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