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- LICENSING: The Maldives non-free background has been replaced by a CC-BY-SA alternative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
Sources and SHA1 hashes follow:
- sddm-0.12.0.tar.gz (SHA1: 9d2b1f7ac3bbbf7c60555b3809179f5c95449e09)
- sddm-0.12.0.tar.xz (SHA1: 985aee2bbafd42969353786cc3dd63b2695cb848)
