*
* Purpose : README file to give a short intro.
*
- * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2007 the SourceForge
+ * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2008 the SourceForge
* Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
*
* Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
*
*********************************************************************/
-This README is included with the development version of Privoxy 3.0.7. See
+This README is included with the development version of Privoxy 3.0.11. See
http://www.privoxy.org/ for more information. The current code maturity level
-is "beta", but seems stable to us :).
+is "UNRELEASED", but seems stable to us :).
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1. IMPORTANT CHANGES
-December 2007, Privoxy 3.0.7 beta is released. This is a significant upgrade
-with many new and enhanced features, and many bugs fixed. See the "ChangeLog",
-and the "What's New" section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual for
-details and specifics. There are changes related to configuration, so anyone
-upgrading and keeping their old configuration should read ahead first.
+Privoxy development is between releases. The current sources are development
+quality. If you find problems please report them to the developers.
-NEWS! November 2006, Privoxy 3.0.6 stable is released. This is a significant
-upgrade with many new and enhanced features, and many bugs fixed.
+August 2008, Privoxy 3.0.10 is released! There are not any major new features,
+but many improvements and refinements. As usual there are changes that effect
+the configuration. See the "ChangeLog", and the "What's New" section and the
+"Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual for details and specifics.
-There was and will not be an official 3.0.4 release. This release cycle was
-used to gather our thoughts, play with some new ideas and refine some old ones.
-It will remain a development cycle with no actual release. 3.0.5 is the fruit
-of these efforts.
+June 2008, Privoxy 3.0.9 beta is released. There are no major new features, but
+many improvements and refinements.
+
+NEWS! January 2008, Privoxy 3.0.8 stable is released. This is a significant
+upgrade with many new and enhanced features, and many bugs fixed. All Privoxy
+users are encouraged to upgrade. See the "ChangeLog", and the "What's New"
+section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual for details and
+specifics. There are changes related to configuration, so anyone upgrading and
+keeping their old configuration should read ahead first.
+
+December 2007, Privoxy 3.0.7 is released. This is a beta release in preparation
+for the forthcoming 3.0.8 release.
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Or for Red Hat and Fedora based distributions: /etc/rc.d/init.d/privoxy start
-Or Debian: /etc/init.d/privoxy start
+Or Debian and Ubuntu: /etc/init.d/privoxy start
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All users are of course welcome to discuss their issues on the users mailing
list, where the developers also hang around.
+Please don't sent private support requests to individual Privoxy developers,
+either use the mailing lists or the support trackers.
+
Note that the Privoxy mailing lists are moderated. Posts from unsubscribed
addresses have to be accepted manually by a moderator. This may cause a delay
of several days and if you use a subject that doesn't clearly mention Privoxy