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## Legend
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+ New features
- Bug fixes
* Others
## 0.21.0
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+ sddm-greeter can now be built for both Qt5 and Qt6
+ Themes can now declare their Qt version compatibility to control which greeter gets used
+ New CMake option INSTALL_PAM_CONFIGURATION (defaults to ON)
+ Bulgarian translation added
* DBus policy files are now installed in /usr rather than /etc
* Do not show keyboard layouts on wayland as switching is not implemented
* Switch the default commandline for Weston to use the kiosk shell (available in 9.0+)
- Fix building with Qt 6.7
- Handle autologin failure by falling back to the greeter (#1775)
- Fix session names containing ',' (#1745)
- Don't let tmpfiles delete x11 auth files for very long running sessions
- Many improvements for the **experimental** wayland support
## 0.20.0 - 2023-06-23
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+ Initial Qt6 support (Will break themes which rely on Qt 5)
+ **Experimental** support for running the greeter with Wayland
+ Enable HiDPI scaling by default
+ Support for running X11 display server without root privileges
+ Greeter: Support setting environment variables
+ Allow additional env vars to be defined in session files (#1370)
+ Make accountsservice data directory overridable via CMake
+ Add support for X11 cursor size configuration
+ Search XDG Base Directories for session files
+ Display information and errors from PAM in the greeter (#1486)
* Remove the Passwd backend, make PAM mandatory
* Bump minimum CMake version to 3.4
* Introduce SDDM_INITIAL_VT as the TTY to reach out to
* Set XCURSOR_SIZE in XorgDisplayServer::start
* Make it possible to start ConsoleKit D-Bus service during SDDM startup
* pam: Do not use tally2 if faillock is present
* Bump to Qt 5.15, port away from deprecated APIs
* remove `-logfile` arg that causes server to fail
- Set RUNTIME_DIR to /run/sddm when using systemd to follow FHS 3.0
- Use avatars in FacesDir first and if not found search other locations
- Switch to using libxau with `FamilyWild` (#1230)
- New interface to access config values from themes (#1097)
- Session names are translated now (#1645)
- Many more bugfixes
## 0.19.0 - 2020-11-02
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* Don't disable authentication in --test-mode
- Fix X not having access control on startup
(fixes CVE-2020-28049)
- Don't fill UserModel if theme does not require it
* Set re-use session option by default
* Avoid adjusting active auth sessions
* Cleanup sessions on exit
* Don't abort on failure to start the display server
+ Custom default font
* Limit systemd service restarts
* Typo fixes
* Fix graphical glitches on NVIDIA after VT switching
* Rewind password database
* Memory allocation fixes
* FreeBSD fixes
* Use C++ scoping for handling buffer deletion
* Allow to configure the QML installation directory
* Port connects
* Keep string termination characters in utmp entries
* Look for available display for test mode
* Interlingue translation
* Remove chVt() from declarations
- Rewind password db before scanning it (again) for available users
- Session reuse: Only consider "online" sessions
* Use modern connects
* Update translations
## 0.18.1 - 2019-03-11
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- Fix crashes when creating a user session
## 0.18.0 - 2018-07-17
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+ Support theme supplied avatars
+ Compile against Qt 5.11
- Fix platform detection for HighDPI
- On close, switch VT to a running session if applicable
- Better ConsoleKit support
- Fix authentication when reusing existing sessions
- Hide sessions with NoDisplay=true
- Honor PAM's ambient supplemental groups
- Cleanup socket destruction
- Don't quit on SIGHUP
* Updated translations
## 0.17.0 - 2017-12-05
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+ Added possibility to change border width of ComboBox widget.
+ Added missing utmp/wtmp/btmp handling.
+ Make greeter see icons set by AccountsServices.
- Fix sddm.conf man page syntax error and update.
- Fix ComboBox widget.
- Fix connection of PropertiesChanged event for LogindSeat.
- Avoid race conditions with Xsetup.
* Update de translation.
* Update lt translation.
* Update zh_TW translation.
* Adjust order of components in the default PATH.
* Set default input method to qtvirtualkeyboard.
## 0.16.0 - 2017-10-04
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+ Support non-latin characters in theme settings.
+ Support fish shell in Xsession and wayland-session.
+ Unlock GNOME keyring at login.
+ Configuration directory.
- Make the default cursor themed.
- Update date and time in elarun theme.
- Fix theme metadata default values.
- Fix session selection in elarun.
- Do not truncate XAUTHORITY on login.
- Make enabled property of Button functional.
- Fix typos in documentation.
* Re-use existing sessions.
* Add ConsoleKit 2 support.
* Stop assuming shadow(5) is always available.
* Explicitely set XDG_SEAT when starting a user session.
* Suppress errors when pam_elogind is not available.
* Suppress errors when pam_systemd is not available.
* Added possibility to change color of dropdown menu.
* Add Hindi translation.
* Completed Swedish translation.
* Update French translation.
## 0.15.0 - 2017-08-30
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- Fix display of avatars.
+ New sddm.conf option EnableHiDPI to allow opt out of auto scaling.
- Theme cursor.
+ Support optional kwallet PAM opening.
+ Autologin, try last successful login if not explicitly set.
+ Ignore session desktop files with hidden=true.
+ Support elogind.
## 0.14.0 - 2016-08-28
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+ New sddm.conf option EnableAvatars (useful for slow filesystems)
+ New sddm.conf option UserAuthFile on the XDisplay section
to change the default Xauthority file name and path.
+ New sddm.conf option SessionLogFile on XDisplay and WaylandDisplay
sections to change the default user session log location.
+ ComboBox now exposes the arrow background color as
"arrowColor" property.
+ New "style" theme configuration for QtQuick Controls 2.0.
+ Require Qt 5.6 or better.
+ Enable HiDPI support.
+ Refresh sessions list.
+ Always fallback to an embedded theme if no suitable theme is found.
- Actually change Qt platform theme.
- Switch to Wayland session vt only when authentication
succeeds.
- Close PAM session.
- Delete PAM credentials after closing the session.
* More theme-neutral default user and root avatars
* REMOVED the "circles" theme. Remember to change it if you had it set!
* REMOVED the "maui" theme as a standalone theme as it is now
embedded in the greeter. Remember to change the theme to empty
if you had it set to "maui".
* Update Estonian translation.
* Add Catalan translation from Robert Antoni Buj Gelonch.
* Add Dutch translation from Eric Hameleers.
* Add Slovak translation from Martin Minka.
* Add Swedish translation from Kristoffer Grundström.
* Add Ukrainian translation from Cherevan Andriy.
* Add Indian flag from Sanjeev Premi.
## 0.13.0 - 2015-11-04
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+ Greeter inherits path environment variables from parent so that
themes installed in non-standard paths will work.
+ Add ENABLE_PAM option to toggle PAM support at build time.
+ Allow overriding textColor in ComboBox.
- Don't cast QByteArray to (char *).
- Disable greeters from loading KDE's debug hander
(fix CVE-2015-0856).
- Fix multi-screen support for some setups.
* Added Serbian translation.
* Added Traditional Chinese translation.
* Improved German translation.
* Remove failsafe session entry.
* Close the pipe fd passed to X server.
* A few micro-optimizations.
## 0.12.0 - 2015-09-05
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* Add a new "platformTheme" setting for themes.
Themes can now specify a Qt platform theme plugin.
* Autodetect UID_MIN and UID_MAX from /etc/login.defs
* Add Arabic translation by Safa Alfulaij.
* Add Hungarian translation by mortein79.
* Russian translation improvements by Alexander Potashev.
* Wait for display setup script to finish.
* Reload configuration after display setup.
* Pass locale environment variables to the greeter.
* Support right-to-left languages.
* Wayland session support.
* Xorg server arguments are configurable.
* Honor locale settings in /etc/environment
* Allow SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_UNIT_DIR to be overridden at compile time.
* No longer hardcode min/max UIDs.
* FreeBSD build fixes.
* Fixed Qt 5.5 build warnings.
* Honor TryExec in Xsession desktop files.
* New sddm.conf option XephyrPath.
* New sddm.conf option ServerArguments.
* New sddm.conf option DisplayStopCommand.
* Enable QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII.
* Replace non-free background with a CC-BY-SA alternative for
the maldives theme.
* Many untracked bug fixes.
## 0.11.0 - 2014-11-20
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+ Reload the configuration every time we start a new session
- Fix stderr redirection in the helper. Solving a memory leak
- Set system locale in the greeter
- Bail on chdir failure
* Use QUuid for unique ID generation
* Update lithuanian translations
## 0.10.0 - 2014-10-16
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+ Set default icon theme from greeter theme configuration.
+ Set cursor theme according to greeter theme configuration.
- Never permit a login as the sddm user (CVE-2014-7271)
- Fix race condition in XAUTHORITY code (CVE-2014-7272)
- XAUTHORITY is no longer owned by root
- Flush any buffered data to the log file, this writes immediately
all the log messages.
- Fixed password field initial focus state
- Don't override pam environment variables.
* Remove Qt 4 support.
* Prioritize sessions with a .desktop prefix
* Add Kazakh translation.
* Separate display server specific code.
## 0.9.0 - 2014-08-02
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+ Implemented automatic login
+ Greeter now runs as its own user
+ Added translation support for themes.
+ Added keyboard layout support.
+ Added option to turn on numlock at startup.
+ ~/.xsession-errors support
+ Improved compatibility with GNOME and Unity
+ Initial Plymouth support
+ Implemented logging to journald if available
+ Added org.freedesktop.DisplayManager interface
+ Fast user switching
+ Test mode that can be toggled at runtime
+ Auto Relogging
+ User filtering based on shell
+ User filtering based on name
+ PAM is now optional
- No longer stripping comments from sddm.conf on login
- Fixed incorrect PAM handling causing PulseAudio to fail.
- Fixed a crash caused by incorrect handling of PAM
- Fixed compilation with Qt 5.0.0
- Correctly import PAM environment into the sesion
- Fixed missing environment variables
- Find empty displays and virtual desktops automatically
- Exit gracefully when SIGTERM is received
- Fix running SDDM under a Plasma 5.0 desktop.
* Now using Oxygen instead of Geosans Light
* Added man pages sddm(1), sddm-greeter(1), sddm.conf(5)
* Removed custom session
* Failsafe is no longer the default session
## 0.1.0 - 2013-03-19
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* Initial release