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ChangeLog for Privoxy
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+*** Version 3.0.17 Stable ***
+
+- In chat(), add another last-chunk-check right after parsing the server headers.
+ Should fix #3028326 reported by "Karsten".
+- In server_response_is_complete(), expect no body if the status code is 204.
+ Should fix #3022042 and #3025553, reported by a user with no visible name.
+ Most likely also fixes a bunch of other AJAX-related problem
+ reports we closed in the past due to insufficient information.
+- Added LOG_LEVEL_WRITING to log the not-yet-parsed data received.
+ This should make debugging various parsing issues a lot easier.
+- Enable the IPv6 code on Windows versions that support it.
+ Patch submitted by oCameLo in #2942729.
+ Time will tell if this causes problems for earlier Windows
+ versions, but if it does, it should be easy enough to fix.
+- Feature Requests 3040263 :: Add "user.filter" to "Edit" menu - add an
+ "Edit User Filters" menu item to the Privoxy Windows systray icon and
+ change the "Edit Filters" menu item to "Edit Default Filters"
+- Add configure option --enable-large-file-support. It sets a few defines
+ that are required by platforms like GNU/Linux to support files larger
+ then 2GB.
+- In log_error(), log as much of %N "strings" as the buffer allows.
+ Previously we'd stop at the first nul byte which is pretty useless.
+ While at it, replace non-printable characters in %N "strings" with
+ their hex value so the result can't span multiple lines and \r's
+ don't cause a mess.
+- create a log record when reading an action, filter or trust file.
+- Fixed incorrect regression test markup which caused a test in
+ 3.0.16 to fail while Privoxy itself was working correctly.
+ While Privoxy accepts hide-referer, too, the action name is actually
+ hide-referrer which is also the name used one the final results page,
+ where the test expected the alias.
+
+- CGI interface improvements:
+ - In finish_http_response(), continue to add the 'Connection: close'
+ header if the client connection will not be kept alive.
+ Anonymously pointed out in #2987454.
+ - Apostrophes in block messages no longer cause parse errors
+ when the blocked page is viewed with JavaScript enabled.
+ Reported by dg1727 in #3062296.
+ - Fix a bunch of anchors that used underscores instead of dashes.
+ - Allow to keep the client connection alive after crunching the previous request.
+ Already opened server connections can be kept alive, too.
+ - In cgi_show_url_info(), don't forget to prefix URLs that only contain http:// or https:// in the path.
+ Fixes #2975765 reported by Adam Piggott.
+ - Show the 404 CGI page if cgi_send_user_manual() is called while
+ local user manual delivery is disabled.
+
+- Action file improvements:
+ - Enable user.filter by default. Suggested by David White in #3001830.
+ - Block .sitestat.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002725.
+ - Block .atemda.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002723.
+ - Block js.adlink.net/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002720.
+ - Block .analytics.yahoo.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002713.
+ - fix for ijbswa-Support Requests-3001830: Activate user.filter by default
+ - Block sb.scorecardresearch.com, too.
+ Reported by dg1727 in #2992652.
+ - Fix problems noticed on Yahoo mail and news pages.
+ - Remove the too broad yahoo section, only keeping the
+ fast-redirects exception as discussed on ijbswa-devel@.
+ - Actionsfile feedback item #2974204 2010-03-21
+ don't block adesklets.sourceforge.net
+ - Actionsfile feedback item #2975895 2010-03-24
+ block chartbeat ping tracking
+ - Tag CSS and image requests with cautious and medium settings, too.
+ - Don't handle view.atdmt.com as image. It's used for click-throughs
+ so users should be able to "go there anyway".
+ Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975927.
+ - Also let refresh-tags filter invalid refresh tags where the 'url='
+ part is missing. Anonymously reported in #2986382.
+ While at it, update the description to mention the fact that only
+ refresh tags with refresh times above 9 seconds are covered.
+ - javascript needs to be blocked with +handle-as-empty-document to
+ work around Firefox bug 492459. So move .js blockers from
+ +block{Might be a web-bug.} -handle-as-empty-document
+ to
+ +block{Might be a web-bug.} +handle-as-empty-document
+ - ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 - Block 160x578 Banners
+ I'm not sure about blocking 160x578 images, but
+ pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imagad?xxx
+ could use blocking.
+ - Block another omniture tracking domain
+ - Added a range-requests tagger.
+
+- Documentation improvements:
+ - Explicitly mention how to match any URL.
+ - Consistently recommending socks5 in the Tor FAQ entry and mention
+ its advantage compared to socks4a. Reported by David in #2960129.
+ - Slightly improve the explanation of why filtering may appear
+ slower than it is.
+
+- Privoxy-Log-Parser improvements:
+ - Also gather statistics for blocked requests.
+ - Also gather statistics for fast redirections.
+ - In print_stats(), also provide the percentage of keep-alive offers the client accepted.
+ - Add a --url-statistics-threshold option.
+ - Also gather statistics for ressources, methods, and HTTP versions
+ used by the client.
+ - Fix a bug in handle_loglevel_header() where a 'scan: ' got lost.
+ - Add a --shorten-thread-ids option to replace the thread id with a decimal number.
+ - Accept and ignore: Looks like we got the last chunk together with the server headers. We better stop reading.
+ - Accept and ignore: Continue hack in da house.
+ - Accept and higlight: Rejecting connection from 10.0.0.2.
+ Maximum number of connections reached.
+ - Accept and highlight actions and filter filte loading:
+ Loading actions file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.action
+ Loading filter file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.filter
+
+- GNUmakefile improvements:
+ - Use $(SSH) instead of ssh, so one only needs to specify a username once.
+ - Removed references to the action feedback thingy that hasn't been
+ working for years.
+ - Consistently use shell.sourceforge.net instead of shell.sf.net so
+ one doesn't need to check server fingerprints twice.
+ - Removed GNUisms in the webserver and webactions targets so they
+ work with standard tar.
+
+- Code cleanups:
+ - Remove the next member from the client_state struct.
+ Only the main thread needs access to all client
+ states so give it its own struct.
+ - Garbage-collect request_contains_null_bytes().
+ - Ditch redundant code in unload_configfile().
+ - Ditch LogGetURLUnderCursor() which doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
+ Spotted by cppcheck.
+ - In write_socket(), remove the write-only variable write_len in an ifdef __OS2__ block.
+ Spotted by cppcheck.
+ - In resolve_hostname_to_ip(), limit the scope of the variable 'dns_retries'.
+ - In connect_to(), don't declare the variable 'flags' on OS/2 where it isn't used.
+ Spotted by cppcheck.
+ - In xtoi(), limit the scope of the variable d2.
+ - In main(), limit the scope of the variable pid.
+ - In client_if_modified_since(), limit the scope of the variables hours, minutes and seconds.
+ - In server_last_modified(), limit the scope of the variables days, hours, minutes and seconds.
+ - In add_to_iob(), limit the scope of the variable 'want' and turn an interestingly looking for loop into a boring while loop.
+ - Code cleanup in preparation for external filters.
+ - In listen_loop(), mention the socket on which we accepted the
+ connection, not just the source IP address.
+ - In write_socket(), also log the socket we're writing to.
+ - In log_error(), assert that escaped characters get logged completely or not at all.
+ - In log_error(), assert that ival and sval have reasonable values. There's no
+ reason not to abort() if they don't.
+ - Remove an incorrect cgi_error_unknown() call in a cannnot-happen-situation in send_crunch_response().
+ - Clean up white-space in http_response definition and move the crunch_reason to the beginning.
+ - Turn http_response.reason into an enum and rename it to http_response.crunch_reason.
+
*** Version 3.0.16 Stable ***
- Added the config file option handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok to
work around Firefox bug #492459, which causes Firefox to hang
if JavaScripts are blocked in certain situations. The option is
enabled in the default config file.
-- Added the config option default-server-timeout to control the
+- Added the config file option default-server-timeout to control the
assumed default server timeout. Since Privoxy no longer returns
an error message for connection resets on reused client connections,
assuming larger server timeout values appears to actually work
- In daemon mode, fd 0, 1 and 2 are bound to /dev/null.
- Resolve localhost using whatever address family the operating
system feels like. Previous betas would try to use IPv4 as this
- is what most users expect, but this didn't work reliable on
+ is what most users expect, but this didn't work reliably on
GNU/Linux systems.
- In the action lists on CGI pages, actions and their parameters are
no longer separated with a space. The action file parser doesn't
blocked as image instead of empty documents. Doing the latter causes
WebKit-based clients to show a "missing image" icon which may mess up
the layout.
-- The no-such-domain template if used if for DNS resolution
+- The no-such-domain template is used for DNS resolution
problems with FEATURE_IPV6_SUPPORT enabled. Previously the
connect-failed template was used. Reported by 'zebul666'.
- Accepts quoted expiration dates even though RFC 2109 10.1.2
code being enabled.
- Privoxy-Log-Parser is roughly 40% faster in highlighting mode.
- uagen, a Firefox User-Agent generator for Privoxy and Mozilla
- browsers has been imported and is available in the tarballs
+ browsers has been imported and is available in the tarball's
tools directory.
- The scripts in the tools directory treat unknown parameters
as fatal errors.
the still-open connection will be reused for the client's next
request to the same destination. Note that this only matters
if connection-sharing is enabled.
-- A TODO list has been added to the source tarballs to give potential
+- A TODO list has been added to the source tarball to give potential
volunteers a better idea of what the current goals are. Donations
are still welcome too: http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
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