- Announcing Privoxy 3.0.23 stable
+ Announcing Privoxy 3.0.34 stable
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-Privoxy 3.0.23 stable is a bug-fix release, some of the fixed bugs
-are security issues (CVE requests pending):
+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
+ChangeLog for Privoxy 3.0.34
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-*** Version 3.0.23 stable ***
-
- Bug fixes:
- - Fixed a DoS issue in case of client requests with incorrect
- chunk-encoded body. When compiled with assertions enabled
- (the default) they could previously cause Privoxy to abort().
- Reported by Matthew Daley.
- - Fixed multiple segmentation faults and memory leaks in the
- pcrs code. This fix also increases the chances that an invalid
- pcrs command is rejected as such. Previously some invalid commands
- would be loaded without error. Note that Privoxy's pcrs sources
- (action and filter files) are considered trustworthy input and
- should not be writable by untrusted third-parties.
- - Fixed an 'invalid read' bug which could at least theoretically
- cause Privoxy to crash. So far, no crashes have been observed.
- - Compiles with --disable-force again. Reported by Kay Raven.
- - Client requests with body that can't be delivered no longer
- cause pipelined requests behind them to be rejected as invalid.
- Reported by Basil Hussain.
+ - 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:
- - If a pcrs command is rejected as invalid, Privoxy now logs
- the cause of the problem as text. Previously the pcrs error
- code was logged.
- - The tests are less likely to cause false positives.
+ - 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:
- - '.sify.com/' is no longer blocked. Apparently it is not actually
- a pure tracking site (anymore?). Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
- - Unblock banners on .amnesty.de/ which aren't ads.
-
-- Documentation improvements:
- - The 'Would you like to donate?' section now also contains
- a "Paypal" address.
- - The list of supported operating systems has been updated.
- - The existence of the SF support and feature trackers has been
- deemphasized because they have been broken for months.
- Most of the time the mailing lists still work.
- - The claim that default.action updates are sometimes released
- on their own has been removed. It hasn't happened in years.
- - Explicitly mention that Tor's port may deviate from the default
- when using a bundle. Requested by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
+ - 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:
+ - 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:
+ - 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:
- * http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE
+ * https://www.privoxy.org/participate
- * http://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), OS/2, Haiku, DragonFly,
-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
* Supports tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on client
and server headers.
+ * Supports https inspection which allows to filter https requests.
+
* Can be run as an "intercepting" proxy, which obviates the need to
configure browsers individually.
tracing of rule and filter effects. Remote toggling.
* Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on size,
- invisible <quote>web-bugs</quote> and HTML annoyances, etc.)
+ invisible "web-bugs" and HTML annoyances, etc.)
* Modularized configuration that allows for standard settings and user
settings to reside in separate files, so that installing updated actions
* Most features are controllable on a per-site or per-location basis.
-Download location:
- http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118
-
Home Page:
- http://www.privoxy.org/
+ https://www.privoxy.org/
- - Privoxy Developers <ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
+ - Privoxy Developers <privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org>
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