1 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.17.1
3 * Add a backup-logs option that can be used to disable existing logging
4 files having a .old suffix added to them.
5 * Add LC_PAPER, LC_NAME, LC_ADDRESS, LC_TELEPHONE, LC_MEASUREMENT and
6 LC_IDENTIFICATION variables to the list of inherited locale variables.
7 * Implement XDMCP ForwardQuery.
8 * Fix small memory leak in XDMCP logging code.
10 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.17.0
12 * Disable log backups - this interferes with logrotate.
13 * Support using libaudit to generate audit events.
14 * Handle trailing whitespace on boolean values in configuration.
15 * Update example configuration to more correctly match allowed options.
16 * Fix unnecessary X server from being launched when locking seats.
17 * Check the version of the X server we are running so we correctly pass -listen tcp when required.
18 * Allow reading /proc/<PID>/net/dev from within a guest session.
19 * Allow guest sessions to write in /{,var/}run/screen folder.
20 * Update guest-session AppArmor profile to be suitable for openSUSE.
21 * Fix apparmor profiles for running Chromium in guest sessions.
22 * Fix configure failing without Vala installed.
24 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.16.0
26 * Update default configuration better explaining the seat configuration name
27 matching and dropping references to the obsolete [SeatDefaults] section
29 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.15.3
31 * Drop Xorg option -sharevts. It's no longer required for non-seat0 X
32 servers since xorg-server release 1.16.
34 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.15.2
36 * Support Wayland sessions.
37 * Implement autologin-session option.
38 * Generate Vala bindings from GIR instead of manually writing them. This
39 fixes some small bugs in both the Vala and GIR bindings.
40 * Don't remove autotools generated files in distclean.
42 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.15.1
44 * Fix default X server command set to XMir in 1.15.0.
45 * Internally merge the [SeatDefaults] and [Seat:*] sections together. The
46 previous method meant configuration snippets using a mix of old and new
47 naming would not correctly override eachother.
48 * Use IP address of XDMCP requests to contact X server if available.
49 * Add an option for XDMCP and VNC servers to only listen on one address.
50 * Fix configuration file warnings so they go to the log, not stderr.
51 * Warn if deprecated options logind-load-seats or xdg-seat are in
53 * Improve IP addresses in XDMCP log messages.
54 * Fix typo in dm-tool man page.
56 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.15.0
58 * Deprecate [SeatDefaults] in favour of [Seat:*]
59 * Use new Xmir binary when running X under Unity System Compositor
61 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.14.0
63 * Initialize file descriptor handles so we don't attempt to close stdin by
65 * Fix small errors detected by scan-build (clang).
67 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.13.2
69 * Fix pipe file descriptor leak for each greeter session.
70 * Support active session changing via logind.
71 * Don't allow liblightdm-gobject to be disabled. It is required for
72 liblightdm-qt and the tests so it's not worth supporting builds without
74 * Add bash autocompletion support
76 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.13.1
78 * Don't attempt generate D-Bus seat/session removal signals on shutdown.
79 * Add missing method QLightDM::Greeter::cancelAutologin
81 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.13.0
83 * Fix crash when having configuration keys defined in multiple places
84 * Fix pipe file descriptor leak for each session login / authentication
85 * Use correct syntax for DesktopNames key in session files
86 * Match seat configuration with globbing
87 * Allow user switching in multi-seat until bug stopping greeter showing on
89 * Disable log message when AccountsService users change
90 * Update AppArmor scripts, requires AppArmor 2.9
91 * Update tests to run better on servers
93 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.12.0
95 * Fix assumption that the display server is X when running scripts.
96 * Don't access .dmrc files until information from these files is required.
98 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.9
100 * Don't check the logind CanGraphical seat property unless
101 login-check-graphical option is set to true. There are too many cases of
102 drivers that don't set the appropriate flags for this feature to work.
103 * Make socket writing code used between greeter and daemon more robust to
105 * Fix small memory leaks.
106 * Improve logging messages.
109 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.8
111 * Rework logind code that gets session ID. The previous method was racy
112 and a change in lightdm 1.11.7 led to a lockup when this race occurred.
113 * Handle CanGraphical property on logind seats
115 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.7
117 * Use logind to provide the list of seats to use. Deprecate the old method
118 of manually defining seats.
119 * Add --show-config option that shows combined configuration.
120 * Drop the surfaceflinger seat type. This was a temporary solution while
121 Ubuntu Phone was migrating to Mir.
123 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.6
125 * Add a seat option 'allow-user-switching' that can disable all user
126 switching for that seat
127 * Add a new session type 'mir-container' that allows the session to run
128 inside a custom system compositor
129 * Only seat0 takes VT from Plymouth
130 * Removed unused GAsyncResultIface.is_tagged as this attribute was not
131 available in earlier versions of Glib I/O.
132 * Abort autogen if yelp-tools not installed
133 * Return correct errors for D-Bus calls
135 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.5
137 * Make PAM services configurable
139 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.4
141 * Do timed autologin each time you are returned to the greeter
142 * Fix tests failing with Qt 5.3 due to it checking getuid/geteuid which we are faking
143 * dm-tool: Warn if trying to switch to user without username
145 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.3
147 * Fix Mir sessions broken with unity-system-compositor 0.3.
148 * Add back Vala bindings for LightDM.Greeter.connect_sync - just mark as
150 * Put unity-system-compositor's mir_socket under /run rather than /tmp.
151 * Fix building with clang (3.5) and -Werror.
152 * Correct section name in default users.conf file.
154 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.2
156 * Add liblightdm method to get user UID
157 * DBus-activate logind
158 * Check for libgcrypt at configure time
160 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.1
162 * Allow greeters to remain runing to reduce startup time when switching to a
164 * Add asynchronous methods to liblightdm
166 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.0
168 * When switching to an existing session refresh PAM credentials and end
169 session cleanly so no resources leak.
170 * Support new standard DesktopNames field in session files
171 * Set XDG_SESSION_TYPE and XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP as used by systemd
172 * Emit DBus PropertiesChanged when Sessions/Seats properties change. Also
173 add SessionAdded/SessionRemoved signals to Seat interface
175 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.10.0
177 * Fix return value for Vala bindings to Greeter.start_session_sync
178 * Fix logging when failing to find session
180 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.15
182 * Update the lightdm AppArmor abstraction to allow the guest session to
183 start when AppArmor is mediating signals and ptrace and fix a minor, but
184 noisy, denial when applications attempt to read /proc/<PID>/stat.
186 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.14
188 * Pass --enable-hardware-greeter to unity-system-compositor for Mir sessions
191 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.13
193 * Handle not getting an X connection when attempting to get X layouts.
194 * Read config data from both XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS.
196 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.12
198 * Ensure X authority is written before X server is started
199 * Activate after unlocking a logind session
201 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.11
203 * Don't use g_hash_table_get_keys_as_array, it's a glib 2.40 feature
205 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.10
207 * Honour session type requested by greeter for guest sessions
208 * Log to wtmp and btmp.
209 * Implement guest-session config option
211 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.9
213 * Handle signals being received in child processes instead of treating them
214 like they are received in the daemon.
215 * Set utmp ut_line to the display name (i.e. :0) to match what other
216 programs expect (e.g. 'w').
217 * Fix lightdm_greeter_ensure_shared_data_dir_sync returning the wrong value.
218 * Fix shared data tests so you can run test suite without root again.
219 * Be extra careful not to call any non thread safe function after a fork.
220 * Fix some small memory leaks detected by valgrind.
221 * Fix process shutdown code to stop generating confusing warnings
222 * Fix more double removal of source IDs.
225 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.8
227 * Add support for shared user data directories between the greeter and user sessions.
228 * Refactor LightDMUser and User classes to use the same code internally.
230 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.7
232 * Correctly invoke PAM to change authentication token.
233 * Make xdg-seat a core property of a seat and always pass it to X servers.
234 * Qt bindings: properly hand over prompt and message type.
235 * Add warning flags where they are missing and fix the resulting warnings.
237 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.6
239 * Support Mir sessions in xlocal seats by starting a unity system compositor
241 * Add --screen and --fullscreen options to "dm-tool add-nested-seat"
242 * Don't try to compile liblightdm-qt if liblightdm-gobject will not be
244 * Stop greeters warning if sessions directories not present or lightdm.conf
245 doesn't exist - this is valid.
246 * Fix log name for Mir display servers
247 * Fix double removal of source IDs
249 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.5
251 * In the unity seat, if we don't have proper VT support, fake VT 0 instead
252 of a real VT number. This matches what logind expects.
254 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.4
256 * Fix issue where VTs are double used when switching sessions.
257 * Remove lightdm-set-defaults and gdmflexiserver.
258 * Add new ability to specify a list of seat types to try, rather than just
260 * Allow Mir sessions in the surfaceflinger seat.
261 * Rename the guest session wrapper to have a simpler name.
262 * Make sure sessions are associated with the display server before starting
264 * Add a dm-tool man page.
266 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.3
268 * Don't pass system user accounts from AccountsService to greeters.
269 * Fix crash if switching to greeter and it isn't installed.
271 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.2
273 * Implement missing guest-wrapper functionality and enable it for Ubuntu.
274 * Update AppArmor scripts to work in Ubuntu 13.10.
276 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.1
278 * Correctly set $XDG_SESSION_CLASS for greeters. This was regressed in 1.7.5
279 for ConsoleKit and was never passed to logind. logind/ConsoleKit treat
280 greeter sessions without this set as user sessions. This causes greeters
281 to show the lightdm user able to be logged in with.
282 * Set $USER when running the session-setup-script. This is a regression from
284 * Fix notification of sessions being logged out. This is a regression from
285 1.7.5 and caused greeters to show sessions logged in after they had been
287 * Refactor liblightdm user scanning to be simpler and more reliable. This
288 fixes bugs where some properties wouldn't be updated when they changed in
290 * Add support for a "display-stopped-script" field in lightdm.conf. The
291 "display-stopped-script" field allows us to run a script right after
292 stopping the display server.
293 * Allow dm-tool to run outside of a session if it doesn't need to be.
294 * Set $MIR_SERVER_NAME to assign a name to launched sessions. Also use a
295 "greeter-" prefix for greeter sessions for the benefit of
296 unity-system-compositor.
298 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.0
300 * Fix crash when starting with existing X servers. This was introduced in
301 rev 1651 (lightdm 1.7.0).
302 * Fix crash where Process objects are accessed after unref
304 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.8.0
306 * Add regression test for corrupt X authority files.
308 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.18
310 * Set session environment variables for guest sessions (1.7 regression).
311 * Don't fail writing X authority if reading it had an error.
312 * Update environment variables that we pass to Mir.
314 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.17
316 * surfaceflinger: Set XDG_VTNR=0 if VTs are not available
317 * Allow compiling of liblightdm-qt without liblightdm-gobject
318 * Add missing documentation for xremote seat options.
320 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.16
322 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken in 1.7.5
324 * Add support for running Surfaceflinger sessions
326 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.15
328 * Set XDG_VTNR=1 as a fallback if using SeatUnity without a functioning
329 compositor or working VT switching, so that logind will recognize the VT
332 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.14
334 * Correctly set permissions on Xauthority file.
336 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.13
338 * Correctly set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for non-autologin sessions
339 * Fix overallocation of array for strings from greeter.
340 * Fix truncation writing card32 in XDMCP server.
342 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.12
344 * Add xdg-seat config setting
345 * Notify Unity System Compositor of the session being authenticated
347 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.11
349 * Fix crash when greeter quits due to read watch not being removed
350 * Correctly setup Unity System Compositor environment
351 * Improve log messages
353 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.10
355 * Fix session locking broken in 1.7.5
356 * Load lightdm.conf after lightdm.conf.d/*.conf
357 * Also support loading config from /usr/share
358 * When switching sessions show a greeter if authentication required
359 * Set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP if specified in the xsession file
360 * Change logging prefixes to make it easier to troubleshoot multiseat setups
361 * Bring Ubuntu packaging in-tree
363 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.9
365 * Correctly set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions that are not autologin.
367 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.8
369 * Add support for Mir sessions and greeters.
370 * Set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions.
371 * Fix desktop-session-start upstart signal not being emitted since 1.7.5.
372 * Fix greeter log broken in 1.7.5.
374 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.7
376 * Fix uninitialized pointer introduced in 1.7.3
377 * Enable compile warnings and fix code generating warnings
379 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.6
381 * Restore greeter hints that were regressed in 1.7.5.
382 * Don't run greeters through session wrapper - regression in 1.7.5
384 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.5
386 * Quit Plymouth correctly when using the unity seat type
387 * Release the VT when the system compositor fails to start
388 * Load sessions and greeters from /usr/share/lightdm/sessions and
389 /usr/share/lightdm/greeters. The existing directories are checked
390 if the sessions are not in these directories.
391 * Refactor the Display class so that it merges with the Seat class
392 * Support running the greeter and session in different display servers
393 instead of re-using the same one during a login.
394 * Add more regression tests
395 * Documentation fixes
397 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.4
399 * Set XDG_SEAT and XDG_VTNR environment variables.
400 * Add initial support for Unity (i.e. Mir based) seats.
401 * Add a greeter wrapper option.
403 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.3
405 * Load configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d.
406 * Fix compile warnings
407 * Fix tests not running from install directory inside checkout.
409 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.2
411 * Fix incorrectly distributed guest-session apparmor data
413 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.1
415 * Fix .pc file for liblightdm-qt5-3
416 * Add a new option "autologin-in-background" which lets an autologin happen
417 in a second display while still showing the greeter.
418 * Stop if fail to create default seat
419 * Add option to set seat type in lightdm-set-defaults
420 * Stop using g_file_set_contents - it can leave intermediate files around
421 * Make tests work without installing them
424 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.0
426 * Use logind instead of ConsoleKit if it is available
427 * Use Q_SLOTS and Q_SIGNALS instead of slots and signals.
428 * Ignore stale X server locks
429 * Pass through system locale or set locale from AccountsService/.dmrc
430 * Fix bug where seat failure before D-Bus acquired would not stop daemon
432 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.6.0
434 * Allow VNC command to be specified in lightdm.conf
435 * Register enums with QObject meta type system.
437 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.3
439 * Fix build with gobject-introspection 1.35.9
440 * Fix authentication cancel regression caused in 1.5.2
442 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.2
444 * Fix stale X server being left behind when using LockSession D-Bus API
445 * Adjust AppArmor profile to also work with logind
446 * Don't use GIO to access X authority files - it uses GVFS which is
447 unnecessary overhead/complexity
448 * Handle over/underflows when reading from greeter
449 * Improve warning message when XDMCP packet has length mismatch
450 * Only report test command line if it fails
451 * Add more regression tests
453 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.1
455 * QLightDM: Add Qt5 version of the library: liblightdm-qt5-2
456 * QLightDM: Add some missing role names in UsersModel
457 * QLightDM: Add a backgroundPath role to UsersModel
458 * QLightDM: Fix potential crash in QLightDM::UsersModel closedown.
459 * Improve guest session apparmor
460 * Run each test in its own /tmp dir so they can't interfere with eachother
461 * Fix script hooks no longer working with latest glib
462 * Fix display clean up code
464 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.0
466 * Add man page for lightdm-set-defaults
467 * Use xzip for distribution, don't distribute old metadata
468 * Correctly check if display is active when session quits
469 * Relicense liblightdm to LGPL-2/LGPL-3 so GPL-2 code can link against it
470 * Selectively lock memory rather than calling mlockall for main daemon
472 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.1
474 * Fix autologin PAM configuration
476 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.0
478 * Correctly implement and test autologin timeouts
479 * Add greeter-show-remote-login hint
480 * Correctly annotate enums in vapi file
481 * QLightDM: Add default constructor to Qt power interface
482 * QLightDM: Expose image path in UserModel
483 * QLightDM: Add parameter to session model to show either local or remote
485 * Fix race conditions in tests
487 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.3
489 * Add a new remote session type. These sessions create a temporary local
490 account and authenticate against a remote server. The session is an
491 application that accesses that remote session (e.g. VNC, RDP etc)
492 * Support multiple simultaneous PAM prompts
493 * Set utmp ut_host field to the X display address
494 * Correctly reap unused authentication sessions
496 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.2
498 * Handle clearenv() not being defined
499 * Fix compilation with GCC 4.7
500 * Expose remaining properties in QLightDM::Greeter
501 * Fix utmp records being written before child process created
503 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.1
505 * Fix wrapper path in AppArmor profile (broken since 1.1.1)
506 * Add show-manual-login and allow-guest options to lightdm-set-defaults
507 * Don't set PAM_XDISPLAY or PAM_XAUTHDATA if not supported
508 * Add lock-memory option, enabled by default, to prevent paging memory
510 * Write utmp records for sessions
511 * Install PAM configuration
512 * Run greeters inside the "lightdm-greeter" PAM service
513 * Handle setresgid and setresuid not being available
514 * Use xsession directory from lightdm.conf in liblightdm
516 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.2.0
518 * Backup .xsession-errors on login
519 * Handle failures in pam_setcred
520 * Open log files in append mode
521 * Add extra checks in liblightdm so that it doesn't send invalid messages
523 * Fix gdmflexiserver not being added to the path (broken since 1.1.4)
524 * Fix PAM conversations after authentication from locking up sessions
525 * Fix PAM informational messages locking up autologin
526 * Change XDMCP manage timeout from 10ms to 126s (maximum specified in the
529 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.9
531 * Add --show-users/--hide-users to lightdm-set-defaults
532 * Call initgroups before pam_setcred - this allows pam_setcred to change
533 group membership correctly
535 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.8
537 * Handle PAM interactions that have more than one message in one callback
539 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.7
541 * Add a seat option greeter-allow-guest which controls if the greeter should
542 provide an option to access the guest account.
543 * Add a seat option greeter-show-manual-login which hints to a greeter if it
544 should show a manual username entry if a user list is already present.
546 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.6
548 * Fix session wrapper working the same as it did in 1.1.3
550 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.5
552 * Stop file descriptors leaking into the session processes
554 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.4
556 * Change session directory once user permissions are set so it works
557 on NFS filesystems that don't allow root to access files.
558 * Restructure session code so the PAM authentication is run in its
560 * Set PAM_XDISPLAY and PAM_XAUTHDATA pam items
561 * Don't send session stdout to .xsession-errors
562 * Fix Qt bindings crash when removing a user
564 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.3
566 * Actually return the system default keyboard layout, not just 'us'
567 * Add keyboard layout variants to list of keyboard layouts
568 * Check accountsservice as well as .dmrc for users' layouts
569 * Add lightdm_user_get_layouts() to query the configured list of layouts
571 * Add Lock D-Bus method that locks the seat and provides a hint to the
572 greeter to be in lock mode.
573 * Automatically lock sessions when switching away from them
574 * Add a has-messages property to liblightdm
575 * Add regression tests for PAM modules changing usernames
576 * Don't use g_key_file_unref, it requires glib 2.32
578 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.2
580 * Add regression tests for getting the user language and layout
581 * Stop accidentally distributing libsystem
582 * Fix introspection bindings not containing any methods
583 * lightdm-set-defaults can now set the autologin user
584 * Add Python greeter regression tests (representative of all introspection
586 * Wait for the VT to become active when switching to avoid a suspected
587 race condition somewhere between LightDM, X, ConsoleKit and the kernel.
588 * Stop lightdm_greeter_start_session_sync() blocking on success.
590 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.1
592 * Add a --disable-tests option
593 * Add note to AUTHORS file where to find author list
594 * Update build system to find moc/uic
595 * Fix non-distributed tests/src/lightdm-session
596 * Fix X sessions with arguments in Exec not working
597 * Use previous session for automatic login or if greeter does not request
599 * Set default resolution of VNC to 1024x768, add settings for width, height,
600 depth into lightdm.conf.
601 * AppArmor profile: Fix broken gnome-keyring and dbus/gwibber, and quiesce
602 annoying kernel audit messages for privileges that we definitively do not
604 * Set LOGNAME environment variable
605 * Don't set USERNAME environment variable - this is not specified in POSIX,
606 please report if this causes any major problems.
607 * Drop privileges when reading ~/.dmrc
608 * Move the GTK+ and Qt greeters into their own projects
609 * Fix crash when quitting with newer GLib
610 * Fix crash calling lightdm_get_layout
611 * Support for reading users' backgrounds from Accounts Service
612 * Fix --debug working with new glib
613 * Support PAM requesting a change of password
614 * Update build system to work with automake 1.11.2
615 * Run tests inside their own system D-Bus, simulating ConsoleKit and
617 * Add regression test for users that have their home directory created after
619 * Move lightdm-guest-session from libexec to pkglibexec directory
621 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.0
623 * Remove GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie D-Bus methods
624 * Switching to a user without a password bypasses the greeter
625 * Use LD_PRELOAD to intercept system calls for testing
626 * Removed the --passwd-file option as not required for testing anymore
627 * Rename test-xserver to X and remove --xserver-command option
628 * Make a test session wrapper and remove --session-wrapper option
629 * Remove unused --user-session, --greeter-session, --minimum-vt,
630 --minimum-display-number options
631 * Use 'default' as the default greeter (make a symlink)
632 * GTK greeter now initializes i18n
633 * GTK greeter now remembers last user
634 * Start authentication for automtically selected user in GTK greeter
635 * Don't resize GTK greeter on each click
636 * Start authentication when scrolling through GTK greeter entries
637 * Link liblightdm-qt against QtGui
638 * Fix liblightdm-qt crashing when face images are installed
639 * Set correct permissions on session log files
640 * Introduce a lightdm-guest-session-wrapper session command which MAC
641 systems like AppArmor and SELinux can use for attaching a restrictive
642 policy to guest sessions.
643 * Provide an AppArmor profile for guest session lockdown.
644 * Fix daemon from blocking if Accounts Service does not exist
645 * Fix greeter log file not being written
646 * Don't set LANG environment variable if using Accounts Service.
647 * Fix gdmflexiserver not working due to it not being in PATH
648 * Don't authenticate the greeter user
649 * Allow greeters to be disabled in configure flags
650 * Fix over allocation of read buffer in greeter protocol
651 * Make sure objects are cleaned up on exit
652 * Fix minor memory leaks
653 * Fix reference counting issue in ConsoleKit code
654 * Fix --enable-gtk-greeter=yes not working
656 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.0.0
658 * Explicitly grab keyboard focus in GTK greeter
659 * Fix removed power and a11y menu items in GTK greeter
660 * Put system binary directory into path when running in test mode
661 * Call pam_getenvlist after pam_setcred
663 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.8
665 * GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie are now deprecated. They
666 remain for now but use the XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH
667 environment variables instead.
668 * Change log filenames to be unique across different display types.
669 * Fix up script hooks, add regression tests for them
670 * Complete removal of X code from the core of LightDM, so it can better
671 support various display types
672 * Add ability to set the language of a user from the greeter
673 * Set LANG variable based on the user language
674 * Add language selector into GTK greeter (disabled by default)
675 * Allow TCP/IP connections if xserver-allow-tcp is true
676 * Allow lightdm --version to be run as non-root
677 * Automatically respond to PAM messages without prompts
678 * Create 'AddLocalXSeat' D-Bus method, and require root to use 'AddSeat'
679 * Fix multi-seat configuration picking the same display number
680 * Use correct D-Bus and power interface in liblightdm-qt
681 * Run pam_setcred inside the session process so pam_group works
682 * Make sure one session is always selected in the GTK greeter
684 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.7
686 * Set PAM_TTY to the display name, not the tty device
688 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.6
690 * Only unlock displays if switched to from greeter
691 * Make log file not system readable
692 * Write ~/.Xauthority inside the session process so it cannot be hijacked
693 * Set PAM_TTY and PAM_XDISPLAY when opening PAM session
694 * Add VNC server support
695 * Do not write ~/.dmrc and ~/.Xauthority as root. [CVE-2011-3349]
697 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.5
699 * Use accounts service in the daemon if it is available
700 * Correctly load seat type in multi seat configuration
701 * Add display-setup, session-setup and session-cleanup scripting hooks
702 * Fix cancel button in GTK greeter
703 * Fix line through GTK greeter menu items
704 * Exit daemon if a seat fails which has exit-on-failure set to true
705 * Add HasGuestAccount property to seat D-Bus interface
706 * Fix XDMCP authorization
709 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.4
711 * lightdm-set-defaults enables tweaking the default session and chosen
712 greeter for lightdm. This is useful for derivatives waiting to not ship
713 the whole configuration file of lightdm
714 * Fix crash in GTK+ greeter when a user is added
715 * Move xsessions-directory and xgreeters-directory from [SeatDefaults] to
716 [LightDM]. This is a configuration break, but making it on the assumption
717 that these settings are not likely to have been overridden.
718 * Fix fallback from org.freedesktop.Accounts to passwd format
719 * Fix duplicate user entries being shown when using passwd file
720 * Add AddSeat D-Bus method for adding dynamic seats
721 * Added a dm-tool program that allows user switching and adding seats
722 * Allow remote X servers, e.g. launched using dm-tool add-nested-seat
723 * Fix bug where sessions were started when the greeter quit and the user
724 hadn't been authorized.
725 * Fix bug where sessions used the seat bus name
726 * Don't allow autologin-username to be set to empty
727 * Fix bug where PAM session was not opened before writing to home directory
728 * Fix crash when failing to write X authority
730 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.3
732 * Unlock ConsoleKit sessions when switching to them
733 * Add a gdmflexiserver binary that provides backwards compatibility with
735 * Set XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH environment variables for sessions.
736 * Always set XAUTHORITY environment variable so sudo keeps accessing the
738 * Connect up lightdm_user_get_logged_in in liblightdm-gobject
739 * Ignore sessions that fail TryExec or are hidden
740 * Add missing home_directory User property missing in Vala bindings
742 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.2
744 * Fix annotation and Vala bindings for getting the UserList singleton
745 * Fix GTK+ greeter error label not being shown
746 * Don't set SIGQUIT to ignore in child processes
747 * Reworked the PAM code as ecryptfs users weren't able to log in. They
748 can now but not sure what changed to fix that!?
750 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.1
752 * Fix up translation build system
753 * Add a --with-greeter-user configure option
754 * Fix greeter-user configuration not being used
755 * Abort greeter if attempted to be run as root and greeter-user set
756 * Fix setting session in GTK+ greeter
758 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.0
760 * Fix invalid XAUTHORITY variable being set for second X server.
761 * Fix bug where switching users created X servers without VTs
762 * Release a VT when the X server on it stops
763 * Greeters are now just standard X sessions that are stored in
764 /usr/share/xgreeters.
765 * Binaries now installed in /usr/sbin
766 * Drop most of the configure options, they aren't necessary
768 - Major reorginisation of configuration to make it easier to configure and
769 understand. Users should set [SeatDefaults] section with settings for
770 all seats, and can override each setting in a per seat configuration.
771 - Default seats are now specified using a [Seat:<name>] section. If no seats
772 are specified then one is started. This can be overridden by setting
773 start-default-seat=false in [LightDM].
774 - Support setting autologin user to guest account
775 - Split the user accounts configuration into /etc/lightdm/users.conf so the
776 main config can be private.
777 - The default user session is now "default". Distributions should put a
778 symlink to their chosen default or set one in lightdm.conf.
779 - XDMCP keys now stored in keys.conf
780 * liblightdm API changes:
781 - Both libraries are now version 1 and have API and ABI guarantees.
782 - Face images are now local paths not URIs
783 - liblightdm-gobject now uses lightdm_ prefix instead of ldm_
784 - Non-greeter functions are now moved out of the Greeter class
785 - connect_to_server() is now called connect_sync and blocks until
787 - start_session() is now called start_session_sync and blocks until
788 completion. The quit signal is removed, and the greeter should quit if
789 this method returns TRUE.
790 - login() is now called authenticate()
791 - Greeters now have hints instead of configuration (greeters should load their
792 own configuration from /etc/lightdm if they need it).
793 - liblightdm-gobject uses AccountsService if it is available
794 - Added regression tests for liblightdm-qt
796 - Expose Seats and Sessions on org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
797 - Add a CanSwitch property
798 - Rename ShowGreeter() to SwitchToGreeter()
800 - Drop "example" from the name of the GTK+ and Qt greeters and make them
801 official default greeters.
802 - Use GTK3 for GTK+ greeter.
803 - Removed the Vala and Python GTK+ greeters, they weren't being well
806 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.4
808 * Fix failure to accept XDMCP connections due to invalid assert.
809 * Allow minimum-display-number to be set in lightdm.conf and on the command
811 * Session X authority now written to ~/.Xauthority by default. It can be
812 configured to run from the system location by setting
813 user-authority-in-system-dir=true in lightdm.conf.
814 * When using system authority the authority can be updated by the user.
815 * Written X authority files now checks hostname and display number.
816 * Enironment is no longer passed through to X servers and sessions, this is
817 no longer required now PAM works correctly.
818 * liblightdm API changes:
819 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_is_first() - it was added for testing and doesn't
821 * Fix more errors where authentication messages from previous sessions could
822 be confused with new sessions.
823 * Added XDMCP regression tests.
825 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.3
827 * Don't replace Plymouth if it isn't running on a valid VT
828 * Allow a null username to log in with - the system will prompt for a
830 * liblightdm API changes:
831 - Rename ldm_greeter_provide_secret to ldm_greeter_respond - responses
833 - show-prompt signal now has a PromptType field
834 - show-message signal now has a MessageType field and takes over
835 behaviour of show-error signal
836 * Fix error where an authentication failure from a previous session could
837 be interpreted as a failure in the current session.
838 * Simplify Vala bindings and add missing methods
840 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.2
842 * Fix errors communicating with PAM
843 * Fix interaction with Plytmouth.
844 * Removes the vt option in lightdm.conf, this is no longer required
845 and the active is used for the first display if Plymouth is
846 detected. A new option minimum-vt is added to select the first
847 VT to be used for other displays.
848 * On login switch to an existing session if already logged in with that
850 * Correctly connect up D-Bus interface for user switching
852 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.1
854 * Fix linking issue with -z,defs
855 * Added guest account support
856 * Restart X server if it crashes during a session
857 * Don't set language environment variables, use the daemon values
858 (system default) and leave it to ~/.profile for users to set these
859 * Change greeter library API, starting a session no longer has a language
861 * Fix greeter crash when user accounts change
863 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.0
865 * Fix crash when child processes quit
866 * Fix crash when catching signals
867 * Fix crash when session quits after X server
868 * Add internal checking for NULL object access
869 * Correctly handle signals from external programs (Thanks to Jason Conti)
870 * liblightdm API changes:
871 - ldm_greeter_start_authentication becomes ldm_greeter_login
872 - The existing ldm_greeter_login is now ldm_greeter_start_session
873 and the username parameter is not required.
874 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_default_layout (X controls the layout)
875 * Configuration changes:
876 - Use /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf instead of /etc/lightdm.conf
877 - The "displays" item is now called "seats". LightDM will fallback to
878 "displays" if "seats" is not defined, but this is deprecated and will
879 be removed by version 1.0.
880 - Make X server configuration a separate section and now has new options
881 * Automatic login users now use PAM session lightdm-autologin
882 * Use org.freedesktop.DisplayManager instead of
883 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager for D-Bus name
884 * Add regression tests
885 * Allow many more options to be set from the command line
887 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.7
889 * Fix autologin broken in 0.3.3
891 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.6
893 * Disable Plymouth when starting
894 * Allow display vt setting to be set to "active" to start on active VT
895 * Fix login in Qt example greeter
896 * Fix typo for High Contrast menu item (GTK example greeter)
898 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.5
900 * Set working directory when logging in
901 * Massive improvements to Qt greeter
902 * Fix XDMCP authentication/authorization errors
903 * Have the daemon open a connection to a local X server
904 * Tidy up some debugging messages
906 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.4
908 * Updates to liblightdm-qt
909 * Fix --with-cache-dir not working
910 * Set greeterdir in .pc files to point to where greeter engines should be
913 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.3
915 * Don't run in test-mode if Xephyr cannot be found
916 * Fix daemon using 100% CPU after greeter quits
917 * Fix crash when users don't have GECOS data
918 * Greeters can now detect user add/remove events
919 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken with switch to GDBus
920 * Correctly clean up X processes on exit
921 * Wait for greeter to quit before running user session (fixes problem with
924 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.2
926 * Distribute GTK greeter .ui file
928 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.1
930 * Add greeter login_with_defaults method
931 * Add example to the name of all the greeters
932 * Set the configuration for the default display to use VT 7
933 * Fix the vt setting for displays, it was incorrectly named tty
934 * Fix crash when load-users is false in UserManager
935 * Fix up name of .vapi file so it can be used directly from valac
936 * Tidy up Qt library and greeter
937 * Move menubar in greeters to top of screen
938 * Fix console kit get_can_*() methods
939 * Use GtkBuilder for example GTK greeter
941 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.0
943 * Correctly pass environment variables through to the session
944 * Allow starting virtual terminal to be configured
945 * Replace D-Bus greeter communication with a private pipe
946 * Use GDBus instead of dbus-glib
947 * Use the engine process name instead of a hardcoded value in theme files
948 * Rename ldm_greeter_connect to ldm_greeter_connect_to_server so it doesn't
949 clash with GObject method name
950 * Rename ldm-gtk-greeter to lightdm-gtk-greeter
951 * Rename gnome theme to example-gtk-gnome
952 * Add more annotations to liblightdm-gobject
953 * Add an example PyGObject, Vala and QT greeter
954 * Generate metadata for QT libraries
955 * Move Webkit greeter into separate module
957 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.3
959 * Set correct linking library names in pkg-config files
960 * Handle session executables that take arguments
962 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.2
964 * Make default themedir work when --prefix is not passed to configure
965 * Look for face images in ~/.face and ~/.face.icon
966 * Put .vapi file in unversioned vala directory
967 * Fix compiling without QT
968 * Choose the VT to open the display on
969 * Set correct group memberships for sessions (Yves-Alexis Perez)
970 * Set permissions on xauthority file so it can only be read by the owning
971 user (Yves-Alexis Perez)
972 * Set correct permissions on ~/.dmrc (Yves-Alexis Perez)
973 * Add --enable-liblightdm-gobject, --enable-liblightdm-qt configure option
974 * Set environment variables from PAM (Yves-Alexis Perez)
976 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.1
978 * Use "lightdm" as default PAM service and make it configurable
979 * Rename libldmgreeter to libldmgreeter-gobject
980 * Add libldmgreeter-qt (David Edmundson)
981 * Fix gobject-introspection build
982 * Renamed libldmgreeter to liblightdm
983 * Install a .vapi file
985 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.0
987 * Make default user configuration per-display
988 * Only automatically login the first time
989 * Fix WebKit theme loading and automatic login
990 * Do cross fade for sessions that support it
991 (set X-LightDM-Supports-Transitions=true in their xsession file)
992 * Load user settings from ~/.dmrc
993 * Add configuration for default language/layout
994 * Change language/layout/session when user selected in GTK+ greeter
995 * Set default keyboard layout on first login
996 * Don't run all sessions throught /etc/X11/XSession - make the session
997 wrapper optional and configurable.
998 * Make pkgconfig file require libxklavier
999 * Only compile greeters if have dependencies
1000 * Include ck-connector code to reduce library dependencies
1001 * Add introspection.m4 to the source tree
1002 * Support using no greeter user in lightdm.conf
1003 * Flush writes to main log file
1004 * Allow non-privilidged user to write greeter log file in /var
1005 * Fix bugs stopping running greeter as priviledged user (i.e. root)
1006 * Don't default to running greeters with the GDM user - it may not exist!
1008 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.2
1011 * Make user switcher API work
1012 * Add a AddDisplay D-Bus method to start new displays
1013 * Feed signals to GLib main loop via a pipe
1014 * Add an upstart script
1015 * Make theme files more similar to existing themes
1016 * Change dbus namespace from org.freedesktop.LightDisplayManager to
1017 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager
1018 * Write debug log to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log instead of stdout. Use
1019 --debug for the previous behaviour
1020 * Add exec_prefix into libldmgreeter.pc
1021 * Change versioned include and pkgconfig files from 1 to 0
1022 * Add themedir variable into pkgconfig file
1023 * Connect language list in GTK greeter to login language
1025 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.1
1027 * Change licence of libldmgreeter from GPL to LGPL
1028 * Write X server and session output to log files
1029 * Set PATH, DESKTOP_SESSION, GDMSESSION and USERNAME environment variables
1030 * Run sessions through Xsession
1031 * Close all X servers on exit
1032 * Send SIGHUP to X server when returning to greeter (makes all clients quit)
1033 * Change authorization after a session ends so previous session does not get
1035 * Make shutdown buttons work in GTK+ greeter
1036 * Make user manager configurable
1037 * Make GTK+ greeter show username entry if no user list
1038 * Hide C and POSIX languages in greeter
1039 * Load language and layout from .dmrc file
1041 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.0
1043 * Make --test-mode which runs as the current user
1044 * Support displays acting as XDMCP terminals
1045 * Support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authorization
1046 * Support XDMCP over IPv6
1048 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.4
1050 * Support XDMCP logins
1051 * Support multi-head
1052 * Clean up resources on exit
1053 * Create gettext instance in WebKit greeter
1055 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.3
1057 * Wait for signal from X server before starting session
1059 * Add keyboard layout API
1060 * Add gettext support to the WebKit greeter
1062 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.2
1064 * Fix installation of D-Bus service file
1065 * Allow DISPLAY env variable to be passed to X server so can run Xephyr
1066 * Handle no automatic login in webkit theme
1068 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.1