X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=e918b035e51a1334bf2606f8408dae6822a7f327;hb=075ee12a6f3a54f2f9f19d1af72162d40dcf0009;hp=aa6fd0094b3eb63fc329bddb10385b8dbbfea3dc;hpb=d5828fad81f3f941f6315f60692ce1944a0197b7;p=privoxy.git diff --git a/README b/README index aa6fd009..e918b035 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ * * Purpose : README file to give a short intro. * - * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2008 the SourceForge + * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2009 the * Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/ * * Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written @@ -32,45 +32,37 @@ * *********************************************************************/ -This README is included with the development version of Privoxy 3.0.11. See +This README is included with the development version of Privoxy 3.0.15. See http://www.privoxy.org/ for more information. The current code maturity level -is "UNRELEASED", but seems stable to us :). +is "beta", but seems stable to us :). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for -enhancing privacy, modifying web page data, managing HTTP cookies, controlling -access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. -Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual -needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and -multi-user networks. +enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling +access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a +flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and +tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user +networks. -Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm). +Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GPL2. + +Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI). +Donations are welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. IMPORTANT CHANGES -Privoxy development is between releases. The current sources are development -quality. If you find problems please report them to the developers. - -August 2008, Privoxy 3.0.10 is released! There are not any major new features, -but many improvements and refinements. As usual there are changes that effect -the configuration. See the "ChangeLog", and the "What's New" section and the -"Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual for details and specifics. +October 2009, Privoxy 3.0.15 beta is released. -June 2008, Privoxy 3.0.9 beta is released. There are no major new features, but -many improvements and refinements. +This is a bugfix-release for the previous betas which introduced IPv6 support, +improved keep-alive support and a bunch of minor improvements. See the +"ChangeLog", and the "What's New" section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in the +User Manual for details. -NEWS! January 2008, Privoxy 3.0.8 stable is released. This is a significant -upgrade with many new and enhanced features, and many bugs fixed. All Privoxy -users are encouraged to upgrade. See the "ChangeLog", and the "What's New" -section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual for details and -specifics. There are changes related to configuration, so anyone upgrading and -keeping their old configuration should read ahead first. - -December 2007, Privoxy 3.0.7 is released. This is a beta release in preparation -for the forthcoming 3.0.8 release. +Depending on the feedback it will be either followed by yet another beta +release, or by a stable release with the same feature set. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -93,8 +85,6 @@ If no config_file is specified on the command line, Privoxy will look for a file named 'config' in the current directory (except Win32 which will look for 'config.txt'). If no config_file is found, Privoxy will fail to start. -Or for Red Hat and Fedora based distributions: /etc/rc.d/init.d/privoxy start - Or Debian and Ubuntu: /etc/init.d/privoxy start -------------------------------------------------------------------------------