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><A
NAME="WHATSNEW"
-></A
->3. What's New in this Release</H1
+>3. What's New in this Release</A
+></H1
><P
-> There are many new features in <SPAN
+> There are many improvements and new features since <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-> 3.0.4
- :</P
+>Privoxy 3.0.6</SPAN
+>, the last stable release:</P
><P
> <P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
-> Mulitiple <A
-HREF="filter-file.html"
->filter files</A
-> can now be specifed in <TT
-CLASS="FILENAME"
->config</TT
->.
+> Two new actions <A
+HREF="actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-TAGGER"
+>server-header-tagger</A
+>
+ and <A
+HREF="actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-TAGGER"
+>client-header-tagger</A
+>
+ that can be used to create arbitrary <SPAN
+CLASS="QUOTE"
+>"tags"</SPAN
+>
+ based on client and server headers.
+ These <SPAN
+CLASS="QUOTE"
+>"tags"</SPAN
+> can then subsequently be used
+ to control the other actions used for the current request,
+ greatly increasing <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>Privoxy</SPAN
+>'s flexibility and selectivity. See <A
+HREF="actions-file.html#TAG-PATTERN"
+>tag patterns</A
+> for more information on tags.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
->
- There are a number of new <A
-HREF="actions-file.html"
->actions</A
->:
- </P
-><P
-> <P
-></P
-><UL
-><LI
-><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#CONTENT-TYPE-OVERWRITE"
->content-type-overwrite</A
-></TT
+> Header filtering is done with dedicated header filters now. As a result
+ the actions <SPAN
+CLASS="QUOTE"
+>"filter-client-headers"</SPAN
+> and <SPAN
+CLASS="QUOTE"
+>"filter-server-headers"</SPAN
>
- </P
-></LI
-><LI
-><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#CRUNCH-CLIENT-HEADER"
->crunch-client-header</A
-></TT
+ that were introduced with <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>Privoxy 3.0.5</SPAN
+> to apply
+ content filters to the headers have been removed.
+ See the new actions <A
+HREF="actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-FILTER"
+>server-header-filter</A
>
- </P
+ and <A
+HREF="actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-FILTER"
+>client-header-filter</A
+> for details.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#CRUNCH-IF-NONE-MATCH"
->crunch-if-none-match</A
-></TT
->
- </P
-></LI
-><LI
+> There are four new options for the main <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>config</TT
+> file:
+ </P
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#CRUNCH-SERVER-HEADER"
->crunch-server-header</A
-></TT
->
- </P
-></LI
+></P
+><UL
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#FAST-REDIRECTS"
->fast-redirects</A
-></TT
+> <A
+HREF="config.html#ALLOW-CGI-REQUEST-CRUNCHING"
+>allow-cgi-request-crunching</A
>
- </P
+ which allows requests for Privoxy's internal CGI pages to be
+ blocked, redirected or (un)trusted like ordinary requests.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#FORCE-TEXT-MODE"
->force-text-mode</A
-></TT
+> <A
+HREF="config.html#SPLIT-LARGE-FORMS"
+>split-large-forms</A
>
- </P
+ that will work around a browser bug that caused IE6 and IE7 to
+ ignore the Submit button on the Privoxy's edit-actions-for-url CGI
+ page.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT"
->handle-as-empty-document</A
-></TT
+> <A
+HREF="config.html#ACCEPT-INTERCEPTED-REQUESTS"
+>accept-intercepted-requests</A
>
- </P
+ which allows to combine Privoxy with any packet filter to create an
+ intercepting proxy for HTTP/1.1 requests (and for HTTP/1.0 requests
+ with Host header set). This means clients can be forced to use
+ <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>Privoxy</SPAN
+> even if their proxy settings are configured differently.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#HIDE-ACCEPT-LANGUAGE"
->hide-accept-language</A
-></TT
+> <A
+HREF="config.html#TEMPLDIR"
+>templdir</A
>
- </P
+ to designate an alternate location for <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>Privoxy</SPAN
+>'s
+ locally customized CGI templates so that
+ these are not overwritten during upgrades.
+ </P
+></LI
+></UL
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
+> A new command line option <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#HIDE-CONTENT-DISPOSITION"
->hide-content-disposition</A
-></TT
->
- </P
+>--pre-chroot-nslookup hostname</TT
+> to
+ initialize the resolver library before chroot'ing. On some systems this
+ reduces the number of files that must be copied into the chroot tree.
+ (Patch provided by Stephen Gildea)
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
+> The <A
+HREF="actions-file.html#FORWARD-OVERRIDE"
+>forward-override</A
+> action
+ allows changing of the forwarding settings through the actions files.
+ Combined with tags, this allows to choose the forwarder based on
+ client headers like the <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#HIDE-IF-MODIFIED-SINCE"
->hide-if-modified-since</A
-></TT
->
- </P
+>User-Agent</TT
+>, or the request origin.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#HIDE-REFERRER"
->hide-referrer</A
-></TT
->
- </P
+> The <A
+HREF="actions-file.html#REDIRECT"
+>redirect</A
+> action can now use regular
+ expression substitutions against the original URL.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#INSPECT-JPEGS"
->inspect-jpegs</A
-></TT
->
- </P
+> <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>zlib</SPAN
+> support is now available as a compile
+ time option to filter compressed content. Patch provided by Wil Mahan.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#OVERWRITE-LAST-MODIFIED"
->overwrite-last-modified</A
-></TT
->
- </P
+> Improve various filters, and add new ones.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#REDIRECT"
->redirect</A
-></TT
->
- </P
+> Include support for RFC 3253 so that <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>Subversion</TT
+> works
+ with <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>Privoxy</SPAN
+>. Patch provided by Petr Kadlec.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#TREAT-FORBIDDEN-CONNECTS-LIKE-BLOCKS"
->treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks</A
-></TT
->
- </P
-></LI
-></UL
->
- </P
+> Logging can be completely turned off by not specifying a logfile directive.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->MS-Windows</SPAN
-> versions can now be installed and
- started as a <SPAN
-CLASS="emphasis"
-><I
-CLASS="EMPHASIS"
->service</I
-></SPAN
->.
+> A number of improvements to Privoxy's internal CGI pages, including the
+ use of favicons for error and control pages.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> In addition, there are various bug fixes and enhancements, including
- error pages are no longer cached, better DNS error handling, and logging
- improvements.
+> Many bugfixes, memory leaks addressed, code improvements, and logging
+ improvements.
</P
></LI
></UL
></P
+><P
+> For a more detailed list of changes please have a look at the ChangeLog.</P
><DIV
CLASS="SECT2"
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
NAME="UPGRADERSNOTE"
-></A
->3.1. Note to Upgraders</H2
+>3.1. Note to Upgraders</A
+></H2
><P
> A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier
versions of <SPAN
><UL
><LI
><P
+> The recommended way to upgrade <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>Privoxy</SPAN
+> is to backup your old
+ configuration files, install the new ones, verify that <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>Privoxy</SPAN
+>
+ is working correctly and finally merge back your changes using
+ <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>diff</SPAN
+> and maybe <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>patch</SPAN
+>.
+ </P
+><P
+> There are a number of new features in each <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>Privoxy</SPAN
+> release and
+ most of them have to be explicitly enabled in the configuration
+ files. Old configuration files obviously don't do that and due
+ to syntax changes using old configuration files with a new
+ <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>Privoxy</SPAN
+> isn't always possible anyway.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
>
- Some installers may remove earlier versions completely, including
- configuration files. Save any important configuration files!
+ Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely,
+ including configuration files, therefore you should really save
+ any important configuration files!
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>
- What constitutes a <SPAN
-CLASS="QUOTE"
->"default"</SPAN
-> configuration has changed,
- and you may want to review which actions are <SPAN
-CLASS="QUOTE"
->"on"</SPAN
-> by
- default. This is primarily a matter of emphasis, but some features
- you may have been used to, may now be <SPAN
-CLASS="QUOTE"
->"off"</SPAN
-> by default.
+ On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing configuration
+ files, thinking you will want to do that yourself.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
->
- Some installers may not automatically start
- <SPAN
+>
+ <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>standard.action</TT
+> now only includes the enabled actions.
+ Not all actions as before.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Logging is off by default now. If you need logging, it can be turned on
+ in the <A
+HREF="config.html#LOGFILE"
+>config file</A
+>. You may also want
+ to enable logging until you verified that the new <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
-> after installation.
+> version
+ is working as expected.
</P
></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Three other config file settings are now off by default:
+ <A
+HREF="config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE"
+>enable-remote-toggle</A
+>,
+ <A
+HREF="config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE"
+>enable-remote-http-toggle</A
+>,
+ and <A
+HREF="config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS"
+>enable-edit-actions</A
+>.
+ If you use or want these, you will need to explicitly enable them, and
+ be aware of the security issues involved.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> The <SPAN
+CLASS="QUOTE"
+>"filter-client-headers"</SPAN
+> and
+ <SPAN
+CLASS="QUOTE"
+>"filter-server-headers"</SPAN
+> actions that were introduced with
+ <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>Privoxy 3.0.5</SPAN
+> to apply content filters to
+ the headers have been removed and replaced with new actions.
+ See the <A
+HREF="whatsnew.html"
+>What's New section</A
+> above.
+ </P
+></LI
></UL
></P
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-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-></TD
+>Quickstart to Using Privoxy</TD
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