I believe the appearance of these issues corresponds to the release of the package policykit-1 version 0.105-17 into stretch/testing on October 27, 2016.
- Bug#842378: Thunar partition mount and other app authent... Steven Zalek
- Bug#842378: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#842378: Thunar par... Yves-Alexis Perez