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Purpose : README for Privoxy
- $Id: readme.sgml,v 2.6 2006/09/03 14:49:12 hal9 Exp $
+ $Id: readme.sgml,v 2.15 2008/01/17 01:49:51 hal9 Exp $
- Copyright (C) 2001 - 2006 Privoxy Developers <developers@privoxy.org>
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
========================================================================
*
* Purpose : README file to give a short intro.
*
- * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001 - 2006 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
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<sect1 id="importantchanges" ><title>IMPORTANT CHANGES</title>
<para>
- BIG NEWS! 2006, Privoxy 3.0.4 is released. This is a significant upgrade
- with many new and enhanced features, and many bugs fixed. There
- are fifteen new actions available, and several actions have enhanced
- capabilities. Multiple filter files are now supported as well. See the "What's
- New" section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in <citetitle>the User
- Manual</citetitle> for details and specifics.
+ 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 <citetitle>the User Manual</citetitle>
+ for details and specifics. There are changes related to configuration, so
+ anyone upgrading and keeping their old configuration should read ahead
+ first.
</para>
<para>
- NEWS! January 2004, Privoxy 3.0.3 is released. This is the another
- maintenance release of Privoxy which fixes more bugs, further refines
- the configuration and works around some known third-party problems. See the
- ChangeLog for complete details. Upgrading from 3.0.2 is recommended.
+ December 2007, Privoxy 3.0.7 is released. This is a beta release in
+ preparation for the forthcoming 3.0.8 release.
</para>
<para>
- NEWS! March 2003, Privoxy 3.0.2 is released. This is the first maintenance
- release of Privoxy. There are no significant new features in this release.
- Some bugs are fixed, and some existing features have been enhanced. See
- ChangeLog for details. Upgrading from 3.0.0 is recommended.
+ 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.
</para>
<para>
- REALLY BIG NEWS! August 2002: The long-awaited, oft-delayed stable version
- of Privoxy 3.0 is finally released! This is way behind schedule, but better
- late than never. The developers all hope the wait was worth it.
-</para>
-<para>
- NEWS! As of 03/24/02, the name of this project has been changed from
- ijbswa/Junkbuster to Privoxy. This is reflected in many of the included
- files.
-</para>
-<para>
- IMPORTANT! READ! Configuration Change as of 17 Mar 2002: The default listening
- port is now 8118 due to conflicts with port 8000 assignment. You will need to
- change your browser if upgrading!!! And maybe firewall, etc.
+ 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.
</para>
</sect1>
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<sect1 id="run"><title>RUN</title>
<para>
- privoxy [——help] [——version]
- [——no-daemon] [——pidfile PIDFILE] [——user
- USER[.GROUP]] [——chroot] [config_file]
+ privoxy [--help] [--version]
+ [--no-daemon] [--pidfile PIDFILE] [--user USER[.GROUP]] [--chroot] [--pre-chroot-nslookup
+ HOSTNAME ][config_file]
</para>
<para>
See the man page or <citetitle>User Manual</citetitle> for an explanation of each option, and
for 'config.txt'). If no config_file is found, Privoxy will fail to start.
</para>
<para>
- Or for Red Hat based distributions: /etc/rc.d/init.d/privoxy start
-</para>
-<para>
- Or for SuSE: /etc/rc.d/privoxy start
+ Or for Red Hat and Fedora based distributions: /etc/rc.d/init.d/privoxy start
</para>
<para>
Or Debian: /etc/init.d/privoxy start
'user.filter'. 'user.action' and 'user.filter' are for personal and local
configuration preferences. These are all well commented. Most of the magic is
in '*.action' files. 'user.action' should be used for any actions
- customizations. On Unix-like systems, these files are installed in
+ customizations. On Unix-like systems, these files are typically installed in
/etc/privoxy. On Windows, then wherever the executable itself is installed.
There are many significant changes and advances from earlier versions. The
<citetitle>User Manual</citetitle> has an explanation of all configuration
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