --xserver-command option
438 * Make a test session wrapper and remove --session-wrapper option
439 * Remove unused --user-session, --greeter-session, --minimum-vt,
440 --minimum-display-number options
441 * Use 'default' as the default greeter (make a symlink)
442 * GTK greeter now initializes i18n
443 * GTK greeter now remembers last user
444 * Start authentication for automtically selected user in GTK greeter
445 * Don't resize GTK greeter on each click
446 * Start authentication when scrolling through GTK greeter entries
447 * Link liblightdm-qt against QtGui
448 * Fix liblightdm-qt crashing when face images are installed
449 * Set correct permissions on session log files
450 * Introduce a lightdm-guest-session-wrapper session command which MAC
451 systems like AppArmor and SELinux can use for attaching a restrictive
452 policy to guest sessions.
453 * Provide an AppArmor profile for guest session lockdown.
454 * Fix daemon from blocking if Accounts Service does not exist
455 * Fix greeter log file not being written
456 * Don't set LANG environment variable if using Accounts Service.
457 * Fix gdmflexiserver not working due to it not being in PATH
458 * Don't authenticate the greeter user
459 * Allow greeters to be disabled in configure flags
460 * Fix over allocation of read buffer in greeter protocol
461 * Make sure objects are cleaned up on exit
462 * Fix minor memory leaks
463 * Fix reference counting issue in ConsoleKit code
464 * Fix --enable-gtk-greeter=yes not working
466 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.0.0
468 * Explicitly grab keyboard focus in GTK greeter
469 * Fix removed power and a11y menu items in GTK greeter
470 * Put system binary directory into path when running in test mode
471 * Call pam_getenvlist after pam_setcred
473 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.8
475 * GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie are now deprecated. They
476 remain for now but use the XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH
477 environment variables instead.
478 * Change log filenames to be unique across different display types.
479 * Fix up script hooks, add regression tests for them
480 * Complete removal of X code from the core of LightDM, so it can better
481 support various display types
482 * Add ability to set the language of a user from the greeter
483 * Set LANG variable based on the user language
484 * Add language selector into GTK greeter (disabled by default)
485 * Allow TCP/IP connections if xserver-allow-tcp is true
486 * Allow lightdm --version to be run as non-root
487 * Automatically respond to PAM messages without prompts
488 * Create 'AddLocalXSeat' D-Bus method, and require root to use 'AddSeat'
489 * Fix multi-seat configuration picking the same display number
490 * Use correct D-Bus and power interface in liblightdm-qt
491 * Run pam_setcred inside the session process so pam_group works
492 * Make sure one session is always selected in the GTK greeter
494 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.7
496 * Set PAM_TTY to the display name, not the tty device
498 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.6
500 * Only unlock displays if switched to from greeter
501 * Make log file not system readable
502 * Write ~/.Xauthority inside the session process so it cannot be hijacked
503 * Set PAM_TTY and PAM_XDISPLAY when opening PAM session
504 * Add VNC server support
505 * Do not write ~/.dmrc and ~/.Xauthority as root. [CVE-2011-3349]
507 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.5
509 * Use accounts service in the daemon if it is available
510 * Correctly load seat type in multi seat configuration
511 * Add display-setup, session-setup and session-cleanup scripting hooks
512 * Fix cancel button in GTK greeter
513 * Fix line through GTK greeter menu items
514 * Exit daemon if a seat fails which has exit-on-failure set to true
515 * Add HasGuestAccount property to seat D-Bus interface
516 * Fix XDMCP authorization
519 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.4
521 * lightdm-set-defaults enables tweaking the default session and chosen
522 greeter for lightdm. This is useful for derivatives waiting to not ship
523 the whole configuration file of lightdm
524 * Fix crash in GTK+ greeter when a user is added
525 * Move xsessions-directory and xgreeters-directory from [SeatDefaults] to
526 [LightDM]. This is a configuration break, but making it on the assumption
527 that these settings are not likely to have been overridden.
528 * Fix fallback from org.freedesktop.Accounts to passwd format
529 * Fix duplicate user entries being shown when using passwd file
530 * Add AddSeat D-Bus method for adding dynamic seats
531 * Added a dm-tool program that allows user switching and adding seats
532 * Allow remote X servers, e.g. launched using dm-tool add-nested-seat
533 * Fix bug where sessions were started when the greeter quit and the user
534 hadn't been authorized.
535 * Fix bug where sessions used the seat bus name
536 * Don't allow autologin-username to be set to empty
537 * Fix bug where PAM session was not opened before writing to home directory
538 * Fix crash when failing to write X authority
540 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.3
542 * Unlock ConsoleKit sessions when switching to them
543 * Add a gdmflexiserver binary that provides backwards compatibility with
545 * Set XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH environment variables for sessions.
546 * Always set XAUTHORITY environment variable so sudo keeps accessing the
548 * Connect up lightdm_user_get_logged_in in liblightdm-gobject
549 * Ignore sessions that fail TryExec or are hidden
550 * Add missing home_directory User property missing in Vala bindings
552 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.2
554 * Fix annotation and Vala bindings for getting the UserList singleton
555 * Fix GTK+ greeter error label not being shown
556 * Don't set SIGQUIT to ignore in child processes
557 * Reworked the PAM code as ecryptfs users weren't able to log in. They
558 can now but not sure what changed to fix that!?
560 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.1
562 * Fix up translation build system
563 * Add a --with-greeter-user configure option
564 * Fix greeter-user configuration not being used
565 * Abort greeter if attempted to be run as root and greeter-user set
566 * Fix setting session in GTK+ greeter
568 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.0
570 * Fix invalid XAUTHORITY variable being set for second X server.
571 * Fix bug where switching users created X servers without VTs
572 * Release a VT when the X server on it stops
573 * Greeters are now just standard X sessions that are stored in
574 /usr/share/xgreeters.
575 * Binaries now installed in /usr/sbin
576 * Drop most of the configure options, they aren't necessary
578 - Major reorginisation of configuration to make it easier to configure and
579 understand. Users should set [SeatDefaults] section with settings for
580 all seats, and can override each setting in a per seat configuration.
581 - Default seats are now specified using a [Seat:<name>] section. If no seats
582 are specified then one is started. This can be overridden by setting
583 start-default-seat=false in [LightDM].
584 - Support setting autologin user to guest account
585 - Split the user accounts configuration into /etc/lightdm/users.conf so the
586 main config can be private.
587 - The default user session is now "default". Distributions should put a
588 symlink to their chosen default or set one in lightdm.conf.
589 - XDMCP keys now stored in keys.conf
590 * liblightdm API changes:
591 - Both libraries are now version 1 and have API and ABI guarantees.
592 - Face images are now local paths not URIs
593 - liblightdm-gobject now uses lightdm_ prefix instead of ldm_
594 - Non-greeter functions are now moved out of the Greeter class
595 - connect_to_server() is now called connect_sync and blocks until
597 - start_session() is now called start_session_sync and blocks until
598 completion. The quit signal is removed, and the greeter should quit if
599 this method returns TRUE.
600 - login() is now called authenticate()
601 - Greeters now have hints instead of configuration (greeters should load their
602 own configuration from /etc/lightdm if they need it).
603 - liblightdm-gobject uses AccountsService if it is available
604 - Added regression tests for liblightdm-qt
606 - Expose Seats and Sessions on org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
607 - Add a CanSwitch property
608 - Rename ShowGreeter() to SwitchToGreeter()
610 - Drop "example" from the name of the GTK+ and Qt greeters and make them
611 official default greeters.
612 - Use GTK3 for GTK+ greeter.
613 - Removed the Vala and Python GTK+ greeters, they weren't being well
616 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.4
618 * Fix failure to accept XDMCP connections due to invalid assert.
619 * Allow minimum-display-number to be set in lightdm.conf and on the command
621 * Session X authority now written to ~/.Xauthority by default. It can be
622 configured to run from the system location by setting
623 user-authority-in-system-dir=true in lightdm.conf.
624 * When using system authority the authority can be updated by the user.
625 * Written X authority files now checks hostname and display number.
626 * Enironment is no longer passed through to X servers and sessions, this is
627 no longer required now PAM works correctly.
628 * liblightdm API changes:
629 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_is_first() - it was added for testing and doesn't
631 * Fix more errors where authentication messages from previous sessions could
632 be confused with new sessions.
633 * Added XDMCP regression tests.
635 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.3
637 * Don't replace Plymouth if it isn't running on a valid VT
638 * Allow a null username to log in with - the system will prompt for a
640 * liblightdm API changes:
641 - Rename ldm_greeter_provide_secret to ldm_greeter_respond - responses
643 - show-prompt signal now has a PromptType field
644 - show-message signal now has a MessageType field and takes over
645 behaviour of show-error signal
646 * Fix error where an authentication failure from a previous session could
647 be interpreted as a failure in the current session.
648 * Simplify Vala bindings and add missing methods
650 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.2
652 * Fix errors communicating with PAM
653 * Fix interaction with Plytmouth.
654 * Removes the vt option in lightdm.conf, this is no longer required
655 and the active is used for the first display if Plymouth is
656 detected. A new option minimum-vt is added to select the first
657 VT to be used for other displays.
658 * On login switch to an existing session if already logged in with that
660 * Correctly connect up D-Bus interface for user switching
662 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.1
664 * Fix linking issue with -z,defs
665 * Added guest account support
666 * Restart X server if it crashes during a session
667 * Don't set language environment variables, use the daemon values
668 (system default) and leave it to ~/.profile for users to set these
669 * Change greeter library API, starting a session no longer has a language
671 * Fix greeter crash when user accounts change
673 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.0
675 * Fix crash when child processes quit
676 * Fix crash when catching signals
677 * Fix crash when session quits after X server
678 * Add internal checking for NULL object access
679 * Correctly handle signals from external programs (Thanks to Jason Conti)
680 * liblightdm API changes:
681 - ldm_greeter_start_authentication becomes ldm_greeter_login
682 - The existing ldm_greeter_login is now ldm_greeter_start_session
683 and the username parameter is not required.
684 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_default_layout (X controls the layout)
685 * Configuration changes:
686 - Use /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf instead of /etc/lightdm.conf
687 - The "displays" item is now called "seats". LightDM will fallback to
688 "displays" if "seats" is not defined, but this is deprecated and will
689 be removed by version 1.0.
690 - Make X server configuration a separate section and now has new options
691 * Automatic login users now use PAM session lightdm-autologin
692 * Use org.freedesktop.DisplayManager instead of
693 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager for D-Bus name
694 * Add regression tests
695 * Allow many more options to be set from the command line
697 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.7
699 * Fix autologin broken in 0.3.3
701 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.6
703 * Disable Plymouth when starting
704 * Allow display vt setting to be set to "active" to start on active VT
705 * Fix login in Qt example greeter
706 * Fix typo for High Contrast menu item (GTK example greeter)
708 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.5
710 * Set working directory when logging in
711 * Massive improvements to Qt greeter
712 * Fix XDMCP authentication/authorization errors
713 * Have the daemon open a connection to a local X server
714 * Tidy up some debugging messages
716 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.4
718 * Updates to liblightdm-qt
719 * Fix --with-cache-dir not working
720 * Set greeterdir in .pc files to point to where greeter engines should be
723 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.3
725 * Don't run in test-mode if Xephyr cannot be found
726 * Fix daemon using 100% CPU after greeter quits
727 * Fix crash when users don't have GECOS data
728 * Greeters can now detect user add/remove events
729 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken with switch to GDBus
730 * Correctly clean up X processes on exit
731 * Wait for greeter to quit before running user session (fixes problem with
734 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.2
736 * Distribute GTK greeter .ui file
738 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.1
740 * Add greeter login_with_defaults method
741 * Add example to the name of all the greeters
742 * Set the configuration for the default display to use VT 7
743 * Fix the vt setting for displays, it was incorrectly named tty
744 * Fix crash when load-users is false in UserManager
745 * Fix up name of .vapi file so it can be used directly from valac
746 * Tidy up Qt library and greeter
747 * Move menubar in greeters to top of screen
748 * Fix console kit get_can_*() methods
749 * Use GtkBuilder for example GTK greeter
751 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.0
753 * Correctly pass environment variables through to the session
754 * Allow starting virtual terminal to be configured
755 * Replace D-Bus greeter communication with a private pipe
756 * Use GDBus instead of dbus-glib
757 * Use the engine process name instead of a hardcoded value in theme files
758 * Rename ldm_greeter_connect to ldm_greeter_connect_to_server so it doesn't
759 clash with GObject method name
760 * Rename ldm-gtk-greeter to lightdm-gtk-greeter
761 * Rename gnome theme to example-gtk-gnome
762 * Add more annotations to liblightdm-gobject
763 * Add an example PyGObject, Vala and QT greeter
764 * Generate metadata for QT libraries
765 * Move Webkit greeter into separate module
767 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.3
769 * Set correct linking library names in pkg-config files
770 * Handle session executables that take arguments
772 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.2
774 * Make default themedir work when --prefix is not passed to configure
775 * Look for face images in ~/.face and ~/.face.icon
776 * Put .vapi file in unversioned vala directory
777 * Fix compiling without QT
778 * Choose the VT to open the display on
779 * Set correct group memberships for sessions (Yves-Alexis Perez)
780 * Set permissions on xauthority file so it can only be read by the owning
781 user (Yves-Alexis Perez)
782 * Set correct permissions on ~/.dmrc (Yves-Alexis Perez)
783 * Add --enable-liblightdm-gobject, --enable-liblightdm-qt configure option
784 * Set environment variables from PAM (Yves-Alexis Perez)
786 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.1
788 * Use "lightdm" as default PAM service and make it configurable
789 * Rename libldmgreeter to libldmgreeter-gobject
790 * Add libldmgreeter-qt (David Edmundson)
791 * Fix gobject-introspection build
792 * Renamed libldmgreeter to liblightdm
793 * Install a .vapi file
795 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.0
797 * Make default user configuration per-display
798 * Only automatically login the first time
799 * Fix WebKit theme loading and automatic login
800 * Do cross fade for sessions that support it
801 (set X-LightDM-Supports-Transitions=true in their xsession file)
802 * Load user settings from ~/.dmrc
803 * Add configuration for default language/layout
804 * Change language/layout/session when user selected in GTK+ greeter
805 * Set default keyboard layout on first login
806 * Don't run all sessions throught /etc/X11/XSession - make the session
807 wrapper optional and configurable.
808 * Make pkgconfig file require libxklavier
809 * Only compile greeters if have dependencies
810 * Include ck-connector code to reduce library dependencies
811 * Add introspection.m4 to the source tree
812 * Support using no greeter user in lightdm.conf
813 * Flush writes to main log file
814 * Allow non-privilidged user to write greeter log file in /var
815 * Fix bugs stopping running greeter as priviledged user (i.e. root)
816 * Don't default to running greeters with the GDM user - it may not exist!
818 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.2
821 * Make user switcher API work
822 * Add a AddDisplay D-Bus method to start new displays
823 * Feed signals to GLib main loop via a pipe
824 * Add an upstart script
825 * Make theme files more similar to existing themes
826 * Change dbus namespace from org.freedesktop.LightDisplayManager to
827 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager
828 * Write debug log to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log instead of stdout. Use
829 --debug for the previous behaviour
830 * Add exec_prefix into libldmgreeter.pc
831 * Change versioned include and pkgconfig files from 1 to 0
832 * Add themedir variable into pkgconfig file
833 * Connect language list in GTK greeter to login language
835 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.1
837 * Change licence of libldmgreeter from GPL to LGPL
838 * Write X server and session output to log files
839 * Set PATH, DESKTOP_SESSION, GDMSESSION and USERNAME environment variables
840 * Run sessions through Xsession
841 * Close all X servers on exit
842 * Send SIGHUP to X server when returning to greeter (makes all clients quit)
843 * Change authorization after a session ends so previous session does not get
845 * Make shutdown buttons work in GTK+ greeter
846 * Make user manager configurable
847 * Make GTK+ greeter show username entry if no user list
848 * Hide C and POSIX languages in greeter
849 * Load language and layout from .dmrc file
851 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.0
853 * Make --test-mode which runs as the current user
854 * Support displays acting as XDMCP terminals
855 * Support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authorization
856 * Support XDMCP over IPv6
858 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.4
860 * Support XDMCP logins
862 * Clean up resources on exit
863 * Create gettext instance in WebKit greeter
865 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.3
867 * Wait for signal from X server before starting session
869 * Add keyboard layout API
870 * Add gettext support to the WebKit greeter
872 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.2
874 * Fix installation of D-Bus service file
875 * Allow DISPLAY env variable to be passed to X server so can run Xephyr
876 * Handle no automatic login in webkit theme
878 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.1