Privoxy 3.0.13 introduces IPv6 support, - improved keep-alive support and a bunch of minor improvements:
Privoxy 3.0.26 stable is a bug-fix release + for the previously released 3.0.25 beta which introduced client-specific + tags and included a couple of minor improvements.
Added IPv6 support. Thanks to Petr Pisar who not only provided - the initial patch but also helped a lot with the integration. +> Bug fixes:
Fixed crashes with "listen-addr :8118" (SF Bug #902). + The regression was introduced in 3.0.25 beta and reported + by Marvin Renich in Debian bug #834941. +
Added client-side keep-alive support. +> General improvements:
Log when privoxy is toggled on or off via cgi interface. +
The connection sharing code is only used if the connection-sharing - option is enabled. -
Highlight the "Info: Now toggled " on/off log message + in the Windows log viewer. +The max-client-connections option has been added to restrict - the number of client connections below a value enforced by - the operating system. -
Highlight the loading actions/filter file log message + in the Windows log viewer. +Fixed a regression reintroduced in 3.0.12 that could cause - crashes on mingw32 if header date randomization was enabled. -
Mention client-specific tags on the toggle page as a + potentionally more appropriate alternative. +Compressed content with extra fields couldn't be decompressed - and would get passed to the client unfiltered. This problem - has only be detected through statical analysis with clang as - nobody seems to be using extra fields anyway. +> Documentation improvements:
Update download section on the homepage. + The downloads are available from the website now. +
If the server resets the Connection after sending only the headers - Privoxy forwards what it got to the client. Previously Privoxy - would deliver an error message instead. -
Add sponsor FAQ. +Error messages in case of connection timeouts use the right - HTTP status code. +> Remove obsolete reference to mailing lists hosted at SourceForge. +
Update the "Before the Release" section of the developer manual. +
Infrastructure improvements:
Add perl script to generate an RSS feed for the packages + Submitted by "Unknown". +
If spawning a child to handle a request fails, the client - gets an error message and Privoxy continues to listen for - new requests right away. +> Build system improvements:
strptime.h: fix a compiler warning about ambiguous else. +
configure.in: Check for Docbook goo on the BSDs as well. +
The error messages in case of server-connection timeouts or - prematurely closed server connections are now template-based. +> GNUMakefile.in: Let the dok-user target remove temporary files. +
Changes between Privoxy 3.0.25 beta + and the previous release:
Bug fixes:
Always use the current toggle state for new requests. + Previously new requests on reused connections inherited + the toggle state from the previous request even though + the toggle state could have changed. + Reported by Robert Klemme. +
Fixed two buffer-overflows in the (deprecated) static + pcre code. These bugs are not considered security issues + as the input is trusted. + Found with afl-fuzz and ASAN. +
If zlib support isn't compiled in, Privoxy no longer tries to - filter compressed content unless explicitly asked to do so. +> General improvements:
Added support for client-specific tags which allow Privoxy + admins to pre-define tags that are set for all requests from + clients that previously opted in through the CGI interface. + They are useful in multi-user setups where admins may + want to allow users to disable certain actions and filters + for themselves without affecting others. + In single-user setups they are useful to allow more fine-grained + toggling. For example to disable request blocking while still + crunching cookies, or to disable experimental filters only. + This is an experimental feature, the syntax and behaviour may + change in future versions. + Sponsored by Robert Klemme. +
Dynamic filters and taggers now support a $listen-address variable + which contains the address the request came in on. + For external filters the variable is called $PRIVOXY_LISTEN_ADDRESS. + Original patch contributed by pursievro. +
Add client-header-tagger 'listen-address'. +
Include the listen-address in the log message when logging new requests. + Patch contributed by pursievro. +
Turn invalid max-client-connections values into fatal errors. +
The show-status page now shows whether or not dates before 1970 + and after 2038 are expected to be handled properly. + This is mainly useful for Privoxy-Regression-Test but could + also come handy when dealing with time-related support requests. +
In case of connections that are denied based on ACL directives, - the memory used for the client IP is no longer leaked. +> On Mac OS X the thread id in log messages are more likely to + be unique now. +
When complaining about missing filters, the filter type is logged + as well. +
A couple of harmless coverity warnings were silenced + (CID #161202, CID #161203, CID #161211). +
Action file improvements:
Filtering is disabled for Range requests to let download resumption + and Windows updates work with the default configuration. +
Unblock ".ardmediathek.de/". + Reported by ThTomate in #932. +
Fixed another small memory leak if the client request times out - while waiting for client headers other than the request line. +> Documentation improvements:
Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits. +
Remove obsolete FAQ entry about a bug in PHP 4.2.3. +
Mention the new mailing lists were appropriate. + As the archives have not been migrated, continue to + mention the archives at SF in the contacting section + for now. +
Note that the templates should be adjusted if Privoxy is + running as intercepting proxy without getting all requests. +
A bunch of links were converted to https://. +
Rephrase onion service paragraph to make it more obvious + that Tor is involved and that the whole website (and not + just the homepage) is available as onion service. +
Streamline the "More information" section on the homepage further + by additionally ditching the link to the 'See also' section + of the user manual. The section contains mostly links that are + directly reachable from the homepage already and the rest is + not significant enough to get a link from the homepage. +
Change the add-header{} example to set the DNT header + and use a complete section to make copy and pasting + more convenient. + Add a comment to make it obvious that adding the + header is not recommended for obvious reasons. + Using the DNT header as example was suggested by + Leo Wzukw. +
Streamline the support-and-service template + Instead of linking to the various support trackers + (whose URLs hopefully change soon), link to the + contact section of the user manual to increase the + chances that users actually read it. +
Add a FAQ entry for tainted sockets. +
More sections in the documentation have stable URLs now. +
FAQ: Explain why 'ping config.privoxy.org' is not expected + to reach a local Privoxy installation. +
Note that donations done through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently + can't be checked automatically. +
The client socket is kept open until the server socket has - been marked as unused. This should increase the chances that - the still-open connection will be reused for the client's next - request to the same destination. Note that this only matters - if connection-sharing is enabled. +> Updated section regarding starting Privoxy under OS X. +
Use dedicated start instructions for FreeBSD and ElectroBSD. +
Removed release instructions for AIX. They haven't been working + for years and unsurprisingly nobody seems to care. +
Removed obsolete reference to the solaris-dist target. +
Updated the release instructions for FreeBSD. +
Removed unfinished release instructions for Amiga OS and HP-UX 11. +
Added a pointer to the Cygwin Time Machine for getting the last release of + Cygwin version 1.5 to use for building Privoxy on Windows. +
Various typos have been fixed. +
Infrastructure improvements:
The website is no longer hosted at SourceForge and + can be reached through https now. +
The mailing lists at SourceForge have been deprecated, + you can subscribe to the new ones at: https://lists.privoxy.org/ +
A TODO list has been added to the source tarballs to give potential - volunteers a better idea of what the current goals are. Donations - are still welcome too: http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE +> Migrating the remaining services from SourceForge is + work in progress (TODO list item #53). +
Build system improvements:
Add configure argument to optimistically redefine FD_SETSIZE + with the intent to change the maximum number of client + connections Privoxy can handle. Only works with some libcs. + Sponsored by Robert Klemme. +
Let the tarball-dist target skip files in ".git". +
Let the tarball-dist target work in cwds other than current. +
Make the 'clean' target faster when run from a git repository. +
Include tools in the generic distribution. +
Let the gen-dist target work in cwds other than current. +
Sort find output that is used for distribution tarballs + to get reproducible results. +
Don't add '-src' to the name of the tar ball generated by the + gen-dist target. The package isn't a source distribution but a + binary package. + While at it, use a variable for the name to reduce the chances + that the various references get out of sync and fix the gen-upload + target which was looking in the wrong directory. +
Add regression-tests.action to the files that are distributed. +
The gen-dist target which was broken since 2002 (r1.92) has been fixed. +
Remove genclspec.sh which has been obsolete since 2009. +
Remove obsolete reference to Redhat spec file. +
Remove the obsolete announce target which has been commented out years ago. +
Let rsync skip files if the checksums match. +
Privoxy-Regression-Test: +
Add a "Default level offset" directive which can be used to + change the default level by a given value. + This directive affects all tests located after it until the end + of the file or a another "Default level offset" directive is reached. + The purpose of this directive is to make it more convenient to skip + similar tests in a given file without having to remove or disable + the tests completely. +
Let test level 17 depend on FEATURE_64_BIT_TIME_T + instead of FEATURE_PTHREAD which has no direct connection + to the time_t size. +
Fix indentation in perldoc examples. +
Don't overlook directives in the first line of the action file. +
Bump version to 0.7. +
Fix detection of the Privoxy version now that https:// + is used for the website. +
A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier +> A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier versions of Privoxy:
- Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely, +> Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely, including configuration files, therefore you should really save any important configuration files!
- On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing configuration +> On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing configuration files, thinking you will want to do that yourself.
- standard.action has been merged into - the default.action file. -
In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now. You can change that in the
Three other config file settings are now off by default: +> Three other config file settings are now off by default: enable-remote-toggleenable-edit-actions. +>. If you use or want these, you will need to explicitly enable them, and - be aware of the security issues involved. + be aware of the security issues involved.