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Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.4

    * Correctly annotate enums in vapi file

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