X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=e918b035e51a1334bf2606f8408dae6822a7f327;hb=b86a7698bf3272a0c3103b50b5840772cfcc1bb2;hp=d09bb0bc43764b639371741a396972306f9f12f1;hpb=7ac6dc216389c4fd86f6b54308e3296dc46f4f65;p=privoxy.git diff --git a/README b/README index d09bb0bc..e918b035 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ * * Purpose : README file to give a short intro. * - * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2009 the SourceForge + * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2009 the * Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/ * * Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written @@ -32,44 +32,37 @@ * *********************************************************************/ -This README is included with the development version of Privoxy 3.0.12. 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 is between releases. The current code base should be considered -development quality. Please report any problems to the developers. - -February 2009, Privoxy 3.0.11 is released. +October 2009, Privoxy 3.0.15 beta is released. -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. +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. -This is a stable release, and marks a departure for Privoxy development. - -Previously, odd numbered releases were considered beta versions and were only -released at the end of the development cycle when the code was already believed -to be stable. Usually it was, so the stable release contained pretty much the -same code, but got a higher version number. In the future we intend to release -several snapshots between stable releases. There will probably still be about -two stable releases per year, but hopefully about six snapshots instead of the -two betas we have now. The intentions is to make testing without CVS access -easier. +Depending on the feedback it will be either followed by yet another beta +release, or by a stable release with the same feature set. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -92,8 +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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------