X-Git-Url: https://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/gitweb/sojka/lightdm.git/blobdiff_plain/c2eb308e5073f5e5b634e61120fdb3954c78e69a..HEAD:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e2cadcab..f704b4d9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,159 @@ +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.20.0 + + * Use stable version number (no other changes) + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.19.5 + + * Fix errors in documentation generation + * Improve documentation + * Fix guest AppArmor profile to allow guest sessions more access to the + upstart session socket + * Fix small memory leak in liblightdm-gobject keyboard layout code + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.19.4 + + * Fix various issues in new in-session greeter code + * Fix user list memory management exposed by use of in-session greeters + * Fix some spurious warnings in the log + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.19.3 + + * Fix in-session greeters not working for greeter logins + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.19.2 + + * Add support for greeters running inside sessions. This is enabled by + setting X-LightDM-Allow-Greeter inside the session .desktop file. + The session can then use liblightdm to connect one greeter to the + daemon. The communication is done using a socket + (/var/run/lightdm//greeter-socket) that is accessible to any + process run by that user. Consider controlling access to this socket + using a MAC system such as AppArmor. + * Report errors for all liblightdm methods. This will require existing + greeters to update their API usage. The ABI is unchanged. + * Handle EAGAIN correctly when daemons communicate with the daemon. + * Drop support for mir-container sessions - no-one ever used these. + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.19.1 + + * Rename "xlocal" seat type to "local". Using "xlocal" will continue to work + but report a warning. + * Fix memory leaks + * Fix uninitialized memory errors + * Use MIR_SERVER_HOST_SOCKET instead of MIR_SOCKET to report compositor + socket to sessions. This used to work but no longer works in Mir 0.21 + * Allow XMir to run on the xlocal seat using the new x-server-backend=mir + option + * Use only a single compositor on local seats + * Fix Mir greeter log filename having "(null)" in the name + * Copy fcitx/mozc rules so session works when these aren't installed + * Revert lxsession change - it caused the AppArmor to fail to compile + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.19.0 + + * Use /dev/tty0 instead of /dev/console for VT operations + * Don't quit on SIGUSR1, SIGUSR2 or SIGHUP + * Improve XDMCP IPv6 address selection + * Set XDMCP hostname field in to system hostname or configured value + * Allow fcitx and mozc to run in guest session + * Fix lxsession running in guest sessiono + * Drop support for legacy XMir + * Fix g_spawn compiler warning + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.18.0 + + * Small documentation fixes + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.17.6 + + * Don't write $DISPLAY into tty line in utmp/btmp. + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.17.5 + + * Set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR for ConsoleKit sessions. This is a recent change in + ConsoleKit2. + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.17.4 + + * Add support for g_autoptr and liblightdm-gobject + * Fix dm-tool add-local-seat not working because LightDM is trying to + connect with TCP/IP + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.17.3 + + * Don't enable the hardware cursor in Unity System Compositor anymore. + Unity 8 now correctly provides its own cursor and other shells should too + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.17.2 + + * Handle XDMCP Request packet with no addresses. + * Don't start LightDM if the XDMCP server is configured with a key that + doesn't exist. + * Add IP addresses to XDMCP log messages. + * Refactor XDMCP error handling. + * Add more XDMCP tests. + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.17.1 + + * Add a backup-logs option that can be used to disable existing logging + files having a .old suffix added to them. + * Add LC_PAPER, LC_NAME, LC_ADDRESS, LC_TELEPHONE, LC_MEASUREMENT and + LC_IDENTIFICATION variables to the list of inherited locale variables. + * Implement XDMCP ForwardQuery. + * Fix small memory leak in XDMCP logging code. + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.17.0 + + * Disable log backups - this interferes with logrotate. + * Support using libaudit to generate audit events. + * Handle trailing whitespace on boolean values in configuration. + * Update example configuration to more correctly match allowed options. + * Fix unnecessary X server from being launched when locking seats. + * Check the version of the X server we are running so we correctly pass + -listen tcp when required. + * Allow reading /proc//net/dev from within a guest session. + * Allow guest sessions to write in /{,var/}run/screen folder. + * Update guest-session AppArmor profile to be suitable for openSUSE. + * Fix apparmor profiles for running Chromium in guest sessions. + * Fix configure failing without Vala installed. + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.16.0 + + * Update default configuration better explaining the seat configuration name + matching and dropping references to the obsolete [SeatDefaults] section + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.15.3 + + * Drop Xorg option -sharevts. It's no longer required for non-seat0 X + servers since xorg-server release 1.16. + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.15.2 + + * Support Wayland sessions. + * Implement autologin-session option. + * Generate Vala bindings from GIR instead of manually writing them. This + fixes some small bugs in both the Vala and GIR bindings. + * Don't remove autotools generated files in distclean. + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.15.1 + + * Fix default X server command set to XMir in 1.15.0. + * Internally merge the [SeatDefaults] and [Seat:*] sections together. The + previous method meant configuration snippets using a mix of old and new + naming would not correctly override eachother. + * Use IP address of XDMCP requests to contact X server if available. + * Add an option for XDMCP and VNC servers to only listen on one address. + * Fix configuration file warnings so they go to the log, not stderr. + * Warn if deprecated options logind-load-seats or xdg-seat are in + configuration. + * Improve IP addresses in XDMCP log messages. + * Fix typo in dm-tool man page. + +Overview of changes in lightdm 1.15.0 + + * Deprecate [SeatDefaults] in favour of [Seat:*] + * Use new Xmir binary when running X under Unity System Compositor + Overview of changes in lightdm 1.14.0 * Initialize file descriptor handles so we don't attempt to close stdin by