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GDM2 2.28.0 (stable), the "New World Order" Release

From:  Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron-AT-Sun.COM>
To:  gnome-announce-list-AT-gnome.org
Subject:  GDM2 2.28.0 (stable), the "New World Order" Release
Date:  Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:44:25 -0500
Message-ID:  <4AB7E5A9.60609@sun.com>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread


The 2.28.0 release is a stable release of the GNOME Display Manager
(GDM) program with the following bug fixes and improvements:

- Now GDM supports the ability to specify the automatic/timed login user
   via a script via the same interface that the old GDM supported.
- Now the user's dmrc and face image files are stored in /var/cache/gdm,
   so that the login process does not need to access the user's $HOME
   directory before authentication.  Refer to bug #565151.
- Fix the login GUI options widget so the language/session/layout
   choices are not reset after a failed login.
- Fix language dialog so it does not crash if the user click's the "OK"
   button when no language is selected.
- Fix to ensure that the login dialog regains focus after the language
   or layout dialogs are used.
- The language dialog has improved logic to sort the language names more
   correctly.
- Make sure to check error variable is not NULL before referencing it in
   the gdm-user-manager code.
- Make sure to not print NULL strings since this causes crashes on some
   platforms.
- Improve documentation.


Documentation & Downloading
===========================

Online Documentation - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
Latest Stable        - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.28/
Latest Unstable      - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.29/
Bug Reporting        - http://bugzilla.gnome.org in the "gdm" category.

Have fun,

Brian
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