X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fwebserver%2Fannounce.txt;h=e288a7234ab497a5f64b3e313267bb382addae2b;hb=2e8c7e4321104708859ad7bf3e5697c0897778c5;hp=667e67bd8d7d266be14312c462ed7947438012aa;hpb=8d978f8405312bd3f5dfa4f3ab45205680452cbe;p=privoxy.git diff --git a/doc/webserver/announce.txt b/doc/webserver/announce.txt index 667e67bd..e288a723 100644 --- a/doc/webserver/announce.txt +++ b/doc/webserver/announce.txt @@ -1,35 +1,189 @@ - Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.19 stable + Announcing Privoxy 3.0.26 stable -------------------------------------------------------------------- -This is a beta release that introduces some new features and fixes a number of bugs, some of which are reasonably significant. - +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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog for Privoxy -------------------------------------------------------------------- -*** Version 3.0.20 Beta *** +- 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. -*** Version 3.0.19 Stable *** +- General improvements: + - Log when privoxy is toggled on or off via cgi interface. + - Highlight the "Info: Now toggled " on/off log message + in the Windows log viewer. + - Highlight the loading actions/filter file log message + in the Windows log viewer. + - Mention client-specific tags on the toggle page as a + potentionally more appropriate alternative. + +- Documentation improvements: + - Update download section on the homepage. + The downloads are available from the website now. + - Add sponsor FAQ. + - 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". + +- Build system improvements: + - strptime.h: fix a compiler warning about ambiguous else. + - configure.in: Check for Docbook goo on the BSDs as well. + - GNUMakefile.in: Let the dok-user target remove temporary files. + +*** Version 3.0.25 beta *** - Bug fixes: - - Prevent a segmentation fault when de-chunking buffered content. - It could be triggered by malicious web servers if Privoxy was - configured to filter the content and running on a platform - where SIZE_T_MAX isn't larger than UINT_MAX, which probably - includes most 32-bit systems. On those platforms, all Privoxy - versions before 3.0.19 appear to be affected. - To be on the safe side, this bug should be presumed to allow - code execution as proving that it doesn't seems unrealistic. - - Do not expect a response from the SOCKS4/4A server until it - got something to respond to. This regression was introduced - in 3.0.18 and prevented the SOCKS4/4A negotiation from working. - Reported by qqqqqw in #3459781. + - 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. - General improvements: - - Fix an off-by-one in an error message about connect failures. - - Use a GNUMakefile variable for the webserver root directory and - update the path. Sourceforge changed it which broke various - web-related targets. - - Update the CODE_STATUS description. + - 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. + - 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. + +- 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. + - 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/ + - 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- About Privoxy: @@ -44,73 +198,67 @@ networks. Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2. -Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI). - -Helping hands and donations are welcome: +Our TODO list is rather long. Helping hands and donations are welcome: - * http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE + * https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE - * http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE + * https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE -At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows(95, 98, ME, 2000, -XP, Vista), GNU/Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and -others), Mac OSX, OS/2, AmigaOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and -various other flavors of Unix. +At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows 95 and later versions +(98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 etc.), GNU/Linux (RedHat, SuSE, +Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware and others), Mac OS X (10.4 and +upwards on PPC and Intel processors), OS/2, Haiku, DragonFly, ElectroBSD, +FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and various other flavors of Unix. In addition to the core features of ad blocking and cookie management, Privoxy provides many supplemental features, that give the end-user more control, more privacy and more freedom: + * Supports "Connection: keep-alive". Outgoing connections can be kept + alive independently from the client. Currently not available on all + platforms. - * Supports "Connection: keep-alive". Outgoing connections can be kept - alive independently from the client. Currently not available on all - platforms. + * Supports IPv6, provided the operating system does so too, + and the configure script detects it. - * Supports IPv6, provided the operating system does so too, - and the configure script detects it. + * Supports tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on client + and server headers. - * Supports tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on client - and server headers. + * Can be run as an "intercepting" proxy, which obviates the need to + configure browsers individually. - * Can be run as an "intercepting" proxy, which obviates the need to - configure browsers individually. + * Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both server and + client headers. - * Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both server and - client headers. + * Can be chained with other proxies. - * Can be chained with other proxies. + * Integrated browser based configuration and control utility at + http://config.privoxy.org/ (shortcut: http://p.p/). Browser-based + tracing of rule and filter effects. Remote toggling. - * Integrated browser based configuration and control utility at - http://config.privoxy.org/ (shortcut: http://p.p/). Browser-based - tracing of rule and filter effects. Remote toggling. + * Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on size, + invisible "web-bugs" and HTML annoyances, etc.) - * Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on size, - invisible web-bugs and HTML annoyances, etc.) + * Modularized configuration that allows for standard settings and user + settings to reside in separate files, so that installing updated actions + files won't overwrite individual user settings. - * Modularized configuration that allows for standard settings and user - settings to reside in separate files, so that installing updated actions - files won't overwrite individual user settings. + * Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the configuration + files, and a more sophisticated and flexible configuration syntax. - * Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the configuration - files, and a more sophisticated and flexible configuration syntax. + * GIF de-animation. - * GIF de-animation. + * Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection). - * Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection). + * User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages (e.g. + "blocked" page). - * User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages (e.g. - "blocked" page). - - * Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes. - - * Most features are controllable on a per-site or per-location basis. + * Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes. + * Most features are controllable on a per-site or per-location basis. -Download location: - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118 - -Home Page: - http://www.privoxy.org/ +Home Page: + https://www.privoxy.org/ - - Privoxy Developers + - Privoxy Developers