From: Fabian Keil <fk@fabiankeil.de>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:06:48 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update the "What's New in this Release" section with
X-Git-Tag: v_3_0_9~43
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Update the "What's New in this Release" section with
the ChangeLog entries changelog2doc.pl could handle.
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diff --git a/doc/source/user-manual.sgml b/doc/source/user-manual.sgml
index fd5ec0e9..c4014234 100644
--- a/doc/source/user-manual.sgml
+++ b/doc/source/user-manual.sgml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
This file belongs into
ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/i/ij/ijbswa/htdocs/
- $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.73 2008/05/23 14:43:18 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.74 2008/05/26 15:55:46 fabiankeil Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.73 2008/05/23 14:43:18 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.74 2008/05/26 15:55:46 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
<!--
@@ -436,153 +436,178 @@ How to install the binary packages depends on your operating system:
<sect1 id="whatsnew">
<title>What's New in this Release</title>
<para>
- There are many improvements and new features since <application>Privoxy 3.0.6</application>, the last stable release:
+ There are many improvements and new features since <application>Privoxy 3.0.8</application>, the last stable release:
</para>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Two new actions <link
- linkend="server-header-tagger">server-header-tagger</link>
- and <link
- linkend="client-header-tagger">client-header-tagger</link>
- that can be used to create arbitrary <quote>tags</quote>
- based on client and server headers.
- These <quote>tags</quote> can then subsequently be used
- to control the other actions used for the current request,
- greatly increasing &my-app;'s flexibility and selectivity. See <link
- linkend="tag-pattern">tag patterns</link> for more information on tags.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Header filtering is done with dedicated header filters now. As a result
- the actions <quote>filter-client-headers</quote> and <quote>filter-server-headers</quote>
- that were introduced with <application>Privoxy 3.0.5</application> to apply
- content filters to the headers have been removed.
- See the new actions <link
- linkend="server-header-filter">server-header-filter</link>
- and <link
- linkend="client-header-filter">client-header-filter</link> for details.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- There are four new options for the main <filename>config</filename> file:
- </para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <link
- linkend="allow-cgi-request-crunching">allow-cgi-request-crunching</link>
- which allows requests for Privoxy's internal CGI pages to be
- blocked, redirected or (un)trusted like ordinary requests.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <link
- linkend="split-large-forms">split-large-forms</link>
- that will work around a browser bug that caused IE6 and IE7 to
- ignore the Submit button on the Privoxy's edit-actions-for-url CGI
- page.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <link
- linkend="accept-intercepted-requests">accept-intercepted-requests</link>
- which allows to combine Privoxy with any packet filter to create an
- intercepting proxy for HTTP/1.1 requests (and for HTTP/1.0 requests
- with Host header set). This means clients can be forced to use
- &my-app; even if their proxy settings are configured differently.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <link
- linkend="templdir">templdir</link>
- to designate an alternate location for &my-app;'s
- locally customized CGI templates so that
- these are not overwritten during upgrades.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
-
+ Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by
+ the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- A new command line option <literal>--pre-chroot-nslookup hostname</literal> to
- initialize the resolver library before chroot'ing. On some systems this
- reduces the number of files that must be copied into the chroot tree.
- (Patch provided by Stephen Gildea)
+ The "blocked" CGI pages include a block reason that was
+ provided as argument to the last-applying block action.
</para>
</listitem>
-
<listitem>
<para>
- The <link
- linkend="forward-override">forward-override</link> action
- allows changing of the forwarding settings through the actions files.
- Combined with tags, this allows to choose the forwarder based on
- client headers like the <literal>User-Agent</literal>, or the request origin.
- </para>
+ If enable-edit-actions is disabled (the default since 3.0.7 beta)
+ the show-status page hides the edit buttons and explains why.
+ Previously the user would get the "this feature has been disabled"
+ message after using the edit button.
+ </para>
</listitem>
-
<listitem>
<para>
- The <link
- linkend="redirect">redirect</link> action can now use regular
- expression substitutions against the original URL.
+ Forbidden CONNECT requests are treated like blocks by default.
+ The now-pointless treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks action
+ has been removed.
</para>
</listitem>
-
<listitem>
<para>
- <application>zlib</application> support is now available as a compile
- time option to filter compressed content. Patch provided by Wil Mahan.
+ Not enabling limit-connect now allows CONNECT requests to all ports.
+ In previous versions it would only allow CONNECT requests to port 443.
+ Use +limit-connect{443} if you think you need the old default behaviour.
</para>
</listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Improve various filters, and add new ones.
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The CGI editor gets turned off after three edit requests with invalid
+ file modification timestamps. This makes life harder for attackers
+ who can leverage browser bugs to send fake Referers and intend to
+ brute-force edit URLs.
</para>
</listitem>
-
-
<listitem>
<para>
- Include support for RFC 3253 so that <filename>Subversion</filename> works
- with &my-app;. Patch provided by Petr Kadlec.
+ Action settings for multiple patterns in the same section are
+ shared in memory. As a result these sections take up less space
+ (and are loaded slightly faster). Problem reported by Franz Schwartau.
</para>
</listitem>
-
<listitem>
<para>
- Logging can be completely turned off by not specifying a logfile directive.
+ Linear white space in HTTP headers will be normalized to single
+ spaces before parsing the header's content, headers split across
+ multiple lines get merged first.
</para>
</listitem>
-
-
<listitem>
<para>
- A number of improvements to Privoxy's internal CGI pages, including the
- use of favicons for error and control pages.
+ Host information is gathered outside the main thread so it's less
+ likely to delay other incoming connections if the host is misconfigured.
</para>
</listitem>
-
<listitem>
<para>
- Many bugfixes, memory leaks addressed, code improvements, and logging
- improvements.
+ New config option "hostname" to use a hostname other than
+ the one returned by the operating system. Useful to speed-up responses
+ for CGI requests on misconfigured systems. Requested by Max Khon.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The CGI editor supports the "disable all filters of this type"
+ directives "-client-header-filter", "-server-header-filter",
+ "-client-header-tagger" and "-server-header-tagger".
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fixed false-positives with the link-by-url filter and URLs that
+ contain the pattern "/jump/".
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The less-download-windows filter no longer messes
+ "Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash" headers up.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ In the show-url-info page's "Final results" section active and
+ inactive actions are listed separately. Patch provided by Lee.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The GNUmakefile supports the DESTDIR variable. Patch for
+ the install target submitted by Radoslaw Zielinski.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Embedding the content of configuration files in the show-status
+ page is significantly faster now. For a largish action file (1 MB)
+ a speedup of about 2450 times has been measured. This is mostly
+ interesting if you are using large action files or regularly use
+ Privoxy-Regression-Test while running Privoxy through Valgrind,
+ for stock configuration files it doesn't really matter.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If zlib support is unavailable and there are content
+ filters active but the prevent-compression action is disabled,
+ the show-url-info page includes a warning that compression
+ might prevent filtering.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The show-url-info page provides an OpenSearch Description that
+ allows to access the page through browser search plugins.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The obsolete kill-popups action has been removed as the
+ PCRS-based popup filters can do the same and are slightly
+ less unreliable.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The inspect-jpegs action has been removed.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The send-wafer and send-vanilla-wafer actions have been removed.
+ They weren't particular useful and their behaviour could be emulated
+ with add-header anyway.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Privoxy-Regression-Test has been significantly improved.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Most sections in the default.action file contain tests for
+ Privoxy-Regression-Test to verify that they are working as intended.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Parts of Privoxy have been refactored to increase maintainability.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Building with zlib (if available) is done by default.
</para>
</listitem>
-
</itemizedlist>
</para>
+
<para>
For a more detailed list of changes please have a look at the ChangeLog.
</para>
@@ -8574,6 +8599,11 @@ In file: user.action <guibutton>[ View ]</guibutton> <guibutton>[ Edit ]</guibut
USA
$Log: user-manual.sgml,v $
+ Revision 2.74 2008/05/26 15:55:46 fabiankeil
+ - Update "default profiles" table.
+ - Add some more pcrs redirect examples and note that
+ enabling debug 128 helps to get redirects working.
+
Revision 2.73 2008/05/23 14:43:18 fabiankeil
Remove previously out-commented block that caused syntax problems.