Brian Cameron | 13 May 02:42
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GDM2 2.20.6 (stable), the "Hugitoes" Release


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

The 2.20.6 release is a stable release of the GNOME Display Manager
(GDM) program with the following bug fixes and improvements:

- Fix two related bugs that were causing GDM to crash regularly on exit.
   Refer to bug #517526.  (Brian Cameron)

- Fix a third bug that was causing the GDM daemon to crash occasionally
   when using gdmsetup.  This fix changes GDM so that when it receives an
   UPDATE_CONFIG command, it only updates the key specified rather than
   re-reading the entire configuration file.  Fixes bug #517526.  (Brian
   Cameron)

- Sync to avoid any XIO errors after session exits.  (Ray Strode)

- Fix so that the XDMCP configuration values are read from the
   configuration file when the XDMCP manager is started rather than
   initialized.  It seems the related fixes implemented in 2.20.2 did not
   fully resolve this issue.  (Brian Cameron)

- Fix bug that was causing GDM session desktop file marked as
   "Hidden=true" to show up in the Session dialog.  (Brian Cameron)

- Fix gdmsetup bug that caused users to need to restart GDM in order for
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