From bb59003c7c0561d06a81589622165b0b36ca2b28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabian Keil <fk@fabiankeil.de>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:01:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Import ChangeLog.
---
doc/source/user-manual.sgml | 124 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 107 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/source/user-manual.sgml b/doc/source/user-manual.sgml
index 222f9ff3..8af6da9e 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 2.95 2009/02/14 12:51:26 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.96 2009/02/14 13:14:03 fabiankeil Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.95 2009/02/14 12:51:26 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.96 2009/02/14 13:14:03 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
<!--
@@ -444,9 +444,71 @@ How to install the binary packages depends on your operating system:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- The mingw32 version uses mutex locks now which prevents
- log message corruption under load. As a side effect,
- the "no thread-safe PRNG" warning could be removed as well.
+ On most platforms, outgoing connections can be kept alive and
+ reused if the server supports it. Whether or not this improves
+ things depends on the connection.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When dropping privileges, membership in supplementary groups
+ is given up as well. Not doing that can lead to Privoxy running
+ with more rights than necessary and violates the principle of
+ least privilege. Users of the --user option are advised to update.
+ Thanks to Matthias Drochner for reporting the problem,
+ providing the initial patch and testing the final version.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Passing invalid users or groups with the --user option
+ didn't lead to program exit. Regression introduced in 3.0.7.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The match all section has been moved from default.action
+ to a new file called match-all.action. As a result the
+ default.action no longer needs to be touched by the user
+ and can be safely overwritten by updates.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The standard.action file has been removed. Its content
+ is now part of the default.action file.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ In some situations the logged content length was slightly too low.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Crunched requests are logged with their own log level.
+ If you used "debug 1" in the past, you'll probably want
+ to additionally enable "debug 1024", otherwise only passed
+ requests will be logged. If you only care about crunched
+ requests, simply replace "debug 1" with "debug 1024".
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The crunch reason has been moved to the beginning of the
+ crunch message. For HTTP URLs, the protocol is logged as well.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Log messages are shortened by not printing the thread id
+ on its own (as opposed to putting it inside "Privoxy()".
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The config option socket-timeout has been added to control
+ the time Privoxy waits for data to arrive on a socket.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -458,6 +520,23 @@ How to install the binary packages depends on your operating system:
as well.
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Requests with invalid HTTP versions are rejected.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The template symbol @date@ can be used to include a date(1)-like
+ time string. Initial patch submitted by Endre Szabo.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Responses from shoutcast servers are accepted again.
+ Problem reported and fix suggested by Stefan.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The hide-forwarded-for-headers action has been replaced with
@@ -468,6 +547,26 @@ How to install the binary packages depends on your operating system:
hide-forwarded-for-headers action).
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ A "clear log" view option was added to the mingw32 version
+ to clear out all of the lines in the Privoxy log window.
+ Based on a patch submitted by T Ford.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The mingw32 version uses "critical sections" now, which prevents
+ log message corruption under load. As a side effect, the
+ "no thread-safe PRNG" warning could be removed as well.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The mingw32 version's task bar icon is crossed out and
+ the color changed to gray if Privoxy is toggled off.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
@@ -543,18 +642,6 @@ How to install the binary packages depends on your operating system:
</para>
</listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The <quote>filter-client-headers</quote> and
- <quote>filter-server-headers</quote> actions that were introduced with
- <application>Privoxy 3.0.5</application> to apply content filters to
- the headers have been removed and replaced with new actions.
- See the <link
- linkend="whatsnew">What's New section</link> above.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
-
<!--
<listitem>
<para>
@@ -8415,6 +8502,9 @@ In file: user.action <guibutton>[ View ]</guibutton> <guibutton>[ Edit ]</guibut
USA
$Log: user-manual.sgml,v $
+ Revision 2.96 2009/02/14 13:14:03 fabiankeil
+ Unbreak syntax.
+
Revision 2.95 2009/02/14 12:51:26 fabiankeil
Mention match-all.action in the "Actions Files Tutorial" section.
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