What's new in gnome-session 3.34.2
Nov 29, 2019
- autostart-app: Strip blacklisted variables from autostart environment
- data: Ensure shutdown target does not keep units loaded
- data: Make X11 services part of gnome-session-initialized
- data: Remove gnome-session-stable.timer and related units
- data: Remove never used gnome-session-shutdown.service
- doap: Add a description
- manager: Disable session saving on systemd managed sessions
- session-fill: Disable session restoring on systemd
- Translation updates: Chinese (Taiwan), Russian
New in gnome-session 3.34.1 (Oct 7, 2019)
- Drop accidentally included `--debug` when launching `gnome-session-binary`
- Introduce a list of variables to potentially unset in launched sessions
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.34.0 RC (Sep 5, 2019)
- More systemd --user fixes
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.34.0 Beta 1 (Aug 27, 2019)
- Add support to manage the session using the systemd user instance. A new systemd_session build time option is added to enable/disable the support and set it as the default (disable/enable/default). Right now the support is enabled by default. Distributions should be careful to ensure that other components are updated at the same time (gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-shell, gdm) as subtle errors may occur otherwise. If in doubt, only enable the feature and test it by modifying the gnome-session launch script to pass --systemd to gnome-session-binary.
- Update session definitions to match new gnome-settings-daemon
- don't show logout button in fail whale when not logged in
- handle apps exiting abruptly at log out better
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.33.4 (Jul 24, 2019)
- fix warning in log spew with dbus activated services
- fix idle detection
- advertize support for GDM's session registration API
- translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.32.0 (Mar 25, 2019)
New in gnome-session 3.31.4 (Jan 9, 2019)
New in gnome-session 3.30.1 (Sep 26, 2018)
- Fix region computation when debugging is enabled
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.30.0 (Sep 12, 2018)
- Fix NEWS file
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.30.0 Beta 1 (Aug 7, 2018)
- Drop deprecated environment variable again
- harden permissions on config dir
New in gnome-session 3.28.1 (Apr 23, 2018)
- Tell libICE to stop opening a TCP socket
- Shore up permissions of .config
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.28.0 (Mar 14, 2018)
New in gnome-session 3.28.0 Beta 2 (Mar 5, 2018)
New in gnome-session 3.27.4 (Jan 21, 2018)
- GLES fixes
- Make systemd journal configurable again
- Switch from intltool to gettext
- Fix wayland session file
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.27.3 (Dec 27, 2017)
- Drop deprecated bits
- Port to Meson
- Fix crash at shutdown
- Fix session saving
- BSD fixes
New in gnome-session 3.26.1 (Oct 25, 2017)
- Log warning fix
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.26.0 (Sep 13, 2017)
New in gnome-session 3.25.4 (Jul 20, 2017)
- restart dbus-daemon instead of killing dbus clients at log out
- session file updates for latest g-s-d
- misc memory fixes
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.25.3 (Jul 10, 2017)
- improved error messages with systemd integration
- fix crash in fail whale if X dies
- fix warning/crash when iterating over extensions
- kill dbus clients at logout
- leverage unicode for clarity and aesthetics
- BSD support improvements
- drop old SSH_AUTH_SOCK on wayland workaround
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.24.1 (Apr 29, 2017)
- autogoo degooing
- race condition fix with startup and owning the dbus name
New in gnome-session 3.23.4 (Jan 25, 2017)
- Fix warnings at startup in check accelerated helper
- print the renderer under wayland in check accelerated helper
- fix gpu info caching logic
- better error checking
- don't tell Qt applications to look like GNOME anymore
- make sure a login shell runs for wayland sessions at startup
New in gnome-session 3.22.2 (Nov 7, 2016)
- misc fixes to gnome-session-check-accelerated
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.22.1 (Oct 29, 2016)
- Fix problem when cancelling the power off dialogue
- Don't set locale information again after the localeexec wrapper already does
New in gnome-session 3.22.0 (Sep 24, 2016)
- Small fix for dash users
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.22.0 Beta (Aug 30, 2016)
- Do not report errors in the absence of dbus-update-activation-environment
- Support reading kernel gnome.fallback variable on FreeBSD
- Allow IM environment variables to be overridden
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.21.4 (Jul 27, 2016)
- Export renderer string for llvmpipe
- Small heap overflow fix
- Compiler warning fixes
- misc doc fixes
- Futureproof gettext support
New in gnome-session 3.20.2 (Jul 14, 2016)
- Fixes to D-Bus activation environment
- Compiler warning fixes
- Fail whale localization fix
- Fix heap corruption in dbus-launch wrapper code
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.21.3 (Jun 23, 2016)
New in gnome-session 3.20.1 (Jun 23, 2016)
- Fix startx
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.16.0 RC (Mar 18, 2015)
- Fix bug in tracking if the session is active
- Fail whale fixes
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.16.0 Beta 1 (Feb 19, 2015)
- Don't try to failwhale when the wayland compositor fails to start
- Support newer systemd client library layout
- Cut out more vestigial dbus-glib remnants
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.15.4 (Jan 30, 2015)
- Allow turning on debugging with an environment variable
- Don't set DISPLAY in wayland sessions
- Add back session-name property
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.15.3 (Dec 21, 2014)
- port to GDBus
- misc clean ups
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.14.0 (Oct 23, 2014)
- DOAP updates
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.11.4 (Jan 15, 2014)
- Fix crash on startup for non-systemd systems
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.11.3 (Dec 21, 2013)
- Warning fixes
- Use modern methods for finding gsettings schemas
- Fail whale size request fixes
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.11.2 (Nov 21, 2013)
- Blacklist nv25
- Use new GSubprocess API
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.11.1 (Nov 4, 2013)
- Fix a possible crash in the presence interface
- gsm-manager: Don't abort when all clients exit (#710480)
- gsm-util: Use g_unsetenv() rather than g_setenv(variable, NULL) (#710485)
- Only support UPower 0.9
- Drop EggSMClient
- Remove gnome-session-properties (#708923)
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.10.1 (Oct 22, 2013)
- Fix a crash on session end (#709221)
- Translation updates
New in gnome-session 3.8.4 / 3.10 Beta 2 (Sep 4, 2013)
- Add new phase for gnome-initial-setup and new phase for mutter-wayland
- Fix deadlock now that idle handling is in mutter
- Drop dead fallback code
- Add bits needed for wayland integration
- rename session-properties to gnome-session-properties
- make shutdown and reboot failable operations
- misc fixes
New in gnome-session 3.10 Beta 1 (Aug 21, 2013)
- code style fix ups
- Set _GNOME_IS_SOFTWARE_RENDERING root window property when software rendering
- disable hardware acceleration for poulsbo driver
- Updated translations
New in gnome-session 3.9.5 (Jul 31, 2013)
- Check errors on D-Bus calls (#705163)
- Set up journal redirection earlier (#703661)
- Reshow end session dialog when inhibitor disappears (#702575)
New in gnome-session 3.8.4 (Jul 31, 2013)
- Check errors on D-Bus calls (#705163)
- Set up journal redirection earlier (#703661)
- Always distribute session-selector.ui (#700363)
- Make GsmAutostartApp work with new GLib (#698798)
- Updated translations
New in gnome-session 3.8.2.1 (May 15, 2013)
- Always distribute session-selector.ui (#700363)
New in gnome-session 3.8.2 (May 14, 2013)
- Make GsmAutostartApp work with new GLib (#698798)
New in gnome-session 3.8.1 (Apr 19, 2013)
- Check for logind, not systemd (#696262)
- Updated translations
New in gnome-session 3.8.0 (Mar 26, 2013)
New in gnome-session 3.7.92 (Mar 20, 2013)
- Increase phase timeout to 90 seconds
- Updated translations
New in gnome-session 3.7.91 (Mar 6, 2013)
- Use pkg-config to check for X libraries
- Automatically fallback to software renderering if hardware renderering doesn't pass the sniff test
- Fix positioning of fail whale dialog
- Updated translations
New in gnome-session 3.7.90 (Feb 20, 2013)
- Add preliminary patch toward systemd-ification
- Fix XSMP clients after shutdown is canceled
- Make build with newer upower
- Adjust for new gnome-desktop idle api
- Add session selector
- Set XDG_MENU_PREFIX
- Updated translations
New in gnome-session 3.7.4 (Feb 5, 2013)
- Remove the fallback session definition (#687586)
- Remove support for RequiredProviders (#691663)
- Show the fail whale if GNOME shell can't run (#687586)
- Log to the systemd journal when available (#691785)
- Make SIGUSR1 print a line in debug output (#692241)
- Add an InhibitedActions D-Bus property (#692517)
- Reduce default idle timeout to 2 minutes
- Move automatic logout on idle functionality to gnome-settings-daemon (#597030)
- Allow empty sessions (#690866)
- Allow named saved sessions (#613270)
- Updated translations (Hebrew, Lithuanian, Norwegia, Slovak, Persian, Aragonese, Kazakh, Sovenian, Uyghur, Spanish, Belarusian, Assamese, Serbian, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Dutch, Friulian, Galician, Basque, Polish, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Italian).
New in gnome-session 3.6.2 (Nov 13, 2012)
- initialize systemd client before acquiring name. Fixes logind race.
- add SessionName property to introspection. Fixes gdbus errors
- drop system inhibitor when necessary. Fixes logind leak.
- fix malloc/g_free mismatch in systemd code
- updated translations
New in gnome-session 3.6.1 (Oct 16, 2012)
- Session Manager:
- Don't fall back for zaphod mode multi-screen setups
- Fix build on OpenBSD
- Detect greeter sessions better with systemd
- Updated translations
New in gnome-session 3.3.2 (Nov 28, 2011)
- Fix regexp for blacklisting Intel 830-865 hardware (Vincent)
New in gnome-session 3.2.1 (Oct 18, 2011)
- Session Manager:
- Refuse to install an idle timeout of 0 seconds (Rodrigo Moya)
- Fix crash on Solaris because of bad comparison (Brian Cameron)
- Translators
- David Planella (ca@valencia)
- Kristjan SCHMIDT (eo)
- Nguyá»…n Thái Ngá»c Duy (vi)
- Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_HK)
- Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_TW)
New in gnome-session 3.2.0 (Sep 28, 2011)
- Translators:
- Nilamdyuti Goswami (as)
- Petr Kovar (cs)
- flemming christensen (da)
- Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio (eu)
- Tommi Vainikainen (fi)
- Sweta Kothari (gu)
- Gabor Kelemen (hu)
- Andika Triwidada (id)
- Changwoo Ryu (ko)
- Aurimas ÄŒernius (lt)
- МироÑлав Ðиколић (sr)
- Miroslav Nikolić (sr@latin)
- Praveen Illa (te)
- Korostil Daniel (uk)
New in gnome-session 3.1.91 (Sep 15, 2011)
- Session Manager:
- Fix usage of %lld for 64-bit formats (Owen Taylor)
- Add a translator comment (Matthias Clasen)
- Translators:
- Ihar Hrachyshka (be)
- Fran Dieguez (gl)
- Kjartan Maraas (nb)
- Daniel Nylander (sv)
New in gnome-session 3.1.90 (Aug 30, 2011)
- Support for debugging the fail whale dialog (Jasper St. Pierre)
- Show gnome-shell extensions in the fail whale dialog (Jasper)
- Respect lockdown in the fail whale dialog (Matthias Clasen)
- Add an IsSessionRunning DBus method (Matthias)
- Remove obsolete gconf sanity check (William Jon McCann)
- Translation updates:
- Galician
- German
- Indonesian
- Norwegian bokmål
- Russian
- Spanish
- Thai
- Uighur
New in gnome-session 3.1.5 (Aug 19, 2011)
- Fix --help to mention arguments for options that have one (Vincent)
- Support XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP (Michael Terry, Vincent)
- Respect OnlyShowIn and NotShowIn keys (Vincent, Michael Terry)
- Code cleanup (Vincent)
- Translators:
- Ihar Hrachyshka (be)
- Alexander Shopov (bg)
- Petr Kovar (cs)
- Jorge González (es)
- Tommi Vainikainen (fi)
- Yaron Shahrabani (he)
- RÅ«dofls Mazurs (lv)
- Kjartan Maraas (nb)
- Piotr DrÄ…g (pl)
- Daniel Nylander (sv)
New in gnome-session 3.1.2 (Jun 24, 2011)
- Session Manager:
- Fix race condition in idle monitor (Christopher Halse Rogers)
- Consistently use Restart and not Reboot (Chris Wilson)
- Fix crashes by not assuming XSMP clients set the SmProgram property (Vincent)
- Make the acceleration checks refuse to work in zaphod mode (Adam Jackson)
- Update libegg code (Vincent)
- Code cleanups (Vincent, Kjartan Maraas)
- Translators:
- David Planella (ca@valencia)
- Daniel Mustieles (es)
- Fran Diéguez (gl)
- Yaron Shahrabani (he)
- Kjartan Maraas (nb)
- Matej UrbanÄiÄ (sl)
New in gnome-session 3.0.2 (May 27, 2011)
- Translators:
- Kristjan SCHMIDT (eo)
- Sahran (ug)
New in gnome-session 3.0.1 (Apr 29, 2011)
- Translators:
- Arash Mousavi (fa)
- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
- Lê TrÆ°á»ng An (vi)
New in gnome-session 3.0.0 (Apr 5, 2011)
- Session Manager:
- Change path of GSettings schema (Vincent)
- Translations:
- Updated af: Friedel Wolff
- Updated bn: Jamil Ahmed
- Updated ca: Jordi Serratosa
- Updated cs: Petr Kovar
- Updated da: Kris Thomsen
- Updated de: Wolfgang Stöggl
- Updated el: Simos Xenitellis
- Updated en_GB: Bruce Cowan
- Updated eu: Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio
- Updated hu: Gabor Kelemen
- Updated id: Dirgita
- Updated ko: Changwoo Ryu
- Updated lt: Gintautas Miliauskas
- Updated pt: Duarte Loreto
- Updated ta: Dr.T.Vasudevan
- Updated zh_CN: Aron Xu
- Updated zh_HK: Chao-Hsiung Liao
- Updated zh_TW: Chao-Hsiung Liao
New in gnome-session 2.91.91 (Mar 7, 2011)
- Session Manager:
- Better error message on not-found session (Colin Walters)
- Rename gnome-session-save to gnome-session-quit (William Jon McCann)
- Fix cancel button in logout dialog (Ray Strode)
- Increase is-accelerated runnable helper timeout (Colin Walters)
- Fix crash when if-session autostart condition is used (Matthias Clasen)
- Add gnome-session-check-accelerated to set a X property about acceleration (Colin Walters)
- Rename gnome-session-is-accelerated to gnome-session-check-accelerated-helper (Colin Walters)
- Fix typo (Vincent)
- Translations:
- Updated ar: Khaled Hosny
- Updated bg: Alexander Shopov
- Updated ca: David Planella
- Updated es: Daniel Mustieles
- Updated et: Ivar Smolin
- Updated fr: Alain Lojewski
- Updated he: Yaron Shahrabani
- Updated ko: Changwoo Ryu
- Updated lv: Rūdolfs Mazurs
- Updated nb: Kjartan Maraas
- Updated pa: A S Alam
- Updated sk: Pavol Šimo
- Updated sl: Matej Urbančič
- Updated sv: Daniel Nylander
- Updated uk: Korostil Daniel
New in gnome-session 2.91.90 (Feb 22, 2011)
- Session Manager:
- Update for GSettings schemas changes (Vincent)
- Read default session from GSettings (Alexander Larsson)
- Make the current session name available via dbus (Alexander Larsson)
- Support autostart conditions that depend on the current session (Alexander Larsson)
- Make notification-daemon a required part of the fallback session (Matthias Clasen)
- Show a dialog after login the first time we fall back to gnome-fallback (Alexander Larsson)
- Various fixes to shell logout/shutdown dialog (Ray Strode)
- Code cleanups (Vincent)
- Misc:
- gsettings-desktop-schemas 0.1.7 is required
- Translations:
- Updated ar: Khaled Hosny
- Updated bg: Alexander Shopov
- Updated ca: David Planella
- Updated es: Jorge González
- Updated gu: Sweta Kothari
- Updated he: Yaron Shahrabani
- Updated nb: Kjartan Maraas
- Updated nl: Wouter Bolsterlee
- Updated sl: Matej Urbančič
New in gnome-session 2.91.6 (Feb 2, 2011)
- Session Manager:
- Fix build with latest GTK+ 3 (Matthias Clasen, Vincent)
- Migrate to GSettings (Ray Strode)
- Add support for shell logout/shutdown dialog (Ray Strode)
- Use fallback session if required components are missing (Matthias Clasen)
- Defined Sessions:
- Do not consider Gallium's softpipe and llvmpipe as accelerated (Vincent)
- Do not run nautilus by default (Matthias Clasen)
- Capplet:
- Migrate to GSettings (Ray Strode, Vincent)
- Misc:
- Change GETTEXT_PACKAGE to gnome-session-3.0 (Vincent)
- Drop gnome-wm script (Matthias Clasen)
- Add a runtime dependency on gsettings-desktop-schemas
- Translations:
- Updated ar: Khaled Hosny
- Updated bg: Alexander Shopov
- Updated ca: David Planella
- Updated es: Jorge González
- Updated et: Ivar Smolin
- Updated gl: Fran Diéguez
- Updated he: Yaron Shahrabani
- Updated hu: Gabor Kelemen
- Updated id: Andika Triwidada
- Updated nb: Kjartan Maraas
- Updated nl: Wouter Bolsterlee
- Updated sl: Matej Urbančič
- Updated sv: Daniel Nylander
- Updated ug: Sahran
- Updated zh_HK: Chao-Hsiung Liao
- Updated zh_TW: Chao-Hsiung Liao
New in gnome-session 2.91.4 (Dec 23, 2010)
- Note to distributors:
- the definition of the session started by gnome-session moved out of gconf and is now living in .desktop-like files. The format of those files might change in the future.
- two predefined sessions are shipped: GNOME (default), that will start GNOME Shell, and Classic GNOME, that will start gnome-panel, metacity, etc. like in GNOME 2.
- a small utility, gnome-session-is-accelerated, is used to determine if GNOME Shell can be used. If this is not the case, Classic GNOME will be used.
- Please send feedback on when this utility doesn't detect things properly. it is known that session saving doesn't work well with people moving from one session to another at the moment. It can result in gnome-panel running with GNOME Shell, for example.
- Session Manager:
- Add autostart condition through GSettings (Bastien Nocera)
- Don't ever show inhibitor dialog if logout is forced (Ray Strode)
- Fix some issue tracking clients on logout (Ray Strode)
- Add an application restart limit (William Jon McCann)
- Move the definition of a session from gconf to .desktop-like files (Vincent)
- Change default session to use GNOME Shell, with a fallback to classic GNOME (Vincent)
- Update for GTK+ 3 changes (Matthias Clasen)
- Code cleanups (Vincent)
- Capplet:
- Set NoDisplay=true (William Jon McCann)
- Fix inline search (Ricardo Cruz)
- Update for GTK+ 3 changes (Cosimo Cecchi, Vincent)
- Translations:
- Updated ca@valencia: David Planella
- Updated crh: Reşat SABIQ
- Updated es: Jorge González
- Updated et: Ivar Smolin
- Updated fa: Mahyar Moghimi
- Updated fi: Ville-Pekka Vainio
- Updated fy: Sense Hofstede
- Updated gl: Fran Diéguez
- Updated he: Yaron Shahrabani
- Updated ja: Yasumichi Akahoshi
- Updated ko: Changwoo Ryu
- Updated nb: Kjartan Maraas
- Updated ro: Daniel Șerbănescu
- Updated sl: Matej Urbančič
- Updated th: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
- Updated ug: Sahran
New in gnome-session 2.32.1 (Nov 17, 2010)
- Translators:
- David Planella (ca)
- David Planella (ca@valencia)
- Reşat SABIQ (crh)
- Ivar Smolin (et)
- Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio (eu)
- Ville-Pekka Vainio (fi)
- Yasumichi Akahoshi (ja)
- Changwoo Ryu (ko)
- Žygimantas Beručka (lt)
- Daniel Șerbănescu (ro)
New in gnome-session 2.31.6 (Aug 4, 2010)
- Session Manager:
- Fix a GSeal issue (Vincent)
- Fixed spelling error in schema description (Frédéric Péters)
- Port gnome-session to upower ((Richard Hughes)
- Fix description of auto_save_session key (Vincent)
- Misc:
- Drop compatibility tool that sets GTK+ 1.x environment variable (Vincent)
- Drop the splash program (Paolo Borelli)
- Require upower-glib instead of devkit-power-gobject (Richard Hughes)
- Add configure flag to select which GTK+ version to use (Frédéric Péters)
- Translations:
- Updated bn_IN: Runa Bhattacharjee
- Updated de: Mario Blättermann
- Updated eo: Kristjan SCHMIDT
- Updated es: Jorge González
- Updated et: Mattias Põldaru
- Updated fy: Sense Hofstede
- Updated gl: Fran Diéguez
- Updated gu: Sweta Kothari
- Updated he: Yaron Shahrabani
- Updated lv: Rūdolfs Mazurs
- Updated mr: Sandeep Shedmake
- Updated nb: Kjartan Maraas
- Updated pa: A S Alam
- Updated sl: Matej Urbančič
- Updated sv: Daniel Nylander
- Updated zh_CN: Aron Xu
New in gnome-session 2.30.2 (Jun 22, 2010)
- Session Manager:
- Export _stop method for clients, for better GNOME Shell experience (Colin Walters)
- Misc:
- Explicitly add -lXext -lXau to linker line (Colin Walters)
- Translations:
- Updated ca: David Planella
- Updated ca@valencia: David Planella
- Updated en@shaw: Thomas Thurman
- Updated en_GB: Philip Withnall
- Updated et: Ivar Smolin
- Updated fi: Timo Jyrinki
- Updated id: Andika Triwidada
- Updated kn: Shankar Prasad
- Updated lv: Rūdolfs Mazurs
- Updated mr: Sandeep Shedmake
- Updated nl: Wouter Bolsterlee
- Updated or: Manoj Kumar Giri
New in gnome-session 2.29.92 (Mar 9, 2010)
- Session Manager:
- Log out on SIGTERM and SIGINT (Halton Huo)
- Delay the creation of the GsmXSMPClient until it really exists, to fix potential crashes on logout (Romain Perier)
- Misc:
- Remove unneeded LIBGNOMEUI_REQUIRED from configure.in (Vincent)
- Translations:
- Updated gl: Fran Diéguez
- Updated ko: Changwoo Ryu
- Updated nn: Torstein Adolf Winterseth
- Updated pl: Piotr DrÄ…g