ANNOUNCE: xfce4-session 4.21.2 released
Brian Tarricone
brian at tarricone.org
Thu Oct 8 22:21:03 CEST 2026
xfce4-session 4.21.2 is now available for download from
https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-session/4.21/xfce4-session-4.21.2.tar.xz
https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-session/4.21/xfce4-session-4.21.2.tar.xz?sha1
https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-session/4.21/xfce4-session-4.21.2.tar.xz?sha256
What is xfce4-session?
======================
The Xfce session manager controls the loading of applications when Xfce
is started. It also handles logging out, shutting down, and rebooting.
Website:
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/start
Release notes for 4.21.2
========================
[Please note that this is a development release.]
- Add new libxfce4session-client library
- Only set client's app ID once
- Make save on shutdown work for dbus clients
- Run discard command on delegate RemoveClient path
- Don't drop all following toplevels if one of them is bad
- Remove G_GNUC_PURE annotations
- Validate ownership of client registration on unregister/remove
- Require client_startup_id to be valid for
ManagerDelegate.RegisterClient
- Fix two possible use-after-frees on XfsmClient
- Don't drop delegate clients unless we get ClientDisconnected
- Enable all settings UI for Wayland
- Remove some unnecessary Wayland-specific code
- Don't forcibly kill dbus clients if they don't save in time
- Handle checkpoint/shutdown properly on Wayland
- Make checkpointing work for dbus clients
- Start ICE listener on Wayland if DISPLAY is set
- Evict clients that haven't been seen in ~9 months
- Don't ever synthesize RestartCommand
- Carry properties around for non-xfsm-aware clients
- Fix bug in client-id-is-empty check in dbus RegisterClient
- Only allow parent process to use ManagerDelegate/ClientDelegate
- Add the Manager.AttachClient dbus method
- Load and store toplevels & properties from/to session state file
- Wire up ClientDelegate dbus methods
- Wire up ManagerDelegate dbus methods
- Add defns for the new ManagerDelegate and ClientDelegate interfaces
- Unexport clients from dbus when they are closed
- xinitrc: Add DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY to env update
- gobject-linter: Fix unnecessary_null_check
- logout-dialog: Adjust warning level when grab fails
- Remove G_GNUC_CONST
- Rename settings dialog .desktop file
- startxfce4: move XDG_RUNTIME_DIR setup out of --wayland-only block
- cppcheck: Fix nullPointerRedundantCheck
- cppcheck: Fix constVariable
- cppcheck: Fix assertWithSideEffect
- cppcheck: Fix unreadVariable
- cppcheck: Fix knownConditionTrueFalse
- cppcheck: Fix nullPointerOutOfResources
- cppcheck: Fix redundantInitialization
- cppcheck: Fix unusedStructMember
- cppcheck: Fix invalidPrintfArgType_sint
- cppcheck: Fix memleak
- cppcheck: Fix invalidPrintfArgType_uint
- cppcheck: Fix unusedAllocatedMemory
- cppcheck: Fix mismatchAllocDealloc
- cppcheck: Fix unknownMacro
- gobject-linter: Fix signal_canonical_name
- gobject-linter: Fix inconsistent_function_signature
- gobject-linter: Fix use_g_steal_pointer
- gobject-linter: Fix g_error_leak
- gobject-linter: Fix g_param_spec_static_strings
- gobject-linter: Fix strcmp_explicit_comparison
- gobject-linter: Fix matching_declare_define
- gobject-linter: Fix missing_autoptr_cleanup
- gobject-linter: Fix missing_implementation
- gobject-linter: Fix use_clear_functions
- Do not compare gboolean to TRUE or FALSE
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- Accept a DBus bus name to own in the XFCE4_SESSION_DBUS_BUS_NAME env
var
- logout-dialog: Do not create multiple dialogs
- startxfce4: Add support for OpenBSD to kbd layout detection on
wayland
- portals: Add gnome-keyring as Secret provider
- Translation Updates:
Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Lao, Slovenian
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