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<h1 class="SECT1"><a name="WHATSNEW" id="WHATSNEW">3. What's New in this
Release</a></h1>
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.20</span> is a beta release. The
- changes since 3.0.19 stable are:</p>
+ <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.24</span> stable contains a
+ couple of new features but is mainly a bug-fix release. Two of the fixed
+ bugs are security issues (CVE requests pending) and may be used to
+ remotely trigger crashes on platforms that carefully check memory
+ accesses (most don't).</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Bug fixes:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Client sockets are now properly shutdown and drained before
- being closed. This fixes page truncation issues with clients that
- aggressively pipeline data on platforms that otherwise discard
- already written data. The issue mainly affected Opera users and
- was initially reported by Kevin in #3464439, szotsaki provided
- additional information to track down the cause.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix latency calculation for shared connections (disabled by
- default). It was broken since their introduction in 2009. The
- calculated latency for most connections would be 0 in which case
- the timeout detection failed to account for the real latency.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Reject URLs with invalid port. Previously they were parsed
- incorrectly and characters between the port number and the first
- slash were silently dropped as shown by curl test 187.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>The default-server-timeout and socket-timeout directives
- accept 0 as valid value.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix a race condition on Windows that could cause Privoxy to
- become unresponsive after toggling it on or off through the
- taskbar icon. Reported by Tim H. in #3525694.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix the compilation on Windows when configured without IPv6
- support.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() in
- case of socks5 connection failures with "debug 2" enabled.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() if a
- filter contained nul bytes in the replacement text.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>General improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Significantly improved keep-alive support for both client and
- server connections.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>New debug log level 65536 which logs all actions that were
- applied to the request.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>New directive client-header-order to forward client headers in
- a different order than the one in which they arrived.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>New directive tolerate-pipelining to allow client-side
- pipelining. If enabled (3.0.20 beta enables it by default),
- Privoxy will keep pipelined client requests around to deal with
- them once the current request has been served.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>New --config-test option to let Privoxy exit after checking
- whether or not the configuration seems valid. The limitations
- noted in TODO #22 and #23 still apply. Based on a patch by
- Ramkumar Chinchani.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>New limit-cookie-lifetime{} action to let cookies expire
- before the end of the session. Suggested by Rick Sykes in
- #1049575.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Increase the hard-coded maximum number of actions and filter
- files from 10 to 30 (each). It doesn't significantly affect
- Privoxy's memory usage and recompiling wasn't an option for all
- Privoxy users that reached the limit.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add support for chunk-encoded client request bodies.
- Previously chunk-encoded request bodies weren't guaranteed to be
- forwarded correctly, so this can also be considered a bug fix
- although chunk-encoded request bodies aren't commonly used in the
- real world.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add support for Tor's optimistic-data SOCKS extension, which
- can reduce the latency for requests on newly created connections.
- Currently only the headers are sent optimistically and only if
- the client request has already been read completely which rules
- out requests with large bodies.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>After preventing the client from pipelining, don't signal
- keep-alive intentions. When looking at the response headers
- alone, it previously wasn't obvious from the client's perspective
- that no additional responses should be expected.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Stop considering client sockets tainted after receiving a
- request with body. It hasn't been necessary for a while now and
- unnecessarily causes test failures when using curl's test
- suite.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Allow HTTP/1.0 clients to signal interest in keep-alive
- through the Proxy-Connection header. While such client are rare
- in the real world, it doesn't hurt and couple of curl tests rely
- on it.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Only remove duplicated Content-Type headers when filters are
- enabled. If they are not it doesn't cause ill effects and the
- user might not want it. Downgrade the removal message to
- LOG_LEVEL_HEADER to clarify that it's not an error in Privoxy and
- is unlikely to cause any problems in general. Anonymously
- reported in #3599335.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Set the socket option SO_LINGER for the client socket.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Move several variable declarations to the beginning of their
- code block. It's required when compiling with gcc 2.95 which is
- still used on some platforms. Initial patch submitted by Simon
- South in #3564815.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Optionally try to sanity-check strptime() results before
- trusting them. Broken strptime() implementations have caused
- problems in the past and the most recent offender seems to be
- FreeBSD's libc (standards/173421).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>When filtering is enabled, let Range headers pass if the range
- starts at the beginning. This should work around (or at least
- reduce) the video playback issues with various Apple clients as
- reported by Duc in #3426305.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Do not confuse a client hanging up with a connection time out.
- If a client closes its side of the connection without sending a
- request line, do not send the CLIENT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_RESPONSE,
- but report the condition properly.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Allow closing curly braces as part of action values as long as
- they are escaped.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>On Windows, the logfile is now written before showing the GUI
- error message which blocks until the user acknowledges it.
- Reported by Adriaan in #3593603.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove an unreasonable parameter limit in the CGI interface.
- The new parameter limit depends on the memory available and is
- currently unlikely to be reachable, due to other limits in both
- Privoxy and common clients. Reported by Andrew on
- ijbswa-users@.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Decrease the chances of parse failures after requests with
- unsupported methods were sent to the CGI interface.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Action file improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Remove the comment that indicated that updated default.action
- versions are released on their own.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'optimize.indieclick.com/' and
- 'optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/'</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock 'adjamblog.wordpress.com/' and
- 'adjamblog.files.wordpress.com/'. Reported by Ryan Farmer in
- #3496116.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock '/.*Bugtracker'. Reported by pwhk in #3522341.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add test URLs for '.freebsd.org' and '.watson.org'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock '.urbandictionary.com/popular'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block '.adnxs.com/'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'farm.plista.com/widgetdata.php'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'rotation.linuxnewmedia.com/'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'reklamy.sfd.pl/'. Reported by kacperdominik in
- #3399948.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'g.adspeed.net/'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock 'websupport.wdc.com/'. Reported by Adam Piggot in
- #3577851.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block '/openx/www/delivery/'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Disable fast-redirects for '.googleapis.com/'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'imp.double.net/'. Reported by David Bo in #3070411.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'gm-link.com/' which is used for email tracking.
- Reported by David Bo in #1812733.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Verify that requests to "bwp." are blocked. URL taken from
- #1736879 submitted by Francois Marier.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block '/.*bannerid='. Reported by Adam Piggott in
- #2975779.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'cltomedia.info/delivery/' and '.adexprt.com/'.
- Anonymously reported in #2965254.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'de17a.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3061472.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'oskar.tradera.com/'. Reported by David Bo in
- #3060596.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block '/scripts/webtrends\.js'. Reported by johnd16 in
- #3002729.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block requests for 'pool.*.adhese.com/'. Reported by johnd16
- in #3002716.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Update path pattern for Coremetrics and add tests. Pattern and
- URLs submitted by Adam Piggott #3168443.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Enable +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} for 'tr.anp.se/'.
- Reported by David Bo in #3268832.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock '.conrad.se/newsletter/banners/'. Reported by David Bo
- in #3413824.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block '.tynt.com/'. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421767.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock '.bbci.co.uk/radio/'. Reported by Adam Piggott in
- #3569603.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block requests to 'service.maxymiser.net/'. Reported by
- johnd16 in #3118401 (with a previous URL).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Disable fast-redirects for Google's "let's pretend your
- computer is infected" page.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock '/.*download' to resolve actionsfile feedback
- #3498129. Submitted by Steven Kolins (soundcloud.com not
- working).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock '.wlxrs.com/' which is required by hotmail.com. Fixes
- #3413827 submitted by David Bo.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add two unblock patterns for popup radio and TV players.
- Submitted by Adam Piggott in #3596089.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Filter file improvements & bug fixes:</p>
+ <p>Security fixes (denial of service):</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Add a referer tagger.</p>
+ <p>Prevent invalid reads in case of corrupt chunk-encoded
+ content. Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Reduce the likelihood that the google filter messes up
- HTML-generating JavaScript. Reported by Zeno Kugy in
- #3520260.</p>
+ <p>Remove empty Host headers in client requests. Previously they
+ would result in invalid reads. Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and
+ AddressSanitizer.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Documentation improvements:</p>
+ <p>Bug fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Revised all OS X sections due to new packaging module
- (OSXPackageBuilder).</p>
+ <p>When using socks5t, send the request body optimistically as
+ well. Previously the request body wasn't guaranteed to be sent at
+ all and the error message incorrectly blamed the server. Fixes
+ #1686 reported by Peter Müller and G4JC.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Update the list of supported operating systems to clarify that
- all Windows versions after 95 are expected to work and note that
- the platform-specific code for AmigaOS and QNX currently isn't
- maintained.</p>
+ <p>Fixed buffer scaling in execute_external_filter() that could
+ lead to crashes. Submitted by Yang Xia in #892.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Update 'Signals' section, the only explicitly handled signals
- are SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGHUP.</p>
+ <p>Fixed crashes when executing external filters on platforms
+ like Mac OS X. Reported by Jonathan McKenzie on ijbswa-users@</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Add Haiku to the list of operating systems on which Privoxy is
- known to run.</p>
+ <p>Properly parse ACL directives with ports when compiled with
+ HAVE_RFC2553. Previously the port wasn't removed from the host
+ and in case of 'permit-access 127.0.0.1 example.org:80' Privoxy
+ would try (and fail) to resolve "example.org:80" instead of
+ example.org. Reported by Pak Chan on ijbswa-users@.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Add DragonFly to the list of BSDs on which Privoxy is known to
- run.</p>
+ <p>Check requests more carefully before serving them forcefully
+ when blocks aren't enforced. Privoxy always adds the force token
+ at the beginning of the path, but would previously accept it
+ anywhere in the request line. This could result in requests being
+ served that should be blocked. For example in case of pages that
+ were loaded with force and contained JavaScript to create
+ additionally requests that embed the origin URL (thus inheriting
+ the force prefix). The bug is not considered a security issue and
+ the fix does not make it harder for remote sites to intentionally
+ circumvent blocks if Privoxy isn't configured to enforce them.
+ Fixes #1695 reported by Korda.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Removed references to redhat-specific documentation set since
- it no longer exists.</p>
+ <p>Normalize the request line in intercepted requests to make
+ rewriting the destination more convenient. Previously rewrites
+ for intercepted requests were expected to fail unless $hostport
+ was being used, but they failed "the wrong way" and would result
+ in an out-of-memory message (vanilla host patterns) or a crash
+ (extended host patterns). Reported by "Guybrush Threepwood" in
+ #1694.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Removed references to building PDFs since we no longer do
- so.</p>
+ <p>Enable socket lingering for the correct socket. Previously it
+ was repeatedly enabled for the listen socket instead of for the
+ accepted socket. The bug was found by code inspection and did not
+ cause any (reported) issues.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Multiple listen-address directives are supported since 3.0.18,
- correct the documentation to say so.</p>
+ <p>Detect and reject parameters for parameter-less actions.
+ Previously they were silently ignored.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Remove bogus section about long and short being preferable to
- int.</p>
+ <p>Fixed invalid reads in internal and outdated pcre code. Found
+ with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Corrected some Internet JunkBuster references to Privoxy.</p>
+ <p>Prevent invalid read when loading invalid action files. Found
+ with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Removed references to www.junkbusters.com since it is no
- longer maintained. Reported by Angelina Matson.</p>
+ <p>Windows build: Use the correct function to close the event
+ handle. It's unclear if this bug had a negative impact on
+ Privoxy's behaviour. Reported by Jarry Xu in #891.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Various grammar and spelling corrections</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add a client-header-tagger{} example for disabling filtering
- for range requests.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Correct a URL in the "Privoxy with Tor" FAQ.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Spell 'refresh-tags' correctly. Reported by Don in
- #3571927.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Sort manpage options alphabetically.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove an incorrect sentence in the toggle section. The toggle
- state doesn't affect whether or not the Windows version uses the
- tray icon. Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3596395.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add new contributors since 3.0.19.</p>
+ <p>In case of invalid forward-socks5(t) directives, use the
+ correct directive name in the error messages. Previously they
+ referred to forward-socks4t failures. Reported by Joel Verhagen
+ in #889.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Log message improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>When stopping to watch a client socket due to pipelining,
- additionally log the socket number.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Log the client socket and its condition before closing it.
- This makes it more obvious that the socket actually gets closed
- and should help when diagnosing problems like #3464439.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>In case of SOCKS5 failures, do not explicitly log the server's
- response. It hasn't helped so far and the response can already be
- logged by enabling "debug 32768" anyway. This reverts v1.81 and
- the follow-up bug fix v1.84.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Relocate the connection-accepted message from listen_loop() to
- serve(). This way it's printed by the thread that is actually
- serving the connection which is nice when grepping for thread ids
- in log files.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Code cleanups:</p>
+ <p>General improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Remove compatibility layer for versions prior to 3.0 since it
- has been obsolete for more than 10 years now.</p>
+ <p>Set NO_DELAY flag for the accepting socket. This significantly
+ reduces the latency if the operating system is not configured to
+ set the flag by default. Reported by Johan Sintorn in #894.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Remove the ijb_isupper() and ijb_tolower() macros from
- parsers.c since they aren't used in this file.</p>
+ <p>Allow to build with mingw x86_64. Submitted by Rustam
+ Abdullaev in #135.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Removed the 'Functions declared include:' comment sections
- since they tend to be incomplete, incorrect and out of date and
- the benefit seems questionable.</p>
+ <p>Introduce the new forwarding type 'forward-webserver'.
+ Currently it is only supported by the forward-override{} action
+ and there's no config directive with the same name. The
+ forwarding type is similar to 'forward', but the request line
+ only contains the path instead of the complete URL.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Various comment grammar and comprehensibility
- improvements.</p>
+ <p>The CGI editor no longer treats 'standard.action' special.
+ Nowadays the official "standards" are part of default.action and
+ there's no obvious reason to disallow editing them through the
+ cgi editor anyway (if the user decided that the lack of
+ authentication isn't an issue in her environment).</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Remove a pointless fflush() call in chat(). Flushing all
- streams pretty much all the time for no obvious reason is
- ridiculous.</p>
+ <p>Improved error messages when rejecting intercepted requests
+ with unknown destination.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Relocate ijb_isupper()'s definition to project.h and get the
- ijb_tolower() definition from there, too.</p>
+ <p>A couple of log messages now include the number of active
+ threads.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Relocate ijb_isdigit()'s definition to project.h.</p>
+ <p>Removed non-standard Proxy-Agent headers in HTTP snipplets to
+ make testing more convenient.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Rename ijb_foo macros to privoxy_foo.</p>
+ <p>Include the error code for pcre errors Privoxy does not
+ recognize.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Add malloc_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths
- where malloc() failures don't need to be handled gracefully.</p>
+ <p>Config directives with numerical arguments are checked more
+ carefully.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Add strdup_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths
- where strdup() failures don't need to be handled gracefully.</p>
+ <p>Privoxy's malloc() wrapper has been changed to prevent
+ zero-size allocations which should only occur as the result of
+ bugs.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Replace strdup() calls with strdup_or_die() calls where it's
- safe and simplifies the code.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix white-space around parentheses.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add missing white-space behind if's and the following
- parentheses.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unwrap a memcpy() call in resolve_hostname_to_ip().</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Declare pcrs_get_delimiter()'s delimiters[] static const.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Various optimisations to remove dead code and merge
- inefficient code structures for improved clarity, performance or
- code compactness.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Various data type corrections.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Change visibility of several code segments when compiling
- without FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE enabled for clarity.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>In pcrs_get_delimiter(), do not use delimiters outside the
- ASCII range. Fixes a clang complaint.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix an error message in get_last_url() nobody is supposed to
- see. Reported by Matthew Fischer in #3507301.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix a typo in the no-zlib-support complaint. Patch submitted
- by Matthew Fischer in #3507304.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Shorten ssplit()'s prototype by removing the last two
- arguments. We always want to skip empty fields and ignore leading
- delimiters, so having parameters for this only complicates the
- API.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Use an enum for the type of the action value.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Rename action_name's member takes_value to value_type as it
- isn't used as boolean.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Turn family mismatches in match_sockaddr() into fatal
- errors.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Let enlist_unique_header() verify that the caller didn't pass
- a header containing either \r or \n.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Change the hashes used in load_config() to unsigned int.
- That's what hash_string() actually returns and using a
- potentially larger type is at best useless.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Use privoxy_tolower() instead of vanilla tolower() with manual
- casting of the argument.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Catch ssplit() failures in parse_cgi_parameters().</p>
+ <p>Various cosmetic changes.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Privoxy-Regression-Test:</p>
+ <p>Action file improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Add an 'Overwrite condition' directive to skip any matching
- tests before it. As it has a global scope, using it is more
- convenient than clowning around with the Ignore directive.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Log to STDOUT instead of STDERR.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Include the Privoxy version in the output.</p>
+ <p>Unblock ".deutschlandradiokultur.de/". Reported by u302320 in
+ #924.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Various grammar and spelling corrections in documentation and
- code.</p>
+ <p>Add two fast-redirect exceptions for "yandex.ru".</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Additional tests for range requests with filtering
- enabled.</p>
+ <p>Disable filter{banners-by-size} for ".plasmaservice.de/".</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Tests with mostly invalid range request.</p>
+ <p>Unblock klikki.fi/adv/.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Add a couple of hide-if-modified-since{} tests with different
- date formats.</p>
+ <p>Block requests for "resources.infolinks.com/". Reported by
+ "Black Rider" on ijbswa-users@.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Cleaned up the format of the regression-tests.action file to
- match the format of default.action.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove the "Copyright" line from print_version(). When using
- --help, every line of screen space matters and thus shouldn't be
- wasted on things the user doesn't care about.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Privoxy-Log-Parser:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Improve the --statistics performance by skipping sanity checks
- for input that shouldn't affect the results anyway. Add a
- --strict-checks option that enables some of the checks again,
- just in case anybody cares.</p>
+ <p>Block a bunch of criteo domains. Reported by Black Rider.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>The distribution of client requests per connection is included
- in the --statistic output.</p>
+ <p>Block "abs.proxistore.com/abe/". Reported by Black Rider.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>The --accept-unknown-messages option has been removed and the
- behavior is now the default.</p>
+ <p>Disable filter{banners-by-size} for
+ ".black-mosquito.org/".</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Accept and (mostly) highlight new log messages introduced with
- Privoxy 3.0.20.</p>
+ <p>Disable fast-redirects for "disqus.com/".</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
- <p>uagen:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Bump generated Firefox version to 17.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>GNUmakefile improvements:</p>
+ <p>Documentation improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>The dok-tidy target no longer taints documents with a
- tidy-mark</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Change RA_MODE from 0664 to 0644. Suggested by Markus Dittrich
- in #3505445.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove tidy's clean flag as it changes the scope of
- attributes. Link-specific colors end up being applied to all
- text. Reported by Adam Piggott in #3569551.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Leave it up to the user whether or not smart tags are
- inserted.</p>
+ <p>FAQ: Explicitly point fingers at ASUS as an example of a
+ company that has been reported to force malware based on Privoxy
+ upon its customers.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Let w3m itself do the line wrapping for the config file. It
- works better than fmt as it can honour pre tags causing less
- unintentional line breaks.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Ditch a pointless '-r' passed to rm to delete files.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>The config-file target now requires less manual intervention
- and updates the original config.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Change WDUMP to generate ASCII. Add WDUMP_UTF8 to allow UTF-8
- in the AUTHORS file so the names are right.</p>
+ <p>Correctly document the action type for a bunch of
+ "multi-value" actions that were incorrectly documented to be
+ "parameterized". Reported by Gregory Seidman on
+ ijbswa-users@.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Stop pretending that lynx and links are supported for the
- documentation.</p>
+ <p>Fixed the documented type of the forward-override{} action
+ which is obviously 'parameterized'.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
- <p>configure improvements:</p>
+ <p>Website improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>On Haiku, do not pass -lpthread to the compiler. Haiku's
- pthreads implementation is contained in its system library,
- libroot, so no additional library needs to be searched. Patch
- submitted by Simon South in #3564815.</p>
+ <p>Users who don't trust binaries served by SourceForge can get
+ them from a mirror. Migrating away from SourceForge is planned
+ for 2016 (TODO list item #53).</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Additional Haiku-specific improvements. Disable checks
- intended for multi-user systems as Haiku is presently
- single-user. Group Haiku-specific settings in their own section,
- following the pattern for Solaris, OS/2 and AmigaOS. Add
- additional library-related settings to remove the need for
- providing configure with custom LDFLAGS. Submitted by Simon South
- in #3574538.</p>
+ <p>The website is now available as onion service
+ (http://jvauzb4sb3bwlsnc.onion/).</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>