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Privoxy 3.0.22 stable is mainly a - bug-fix release, it also has a couple of new features, though. Note that - the first two entries in the ChangeLog below refer to security - issues:
- +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:
Fixed a memory leak when rejecting client connections due to - the socket limit being reached (CID 66382). This affected Privoxy - 3.0.21 when compiled with IPv6 support (on most platforms this is - the default).
+Fixed misplaced parentheses. Reported by David Binderman.
Fixed an immediate-use-after-free bug (CID 66394) and two - additional unconfirmed use-after-free complaints made by Coverity - scan (CID 66391, CID 66376).
+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:
+Actually show the FORCE_PREFIX value on the show-status - page.
+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
Properly deal with Keep-Alive headers with timeout= parameters - If the timeout still can't be parsed, use the configured timeout - instead of preventing the client from keeping the connection - alive. Fixes #3615312/#870 reported by Bernard Guillot.
+Add a listen-backlog directive which specifies the backlog value passed to listen(). Sponsored by: + Robert Klemme
Not using any filter files no longer results in warning - messages unless an action file is referencing header taggers or - filters. Reported by Stefan Kurtz in #3614835.
+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
Fixed a bug that prevented Privoxy from reusing some reusable - connections. Two bit masks with different purpose unintentionally - shared the same bit.
+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
A couple of additional bugs were discovered by Coverity Scan. - The fixes that are not expected to affect users are not - explicitly mentioned here, for details please have a look at the - CVS logs.
+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
General improvements:
- -Introduced negative tag patterns NO-REQUEST-TAG and - NO-RESPONSE-TAG. They apply if no matching tag is found after - parsing client or server headers.
+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 external filters which allow to process the - response body with a script or program written in any language - the platform supports. External filters are enabled with - +external-filter{} after they have been defined in one of the - filter files with a header line starting with "EXTERNAL-FILTER:". - External filter support is experimental, not compiled by default - and known not to work on all platforms.
+Consistently use the U(ngreedy) flag in the 'img-reorder' filter.
Add support for the 'PATCH' method as defined in RFC5789.
+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
Reject requests with unsupported Expect header values. Fixes a - couple of Co-Advisor tests.
+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
Normalize the HTTP-version in forwarded requests and - responses. This is an explicit RFC 2616 MUST and RFC 7230 - mandates that intermediaries send their own HTTP-version in - forwarded messages.
+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
Server 'Keep-Alive' headers are no longer forwarded. From a - user's point of view it doesn't really matter, but RFC 2616 - (obsolete) mandates that the header is removed and this fixes a - Co-Advisor complaint.
+Explicitly taint the server socket in case of CONNECT requests. This doesn't fix any known problems, but + makes some log messages less confusing.
Change declared template file encoding to UTF-8. The templates - already used a subset of UTF-8 anyway and changing the - declaration allows to properly display UTF-8 characters used in - the action files. This change may require existing action files - with ISO-8859-1 characters that aren't valid UTF-8 to be - converted to UTF-8. Requested by Sam Chen in #582.
+Let write_pid_file() terminate if the pid file can't be opened. Logging the issue at info level is + unlikely to help.
Do not pass rejected keep-alive timeouts to the server. It - might not have caused any problems (we know of), but doing the - right thing shouldn't hurt either.
+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
Let log_error() use its own buffer size #define to make - changing the log buffer size slightly less inconvenient.
+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
Turned single-threaded into a "proper" toggle directive with - arguments.
+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
CGI templates no longer enforce new windows for some - links.
+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.
Remove an undocumented workaround ('HOST' header removal) for - an Apple iTunes bug that according to #729900 got fixed in - 2003.
+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.
Action file improvements:
- -The pattern 'promotions.' is no longer being blocked. Reported - by rakista in #3608540.
+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.
Disable fast-redirects for .microsofttranslator.com/.
+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.
Disable filter{banners-by-size} for - .dgb-tagungszentren.de/.
+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.
Add adn.speedtest.net as a site-specific unblocker. Support - request #3612908.
+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.
Disable filter{banners-by-size} for creativecommons.org/.
+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 requests to data.gosquared.com/. Reported by cbug in - #3613653.
+cgi_error_disabled(): Use status code 403 and an appropriate response line
Unblock .conrad./newsletter/. Reported by David Bo in - #3614238.
+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 .bundestag.de/.
+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.
Unblock .rote-hilfe.de/.
+Fix compiler warnings.
+Bug fixes:
+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
Disable fast-redirects for .facebook.com/plugins/like.php.
+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.
Unblock Stackexchange popup URLs that aren't used to serve - ads. Reported by David Wagner in #3615179.
+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@.
Disable fast-redirects for creativecommons.org/.
+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.
Unblock .stopwatchingus.info/.
+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.
Action file improvements:
+Block requests for .adcash.com/script/. Reported by - Tyrexionibus in #3615289.
+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.
Disable HTML filters if the response was tagged as JavaScript. - Filtering JavaScript code with filters intended to deal with HTML - is usually a waste of time and, more importantly, may break - stuff.
+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.
Use a custom redirect{} for - .washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs\.php\?src= Previously enabling - the 'Advanced' settings (or manually enabling +fast-redirects{}) - prevented some images from being loaded properly.
+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".
Unblock "adina*." Fixes #919 reported by Morton A. - Goldberg.
+Unblock 'adventofcode.com/'. Reported by Clint Adams in Debian bug #848211. Fixes Roland's AF#937.
Block '/.*DigiAd'.
+Unblock 'adlibris.com'. Reported by Wyrex in #935
Unblock 'adele*.'. Reported by Adele Lime in #1663.
+Unblock .golang.org/
Disable banners-by-size for kggp.de/.
+Add fast-redirects exception for '.youtube.com/.*origin=http'
Filter file improvements & bug fixes:
- +Privoxy-Log-Parser:
Decrease the chances that js-annoyances creates invalid - JavaScript. Submitted by John McGowan on ijbswa-users@.
+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.
Let the msn filter hide 'related' ads again.
+Bump version as the behaviour (slightly) changed.
Remove a stray '1' in the 'html-annoyances' filter.
+Count connection failures as well in statistics mode. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
Prevent img-reorder from messing up img tags with empty src - attributes. Fixes #880 reported by Duncan.
+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
Documentation improvements:
-Updated the 'Would you like to donate?' section.
-Note that invalid forward-override{} parameter syntax isn't - detected until the parameter is used.
+Refer to the git sources instead of CVS.
Add another +redirect{} example: a shortcut for illumos - bugs.
+Use GNU/Linux when referring to the OS instead of the kernel.
Make it more obvious that many operating systems support log - rotation out of the box.
+Add FAQ entry for what to do if editing the config file is access denied.
Fixed dead links. Reported by Mark Nelson in #3614557.
+Add brief HTTP/2 FAQ.
Rephrased the 'Why is the configuration so complicated?' - answer to be slightly less condescending. Anonymously suggested - in #3615122.
+Add a small fuzzing section to the developer documentation.
Be more explicit about accept-intercepted-requests's lack of - MITM support.
+Add a client-header-tagger{client-ip-address} example.
Make 'demoronizer' FAQ entries more generic.
+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 an example hostname to the --pre-chroot-nslookup - description.
+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.
Add an example for a host pattern that matches an IP - address.
+Suggest to log applying actions as well when reproducing problems.
Rename the 'domain pattern' to 'host pattern' as it may - contain IP addresses as well.
+Explicitly mention that Privoxy binaries are built by individuals on their own systems. Buyer + beware!
Recommend forward-socks5t when using Tor. It seems to work - fine and modifying the Tor configuration to profit from it hasn't - been necessary for a while now.
+Mention the release feed on the homepage.
Add another redirect{} example to stress that redirect loops - can and should be avoided.
+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.
Regression tests:
+The usual spelling and grammar fixes. Parts of them were - reported by Reuben Thomas in #3615276.
+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).
Mention the PCRS option letters T and D in the filter - section.
+Update test for /send-stylesheet and add another one
Templates:
+Clarify that handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok is still useful - and will not be removed without replacement.
+Consistently use https:// when linking to the Privoxy website.
Note that security issues shouldn't be reported using the bug - tracker.
+Remove SourceForge references in Copyright header.
Clarify what Privoxy does if both +block{} and +redirect{} - apply.
+Remove a couple of SourceForge references in a comment. While at it, fix the grammar.
Removed the obsolete bookmarklets section.
+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.
Build system improvements:
-Let --with-group properly deal with secondary groups. Patch - submitted by Anatoly Arzhnikov in #3615187.
+Prefer openjade to jade. On some systems Jade produces HTML with unescaped ampersands in URLs.
Fix web-actions target.
+Prefer OpenSP to SP to be consistent.
Add a web-faq target that only updates the FAQ on the - webserver.
+Have Docbook generated HTML files be straight ASCII. Dealing with a mixture of ISO-8859 and UTF-8 files + is problematic.
Remove already-commented-out non-portable DOSFILTER - alternatives.
+Echo the filename to stderr for 'make dok-tidy'. Make it a bit easier to find errors in docbook + generated HTML.
Remove the obsolete targets dok-put and dok-get.
+Warn when still using select().
Add a sf-shell target.
+Warn when compiling without calloc().
+Make it more obvious that the --with-fdsetsize configure switch is pointless if poll() is available.
+Remove support for AmigaOS.
+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.
Known bugs:
- -To compile with --disable-force you need this patch which didn't make it into the - release. Thanks to Kai Raven for the report.
+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.