1 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.13.0
3 * Fix crash when having configuration keys defined in multiple places
4 * Fix pipe file descriptor leak for each session login / authentication
5 * Use correct syntax for DesktopNames key in session files
6 * Match seat configuration with globbing
7 * Allow user switching in multi-seat until bug stopping greeter showing on
9 * Disable log message when AccountsService users change
10 * Update AppArmor scripts, requires AppArmor 2.9
11 * Update tests to run better on servers
13 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.12.0
15 * Fix assumption that the display server is X when running scripts.
16 * Don't access .dmrc files until information from these files is required.
18 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.9
20 * Don't check the logind CanGraphical seat property unless
21 login-check-graphical option is set to true. There are too many cases of
22 drivers that don't set the appropriate flags for this feature to work.
23 * Make socket writing code used between greeter and daemon more robust to
25 * Fix small memory leaks.
26 * Improve logging messages.
29 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.8
31 * Rework logind code that gets session ID. The previous method was racy
32 and a change in lightdm 1.11.7 led to a lockup when this race occurred.
33 * Handle CanGraphical property on logind seats
35 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.7
37 * Use logind to provide the list of seats to use. Deprecate the old method
38 of manually defining seats.
39 * Add --show-config option that shows combined configuration.
40 * Drop the surfaceflinger seat type. This was a temporary solution while
41 Ubuntu Phone was migrating to Mir.
43 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.6
45 * Add a seat option 'allow-user-switching' that can disable all user
46 switching for that seat
47 * Add a new session type 'mir-container' that allows the session to run
48 inside a custom system compositor
49 * Only seat0 takes VT from Plymouth
50 * Removed unused GAsyncResultIface.is_tagged as this attribute was not
51 available in earlier versions of Glib I/O.
52 * Abort autogen if yelp-tools not installed
53 * Return correct errors for D-Bus calls
55 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.5
57 * Make PAM services configurable
59 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.4
61 * Do timed autologin each time you are returned to the greeter
62 * Fix tests failing with Qt 5.3 due to it checking getuid/geteuid which we are faking
63 * dm-tool: Warn if trying to switch to user without username
65 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.3
67 * Fix Mir sessions broken with unity-system-compositor 0.3.
68 * Add back Vala bindings for LightDM.Greeter.connect_sync - just mark as
70 * Put unity-system-compositor's mir_socket under /run rather than /tmp.
71 * Fix building with clang (3.5) and -Werror.
72 * Correct section name in default users.conf file.
74 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.2
76 * Add liblightdm method to get user UID
77 * DBus-activate logind
78 * Check for libgcrypt at configure time
80 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.1
82 * Allow greeters to remain runing to reduce startup time when switching to a
84 * Add asynchronous methods to liblightdm
86 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.0
88 * When switching to an existing session refresh PAM credentials and end
89 session cleanly so no resources leak.
90 * Support new standard DesktopNames field in session files
91 * Set XDG_SESSION_TYPE and XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP as used by systemd
92 * Emit DBus PropertiesChanged when Sessions/Seats properties change. Also
93 add SessionAdded/SessionRemoved signals to Seat interface
95 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.10.0
97 * Fix return value for Vala bindings to Greeter.start_session_sync
98 * Fix logging when failing to find session
100 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.15
102 * Update the lightdm AppArmor abstraction to allow the guest session to
103 start when AppArmor is mediating signals and ptrace and fix a minor, but
104 noisy, denial when applications attempt to read /proc/<PID>/stat.
106 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.14
108 * Pass --enable-hardware-greeter to unity-system-compositor for Mir sessions
111 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.13
113 * Handle not getting an X connection when attempting to get X layouts.
114 * Read config data from both XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS.
116 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.12
118 * Ensure X authority is written before X server is started
119 * Activate after unlocking a logind session
121 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.11
123 * Don't use g_hash_table_get_keys_as_array, it's a glib 2.40 feature
125 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.10
127 * Honour session type requested by greeter for guest sessions
128 * Log to wtmp and btmp.
129 * Implement guest-session config option
131 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.9
133 * Handle signals being received in child processes instead of treating them
134 like they are received in the daemon.
135 * Set utmp ut_line to the display name (i.e. :0) to match what other
136 programs expect (e.g. 'w').
137 * Fix lightdm_greeter_ensure_shared_data_dir_sync returning the wrong value.
138 * Fix shared data tests so you can run test suite without root again.
139 * Be extra careful not to call any non thread safe function after a fork.
140 * Fix some small memory leaks detected by valgrind.
141 * Fix process shutdown code to stop generating confusing warnings
142 * Fix more double removal of source IDs.
145 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.8
147 * Add support for shared user data directories between the greeter and user sessions.
148 * Refactor LightDMUser and User classes to use the same code internally.
150 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.7
152 * Correctly invoke PAM to change authentication token.
153 * Make xdg-seat a core property of a seat and always pass it to X servers.
154 * Qt bindings: properly hand over prompt and message type.
155 * Add warning flags where they are missing and fix the resulting warnings.
157 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.6
159 * Support Mir sessions in xlocal seats by starting a unity system compositor
161 * Add --screen and --fullscreen options to "dm-tool add-nested-seat"
162 * Don't try to compile liblightdm-qt if liblightdm-gobject will not be
164 * Stop greeters warning if sessions directories not present or lightdm.conf
165 doesn't exist - this is valid.
166 * Fix log name for Mir display servers
167 * Fix double removal of source IDs
169 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.5
171 * In the unity seat, if we don't have proper VT support, fake VT 0 instead
172 of a real VT number. This matches what logind expects.
174 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.4
176 * Fix issue where VTs are double used when switching sessions.
177 * Remove lightdm-set-defaults and gdmflexiserver.
178 * Add new ability to specify a list of seat types to try, rather than just
180 * Allow Mir sessions in the surfaceflinger seat.
181 * Rename the guest session wrapper to have a simpler name.
182 * Make sure sessions are associated with the display server before starting
184 * Add a dm-tool man page.
186 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.3
188 * Don't pass system user accounts from AccountsService to greeters.
189 * Fix crash if switching to greeter and it isn't installed.
191 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.2
193 * Implement missing guest-wrapper functionality and enable it for Ubuntu.
194 * Update AppArmor scripts to work in Ubuntu 13.10.
196 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.1
198 * Correctly set $XDG_SESSION_CLASS for greeters. This was regressed in 1.7.5
199 for ConsoleKit and was never passed to logind. logind/ConsoleKit treat
200 greeter sessions without this set as user sessions. This causes greeters
201 to show the lightdm user able to be logged in with.
202 * Set $USER when running the session-setup-script. This is a regression from
204 * Fix notification of sessions being logged out. This is a regression from
205 1.7.5 and caused greeters to show sessions logged in after they had been
207 * Refactor liblightdm user scanning to be simpler and more reliable. This
208 fixes bugs where some properties wouldn't be updated when they changed in
210 * Add support for a "display-stopped-script" field in lightdm.conf. The
211 "display-stopped-script" field allows us to run a script right after
212 stopping the display server.
213 * Allow dm-tool to run outside of a session if it doesn't need to be.
214 * Set $MIR_SERVER_NAME to assign a name to launched sessions. Also use a
215 "greeter-" prefix for greeter sessions for the benefit of
216 unity-system-compositor.
218 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.0
220 * Fix crash when starting with existing X servers. This was introduced in
221 rev 1651 (lightdm 1.7.0).
222 * Fix crash where Process objects are accessed after unref
224 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.8.0
226 * Add regression test for corrupt X authority files.
228 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.18
230 * Set session environment variables for guest sessions (1.7 regression).
231 * Don't fail writing X authority if reading it had an error.
232 * Update environment variables that we pass to Mir.
234 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.17
236 * surfaceflinger: Set XDG_VTNR=0 if VTs are not available
237 * Allow compiling of liblightdm-qt without liblightdm-gobject
238 * Add missing documentation for xremote seat options.
240 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.16
242 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken in 1.7.5
244 * Add support for running Surfaceflinger sessions
246 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.15
248 * Set XDG_VTNR=1 as a fallback if using SeatUnity without a functioning
249 compositor or working VT switching, so that logind will recognize the VT
252 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.14
254 * Correctly set permissions on Xauthority file.
256 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.13
258 * Correctly set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for non-autologin sessions
259 * Fix overallocation of array for strings from greeter.
260 * Fix truncation writing card32 in XDMCP server.
262 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.12
264 * Add xdg-seat config setting
265 * Notify Unity System Compositor of the session being authenticated
267 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.11
269 * Fix crash when greeter quits due to read watch not being removed
270 * Correctly setup Unity System Compositor environment
271 * Improve log messages
273 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.10
275 * Fix session locking broken in 1.7.5
276 * Load lightdm.conf after lightdm.conf.d/*.conf
277 * Also support loading config from /usr/share
278 * When switching sessions show a greeter if authentication required
279 * Set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP if specified in the xsession file
280 * Change logging prefixes to make it easier to troubleshoot multiseat setups
281 * Bring Ubuntu packaging in-tree
283 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.9
285 * Correctly set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions that are not autologin.
287 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.8
289 * Add support for Mir sessions and greeters.
290 * Set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions.
291 * Fix desktop-session-start upstart signal not being emitted since 1.7.5.
292 * Fix greeter log broken in 1.7.5.
294 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.7
296 * Fix uninitialized pointer introduced in 1.7.3
297 * Enable compile warnings and fix code generating warnings
299 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.6
301 * Restore greeter hints that were regressed in 1.7.5.
302 * Don't run greeters through session wrapper - regression in 1.7.5
304 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.5
306 * Quit Plymouth correctly when using the unity seat type
307 * Release the VT when the system compositor fails to start
308 * Load sessions and greeters from /usr/share/lightdm/sessions and
309 /usr/share/lightdm/greeters. The existing directories are checked
310 if the sessions are not in these directories.
311 * Refactor the Display class so that it merges with the Seat class
312 * Support running the greeter and session in different display servers
313 instead of re-using the same one during a login.
314 * Add more regression tests
315 * Documentation fixes
317 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.4
319 * Set XDG_SEAT and XDG_VTNR environment variables.
320 * Add initial support for Unity (i.e. Mir based) seats.
321 * Add a greeter wrapper option.
323 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.3
325 * Load configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d.
326 * Fix compile warnings
327 * Fix tests not running from install directory inside checkout.
329 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.2
331 * Fix incorrectly distributed guest-session apparmor data
333 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.1
335 * Fix .pc file for liblightdm-qt5-3
336 * Add a new option "autologin-in-background" which lets an autologin happen
337 in a second display while still showing the greeter.
338 * Stop if fail to create default seat
339 * Add option to set seat type in lightdm-set-defaults
340 * Stop using g_file_set_contents - it can leave intermediate files around
341 * Make tests work without installing them
344 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.0
346 * Use logind instead of ConsoleKit if it is available
347 * Use Q_SLOTS and Q_SIGNALS instead of slots and signals.
348 * Ignore stale X server locks
349 * Pass through system locale or set locale from AccountsService/.dmrc
350 * Fix bug where seat failure before D-Bus acquired would not stop daemon
352 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.6.0
354 * Allow VNC command to be specified in lightdm.conf
355 * Register enums with QObject meta type system.
357 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.3
359 * Fix build with gobject-introspection 1.35.9
360 * Fix authentication cancel regression caused in 1.5.2
362 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.2
364 * Fix stale X server being left behind when using LockSession D-Bus API
365 * Adjust AppArmor profile to also work with logind
366 * Don't use GIO to access X authority files - it uses GVFS which is
367 unnecessary overhead/complexity
368 * Handle over/underflows when reading from greeter
369 * Improve warning message when XDMCP packet has length mismatch
370 * Only report test command line if it fails
371 * Add more regression tests
373 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.1
375 * QLightDM: Add Qt5 version of the library: liblightdm-qt5-2
376 * QLightDM: Add some missing role names in UsersModel
377 * QLightDM: Add a backgroundPath role to UsersModel
378 * QLightDM: Fix potential crash in QLightDM::UsersModel closedown.
379 * Improve guest session apparmor
380 * Run each test in its own /tmp dir so they can't interfere with eachother
381 * Fix script hooks no longer working with latest glib
382 * Fix display clean up code
384 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.0
386 * Add man page for lightdm-set-defaults
387 * Use xzip for distribution, don't distribute old metadata
388 * Correctly check if display is active when session quits
389 * Relicense liblightdm to LGPL-2/LGPL-3 so GPL-2 code can link against it
390 * Selectively lock memory rather than calling mlockall for main daemon
392 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.1
394 * Fix autologin PAM configuration
396 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.0
398 * Correctly implement and test autologin timeouts
399 * Add greeter-show-remote-login hint
400 * Correctly annotate enums in vapi file
401 * QLightDM: Add default constructor to Qt power interface
402 * QLightDM: Expose image path in UserModel
403 * QLightDM: Add parameter to session model to show either local or remote
405 * Fix race conditions in tests
407 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.3
409 * Add a new remote session type. These sessions create a temporary local
410 account and authenticate against a remote server. The session is an
411 application that accesses that remote session (e.g. VNC, RDP etc)
412 * Support multiple simultaneous PAM prompts
413 * Set utmp ut_host field to the X display address
414 * Correctly reap unused authentication sessions
416 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.2
418 * Handle clearenv() not being defined
419 * Fix compilation with GCC 4.7
420 * Expose remaining properties in QLightDM::Greeter
421 * Fix utmp records being written before child process created
423 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.1
425 * Fix wrapper path in AppArmor profile (broken since 1.1.1)
426 * Add show-manual-login and allow-guest options to lightdm-set-defaults
427 * Don't set PAM_XDISPLAY or PAM_XAUTHDATA if not supported
428 * Add lock-memory option, enabled by default, to prevent paging memory
430 * Write utmp records for sessions
431 * Install PAM configuration
432 * Run greeters inside the "lightdm-greeter" PAM service
433 * Handle setresgid and setresuid not being available
434 * Use xsession directory from lightdm.conf in liblightdm
436 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.2.0
438 * Backup .xsession-errors on login
439 * Handle failures in pam_setcred
440 * Open log files in append mode
441 * Add extra checks in liblightdm so that it doesn't send invalid messages
443 * Fix gdmflexiserver not being added to the path (broken since 1.1.4)
444 * Fix PAM conversations after authentication from locking up sessions
445 * Fix PAM informational messages locking up autologin
446 * Change XDMCP manage timeout from 10ms to 126s (maximum specified in the
449 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.9
451 * Add --show-users/--hide-users to lightdm-set-defaults
452 * Call initgroups before pam_setcred - this allows pam_setcred to change
453 group membership correctly
455 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.8
457 * Handle PAM interactions that have more than one message in one callback
459 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.7
461 * Add a seat option greeter-allow-guest which controls if the greeter should
462 provide an option to access the guest account.
463 * Add a seat option greeter-show-manual-login which hints to a greeter if it
464 should show a manual username entry if a user list is already present.
466 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.6
468 * Fix session wrapper working the same as it did in 1.1.3
470 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.5
472 * Stop file descriptors leaking into the session processes
474 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.4
476 * Change session directory once user permissions are set so it works
477 on NFS filesystems that don't allow root to access files.
478 * Restructure session code so the PAM authentication is run in its
480 * Set PAM_XDISPLAY and PAM_XAUTHDATA pam items
481 * Don't send session stdout to .xsession-errors
482 * Fix Qt bindings crash when removing a user
484 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.3
486 * Actually return the system default keyboard layout, not just 'us'
487 * Add keyboard layout variants to list of keyboard layouts
488 * Check accountsservice as well as .dmrc for users' layouts
489 * Add lightdm_user_get_layouts() to query the configured list of layouts
491 * Add Lock D-Bus method that locks the seat and provides a hint to the
492 greeter to be in lock mode.
493 * Automatically lock sessions when switching away from them
494 * Add a has-messages property to liblightdm
495 * Add regression tests for PAM modules changing usernames
496 * Don't use g_key_file_unref, it requires glib 2.32
498 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.2
500 * Add regression tests for getting the user language and layout
501 * Stop accidentally distributing libsystem
502 * Fix introspection bindings not containing any methods
503 * lightdm-set-defaults can now set the autologin user
504 * Add Python greeter regression tests (representative of all introspection
506 * Wait for the VT to become active when switching to avoid a suspected
507 race condition somewhere between LightDM, X, ConsoleKit and the kernel.
508 * Stop lightdm_greeter_start_session_sync() blocking on success.
510 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.1
512 * Add a --disable-tests option
513 * Add note to AUTHORS file where to find author list
514 * Update build system to find moc/uic
515 * Fix non-distributed tests/src/lightdm-session
516 * Fix X sessions with arguments in Exec not working
517 * Use previous session for automatic login or if greeter does not request
519 * Set default resolution of VNC to 1024x768, add settings for width, height,
520 depth into lightdm.conf.
521 * AppArmor profile: Fix broken gnome-keyring and dbus/gwibber, and quiesce
522 annoying kernel audit messages for privileges that we definitively do not
524 * Set LOGNAME environment variable
525 * Don't set USERNAME environment variable - this is not specified in POSIX,
526 please report if this causes any major problems.
527 * Drop privileges when reading ~/.dmrc
528 * Move the GTK+ and Qt greeters into their own projects
529 * Fix crash when quitting with newer GLib
530 * Fix crash calling lightdm_get_layout
531 * Support for reading users' backgrounds from Accounts Service
532 * Fix --debug working with new glib
533 * Support PAM requesting a change of password
534 * Update build system to work with automake 1.11.2
535 * Run tests inside their own system D-Bus, simulating ConsoleKit and
537 * Add regression test for users that have their home directory created after
539 * Move lightdm-guest-session from libexec to pkglibexec directory
541 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.0
543 * Remove GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie D-Bus methods
544 * Switching to a user without a password bypasses the greeter
545 * Use LD_PRELOAD to intercept system calls for testing
546 * Removed the --passwd-file option as not required for testing anymore
547 * Rename test-xserver to X and remove --xserver-command option
548 * Make a test session wrapper and remove --session-wrapper option
549 * Remove unused --user-session, --greeter-session, --minimum-vt,
550 --minimum-display-number options
551 * Use 'default' as the default greeter (make a symlink)
552 * GTK greeter now initializes i18n
553 * GTK greeter now remembers last user
554 * Start authentication for automtically selected user in GTK greeter
555 * Don't resize GTK greeter on each click
556 * Start authentication when scrolling through GTK greeter entries
557 * Link liblightdm-qt against QtGui
558 * Fix liblightdm-qt crashing when face images are installed
559 * Set correct permissions on session log files
560 * Introduce a lightdm-guest-session-wrapper session command which MAC
561 systems like AppArmor and SELinux can use for attaching a restrictive
562 policy to guest sessions.
563 * Provide an AppArmor profile for guest session lockdown.
564 * Fix daemon from blocking if Accounts Service does not exist
565 * Fix greeter log file not being written
566 * Don't set LANG environment variable if using Accounts Service.
567 * Fix gdmflexiserver not working due to it not being in PATH
568 * Don't authenticate the greeter user
569 * Allow greeters to be disabled in configure flags
570 * Fix over allocation of read buffer in greeter protocol
571 * Make sure objects are cleaned up on exit
572 * Fix minor memory leaks
573 * Fix reference counting issue in ConsoleKit code
574 * Fix --enable-gtk-greeter=yes not working
576 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.0.0
578 * Explicitly grab keyboard focus in GTK greeter
579 * Fix removed power and a11y menu items in GTK greeter
580 * Put system binary directory into path when running in test mode
581 * Call pam_getenvlist after pam_setcred
583 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.8
585 * GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie are now deprecated. They
586 remain for now but use the XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH
587 environment variables instead.
588 * Change log filenames to be unique across different display types.
589 * Fix up script hooks, add regression tests for them
590 * Complete removal of X code from the core of LightDM, so it can better
591 support various display types
592 * Add ability to set the language of a user from the greeter
593 * Set LANG variable based on the user language
594 * Add language selector into GTK greeter (disabled by default)
595 * Allow TCP/IP connections if xserver-allow-tcp is true
596 * Allow lightdm --version to be run as non-root
597 * Automatically respond to PAM messages without prompts
598 * Create 'AddLocalXSeat' D-Bus method, and require root to use 'AddSeat'
599 * Fix multi-seat configuration picking the same display number
600 * Use correct D-Bus and power interface in liblightdm-qt
601 * Run pam_setcred inside the session process so pam_group works
602 * Make sure one session is always selected in the GTK greeter
604 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.7
606 * Set PAM_TTY to the display name, not the tty device
608 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.6
610 * Only unlock displays if switched to from greeter
611 * Make log file not system readable
612 * Write ~/.Xauthority inside the session process so it cannot be hijacked
613 * Set PAM_TTY and PAM_XDISPLAY when opening PAM session
614 * Add VNC server support
615 * Do not write ~/.dmrc and ~/.Xauthority as root. [CVE-2011-3349]
617 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.5
619 * Use accounts service in the daemon if it is available
620 * Correctly load seat type in multi seat configuration
621 * Add display-setup, session-setup and session-cleanup scripting hooks
622 * Fix cancel button in GTK greeter
623 * Fix line through GTK greeter menu items
624 * Exit daemon if a seat fails which has exit-on-failure set to true
625 * Add HasGuestAccount property to seat D-Bus interface
626 * Fix XDMCP authorization
629 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.4
631 * lightdm-set-defaults enables tweaking the default session and chosen
632 greeter for lightdm. This is useful for derivatives waiting to not ship
633 the whole configuration file of lightdm
634 * Fix crash in GTK+ greeter when a user is added
635 * Move xsessions-directory and xgreeters-directory from [SeatDefaults] to
636 [LightDM]. This is a configuration break, but making it on the assumption
637 that these settings are not likely to have been overridden.
638 * Fix fallback from org.freedesktop.Accounts to passwd format
639 * Fix duplicate user entries being shown when using passwd file
640 * Add AddSeat D-Bus method for adding dynamic seats
641 * Added a dm-tool program that allows user switching and adding seats
642 * Allow remote X servers, e.g. launched using dm-tool add-nested-seat
643 * Fix bug where sessions were started when the greeter quit and the user
644 hadn't been authorized.
645 * Fix bug where sessions used the seat bus name
646 * Don't allow autologin-username to be set to empty
647 * Fix bug where PAM session was not opened before writing to home directory
648 * Fix crash when failing to write X authority
650 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.3
652 * Unlock ConsoleKit sessions when switching to them
653 * Add a gdmflexiserver binary that provides backwards compatibility with
655 * Set XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH environment variables for sessions.
656 * Always set XAUTHORITY environment variable so sudo keeps accessing the
658 * Connect up lightdm_user_get_logged_in in liblightdm-gobject
659 * Ignore sessions that fail TryExec or are hidden
660 * Add missing home_directory User property missing in Vala bindings
662 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.2
664 * Fix annotation and Vala bindings for getting the UserList singleton
665 * Fix GTK+ greeter error label not being shown
666 * Don't set SIGQUIT to ignore in child processes
667 * Reworked the PAM code as ecryptfs users weren't able to log in. They
668 can now but not sure what changed to fix that!?
670 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.1
672 * Fix up translation build system
673 * Add a --with-greeter-user configure option
674 * Fix greeter-user configuration not being used
675 * Abort greeter if attempted to be run as root and greeter-user set
676 * Fix setting session in GTK+ greeter
678 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.0
680 * Fix invalid XAUTHORITY variable being set for second X server.
681 * Fix bug where switching users created X servers without VTs
682 * Release a VT when the X server on it stops
683 * Greeters are now just standard X sessions that are stored in
684 /usr/share/xgreeters.
685 * Binaries now installed in /usr/sbin
686 * Drop most of the configure options, they aren't necessary
688 - Major reorginisation of configuration to make it easier to configure and
689 understand. Users should set [SeatDefaults] section with settings for
690 all seats, and can override each setting in a per seat configuration.
691 - Default seats are now specified using a [Seat:<name>] section. If no seats
692 are specified then one is started. This can be overridden by setting
693 start-default-seat=false in [LightDM].
694 - Support setting autologin user to guest account
695 - Split the user accounts configuration into /etc/lightdm/users.conf so the
696 main config can be private.
697 - The default user session is now "default". Distributions should put a
698 symlink to their chosen default or set one in lightdm.conf.
699 - XDMCP keys now stored in keys.conf
700 * liblightdm API changes:
701 - Both libraries are now version 1 and have API and ABI guarantees.
702 - Face images are now local paths not URIs
703 - liblightdm-gobject now uses lightdm_ prefix instead of ldm_
704 - Non-greeter functions are now moved out of the Greeter class
705 - connect_to_server() is now called connect_sync and blocks until
707 - start_session() is now called start_session_sync and blocks until
708 completion. The quit signal is removed, and the greeter should quit if
709 this method returns TRUE.
710 - login() is now called authenticate()
711 - Greeters now have hints instead of configuration (greeters should load their
712 own configuration from /etc/lightdm if they need it).
713 - liblightdm-gobject uses AccountsService if it is available
714 - Added regression tests for liblightdm-qt
716 - Expose Seats and Sessions on org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
717 - Add a CanSwitch property
718 - Rename ShowGreeter() to SwitchToGreeter()
720 - Drop "example" from the name of the GTK+ and Qt greeters and make them
721 official default greeters.
722 - Use GTK3 for GTK+ greeter.
723 - Removed the Vala and Python GTK+ greeters, they weren't being well
726 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.4
728 * Fix failure to accept XDMCP connections due to invalid assert.
729 * Allow minimum-display-number to be set in lightdm.conf and on the command
731 * Session X authority now written to ~/.Xauthority by default. It can be
732 configured to run from the system location by setting
733 user-authority-in-system-dir=true in lightdm.conf.
734 * When using system authority the authority can be updated by the user.
735 * Written X authority files now checks hostname and display number.
736 * Enironment is no longer passed through to X servers and sessions, this is
737 no longer required now PAM works correctly.
738 * liblightdm API changes:
739 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_is_first() - it was added for testing and doesn't
741 * Fix more errors where authentication messages from previous sessions could
742 be confused with new sessions.
743 * Added XDMCP regression tests.
745 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.3
747 * Don't replace Plymouth if it isn't running on a valid VT
748 * Allow a null username to log in with - the system will prompt for a
750 * liblightdm API changes:
751 - Rename ldm_greeter_provide_secret to ldm_greeter_respond - responses
753 - show-prompt signal now has a PromptType field
754 - show-message signal now has a MessageType field and takes over
755 behaviour of show-error signal
756 * Fix error where an authentication failure from a previous session could
757 be interpreted as a failure in the current session.
758 * Simplify Vala bindings and add missing methods
760 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.2
762 * Fix errors communicating with PAM
763 * Fix interaction with Plytmouth.
764 * Removes the vt option in lightdm.conf, this is no longer required
765 and the active is used for the first display if Plymouth is
766 detected. A new option minimum-vt is added to select the first
767 VT to be used for other displays.
768 * On login switch to an existing session if already logged in with that
770 * Correctly connect up D-Bus interface for user switching
772 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.1
774 * Fix linking issue with -z,defs
775 * Added guest account support
776 * Restart X server if it crashes during a session
777 * Don't set language environment variables, use the daemon values
778 (system default) and leave it to ~/.profile for users to set these
779 * Change greeter library API, starting a session no longer has a language
781 * Fix greeter crash when user accounts change
783 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.0
785 * Fix crash when child processes quit
786 * Fix crash when catching signals
787 * Fix crash when session quits after X server
788 * Add internal checking for NULL object access
789 * Correctly handle signals from external programs (Thanks to Jason Conti)
790 * liblightdm API changes:
791 - ldm_greeter_start_authentication becomes ldm_greeter_login
792 - The existing ldm_greeter_login is now ldm_greeter_start_session
793 and the username parameter is not required.
794 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_default_layout (X controls the layout)
795 * Configuration changes:
796 - Use /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf instead of /etc/lightdm.conf
797 - The "displays" item is now called "seats". LightDM will fallback to
798 "displays" if "seats" is not defined, but this is deprecated and will
799 be removed by version 1.0.
800 - Make X server configuration a separate section and now has new options
801 * Automatic login users now use PAM session lightdm-autologin
802 * Use org.freedesktop.DisplayManager instead of
803 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager for D-Bus name
804 * Add regression tests
805 * Allow many more options to be set from the command line
807 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.7
809 * Fix autologin broken in 0.3.3
811 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.6
813 * Disable Plymouth when starting
814 * Allow display vt setting to be set to "active" to start on active VT
815 * Fix login in Qt example greeter
816 * Fix typo for High Contrast menu item (GTK example greeter)
818 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.5
820 * Set working directory when logging in
821 * Massive improvements to Qt greeter
822 * Fix XDMCP authentication/authorization errors
823 * Have the daemon open a connection to a local X server
824 * Tidy up some debugging messages
826 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.4
828 * Updates to liblightdm-qt
829 * Fix --with-cache-dir not working
830 * Set greeterdir in .pc files to point to where greeter engines should be
833 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.3
835 * Don't run in test-mode if Xephyr cannot be found
836 * Fix daemon using 100% CPU after greeter quits
837 * Fix crash when users don't have GECOS data
838 * Greeters can now detect user add/remove events
839 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken with switch to GDBus
840 * Correctly clean up X processes on exit
841 * Wait for greeter to quit before running user session (fixes problem with
844 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.2
846 * Distribute GTK greeter .ui file
848 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.1
850 * Add greeter login_with_defaults method
851 * Add example to the name of all the greeters
852 * Set the configuration for the default display to use VT 7
853 * Fix the vt setting for displays, it was incorrectly named tty
854 * Fix crash when load-users is false in UserManager
855 * Fix up name of .vapi file so it can be used directly from valac
856 * Tidy up Qt library and greeter
857 * Move menubar in greeters to top of screen
858 * Fix console kit get_can_*() methods
859 * Use GtkBuilder for example GTK greeter
861 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.0
863 * Correctly pass environment variables through to the session
864 * Allow starting virtual terminal to be configured
865 * Replace D-Bus greeter communication with a private pipe
866 * Use GDBus instead of dbus-glib
867 * Use the engine process name instead of a hardcoded value in theme files
868 * Rename ldm_greeter_connect to ldm_greeter_connect_to_server so it doesn't
869 clash with GObject method name
870 * Rename ldm-gtk-greeter to lightdm-gtk-greeter
871 * Rename gnome theme to example-gtk-gnome
872 * Add more annotations to liblightdm-gobject
873 * Add an example PyGObject, Vala and QT greeter
874 * Generate metadata for QT libraries
875 * Move Webkit greeter into separate module
877 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.3
879 * Set correct linking library names in pkg-config files
880 * Handle session executables that take arguments
882 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.2
884 * Make default themedir work when --prefix is not passed to configure
885 * Look for face images in ~/.face and ~/.face.icon
886 * Put .vapi file in unversioned vala directory
887 * Fix compiling without QT
888 * Choose the VT to open the display on
889 * Set correct group memberships for sessions (Yves-Alexis Perez)
890 * Set permissions on xauthority file so it can only be read by the owning
891 user (Yves-Alexis Perez)
892 * Set correct permissions on ~/.dmrc (Yves-Alexis Perez)
893 * Add --enable-liblightdm-gobject, --enable-liblightdm-qt configure option
894 * Set environment variables from PAM (Yves-Alexis Perez)
896 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.1
898 * Use "lightdm" as default PAM service and make it configurable
899 * Rename libldmgreeter to libldmgreeter-gobject
900 * Add libldmgreeter-qt (David Edmundson)
901 * Fix gobject-introspection build
902 * Renamed libldmgreeter to liblightdm
903 * Install a .vapi file
905 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.0
907 * Make default user configuration per-display
908 * Only automatically login the first time
909 * Fix WebKit theme loading and automatic login
910 * Do cross fade for sessions that support it
911 (set X-LightDM-Supports-Transitions=true in their xsession file)
912 * Load user settings from ~/.dmrc
913 * Add configuration for default language/layout
914 * Change language/layout/session when user selected in GTK+ greeter
915 * Set default keyboard layout on first login
916 * Don't run all sessions throught /etc/X11/XSession - make the session
917 wrapper optional and configurable.
918 * Make pkgconfig file require libxklavier
919 * Only compile greeters if have dependencies
920 * Include ck-connector code to reduce library dependencies
921 * Add introspection.m4 to the source tree
922 * Support using no greeter user in lightdm.conf
923 * Flush writes to main log file
924 * Allow non-privilidged user to write greeter log file in /var
925 * Fix bugs stopping running greeter as priviledged user (i.e. root)
926 * Don't default to running greeters with the GDM user - it may not exist!
928 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.2
931 * Make user switcher API work
932 * Add a AddDisplay D-Bus method to start new displays
933 * Feed signals to GLib main loop via a pipe
934 * Add an upstart script
935 * Make theme files more similar to existing themes
936 * Change dbus namespace from org.freedesktop.LightDisplayManager to
937 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager
938 * Write debug log to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log instead of stdout. Use
939 --debug for the previous behaviour
940 * Add exec_prefix into libldmgreeter.pc
941 * Change versioned include and pkgconfig files from 1 to 0
942 * Add themedir variable into pkgconfig file
943 * Connect language list in GTK greeter to login language
945 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.1
947 * Change licence of libldmgreeter from GPL to LGPL
948 * Write X server and session output to log files
949 * Set PATH, DESKTOP_SESSION, GDMSESSION and USERNAME environment variables
950 * Run sessions through Xsession
951 * Close all X servers on exit
952 * Send SIGHUP to X server when returning to greeter (makes all clients quit)
953 * Change authorization after a session ends so previous session does not get
955 * Make shutdown buttons work in GTK+ greeter
956 * Make user manager configurable
957 * Make GTK+ greeter show username entry if no user list
958 * Hide C and POSIX languages in greeter
959 * Load language and layout from .dmrc file
961 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.0
963 * Make --test-mode which runs as the current user
964 * Support displays acting as XDMCP terminals
965 * Support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authorization
966 * Support XDMCP over IPv6
968 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.4
970 * Support XDMCP logins
972 * Clean up resources on exit
973 * Create gettext instance in WebKit greeter
975 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.3
977 * Wait for signal from X server before starting session
979 * Add keyboard layout API
980 * Add gettext support to the WebKit greeter
982 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.2
984 * Fix installation of D-Bus service file
985 * Allow DISPLAY env variable to be passed to X server so can run Xephyr
986 * Handle no automatic login in webkit theme
988 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.1