-------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog for Privoxy -------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Since 3.0.6 *** - Privoxy can be combined with any packet filter to build an intercepting proxy for HTTP/1.1 requests (and for HTTP/1.0 requests with Host header set). - fast-redirects{} catch redirects to https URLs as well. - redirect{s@foo@bar@} can be used to redirect to a rewritten version of the original URL. - Trap unsupported gopher proxy requests. - Fixed a bug in the User Manual delivery on Windows (mingw32 only). Images now show up correctly and HTML pages are no longer padded with garbage data. - Fixed small memory leak in case of config file reloads. - Only unlink the pidfile if it's actually used. - Retries after connection problems with forced requests aren't blocked again. *** Version 3.0.6 *** - New content filters: no-ping, google, msn, yahoo and blogspot. - New header filters: x-httpd-php-to-html, html-to-xml, xml-to-html and hide-tor-exit-notation. - The special header "X-Filter: No" now disables header filtering as well. - Improved the filters img-reorder, js-annoyances, webbugs, banners-by-size, banners-by-link and ie-exploits to make them less likely to break anything. - Removed outdated URL patterns in default.action and added new ones. - Added redirection from http://p.p/user-manual to http://p.p/user-manual/ - Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent, hide-referrer and set-image-blocker. *** Version 3.0.5 *** - Windows version can be installed/started as a service. - Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy. - Integrated Fabian Keil's extensive patch. See: http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the following new or significantly improved actions (among many other improvements): content-type-overwrite{} crunch-client-header{string} crunch-if-none-match crunch-server-header{string} fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} filter-client-headers filter-server-headers force-text-mode handle-as-empty-document hide-accept-language{} hide-content-disposition{} hide-if-modified-since hide-referrer{conditional-block} overwrite-last-modified{} redirect{URL} treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks - Standard-compliant clients are prevented from displaying cached copies of Privoxy's error messages after the cause of the problem has gone. - Improved DNS error handling. - Multiple filter files can now be specified in config. - Added jpeg filtering to defend against MS jpeg vulnerability MS04-028 with the new inspect-jpegs action. - Removed the "arbitrary" 1000 filter limit - addresses tracker #911950 - Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log file. The race condition remains for non-pthread implementations. Reference patch #1175720. Various other logging enhancements. - A pile of assorted bug fixes, memory leaks, enhancements, etc. - Moved Actions file reporting mechanism to SF tracker. - Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and forwarded-connect-retries. - Trap unsupported FTP requests. - Let text/xml be filtered. - Numerous updates to default.action - Increase the compiled in limit of trusted referrers from 64 to 512 (for trustfile users). *** Version 3.0.3 *** - Fixed yet another two memory leaks. Process growth seems stopped now. - Further tightened security against malicious toggle-off links. - Excluded text/plain MIME types from filtering. This fixes a couple of client-crashing, download corruption and Privoxy performance issues, whose root cause lies in web servers labelling content of unknown type as text/plain. - Assorted fixes for POSIX compliance, signal handling, graceful termination, compiler warnings, OSX support, Win32 systray, error logging, hostname wildcards, correct detection of NetBSD. - Workarounds for client (iTunes etc) and server (PHP < 4.2.3) bugs including the notorious "blank page" problem. - Various filter improvements; most notably the unsolicited-popups filter became less destructive - Major revamp of the actions file *** Version 3.0.2 *** - Fixed two memory leaks, one serious - Fixed bug in pcrs which could cause crashes with user-defined filters - Fixed bug in domain name matching - Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..) - Added basic support for the OPTIONS and TRACE http methods - Added workaround for Bug in Mac OSX that made Privoxy crash occasionally - Refined the default action file through >400 items of user feedback - Filter changes: - Assorted refinements, optimizations and fixes in the js-annoyances, img-reorder, banners-by-size, banners-by-link, webbugs, refresh-tags, html-annoyances, content-cookies and fun filters - Replaced filter "popups" by choice between two modes: - "unsolicited-popups" tries to catch only the unsolicited ones - "all-popups" tries to kill them all (as before) - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas. - New filter "jumping-windows" that prevents windows from resizing and moving themselves - New filter "demoronizer" which fixes MS's abuse of std charsets (common cases anyway). - Replaced "nimda" with more general "ie-exploits" filter in which all filters for exploits shall be collected - Improved cookie logging - Rewrote make install target. Added uninstall and install-strip targets. - Fixed a potential (application-level, NOT OS-level!) security problem involving remote toggling and action file manipulation by mailicious websites. - Added ability to chroot (thanks to Sviatoslav Sviridov) - Added more action aliases for prehistoric action names - Add Slackware support to Makefile. *** Version 3.0 *** - Fixed Windows startmenu items, log window and tray icon menus. - Added warning for bogus install target - Added quicktime-kioskmode filter and improved frameset-borders - Updated default.action based on latest feedback - New PDF doc build process - Add a user contrib module to cvs: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ijbswa/contrib/ *** Version 2.9.18 *** - Added workaround for IE bug that broke CGI interface - Bugfix: String actions now reliably editable through CGI interface - Three filters fixed (again!) - Assorted small fixes and doc enhancements *** Version 2.9.16 *** - Major revamp of default.action to get rid of years of cruft. - Same for default.filter - Re-design and major improvements to the CGI editor interface. - Address spurious 'out of memory' error due to incorrect file permissions. - Impose buffer limits while reading client and server headers. - Better memory and CPU optimization. - Add Conectiva Linux package. - user-manual directive added to config for help links from within CGI editor. - Multiple actions files can now be specified in config. - Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration. - The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes. *** Version 2.9.14 Beta *** - Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h) - Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?) - Fix build failure where certain features were disabled. - 'blocked-compact' template is removed. Various CGI improvements, including an adaptive 'blocked' template. - Various tweaks for actions file to get ready for stable 3.0 - Included a 'Bookmarklet' and PHP scripts for reporting actions file problems via web interface at privoxy.org. Accessed via internal CGIs. - Include cgi-style.css for templates. - #include mechansim for common text in templates - Various other minor fixes. *** Version 2.9.13 Beta *** - *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is reflected throughout (file locations, etc). - ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now default.filter. - http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/ - The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern' (checkerboard) is now the default. - RPM spec file make over. *** Version 2.9.12 Beta *** - **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that is.) - More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements. - Win32 command line fix ups. - re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a per site basis. Some new goodies there too. - +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile for even more flexibility. - Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo. - PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images if configured with --enable-no-gif. - Clean up compiler warnings (mostly). - Improved handling of failed DNS lookups & diagnostics for failed bind to listen socket - Made --no-daemon mode log to tty instead of logfile. - Various spec file and init script cleanups and improvements (Redhat and SuSE). - CGI Editor works on OS/2 now. - Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT. - Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file. - A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help, --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges to the specified user. - Signal handling cleanups (*nix). - CGI actions editor improvements and fixes. - Error handling improvements, especially out of memory. - Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos (instead of 'blank'). - configure.in threading fixes for Solaris. - Various other minor fixes. *** Version 2.9.11 Beta Changes *** - Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk). - Checks for correct header length. - Fix user:pass@host.domain.com auth bug. - Better signal handling on *nix. - Fix CFLAGS hard-coded in configure.in - Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random URLs to fail in some cases. *** Version 2.9.11 Alpha Changes *** - A web-based editor for the actions file is included (go to http://i.j.b/). - Web-based toggle IJB on/off support. - Cookie handling has changed - the new +no-cookies-keep feature is now the default. - actionsfile is renamed to ijb.action. - junkbstr.txt is now config.txt on Win32. - Support for running IJB as a UNIX daemon process has improved. - Unix daemon now returns error code on failed start. - Timestamps in logfile and jarfile now. - Fix for the Netscape bug reintroduced in 2.9.9. - make should now abort if gmake (GNU make) not present. - Many other minor bugfixes - Start a ChangeLog :) *** Version 2.9.3 pre-Alpha Changes *** - Amiga support (completely untested by me - I don't have an Amiga) - "tinygif 3" support (redirects blocked images to a specified URL, so the browser doesn't have to load and cache many copies of the same image). - one case where there were both local and global "referrer" variables (yuck!) clarified by renaming the local one to "refer". - Fixed some places where close() was used instead of close_socket(). Thanks to Jörg Strohmayer (joergs at users.sourceforge.net) for these. - Temporary hack to get FORCE_LOAD to work with IE. I just lowercased the FORCE_LOAD_PREFIX. Needs fixing properly. - Most URLs hardcoded into Junkbuster were changed to go through a script e.g. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?v=2.9.3&to=faq The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL: http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html and the home page: http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/ ... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway. TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page. - PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option. *** Version 2.9.2 pre-Alpha Changes *** - Andreas applied the latest version of the FORCE patch. *** Version 2.9.1 pre-Alpha Changes *** - in parsers.c, fixed two #ifdef FORCE to #ifdef FORCE_LOAD (BTW: I think FORCE is precise enough, since loading remote data is the whole purpose of a proxy..) - Set the FORCE_PREFIX (back) to 'IJB-FORCE-LOAD-'. While 'noijb.' is more elegant and looks like a hostname in the URL, it doesn't make clear to the inexperienced user that the proxy is bypassed. It also has a higher name collision risk. - Filled in the function header templates for my functions in parsers.c (again). They obviously got lost in our current patch war ;-) - Cut the credit for the §-referrer-option from the config file, that Stefan had placed there. - Improved the re_filterfile *** Version 2.9.0 pre-Alpha Changes *** - Now use PCRE, not GNU REGEX. I have not yet had chance to check the syntax of the block/image/cookie file to ensure that they match what is expected - however they seem to work. - Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from "acconfig.h" and "configure.in". (Note that to install you do not need autoconf or autoheader - just run "./configure".) To see command-line options, run "./configure --help". This is my first ever autoconf script, so it has some rough edges (how PCRE is handled is the roughest). - Error logging code replaced with new module errlog.c, based on the one from JunkbusterMT (but with the threading code removed). - Most of Rodney's 0.21 and 0.21A patches applied. (Marked *). I did not apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code. - ACL, Jar and trust files conditionally compiled. - New source file headers. - Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the config files - I think that's worthwhile, but it's 1am and I want to get this released!) - RCS tags on .h files. - RCS tags are const char[] rather than const char *. (Saves 4 bytes per tag ;-) - VC++ project files renamed to vc_junkbuster.*. - show-proxy-args now shows status of all conditionals, not just REGEX - Various functions moved around. Most notably all the system-specific sockets code which was spread between jcc.c, bind.c, and connect.c, has been moved to "jbsockets.c". The non-system-specific code from connect.c and socks4.c has been movet to "gateway.c". Also, the config file loader and the global variables it writes to have been moved to "loadcfg.c". (Maybe this should go into loaders.c?) And candidate for the "worst filename ever" award is "miscutil.c", which contains, well, miscellaneous utility functions like zalloc. (Suggestions for a better name for this file are welcome!) - Loaders now use a common function to read a line and skip comments, and this function also stores the proxy_args. - Added ./junkbuster --help (Not for Win32 GUI) - Added ./junkbuster --version (Not for Win32 GUI) - Win32 resources are now all marked as "U.S. English", rather than being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English". - Version number changes to 2.9.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001 the SourceForge Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/ Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 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