There is hal-0.5.10 released (October 11, 2007): http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=blob;h=ebabd2b07320171a219c67749db2c172cc0c46a2;hb=1491787fdf29fd77e4cbd13af70434ee3e7032ee;f=NEWS Ebuild in Portage Tree would be nice.
Here is the announcement: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2007-October/009699.html
It'll be in when it's ready. It's being worked on in Gentopia.
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