Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.12 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Privoxy 3.0.12-stable is primarily a bugfix release. See http://www.privoxy.org/3.0.12/user-manual/whatsnew.html for details. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog for Privoxy -------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Version 3.0.12 *** - The socket-timeout option now also works on platforms whose select() implementation modifies the timeout structure. Previously the timeout was triggered even if the connection didn't stall. Reported by cyberpatrol. - The Connection: keep-alive code properly deals with files larger than 2GB. Previously the connection was closed too early. - The content length for files above 2GB is logged correctly. - The user-manual directive on the show-status page links to the documentation location specified with the directive, not to the Privoxy website. - When running in daemon mode, Privoxy doesn't log anything to the console unless there are errors before the logfile has been opened. - The show-status page prints warnings about invalid directives on the same line as the directives themselves. - Fixed several justified (but harmless) compiler warnings, mostly on 64 bit platforms. - The mingw32 version explicitly requests the default charset to prevent display problems with some fonts available on more recent Windows versions. Patch by Burberry. - The mingw32 version uses the Privoxy icon in the alt-tab windows. Patch by Burberry. - The timestamp and the thread id is omitted in the "Fatal error" message box on mingw32. - Fixed two related mingw32-only buffer overflows. Triggering them required control over the configuration file, therefore this isn't seen as a security issue. - In verbose mode, or if the new option --show-skipped-tests is used, Privoxy-Regression-Test logs skipped tests and the skip reason. ----------------------------------------------------------------- About Privoxy: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks. Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GPL2. 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 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: * Can keep outgoing connections alive and reuse them later on. * 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. * 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. * Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on size, invisible "web-bugs", JavaScript and HTML annoyances, pop-up windows, 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. * Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the configuration files, and a more sophisticated and flexible configuration syntax. * Improved cookie management features (e.g. session based cookies). * GIF de-animation. * Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection). * Multi-threaded (POSIX and native threads). * User-customizable HTML templates for most 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. Download location: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118 Home Page: http://www.privoxy.org/ - Privoxy Developers