- Announcing Privoxy 3.0.30 stable
+ Announcing Privoxy 3.0.34 stable
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-Privoxy 3.0.30 stable fixes a couple of bugs and introduces
-a few new features.
+Privoxy 3.0.34 fixes a few minor bugs and comes with a couple of
+general improvements and new features.
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-ChangeLog for Privoxy 3.0.30
+ChangeLog for Privoxy 3.0.34
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-
- Bug fixes:
- - Check the actual URL for redirects when https inspecting requests.
- Previously Privoxy would only check the path which resulted in
- rewrite results being rejected as invalid URLs.
- Reported by withoutname in #1736.
- - Let the hide-referrer code tolerate Referer headers with https:// URLs.
- Previously they would always be treated like a changed host.
- - Use the https headers if the show-request handler is reached through
- https://. Previously Privoxy would use the http headers which
- may be empty on a reused connection.
- - Make CGI_PREFIX protocol-relative when building with FEATURE_HTTPS_INSPECTION.
- This unbreaks (at least) https://config.privoxy.org/client-tags whose
- buttons would previously use a http:// URL resulting in browser warnings.
- - Support using https-inspection and client-header-order at the same time.
- Previously Privoxy would crash.
- Reported by: Kai Raven
- - Properly reject rewrites from http to https as they currently
- aren't supported. Previously Privoxy would wait for the client
- to establish an encrypted connection which obviously would not happen.
- - When https inspection is enabled and Privoxy has been compiled with
- FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION (not recommended for production builds),
- the TLS backend resources are free'd later on and only if no active
- connections are left. Prevents crashes when exiting "gracefully" at the
- wrong time.
+ - Improve the handling of chunk-encoded responses by buffering the data
+ even if filters are disabled and properly keeping track of where the
+ various chunks are supposed to start and end. Previously Privoxy would
+ merely check the last bytes received to see if they looked like the
+ last-chunk. This failed to work if the last-chunk wasn't received in one
+ read and could also result in actual data being misdetected
+ as last-chunk.
+ Should fix: SF support request #1739.
+ Reported by: withoutname.
+ - remove_chunked_transfer_coding(): Refuse to de-chunk invalid data
+ Previously the data could get corrupted even further.
+ Now we simply pass the unmodified data to the client.
+ - gif_deanimate(): Tolerate multiple image extensions in a row.
+ This allows to deanimate all the gifs on:
+ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Animated_smilies
+ Fixes SF bug #795 reported by Celejar.
+ - OpenSSL generate_host_certificate(): Use X509_get_subject_name()
+ instead of X509_get_issuer_name() to get the issuer for generated
+ website certificates so there are no warnings in the browser when using
+ an intermediate CA certificate instead of a self-signed root certificate.
+ Problem reported and patch submitted by Chakib Benziane.
+ - can_filter_request_body(): Fix a log message that contained a spurious u.
+ - handle_established_connection(): Check for pending TLS data from the client
+ before checking if data is available on the connection.
+ The TLS library may have already consumed all the data from the client
+ response in which case poll() and select() will not detect that data is
+ available to be read.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme.
+ - ssl_send_certificate_error(): Don't crash if there's no certificate
+ information available. This is only relevant when Privoxy is built with
+ wolfSSL 5.0.0 or later (code not yet published). Earlier wolfSSL versions
+ or the other TLS backends don't seem to trigger the crash.
+ - socks5_connect(): Add support for target hosts specified as IPv4 address
+ Previously the IP address was sent as domain.
- General improvements:
- - Allow to rewrite the request destination for https-inspected
- requests behind the client's back. The documentation already sort
- of claimed that it was supported by not especially mentioning that
- it didn't work for https-inspected requests.
- Fixes SF bug #923 reported by withoutname.
- - Add support for filtering client request bodies by using
- CLIENT-BODY-FILTER filters which can be enabled with the
- client-body-filter action.
- Patch submitted by Maxim Antonov.
- Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
- - Add the new action suppress-tag{} which can be used to prevent
- a tagger from adding a tag. Patch submitted by Maxim Antonov.
- Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
- - Gracefully handle existing website keys without matching certificates.
- This can happen if Privoxy was previously running with an invalid
- TLS configuration that didn't allow it to create a certificate.
- - Recycle debug bit 4 for Tagging-related messages.
- - Improve the message shown when the client-tags CGI page
- is requested with no tags configured.
- - Shorten the 'donate' and 'participate' links used by templates
- using redirects. Currently the redirects lead to the FAQ entries
- but in the future we may want to relocate the content and using
- redirects makes this more convenient.
- - Log an error when a PCRE-HOST-PATTERN is used with
- FEATURE_PCRE_HOST_PATTERNS disabled. Don't treat this a
- fatal error so the regression tests can be used with and
- without FEATURE_PCRE_HOST_PATTERNS.
- - The code compiles with older C compilers again.
- - The chdir() return code is checked to fix a compiler warning.
- - The packages feed has been removed from the source tarball.
- It's usually out of date when the source tarball is generated
- for the release.
- - Fixed harmless compiler warnings from GCC9 with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2.
- - windows: Remove obsolete '$(DEST)/doc/images' target.
- - windows: Install the images referenced in the user manual.
- - Remove obsolete 'gnu_regex.@OBJEXT@' target.
- - When installing from the GNUMAkefile, don't create an 'images'
- directory which is no longer used. The images were relocated to
- the user-manual directory years ago.
- - Add new FEATURES to the show-status page and resort list.
- - Remove unused variable in the OpenSSL-specific code.
- - Update bug tracker URL in cgi_error_unknown().
- - Saved a couple of memory allocations when sorting client headers.
- - Improved a couple of error messages.
- - Saved memory allocations when using OpenSSL and checking if a
- key already exists.
- - The configure script will bail out if OpenSSL and mbedTLS are
- enabled at the same time.
- - Log a message right before exiting gracefully.
- - A couple of structures have been rearranged to require slightly
- less memory.
- - When https inspection is enabled and the certificate is invalid
- the error message is now sent with status code 403 instead of 200.
- - The Slackware rc script template has been renamed to
- slackware/rc.privoxy.in to silence complaints when building
- Debian packages.
- - When building with MbedTLS support, mbedtls_md5_ret() is used
- instead of mbedtls_md5() which is deprecated and causes a warning
- on Debian GNU/Linux.
+ - Add a client-body-tagger action which creates tags based on
+ the content of the request body.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme.
+ - When client-body filters are enabled, buffer the whole request
+ before opening a connection to the server.
+ Makes it less likely that the server connection times out
+ and we don't open a connection if the buffering fails anyway.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme.
+ - Add periods to a couple of log messages.
+ - accept_connection(): Add missing space to a log message.
+ - Initialize ca-related defaults with strdup_or_die() so errors
+ aren't silently ignored.
+ - make_path: Use malloc_or_die() in cases where allocation errors
+ were already fatal anyway.
+ - handle_established_connection(): Improve an error message slightly.
+ - receive_client_request(): Reject https URLs without CONNECT request.
+ - Include all requests in the statistics if mutexes are available.
+ Previously in case of reused connections only the last request got
+ counted. The statistics still aren't perfect but it's an improvement.
+ - Add read_socks_reply() and start using it in socks5_connect()
+ to apply the socket timeout more consistently.
+ - socks5_connect(): Deal with domain names in the socks reply
+ - Add a filter for bundeswehr.de that hides the cookie and
+ privacy info banner.
- Action file improvements:
- - Block requests to eu-tlp03.kameleoon.com/.
- - Unblock metrics.sr.ht/.
- - Disable fast-redirects for .fsf.org/.
- - Disable fast-redirects for .gravater.com/.
- - Disable fast-redirects for .ksta.de/.
- - Block requests to tag.crsspxl.com/.
- - Block requests to analytics.slashdotmedia.com/.
- - Block requests to ml314.com/.
- - Block requests to .adroll.com/.
- - Block requests to fastlane.rubiconproject.com/.
- - Block requests to api.theadex.com/.
- - Block requests to ih.adscale.de/.
- - Block requests to .s400.meetrics.net/.
- - Block requests for pp.lp4.io/.
- - Block requests for trc-events.taboola.com/.
-
-- Filter file improvements:
- - A allow-autocompletion filter has been added which changes
- autocomplete="off" to "on" on input fields to allow autocompletion.
- Requested by Jamie Zawinski in #370.
- Filter based on a submission by Aaron Linville.
- - Added an imdb filter.
- - Added a sourceforge filter that reduces the amount of ads
- for proprietary software.
- - Added a github filter that removes the annoying "Sign-Up"
- banner and the Cookie disclaimer.
- - Removed a duplicated pcrs command from the js-annoyances filter.
- - The crude-parental filter now provides a short reason when blocking,
- inserts a link to Privoxy's webinterface and adds a new line at
- the end of the generated page.
+ - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for .freiheitsfoo.de/.
+ - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for freebsdfoundation.org/.
+ - Disable fast-redirects for consent.youtube.com/.
+ - Block requests to ups.xplosion.de/.
+ - Block requests for elsa.memoinsights.com/t.
+ - Fix a typo in a test.
+ - Disable fast-redirects for launchpad.net/.
+ - Unblock .eff.org/.
+ - Stop unblocking .org/.*(image|banner) which appears to be too generous
+ It let requests like:
+ https://stats.noblogs.org/piwik.php?action_name=anti%20gentrifizierungs%20fest&idsite=10175&rec=1&r=220192&h=17&m=7&s=44&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmuellemcalling.noblogs.org%2F&urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fmuellemcalling.noblogs.org%2Finfostande%2F&_id=&_idn=1&_refts=0&send_image=0&cookie=1&res=1366x768&pv_id=eqr7jX&pf_net=7&pf_srv=3&pf_tfr=2281&pf_dm1=156
+ pass.
+ The example URL http://www.gnu.org/graphics/gnu-head-banner.png is
+ already unblocked due to .gnu.org being unblocked.
+ - Unblock adfd.org/.
+ - Disable filter{banners-by-link} for .eff.org/.
+ - Block requests to odb.outbrain.com/.
+ - Disable fast-redirects for .gandi.net/.
+ - Disable fast-redirects{} for .onion/.*/status/.
+ - Disable fast-redirects{} for twitter.com/.*/status/.
+ - Unblock pinkstinks.de/.
+ - Disable fast-redirects for .hagalil.com/.
- Privoxy-Log-Parser:
- - Highlight a few more messages.
- - Add a handler for tagging messages.
- - Properly deal with 'Certificate error' crunches
- Previously the error description was highlighted as 'host'.
- - Log truncated LOG_LEVEL_CLF messages more gracefully
- and note that the statistics will be imprecise.
- - Fixed perldoc typo.
- - Bump version to 0.9.2.
-
-- Privoxy-Regression-Test:
- - Use http://127.0.0.1:8118/ as default Privoxy address
- unless http_proxy is set through the environment.
- - Add a --privoxy-cgi-prefix option that specifies the prefix
- to use when building URLs that are supposed to reach Privoxy's
- CGI interface. If it's not set, http://p.p/ is used, which is
- supposed to work with the default Privoxy configuration.
- If Privoxy has been built with FEATURE_HTTPS_INSPECTION enabled,
- and if https inspection is activated with the +https-inspection
- action, this option can be used with "https://p.p/" provided the
- system running Privoxy-Regression-Test has been configured to
- trust the certificate used by Privoxy.
- Note that there are currently two tests in the official
- regression-tests.action file that are expected to fail
- when using "https://p.p/" as privoxy-cgi-prefix.
- - Skip the connection-established response in get_status_code()
- when looking for the status code with a CGI prefix
- that starts with https://. We care about the status code
- sent by the impersonated web server.
- - Use --proxy-header when using a CGI prefix with https://
- and a "Host:" header.
- - Allow '|' in tokens and values to allow tag patterns like
- "TAG:^(application|text)/(x-)?javascript$".
- - When get_cgi_page_or_else() fails, include the URL of the
- requested page in the log message.
- - Added a --check-bad-ssl option that can be used to verify that
- Privoxy detects certificate problems when accessing the test
- sites from badssl.com.
- - Bumped version to 0.7.2
+ - Bump version to 0.9.5.
+ - Highlight more log messages.
+ - Highlight the Crunch reason only once. Previously the "crunch reason"
+ could also be highlighted when the URL contained a matching string.
+ The real crunch reason only occurs once per line, so there's no need
+ to continue looking for it after it has been found once.
+ While at it, add a comment with an example log line.
- uagen:
- - Update example output.
- - Recommend the use of the https-inspection action in the documentation.
- - Upgrade a couple of URLs to https://.
- - Add ElectroBSD to the list of operating systems.
- - Bumped generated Firefox version to 78 (ESR).
- - Bumped version to 1.2.2.
-
- - User documentation:
- - Remove reference to 'How to Report Bugs Effectively'.
- It was only rendered as text without URL in the README anyway
- and there's no indication that users read it ...
- - Let the dok-readme target fix the location embedded into the
- README file. This used to be done by CVS but since the git migration
- it has to be done through other means.
- - Remove 'experimental' warning for client-specific-tag-related directives.
- They seem to work reliably and there is no obvious reason
- why we would change the syntax in the near future.
- - Describe how to check if Privoxy has been built with
- FEATURE_HTTPS_INSPECTION.
- - Add a link to the trusted-cas-file documentation
- that explains how the user can create the file herself.
- - Don't explicitly mention the license for the code coming from
- 'Anonymous Coders' and Junkbusters. It's obviously licensed under
- the GNU GPL like the rest of Privoxy or we wouldn't be allowed to
- distribute it.
- - Update the +hide-user-agent example with uagen output.
- - Slightly improve the wording of the ca-key-file documentation.
- - Explicitly mention Windows 10 as supported so search engines and
- users looking for it can find it.
- - Import a bunch of contributors from the ChangeLog.
- - Remove obsolete doc/gpl.html.
- - Upgrade a couple of links to https://.
- - Don't prefer the SourceForge patch tracker over the
- privoxy-devel mailing list. While at it, link to the
- SourceForge patch tracker.
- - Mention http-inspection in the 'my browser warns me about
- unauthenticated content' FAQ entry.
- - Simplify the 'Is there is a license or fee?' FAQ entry.
- - Add another +redirect{} example.
- - Explicitly mention that interested sponsors should include
- the link target in their first mail.
- - Clarify that only Privoxy team members can object to new sponsors
- and link to the list of current team members.
- - Note that sponsor URLs may not contain keyword spam.
- - Garbage collect doc/webserver/images which isn't referenced anymore.
- - Update the method to reach the proxy settings in Firefox.
- - Update proxy_setup.jpg description to refer to Firefox.
- - Regenerate proxy_setup.jpg with a more recent Firefox (78.0).
- - Regenerate files-in-use.jpg without obsolete standard.action
- with modern colors and a slightly better quality.
- - Update URL to the actionsfile tracker.
- - Update a support request URL.
- - Rephrase the 'Can Privoxy run as service' FAQ entry and
- remove an obsolete paragraph.
- - Let the 'Where can I get updated Actions Files?' entry link to
- the gitweb version of default.action.master.
- - Update a link to the default.action file.
- - Update URLs for trackers and mailing lists.
- - Replace CVS reference with git.
- - Mention regression-tests.action in the config file.
- - Explicitly mention in the config file that access to the
- CA key should be limited to Privoxy.
- - List more client-specific-tag examples for inspiration.
- - Add additional headers to the client-header-order example.
- - Note that actions aren't updated after rewrites.
- - Explicitly mention that upgrading from http to https with
- a client-header filter is not supported
- - Note that protocol and host have to be added when rewriting
- the destination host for https-inspected requests.
- - Explicitly mention that the CA key is used to sign certificates.
- - Put openssl command in 'command' tags.
- - The man page has been moved from section 1 to man section 8.
-
-- Developer manual:
- - Flesh out the build instructions for Debian.
- - Remove the packaging instructions for RPM-based systems.
- They don't work and we don't release RPM packages anymore anyway.
- - Remove the packaging instructions for Solaris.
- They don't work and we don't release Solaris packages anymore anyway.
- - Update the suggested subject for the announce mails.
- - Update upload instructions.
- ftp://upload.sourceforge.net is no longer functional.
- - Remove a couple of package-dependent upload instructions
- that don't actually work.
- - Remove 'cd current' that no longer works.
- - Add regression-tests.action to the list of files that should be installed.
- - Stop claiming that there are text versions of the manuals.
- We stopped building them in 2008 (9ed36a3c5e6f12).
- - Note that the 'webserver' target creates the link needed for the user-manual.
- - Suggest to use the master branch as reference when creating
- the ChangeLog so the steps work when the current branch differs
- from master which is likely as the developer manual
- suggests to use a local branch for development.
- - Add the -s flag to the suggested 'git tag' command. We prefer signed tags.
- - Mention that merges into 'master' should be avoided.
- - Add git commands that should result in a merge-free history.
- - Mention Privoxy-Regression-Test.
- - Add a section id to reduce link churn.
- - Recommend the dok-tidy target when building docs for the webserver.
- - Add another plug for the privoxy-devel mailing list.
- - Let the intro link the copyright section in the user manual instead
- of giving an incomplete summary of the license status.
- - Clarify that the webserver target uploads to the SourceForge webserver.
- - Mark the documentation for the Mac OS X installers as out of date and
- change the SCM name back to CVS.
- - Fix the location of the installer modules for Mac OS X.
- They are not actually available through git (yet).
- - Don't speak of Privoxy version 3 in the past tense.
- - Update the list of programs required for the release process.
- - Update description of the webserver target which uses ssh, not scp.
- - Remove obsolete reference to config.new.
-
-- Tests:
- - Add another hide-referrer{conditional-block} test.
- - Add another hide-referrer{conditional-forge} test.
- - Fix a hide-referrer{conditional-forge} test
- that expected an acceptable header to be forged.
- - Fix a hide-referrer{conditional-block} test
- that expected an acceptable Referer to be removed.
- - Explain why the "Set Header = Host: whatever.example.org" test is
- expected to fail when using a CGI prefix that starts with "https://".
- - Explain why a connection-sharing test is known to fail
- when using "https://p.p/" as CGI prefix.
- - Add a link to Privoxy-Regression-Test to regression-tests.action
- in case it isn't packaged.
- - Add regression tests for pcre host patterns.
-
-- Privoxy infrastructure:
- - Import a Privoxy logo for the website.
- - Update Tor onion service to HiddenServiceVersion 3.
- - Display the "model" photos in a single row and remove placeholder images.
- - Regenerate homepage with updated sponsor list.
- - Use the '/sponsor' redirect for the link to the sponsor page.
- - Git commit messages are sent to the Privoxy-commits mailing list.
+ - Bump version to 1.2.4.
+ - Update BROWSER_VERSION and BROWSER_REVISION to 102.0
+ to match the User-Agent of the current Firefox ESR.
+ - Explicitly document that changing the 'Gecko token' is suspicious.
+ - Consistently use a lower-case 'c' as copyright symbol.
+ - Bump copyright.
+ - Add 'aarch64' as Linux architecture.
+ - Add OpenBSD architecture 'arm64'.
+ - Stop using sparc64 as FreeBSD architecture.
+ It hasn't been supported for a while now.
+
+- Build system:
+ - Makefile: Add a 'dok' target that depends on the 'error' target
+ to show the "You are not using GNU make or did nor run configure"
+ message.
+ - configure: Fix --with-msan option.
+ Also (probably) reported by Andrew Savchenko.
+
+- macOS build system:
+ - Enable HTTPS inspection when building the macOS binary
+ (using OpenSSL as TLS library).
+
+- Documentation:
+ - Add OpenSSL to the list of libraries that may be licensed under the
+ Apache 2.0 license in which case the linked Privoxy binary has to be
+ distributed under the GPLv3 or later.
+ - config: Fix the documented ca-directory default value.
+ Reported by avoidr.
+ - Rebuild developer-manual and tidy with 'HTML Tidy for FreeBSD version 5.8.0'.
+ - Update developer manual with new macOS packaging instructions.
+ - Note that the FreeBSD installation instructions work for
+ ElectroBSD as well.
+ - Note that FreeBSD/ElectroBSD users can try to install Privoxy
+ as binary package using 'pkg'.
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About Privoxy:
Our TODO list is rather long. Helping hands and donations are welcome:
- * https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE
+ * https://www.privoxy.org/participate
- * https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
+ * https://www.privoxy.org/donate
At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows 95 and later versions
-(98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 etc.), GNU/Linux (RedHat, SuSE,
-Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware and others), Mac OS X (10.4 and
-upwards on PPC and Intel processors), Haiku, DragonFly, ElectroBSD,
-FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and various other flavors of Unix.
+(98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 10 etc.), GNU/Linux
+(RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware and others),
+Mac OS X (10.4 and upwards on PPC and Intel processors), Haiku,
+DragonFly, ElectroBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris,
+and various other flavors of Unix.
In addition to the core features of ad blocking and cookie management,
Privoxy provides many supplemental features, that give the end-user
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