[gdm-list] GDM2 2.14.1 (stable), the "Nock" Release

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

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(If you have no clue what gdm is, skip a few paragraphs down first)

The 2.14.1 release is a stable release of GDM2 that fixes a number
of problems with the previous release, detailed below.

- The sockets connection between the slaves and the GDM daemon is now
  better managed to better ensure that sockets are never left open.
  This work also makes gdmsetup start faster.  (Brian Cameron)

- Corrected bug that causes a core dump when you click on gdmgreeter
  fields that have an id.  (Brian Cameron)

- Add new GdmXserverTimeout configuration setting so that the length of
  time GDM waits for the Xserver to start can be tuned, so GDM better
  works with Xservers that require more than 10 seconds to start.
  (Emilie)

- The happygnome and happygnome-list gdmgreeter themes now use the
  official logo.  (Brian Cameron)

- Now GDM configure supports --with-sysconfsubdir so that GDM's
  configuration directory can be configured to not have "/gdm" appended
  to the end.  (Julio M. Merino Vidal)

- Fix for ensuring .ICEauthority file has proper ownership/permissions.
  Addresses CVE-2006-1057.  (Hans Petter Jansson)

- Fix "Show Actions Menu" section in gdmsetup so it appears when both
  "Plain" and "Themed" style is chosen.  (Brian Cameron, Dennis
  Cranston)

- Now use LINGUAS procedure for defining languages.  (Michiel Sikkes)

- Now Xsession script uses "$@" instead of "$1" so it is possible to
  pass arguments with the command to run.  (Brian Cameron)

- Add Trusted Solraris support.  (Niall Power)

- One line fix to Solaris auditing logic that fixes a bug causing
  authentication to fail when auditing is turned on.  (Brian Cameron)

- Fixes to compile with C99 and fixes to compile under NetBSD.
  Remove EXPANDED_* variables from the configure.  (Julio M. Merino
  Vidal)

- Translation updates (\305\275ygimantas Beru\304\215ka, Beno\303\256t
  Dejean, Laurent Dhima, Maxim Dziumanenko, Alessio Frusciante, Rhys
  Jones, Raphael Higino, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Gabor Kelmen,
  Priit Laes, Jordi Mallach, Kjartan Maraas, Daniel Nylander, Kostas
  Papdimas, Guilherme de S. Pastore, Ankit Patel, Ignacio Casal
  Quinteiro, Hendrik Richter, Jens Seidel, Francisco Javier F. Serrador,
  Alexander Shopov, Clytie Siddall, Ilkka Tuohela, Vincent van Adrighem,
  Tommi Vainikaninen)


Note:  GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp mkp net>.
Much work has been done on GDM2 by George Lebl, and Brian Cameron
currently shares maintainership duties with the Queen of England.

Note2:  If installing from the tarball do note that make install
overwrites most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf.  It will
however save backups with the .orig extension first.

#ifndef GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
Note3:  Note3 has been depracated ...
#endif /* GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */

Downloading:
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Online Documentation: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.8/

No RPM this time around BTW.  Have fun.  A spec file is included though,
so you can try:

  rpmbuild -ta gdm-whatever.tar.gz

Have fun,

Brian