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@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ HAL 0.5.12 ========== -Released Month 00, 2009. +Released May 12, 2009. Requirements for HAL 0.5.12: - Linux kernel >= 2.6.22 (CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n) - udev >= 125 (Linux only) - - util-linux-ng >= 2.15-rc1 + - util-linux-ng >= 2.15 - bash >= 2.0 - dbus >= 0.61 (with glib bindings) - glib >= 2.10.0 @@ -31,6 +31,278 @@ Requirements for HAL 0.5.12: Contributors to HAL 0.5.12 : +Alex Kanavin (1): + add ACL rule an policy for obex devices + +Andreas Schwab (1): + fixed buffer overrun + +Arjan van de Ven (1): + make hal start a lot faster + +Colin Walters (1): + aallowllow calling KillSwitch methods in D-Bus configuration + +Daniel Drake (1): + disable polling on batteries if battery.quirk.do_not_poll is set + +Daniel Walsh (1): + don't leak file descriptor on umount + +Danny Kukawka (142): + added system.board.* for base-/mainboard information + removed info about hal-device-manager from spec + fixed memory leaks related to usage of g_strsplit + fixed fdi.dtd for the remove rule + updated SPEC for power_management.quirk.pci_save + fix PMU battery and AC handling with power_supply + fixed PropertyModified signal in SPEC and code + fixed possible memory leak + remove storage.model property from volumes + reuse code in addons to check privileges + updated .gitignore + fixed merge for uint64 + added new addon for the generic sysfs backlight interface + fix detection of TabletPCs + fixed device removage + fixed 10-tabletPCs.fdi + added hald-addon-generic-backlight to .gitignore + added new addon for the ipw killswitch interface + add hald-addon-ipw-killswitch to .gitignore + fixed Lock() handling + unify directory usage under /var/run + added check for ConsoleKit >= v0.3.1 to configure + allow acl and user_xattr as mount options for reiserfs + removed needless whitespaces at the end of lines + fix DBus introspection for org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager + ported addon-macbook-backlight to use HAL logging code + fixed cpufreq addon to call setup_logger() + added configure check for libsmbios >= 2.0.3 + use smi::getPasswordStatus() only if available + use udevadm instead of (deprecated) udevinfo + add requirements for next release (0.5.12) + fixed wrong condition in libsmbios checks + don't use hal_util_compute_udi directly inside of hald + added linux rfkill subsystem to HAL + add *.tar.bz2 to .gitignore + get storage.model for SCSI via HDIO_GET_IDENTITY instead of sysfs + remove unneeded variable from commit 702351eaea4 + add battery.quirk.do_not_poll to spec + removed deprecated properties from spec + removed outdated deprecated keys finally from spec + Revert "allow 'locale=' NTFS mount option for Linux" + unify set volume.ignore for recovery partitions + Revert "adapt HAL to changes in the kernel regarding to docking stations" + fix udi: replace '/' in the last part of the udi + prefer sans-serif instead of luxi sans in css file + fixed formatting of org.freedesktop.Hal.SingletonAddon in spec + keep subsystem/devhandler in alphabetical order + add ppdev subsystem + add support for virtual network devices + added obex namespace to spec + sort device access policies/actions alphabetical + add ACL rule and policy for ppdev + fixed ACL rules for PDAs + add support for detect DVD-R DL for storage.cdrom.dvdrdl + fixed spec for vio bus + allow also PCI as possible storage.bus + add support for the BDI subsystem + add bdi namespace to spec + add support for bdi bases block devices + add bdi to storage.bus spec + fixed storage.bus spec to sort values in alphabetical order + reorganise spec: sort 'Subsystem-Specific Properties' alphabetical + reorganise spec: sort 'Functional Properties' alphabetical + reorganise spec: sort 'D-Bus interfaces' alphabetical + add biometric and biometric.fingerprint_reader namespace + added ACL/device access rules for fingerprint reader + small cleanup for configure.in + added volume.(un)mount.valid_options to spec + added new properties to mount alternative fstypes as e.g. ntfs-3g + added support for alternative fstype to Mount() + Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal + added comment to not change order of usb and usbclass handler + Revert "add support for the BDI subsystem" + revert BDI changes from SPEC + Revert "add support for bdi bases block devices" + remove generic sysfs backlight from scripts + add volume.fstype.alternative.prefered to spec + add support for HP Smart Array CCISS block devices + add cciss as possible storage.bus to spec + fixed md related code in hotplug_event_begin_add_blockdev() + check module parameter of acpi video to set brightness_in_hardware + fixed typo, adjust description of volume.fstype.alternative.preferred + fix handling of Device Mapper devices for LUKS + fix commit 151957477daaf985acdb2d7bda5b4a418c612cf3 + Merged changes from git.freedesktop.org/git/hal.git (315ca276ffdde9a) + cleanup handling volume filesystem information + fix commit d29ea6b31b67bf540b23dfedfa1b7add4c22bce2 + another fix for commit d29ea6b31b67bf540b23dfedfa1b7add4c22bce2 + add memstick and memstick_host namespace to spec + add memstick to storage.bus in spec + fixed call of hotplug_queue_now_empty() under linux + Revert "cleanup handling volume filesystem information" + improve HAL performance for filesystem detection + add a new singleton addon for the rfkill subsystem + add new killswitch.state property + fixed ipw addon + Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@people.freedesktop.org/~dkukawka/hal + add the leds linux kernel subsystem to HAL + add a new singleton addon to handle leds + update .gitignore for hald/linux/addons + add org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Leds interface to spec + fix joystick detection (patch by Ari Mustonen) + fix ACL handling for drm devices + fixed serial.port handling for USB serial devices + add ACL support for scsi_generic scanner devices + Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal + Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@people.freedesktop.org/~dkukawka/hal + fix make distcheck + fixing spec for access_control.type due to Policykit changes + fix spec due to path/filename changes with actual PolicyKit + Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal + remove policy rule for org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.VideoAdapterPM + remove second policy context="default" block + put policy rules in alphabetical order + fix policy for org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch + add DBus policy rule for org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Leds + add DBus policy rule for org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.CPUFreq + add DBus policy rule for org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LightSensor + add D-Bus policy rule for org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KeyboardBacklight + add D-Bus policy rule for org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable + add org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.WakeOnLan to HAL D-Bus config + add org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage to HAL D-Bus config + add org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.DockStation to HAL D-Bus config + add org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties standard iterface + remove all receive_* lines from HAL D-Bus config + fixed HAL D-Bus config: added send_destination for all interfaces + add some parameter checks to hal_util_*et_driver*() functions + add section about "Device Files policies" to spec + put usbraw matches for ACL together into one block + use addset instead of append for ACL rules + add ACL and device-access policy for printers + update spec for printer access policy + filled TODOs with information for the printer namespace + sort existing PolicyKit policies for device access alphabetical + add current default policies for device access to spec + fixed entries to add acl related keys only if there is a device + fix commit 33b54318f73012e24220456216794dd3ff39fc93 + provide comparable linux kernel version information + fix problems with removable-block policy and floppy devs + move all storage/block related policies to one block + Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal + fix commit 92e7f2e8b2a1a36d3ec2b371424719e7078d91da + +Frederic Crozat (1): + adapt new CK library version (>= v0.3.1) to HAL + +Gabriel Burt (1): + export seconds_to_sleep to pm-utils + +Guillem Jover (9): + add mmc_host slot_name support + do not compare arrays against NULL + addon-cpufreq: do not leak va_arg on error condition + do not leak on error conditions + fix some memory leaks on normal operation + remove unused pointer to struct mntent returned from getmntent_r + do not call property_set_lookup before checking param validity + remove unused call to hal_util_get_last_element + make Magneto-Optical devices visible + +Holger Freyther (1): + allow to cross compile hal with host and target having different input.h + +Holger Macht (1): + adapt HAL to changes in the kernel regarding to docking stations + +Johannes Berg (2): + use 'phy80211' instead of 'wiphy' symlink to detect wireless + use wext ioctl instead of sysfs to detect wireless + +Jürg Billeter (1): + inserts the sysfs path at the right position for call udevadm + +Kay Sievers (2): + use '@' for abstract namespace socket, bump udev requirement + move from libvolume_id to libblkid + +Kouhei Sutou (1): + add support for detecting DVD-R DL media + +Lucas Rocha (1): + probe for v4l only if probe for v4l2 failed + +Ludwig Nussel (3): + merge additional device access types from hal-resmgr + hal-acl-tool: don't free strings that are not supposed to be freed + fix ACL handling for removable block devices (as CD/DVD) + +Makoto Dei (1): + include config.h before any other headers + +Mario Limonciello (3): + check if BIOS password is present prior to use libsmbios commands + fix Dell bluetooth killswitch + fix building with current libsmbios + +Markus Rothe (1): + fix issue on 64bit big endian architectures. + +Martin Pitt (7): + volume.num_blocks can become larger than 2G + increase hal helper timeout to fix slow CD-ROMs + add ACL support to removable block devices + fix building on Linux 2.6.28 + fix auto ACL management for DRI + fix volume label parsing + fix volume.num_blocks data type in libhal-storage + +Matthew Garrett (3): + Add newer Macbook Pros, and remove the backlight addon for Nvidia-based Pros (it doesn't work there) + add memstick/memstick_host support + don't add input capabilities to tablet PNP device + +Michael Biebl (1): + allow uid/gid mount option for ntfs + +Ozan Çağlayan (1): + fix SUSBSYSTEM typo in a debug message + +Pacho Ramos (1): + prevent hal from automounting Dell recovery partition + +Patrick Campbell (1): + set Xen storage drive type + +Paul Bolle (1): + add zoom and ThinkPad events to acpi addon for IBM/Lenovo + +Philipp Ittershagen (1): + add save-pci support to hal-system-power-suspend-linux + +Rafał Mużyło (1): + fix some configure issues + +Richard Hughes (11): + fix a crash when the rfkill device does not have a type + revert a tiny bit of the device ording change as it breaks printer detection + remove the forced removal of the trailing newline to fix OLPC probing + prefer openfirmware interface for DMI even when dmidecode is found in the path + check udi in hal-get-property + set the retval of hal-device correctly on error + allow child timeout to be set so hal starts on big servers + Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://hughsient@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal + add x11_driver for KVM graphics tablet + allow specifying a udev dir in etc + regenerate cache if it's zero sized + +Rémi Cardona (1): + add libtool-2.2 support + +Scott James Remnant (1): + install udev rule to /lib/udev/rules.d/ + ========== HAL 0.5.11 |