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>3. What's New in this Release</A
></H1
><P
-> There are many improvements and new features since <SPAN
+> There are only a few improvements and new features since
+ <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy 3.0.6</SPAN
+>Privoxy 3.0.10</SPAN
>, the last stable release:</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 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.
+> On most platforms, outgoing connections can be kept alive and
+ reused if the server supports it. Whether or not this improves
+ things depends on the connection.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> 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
->
- 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
->
- and <A
-HREF="actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-FILTER"
->client-header-filter</A
-> for details.
+> When dropping privileges, membership in supplementary groups
+ is given up as well. Not doing that can lead to Privoxy running
+ with more rights than necessary and violates the principle of
+ least privilege. Users of the --user option are advised to update.
+ Thanks to Matthias Drochner for reporting the problem,
+ providing the initial patch and testing the final version.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> There are four new options for the main <TT
-CLASS="FILENAME"
->config</TT
-> file:
+> Passing invalid users or groups with the --user option
+ didn't lead to program exit. Regression introduced in 3.0.7.
</P
+></LI
+><LI
><P
-></P
-><UL
+> The match all section has been moved from default.action
+ to a new file called match-all.action. As a result the
+ default.action no longer needs to be touched by the user
+ and can be safely overwritten by updates.
+ </P
+></LI
><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
+> The standard.action file has been removed. Its content
+ is now part of the default.action file.
+ </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
+> In some situations the logged content length was slightly too low.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <A
-HREF="config.html#ACCEPT-INTERCEPTED-REQUESTS"
->accept-intercepted-requests</A
->
- 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
+> Crunched requests are logged with their own log level.
+ If you used "debug 1" in the past, you'll probably want
+ to additionally enable "debug 1024", otherwise only passed
+ requests will be logged. If you only care about crunched
+ requests, simply replace "debug 1" with "debug 1024".
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <A
-HREF="config.html#TEMPLDIR"
->templdir</A
->
- 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
+> The crunch reason has been moved to the beginning of the
+ crunch message. For HTTP URLs, the protocol is logged as well.
+ </P
></LI
-></UL
+><LI
+><P
+> Log messages are shortened by not printing the thread id
+ on its own (as opposed to putting it inside "Privoxy()".
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> A new command line option <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
->--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)
+> The config option socket-timeout has been added to control
+ the time Privoxy waits for data to arrive on a socket.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> 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"
->User-Agent</TT
->, or the request origin.
- </P
+> Support for remote toggling is controlled by the configure
+ option --disable-toggle only. In previous versions it also
+ depended on the action editor and thus configuring with the
+ --disable-editor option would disable remote toggling support
+ as well.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The <A
-HREF="actions-file.html#REDIRECT"
->redirect</A
-> action can now use regular
- expression substitutions against the original URL.
+> Requests with invalid HTTP versions are rejected.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->zlib</SPAN
-> support is now available as a compile
- time option to filter compressed content. Patch provided by Wil Mahan.
+> The template symbol @date@ can be used to include a date(1)-like
+ time string. Initial patch submitted by Endre Szabo.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Improve various filters, and add new ones.
+> Responses from shoutcast servers are accepted again.
+ Problem reported and fix suggested by Stefan.
</P
></LI
><LI
><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.
+> The hide-forwarded-for-headers action has been replaced with
+ the change-x-forwarded-for{} action which can also be used to
+ add X-Forwarded-For headers. The latter functionality already
+ existed in Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.7 but has been removed
+ as it was often used unintentionally (by not using the
+ hide-forwarded-for-headers action).
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Logging can be completely turned off by not specifying a logfile directive.
+> A "clear log" view option was added to the mingw32 version
+ to clear out all of the lines in the Privoxy log window.
+ Based on a patch submitted by T Ford.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> A number of improvements to Privoxy's internal CGI pages, including the
- use of favicons for error and control pages.
+> The mingw32 version uses "critical sections" now, which prevents
+ log message corruption under load. As a side effect, the
+ "no thread-safe PRNG" warning could be removed as well.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Many bugfixes, memory leaks addressed, code improvements, and logging
- improvements.
+> The mingw32 version's task bar icon is crossed out and
+ the color changed to gray if Privoxy is toggled off.
</P
></LI
></UL
<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
->. You may also want
- to enable logging until you verified that the new <SPAN
+> 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.
+> version is working
+ as expected.
</P
></LI
><LI
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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