From 65e6f5d0eaedef3a1de99da99e4aafa53b3aa0ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hal9 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:17:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] This is the announcement text linked from privoxy.org. Why was this not in cvs before? --- announce.txt | 147 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 147 insertions(+) create mode 100644 announce.txt diff --git a/announce.txt b/announce.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5e561232 --- /dev/null +++ b/announce.txt @@ -0,0 +1,147 @@ + Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.9 Beta +----------------------------------------------------------------- + +3.0.9 is a beta release which includes many enhancements but no major +new features. The most prominent improvements features are SOCKS5 +support and zlib support for the default Privoxy builds. + +See http://www.privoxy.org/3.0.9/user-manual/whatsnew.html for details. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +ChangeLog for Privoxy +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +*** Version 3.0.9 Beta *** + +- Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by + the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper. +- The "blocked" CGI pages include a block reason that was + provided as argument to the last-applying block action. +- If enable-edit-actions is disabled (the default since 3.0.7 beta) + the show-status page hides the edit buttons and explains why. + Previously the user would get the "this feature has been disabled" + message after using the edit button. +- Forbidden CONNECT requests are treated like blocks by default. + The now-pointless treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks action + has been removed. +- Not enabling limit-connect now allows CONNECT requests to all ports. + In previous versions it would only allow CONNECT requests to port 443. + Use +limit-connect{443} if you think you need the old default behaviour. +- The CGI editor gets turned off after three edit requests with invalid + file modification timestamps. This makes life harder for attackers + who can leverage browser bugs to send fake Referers and intend to + brute-force edit URLs. +- Action settings for multiple patterns in the same section are + shared in memory. As a result these sections take up less space + (and are loaded slightly faster). Problem reported by Franz Schwartau. +- Linear white space in HTTP headers will be normalized to single + spaces before parsing the header's content, headers split across + multiple lines get merged first. This should prevent problems like: + * letting the session-cookies-only action slip + some Cookies through unmodified, + * only suppressing the first line of a header, + thus creating an invalid one, and + * to incorrectly block headers with valid timestamps + that weren't properly recognized. + Headers that could trigger these problems are unlikely to appear + in "normal" web traffic, but could be intentionally generated to + fool some of Privoxy's header parsers. +- Host information is gathered outside the main thread so it's less + likely to delay other incoming connections if the host is misconfigured. +- New config option "hostname" to use a hostname other than + the one returned by the operating system. Useful to speed-up responses + for CGI requests on misconfigured systems. Requested by Max Khon. +- The CGI editor supports the "disable all filters of this type" + directives "-client-header-filter", "-server-header-filter", + "-client-header-tagger" and "-server-header-tagger". +- Fixed false-positives with the link-by-url filter and URLs that + contain the pattern "/jump/". +- The less-download-windows filter no longer messes + "Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash" headers up. +- In the show-url-info page's "Final results" section active and + inactive actions are listed separately. Patch provided by Lee. +- The GNUmakefile supports the DESTDIR variable. Patch for + the install target submitted by Radoslaw Zielinski. +- Embedding the content of configuration files in the show-status + page is significantly faster now. For a largish action file (1 MB) + a speedup of about 2450 times has been measured. This is mostly + interesting if you are using large action files or regularly use + Privoxy-Regression-Test while running Privoxy through Valgrind, + for stock configuration files it doesn't really matter. +- If zlib support is unavailable and there are content + filters active but the prevent-compression action is disabled, + the show-url-info page includes a warning that compression + might prevent filtering. +- The show-url-info page provides an OpenSearch Description that + allows to access the page through browser search plugins. +- The obsolete kill-popups action has been removed as the + PCRS-based popup filters can do the same and are slightly + less unreliable. +- The inspect-jpegs action has been removed. +- The send-wafer and send-vanilla-wafer actions have been removed. + They weren't particular useful and their behaviour could be emulated + with add-header anyway. +- Privoxy-Regression-Test has been significantly improved. +- Most sections in the default.action file contain tests for + Privoxy-Regression-Test to verify that they are working as intended. +- Parts of Privoxy have been refactored to increase maintainability. +- Building with zlib (if available) is done by default. + +----------------------------------------------------------------- +About Privoxy: +----------------------------------------------------------------- + +Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for +protecting privacy, modifying web page data, managing cookies, +controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other +obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible +configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs +and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems +and multi-user networks. + +Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm). + +At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows(95, 98, ME, 2000, +XP, Vista), Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and +others), Mac OSX, OS/2, AmigaOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and +various other flavors of Unix. + +In addition to the traditional features of ad and junk blocking, and cookie +management, Privoxy adds these features: + + * 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. + + * 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. + + * Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection). + + * Multi-threaded (POSIX and native threads). + + * User-customizable HTML templates for all proxy-generated pages (e.g. + "blocked" page). + + * Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes. + + * Improved signal handling, and a true daemon mode (Unix). + + * Every feature now controllable on a per-site or per-location basis, + configuration more powerful and versatile over-all. + + * Many smaller new features added, limitations and bugs removed, and security + holes fixed. + +Download location: + http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118 + +Home Page: + http://www.privoxy.org/ + + + - Privoxy Developers -- 2.39.2