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Version 3.0.0
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- Translation updates

===============
Version 2.91.94
===============

- Warp pointer to convenient place at start up
- Fix crash with autologin
- Don't show empty names in user list
- Add a gdm session file for gnome-session to use
- Fix fuzzy icon in greeter
- Drop faces images
- Translation updates

===============
Version 2.91.93
===============

- Fall back to username in user list if user doesn't have real name configured
- Be more robust against unexpected changes from accounts service
- Move some custom widgets to builder file out of source code
- Load accounts settings before showing session selector
- Fix crash for passwordless login
- other misc fixes
- Translation updates

===============
Version 2.91.92
===============

- dconf overrides db generation clean ups
- ensure accounts service account is loaded before login
- slightly change hue of fg color
- maintain worker environment solely in PAM
- Translation updates

===============
Version 2.91.91
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- Fix bug that some times prevent user list from coming up

===============
Version 2.91.90
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- Make better use of iso-codes
- Fix g-s-d lockdown
- Set SIGPIPE to default before starting session
- Fix disconnect button for XDMCP connections
- GTK 3 fixes
- Add back session chooser
- Move greeter to accounts service library
- Update dconf defaults to reflect new schema names
- Translation updates

===============
Version 2.91.6
===============
- Add dconf profile
- Move to gtk3
- Apply a thick layer of gnome 3 textured paint
- Move from ~/.dmrc to accounts service
- Be more robust against missing icons
- Translation updates

===============
Version 2.91.4
===============

- Omit version in login window if unknown
- Fix version display when release file is empty
- User manager async fixes
- Add greeter specific dconf database for lockdown
- XDMCP/ipv6 fix
- Fix to make sure PostSession is always called when appropriate
- Solaris permissions fix
- Only automatically login on boot when autologin is enabled, not after logout
- Enable braille reader support when screenreading is enabled
- Beep when login window is ready
- Make beeps audible by enable event sounds
- Translation updates

===============
Version 2.32.0
===============

- Translation updates

===============
Version 2.31.92
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- Change orca invocation to work better with latest release
- Fix "Other..." item in network-login-only scenarios
- Move gdm.schemas to pkgdatadir
- XDMCP fixes
- Improve ordering of languages in languages list
- Make various slow calls asynchronous that blocked before
- Fix up dbus security policy
- Various other fixes
- Translation updates

===============
Version 2.31.90
===============

- Port to upower
- Don't stomp on $LANGUAGE environment variable
- Don't show markup in UI
- Fix cancel button
- Reask user for password a few times, before failing
- Load users asynchronously
- Handle EINTR on getpw* calls
- Translation updates

===============
Version 2.31.2 
===============

- Add support for legacy "custom" session name
- Various build and warning fixes
- XDMCP fixes
- Add optional support for account service
- Fix crash with multiple user switcher applets
- Gracefully hide control center from user switch menu if not available
- Revert metacity focus workaround, now that metacity is fixed
- Rehide g-p-m context menu
- Updates to work better with newer icon theme
- fix non-source-dir builds
- show username input box when there's no local user
- Various memory leaks
- remove gdm-restart and gdm-stop scripts
- remove text labels from option menus
- various user manager and user chooser fixes and performance enhancements
- various crasher fixes
- escape names before showing markup
- Call button "unlock" not "login" when user is already logged in
- Cap how long ck-history is allowed to run and how far back its allowed to go
- Improvements to the way users are sorted
- ensure slave's children always die with the slave
- halectomy of the last remnants of hal
- don't exit when X fails to start
- trap XAddHosts call
- minor fixes in screenshot tool
- use lsb_release if available to determine system description
- automatically retry on login failure
- improve coverage of test programs
- fix timed login + disable-user-list together

===============
Version 2.31.1 
===============

- Now GDM saves its GConf settings per-seat.  This fixes bug #594818.  So now
  if the user launches or exits an AT program it only affects the display where
  the request was made, not all displays running the GDM dialog.
- Enable FD_CLOEXEC for signal self-pipe.  Fixes bug #617661.
- Improvements so compiling with -DGSEAL_ENABLE works better.
- Use g_remove() to remove directories instead of g_unlink().
- No longer clear the entry field by setting it to a list of '\b' characters.
  Now use gtk_editable_delete_text which safely clears the entry field instead.
  See bug #576801.
- Fix setting of WINDOWPATH so it does not assume the format is 32 bit.  Fixes
  bug #609272.
- Fix bug #591937 so the code compiles when ENODATA is not available.

===============
Version 2.31.0 
===============

- GDM now better compiles with -DGSEAL_ENABLED.  Fixes bug #612472.
- Tweak power manager policy to shutdown immediately when hitting power.
  Previously it would show a dialog with a 60 second timeout.  Fixes bug
  #617317.
- Sort session using file basename.  Fixes bug #617516.
- Avoid double conversion to utf8 in keyboard layout descriptions.  Fixes bug
  #617108.
- Fix build failure when libxdmcp is not available.  Fixes bug #616984.
- String fixes.  Fix bug #609178.

===============
Version 2.30.1 
===============

- Accessibility is now enabled by default for the GDM login screen.
- When the face browser is disabled, the PAM conversation is started
  immediately, so users do not need to click a button to start entering the
  username and password.  Fixes bug #591082.
- Add label-for and labelled-by a11y relations to the entry field in the
  login GUI.  This makes the login GUI more accessible when using AT programs.
  Fixes bug #613434.
- Fixed bugs that were causing XDMCP to not show the greeter again after
  logout.  Fixes bug #606724.
- The default XDMCP PingIntervalSeconds was increased from 15 to
  60 seconds.
- The WINDOWPATH environment variable is now set for the user session.  Fixes
  bug #609272.
- Ensure Init script is called when using Automatic Login.  Fixes bug #614488.
- Fix race condition with Timed Login.  Fixes bug #614062.
- Drop xhost localuser:gdm and localuser:root when the user session starts.
  Fixes bug #605350.
- Removed the icon monitor from the GDM login GUI since it was not functional
  and was causing problems with automounting user's $HOME directories.  Fixes
  bug #609321.
- Do not mark "%x" for translation.  Fixes bug #613306.
- Remove duplicated strings for translation.  Fixes bug #609179.
- Minor doc corrections.
- Translation updates.

===============
Version 2.30.0 
===============

- Translation improvements.

===============
Version 2.29.92
===============

- The greeter is not torn down until pam_open_session finishes since
  some PAM modules can ask questions up until this point.
- The daemon now kills the session process rather than the entire process
  group, fixing bug #607738.  The corresponding gnome-session bug #607658 
  is released with 2.29.92 so this works properly.

===============
Version 2.29.6
===============

- Various build fixes
- Crash fix in layout detection
- Crash fix in session list detection
- Remove timeout for interacting with PAM
- Fix compile with --no-as-needed
- Add debug message if system lacks fonts
- Disable switch user item if user switching won't work

===============
Version 2.29.5
===============

- XDMCP fixes on Solaris
- run PostLogin script as user instead of gdm
- Fix ellipses usage on User Switch Applet
- Add ability to customize system language list
- Solaris NULL printf fixes
- Convert from glade to gtkbuilder
- Detect default keyboard layout better
- Ignore executable subfolders of xinitrc.d
- Don't reveal valid usernames when authenticating

===============
Version 2.29.4
===============

- Remove deprecated function g_mapped_file_free
- Fix option widgets to work better with orca
- make --with-custom-conf work
- Don't hard code path to policykit agent
- Don't backup xkb configuration before login

===============
Version 2.29.1
===============

- A new desktop extension is now supported in GDM session desktop files
  (normally found in /usr/share/xsessions). Setting the key to true as follows:

  X-GDM_BypassXsession=true

  will cause the Xsession script to not be used to launch the session.  This
  can be useful if you want to create a "failsafe" xterm session.  The Xsession
  script sources the user's $HOME/.profile, for example, so setting this key
  to true will ensure that any errors in the user's $HOME/.profile will not
  cause the session to fail to start.

- Fix makedist problem.

===============
Version 2.29.0
===============

- Now GDM supports Include, Exclude, and IncludeAll configuration options to
  allow the ability to configure which users are displayed in the FaceBrowser.
- Now GDM supports better debugging.  Users can set the debug/Enable
  configuration option to turn on GDM debugging.
- The directory where GDM screenshots are placed has been moved to its own
  directory: /var/run/gdm/greeter/GDM-Screenshot.png.  The screenshot directory
  can now be specified at build time via the --with-screenshot-dir configure
  argument.
- Many simple-greeter Face Browser usability improvements.
- The simple-greeter Face Browser tree view search entry is now obscured to
  help prevent accidental display of passwords.
- Shutdown and reboot functions are moved to a menu in the simple-greeter panel
  instead of being presented as buttons.  The shutdown menu is better
  positioned on multi-monitor displays.
- The simple-greeter panel notification area has been improved and now honors
  the GConf setting for /apps/notification_area_applet/prefs/padding.
- The entry field in the simple-greeter now has accessibility labels so it will
  work better with accessibility programs.
- The clock in the simple-greeter panel no longer shows the date, making the
  screen look a little cleaner.  The date is moved to the clock tooltip so it
  is still available.
- The simple-greeter now uses gethostname instead of g_get_host_name since
  is more reliable when the hostname changes at runtime.
- The user switch applet now honors disable_lock_screen.  The option to lock
  screen is now not shown if disable_lock_screen is set.
- The /var/run/gdm directory is better locked down.
- GDM no longer crashes on bad UTF-8 in the /etc/passwd file.
- When the worker dies, the auth-failed signal is no longer sent.  This 
  prevents a crash that happens when switching run-levels when the login screen
  is displayed.
- Ensure that the length of sockaddr structure is set to the correct length for
  IPv4 or IPv6.  This makes GDM work better on some operating systems that are
  picky about the length being exact.
- String and documentation improvements.

===============
Version 2.28.1
===============

- GDM will now avoid calling XAddHosts for remote connections.  Refer to bug
  #598142 for more information.
- Now GDM uses DeviceKit-power instead of gnome-power-manager for Suspend
  support.
- Now the at-spi-registryd-wrapper.desktop GDM autostart file will run
  at-spi-registryd directly instead of calling at-spi-registryd-wrapper.
- Fix to the visibility check for the "Other" button which corrects some
  situations where the button would not appear when it was supposed to.
- Now the GDM daemon will make the /var/log/gdm directory if it does not exist.
- Fixes to avoid autologin failure when a NULL username is passed in.
- Restore CTYPE when canonicalizing codesets.
- Several fixes to avoid warnings.

===============
Version 2.28.0
===============

- Now GDM supports the ability to specify the automatic/timed login user via a
  script via the same interface that the old GDM supported.
- Now the user's dmrc and face image files are stored in /var/cache/gdm, so 
  that the login process does not need to access the user's $HOME directory 
  before authentication.  Refer to bug #565151.
- Fix the login GUI options widget so the language/session/layout choices are
  not reset after a failed login.
- Fix language dialog so it does not crash if the user click's the "OK" button
  when no language is selected.
- Fix to ensure that the login dialog regains focus after the language or
  layout dialogs are used.
- The language dialog has improved logic to sort the language names more
  correctly.
- Make sure to check error variable is not NULL before referencing it in the
  gdm-user-manager code.
- Make sure to not print NULL strings since this causes crashes on some
  platforms.
- Improve documentation.

===============
Version 2.27.90
===============

- Autostart polkit-gnome authentication agent.
- Add screen capture sound effect to screenshot tool.
- If HOST_NAME_MAX is not available, try _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX, then 
  default to 256.
- Add users "nobody4" and "noaccess" to the list of users to filter from
  the Face Browser.
- Add Solaris logindevperm support. 
- Fix mispelling of XDMCP.
- Improve documentation.

===============
Version 2.27.4
===============

- Favor XFree86 Xinerama over Solaris Xinerama on Solaris
- Make greeter a well behaved session client
- XDMCP fixes
- Fix up btmp record handling
- Handle locales with modifiers better
- Use better logic with keyboard layout handling
- Change example PAM file/documentation to demonstrate password-less login
- Handle usernames from non-utf8 locales
- Allow dbus introspection for gdm services
- Show more details authentication error messages in UI
- Allow uppercase and lowercase booleans in config file
- Be more consistent with booleans in schemas
- Use g_timeout_add_seconds to reduce wakeups
- Make greeter window more clear when user list is disabled
- Put greeter login window in same ctrl-alt-tab menu as panel
- Port greeter to PolicyKit 1.0
- Shave off 1/2 second delay when bringing up greeter
- OS X portability fixes
- Look for locales in /usr/lib/locale instead of /usr/share/locale
- Better handling when two users have the same name

===============
Version 2.26.1
===============

- Use O_APPEND when opening log files
- Don't depend on gnome-power-manager registering with session manager- Give greeter and slave access to the display even after the hostname changes
- Clean up stale auth temporary directories
- Fix double free crasher in user switcher applet
- Load saved settings after user types username into Other box
- Pass environment to PAM worker processes so messages are localized
- Fix up auditing for Solaris auditor

===============
Version 2.26.0
===============

- Make xdmcp/PingIntervalSeconds config option work

===============
Version 2.25.92
===============

- Hide presence features in user switcher applet
- Make autologin happen more than once after bootup
- Better panel placement and login screen sizing in
  multihead set ups
- Fix XDMCP and add more XDMCP configurability
- Rework dbus security files to be more correct
- Various other fixes

===============
Version 2.25.2
===============

- Fix focus issues in applet
- Use text view instead of entry

===============
Version 2.25.1
===============

- Add support for a real automatic login
- Redesign user switch applet
- Make XDMCP work again
- Add a bevel around the dialog
- Remove capslock warning label
- Translate help output (Gabor Kelemen)

===============
Version 2.24.0
===============

- Allow the build to succeed without a gdm user (Frederic Peters)
- Use Bourne shell syntax in Xsession.solaris (Brian Cameron)
- Set ownership of .gconf.mandatory (William Jon McCann)

Translations:
- Updated de: Mario Blättermann
- Update zh_CN: Funda Wang
- Updated hr: Robert Sedak
- Updated dz: Pema Geyleg
- Updated hu: Gabor Kelemen
- Updated mr: Sandeep Shedmake
- Updated ko: Changwoo Ryu
- Updated ar: Djihed Afifi
- Updated bn_IN: Runa Bhattacharjee
- Updated hi: Rajesh Ranjan
- Updated lt: Gintautas Miliauskas
- Updated or: Manoj Kumar Giri
- Updated it: Francesco Marletta
- Updated gu: Sweta Kothari
- Updated kn: Shankar Prasad
- Updated ta: I. Felix
- Updated el: Papadeas Pierros
- Updated et: Ivar Smolin
- Updated mk: Jovan Naumovski
- Updated ro: Mişu Moldovan
- Updated ru: Nickolay V. Shmyrev
- Updated sr, sr@latin: Igor Nestorović
- Updated da: Ask H. Larsen


===============
Version 2.23.92
===============

- Fix selection handling in language and layout choosers
- Fixed #545337, grey screen on login (Owen Taylor)
- Start g-s-d correctly
- Add missing WM desktop file
- Add docs (Brian Cameron, Ray Strode)
- Make set-show-user* into construct properties
- Revert the larger greeter font size
- Add slave log file
- Fix up some log rotation problems

Translations:
- Updated vi: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
- Updated eu: Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio
- Updated as: Amitakhya Phukan
- Updated cs: Petr Kovar
- Updated et: Priit Laes  <plaes at svn dot gnome dot
- Updated es: Jorge Gonzalez
- Updated nl: Vincent van Adrighem
- Updated pt: Duarte Loreto
- Updated nb: Kjartan Maraas
- Updated th: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
- Updated te: Sunil Mohan Adapa
- Updated pl: Tomasz Dominikowski
- Updated fr: Robert-André Mauchin
- Updated bg: Alexander Shopov
- Updated pt_BR: Og Maciel
- Updated hr: Robert Sedak
- Updated de: Jochen Skulj
- Updated hi: Rajesh Ranjan
- Updated fi: Ilkka Tuohela
- Updated zh_CN: Funda Wang
- Updated sq: Laurent Dhima
- Updated sv: Daniel Nylander
- Updated en_GB: Philip Withnall


===============
Version 2.23.90
===============

 * A few multi-monitor fixes for the greeter
 * Don't load local users at all if user list is disabled
 * Switch to using gnome-session 2.23.6+ for simple-greeter session manager
 * Remove a11y dialog and button on panel (now provided by g-s-d)
 * Fixed #547965, Make PolicyKit-gnome optional (Gilles Dartiguelongue)
 * Fixed #504565, Username "gdm" is hardcoded all over the place (Patryk Zawadzki)
 * Fixed #509141, GDM does not honor LC_DATE (Brian Cameron)
 * Fixed #547549, Xsession update for Solaris SCIM (Brian Cameron)
 * Fixed #547965, align help string in configure (William Jon McCann)
 * Fixed #548551, Applet's user icon is always 24x24 (Patryk Zawadzki)
 * Fixed #548676, fix broken check for tcp_wrappers (Brian Cameron)
 * Fixed #549040, crash in user selector (William Jon McCann)
 * Fixed #549223, keyboard language select gets life of its own (William Jon McCann)

Translations:
 * Updated LINGUAS, sr@latin.po, sr@Latn: Goran Rakic
 * Updated ar: Khaled Hosny
 * Updated bg: Alexander Shopov
 * Updated bn_IN: Runa Bhattacharjee
 * Updated cs: Petr Kovar
 * Updated es: Jorge González, Jorge Gonzalez
 * Updated et: Ivar Smolin
 * Updated fi: Ilkka Tuohela
 * Updated gu: Sweta Kothari
 * Updated he: Yair Hershkovitz, Mark Krapivner
 * Updated mai: Rajesh Ranjan <rajeshkajha@yahoo.com>, Sangeeta Kumari
 * Updated nb: Kjartan Maraas
 * Updated pl: Tomasz Dominikowski
 * Updated pt: Duarte Loreto
 * Updated pt_BR: Fábio Nogueira
 * Updated th: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
 * Updated zh_CN: 甘露(Lu Gan)
 * Updated zh_HK: Chao-Hsiung Liao
 * Updated zh_TW: Chao-Hsiung Liao

Help Manual Translations:
None

===============
Version 2.23.2
===============

 * Requires ConsoleKit 0.3.0

 * Keyboard layout selection from greeter (Matthias Clasen)
 * Save backup of ~/.xsession-errors (Tom London)
 * Add a GConf key for not showing the user list (Matthias Clasen)
 * Now support PostLogin, PreSession, and PostSession hooks (Brian Cameron)
 * Add DisallowTCP back (Ray Strode)
 * Support PAM_XDISPLAY and PAM_XAUTHDATA (Eamon Walsh)
 * Add lang tags, to help Pango pick the right font (Matthias Clasen)
 * Set the initial user selection correctly
 * Add frame around user icons and make them larger
 * Write gdm screenshot output to /var/run/gdm instead of /tmp
 * Save one old copy of greeter log file
 * Set a minimum width for the login window
 * Fix check for /etc/gdm/Init/Default so it will actually be executed
 * Wait for ready from backend when cancelling from greeter
 * Use per session directories in /var/run/gdm for xauth databases
 * Move ConsoleKit registration into the worker

===============
Version 2.22.0
===============

 * Many animation improvements (Ray)
 * Many locale/language improvements (Ray)
 * Many session fixes (Ray)
 * Drop icons for Other and Auto users for now (Ray)
 * Only populate language list with those that have translations (Ray)
 * Load languages later to speed up starting (Ray)
 * Select "Other..." user if it's the only available user
 * Don't destroy the transient greeter since we may end up on wrong vt
 * Store X auth password in /var/run/gdm instead of /tmp
 * Enable a11y by default
 * Monitor ~/.face for changes.
 * Only display the currently logged in users in the applet
 * Show local users and monitor passwd for changes
 * More lockdown
 * Add option for running compiz
 * Add a "hidden" screenshot tool.  Pressing PrtSc saves file to /tmp.
 * Add profiling framework
 * Log greeter output to a file in /var/log/gdm
 * Turn on media-keys support for volume control

===============
Version 2.21.9
===============

 * Lots of improvements with session and language handling (Ray)
 * Add a crash backtrace logging tool.
 * Timed login countdown animation (Ray)
 * Start making host chooser able to support other protocols.
 * Fix user display in switch applet.
 * Start g-s-d synchronously to avoid flashing etc.
 * Add a banner message feature to greeter.
 * Make TryExec optional for session files.
 * Work around g-s-d background bug.
 * Add capslock key warning to greeter.
 * Fix user switch applet crasher.
 * Remove preferences from user switch applet.
 * Make user switcher a drop in replacement for FUSA.
 * Many dmrc file related fixes (Ray)
 * Add more lockdown points for greeter.

===============
Version 2.21.8
===============

 * Show locales in selection properly (Ray)
 * Improve language and session selection interfaces (Ray)
 * Add gconf key to disable restart/shutdown buttons.
 * Add quick death and looping detection for displays
 * .dmrc handling (Ray).
 * Run /etc/gdm/Init/Default.
 * Allow XDMCP to be enabled/disabled from configuration settings.
 * Initial support for timed login.
 * Better handling of ck-history not being available.
 * Fix a few bugs with X access files. (Ray)
 * Hook up suspend button to g-p-m.
 * Allow the login window icon to be changed via gconf.
 * Handle not getting the requested X11 display number.
 * Be more robust against dying processes.
 * Make language and session selecting work much better (Ray).
 * Add icons for language and session selectors.
 * Make autostart work again.
 * Make a11y dialog size shrink/grow with font size.
 * Run gok in login window mode (Ray)
 * Make disconnect work on XDMCP greeters.

===============
Version 2.21.7
===============

 * New session selection widgets (Ray Strode)
 * New language selection widgets (Ray Strode)
 * Don't display sessions in list if they don't have x11.
 * Only display users that have frequently logged in.
 * Port to GIO (Cosimo Cecchi)
 * Add a user switcher applet.
 * Unlock session after switching.
 * Add support for finding and switching to existing greeters.
 * Enable the g-s-d a11y-keyboard plugin
 * Add PAM auditing logic (Ray Strode & Brian Cameron)
 * Make sure we retry connecting to the xserver
 * Move clock applet to the panel (Ray Strode)
 * Don't show guest user
 * Add an a11y options dialog to the greeter.

===============
Version 2.21.6
===============

        * Initial support for XDMCP IndirectQuery choosers.
        * Also fix broken gdm_address_is_local.
        * Initial session migration/switching support.
        * Set CK session-type to LoginWindow for greeter session.
        * Add gdmflexiserver command for backward compatibility.
        * Add CK/PK system restart/stop functionality.

===============
Version 2.21.5
===============

        * Improve greeter widget animation (Ray Strode)
        * Ignore sessions on other seats or without x11 displays
        * Prefer metacity over compiz for now
        * Handle D-Bus method timeouts
        * Fully switch to external gnome-settings-daemon
        * Handle icon theme changes

===============
Version 2.21.4
===============

        * Break-out settings-daemon into external module
        * Add session chooser to login window (Ray Strode)
        * Add login window resizing animations (Ray Strode)
        * Fix cookie generation and handling (Ray Strode)
        * Setup gconf database for greeter session. (Matthias Clasen)
        * Log session console i/o to ~/.xsession-errors (Ray Strode)

===============
Version 2.21.2
===============

        * Close the session at logout (Ray Strode)
        * Run Xsession (Ray Strode)
        * Rework XAuth handling (Ray Strode)
        * Don't require x11.pc to build
        * Assassinate the unused configuration options
        * Add support for showing logged in users in greeter
        * Split up GdmSession mechanism

  Translators

        * Updated fi: Ilkka Tuohela
        * Updated lt: Gintautas Miliauskas
        * Updated sl: Matej Urbančič

===============
Version 2.21.1
===============

Initial development release of new GDM design