diff --git a/package/avm/dbus/dbus.desc b/package/avm/dbus/dbus.desc
index a78d6704a..c5fb5c06b 100644
--- a/package/avm/dbus/dbus.desc
+++ b/package/avm/dbus/dbus.desc
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Beta
-[V] 0.60
+[V] 0.61
 [P] X -----5---9 140.400
 
-[D] 1732800890 dbus-0.60.tar.gz http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/
+[D] 1734199751 dbus-0.61.tar.gz http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/
 
diff --git a/package/avm/hal/hal.conf b/package/avm/hal/hal.conf
index 5ecdc4ae1..7f9f2186b 100644
--- a/package/avm/hal/hal.conf
+++ b/package/avm/hal/hal.conf
@@ -20,10 +20,8 @@
 # 
 # --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
-var_append confopt " " "--enable-pcmcia-support"
 var_append confopt " " "--enable-verbose-mode"
-var_append confopt " " "--enable-fstab-sync"
 hook_add postmake 3 "install_init hal $confdir/hal.init"
 
-hook_add postmake 3 'echo RUN+="/usr/libexec/hal.hotplug" > /etc/udev/rules.d/01-hal.rules'
-hook_add postmake 3 "install -v $confdir/*.fdi /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/"
+# are these still needed without fstab sync?
+# hook_add postmake 3 "install -v $confdir/*.fdi /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/"
diff --git a/package/avm/hal/hal.desc b/package/avm/hal/hal.desc
index 58f11a503..1ab1db4e2 100644
--- a/package/avm/hal/hal.desc
+++ b/package/avm/hal/hal.desc
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Beta
-[V] 0.5.6
+[V] 0.5.7
 [P] X -----5---9 140.500
 
-[D] 1474020356 hal-0.5.6.tar.gz http://freedesktop.org/~david/dist/
+[D] 786136450 hal-0.5.7.tar.gz http://freedesktop.org/~david/dist/
 
diff --git a/package/avm/hal/hal.init b/package/avm/hal/hal.init
index 5902e6ff0..786110bd4 100644
--- a/package/avm/hal/hal.init
+++ b/package/avm/hal/hal.init
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ main_begin
 
     block_begin(start, `Setting up Hardware Abstraction Layer.')
 	check(`export PATH=D_prefix/libexec:$PATH')
-	check(`D_prefix/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --retain-privileges')
+	check(`D_prefix/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --use-syslog')
     block_end
 
     block_begin(stop, `Shutting down Hardware Abstraction Layer.')