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GDM 2.20.9 (stable), the "Sheep" Release

From:  Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron-AT-Sun.COM>
To:  gnome-announce-list-AT-gnome.org
Subject:  GDM 2.20.9 (stable), the "Sheep" Release
Date:  Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:35:19 -0600
Message-ID:  <49404427.1080307@sun.com>


AOOH-GAH
--------

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

The 2.20.9 release is a stable release of the GNOME Display Manager
(GDM) program with a few minor fixes and language translation updates.
Several Solaris specific issues have been addressed that came to light
due to OpenSolaris now being available.

- Fix processing of configuration variables in GDM's cleanup function so
   that configuration options aren't checked after they are freed.  (Brian
   Cameron)

- Fix for underquoted strings in comparisons in the Init script.  (Pacho
   Ramos)

- Update docs so that the PamStack configuration option is explained.
   (Brian Cameron)

- Correct processing of CONSOLE and PASSREQ /etc/default/login parameters
   so that they are checked each time a user logs in, and the most recent
   setting is used.  Thus, if the value is changed, GDM honors it
   immediately.  (Brian Cameron)

- Trusted Solaris integration now supports multilabel session entires.
   (Stephen Browne)

- Fix so that the gdm_ensure_sanity function is non-functional on Solaris.
   This function sets file permissions on sockets which are inappropriate o
   Solaris.  (Brian Cameron)

- When using the Solaris ZFS filesystem, the ACL's are now properly set
   so that the "gdm" user has access to the sound device, so text-to-speech
   can work.  (Brian Cameron)

- Fix for Solaris fbconsole launching code so that fbconsole is killed when
   the user logs out.  (Brian Cameron)

- Use bourne-shell syntax in config/Xsession.solaris which is more portable.
   (Takao Fujiwara)

- Translation updates (Djihed Afifi, Pema Geyleg, Kenneth Nielsen, Mugurel
   Tudor, 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.

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:
============

Online Documentation - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
Latest Stable        - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.24/
Latest Unstable      - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.25/
Bug Reporting        - http://bugzilla.gnome.org in the "gdm" category.

Have fun,

Brian
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