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- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.26.0
-
- * No changes from 1.25.2
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.25.2
-
- * Fix incorrect use of ConsoleKit CanSuspend/Hibernate API
- * Correctly install AccountsService interface file
- * Fix build system to require C99
- * Use standard format for arguments passed to qtchooser
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.25.1
-
- * Fixes for VNC and XDMCP connections
- * Use AccountsService extension system for extended greeter information
- * Modernise code style
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.25.0
-
- * Support moc being called moc-qt5 (e.g. Fedora)
- * Fail configure if MOC can't be found
- * Expose autologin-session as a hint to the greeter
- * Fix timed autologins not using autologin-session when no session specified
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.24.0
-
- * No changes from 1.22
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.22.0
-
- * Allow guest sessions to talk to Mir (allowing unity8)
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.21.5
-
- * Fix logic that checked if a session was being stopped.
- This fixes a race condition that could cause logging into an existing
- session from a greeter to not return to that session.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.21.4
-
- * Use power management functions from ConsoleKit2 if available.
- * Correctly pass return value from sessions to LightDM.
- * Retry VT_WAITACTIVE if we get EINTR.
- * Ignore SIGHUP by default.
- * Use SA_RESTART with SIGPIPE.
- * liblightdm-qt: Use liblightdm-gobject power methods instead of
- re-implementing in Qt.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.21.3
-
- * Fix crashes introduced in 1.21.2 due to environment variable changes
- * Fix incorrect unref in XDMCP server code
- * Fix logging warning
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.21.2
-
- * Use SA_RESTART on signals so we don't get interrupted reads
- * Use logind to terminate greeter sessions if it is available
- * Load greeters from XDG_DATA_DIRS instead of compile time value
- * Allow D-Bus interface to be disabled
- * Always pass through LD_PRELOAD, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH to
- sessions/display servers
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.21.1
-
- * Fix greeters crashing with unknown configuration keys (regression from
- 1.21.0)
- * Add an API verison to the greeter-daemon protocol for future enhancements
- * More regression tests
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.21.0
-
- * Add liblightdm functions for getting OS release information and the
- message of the day.
- * Warn if we find unknown keys in configuration.
- * Fix .profile errors not showing in .xsession-errors log.
- * Remove duplicate Qt property in liblightdm.
- * Fix and improve liblightdm API documentation.
- * Minor GIR annotation fixes.
-
- 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/<user>/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/<PID>/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
- accident.
- * Fix small errors detected by scan-build (clang).
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.13.2
-
- * Fix pipe file descriptor leak for each greeter session.
- * Support active session changing via logind.
- * Don't allow liblightdm-gobject to be disabled. It is required for
- liblightdm-qt and the tests so it's not worth supporting builds without
- it.
- * Add bash autocompletion support
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.13.1
-
- * Don't attempt generate D-Bus seat/session removal signals on shutdown.
- * Add missing method QLightDM::Greeter::cancelAutologin
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.13.0
-
- * Fix crash when having configuration keys defined in multiple places
- * Fix pipe file descriptor leak for each session login / authentication
- * Use correct syntax for DesktopNames key in session files
- * Match seat configuration with globbing
- * Allow user switching in multi-seat until bug stopping greeter showing on
- logout is fixed
- * Disable log message when AccountsService users change
- * Update AppArmor scripts, requires AppArmor 2.9
- * Update tests to run better on servers
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.12.0
-
- * Fix assumption that the display server is X when running scripts.
- * Don't access .dmrc files until information from these files is required.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.9
-
- * Don't check the logind CanGraphical seat property unless
- login-check-graphical option is set to true. There are too many cases of
- drivers that don't set the appropriate flags for this feature to work.
- * Make socket writing code used between greeter and daemon more robust to
- errors.
- * Fix small memory leaks.
- * Improve logging messages.
- * Test improvements.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.8
-
- * Rework logind code that gets session ID. The previous method was racy
- and a change in lightdm 1.11.7 led to a lockup when this race occurred.
- * Handle CanGraphical property on logind seats
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.7
-
- * Use logind to provide the list of seats to use. Deprecate the old method
- of manually defining seats.
- * Add --show-config option that shows combined configuration.
- * Drop the surfaceflinger seat type. This was a temporary solution while
- Ubuntu Phone was migrating to Mir.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.6
-
- * Add a seat option 'allow-user-switching' that can disable all user
- switching for that seat
- * Add a new session type 'mir-container' that allows the session to run
- inside a custom system compositor
- * Only seat0 takes VT from Plymouth
- * Removed unused GAsyncResultIface.is_tagged as this attribute was not
- available in earlier versions of Glib I/O.
- * Abort autogen if yelp-tools not installed
- * Return correct errors for D-Bus calls
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.5
-
- * Make PAM services configurable
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.4
-
- * Do timed autologin each time you are returned to the greeter
- * Fix tests failing with Qt 5.3 due to it checking getuid/geteuid which we are faking
- * dm-tool: Warn if trying to switch to user without username
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.3
-
- * Fix Mir sessions broken with unity-system-compositor 0.3.
- * Add back Vala bindings for LightDM.Greeter.connect_sync - just mark as
- deprecated.
- * Put unity-system-compositor's mir_socket under /run rather than /tmp.
- * Fix building with clang (3.5) and -Werror.
- * Correct section name in default users.conf file.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.2
-
- * Add liblightdm method to get user UID
- * DBus-activate logind
- * Check for libgcrypt at configure time
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.1
-
- * Allow greeters to remain runing to reduce startup time when switching to a
- greeter
- * Add asynchronous methods to liblightdm
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.0
-
- * When switching to an existing session refresh PAM credentials and end
- session cleanly so no resources leak.
- * Support new standard DesktopNames field in session files
- * Set XDG_SESSION_TYPE and XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP as used by systemd
- * Emit DBus PropertiesChanged when Sessions/Seats properties change. Also
- add SessionAdded/SessionRemoved signals to Seat interface
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.10.0
-
- * Fix return value for Vala bindings to Greeter.start_session_sync
- * Fix logging when failing to find session
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.15
-
- * Update the lightdm AppArmor abstraction to allow the guest session to
- start when AppArmor is mediating signals and ptrace and fix a minor, but
- noisy, denial when applications attempt to read /proc/<PID>/stat.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.14
-
- * Pass --enable-hardware-greeter to unity-system-compositor for Mir sessions
- on xlocal seats
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.13
-
- * Handle not getting an X connection when attempting to get X layouts.
- * Read config data from both XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.12
-
- * Ensure X authority is written before X server is started
- * Activate after unlocking a logind session
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.11
-
- * Don't use g_hash_table_get_keys_as_array, it's a glib 2.40 feature
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.10
-
- * Honour session type requested by greeter for guest sessions
- * Log to wtmp and btmp.
- * Implement guest-session config option
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.9
-
- * Handle signals being received in child processes instead of treating them
- like they are received in the daemon.
- * Set utmp ut_line to the display name (i.e. :0) to match what other
- programs expect (e.g. 'w').
- * Fix lightdm_greeter_ensure_shared_data_dir_sync returning the wrong value.
- * Fix shared data tests so you can run test suite without root again.
- * Be extra careful not to call any non thread safe function after a fork.
- * Fix some small memory leaks detected by valgrind.
- * Fix process shutdown code to stop generating confusing warnings
- * Fix more double removal of source IDs.
- * Test improvements.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.8
-
- * Add support for shared user data directories between the greeter and user sessions.
- * Refactor LightDMUser and User classes to use the same code internally.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.7
-
- * Correctly invoke PAM to change authentication token.
- * Make xdg-seat a core property of a seat and always pass it to X servers.
- * Qt bindings: properly hand over prompt and message type.
- * Add warning flags where they are missing and fix the resulting warnings.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.6
-
- * Support Mir sessions in xlocal seats by starting a unity system compositor
- for each session.
- * Add --screen and --fullscreen options to "dm-tool add-nested-seat"
- * Don't try to compile liblightdm-qt if liblightdm-gobject will not be
- compiled.
- * Stop greeters warning if sessions directories not present or lightdm.conf
- doesn't exist - this is valid.
- * Fix log name for Mir display servers
- * Fix double removal of source IDs
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.5
-
- * In the unity seat, if we don't have proper VT support, fake VT 0 instead
- of a real VT number. This matches what logind expects.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.4
-
- * Fix issue where VTs are double used when switching sessions.
- * Remove lightdm-set-defaults and gdmflexiserver.
- * Add new ability to specify a list of seat types to try, rather than just
- one.
- * Allow Mir sessions in the surfaceflinger seat.
- * Rename the guest session wrapper to have a simpler name.
- * Make sure sessions are associated with the display server before starting
- them.
- * Add a dm-tool man page.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.3
-
- * Don't pass system user accounts from AccountsService to greeters.
- * Fix crash if switching to greeter and it isn't installed.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.2
-
- * Implement missing guest-wrapper functionality and enable it for Ubuntu.
- * Update AppArmor scripts to work in Ubuntu 13.10.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.1
-
- * Correctly set $XDG_SESSION_CLASS for greeters. This was regressed in 1.7.5
- for ConsoleKit and was never passed to logind. logind/ConsoleKit treat
- greeter sessions without this set as user sessions. This causes greeters
- to show the lightdm user able to be logged in with.
- * Set $USER when running the session-setup-script. This is a regression from
- 1.7.5.
- * Fix notification of sessions being logged out. This is a regression from
- 1.7.5 and caused greeters to show sessions logged in after they had been
- logged out.
- * Refactor liblightdm user scanning to be simpler and more reliable. This
- fixes bugs where some properties wouldn't be updated when they changed in
- accounts service.
- * Add support for a "display-stopped-script" field in lightdm.conf. The
- "display-stopped-script" field allows us to run a script right after
- stopping the display server.
- * Allow dm-tool to run outside of a session if it doesn't need to be.
- * Set $MIR_SERVER_NAME to assign a name to launched sessions. Also use a
- "greeter-" prefix for greeter sessions for the benefit of
- unity-system-compositor.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.0
-
- * Fix crash when starting with existing X servers. This was introduced in
- rev 1651 (lightdm 1.7.0).
- * Fix crash where Process objects are accessed after unref
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.8.0
-
- * Add regression test for corrupt X authority files.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.18
-
- * Set session environment variables for guest sessions (1.7 regression).
- * Don't fail writing X authority if reading it had an error.
- * Update environment variables that we pass to Mir.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.17
-
- * surfaceflinger: Set XDG_VTNR=0 if VTs are not available
- * Allow compiling of liblightdm-qt without liblightdm-gobject
- * Add missing documentation for xremote seat options.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.16
-
- * Fix ConsoleKit support broken in 1.7.5
- * Fix --test-mode
- * Add support for running Surfaceflinger sessions
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.15
-
- * Set XDG_VTNR=1 as a fallback if using SeatUnity without a functioning
- compositor or working VT switching, so that logind will recognize the VT
- as active.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.14
-
- * Correctly set permissions on Xauthority file.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.13
-
- * Correctly set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for non-autologin sessions
- * Fix overallocation of array for strings from greeter.
- * Fix truncation writing card32 in XDMCP server.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.12
-
- * Add xdg-seat config setting
- * Notify Unity System Compositor of the session being authenticated
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.11
-
- * Fix crash when greeter quits due to read watch not being removed
- * Correctly setup Unity System Compositor environment
- * Improve log messages
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.10
-
- * Fix session locking broken in 1.7.5
- * Load lightdm.conf after lightdm.conf.d/*.conf
- * Also support loading config from /usr/share
- * When switching sessions show a greeter if authentication required
- * Set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP if specified in the xsession file
- * Change logging prefixes to make it easier to troubleshoot multiseat setups
- * Bring Ubuntu packaging in-tree
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.9
-
- * Correctly set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions that are not autologin.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.8
-
- * Add support for Mir sessions and greeters.
- * Set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions.
- * Fix desktop-session-start upstart signal not being emitted since 1.7.5.
- * Fix greeter log broken in 1.7.5.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.7
-
- * Fix uninitialized pointer introduced in 1.7.3
- * Enable compile warnings and fix code generating warnings
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.6
-
- * Restore greeter hints that were regressed in 1.7.5.
- * Don't run greeters through session wrapper - regression in 1.7.5
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.5
-
- * Quit Plymouth correctly when using the unity seat type
- * Release the VT when the system compositor fails to start
- * Load sessions and greeters from /usr/share/lightdm/sessions and
- /usr/share/lightdm/greeters. The existing directories are checked
- if the sessions are not in these directories.
- * Refactor the Display class so that it merges with the Seat class
- * Support running the greeter and session in different display servers
- instead of re-using the same one during a login.
- * Add more regression tests
- * Documentation fixes
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.4
-
- * Set XDG_SEAT and XDG_VTNR environment variables.
- * Add initial support for Unity (i.e. Mir based) seats.
- * Add a greeter wrapper option.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.3
-
- * Load configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d.
- * Fix compile warnings
- * Fix tests not running from install directory inside checkout.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.2
-
- * Fix incorrectly distributed guest-session apparmor data
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.1
-
- * Fix .pc file for liblightdm-qt5-3
- * Add a new option "autologin-in-background" which lets an autologin happen
- in a second display while still showing the greeter.
- * Stop if fail to create default seat
- * Add option to set seat type in lightdm-set-defaults
- * Stop using g_file_set_contents - it can leave intermediate files around
- * Make tests work without installing them
- * Fix distcheck
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.0
-
- * Use logind instead of ConsoleKit if it is available
- * Use Q_SLOTS and Q_SIGNALS instead of slots and signals.
- * Ignore stale X server locks
- * Pass through system locale or set locale from AccountsService/.dmrc
- * Fix bug where seat failure before D-Bus acquired would not stop daemon
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.6.0
-
- * Allow VNC command to be specified in lightdm.conf
- * Register enums with QObject meta type system.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.3
-
- * Fix build with gobject-introspection 1.35.9
- * Fix authentication cancel regression caused in 1.5.2
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.2
-
- * Fix stale X server being left behind when using LockSession D-Bus API
- * Adjust AppArmor profile to also work with logind
- * Don't use GIO to access X authority files - it uses GVFS which is
- unnecessary overhead/complexity
- * Handle over/underflows when reading from greeter
- * Improve warning message when XDMCP packet has length mismatch
- * Only report test command line if it fails
- * Add more regression tests
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.1
-
- * QLightDM: Add Qt5 version of the library: liblightdm-qt5-2
- * QLightDM: Add some missing role names in UsersModel
- * QLightDM: Add a backgroundPath role to UsersModel
- * QLightDM: Fix potential crash in QLightDM::UsersModel closedown.
- * Improve guest session apparmor
- * Run each test in its own /tmp dir so they can't interfere with eachother
- * Fix script hooks no longer working with latest glib
- * Fix display clean up code
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.0
-
- * Add man page for lightdm-set-defaults
- * Use xzip for distribution, don't distribute old metadata
- * Correctly check if display is active when session quits
- * Relicense liblightdm to LGPL-2/LGPL-3 so GPL-2 code can link against it
- * Selectively lock memory rather than calling mlockall for main daemon
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.1
-
- * Fix autologin PAM configuration
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.0
-
- * Correctly implement and test autologin timeouts
- * Add greeter-show-remote-login hint
- * Correctly annotate enums in vapi file
- * QLightDM: Add default constructor to Qt power interface
- * QLightDM: Expose image path in UserModel
- * QLightDM: Add parameter to session model to show either local or remote
- sessions
- * Fix race conditions in tests
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.3
-
- * Add a new remote session type. These sessions create a temporary local
- account and authenticate against a remote server. The session is an
- application that accesses that remote session (e.g. VNC, RDP etc)
- * Support multiple simultaneous PAM prompts
- * Set utmp ut_host field to the X display address
- * Correctly reap unused authentication sessions
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.2
-
- * Handle clearenv() not being defined
- * Fix compilation with GCC 4.7
- * Expose remaining properties in QLightDM::Greeter
- * Fix utmp records being written before child process created
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.1
-
- * Fix wrapper path in AppArmor profile (broken since 1.1.1)
- * Add show-manual-login and allow-guest options to lightdm-set-defaults
- * Don't set PAM_XDISPLAY or PAM_XAUTHDATA if not supported
- * Add lock-memory option, enabled by default, to prevent paging memory
- to disk.
- * Write utmp records for sessions
- * Install PAM configuration
- * Run greeters inside the "lightdm-greeter" PAM service
- * Handle setresgid and setresuid not being available
- * Use xsession directory from lightdm.conf in liblightdm
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.2.0
-
- * Backup .xsession-errors on login
- * Handle failures in pam_setcred
- * Open log files in append mode
- * Add extra checks in liblightdm so that it doesn't send invalid messages
- to the daemon
- * Fix gdmflexiserver not being added to the path (broken since 1.1.4)
- * Fix PAM conversations after authentication from locking up sessions
- * Fix PAM informational messages locking up autologin
- * Change XDMCP manage timeout from 10ms to 126s (maximum specified in the
- XDMCP specification)
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.9
-
- * Add --show-users/--hide-users to lightdm-set-defaults
- * Call initgroups before pam_setcred - this allows pam_setcred to change
- group membership correctly
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.8
-
- * Handle PAM interactions that have more than one message in one callback
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.7
-
- * Add a seat option greeter-allow-guest which controls if the greeter should
- provide an option to access the guest account.
- * Add a seat option greeter-show-manual-login which hints to a greeter if it
- should show a manual username entry if a user list is already present.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.6
-
- * Fix session wrapper working the same as it did in 1.1.3
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.5
-
- * Stop file descriptors leaking into the session processes
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.4
-
- * Change session directory once user permissions are set so it works
- on NFS filesystems that don't allow root to access files.
- * Restructure session code so the PAM authentication is run in its
- own process.
- * Set PAM_XDISPLAY and PAM_XAUTHDATA pam items
- * Don't send session stdout to .xsession-errors
- * Fix Qt bindings crash when removing a user
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.3
-
- * Actually return the system default keyboard layout, not just 'us'
- * Add keyboard layout variants to list of keyboard layouts
- * Check accountsservice as well as .dmrc for users' layouts
- * Add lightdm_user_get_layouts() to query the configured list of layouts
- on a per-user basis
- * Add Lock D-Bus method that locks the seat and provides a hint to the
- greeter to be in lock mode.
- * Automatically lock sessions when switching away from them
- * Add a has-messages property to liblightdm
- * Add regression tests for PAM modules changing usernames
- * Don't use g_key_file_unref, it requires glib 2.32
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.2
-
- * Add regression tests for getting the user language and layout
- * Stop accidentally distributing libsystem
- * Fix introspection bindings not containing any methods
- * lightdm-set-defaults can now set the autologin user
- * Add Python greeter regression tests (representative of all introspection
- based greeters)
- * Wait for the VT to become active when switching to avoid a suspected
- race condition somewhere between LightDM, X, ConsoleKit and the kernel.
- * Stop lightdm_greeter_start_session_sync() blocking on success.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.1
-
- * Add a --disable-tests option
- * Add note to AUTHORS file where to find author list
- * Update build system to find moc/uic
- * Fix non-distributed tests/src/lightdm-session
- * Fix X sessions with arguments in Exec not working
- * Use previous session for automatic login or if greeter does not request
- one.
- * Set default resolution of VNC to 1024x768, add settings for width, height,
- depth into lightdm.conf.
- * AppArmor profile: Fix broken gnome-keyring and dbus/gwibber, and quiesce
- annoying kernel audit messages for privileges that we definitively do not
- want to grant.
- * Set LOGNAME environment variable
- * Don't set USERNAME environment variable - this is not specified in POSIX,
- please report if this causes any major problems.
- * Drop privileges when reading ~/.dmrc
- * Move the GTK+ and Qt greeters into their own projects
- * Fix crash when quitting with newer GLib
- * Fix crash calling lightdm_get_layout
- * Support for reading users' backgrounds from Accounts Service
- * Fix --debug working with new glib
- * Support PAM requesting a change of password
- * Update build system to work with automake 1.11.2
- * Run tests inside their own system D-Bus, simulating ConsoleKit and
- AccountsService
- * Add regression test for users that have their home directory created after
- authentication.
- * Move lightdm-guest-session from libexec to pkglibexec directory
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.0
-
- * Remove GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie D-Bus methods
- * Switching to a user without a password bypasses the greeter
- * Use LD_PRELOAD to intercept system calls for testing
- * Removed the --passwd-file option as not required for testing anymore
- * Rename test-xserver to X and remove --xserver-command option
- * Make a test session wrapper and remove --session-wrapper option
- * Remove unused --user-session, --greeter-session, --minimum-vt,
- --minimum-display-number options
- * Use 'default' as the default greeter (make a symlink)
- * GTK greeter now initializes i18n
- * GTK greeter now remembers last user
- * Start authentication for automtically selected user in GTK greeter
- * Don't resize GTK greeter on each click
- * Start authentication when scrolling through GTK greeter entries
- * Link liblightdm-qt against QtGui
- * Fix liblightdm-qt crashing when face images are installed
- * Set correct permissions on session log files
- * Introduce a lightdm-guest-session-wrapper session command which MAC
- systems like AppArmor and SELinux can use for attaching a restrictive
- policy to guest sessions.
- * Provide an AppArmor profile for guest session lockdown.
- * Fix daemon from blocking if Accounts Service does not exist
- * Fix greeter log file not being written
- * Don't set LANG environment variable if using Accounts Service.
- * Fix gdmflexiserver not working due to it not being in PATH
- * Don't authenticate the greeter user
- * Allow greeters to be disabled in configure flags
- * Fix over allocation of read buffer in greeter protocol
- * Make sure objects are cleaned up on exit
- * Fix minor memory leaks
- * Fix reference counting issue in ConsoleKit code
- * Fix --enable-gtk-greeter=yes not working
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 1.0.0
-
- * Explicitly grab keyboard focus in GTK greeter
- * Fix removed power and a11y menu items in GTK greeter
- * Put system binary directory into path when running in test mode
- * Call pam_getenvlist after pam_setcred
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.8
-
- * GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie are now deprecated. They
- remain for now but use the XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH
- environment variables instead.
- * Change log filenames to be unique across different display types.
- * Fix up script hooks, add regression tests for them
- * Complete removal of X code from the core of LightDM, so it can better
- support various display types
- * Add ability to set the language of a user from the greeter
- * Set LANG variable based on the user language
- * Add language selector into GTK greeter (disabled by default)
- * Allow TCP/IP connections if xserver-allow-tcp is true
- * Allow lightdm --version to be run as non-root
- * Automatically respond to PAM messages without prompts
- * Create 'AddLocalXSeat' D-Bus method, and require root to use 'AddSeat'
- * Fix multi-seat configuration picking the same display number
- * Use correct D-Bus and power interface in liblightdm-qt
- * Run pam_setcred inside the session process so pam_group works
- * Make sure one session is always selected in the GTK greeter
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.7
-
- * Set PAM_TTY to the display name, not the tty device
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.6
-
- * Only unlock displays if switched to from greeter
- * Make log file not system readable
- * Write ~/.Xauthority inside the session process so it cannot be hijacked
- * Set PAM_TTY and PAM_XDISPLAY when opening PAM session
- * Add VNC server support
- * Do not write ~/.dmrc and ~/.Xauthority as root. [CVE-2011-3349]
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.5
-
- * Use accounts service in the daemon if it is available
- * Correctly load seat type in multi seat configuration
- * Add display-setup, session-setup and session-cleanup scripting hooks
- * Fix cancel button in GTK greeter
- * Fix line through GTK greeter menu items
- * Exit daemon if a seat fails which has exit-on-failure set to true
- * Add HasGuestAccount property to seat D-Bus interface
- * Fix XDMCP authorization
- * Update man file
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.4
-
- * lightdm-set-defaults enables tweaking the default session and chosen
- greeter for lightdm. This is useful for derivatives waiting to not ship
- the whole configuration file of lightdm
- * Fix crash in GTK+ greeter when a user is added
- * Move xsessions-directory and xgreeters-directory from [SeatDefaults] to
- [LightDM]. This is a configuration break, but making it on the assumption
- that these settings are not likely to have been overridden.
- * Fix fallback from org.freedesktop.Accounts to passwd format
- * Fix duplicate user entries being shown when using passwd file
- * Add AddSeat D-Bus method for adding dynamic seats
- * Added a dm-tool program that allows user switching and adding seats
- * Allow remote X servers, e.g. launched using dm-tool add-nested-seat
- * Fix bug where sessions were started when the greeter quit and the user
- hadn't been authorized.
- * Fix bug where sessions used the seat bus name
- * Don't allow autologin-username to be set to empty
- * Fix bug where PAM session was not opened before writing to home directory
- * Fix crash when failing to write X authority
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.3
-
- * Unlock ConsoleKit sessions when switching to them
- * Add a gdmflexiserver binary that provides backwards compatibility with
- existing sessions
- * Set XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH environment variables for sessions.
- * Always set XAUTHORITY environment variable so sudo keeps accessing the
- correct X authority.
- * Connect up lightdm_user_get_logged_in in liblightdm-gobject
- * Ignore sessions that fail TryExec or are hidden
- * Add missing home_directory User property missing in Vala bindings
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.2
-
- * Fix annotation and Vala bindings for getting the UserList singleton
- * Fix GTK+ greeter error label not being shown
- * Don't set SIGQUIT to ignore in child processes
- * Reworked the PAM code as ecryptfs users weren't able to log in. They
- can now but not sure what changed to fix that!?
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.1
-
- * Fix up translation build system
- * Add a --with-greeter-user configure option
- * Fix greeter-user configuration not being used
- * Abort greeter if attempted to be run as root and greeter-user set
- * Fix setting session in GTK+ greeter
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.0
-
- * Fix invalid XAUTHORITY variable being set for second X server.
- * Fix bug where switching users created X servers without VTs
- * Release a VT when the X server on it stops
- * Greeters are now just standard X sessions that are stored in
- /usr/share/xgreeters.
- * Binaries now installed in /usr/sbin
- * Drop most of the configure options, they aren't necessary
- * Config changes:
- - Major reorginisation of configuration to make it easier to configure and
- understand. Users should set [SeatDefaults] section with settings for
- all seats, and can override each setting in a per seat configuration.
- - Default seats are now specified using a [Seat:<name>] section. If no seats
- are specified then one is started. This can be overridden by setting
- start-default-seat=false in [LightDM].
- - Support setting autologin user to guest account
- - Split the user accounts configuration into /etc/lightdm/users.conf so the
- main config can be private.
- - The default user session is now "default". Distributions should put a
- symlink to their chosen default or set one in lightdm.conf.
- - XDMCP keys now stored in keys.conf
- * liblightdm API changes:
- - Both libraries are now version 1 and have API and ABI guarantees.
- - Face images are now local paths not URIs
- - liblightdm-gobject now uses lightdm_ prefix instead of ldm_
- - Non-greeter functions are now moved out of the Greeter class
- - connect_to_server() is now called connect_sync and blocks until
- completion.
- - start_session() is now called start_session_sync and blocks until
- completion. The quit signal is removed, and the greeter should quit if
- this method returns TRUE.
- - login() is now called authenticate()
- - Greeters now have hints instead of configuration (greeters should load their
- own configuration from /etc/lightdm if they need it).
- - liblightdm-gobject uses AccountsService if it is available
- - Added regression tests for liblightdm-qt
- * D-Bus API changes:
- - Expose Seats and Sessions on org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
- - Add a CanSwitch property
- - Rename ShowGreeter() to SwitchToGreeter()
- * Greeter changes:
- - Drop "example" from the name of the GTK+ and Qt greeters and make them
- official default greeters.
- - Use GTK3 for GTK+ greeter.
- - Removed the Vala and Python GTK+ greeters, they weren't being well
- maintained.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.4
-
- * Fix failure to accept XDMCP connections due to invalid assert.
- * Allow minimum-display-number to be set in lightdm.conf and on the command
- line.
- * Session X authority now written to ~/.Xauthority by default. It can be
- configured to run from the system location by setting
- user-authority-in-system-dir=true in lightdm.conf.
- * When using system authority the authority can be updated by the user.
- * Written X authority files now checks hostname and display number.
- * Enironment is no longer passed through to X servers and sessions, this is
- no longer required now PAM works correctly.
- * liblightdm API changes:
- - Drop ldm_greeter_get_is_first() - it was added for testing and doesn't
- work well.
- * Fix more errors where authentication messages from previous sessions could
- be confused with new sessions.
- * Added XDMCP regression tests.
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.3
-
- * Don't replace Plymouth if it isn't running on a valid VT
- * Allow a null username to log in with - the system will prompt for a
- username.
- * liblightdm API changes:
- - Rename ldm_greeter_provide_secret to ldm_greeter_respond - responses
- may not be secrets.
- - show-prompt signal now has a PromptType field
- - show-message signal now has a MessageType field and takes over
- behaviour of show-error signal
- * Fix error where an authentication failure from a previous session could
- be interpreted as a failure in the current session.
- * Simplify Vala bindings and add missing methods
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.2
-
- * Fix errors communicating with PAM
- * Fix interaction with Plytmouth.
- * Removes the vt option in lightdm.conf, this is no longer required
- and the active is used for the first display if Plymouth is
- detected. A new option minimum-vt is added to select the first
- VT to be used for other displays.
- * On login switch to an existing session if already logged in with that
- username.
- * Correctly connect up D-Bus interface for user switching
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.1
-
- * Fix linking issue with -z,defs
- * Added guest account support
- * Restart X server if it crashes during a session
- * Don't set language environment variables, use the daemon values
- (system default) and leave it to ~/.profile for users to set these
- * Change greeter library API, starting a session no longer has a language
- option
- * Fix greeter crash when user accounts change
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.0
-
- * Fix crash when child processes quit
- * Fix crash when catching signals
- * Fix crash when session quits after X server
- * Add internal checking for NULL object access
- * Correctly handle signals from external programs (Thanks to Jason Conti)
- * liblightdm API changes:
- - ldm_greeter_start_authentication becomes ldm_greeter_login
- - The existing ldm_greeter_login is now ldm_greeter_start_session
- and the username parameter is not required.
- - Drop ldm_greeter_get_default_layout (X controls the layout)
- * Configuration changes:
- - Use /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf instead of /etc/lightdm.conf
- - The "displays" item is now called "seats". LightDM will fallback to
- "displays" if "seats" is not defined, but this is deprecated and will
- be removed by version 1.0.
- - Make X server configuration a separate section and now has new options
- * Automatic login users now use PAM session lightdm-autologin
- * Use org.freedesktop.DisplayManager instead of
- org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager for D-Bus name
- * Add regression tests
- * Allow many more options to be set from the command line
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.7
-
- * Fix autologin broken in 0.3.3
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.6
-
- * Disable Plymouth when starting
- * Allow display vt setting to be set to "active" to start on active VT
- * Fix login in Qt example greeter
- * Fix typo for High Contrast menu item (GTK example greeter)
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.5
-
- * Set working directory when logging in
- * Massive improvements to Qt greeter
- * Fix XDMCP authentication/authorization errors
- * Have the daemon open a connection to a local X server
- * Tidy up some debugging messages
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.4
-
- * Updates to liblightdm-qt
- * Fix --with-cache-dir not working
- * Set greeterdir in .pc files to point to where greeter engines should be
- installed
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.3
-
- * Don't run in test-mode if Xephyr cannot be found
- * Fix daemon using 100% CPU after greeter quits
- * Fix crash when users don't have GECOS data
- * Greeters can now detect user add/remove events
- * Fix ConsoleKit support broken with switch to GDBus
- * Correctly clean up X processes on exit
- * Wait for greeter to quit before running user session (fixes problem with
- Compiz)
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.2
-
- * Distribute GTK greeter .ui file
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.1
-
- * Add greeter login_with_defaults method
- * Add example to the name of all the greeters
- * Set the configuration for the default display to use VT 7
- * Fix the vt setting for displays, it was incorrectly named tty
- * Fix crash when load-users is false in UserManager
- * Fix up name of .vapi file so it can be used directly from valac
- * Tidy up Qt library and greeter
- * Move menubar in greeters to top of screen
- * Fix console kit get_can_*() methods
- * Use GtkBuilder for example GTK greeter
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.0
-
- * Correctly pass environment variables through to the session
- * Allow starting virtual terminal to be configured
- * Replace D-Bus greeter communication with a private pipe
- * Use GDBus instead of dbus-glib
- * Use the engine process name instead of a hardcoded value in theme files
- * Rename ldm_greeter_connect to ldm_greeter_connect_to_server so it doesn't
- clash with GObject method name
- * Rename ldm-gtk-greeter to lightdm-gtk-greeter
- * Rename gnome theme to example-gtk-gnome
- * Add more annotations to liblightdm-gobject
- * Add an example PyGObject, Vala and QT greeter
- * Generate metadata for QT libraries
- * Move Webkit greeter into separate module
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.3
-
- * Set correct linking library names in pkg-config files
- * Handle session executables that take arguments
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.2
-
- * Make default themedir work when --prefix is not passed to configure
- * Look for face images in ~/.face and ~/.face.icon
- * Put .vapi file in unversioned vala directory
- * Fix compiling without QT
- * Choose the VT to open the display on
- * Set correct group memberships for sessions (Yves-Alexis Perez)
- * Set permissions on xauthority file so it can only be read by the owning
- user (Yves-Alexis Perez)
- * Set correct permissions on ~/.dmrc (Yves-Alexis Perez)
- * Add --enable-liblightdm-gobject, --enable-liblightdm-qt configure option
- * Set environment variables from PAM (Yves-Alexis Perez)
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.1
-
- * Use "lightdm" as default PAM service and make it configurable
- * Rename libldmgreeter to libldmgreeter-gobject
- * Add libldmgreeter-qt (David Edmundson)
- * Fix gobject-introspection build
- * Renamed libldmgreeter to liblightdm
- * Install a .vapi file
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.0
-
- * Make default user configuration per-display
- * Only automatically login the first time
- * Fix WebKit theme loading and automatic login
- * Do cross fade for sessions that support it
- (set X-LightDM-Supports-Transitions=true in their xsession file)
- * Load user settings from ~/.dmrc
- * Add configuration for default language/layout
- * Change language/layout/session when user selected in GTK+ greeter
- * Set default keyboard layout on first login
- * Don't run all sessions throught /etc/X11/XSession - make the session
- wrapper optional and configurable.
- * Make pkgconfig file require libxklavier
- * Only compile greeters if have dependencies
- * Include ck-connector code to reduce library dependencies
- * Add introspection.m4 to the source tree
- * Support using no greeter user in lightdm.conf
- * Flush writes to main log file
- * Allow non-privilidged user to write greeter log file in /var
- * Fix bugs stopping running greeter as priviledged user (i.e. root)
- * Don't default to running greeters with the GDM user - it may not exist!
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.2
-
- * Write PID file
- * Make user switcher API work
- * Add a AddDisplay D-Bus method to start new displays
- * Feed signals to GLib main loop via a pipe
- * Add an upstart script
- * Make theme files more similar to existing themes
- * Change dbus namespace from org.freedesktop.LightDisplayManager to
- org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager
- * Write debug log to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log instead of stdout. Use
- --debug for the previous behaviour
- * Add exec_prefix into libldmgreeter.pc
- * Change versioned include and pkgconfig files from 1 to 0
- * Add themedir variable into pkgconfig file
- * Connect language list in GTK greeter to login language
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.1
-
- * Change licence of libldmgreeter from GPL to LGPL
- * Write X server and session output to log files
- * Set PATH, DESKTOP_SESSION, GDMSESSION and USERNAME environment variables
- * Run sessions through Xsession
- * Close all X servers on exit
- * Send SIGHUP to X server when returning to greeter (makes all clients quit)
- * Change authorization after a session ends so previous session does not get
- access
- * Make shutdown buttons work in GTK+ greeter
- * Make user manager configurable
- * Make GTK+ greeter show username entry if no user list
- * Hide C and POSIX languages in greeter
- * Load language and layout from .dmrc file
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.0
-
- * Make --test-mode which runs as the current user
- * Support displays acting as XDMCP terminals
- * Support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authorization
- * Support XDMCP over IPv6
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.4
-
- * Support XDMCP logins
- * Support multi-head
- * Clean up resources on exit
- * Create gettext instance in WebKit greeter
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.3
-
- * Wait for signal from X server before starting session
- * Add language API
- * Add keyboard layout API
- * Add gettext support to the WebKit greeter
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.2
-
- * Fix installation of D-Bus service file
- * Allow DISPLAY env variable to be passed to X server so can run Xephyr
- * Handle no automatic login in webkit theme
-
- Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.1
-
- * Initial release
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