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Privoxy 3.0.20 is a beta release. The - changes since 3.0.19 stable are:
- +Privoxy 3.0.27 stable scales better in multi-user environments and brings a + couple of tuning directives. Privoxy 3.0.28 stable fixes two regressions + introduced in 3.0.27.
+Changes in Privoxy 3.0.28 stable:
Bug fixes:
- +Bug fixes for regressions in 3.0.27:
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.
-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.
-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.
-The default-server-timeout and socket-timeout directives - accept 0 as valid value.
-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.
-Fix the compilation on Windows when configured without IPv6 - support.
+Fixed misplaced parentheses. Reported by David Binderman.
Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() in - case of socks5 connection failures with "debug 2" enabled.
-Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() if a - filter contained nul bytes in the replacement text.
+Changed two regression tests to depend on config directive enable-remote-toggle instead of + FEATURE_TOGGLE.
Changes in Privoxy 3.0.27 stable:
+General improvements:
-Significantly improved keep-alive support for both client and - server connections.
-New debug log level 65536 which logs all actions that were - applied to the request.
+Add a receive-buffer-size directive which can be used to set the size of the previously statically + allocated buffer in handle_established_connection(). Increasing the buffer size increases Privoxy's memory + usage but can lower the number of context switches and thereby reduce the CPU usage and potentially + increase the throughput. This is mostly relevant for fast network connections and large downloads that + don't require filtering. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
New directive client-header-order to forward client headers in - a different order than the one in which they arrived.
+Add a listen-backlog directive which specifies the backlog value passed to listen(). Sponsored by: + Robert Klemme
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.
+Add an enable-accept-filter directive which allows to toggle accept filter support at run time when + compiled with FEATURE_ACCEPT_FILTER support. It makes testing more convenient and now that it's optional we + can emit an error message if enabling the accept filter fails. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
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.
+Add a delay-response{} action. This is useful to tar pit JavaScript requests that are endlessly retried + in case of blocks. It can also be used to simulate a slow Internet connection. Sponsored by: Robert + Klemme
New limit-cookie-lifetime{} action to let cookies expire - before the end of the session. Suggested by Rick Sykes in - #1049575.
+Add a 'trusted-cgi-referrer' directive. It allows to configure another page or site that can be used to + reach sensitive CGI resources. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
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.
+Add a --fuzz mode which exposes Privoxy internals to input from files or stdout. Mainly tested with + American Fuzzy Lop. For details see: https://www.fabiankeil.de/talks/fuzzing-on-freebsd/ This work was + partially funded with donations and done as part of the Privoxy month in 2015.
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.
+Consistently use the U(ngreedy) flag in the 'img-reorder' filter.
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.
+listen_loop(): Reuse a single thread attribute object The object doesn't change and creating a new one + for every thread is a waste of (CPU) time. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
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.
+Free csp resources in the thread that belongs to the csp instead of the main thread which has enough on + its plate already. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
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.
+Improve 'socket timeout reached' message. Log the timeout that was triggered and downgrade the log level + to LOG_LEVEL_CONNECT to reduce the log noise with common debug settings. The timeout isn't necessary the + result of an error and usually merely indicates that Privoxy's socket timeout is lower than the relevant + timeouts used by client and server. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
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.
+Explicitly taint the server socket in case of CONNECT requests. This doesn't fix any known problems, but + makes some log messages less confusing.
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.
+Let write_pid_file() terminate if the pid file can't be opened. Logging the issue at info level is + unlikely to help.
Set the socket option SO_LINGER for the client socket.
+log_error(): Reduce the mutex-protected area by not using a heap-allocated buffer that is shared between + all threads. This increases performance and reduces the latency with verbose debug settings and multiple + concurrent connections. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
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.
+Let zalloc() use calloc() if it's available. In some situations using calloc() can be faster than + malloc() + memset() and it should never be slower. In the real world the impact of this change is not + expected to be noticeable. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
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).
+Never use select() when poll() is available. On most platforms select() is limited by FD_SETSIZE while + poll() is not. This was a scaling issue for multi-user setups. Using poll() has no downside other than the + usual risk that code modifications may introduce new bugs that have yet to be found and fixed. At least in + theory this commit could also reduce the latency when there are lots of connections and select() would use + "bit fields in arrays of integers" to store file descriptors. Another side effect is that Privoxy no longer + has to stop monitoring the client sockets when pipelined requests are waiting but can't be read yet. This + code keeps the select()-based code behind ifdefs for now but hopefully it can be removed soonish to make + the code more readable. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
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.
+Add a 'reproducible-tarball-dist' target. It's currently separate from the "tarball-dist" target because + it requires a tar implementation with mtree spec support. It's far from being perfect and does not enforce + a reproducible mode, but it's better than nothing.
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.
+Use arc4random() if it's available. While Privoxy doesn't need high quality pseudo-random numbers + there's no reason not to use them when we can and this silences a warning emitted by code checkers that + can't tell whether or not the quality matters.
Allow closing curly braces as part of action values as long as - they are escaped.
+Show the FEATURE_EXTERNAL_FILTERS status on the status page. Better late than never. Previously a couple + of tests weren't executed as Privoxy-Regression-Test couldn't detect that the FEATURE_EXTERNAL_FILTERS + dependency was satisfied.
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.
+Ditch FEATURE_IMAGE_DETECT_MSIE. It's an obsolete workaround we inherited from Junkbuster and was + already disabled by default. Users that feel the urge to work around issues with image requests coming from + an Internet Explorer version from more than 15 years ago can still do this using tags.
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@.
+Consistently use strdup_or_die() instead of strdup() in cases where allocation failures aren't expected. + Using strdup_or_die() allows to remove a couple of explicit error checks which slightly reduces the size of + the binary.
Decrease the chances of parse failures after requests with - unsupported methods were sent to the CGI interface.
+Insert a refresh tag into the /client-tags CGI page when serving it while a client-specific tag is + temporarily enabled. This makes it less likely that the user ends up looking at tag state that is out of + date.
Action file improvements:
- -Remove the comment that indicated that updated default.action - versions are released on their own.
+Use absolute URLs in the client-tag forms. It's more consistent with the rest of the CGI page URLs and + makes it more convenient to copy the forms to external pages.
Block 'optimize.indieclick.com/' and - 'optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/'
+cgi_error_disabled(): Use status code 403 and an appropriate response line
Unblock 'adjamblog.wordpress.com/' and - 'adjamblog.files.wordpress.com/'. Reported by Ryan Farmer in - #3496116.
+Use a dedicated CGI handler to deal with tag-toggle requests As a result the /client-tags page is now + safe to reach without trusted Referer header which makes bookmarking or linking to it more convenient. + Finally, refreshing the /client-tags page to show the current state can no longer unintentionally repeat + the previous toggle request.
Unblock '/.*Bugtracker'. Reported by pwhk in #3522341.
-Add test URLs for '.freebsd.org' and '.watson.org'.
-Unblock '.urbandictionary.com/popular'.
-Block '.adnxs.com/'.
-Block 'farm.plista.com/widgetdata.php'.
-Block 'rotation.linuxnewmedia.com/'.
-Block 'reklamy.sfd.pl/'. Reported by kacperdominik in - #3399948.
-Block 'g.adspeed.net/'.
-Unblock 'websupport.wdc.com/'. Reported by Adam Piggot in - #3577851.
-Block '/openx/www/delivery/'.
-Disable fast-redirects for '.googleapis.com/'.
-Block 'imp.double.net/'. Reported by David Bo in #3070411.
-Block 'gm-link.com/' which is used for email tracking. - Reported by David Bo in #1812733.
-Verify that requests to "bwp." are blocked. URL taken from - #1736879 submitted by Francois Marier.
-Block '/.*bannerid='. Reported by Adam Piggott in - #2975779.
-Block 'cltomedia.info/delivery/' and '.adexprt.com/'. - Anonymously reported in #2965254.
-Block 'de17a.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3061472.
-Block 'oskar.tradera.com/'. Reported by David Bo in - #3060596.
-Block '/scripts/webtrends\.js'. Reported by johnd16 in - #3002729.
-Block requests for 'pool.*.adhese.com/'. Reported by johnd16 - in #3002716.
-Update path pattern for Coremetrics and add tests. Pattern and - URLs submitted by Adam Piggott #3168443.
-Enable +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} for 'tr.anp.se/'. - Reported by David Bo in #3268832.
-Unblock '.conrad.se/newsletter/banners/'. Reported by David Bo - in #3413824.
-Block '.tynt.com/'. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421767.
-Unblock '.bbci.co.uk/radio/'. Reported by Adam Piggott in - #3569603.
-Block requests to 'service.maxymiser.net/'. Reported by - johnd16 in #3118401 (with a previous URL).
-Disable fast-redirects for Google's "let's pretend your - computer is infected" page.
-Unblock '/.*download' to resolve actionsfile feedback - #3498129. Submitted by Steven Kolins (soundcloud.com not - working).
-Unblock '.wlxrs.com/' which is required by hotmail.com. Fixes - #3413827 submitted by David Bo.
-Add two unblock patterns for popup radio and TV players. - Submitted by Adam Piggott in #3596089.
-Filter file improvements & bug fixes:
- -Add a referer tagger.
+Don't add a "Connection" header for CONNECT requests. Explicitly sending "Connection: close" is not + necessary and apparently it causes problems with some forwarding proxies that will close the connection + prematurely. Reported by Marc Thomas.
Reduce the likelihood that the google filter messes up - HTML-generating JavaScript. Reported by Zeno Kugy in - #3520260.
+Fix compiler warnings.
Documentation improvements:
- +Bug fixes:
Revised all OS X sections due to new packaging module - (OSXPackageBuilder).
-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.
-Update 'Signals' section, the only explicitly handled signals - are SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGHUP.
-Add Haiku to the list of operating systems on which Privoxy is - known to run.
-Add DragonFly to the list of BSDs on which Privoxy is known to - run.
+rfc2553_connect_to(): Properly detect and log when poll() reached the time out. Previously this was + logged as: Could not connect to [...]: No error: 0. which isn't very helpful. Sponsored by: Robert + Klemme
Removed references to redhat-specific documentation set since - it no longer exists.
+add_tag_for_client(): Set time_to_live properly. Previously the time_to_live was always set for the + first tag. Attempts to temporarily enable a tag would result in enabling it permanently unless no tag was + enabled already.
Removed references to building PDFs since we no longer do - so.
+Revert r1.165 which didn't perform as advertised. While the idea was to use "https:// when creating + links for the user manual on the website", the actual effect was to use "https://" when Privoxy was + supposed to serve the user manual itself. Reported by Yossi Zahn on Privoxy-devel@.
Multiple listen-address directives are supported since 3.0.18, - correct the documentation to say so.
+socks5_connect(): Fail in case of unsupported address types. Previously they would not be detected right + away and Privoxy would fail later on with an error message that didn't make it obvious that the problem was + socks-related. So far, no such problems have actually been reported.
Remove bogus section about long and short being preferable to - int.
+socks5_connect(): Properly deal with socks replies that contain IPv6 addresses. Previously parts of the + reply were left unread and later on treated as invalid HTTP response data. Fixes #904 reported by Danny + Goossen who also provided the initial version of this patch.
Corrected some Internet JunkBuster references to Privoxy.
-Removed references to www.junkbusters.com since it is no - longer maintained. Reported by Angelina Matson.
-Action file improvements:
+Various grammar and spelling corrections
+Unblock 'msdn.microsoft.com/'. It (presumably) isn't used to serve the kind of ads Privoxy should block + by default but happens to serve lots of pages with URLs that are likely to result in false positives. + Reported by bugreporter1694 in AF#939.
Add a client-header-tagger{} example for disabling filtering - for range requests.
+Disable gif deanimation for requests tagged with CSS-REQUEST. The action will ignore content that isn't + considered text anyway and explicitly disabling it makes this more obvious if "action" debugging (debug + 65536) is enabled while "gif deanimation" debugging (debug 256) isn't.
Correct a URL in the "Privoxy with Tor" FAQ.
+Explicitly disable HTML filters for requests with CSS-REQUEST tag. The filters are unlikely to break CSS + files but executing them without (intentionally) getting any hits is a waste of cpu time and makes the log + more noisy when running with "debug 64".
Spell 'refresh-tags' correctly. Reported by Don in - #3571927.
+Unblock 'adventofcode.com/'. Reported by Clint Adams in Debian bug #848211. Fixes Roland's AF#937.
Sort manpage options alphabetically.
+Unblock 'adlibris.com'. Reported by Wyrex in #935
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.
+Unblock .golang.org/
Add new contributors since 3.0.19.
+Add fast-redirects exception for '.youtube.com/.*origin=http'
Log message improvements:
- +Privoxy-Log-Parser:
When stopping to watch a client socket due to pipelining, - additionally log the socket number.
+Don't gather host and resource statistics if they aren't requested. While the performance impact seems + negligible this significantly reduces the memory usage if there are lots of requests.
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.
+Bump version as the behaviour (slightly) changed.
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.
+Count connection failures as well in statistics mode. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
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.
+Count connection timeouts as well in statistics mode. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+Fix an 'uninitialized value' warning when generating statistics for a log file without response headers. + While privoxy-log-parser was supposed to detect this already, the check was flawed and the message the user + didn't see was somewhat confusing anyway. Now the message is less confusing, more helpful and actually + printed. Reported by: Robert Klemme
Code cleanups:
- +Documentation improvements:
Remove compatibility layer for versions prior to 3.0 since it - has been obsolete for more than 10 years now.
-Remove the ijb_isupper() and ijb_tolower() macros from - parsers.c since they aren't used in this file.
-Removed the 'Functions declared include:' comment sections - since they tend to be incomplete, incorrect and out of date and - the benefit seems questionable.
+Refer to the git sources instead of CVS.
Various comment grammar and comprehensibility - improvements.
+Use GNU/Linux when referring to the OS instead of the kernel.
Remove a pointless fflush() call in chat(). Flushing all - streams pretty much all the time for no obvious reason is - ridiculous.
+Add FAQ entry for what to do if editing the config file is access denied.
Relocate ijb_isupper()'s definition to project.h and get the - ijb_tolower() definition from there, too.
+Add brief HTTP/2 FAQ.
Relocate ijb_isdigit()'s definition to project.h.
+Add a small fuzzing section to the developer documentation.
Rename ijb_foo macros to privoxy_foo.
+Add a client-header-tagger{client-ip-address} example.
Add malloc_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths - where malloc() failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
+Stop suggesting that Privoxy is an anonymizing proxy. The term could lead to Privoxy users + overestimating what it can do on its own (without Tor).
Add strdup_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths - where strdup() failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
+Make it more obvious that SPI accepts Paypal, too. Currently most donations are made through the Paypal + account managed by Zwiebelfreunde e.V. and a more even distribution would be useful.
Replace strdup() calls with strdup_or_die() calls where it's - safe and simplifies the code.
+Suggest to log applying actions as well when reproducing problems.
Fix white-space around parentheses.
+Explicitly mention that Privoxy binaries are built by individuals on their own systems. Buyer + beware!
Add missing white-space behind if's and the following - parentheses.
+Mention the release feed on the homepage.
Unwrap a memcpy() call in resolve_hostname_to_ip().
-Declare pcrs_get_delimiter()'s delimiters[] static const.
-Various optimisations to remove dead code and merge - inefficient code structures for improved clarity, performance or - code compactness.
-Various data type corrections.
-Change visibility of several code segments when compiling - without FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE enabled for clarity.
-In pcrs_get_delimiter(), do not use delimiters outside the - ASCII range. Fixes a clang complaint.
-Fix an error message in get_last_url() nobody is supposed to - see. Reported by Matthew Fischer in #3507301.
-Fix a typo in the no-zlib-support complaint. Patch submitted - by Matthew Fischer in #3507304.
-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.
-Use an enum for the type of the action value.
-Rename action_name's member takes_value to value_type as it - isn't used as boolean.
-Turn family mismatches in match_sockaddr() into fatal - errors.
-Let enlist_unique_header() verify that the caller didn't pass - a header containing either \r or \n.
-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.
-Use privoxy_tolower() instead of vanilla tolower() with manual - casting of the argument.
-Catch ssplit() failures in parse_cgi_parameters().
+Remove a mysterious comment with a GNU FDL link as it isn't useful and could confuse license scanners. + In May 2002 it was briefly claimed that "this document" was covered by the GNU FDL. The commit message + (r1.5) doesn't explain the motivation or whether all copyright holders were actually asked and agreed to + the declared license change. It's thus hard to tell whether or not the license change was legit, but + luckily two days later the "doc license" was "put" "back to GPL" anyway (r1.6). At the same time the + offending comment with a link to the FDL (not the GPL) was added for no obvious reason. Now it's gone + again.
Privoxy-Regression-Test:
- +Regression tests:
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.
-Log to STDOUT instead of STDERR.
-Include the Privoxy version in the output.
-Various grammar and spelling corrections in documentation and - code.
+Bump for-privoxy-version to 3.0.27 as we now rely on untrusted CGI request being rejected with status + code 403 (instead of 200).
Additional tests for range requests with filtering - enabled.
-Tests with mostly invalid range request.
-Add a couple of hide-if-modified-since{} tests with different - date formats.
-Cleaned up the format of the regression-tests.action file to - match the format of default.action.
-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.
+Update test for /send-stylesheet and add another one
Privoxy-Log-Parser:
- +Templates:
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.
+Consistently use https:// when linking to the Privoxy website.
The distribution of client requests per connection is included - in the --statistic output.
+Remove SourceForge references in Copyright header.
The --accept-unknown-messages option has been removed and the - behavior is now the default.
+Remove a couple of SourceForge references in a comment. While at it, fix the grammar.
Accept and (mostly) highlight new log messages introduced with - Privoxy 3.0.20.
+Move the site-specific documentation block before the generic one. While most Privoxy installations + don't have a site-specific documentation block, in cases were it exists it's likely to be more relevant + than the generic one. Showing it first makes it less likely that users stop reading before they reach it, + especially on pages that don't fit on the screen.
uagen:
- +Build system improvements:
Bump generated Firefox version to 17.
+Prefer openjade to jade. On some systems Jade produces HTML with unescaped ampersands in URLs.
GNUmakefile improvements:
- -The dok-tidy target no longer taints documents with a - tidy-mark
-Change RA_MODE from 0664 to 0644. Suggested by Markus Dittrich - in #3505445.
-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.
+Prefer OpenSP to SP to be consistent.
Leave it up to the user whether or not smart tags are - inserted.
+Have Docbook generated HTML files be straight ASCII. Dealing with a mixture of ISO-8859 and UTF-8 files + is problematic.
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.
+Echo the filename to stderr for 'make dok-tidy'. Make it a bit easier to find errors in docbook + generated HTML.
Ditch a pointless '-r' passed to rm to delete files.
+Warn when still using select().
The config-file target now requires less manual intervention - and updates the original config.
+Warn when compiling without calloc().
Change WDUMP to generate ASCII. Add WDUMP_UTF8 to allow UTF-8 - in the AUTHORS file so the names are right.
+Make it more obvious that the --with-fdsetsize configure switch is pointless if poll() is available.
Stop pretending that lynx and links are supported for the - documentation.
+Remove support for AmigaOS.
configure improvements:
- -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.
+Update windows build system to use supported software. The cygwin gcc -mno-cygwin option is no longer + supported, so convert the windows build system to use the cygwin cross-compiler to build "native" code.
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.
+Add --enable-static-linking option for configure does the same thing as LDFLAGS=-static; ./configure but + nicer than mixing evars and configure options.
A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier - versions of Privoxy:
- +A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier versions of Privoxy:
The recommended way to upgrade Privoxy is to backup your old configuration - files, install the new ones, verify that Privoxy is working correctly and finally merge - back your changes using diff and - maybe patch.
- -There are a number of new features in each Privoxy release and most of them have to be - explicitly enabled in the configuration files. Old configuration - files obviously don't do that and due to syntax changes using old - configuration files with a new The recommended way to upgrade Privoxy is to backup your old + configuration files, install the new ones, verify that Privoxy is working + correctly and finally merge back your changes using diff and maybe + patch.
+There are a number of new features in each Privoxy release and most of + them have to be explicitly enabled in the configuration files. Old configuration files obviously don't do + that and due to syntax changes using old configuration files with a new Privoxy isn't always possible anyway.
Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely, - including configuration files, therefore you should really save any - important configuration files!
+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 files, thinking you will want to do that - yourself.
+On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing configuration files, thinking you will want + to do that yourself.
In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now. - You can change that in the debug - section of the configuration file. You may also want to enable - more verbose logging until you verified that the new Privoxy version is working as expected.
+In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now. You can change that in the debug section of the configuration file. You may also want to enable more verbose + logging until you verified that the new Privoxy version is working as + expected.
Three other config file settings are now off by default: - enable-remote-toggle, - enable-remote-http-toggle, - and enable-edit-actions. If you - use or want these, you will need to explicitly enable them, and be - aware of the security issues involved.
+Three other config file settings are now off by default: enable-remote-toggle, enable-remote-http-toggle, and enable-edit-actions. If you use or want these, you will need to + explicitly enable them, and be aware of the security issues involved.