HAL 0.5.6 "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli." is now available. Download from http://freedesktop.org/~david/dist/hal-0.5.6.tar.gz Changes from HAL 0.5.5.1 - new volume_id from udev upstream (Kay Sievers) - listen to udev via a socket (Kay Sievers) - Another USB card reader common theme (Pozsar Balazs) - volume_id version 55 to fix strange FAT detection issues (Kay Sievers) - Sony Ericsson mobile phones with Memory Stick (Pro Duo) fdi (Danny Kukawka) - Samsung Yepp YP-ST5 fdi (Davide Ferrari) - Use hash table for calculated charge rate (Danny Kukawka) - Add checks to power management scripts (Danny Kukawka) - Move scripts to $(datadir)/hal/scripts (Danny Kukawka) - Fix for refreshing battery values on AC adapter transition (Richard Hughes) - Add power_management.[can_suspend,can_hibernate] and remove the power_management.is_enabled keys (Richard Hughes) - Use the new poll-able /proc/mounts file from 2.6.15 (Kay Sievers) - Allow strlists to be passed to method calls (Kay Sievers) - Add Mount, Unmount, Eject methods to the new org.freedesktop.Hal.Device. Volume interface (Kay Sievers) - Update driver prop on physical device if class device binds (Kay Sievers) - Force 'rate' to be zero if battery is neither charging nor discharging (Ryan Lortie) - Fix our DTD file and add validation for fdi files (Artem Kachitchkine) - Add Shutdown() and Reboot() methods (Richard Hughes) - Add HAL_METHOD_INVOKED_BY_UID to method call environment (Kay Sievers) - Switch from xattr to .create-by-hal-file at mount point to determine if a mount point is created by HAL's Mount() method (Kay Sievers) - Remove HAL-created mount points at startup (Kay Sievers) - SCSI generic device recognizition (Kay Sievers) - Restrict org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume to the console user (Kay Sievers) - Set drive_type to 'disk' for new TYPE_RBC (Firewire) devices (Danny Kukawka) - Added TEAC CD-R55S to list of broken CD/DVD burner (Danny Kukawka) - Move uid_export to root scope to avoid corruption (Aaron Bockover) - Introduce volume.mount.valid_options and generalize mount script (David Zeuthen) - Remove dead code in lshal (Danny Kukawka) - Add neeeded NULL termination of an array (Chris Spiegel, fd.o #5279) - Also let uid 0 invoke methods restricted to console user (Richard Hughes) - Fix more vulnerabilities in script for Mount(), Unmount(), Eject() (Kay Sievers, David Zeuthen) - Add battery.reporting.* to UPS'es (David Zeuthen) - Fixup a few compiler warnings (Danny Kukawka) - UK translations (Ivan Petrouchtchak) - V4L and DVB device recognizition (Kay Sievers) - Match on info.capabilities, not info.category (John Palmieri) - Sony PSP music player fdi file (James Henstridge, fd.o #5137) - Fix incorrect reporting of volume.fsuage in libhal-storage (David Zeuthen) - Introduce volume.ignore property, document it, make it available in libhal-storage and make our Mount() script respect it (David Zeuthen) - Add optical disc write speeds (Ryan Lortie, Danny Kukuwka) - Use D-BUS calls for powersaved backend (Holger Macht) Requirements for HAL 0.5.6 "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli." - Linux kernel >= 2.6.15 - util-linux >= 2.13 - bash >= 2.0 - udev >= 078 (using udevsend as hotplug multiplexer) - dbus >= 0.60 (with glib bindings) - glib >= 2.6.0 - expat >= 1.95.8 - popt >= 1.10.2 (optional) - libusb >= 0 0.1.10a (optional) - dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional) Hopefully this will help with some of the automount troubles people are having.
We're all aware.... Not like we forgot.
Marking this as later because this won't be seeing Portage for a while. HAL 0.5.6 depends on an unreleased version of util-linux. This is why it's not already in Portage.
*** Bug 120023 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 123636 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
