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->Privoxy 3.0.7 User Manual</TH
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>3. What's New in this Release</A
></H1
><P
-> There are many improvements and new features since <SPAN
+> <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy 3.0.6</SPAN
->, the last stable release:</P
+>Privoxy 3.0.12</SPAN
+> is mainly a bugfix release:</P
><P
> <P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
-> 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 apply arbitrary <SPAN
-CLASS="QUOTE"
->"tags"</SPAN
-> to
- each request's headers. These <SPAN
-CLASS="QUOTE"
->"tags"</SPAN
-> can then
- subsequently be used by other actions, greatly increasing
- <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
->'s flexibity and selectivity. See <A
-HREF="actions-file.html#TAG-PATTERN"
->tag patterns</A
-> for more on tags.
-
+> The socket-timeout option now also works on platforms whose
+ select() implementation modifies the timeout structure.
+ Previously the timeout was triggered even if the connection
+ didn't stall. Reported by cyberpatrol.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Header filtering can be 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
->
- that were introduced with <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy 3.0.5</SPAN
-> to apply
- the content filters to the headers as, well have been removed again.
- See the new actions <A
-HREF="actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-FILTER"
->server-header-filter</A
->
- and <A
-HREF="actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-FILTER"
->client-header-filter</A
->.
+> The Connection: keep-alive code properly deals with files
+ larger than 2GB. Previously the connection was closed too
+ early.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> There are four new options for the main <TT
-CLASS="FILENAME"
->config</TT
-> file:
+> The content length for files above 2GB is logged correctly.
</P
-><P
-></P
-><UL
-><LI
-><P
-> <A
-HREF="config.html#ALLOW-CGI-REQUEST-CRUNCHING"
->allow-cgi-request-crunching</A
->
- which allows requests for Privoxy's internal CGI pages to be
- blocked, redirected or (un)trusted like ordinary requests.
- </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <A
-HREF="config.html#SPLIT-LARGE-FORMS"
->split-large-forms</A
->
- 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
-> <A
-HREF="config.html#ACCEPT-INTERCEPTED-REQUESTS"
->accept-intercepted-requests</A
->
- which will 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) so that explicitly setting the browser's proxy settings
- is not necessary.
- </P
-></LI
-><LI
-><P
-> <A
-HREF="config.html#TEMPLDIR"
->templdir</A
->
- to designate an alternate location for Privoxy's own CGI templates
- to make sure any locally customized templates aren't overwritten
- during upgrades.
- </P
-></LI
-></UL
-></LI
-><LI
-><P
-> A new command line option <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
->--pre-chroot-nslookup hostname</TT
-> to
- intialize 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)
+> The user-manual directive on the show-status page links to
+ the documentation location specified with the directive,
+ not to the Privoxy website.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The <A
-HREF="actions-file.html#FORWARD-OVERRIDE"
->forward-override</A
-> action
- allows changing of the forwarding settings based on client headers like the
- User-Agent, or the request origin.
- </P
+> When running in daemon mode, Privoxy doesn't log anything
+ to the console unless there are errors before the logfile
+ has been opened.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The <A
-HREF="actions-file.html#REDIRECT"
->redirect</A
-> action can now use regular
- expression substitutions against the original URL.
+> The show-status page prints warnings about invalid directives
+ on the same line as the directives themselves.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->zlib</SPAN
-> support is now available as a compile
- time option for compressed documents.
+> Fixed several justified (but harmless) compiler warnings,
+ mostly on 64 bit platforms.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Improve various filters, and add new ones.
+> The mingw32 version explicitly requests the default charset
+ to prevent display problems with some fonts available on more
+ recent Windows versions. Patch by Burberry.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Include support for RFC 3253 so that <TT
-CLASS="FILENAME"
->Subversion</TT
-> works
- with <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
->.
+> The mingw32 version uses the Privoxy icon in the alt-tab
+ windows. Patch by Burberry.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Logging can be turned on or off.
+> The timestamp and the thread id is omitted in the "Fatal error"
+ message box on mingw32.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> A number of improvements to Privoxy's internal CGI pages, including the
- use of favicons for error and control pages.
+> Fixed two related mingw32-only buffer overflows. Triggering
+ them required control over the configuration file, therefore
+ this isn't seen as a security issue.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Many bugfixes, memory leaks addressed, code improvements, and logging
- improvments.
+> In verbose mode, or if the new option --show-skipped-tests
+ is used, Privoxy-Regression-Test logs skipped tests and the
+ skip reason.
</P
></LI
></UL
><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
>
- On the other hand, other installers may not overwrite any existing configuration
- files, thinking you will want to do that. You may want to manually check
- your saved files against the newer versions to see if the improvements have
- merit, or whether there are new options that you may want to consider.
- There are a number of new features, but most won't be available unless
- these features are incorporated into your configuration somehow.
+ On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing configuration
+ files, thinking you will want to do that yourself.
</P
></LI
><LI
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>standard.action</TT
-> now only includes the enabled actions.
- Not all actions as before.
+> has been merged into
+ the <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>default.action</TT
+> file.
</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
->.
- </P
+> In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now.
+ You can change that in the <A
+HREF="config.html#DEBUG"
+>debug section</A
+>
+ of the configuration file. You may also want to enable more verbose
+ logging until you verified that the new <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>Privoxy</SPAN
+> version is working
+ as expected.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
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 the content filters to
- the headers as, well have been removed and replaced with new actions.
- See the <A
-HREF="whatsnew.html"
->What's New section</A
-> above.
- </P
-></LI
></UL
></P
></DIV
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