hal 0.5.4 "Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking again." released

[David Zeuthen]

Hi,

Here is a new release. Both lots of bug fixes and some new features too
like the ability to invoke methods on hal device objects. Get the
tarball from here

 http://freedesktop.org/~david/dist/hal-0.5.4.tar.gz

Changes

 - 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)

Most of the work of this release was from Richard Hughes and Danny
Kukawka. Thanks guys!

Cheers,
David