[gdm-list] GDM 2.31.2 (unstable), the "Drill, Baby, Drill" Release




The 2.31.2 release is an unstable release of the GNOME Display Manager
(GDM) program with the following bug fixes and improvements:

- 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

Documentation & Downloading
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Online Documentation - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
Latest Stable        - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.30/
Latest Unstable      - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.31/
Bug Reporting        - http://bugzilla.gnome.org in the "gdm" category.

Have fun,

Brian


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