When two monitors shared one controller during a system boot, a blank screen appeared on both monitors. Consequently, users with this configuration experienced prolonged blank screens during boot-up and shutdown, and a choppy splash animation on any other external monitor. With this update, this bug has been fixed and the splash animation is now smooth and is displayed on all external monitors. (BZ#625209)

Previously, the plymouth daemon terminated unexpectedly if there were any "console=" entries on the kernel command line. As a consequence, boot messages were not properly logged. With this update, this bug has been fixed, the plymouth daemon now handles console entries on the kernel command line without any crashes and boot messages are written to the log file as expected. (BZ#631924)

Previously, the system prompted for a password on boot but provided no hint as to what the password was for. That caused unnecessary confusion for some users, who didn't know which of their passwords to enter. With this update, a hard drive icon has been added to prompts associated with encrypted disk volumes and the password prompts for encrypted disks are now easy to recognize. (BZ#612665)