{
  "id": 270346,
  "title": "LightDM lives: version 1.33.0 released",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/lightdm-lives-version-1-33-0-released",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-07T13:52:54.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "LWN",
    "slug": "lwn",
    "url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1087759/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Version 1.33.0 of the LightDM display manager has been released. This is the first release in four years : the project had been sponsored by Canonical but was effectively unmaintained in recent years. It has been transferred to a new community repository and is now maintained by Joshua Peisach and Neal Gompa. The new release includes Qt6 support, code optimizations, and a list of other fixes that…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}