Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.13 beta ----------------------------------------------------------------- Privoxy 3.0.13 beta introduces IPv6 support, improved keep-alive support and a bunch of minor improvements. See http://www.privoxy.org/3.0.13/user-manual/whatsnew.html for details. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog for Privoxy -------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Version 3.0.13 beta *** - Added IPv6 support. Thanks to Petr Pisar who not only provided the initial patch but also helped a lot with the integration. - Added client-side keep-alive support. This should also allow NTLM authentication through Privoxy, but this hasn't been confirmed yet. - The connection sharing code is only used if the connection-sharing option is enabled. - The max-client-connections option has been added to restrict the number of client connections below a value enforced by the operating system. - Fixed a regression reintroduced in 3.0.12 that could cause crashes on mingw32 if header date randomization was enabled. - Compressed content with extra fields couldn't be decompressed and would get passed to the client unfiltered. This problem has only be detected through statical analysis with clang as nobody seems to be using extra fields anyway. - If the server resets the Connection after sending only the headers Privoxy forwards what it got to the client. Previously Privoxy would deliver an error message instead. - Error messages in case of connection timeouts use the right HTTP status code. - If spawning a child to handle a request fails, the client gets an error message and Privoxy continues to listen for new requests right away. - The error messages in case of server-connection timeouts or prematurely closed server connections are now template-based. - If zlib support isn't compiled in, Privoxy no longer tries to filter compressed content unless explicitly asked to do so. - In case of connections that are denied based on ACL directives, the memory used for the client IP is no longer leaked. - Fixed another small memory leak if the client request times out while waiting for client headers other than the request line. - The client socket is kept open until the server socket has been marked as unused. This should increase the chances that the still-open connection will be reused for the client's next request to the same destination. Note that this only matters if connection-sharing is enabled. - A TODO list has been added to the source tarballs to give potential volunteers a better idea of what the current goals are. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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: * Supports "Connection: keep-alive". Outgoing connections can be kept alive independently from the client. * Supports IPv6. * 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. * 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