[gdm-list] GDM2 2.17.0 (unstable), the "Reach For The Stars" 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 2.17.0 release is an unstable release of GDM with the following
new features.

- Now when GDM_ADD_MODULES is set, GDM will launch at-spi-registryd.
  (Ariel Rios)

- New SupportAutomount option which, when turned on, changes the
  way that GDM accesses the user's $HOME/.dmrc file so that
  automounted $HOME directories can be configured to work even
  when the automounter is not started with the --ghost option.
  (Jerzy Borkowski)

- Fix so that if timed login script returns an invalid user,
  timed login is not turned on.   Fix for bug #340148.
  (Andrew - andrewz springsrescuemission org).

- Fix for bug #352838, avoid crashing by moving call to get
  GDM_KEY_SYSTEM_MENU until after authentication check.
  (Frederic Crozat)

- Use g_markup_printf_escaped so gdmsetup better handles
  description strings that contains things similar to a tag
  like an email address.  Fixes bug #357998.  (Matthias
  Clasen)

- Fix gdmsetup so that the window manager close button works
  as the Close button in the dialog.  (Matthias Clasen)

- Add g_type_init() to gdmflexiserver since this is needed
  for -a (authentication) code to work.  (Brian Cameron)

- Set authdir to NULL after freeing to avoid accessing an
  invalid pointer.  Fix for bug #359831.  (Amnon Aaronsohn)

- Memory leaks fixed.  (Kjartan Maraas)

- Translation updates (Abel Cheung, Yair Hershkovitz,
  Raphael Higino, Priit Laes, \303\205smund Skj\303\246veland,
  Ivar Smolin)

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/
Latest Stable        - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.16/
Latest Unstable      - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.17/

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