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@@ -1,8 +1,276 @@ ========== -HAL 0.5.8 "" -========== - -Requirements for HAL 0.5.8 "" (and HEAD) +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.Çağlar 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 @@ -12,8 +280,10 @@ Requirements for HAL 0.5.8 "" (and HEAD) - glib >= 2.6.0 - expat >= 1.95.8 - libusb >= 0 0.1.10a (optional) + - pciutils >= 2.2.3 (optional - dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional) - - cryptsetup-luks => 1.0.1 (optional, needs LUKS patches) + - parted == 1.7.1 (optional) + - cryptsetup-luks >= 1.0.1 (optional, needs LUKS patches) ========== HAL 0.5.7 "Dead as Dillinger." @@ -35,7 +305,7 @@ Released February 24, 2006 - 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) + - 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) @@ -164,7 +434,7 @@ 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) + - 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) @@ -377,7 +647,7 @@ Released Nov 2, 2004 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) + - 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) @@ -436,7 +706,7 @@ Released Oct 17, 2004 - 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) + - 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) |