--------------------------------------------------------------------
ChangeLog for Privoxy
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-*** Current CVS ***
+*** Version 2.9.15 (current CVS) ***
+
+- Impose buffer limits while reading client and server headers.
+- Better memory and CPU optimization.
+- Add Conectiva Linux package.
+- Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and
+ user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
+- Major overhaul of the CGI editor (ongoing).
+- Multiple actions files can now be specified in config.
+- The usual many small and miscellaneous fixes.
+
+*** Version 2.9.14 Beta ***
+
- Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
- Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
- Fix build failure where certain features were disabled.
-- New 'blocked-compact' template.
+- 'blocked-compact' template is removed. Various CGI improvements,
+ including an adaptive 'blocked' template.
+- Various tweaks for actions file to get ready for stable 3.0
+- Included a 'Bookmarklet' and PHP scripts for reporting actions file
+ problems via web interface at privoxy.org. Accessed via internal CGIs.
+- Include cgi-style.css for templates.
+- #include mechansim for common text in templates
- Various other minor fixes.
*** Version 2.9.13 Beta ***
- *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
-reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
+ reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
- ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now
-default.filter.
+ default.filter.
- http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/
- The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern'
-(checkerboard) is now the default.
+ (checkerboard) is now the default.
- RPM spec file make over.
*** Version 2.9.12 Beta ***
- **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from
-8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
-is.)
+ 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
+ is.)
- More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements.
- Win32 command line fix ups.
- re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a
-per site basis. Some new goodies there too.
+ per site basis. Some new goodies there too.
- +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile
-for even more flexibility.
+ for even more flexibility.
- Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which
-displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo.
+ displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo.
- PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images
-if configured with --enable-no-gif.
+ if configured with --enable-no-gif.
- Clean up compiler warnings (mostly).
- Improved handling of failed DNS lookups & diagnostics for failed bind
-to listen socket
+ to listen socket
- Made --no-daemon mode log to tty instead of logfile.
- Various spec file and init script cleanups and improvements (Redhat and
-SuSE).
+ SuSE).
- CGI Editor works on OS/2 now.
- Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT.
- Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file.
- A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help,
---version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces
-the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges
-to the specified user.
+ --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces
+ the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges
+ to the specified user.
- Signal handling cleanups (*nix).
- CGI actions editor improvements and fixes.
- Error handling improvements, especially out of memory.
- Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos
-(instead of 'blank').
+ (instead of 'blank').
- configure.in threading fixes for Solaris.
- Various other minor fixes.
Thanks to Jörg Strohmayer (joergs at users.sourceforge.net) for these.
- Temporary hack to get FORCE_LOAD to work with IE. I just lowercased the
FORCE_LOAD_PREFIX. Needs fixing properly.
-- Most URLs hardcoded into JunkBuster were changed to go through a script
+- Most URLs hardcoded into Junkbuster were changed to go through a script
e.g. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?v=2.9.3&to=faq
The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL:
http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
and the home page:
http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/
-... and various URLs which will be intercepted by JunkBuster anyway.
-TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in JunkBuster Corp's
+... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway.
+TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's
copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page.
- PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option.
This is my first ever autoconf script, so it has some rough edges
(how PCRE is handled is the roughest).
- Error logging code replaced with new module errlog.c, based on the
-one from JunkBusterMT (but with the threading code removed).
+one from JunkbusterMT (but with the threading code removed).
- Most of Rodney's 0.21 and 0.21A patches applied. (Marked *). I did not
apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional
popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code.