What's new in Fingerprint GUI 1.06
Dec 5, 2014
- Bugfix: Segfault after failed login on secure tty;
- Workaround: Fix for cinnamon-screensaver on Mint 16 and Mint 17.
- Improvements:
- Fingerpint-helper is aware of multiple screen environments and is always placed on the screen that contains the cursor;
- Added MATE to fingerprint-polkit-agent.desktop settings;
- New program icon;
- New design for fingerprint request widget.
New in Fingerprint GUI 1.05 (Feb 13, 2014)
- Bugfix: Segfault when stopping libfprint device asynchronous;
- Workaround: loader for UPEK devices is aware of the vendorId/productId now: productId < 0x2000 loads bsapi version 4.0, productId >= 0x2000 loads bsapi version 4.3.
- Improvement: new usb.ids file (Version: 2013.05.08)
New in Fingerprint GUI 1.03 (Dec 9, 2011)
- Some bugfixes and workarounds for running on Lubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 11.10 have been applied: Fingerprint-polkit-agent didn't start on Lubuntu 11.10, there was no fingerprint login on a secure tty on Ubuntu 11.10, the X server didn't restart on logout on Ubuntu 11.10, and an error message didn't show up when a user's homedir was encrypted and fingerprint login was without password.
New in Fingerprint GUI 1.02 (Oct 24, 2011)
- Bugfix: Segfault in polkit agent, when more than one administrator user is available and the selected user is changed several times.
New in Fingerprint GUI 1.0.0 (Dec 17, 2010)
- A minor bug appearing on systems without the XAuth variable in the GDM environment (Gentoo) has been fixed.
- A build option for building on systems with libpolkit-qt-1-1 (Natty) for qmake has been added.
- The default PREFIX for building and installing was changed from "/usr" to "/usr/local".
New in Fingerprint GUI 1.0.0 RC3 (Nov 28, 2010)
- New "fingerprint-polkit-agent" for fingerprint authentication with policykit-1.
- New "help" menu in fingerprint-gui.
- Bugfix: Test button is disabled while a test is running; no segfault any more.
New in Fingerprint GUI 0.15 (Aug 25, 2010)
- Some minor bugfixes and changes in file locations to fit the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
- Environment variables like username or hostname are requested by a posix compliant system call now.
- The uinput driver module is now loaded on-the-fly when needed.
- Since 0.13 binaries are not statically linked against proprietary driver libraries any more but can make use of those libraries as plugins if they are installed.
New in Fingerprint GUI 0.14 (May 17, 2010)
- Some minor bugfixes required for running on (LTS versions 10.04) of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Lubuntu with libfprint-0.1.0. The "install-step-by-step" manual was enhanced by instructions for Fedora 12.
- Since 0.13 binaries are not statically linked against proprietary driver libraries any more but can make use of those libraries as plugins if they are installed.
New in Fingerprint GUI 0.13 (Apr 22, 2010)
- The system was completely redesigned for being compatible with encrypted home directories on Ubuntu 9.10.
- Binaries are not statically linked against proprietary driver libraries any more but can make use of those libraries as plugins if they are installed.
New in Fingerprint GUI 0.12 (Oct 28, 2009)
- The "with-upek" binaries make use of UPEKs libbsapi version 3.6 now. These are now available as native 32bit and 64bit applications.