[gdm-list] GDM2 2.20.1 (stable), the "Lets Be Hopeful" Release

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

AOOH-GAH
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If you have no clue what GDM is, refer to the documentation links
at the bottom of this announcement.

The 2.20.1 release is a stable release of the GNOME Display Manager
(GDM) program with the following bug fixes and improvements:

- Now gdmlogin and gdmgreeter treat Tab like enter if the focus
  is on the entry field.  This addresses usability issues as
  described in bug #433495.  (Lo\357c Minier)

- Fix bug that was causing the user's default language/session choices
  to not get saved properly if they didn't already have a $HOME/.dmrc
  file.  (Brady Anderson)

- Fix bug with XDMCP logic that was causing GDM to get confused
  about when the maximum number of XDMCP sessions has been reached.
  (Francis Giraldeau)

- Fix an issue that was causing the username to be logged as a debug
  message when using GDM configured to use crypt or shadow passwords
  (instead of the default PAM).  This could cause the user's password
  to get saved as a debug message if the user accidently typed their
  password into the username field when using crypt/shadow passwords.
  No longer translate debug messages in general.  (Brian Cameron)

- Set stdout/stderr to DEV_NULL when spawning at_spi_registryd and
  the prefetch program, fixing a hanging problem.  (Huang Peng)

- GDM now always sends the daemon a response before exit to avoid a
  hang.  (Ray Strode)

- Fix gdmXnestchooser and gdmsetup so debug isn't on by default.
  (Brian Cameron)

- Updated the gdmgreeter themes so that they display correctly
  on 800x600 displays.  (Dave Fincher)

- Build/configure fixes for Solaris.  (Brian Cameron)

- Translation updates (Sunil Mohan Adapa, Gil Forcada, Duarte Loreto,
  S\303\255lvia Miranda, Ankit Patel, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro,
  Changwoo Ryu)

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
now 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/2.20/
Latest Unstable      - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.21/
Bug Reporting        - http://bugzilla.gnome.org in the "gdm" category.

Have fun,

Brian