[gdm-list] GDM2 2.13.0.5 (unstable), the "Saki Express" 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 2.13.0.5 release is an unstable release of GDM2 with a few minor
improvements, see below:

Changes:

2.13.0.5 stuff:

Note: Some users have been complaining that GDM 2.13.0.4 core dumps when
      the IncludeAll feature is turned on, and the face browser is also
      being used.  I can not recreate this problem on my machine, so
      this issue may still exist on some platforms.

- GDM now supports secure remote login which can be enabled by using
  --enable-securelogin at configure time.  (Dominique Hazael-Massieux)

- Fixed gdmsetup so the Logo/Background file chooser does not generate
  assert warnings and no longer will reset your logo/background to NULL.
  I think this problem was causing occasional core dumping issues.  Also
  cleaned up memory management in gdmsetup a bit.  (Brian Cameron)

- Now SELinux initialization logic does not use setexeccon if
  is_selinux_enabled returns -1.  (Dan Walsh)

- The prefetch logic that is enabled by using --with-prefetch was
  improved and GDM will now install a default librarylist if the feature
  is enabled.  Now GDM will only launch the gdm_prefetch program the
  first time that a greeter is displayed.  Since this behavior is very
  specific to the needs of prefetching libraries, the gdm.conf key
  changed from PostDisplayProgram to PreFetchProgram.  (Padraig
  O'Briain/Brian Cameron)

- GDM no longer requires libgnome or libgnomeui at all.  This should
  improve GDM performance and make GDM more lightweight.  (Jani Monoses)

- GDM Daemon now uses the GDK_DISPLAY_XDISPLAY macro instead of the
  GDK_DISPLAY macro since the GDK_DISPLAY macro causes the GDM daemon to
  require the libgdk-x11 library to always be loaded into memory.  Now
  it can lazyload this library only when needed (when GDM daemon
  displays error GUI's which only happens when GDM can't start up
  properly).  This should improve performance and make GDM more
  lightweight for the normal case where GDM does start up.  (Brian
  Cameron)

- Minor cleanup of gdmsetup.  (Dennis Cranston)

- Caps lock and Shut down messages changed to be more consistant between
  gdmlogin and gdmgreeter.  Error message provided when session file is
  invalid now tells you the name of the offending file.  (Brian Cameron)

- GDM docs given some attention, new "Security" and "Performance"
  sections and a good bit of information added to the "Introduction" and
  "Accessibility" sections.  (Brian Cameron)

- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Chao-Hsiung Liao,
  Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Kjartan Maraas, Ankit Patel, Josep
  Puigdemont, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Francisco Javier F. Serrador,
  Clytie Siddall, Alexander Sopov, Slobodan D. Sredojevic, Ilkka
  Tuohela, Vincent van Adrighem, Adam Weinberger

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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Webpage: 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