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We are proud to announce the immediate availability of SDDM 0.12.0.

This release features working Wayland sessions for the first time, but the greeter is still running on Xorg.

This means that you will be able to login into a Wayland desktop environment without problems however the greeter screen still depends on X11.

Work on the Wayland support for the greeter has already been started and will likely be available with the next release.

Highlights of this release:

• BACKWARDS-INCOMPATIBLE: SDDM now depends on Qt >= 5.3
• BACKWARDS-INCOMPATIBLE: Display setup script is now killed if it hasn't finished within 30 seconds.
• LICENSING: The Maldives non-free background has been replaced by a CC-BY-SA alternative
• WAYLAND: Wayland sessions support
• CONFIG: New sddm.conf option XephyrPath (defaults to /usr/bin/Xephyr)
• CONFIG: new sddm.conf option ServerArguments (defaults to -nolisten tcp)
• CONFIG: new sddm.config option DisplayStopCommand (executes Xstop)
• THEMES: Assorted improvements to the default theme
• BUGFIX: Honor TryExec in Xsession desktop files
• BUGFIX: Fix session startup on zsh
• BUILD: Allow setting a custom DBUS_CONFIG_FILENAME at compile time
• BUILD: Allow SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_UNIT_DIR to be overridden at compile time
• BUILD: Allow QT_IMPORTS_DIR to be overridden at compile time
• BUILD: No longer hardcode min/max UIDs, allow setting UID_MIN and UID_MAX at compile time
• BUILD: Assorted FreeBSD fixes
• BUILD: Fix build warnings with Qt 5.5.
• BUILD: Enable QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII
• I18N: Added Arabic, contributed by Safa Alfulaij
• I18N: Added Hungarian, contributed by @mortein79
• I18N: Various i18n updates and improvements
• I18N: Full right-to-left languages support.

More information can be found here.

SHA1:

• 985aee2bbafd42969353786cc3dd63b2695cb848 - sddm-0.12.0.tar.xz
• 9d2b1f7ac3bbbf7c60555b3809179f5c95449e09 - sddm-0.12.0.tar.gz

Release Notes:

• 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

This release contains security bugfixes. Upgrading is highly recommended.

Release notes:

• BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE: Drop support for Qt 4.
• BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE: SDDM now prioritizes loading sessions with a .desktop prefix
• SECURITY: Never try to login as the sddm user (CVE-2014-7271)
• SECURITY: Fix race condition in XAUTHORITY file generation (CVE-2014-7272)
• SECURITY: XAUTHORITY file is no longer owned by root
• New translation: Kazakh
• Fixed password field initial focus state
• When the default theme is not available, sddm now loads the first theme in alphabetical order
• Fixed PAM environment variables being overridden
• Fixed autologin with the passwd backend
• Greeter themes can now specify their own icon and cursor themes.
• Various bugfixes with SessionCommand/XSession support
• Various bugfixes with test mode.
• Various cleanups

Full release announcement here: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.10.0-Release-Announcement

Release announcement here:

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.9.0-Release-Announcement

First, and possibly only, SDDM 0.9.0 release candidate

Release announcement for the upcoming release is here: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.9.0-Release-Announcement

Known issues:

• Some settings like numlock are not read from /etc/sddm.conf
• Always run last saved session instead of the selected session