==========
HAL 0.5.10 "Humanity's children are returning home"
==========

Released October 11, 2007.

Requirements for HAL 0.5.10 "Humanity's children are returning home":

 - Linux kernel     >= 2.6.19
 - util-linux       >= 2.12r1    (--enable-umount-helper requires patch
                                    from RH #188193; it's in util-linux-ng 2.13)
 - bash             >= 2.0
 - udev             >= 111       (Linux only)
 - dbus             >= 0.61      (with glib bindings)
 - glib             >= 2.6.0
 - expat            >= 1.95.8
 - hal-info         >= 20071011  (older works too)
 - libusb           >= 0.1.10a   (optional)
 - pciutils         >= 2.2.3     (optional)
 - dmidecode        >= 2.7       (optional)
 - parted           == 1.7.1, 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.86, 1.87 (optional)
 - cryptsetup-luks  >= 1.0.1     (optional, needs LUKS patches)
 - libsmbios        >= 0.13.4    (optional, for DELL machines, Linux only)
 - dellWirelessCtl  >= 0.13.4    (optional, for Dell machines, must live in
                                 /usr/bin/, Linux only)
 - gperf            >= 3.0.3-2   (optional, for Re-map multimedia keys, 
                                  Linux only)
 - PolicyKit        >= 0.5       (optional)
 - ConsoleKit       >= 0.2.0     (optional, needed if use PolicyKit)
 - pm-utils         >= 0.99.2 or newer (optional)

Contributors to HAL 0.5.10 "Humanity's children are returning home":

Adel Gadllah (1):
      ipw killswitch support

Andrey Borzenkov (1):
      allow IDE media detection if /proc/ide is missing

Bastien Nocera (2):
      define new property power_management.quirk.none
      add bluray support

Bill Nottingham (1):
      handle 'move' events for network devices

Daniel Drake (1):
      don't die if /proc/mdstat doesn't exist

Daniel Stone (3):
      autogen.sh: srcdir != objdir safety
      add input.xkb properties
      add input.x11_driver

Danny Kukawka (47):
      fix problem with repeated property-changed signals
      fix build without policykit enabled/available
      fixed make distcheck by remove hal-lock.policy from Makefile.am
      fix contains_not fdi-directive
      only start one hald-addon-input addon
      fix possible segfault in probe-volume if vid->type == NULL
      fix problems with case if vid->label[0] is '\0'
      fix detection of libusb
      fix hald_runner_kill_all()
      remove brightness-up event from acpi addon for IBM
      fix return type of SetPowerSave()
      updated allowed libparted versions
      set info.category='laptop_panel' for all laptop panels
      don't compile Re-map keys without gperf
      replace '/' in volume labels with '_' if part of UDI
      s/HAVE_GPERF/have_gperf/ in configure results overview
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      fix usage of g_list_free1() to fit HAL requirements
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      free volumelabel from commit 2d1d72e8
      fix API documentation of libhal
      fix compiler warning and error in if statement
      fix build errors with D-Bus versions < v1.0
      cleanup DBusError handling in addon-acpi main_loop()
      stop hald-addon-dell-backlight if needed kernel module isni't loaded
      fixed compiler warning about unused return value of asprintf()
      fixed PolicyKit detection to check for >= 0.4
      fix get ACPI version from sysfs (fd.o #11290)
      fixed return type of libhal_ctx_init_direct()
      fixed libhal code docu
      use hardcoded paths to sysfs and proc
      fix possible segfault on serial device check
      fix compilerwarning in serial_get_prober()
      allow gid= for hfs, remove uid= for hfs+  and handle hfs like fat
      source hal-functions in hal-luks-teardown
      fix hal-ipw-killswitch-linux to return status of killswitch
      fix detection of system.formfactor=laptop for ACPI machines
      fixed typo in PMU code
      fixed changeset handling for HAL_PROPERTY_TYPE_STRLIST
      fix detection of storage.cdrom.*_speed* values (fd.o 10399)
      fix indirections in fdi files
      fix indirections in fdi files (prepend/append copy_property)
      add more parameter checks to libhal
      add new fdi directives *_outof
      add soundcard device and fix device_file handling
      added power_management.quirk.no_fb to spec
      forward ThinkPad ACPI event for killswitch

David Zeuthen (83):
      post-release version bump to version 0.5.10
      update spec to mention input.* capabilities
      remove i18n support
      remove hal-device-manager
      remove TODO about about deleting hal-device-manager
      fix lock checking for LUKS setup/teardown
      port HAL over to use PolicyKit master
      remote safety valves used in development
      briefly note in the spec how the PermissionDeniedByPolicy exception works
      clarify how access control now that our PolicyKit support works
      add a note to the TODO about that we shouldn't use setfacl(1) directly
      make distcheck happy again and remove ChangeLog from tarballs
      for run-hald.sh + friends move fdi+privilege 'make install' to /tmp
      file monitoring interface
      use new file monitoring interface and integrate witk PK master
      use the new file monitor abstraction to watch fdi directories
      silence debug spew from the file monitor
      add the "-extra-options" privileges for mounting
      don't include hal-file-monitor.c in hald/linux/osspec.c
      libpolkit changed a bit; update to new API
      prefix CK object paths with /org/fd/CK so PolicyKit gets the right path
      add back ChangeLog
      changes to cope with PolicyKit mass renaming
      take advantage of new parameter API in PolKitAction
      also update man page for hal-is-caller-privileged
      update to compile cleanly with PolicyKit master
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      remove use of "action parameters" now that they're going in PolicyKit
      changes to compile against recent PolicyKit
      policy definitions are now XML files in PolicKit master
      document Bluetooth ACL / SCO, fixup UDI generation and make coldplug work
      change namespace for bluez-specific properties
      recognize touchpads + add TODO about sorting out input device classification
      forgot to add hal-lock.policy
      properties in net.bluetooth.* are not Bluez specific; remove bluez_ prefix
      pass correct options to pm-suspend
      also pass correct options for pm-hibernate
      introduce new <addset> operator
      incorporate autotools changes
      recognize Linux MD aka Software RAID devices
      use correct integer size
      create lock file with predictable permissions
      actually return INT32 rather than UINT32 to adhere to the spec
      also change type from uint32_t to int32_t
      add a note about making addons aware of suspend/resume
      make return value for method calls implemented via programs be UINT32
      add suport for ACLAdded and ACLRemoved signals on Device.AccessControl if
      add the code in hal-acl-tool to emit ACLAdded and ACLRemoved signals
      change PolicyKit policy such only active sessions have access to devices
      add Macbook2,1 support for backlight control
      update to new API in PolicyKit 0.3
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      set system.hardware.primary_video.[vendor,product] keys
      add docs for new system.hardware.primary_video.* properties
      only match on Apple, not "Apple Computer, Inc." for macbook (pro) backlight
      fix up location of hal-ipw-killswitch-linux and add copyright+license header
      fix build
      work with PK head
      avoid emitting hotplug events during coldplug
      shut up some debugging info
      avoid polling SATA AN capable drives and rely on "change" uevents
      document the storage.removable.support_async_notification property
      update to work with PK HEAD
      include <message> elements in PK policy files
      fix up how we detect Apple laptops
      the PK policy files move to $datadir from $sysconfdir
      use correct mode for open(3p)
      fix libhal_psi_has_more() incorrect behavior
      support for ACL on USB devices where the device node is on the real device
      update to work with PolicyKit HEAD
      use direct connection if available
      avoid setting SELinux context on the PolKitCaller object if it's non-existant
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      handle the fact that event%d is no longer a child of input%d
      Revert "make return value for method calls implemented via programs be UINT32"
      require PolicyKit 0.5
      update hal-setup-keymap-hash-name.h
      split the "can setup LUKS?" action into two actions (removable/fixed)
      fix last commit for LUKS; forgot to refact error handling
      bump fdi generation timeout to 60s
      skip the ACL entry instead of bailing out when using bad fdi files
      fix segfault when setting up keymap

Dirk Mueller (1):
      fix header to compile with -pedantic

Dirk Müller (1):
      fixed access of freed memory

Doug Goldstein (8):
      fix fdi cache regen logic error
      use stdlib.h not malloc.h
      fix how we build partutil
      fdi spec fixes and correct implementation
      the runner doesn't handle D-Bus disconnect properly
      fix trivial bugs in hald-generate-fdi-cache
      add missing uint64 matching to fdi.dtd
      hal-disable-polling symlink support

Faidon Liambotis (1):
      fix misplacement of the ipw killswitch

Frederic Crozat (3):
      allow flush for vfat
      allow acl, user_xattr on ext2
      handle renaming of SG_FLAG_LUN_INHIBIT in sg.h

Guillem Jover (3):
      rename hal-addon-keyboard to hal-addon-input
      generalize keyboard detection code
      update configure.in and use autoreconf

Holger Macht (2):
      fixup return value documentation of CPUFreq interface
      readd information about the SetCPUFreqGovernor method

Jeff Mitchell (5):
      New parts of the portable_audio_player spec as discussed on the ML.
      More accurate information handed down to me from higher-ups.  Older pre-MTP devices are actually mostly PDE, not PTP.
      Formatting fix
      Deprecate portable_audio_player.access_method because recent spec changes have rendered it useless at best and misleading at worst.
      Provide some extra information as to what information should be put in the sub-namespaces.

Joe Marcus Clarke (2):
      do not re-probe devices that are managed by hald-addon-storage
      fix compilation on FreeBSD

Julius Schulz-Zander (1):
      fix speling of AC adapter

Kay Sievers (4):
      creating link /dev/root to device / is mounted from
      volume_id: prepare for future API changes
      volume_id: update version requirement in configure.in
      hotplug: handle "change" events for unknown devices as "add"

Kristian Høgsberg (1):
      update firewire prober to use correct ioctl codes

Luiz Augusto von Dentz (2):
      properly recognize Bluetooth SCO and ACL devices
      recognize bluetooth network capabilities

Martin Pitt (2):
      allow 'utf8' mount option for NTFS
      support more Macbook Pro models

Martin Szulecki (1):
      fix Macbook Backlight not working after waking up from suspend to ram

Michael Biebl (1):
      install hal-is-caller-privileged.1 manpage conditionally

Richard Hughes (40):
      trivial, don't try to make device-manager
      add special button device for LENOVO also
      make verbosity optional in create cache.
      fix some more .gitignore
      Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://hughsient@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      add keymap capabilities into hal
      make hal-setup-keymap.c use strerr rather than stdout
      fix matching devices against dmi properties on the computer device
      add newlines to error text in hal-setup-keymap.c
      fix i8042 KBD keyboard mapping
      fix build when gperf is not installed
      add two more strings to the battery technology list
      add hal_util_get_bool_from_file convenience helper
      only allows the use of pm-utils for suspend, hibernate and suspend-hybrid
      propagate --quirk-none to pm-utils
      Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://hughsient@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      add power_management.quirk.reset_brightness
      add debug message when we remove a device when the prober fails
      Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://hughsient@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      add a refresh handler for linux devices
      add device_pm.{c|h} to abstract out some of the common code
      dont use util_compute_percentage_charge in apm
      use device_pm_* in pmu.c
      use device_pm_* in acpi.c
      remove util_compute_percentage_charge
      add the power_supply abstract battery
      fix some warnings in the device_pm code
      add ups and usb power supply types and set battery.type key
      power_supply current is measured in ua not uw
      correct two typos to the power_supply code
      add battery type 'usb' into the spec
      Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://hughsient@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      we only support pm-utils for SetLowPowerMode
      fix the input parameter for the SetPowerSave method
      Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://hughsient@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      update to latest keycode input from linus
      add recovery partitions by other vendors
      add another dell recovery partition
      add two more recovery partitions for acer
      initialise the error in the acpi watcher

Rob Taylor (6):
      add hald-runner support for singleton addons
      hald core support for singleton addons
      libhal support for addon singletons
      convert libhal to use a hashtable for property sets
      convert linux addon-input into a singleton addon
      document singleton addons

Ruediger Oertel (1):
      fixed configure for macbook addons to build also on x86_64

Sjoerd Simons (3):
      free changeset elements keys
      free changeset elements keys
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal



==========
HAL 0.5.9 "Precipice"
==========

Released April 2, 2007.

Requirements for HAL 0.5.9 "Precipice":

 - Linux kernel     >= 2.6.17
 - util-linux       >= 2.12r1    (--enable-umount-helper requires patch from RH #188193)
 - bash             >= 2.0
 - udev             >= 089
 - dbus             >= 0.61      (with glib bindings)
 - glib             >= 2.6.0
 - expat            >= 1.95.8
 - hal-info         >= 20070402
 - libusb           >= 0.1.10a (optional)
 - pciutils         >= 2.2.3     (optional
 - dmidecode        >= 2.7       (optional)
 - parted           == 1.7.1, 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.86 (optional)
 - cryptsetup-luks  >= 1.0.1     (optional, needs LUKS patches)
 - libsmbios	    >= 0.13.4    (optional for DELL machines, Linux only)
 - dellWirelessCtl  >= 0.13.4    (optional, for Dell machines, must live in /usr/bin/, Linux only)
 - ConsoleKit       >= 0.2.0
 - pm-utils         >= 0.99.2 or newer (optional)

Contributors to HAL 0.5.9 "Precipice":

Alex Kanavin (1):
      provide textual interface description for USB devices

Andreas Hanke (1):
      fixes for AS_AC_EXPAND usage breaks hal-device-manager

Artem Kachitchkine (5):
      hald/linux/ids -> hald/ids and minor fixes
      fix minor memory leaks
      do not let tools coredump if HAL is not running
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      solaris backend

Bastien Nocera (1):
      killswitch infrastructure for Bluetooth and use /dev/sonypi instead of spicctrl

Dan Nicholson (1):
      POSIX shells do not support '==' tests

Daniel Nylander (1):
      added Swedish translation file

Danny Kukawka (63):
      replaced LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR with dbus_error_free()
      fixed acpi problems with incorrect low current voltage values
      fixed usage of dbus_error_is_set(error == NULL) due to D-Bus changes
      fixed detection of wireless devices with dscape kernel stack
      fix copy_property for merge in FDI files
      replace usage of g_assert() with error handling
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      add hardware dependent/specific alsa sound devices to HAL
      fixed compiler warning
      fixed automake for linux
      fixed typo in 20-storage-methods.fdi
      remove unneeded close() calls
      fixed code docu in libhal
      removed not needed '.in' version of a luks script
      fixed segmentation fault in xen code
      Fix to guarantee that udi get generated before process FDI
      changed error handling for hal-storage-shared.c
      fixed detection of libsmbios to check for >= v0.11.6
      changed D-Bus error if /sbin/cryptsetup is not available
      remove sanitizing passwords for luks and prevent word splitting/path expansion
      fix detection of max. available omnibook brightness levels
      fix get/set brightness for sonypi/spiccrtl
      added new section for deprecated properties to spec
      fixed compiler warnings
      fix .hal-mtab mountpoint handling
      detect path to dmidecode on runtime (fd.o bug #9318)
      added hald-addon-dell-backlight to .gitignore
      fix gtk-doc code documentation
      fix (more) gtk-doc code documentation
      fixed typo in spec
      add copy_property FDI directive for stringlist properties
      fixed compiler warning in addon-dell-backlight
      fixed compiler warning
      fix compiler warning in libhal
      fixed compiler warning in create_cache.c
      fixed commit 882085a0, forgot cast to unsigned long
      typo fix
      fixed uid datatype in CallerInfo to unsigned long
      added new fdi match attribute 'contains_not' for strings and strlist
      added hald-probe-ieee1394-unit to .gitignore
      libhal: validate parameter to be != NULL
      fix expat detection in configure
      fixed code documentation
      added some files to .gitignore
      removed not needed string from translation files
      added support for ALSA MIDI devices
      validate error D-Bus names returned on stderror
      change usb*.version_bcd/usb*.speed_bcd to new double keys
      added hal-system-power-pm-is-supported to .gitignore
      fixed libsmbios search output to correct version
      updated requirements in NEWS file
      void hal-device-manager to open multiple about dialogs
      fix for new pciutils which need to link against zlib
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      fix configure for DELL stuff
      fixed quoting and added allowed libparted versions to error output
      added .gitignore to new doc/man dir
      update several .gitignore files
      added optional support for IBM ACPI (hotkey) events.
      added configure option to enable build Toshiba ACPI button addon
      add more cdrom information
      update .gitignore
      updated German translation file

David Woodhouse (1):
      fix crash on PPC Pegasos that don't have PMU, ACPI or APM

David Zeuthen (196):
      post-release version bump to 0.5.9
      fix race condition when unmounting a volume takes a very long time
      don't lock the .hal-mtab file at all when checking mount status on unmount
      don't update mount state until Unmount() returns
      fix stupid typo in syslog reporting for Mount()
      only install PolicyKit privilege files if we're using PolicyKit
      only require libvolume_id >= 061
      write new requirements for 0.5.9 including requiring udev >= 089
      don't fail, print warning if ARPHRD_IEEE80211_{RADIOTAP,PRISM} is not defined
      fix up overflow of 32-bit variable when getting 64-bit value
      remove unneeded debug
      send changes in correct order for LibHalChangeSet
      remove dead code introduced by commit 0ae1aed74548fec563399d00100d621ce99b383b
      enable looking for data track on optical discs
      export Eject() even on discs where we can't detect a file system
      probe for partitions on data discs where we fail to detect an fs
      add a note about checking that optical drives supports the cmd's we are sending
      don't build Macbook Pro utils on non-x86
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      remove gtk-doc tmpl files from source control
      make cpufreq support optional
      make Macbook Pro utils x86 only again
      split out Macbook Pro matching into separate fdi file
      make usb csr support optional
      fix up typo in usb csr detection
      stat special device file, not the mount point
      don't crash on cd drives without write capabilities
      don't add non-existing partition entries for MS-DOS disk labels
      add some thoughts about optimization work needed
      make it easier to measure startup time
      some memory optimization work
      clean up HalDevice and HalProperty a bit
      make HalProperty private to HalDevice implementation (makes it easier to nuke)
      use an iterator to iterate over strlist instead of using GSList
      switch device_info.c to use strlist iterator
      fix crasher in GetProperty() method
      use a hash table for device properties
      implement missing functions after move to hash table properties
      removed unneeded and fragile async matching from device store
      move property code into device object core
      free hash table before the private object to prevent segfault
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      switch running_processes to using a list + fix a few memory leaks
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      revert hald/device_info.c back to state from June 2006
      forward port changes made to hald/device_info.c since June 2006
      fix segfault on cleaning up rules
      report how much memory the rules use
      comment out some debugging spew from fdi matching
      use mmap to access pci.ids and usb.ids
      make pnp.ids static to save writable memory
      add note about possibly handling multi-session discs a bit better
      fix setting power_management.is_powersave_set
      misc build fixes for libparted and libpci
      fix for freeing static memory + move hal_util_readlink() into hald/util.c
      fix up compile warnings after last patch
      call dbus_error_free() directly to avoid spew on stderr
      fix up libsmbios detection
      fix up how volume.ignore is set so it also applies to hotpluggable drives
      fix up a few things with the new fdi cache
      reduce debugging spew for fdi files
      add optional support for ConsoleKit
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      make HAL track ConsoleKit seats and sessions and initial work on ACL mgmt
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      fix up coding style for hald_runner.c
      more CK and ACL mgmt work
      remove autogenarated HTML as it clutters up the commit logs
      more ACL management work; now it's actually usuable
      fix typo for HALD_ACTION for session changes
      use $(localstatedir) instead of /var and make hald DTRT when CK goes away
      add ACL management for remaining devices recognized by HAL
      clean up some dangerous use of the LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR macro
      remove annoying LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR spew to stderr
      build time for /sbin/umount.hal and make our mount helper use this
      make umount.hal work when options like -v are passed to umount
      make /sbin/umount.hal handle mounts points as well
      use -Wl,--as-needed by default for gcc
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      make hald-addon-storage use hints from ConsoleKit about session idleness
      make hald-addon-storage usage of ConsoleKit depend on HAVE_CONKIT
      update dependencies and versions for HAL
      only invoke hal-acl-tool if HAVE_ACLMGMT is set
      update NEWS to suggest latest hal-info (for bluetooth killswitch changes)
      use g_ascii_strtoull() instead of g_ascii_strtoll()
      refuse to eject if we can't open the device exclusively
      with Linux's libata, IDE Zip drives can now be polled for media changes
      add support for new Firewire stack on Linux
      handle multiple / remote seats
      make lshal print the current time
      print out error if probe-volume hangs
      fix input probing and discard /proc/acpi events if ACPI sysfs sources are used
      make Device.Rescan() work for refreshing button state when using ACPI input
      use inotify to watch fdi directories
      map new fdi cache file post regeneration
      minor fixes
      probe firewire AVC devices
      sort properties in lshal output
      move preprobe fdi files to hal-info
      fix detection of mounted volumes from yanked storage devices
      fix device removal when mounted devices not mounted by HAL are yanked out
      on Rescan() for ACPI batteries, retrieve all properties (slow path)
      assign ACL's to Firewire IIDC (including iSight) and AVC devices
      generate the fdi cache synchronously
      avoid old .bak files for the fdi cache
      relax error handling for fdi files
      fix up debug- and valgrind- scripts to actually work
      don't give ACL's to uid 0
      Revert "without PolicyKit, allow only root to mount fixed disks"
      stop using noexec by default on Linux
      instead of assuming they're blank, probe unknown discs if they're large
      some fixes to make distcheck work again
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      fix build
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      make the fdi cache test stricter by not allowing skipped fdi files
      avoid "Not Specified" values as these stem from dmidecode itself
      add workaround for gtk-doc for now (bgo #386508)
      also make sure libhal.types is empty
      avoid setting pci.vendor, pci.product, usb.vendor to useless "Unknown (XXX)"
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      fix up memory handling of exp_detail and remove dead code
      define 'scanner' capability
      add ACL's for scanners
      add support for SuspendHybrid and make use of pm-is-supported
      fix typo
      fix umount.hal so correct return value is passed
      use libsmbios to add support for bluetooth, wlan RF kill on Dell laptops
      forgot to add 10-rfkill-switch.fdi (renamed from 10-bluetooth-switch.fdi)
      avoid logging when client asks for non-existant property
      fix segfault in lshal where strlist prop was removed just after it changed
      add named mandatory locking API
      remove dead code
      switch to xmlto and heavily fix up the spec
      fix up introspection bits
      more spec changes
      move caller tracking into it's own class
      refactor access control checks into separate files
      add interface locking and remove generic locking API committed yesterday
      don't set INVOKED_BY_SYSTEMBUS_CONNECTION_NAME unless call is from bus
      add docs for how locking work
      fixup speling
      for Dell, disable physical killswitch when setting power
      don't disk example-manager.py as it doesn't exist anymore
      don't dist hal-linux26.dia either since it has gone the way of the Dodo too
      try usbclass handler before usb and try all handlers until we find something
      remove doc/conf and remember to install the CSS stylesheet
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      check that dellWirelessCtl exists before using it
      mention that dellWirelessCtl is optional
      clarify search paths for device information files
      ran 'make update-po'
      create entire fdi file hierarchy according to spec including /etc/hal/fdi bits
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      fix build rules for spec
      fix up spec generation a bit more
      add manual pages
      hint that a patch to util-linux is needed when using --enable-umount-helper
      improve wording in note about --enable-umount-helper
      enable docbook docs by default
      use AM_PROG_CC_C_O to avoid warning when configuring sources
      fix up SEE ALSO section in lshal's man page
      allow mount options 'acl' and 'user_xattr' for ext3
      clean up locking example
      fix up ReleaseGlobalInterfaceLock() and improve locking example
      make LUKS setup/teardown respect the standard .Volume and .Storage locks
      make libhal locking API take 'bool exclusive' and fix a bug
      only acquire a lock exclusively if no-one else is holding the lock
      add new hal-lock(1) utility
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      fix up hal-lock manpage
      don't build docs by default as it breaks distcheck
      specify path to eject at build time
      clarify locking on the Volume.Crypto interface
      use the right interface in the example in hal-lock.1
      fix IBM, Toshiba ACPI hotkey handling
      clarify search path for callouts, addons and method calls.
      remove unused variables
      change locking semantics a bit and add guidelines for SystemPowerManagement
      change locking semantics slightly and add missing locking bits
      avoid crash if an addon is using IsLockedByOthers()
      avoid polling when a drive is locked
      make hal-lock(1) provide an --exit-with-dev option
      update hal-lock(1)'s man page and fix usage()
      add hal-disable-polling(1) program along with a man page
      give back the "button" capability to keyboards
      update hal-info requirement to 20070328
      update TODO list
      teach fdi.dtd about contains_not, rip out RNG scheme
      use UTF-8 for the generated HTML
      require autoconfig 2.59c or newer
      mention umount helper as default options to use
      add docs for access_control namespace
      reword bit of the spec
      fix typo
      document the RF killswitch namespace and interface
      ran 'make update-po'
      print docdir in configure summary
      update NEWS for 0.5.9 release

Doug Chapman (1):
      fix unaligned messages (RH Bug #210079)

Erik Andrén (2):
      add addon for backlight control on Dell computers
      make the amount of Dell backlight levels dynamic

Frederic Crozat (1):
      handle system bus restarts

Frederic Peters (1):
      use VOLUME_ID_CFLAGS

Guillem Jover (2):
      respect --disable-pmu for hal-system-power-pmu
      rename nokia770 to omap

Holger Macht (12):
      fixed typos in cpufreq addon
      Fix the D-Bus restart case for the CPUFreq addon. The D-Bus connection you
      add /sys/class/backlight/* interface support
      Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://homac@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      revert logic for setting and getting "consider_nice" setting
      throw exception if D-Bus connection of sender is NULL
      Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://homac@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      additional error check
      trigger pm-utils for hibernate, suspend and SetPowerSave on SUSE
      Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://homac@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      allow hibernate, suspend and CPUFreq for the root user independent of desktop-console
      Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://homac@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal

Jean-Yves Lefort (11):
      fix python shebang line
      add FreeBSD and Solaris support
      implement HAL_PROPERTY_TYPE_STRLIST support in merge_device_rewrite_cb and fix some potential NULL-pointer dereferences
      add a osspec_privileged_init function for initializing backend objects prior to dropping root privileges
      add casts to fix build errors on FreeBSD
      break out the PCI and USB IDs initialization into two separate functions
      favor CAM devices over ATAPI devices
      correct SCSI to atapi mapping
      power down instead of halting the system
      avoid an infinite loop with buggy PCI firmware
      ensure that UDIs of ATA and SCSI devices are unique

Joe Marcus Clarke (11):
      add support for FreeBSD mount options
      add FreeBSD support
      disable partutil for FreeBSD
      add FreeBSD support
      add the FreeBSD backend
      fix potnential crash when changing disc media
      fix ATA support for FreeBSD 5.X
      flesh out mount options for FreeBSD
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://marcus@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      fix disc volume detection on FreeBSD 5.X
      ensure there are no embedded slashes in UDI components

John (J5) Palmieri (1):
      use g_slist_remove_link instead of g_slist_remove

Kareem Dana (1):
      fix probe-storage and addon-storage competing for O_EXCL on cdrom device

Kay Sievers (13):
      fix casting to avoid compiler error
      rework Linux coldplug to work with future kernel changes
      merge Linux class and bus device handling
      Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      store fdi files as rules object
      remove left-over "class device" from debug output
      linux coldplug: prepare for new sysfs layout
      change email address
      rename "bus" and "physical" properties to something more abstract
      Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      fix scsi_host parent relationship
      Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      fix scsi-device-handling for devices we probe but don't add

Kevin Ottens (1):
      add property for power save state

Kristian Høgsberg (4):
      initialize pollfd array correctly.
      update ieee1394 prober to ioctl interface changes.
      report AV/C subunits instead of AV/C unit in ieee1394 probe.
      use sysfs attributes instead of parsing config rom file.

Martin Pitt (7):
      without PolicyKit, allow only root to mount fixed disks
      allow 'locale=' NTFS mount option for Linux
      h-d-m: beautify list values output
      fix Omnibook LCD brightness levels
      fix bashism in tools/linux/hal-system-lcd-get-brightness-linux
      fix 'bus type' display in h-d-m
      fix crash because of missing return value check

Matthew Garrett (1):
      add new battery, bluetooth, wireless key events

Matthias Kretz (2):
      better ALSA card name
      reread /proc/cards to make hotplugging sound cards work

Michael Biebl (5):
      inotify support for systems without sys/inotify.h
      inotify support for systems without sys/inotify.h
      fix section for hald man page
      properly use $(docdir)
      as_ac_removal

Patrice Dumas (1):
      mention libhal in the docs

Priit Laes (2):
      added Estonian translation
      removed translatable tag from value field of capabilties

Richard Hughes (34):
      Make sure we get all of a multi-word battery.model value.
      allow build without PolicyKit
      allow make distcheck to work with a readonly buildroot
      ignore the special ACPI 'Ones' value for rate
      move the information scripts to hal-info
      move the information scripts to hal-info
      split the logitec csr mice detection vids-pids into hal info
      Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://hughsient@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      Add some information keys to the spec for hardware recalls.
      add prefix and suffix to the fdi attribute list
      add --retain-privileges so we can use massif
      make the acpi, apm and pmu backends inclusion configurable
      fix the libparted checking script
      only build the pmu addon when we use pmu
      add info about hal-info to HACKING and add dependency to NEWS
      change trivial %% typo in the acpi battery code
      move the power_management.quirk.* properties
      add new files to .gitignore files
      fix libusb detection
      fix pmu laptop screen on new kernels
      move laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware data to hal-info
      make the hal suspend and hibernate scripts use the quirk command line of pm-utils
      remove hal-spec.html from the tarball
      remove bak files from git-status output
      remove the hal-system-video-*-linux files
      remove the zzz script from suspend
      add --quirk-radeon-off
      allow use of libparted 1.8.2
      fix the smbios.*.* keys to be a little more sane
      fix acpi detection for very new kernels
      Fix error initialisation in acpi addon to fix ac adapter event reporting
      added hal-acl-tool executable to .gitignore
      add support for the macbook backlight
      add libparted v1.8.6 to configure

Rob Taylor (15):
      Make haldaemon and haluser vaiables in hal.pc
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      Remove linux.sysfs_path_device key
      Remove checking for run-time usb.ids and pci.ids at build time
      Make hotplugging non-recursive.
      Merge branch 'master' into to-push
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      Add back autodetection of usb.ids and pci.ids when not specified.
      Merge branch 'to-push'
      Fix compile warning on PPC.
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      ignore *.py[oc] and *.gcno
      add option to build without libpci
      add compare_ne to possible matchrules
      Move COMPARE_NE to end of match_type enum.

S.Çağlar Onur (3):
      get ARPHRD_IEEE80211_RADIOTAP and similar from kernel, not glibc headers
      patch corrects some typos in tr.po and addon-cpufreq.c
      add pm-suspend to linux/hal-system-power-suspend-linux

Sergey Lapin (9):
      fix for crash in hald_dbus.c
      use mallopt since we mostly allocate small chunks
      reduce memory fragmentation by using POSIX readlink rather than glib
      add Nokia 770 backlight addon
      use POSIX readdir instead of g_dir_open
      add file for Nokia 770 backlight
      move fdi file parsing into a separate process
      Returned back unit test executable.
      Fixed distcheck problem

Sjoerd Simons (9):
      Always set power_management.can_suspend to true if the power_management.type is
      Let probe-smbios only return successfully if it actually got something
      Set system.formfactor fallback in exactly one place instead of three and be
      Read out model and compatible property out of openfirmware if possible. And use the openfirmware module property to decide what formfactor the system has.
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      * Fix some code-style issues that David commented on
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal
      prevent hald-runner from printing unnecessary warning messages
      work around cdrom devices giving invalid TOC info

Steven Walter (1):
      Add match for Creative Zen Nano USB music player

Thomas Petazzoni (1):
      fix python example to work with a recent dbus

Timo Hoenig (1):
      don't call dbus_connection_close() for some of our tools

Tomasz Torcz (3):
      Add Z31t to the list of laptops needing laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware
      Add ThinkPad T60 to the list of laptops needing laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware
      Add ThinkPad X60 and X60s to the list of laptops needing

William Jon McCann (6):
      build fixes
      two build fixes
      sizing fixes for device manager
      improve api docs
      fix api docs even more
      hal updates for latest ConsoleKit

==========
HAL 0.5.8 "The Skynet Funding Bill is passed."
==========

Released September 11, 2006

Contributors to this release

Artem Kachitchkine:
      check for getgrouplist() and use the local version if not provided by the
      use AM_CFLAGS instead of CFLAGS
      *** empty log message ***
          * configure.in: don't PKG_CHECK volume_id on Solaris
      share is_mounted_by_hald() and non-gcc nits
      CloseTray() method (eject -t)

Dan Nicholson:
      corrects the location of the hal scripts directory

Dan Williams:
      Added ROKR e2 to USB Music Players

Danny Kukawka:
      fixed spec for portable_audio_player namespace properties which not use
      fixed to be sure that the prober is only called for ttyS* devices. Only
      Added several USB mp3 player to fdi file:
      applied patches and added new devices from fd.o bugs: 6101, 6139,
      fixed remaining_time property, remove the key if battery is charging
      applied slightly adopted patch and added new device from fd.o bugs:
      added new translation file for Khmer from SUSE/Novell translation team
      Added Khmer translation to ALL_LINGUAS
      Applied slightly adopted patches from fd.o bugs 6317, 6462, 6464, 6561.
      Moved hal scripts to $(libdir)/hal/scripts instead of
      Skip stat nfs mounts. This should solve blocked hald (and failing
      added property for DVD+RW DL to spec
      fixed problem with parse information from output of dmidecode where the
      Added support for --use-syslog option to prober and addons. This should
      Added new mp3-player from fd.o bug #6646
      removed unneeded code and validate the returned string directly.
      replaced fprintf () with dbg ()
      cleanup: s/;;/;/
      removed (again) unneeded code and validate the returned string directly.
      Fixed path to the helper of the related backends, added several messages as
      Added check for bash syntax in scipts to the new backend dirs.
      Fixed mapping of system.formfactor from smbios.chassis.type. Added a check
      removed net.interface_up property because we never refresh the value, since
      set pointer adress to NULL after free()
      set volume.block_size for blank CD/DVD to 0 to avoid stange values for
      Fixed libhal_volume_get_size to return volume.size if available instead of
      Added checks if vbetool is available and executable in /usr/sbin/, added
      Patch from <chris.hollenbeck@gmail.com> to fix fd.o bug #7029 and correct
      Added slightly adopted patch from Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> to add
      fix configure and remove no longer available volume_id/Makefile from
      Fixed build hal-spec.html to avoid invalid chars in the html page and
      *** empty log message ***
      fixed compiler warning about incompatible pointer types
      fixed building of hal-spec.html
      Removed Doxygen related files because  hal does no longer use
      Close memory leaks from not freed DBusError in libhal and libhal-storage
      Close memory leaks from not freed DBusError in tools src dir
      Fixed possible crash in hal_util_get_normalized_path ()
      fixed compiler warnings and added doc/api/tmpl/.gitignore
      Export hal user and group in pkg-config file
      fixed several compiler warnings (warn_unused_result and format stuff)
      set proc title for acpi/hid-ups/usb-csr addons
      replaced LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR with dbus_error_free()
      fixed build of HAL
      cleanup includes in hald/linux2/*
      add more scsi.type mapping and add property info to spec
      reduce useless changes on APM battery.remaining_time
      remove shared.h for addons/prober and some little fixes
      fix overseen left dbg() calls in probe-{storage,volume}.c
      move hald/linux2 to hald/linux and renamed backend
      fixed make for hald/linux/addons
      add support for attribute 'empty' for strlist to <match> tag
      add property alsa.device_pcm_classi
      Added Panasonic SV-MP31V to USB Music Players
      added detection of a SDC Card reader
      performance patch to speed up mapping of pnp_ids to description
      replaced LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR with dbus_error_free()
      removed not needed dir from repository
      fixed usage of unchecked returnval from hal_util_strdup_valid_utf8
      change detection of wireless, add net.irda and net.80211control

David Zeuthen:
      add cryptsetup-luks dep
      Post-release version bump to 0.5.8
      Fix for /usr/sbin/pm-powersave for Fedora pm-utils 0.10-1
      New file
      Convert doc comments from Doxygen to gtk-doc
      New file
      Add back typedefs for LibHalPropertySetIterator and LibHalContext as they
      New directory
      Write requirements for HAL 0.5.8 (and CVS HEAD)
      Add build rules for hal-policy-is-privileged
      Generate policy/Makefile and policy/txt/Makefile
      policy/txt/power-hibernate.policy (Allow),
      forgot reboot
      Use new policy framework to enforce policy. Always throw the same exception
      New file
      Add entry for my wireless mouse+keyboard combo
      Move libhal-policy to a dedicated package PolicyKit (available in HAL CVS).
      Remove libhal-policy bits
      Patch from Gabriel Burt <gabriel.burt@gmail.com>. Add some useful keys for
      Patch from Christian Neumair <chris@gnome-de.org>.
      Use new suffix .privilege instead of .policy and prefix privilege files
      s/--policy/--privilege/ and s/--uid/--user/
      Fix for RH bug #185557
      Patch from Gabriel Burt <gabriel.burt@gmail.com>.
      Update to new PolicyKit API.
      Patch from Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>. Move sockets to
      This patch fixes endian-ness issues with the input device support of hal,
      In Ubuntu we got several bug reports about device label gibberish, for
      Don't stat autofs mounts. Patch from John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com>.
      Export a new environment variable with the unique name for callers system
      Patch from Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> and Danny Kukawka
      Be explicit about DIST_SUBDIRS as otherwise 'make distcheck' breaks.
      Set capability volume.disc as required by the spec. Patch from Kevin Ottens
      Add introspection support to hald.
      Adds code so addons can claim interfaces and handle the methods on them in
      Check properly for libpci. Patch from Frederic Peters <fpeters@0d.be>.
      Handle LABEL= and UUID= in this function. (handle_mount): Also allow uid=
      git stuff, mount/umount/eject all in C, .hal-mtab usage, light_sensor
      (forgot to pass -a the first time) git stuff, mount/umount/eject all
      Forgot to tweak tools/[linux/,freebsd/,]Makefile.am and remove old files.
      Remove unused stuff.
      Remove more unused stuff.
      Remove examples from SUBDIRS; there is no examples/Makefile anymore.
      Remove unused .fdi files.
      Fix up LUKS stuff by using new kernel feature in Linux 2.6.17.
      Change license of hald/linux2/blockdev.c to GPL only as I just
      update HACKING file to mention git and commit format
      add *~ to all .gitignore files for emacs users
      clarify how to get a diff between your local repo and the master repo
      introduce new option --disable-policy-kit and streamline the build
      add properties required by a hypothetical disk utility and some bug fixes
      fix device mapper block device handling as last commit broke this
      add script examples/watch-mount-state.sh for monitoring key state files
      update TODO list so it fits in with reality
      add notes about new power saving mechanisms we should add
      make a note of runtime power management in the TODO list
      add note to doc/TODO about making Mount support option 'remount'
      add note to doc/TODO about the o.fd.Hal.Device.VideoAdapterPM properties
      add some more notes to doc/TODO
      fix up device mapper device handling
      use a more robust way of detecting partitions and fix block.is_volume
      sleep before looking for slaves/ in sysfs for device mapper
      fix removal of fakevolume objects and remove special handling for ide-cs
      actually remove the ide-cs special handling code
      add API to hald (and libhal) to change multiple properties at once
      free dbus error freeing in lshal
      fix up how we handle non-partitioned volumes
      introduce some new properties for MS-DOS partition tables
      fix uninitialized pc->merge_type
      fix up hal interface claiming in cpufreq addon
      make cpufreq addon use standard D-Bus expections for unknown methods
      add new partition probing code and adapt hal code to use it
      make addon-hip-ups use LibHalChangeSet
      require addons to call libhal_device_addon_is_ready() to make device visible
      make Mount() support option remount
      fix some compiler warnings
      fixup libparted detection

Frederic Crozat:
      add support for Mandriva's tools for suspend and hibernate

Gabriel Burt:
      Clarify what portable_audio_player.folder_depth means.

Holger Macht:
      add cpu frequency scaling support to hal

Joe Marcus Clarke:
      Split out the tools scripts into an OS-independent wrapper, and an
      Add scripts to EXTRA_DIST
      Remove a script which is only found in the OS-independent section. Spotted
      Rename hal-luks-remove.in-linux to hal-luks-remove-linux.in to preserve the

Julien Sobrier:
      add Archos Gmini 400 to USB Music Players

Julio M. Merino Vidal:
      make libhal link against libintl for NetBSD (bug #6471)
      do not use GNU specific == operator in calls to test(1) (bug 6467)

Kai Willadsen:
      add Samsung U2Z to USB Music Players

Kay Sievers:
      Add squashfs detection.
      Add printer command set returned by 1284 query. "Each key will have at
      Read name of cpu from /proc/cpuinfo. Some day we will have this in sysfs,
      Add "COMMANDSET:" to the printer query parsing.
      getline() expects size_t; fix alignment warning
      fix typo
      Prepare for new class devices showing up in /sys/devices instead of
      Depend on external shared version of libvolume_id.
      If HAL finds already created partitions, it will not longer probe for a
      Remove internal copy of libvolume_id.
      remove left over file from volume_id
      Increase HAL_PATH_MAX from 256 to 512.
      Remove dead code.
      remove dead files after dead code removal
      Replace dbus_connection_disconnect() with dbus_connection_close() (D-BUS
      Fix requirements. The 'hotplug multiplexer' is gone long time ago.
      .cvsignore -> .gitignore
      add .o files to .gitignore
      ISO-8859-1 -> UTF-8

Kevin Ottens:
      correct the introspection to list all objects

Lennart Poettering:
      added some USB card reader from fd.o bug #7749

Mark McLoughlin:
      add support for Xen devices

Michael Burns:
      fix ACPI acpid/proc configure options

Patrick Cherry:
      add Samsung YP-Z5 to USB Music Players

Richard:
      Add some more temp files to the .gitignore files.
      Correct the error name, obviously a copy/paste error that's lived undetected in CVS for years.
      Check for the new suspend2 sysfs location. Advised by Nigel Cunningham, many thanks.

Richard Hughes:
      Fix build by including the new policy directory in the tarball, and by
      Convert the key names to include a central dash between words, e.g.
      Build hald-addon-acpi-buttons-toshiba. When the acpi->input patches get
      Append hald-addon-acpi-buttons-toshiba
      Ammend the spec as now button.has_state and button.type are not mandatory.
      Patch from Paolo Borelli <pborelli@katamail.com>.
      Refresh device types button, battery and ac_adapter on resume, as a suspend
      Added new Logitech csr mice, mainly from Bastien Nocera for fd.o 6397. Also
      Add --print-reply to dbus-send else the Rescan does not work. This should
      Update the patch from http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6397 as
      Patch from Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>:
      Patch from Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>:
      Patch from Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>:
      * hald/linux2/osspec.c: (set_suspend_hibernate_keys): Depreciate the keys
      * doc/spec/hal-spec.html: * doc/spec/hal-spec.xml.in: *
      Add org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel.GetBrightness and
      Rework a patch from Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> to fix a typo in
      On some laptops, the brightness control is all done in hardware but the
      Change the docbook2html check in the configure script to check for xmlto.
      Re-add --print-reply to dbus-send else the Rescan does not work. This fixes
      Add the video_adapter_pm namespace key descriptions for video power
      Only allow org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.VideoAdapterPM to be used by root.
      This adds a css style file to the generated html file. It makes the tables
      Add the video adapter suspend and resume functionality so we can just drop
      Update these with the new files to keep cvs diff happy.
      As found in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345257 the hal
      add spawn to dtd so make distcheck works
      Add more files to .gitignore
      properly convert mAh to mWh rather than uWh
      modify battery.technology to one of a few present values
      fix message when we try to set a brightness above range
      fix the maximum brightness level for pmu hardware

S.ÃaÄlar Onur:
      added Turkish translations

Sjoerd Simons:
      Also recognize mute, volume up/down buttons, switchvideo mode button and
      Add Catalan translation
      hald-runner/runner.c: Close the stderr filedescriptor after reading it to
      hald/linux/blockdev.c: Don't print things we don't have the arguments for. In

Requirements for HAL 0.5.8 "The Skynet Funding Bill is passed."

 - Linux kernel     >= 2.6.17
 - util-linux       >= 2.12r1
 - bash             >= 2.0
 - udev             >= 082
 - dbus             >= 0.60      (with glib bindings)
 - glib             >= 2.6.0
 - expat            >= 1.95.8
 - libusb           >= 0.1.10a (optional)
 - pciutils         >= 2.2.3     (optional
 - dmidecode        >= 2.7       (optional)
 - parted           == 1.7.1     (optional)
 - cryptsetup-luks  >= 1.0.1     (optional, needs LUKS patches)

==========
HAL 0.5.7 "Dead as Dillinger."
==========

Released February 24, 2006

 - Fix spelling error for UnknowFailure in eject method (David Zeuthen)
 - Kill subfs support in mount scripts (Kay Sievers)
 - Privilege separation mega patch (Sjoerd Simons)
 - Allow ejection of audio and blank discs (John Palmieri, David Zeuthen)
 - Fix QueryCapability (Kevin Ottens)
 - Disc capacity, fdo #2233 (William Jon McCann)
 - Remove fstab-sync and related things (David Zeuthen)
 - Remove volume.policy.* and storage.policy.* properties (David Zeuthen)
 - Remove hotplug helper and use a udev rule instead (Kay Sievers)
 - Remove old code for pcmcia fstab files (David Zeuthen)
 - Add HP_RECOVERY to black-list of volumes to ignore (David Zeuthen)
 - Remove drive_id and use udev data on coldplug (Kay Sievers)
 - Switch eject detection to SG_IO interface, Novell #145147 (Kay Sievers)
 - Start scripts in the directory they exist in (David Zeuthen)
 - Don't use card id in ALSA and OSS UDI's (Jürg Billeter)
 - Laptop panel objects and fixes (Richard Hughes)
 - Pseudo bus for scsi_debug support (Kay Sievers)
 - Samsung YP-U1 music player fdi file (Andrew Smith)
 - Listen on appropriate input devices and generate appropriate
   ButtonPressed events (Matthew Garrett)
 - Export Mount, Unmount, Eject on drives we cannot poll (David Zeuthen)
 - Only allow uid 0 and uid who mounted a volume to unmount it (David Zeuthen)
 - Use hal's Unmount() for surprise removal (David Zeuthen)
 - Make HAL cleanup mountpoints created by Mount() even if it was unmounted
   by e.g. umount(1) (David Zeuthen)
 - Allow spaces and UTF-8 in mount points (Jeffrey Stedfast, David Zeuthen)
 - Fix UTF-8 validation of filesystem labels (David Zeuthen)
 - Add Teardown to the Device.Volume.Crypto interface (David Zeuthen)
 - Fix problems with dbus_error (Danny Kukawka)
 - fix mapping system.formfactor from smbios (Danny Kukawka)
 - Make StringListRemove actually work (David Zeuthen)
 - Serialize method calls and don't crash if the device object went away
   while methods were enqueued (David Zeuthen)
 - Refuse to Mount() volumes listed in /etc/fstab (Ludwig Nussel)
 - Fix get_uuid() and get_fsversion() in libhal-storage (David Zeuthen)
 - Don't do initgroups (Martin Pitt)
 - Fix libhal-storage memory leaks (David Zeuthen, reported by Brendan Creane)
 - Tear down crypto links on surprise removal (David Zeuthen)
 - Sync volume_id with udev version (Kay Sievers)
 - Add two functions crypto_get_clear_volume_udi and 
   crypto_get_backing_volume_udi to libhal-storage (David Zeuthen)
 - More privilege dropping (Martin Pitt)
 - Add Blu-ray and HD DVD to code and spec (Artem Kachitchkine)
 - Use blocking mode for PMU (Sjoerd Simons)
 - Use a safe PATH in hald by default (Sjoerd Simons)

Requirements for HAL 0.5.7 "Dead as Dillinger."

 - 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
 - libusb           >= 0.1.10a (optional)
 - dmidecode        >= 2.7       (optional)
 - cryptsetup-luks  => 1.0.1     (optional, needs LUKS patches)

==========
HAL 0.5.6 "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."
==========

Released January 16, 2006

 - 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        >= 0.1.10a (optional)
 - dmidecode     >= 2.7       (optional)

==========
HAL 0.5.5.1
==========

Released November 14, 2005

 - Fix a few division by zero bugs (Danny Kukawka)

==========
HAL 0.5.5 "I want you to see what he's got under his fingernails."
==========

Released November 14, 2005

 - Handle invalid UTF-8 from serial numbers of storage devices (Danny Kukawka)
 - Try reconnect to acpid (Danny Kukawka)
 - Calculate rate when not reported (Søren Hansen, Danny Kukawka)
 - fd.o bugs #4871, #2850, #2121, #3954, #4266, #4644, #2115, 
   #3036(Danny Kukawka, Others)
 - Major rework of lshal (Pierre Ossman)
 - Comment out multi-session query for optical discs (Kay Sievers)
 - Update to from AFL 2.0 to AFL 2.1 (David Zeuthen)
 - Prepare for 2.6.15 compatibility (Kay Sievers)
 - Update spec some (Danny Kukawka)
 - Card reader .fdi files (Jerome Lodewyck)
 - Look at all netlink messages, not just the first one (Jon Nettleton)
 - Add --version to hald (Danny Kukawka)
 - Add some hack to work around broken and racy /proc/mounts (Danny Kukawka)
 - Add option for using the syslog (Danny Kukawka)
 - Support 'EjectPressed' condition for optical drives (Kay Sievers)
 - More checks for if a system is a laptop (Danny Kukawka, Richard Hughes)
 - Update list of PNP ID's (Danny Kukawka)
 - Update to volume_id version 52 (Kay Sievers)
 - Remove non-polling blacklist entry for HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4240N
   since this works on Linux 2.6.13 (Danny Kukawka)
 - Handle non-existing add-ons (Danny Kukawka)
 - Deal with acpid restarts (Ryan Lortie)
 - Fix fstab-sync parsing (Pascal Terjan)
 - Work with newer dmidecode (Richard Hughes)
 - Some serial port support and MMC storage fixes (Pierre Ossman)
 - Fix build by not using kernel-style data types (Martin Pitt)
 - Suspend/hibernate functionality for distros without tools (Richard Hughes)
 - Workaround for some buggy ACPI implementations (Ryan Lortie)
 - SetBrightness and GetBrightness methods (Richard Hughes)
 - Various S390 device handling fixes (Cornelia Huck)

Requirements for HAL 0.5.5 "I want you to see what he's got under his fingernails."

 - Linux 2.6.13 or later
 - udev 071 or later (using udevsend as hotplug multiplexer)
 - dbus 0.50 or later (with glib bindings)
 - glib 2.6 or later
 - expat
 - popt (optional)
 - libusb (optional)
 - dmidecode (optional)

==========
HAL 0.5.4 "Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking again."
==========

Released August 26, 2005

 - Fixes to build on Solaris (Alvaro Lopez Ortega)
 - Detect DVD+R Dual Layer (Danny Kukawka)
 - Fix hal-device-manager (John 'J5' Palmieri)
 - Methods on hal device objects (David Zeuthen)
 - LUKS integration (W. Michael Petullo)
 - Add defensive measures to libhal to avoid potential segfaults (Danny Kukawka)
 - Add extra ACPI information (Danny Kukawka)
 - Fix volume.disc.is_rewriteable for DVD+R/DVD+R DL (Danny Kukawka)
 - Add new features to hal-set-property (W. Michael Petullo)
 - Fixup percentage computation for batteries (Richard Hughes)
 - Updated translations (Novell/SUSE translation team)
 - Update all GPL license headers to FSF's new address (Danny Kukawka)
 - Use consistent battery charge units (Ryan 'desrt' Lortie)
 - Various battery-related fixes (Richard Hughes, Danny Kukawka)
 - ALSA/OSS fixes (Danny Kukawka)
 - Tape device fixes for S390 (Cornelia Huck)
 - Export correct volume.fsuage from libhal-storage (David Zeuthen)
 - Introduce battery.reporting properties (Richard Hughes, Danny Kukawka)
 - Sync up to latest volume_id from udev (Kay Sievers)
 - Introduce system-wide power management scripts (David Zeuthen)
 - Fix how HAL detects PDA's (Danny Kukawka)
 - Fix misc audio player stuff (Pierre Ossman)
 - Integration for SUSE powersave (Danny Kukawka)
 - Export mmc_host capability (Pierre Ossman)
 - Bump timeout on detection time (Cornelia Huck)
 - Detect joysticks (Danny Kukawka)
 - Fix symbol visiblity with gcov (Cornelia Huck)
 - Stop sending invalid UTF-8 characters from volume labels (Danny Kukawka)
 - Handle non-existing callouts in a graceful manner (Kay Sievers)
 - Various cleanups and fixes (Richard Hughes, Danny Kukawka)

==========
HAL 0.5.3 "I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business."
==========

Released July 12, 2005

 - hal-find-by-capability and hal-find-by-property tools (David Zeuthen)
 - Fix some of the bugs from johnp's port of h-d-m (David Zeuthen, Kay Sievers)
 - Trigger rescan of ACPI objects when receiving events (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix key for storage.cdrom.dvdram (Danny Kukawka)
 - Don't use sync as part of the normal mount option policy (David Zeuthen)
 - Update fstab-sync man page (David Zeuthen)
 - Fix a bug in hal_property_new_string (Martin Pitt)
 - Fix --help output (Danny Kukawka)
 - Detect DVD+R DL media (William Jon McCann, David Zeuthen)
 - Add empty Solaris backend and fix build for Solaris (Alvaro Lopez Ortega)
 - Support various S390 devices (Cornelia Huck)
 - Prepare hald to work with newer udev versions (Kay Sievers)
 - Unify various error handling functions (Steffen Winterfeldt)
 - Add infrastructure + tools to populate the hal db (Steffen Winterfeldt)
 - Fixup MMC storage cards drive type on MMC bus (Pierre Ossman)
 - Handle case where the battery life is degrading (Richard Hughes)
 - Make libhal_ctx_init() fail if hald is not running (David Zeuthen)
 - New translations: nb (Kjartan Maraas), es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)

==========
HAL 0.5.2 "Can't do it, Sally."
==========

Released May 12, 2005

 - Calculate remaining time for batteries (Richard Hughes)
 - libhal documentation update (Rohan McGovern)
 - Tweak default policy to automount 'mmc' devices (Pierre Ossman)
 - PMU lid button and battery polling fixes (David Zeuthen)
 - Detect PTP cameras (Pozsar Balazs)
 - Include script to generate libgphoto2 .fdi file (Pozsar Balazs)
 - Unmount by mount point instead of by device file (Rohan McGovern)

==========
HAL 0.5.1 "Sonny...?"
==========

Released Apr 27, 2005

 - Teach volume_id about Minix and a bunch of ATA raid signatures
   and use last label on multi-session discs (Kay Sievers)
 - Extract certain stuff using dmidecode and populate smbios.*
   properties and populate some newer computer.* properties
 - Change sesame to luks (W. Michael Petullo)
 - Cope with double hotplug events and other boundary conditions
   wrt. hotplug events (Kay Sievers)
 - Add some more USB2 card reader .fdi files
 - Make hal know about Firewire devices yet again
 - Export info.linux.driver for every physical device
 - Match PalmOS style pda's (Andrei Yurkevich)
 - zh_TW translation (chaoweilun@pcmail.com.tw)
 - Use direct d-bus connection for helpers instead of routing
   the traffic through the system bus
 - Several memory leak fixes
 - Update h-d-m to use Python bindings in D-BUS 0.33 or later
 - Use new udev feature to read all device file names in one go
 - Various fixes (Richard Hughes, Steve Grubb, Kay Sivers, 
                  Murray Cumming, Martin Pitt, Bill Nottingham)

Requirements for HAL 0.5.1 "Sonny...?"

 - Linux 2.6.11 or later
 - udev 057 or later (using udevsend as hotplug multiplexer)
 - dbus 0.33 or later (with glib bindings)
 - glib 2.6 or later
 - expat
 - popt (optional)
 - libusb (optional)

==========
HAL 0.5.0 "The family had a lot of buffers."
==========

Released Mar 7, 2005

 - Completely rewritten backend code including splitting work that
   requires privileges into separate processes
 - HAL daemon should be more restitant to broken kernel drivers thanks
   to the split into multiple processes
 - Test suite
 - New features
   - String list property type
   - New device information file features
   - ACPI/PMU/APM/hiddev UPS abstractions
 - Not backwards compatible since D-BUS broke ABI (porting effort is
   minimal though)
 - Updated list of TODO items providing a roadmap

Requires
 - Linux 2.6.10 or later built with hotplug and uevents
 - udev 050 or later with /sbin/udevsend as the hotplug helper/multiplexor
 - D-BUS 0.31 or later including glib and (optionally) Python bindings
 - glib2 2.4 or later

========================================================================

Branched sometime after 0.4.2 - all 0.4.x release are now on the
branch called hal-0_4-stable-branch in CVS.

==========
HAL 0.4.2 "Something like that. Tastes the same anyway."
==========

Released Dec 1, 2004

 - Add blacklist for not polling certain IDE slave drives as that
   decreases performance
 - Support for Linux kernels 2.6.10-rc2 and onwards
 - Only lazy unmount devices if {storage.volume}.policy.should_mount is
   TRUE - e.g. don't lazy unmount devices we don't care about
 - Support for IDE Zip and Jaz drives (treated as floppy drives)
 - Various fdi-parsing enhancements
 - Don't add 'ro' to optical drives as it prevents DVD-RAM usage
 - Support 256 partitions instead of only 16
 - small h-d-m UI bugfix (Sjoerd Simons)
 - small h-d-m UI bugfix (Bryan Clark)

==========
HAL 0.4.1 "What's that? Chicken?"
==========

Released Nov 2, 2004

 - Make $(binpath)/hal-device-manager a real executable instead of a
   symlink to better work with strict SELinux (Colin Walters)
 - Change default storage policy such that SCSI optical drives are being 
   added to e.g. /etc/fstab
 - Refine PCMCIA socket location to better work with strict SELinux
   (from Dan Walsh)
 - Make configure.in require libcap development headers (Tim Müller)
 - Change default storage policy to not add fixed non-hotpluggable disks
   to e.g. /etc/fstab (as ATARAID detection is not yet complete)
 - Support PCMCIA 16-bit network devices (Dan Williams)
 - Change default storage policy to use 'auto' for filesystem instead of
   'udf,iso9660'
 - Probe ext3 filesystems before NTFS filesystems
 - Highpoint ATARAID detection (Kay Sievers)
 - Fixup detection of Orinico 802.11 devices (Dan Williams)
 - Portuguese translations (Pedro Morais)
 - Hungarian translations (Laszlo Dvornik)
 - Russian translations (Leonid Kanter)
 - Clarify fstab-sync man page
 - Fix crash in fstab-sync when no options are given
 - Change default storage policy to allow legacy floppy disks
 - Fixup order of mount options in libhal-storage as mount depend on that
 - Handle missing hotplug events
 - Change default storage policy to not never use UUID
 - Don't use O_NONBLOCK in volume_id when reading data block devices
 - fix fstab-sync clean

==========
HAL 0.4.0 "It's origin and purpose, still a total mystery"
==========

Released Oct 17, 2004

 - Use pamconsole mount option instead of user (David Zeuthen)
 - Remove fstab-sync configure options (David Zeuthen)
 - Unchecked buffer access fix in pci device detection (Martin Pitt)
 - Allow hal euid to AddProperty and other operations (Sjoerd Simons)
 - Fix netlink packets interceptor such that only packages from the
   kernel is processed - security fix (Steve Grubb)
 - Device information file parser fixes (David Zeuthen)
 - fstab-sync manual page (David Zeuthen)
 - Make fstab-sync use storage policy properties (David Zeuthen)
 - libhal-storage C glue to access new storage policy (David Zeuthen) 
 - RemoveProperty requires privileged user (David Zeuthen)
 - Add prop to computer obj saying if selinux is enabled (David Zeuthen)
 - Lots of new .fdi-file parser feature (David Zeuthen)
 - Define new storage policy properties (David Zeuthen)
 - Check that legacy floppy drive actually exists (From Bill Nottingham)
 - Fixup {pci, usb} fd leaks (Sjoerd Simons)
 - Look for BLKGETSIZE64 in configure.in (Jonathan Blandford)
 - Handle initial hotplug events more graceful (David Zeuthen)
 - Checks for sysfs path and unprivileged execution fixes (Martin Pitt)
 - libhal fix for hal_get_all_devices (Colin Walters)
 - vfat fs detection as the first thing (Martin Pitt) 
 - Fixup cdrom polling to be more safe (From Alexander Larsson)
 - Detect USB floppy drive by looking at USB if class (David Zeuthen)
 - Make fstab-sync use msdos partition id whitelist (David Zeuthen)
 - Dutch libhal-storage translations (Reinout van Schouwen)
 - Debian support for hal_hotplug_map (Sjoerd Simons)
 - Require superuser for SetProperty and AddCapability (David Zeuthen)
 - libhal shutdown 'fix' (David Zeuthen)
 - SATA disk checking (From Alan Cox)
 - Fix end-of-marker and FAT UUID conversion (Kay Sievers) 
 - storage.icon.drive, storage.icon.volume properties (David Zeuthen)
 - storage.require_eject property (David Zeuthen)
 - French libhal-storage translations (Jérôme Lodewyck)
 - LVM2/RAID detection fixes (Kay Sievers)
 - New libhal-storage library and i18n support (David Zeuthen)
 - Partition id fixes (Kay Sievers)
 - Unchecked buffer access fix in cdrom speed detection (Martin Pitt)
 - USB serial device support (Kay Sievers)
 - volume_id logging glue (Kay Sievers)

==========
HAL 0.2.98
==========

Released Sep 20, 2004

 - UUID for NTFS partitions (Kay Sievers)
 - Fixup --with-pid-file (Tim Gerla)
 - Volume ID fix for FAT32 label (Kay Sievers)
 - volume.num_blocks, volume.block_szie
 - Fix dev,suid security issue with fstab-sync
 - Use async,noatime for removable or hotpluggable drives smaller than
   2 GB in fstab-sync
 - Symlink device node checks in fstab-sync
 - Build fixes (Steve Grubb)
 - Reiser and swap versions
 - Require .hal extension for callouts
 - Introduce HALD_VERBOSE that works even if hal is not built with
   verbose mode. Make logging output nicer with timestamps
 - Rewrite of device detection code - huge performance wins
 - Make fstab-sync write to syslog when modifying fstab file
 - Invoke fstab-sync --clean on hald startup
 - Export HALD_VERBOSE to callouts
 - Volume id fixes (Sjoerd Simons)
 - Fixup symlink resolving in fstab-sync
 - fstab-sync name computation fixes
 - Add --enable-fstab-sync configure option
 - Add info.udi to computer hal device object
 - RAID probing in volume id (Kay Sievers)
 - Introduce new callout hal-hotplug-map to look at gphoto2 and
   libsane usermaps on Linux and tag devices accordingly
 - Fixup debug
 - fstab-sync doesn't require storage device on remove
 - Introduce volume.fsusage and use it in fstab-sync (Kay Sievers)
 - Don't check for a C++ compiler (Joe Shaw)
 - Add kernel.* properties to computer (Joe Shaw)
 - Fix libsysfs memory leak (Steve Grubb)
 - LVM probing and RAID version numbers in volume id (Kay Sievers)
 - Callout / Race condition fixes
 - Set priorities on hal.dev and hal.hotplug helpers so we run before
   linux-hotplug etc.
 - SELinux support for fstab-sync
 - Timeout fixes in hal.hotplug (Kay Sievers)
 - Respect the /sys/block/<dev>/removable file
 - Don't remove mount point entries for devices that are mounted with
   fstab-sync --clean
 - 64-bit unsigned integer properties (Jon Lech Johansen)
 - boolean property fixes (Joe Shaw)
 - Intercept unchecked ioctl's (Martin Pitt)
 - Introduce --drop-privileges (Martin Pitt)
 - Only add -lexpat for hald (Sjoerd Simons)
 - Ignore duplicate hotplug events
 - Volume ID vfat fixes on BE boxes (Sjoerd Simons)
 - Fixup hald.conf.in as I broke it earlier
 - Force initial poll even if drive is not removable
 - Fixup HFS+ volume id (Kay Sievers)
 - Multimedia device support (Kay Sievers)
 - Use 64-bit sequence numbers and use textual action (Kay Sievers)
 - HFS+ UUID fixes (Kay Sievers)
 - Support network device renaming
 - Rename networking properties to net.80203 and net.80211
 - Make hald write the pid file, not the init script (Steve Grubb)
 - Fix endless loop for broken FAT32 volumes in volume id (Kay Sievers)
 - Add advisory locking on devices (Joe Shaw)
 - SELinux fixes for fstab-sync (Dan Walsh)
 - Fixup volume.is_rewritable for some broken drives (Alexander Larsson)
 - Fix FD leak (Sjoerd Simons)
 - Update spec to catch up with code
 - Add volume.partition.* properties

==========
HAL 0.2.97
==========

Released Aug 16, 2004

 - fstab-sync: lock around the entire process (seems to work very well
   now)
 - use local sockets for communication between hotplug.d/dev.d helpers
   and hald (fixes d-bus limit issues)
 - reorder hotplug messages (fixes issues with hotplugging 20 usb
   devices at the same time (using a hub))
 - don't process next hotplug message before device from current message
   is fully processed and in GDL (fixes issues with usb devices needing
   firmware uploads and thus will hotplug rem to hotplug add as a new
   device)
 - turn off media detection for drives being driven by the ide-cs driver
 - don't use drive_id or volume_id on drives with media detection turned
   off (fixes infinite hotplug loop with e.g. ide-cs drives)

==========
HAL 0.2.96
==========

Released Aug 12, 2004

 - dist HACKING (Joe Shaw)
 - fix missing detection of optical disc when starting
 - enhanced hfs/hfsplus detection (Kay Sievers)
 - make libhal work with c++
 - validate incoming strings as UTF-8 (Joe Shaw)
 - try to reconnect to system bus if disconnected (Joe Shaw)
 - ethernet link status fixes (Dan Williams)
 - read vital product data from drives (Kay Sievers)
 - block device UDI computation enhancements
 - only return RESULT_HANDLED in libhal if we really handle the message
 - fix small memory leaks in libhal (Dan Williams)
 - spec now matches code
 - remove info.virtual concept
 - make USB interfaces a first class device object
 - fstab-sync no longer needs a wrapper (Ray Strode)
 - handle removable media without partition tables
 - fstab-sync: add entries for floppy/optical drives
 - fstab-sync: don't add entries if device is listed with LABEL=

==========
HAL 0.2.95
==========

Released July 22, 2004

 - Faster hotplugging; fork hack
 - Moved spec to hal module
 - Actually build Doxygen docs for libhal
 - Computer found in city of lost devices (Joe Shaw)
 - Experimental shutdown on SIGTERM
 - Use O_EXCL for optical disc detection
 - TODO update
 - libsysfs upgrade to 1.1  (Kay Sievers, Joe Shaw)

==========
HAL 0.2.94
==========

Released July 15, 2004

 - SCSI device detection fixes (Sjoerd Simons)
 - fstab-sync callout in C (Ray Strode)
 - hal-device-manager GTK+ error dialog (Sjoerd Simons)
 - Volume Label fixes (Kay Sievers)
 - Storage device detection and fixes (David Zeuthen, Sjoerd Simons)
 - No media detection for devices using floppy drivers, e.g. LS120 (davidz)
 - HAL commandline tool interface cleanups (Martin Waitz)


==========
HAL 0.2.93
==========

Released July 5, 2004

 - Volume probing and label additions fixes (Kay Sievers)
 - hal.dev doesn't slow down udevstart or udev anymore (David Zeuthen)
   http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-July/msg00261.html
 - Volume mount detection fixes (David Zeuthen, pointed out by Sjoerd Simons)
 - Persistent device store (still disabled) (Kay Sievers)
 - Fix of 802.3 link detection (Dan Williams)
 - Removal of wireless scanning (Joe Shaw, Robert Love)

====================================
HAL 0.2 "Open the Pod Bay Door, Hal"
====================================

So, I've promised a release of HAL before Christmas, so here goes
version 0.2. It's not at version 9000 yet, so it won't do any device
configuration (like closing your Pod Bay door device), and it probably
never will. That's right, HAL is a lot simpler than earlier envisioned.

To get an idea of what I'm talking about, you might want to read the
updated spec available at http://freedesktop.org/Software/hal and give
the tarball a testdrive.

Special thanks to Martin Waitz for patches to package HAL.


What is it?
===========

HAL is a hardware abstraction layer and aims to provide a live list of
devices present in the system at any point in time. HAL tries to understand
both physical devices (such as PCI, USB) and the device classes (such as 
input, net and block) physical devices have, and it allows merging of
information from so called device info files specific to a device.

HAL provides a network API through D-BUS for querying devices and notifying
when things change. Finally, HAL provides some monitoring (in an unintrusive
way) of devices, presently ethernet link detection and volume mounts are
monitored.

This, and more, is all described in the HAL specification


Where can I get it?
===================

 http://freedesktop.org/~david/hal-0.2/spec/hal-spec.html
 
 http://freedesktop.org/~david/hal-0.2/hal-0.2.tar.gz


How do I build and run HAL?
===========================

You'll need recent glib, expat and d-bus from CVS to build HAL. Also
pygnome and pygtk is required to run the GUI device manager. A Linux
2.6 kernel is also required. HAL integrates with udev (udev sends D-BUS
messages by calling udev_dbus in /etc/dev.d/). You'll also need a recent
version of linux-hotplug.

The client library, libhal, for use in desktop application, only
requires dbus (which doesn't have any dependencies) so both KDE and
GNOME people should be happy.

To build, do the usual ./configure; make; make install dance. Make
sure to install into same prefix as D-BUS, otherwise you'll need to
copy some files yourself.  Now restart D-BUS to reload the policy
configuration files and (as root) start hald - the HAL daemon.

You can now start hal-device-manager from a separate terminal. Try
plugging or unplugging USB storage or Cardbus (PCMCIA) devices and
check out the device list change. Also, try unplugging your network
cable while looking at the properties for that device.

If you're the advanterous type, you can try to run 

 examples/volumed/volumed.py

from the tarball while plugging in USB storage. This example shows how
a volume manager built on top of HAL could work. It doesn't really
mount anything, but it does print out a line when it would have
mounted or unmounted a volume. Obviously, you'll need udev for this.

It's also great fun (!) to fiddle around with writing .fdi files for
your devices. I've included a single .fdi file in the distribution to
match my digital camera. You can also play around with the
hal-get-property and hal-set-property tools; the latter can be used to
set the info.persistent property to keep unplugged devices in the
device list to retain the properties of the device while it is
unplugged.


Is this stable software?
========================

No way, not yet, at best consider this release a development
snapshot. It has been tested on Fedora Core 1 (i386) and Debian (ppc),
both with 2.6.0-test11 kernels.

There's still lots of small issues I'd wish was resolved before this
release, that's detailed in doc/TODO in the tarball. Most of the short
term issues will probably be addressed in the next release, 4-8 weeks
from this release. Also, important busses, such as IEEE1394, is not
supported yet.

However, even though the API may change somewhat, I think we have
now got the basic infrastructure necessary to start building
application and integrating HAL into desktop environments. That
was the grand plan anyway :-)

Please send bug reports, suggestions and patches to the xdg-list. Do
consult the TODO list to see whether the issue is already known.

