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. Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI). Donations are welcome: http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE 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