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ChangeLog for Privoxy
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+*** Version 3.0.28 stable ***
+
+- Bug fixes for regressions in 3.0.27:
+ - Fixed misplaced parentheses.
+ Reported by David Binderman.
+ - Changed two regression tests to depend on config directive
+ enable-remote-toggle instead of FEATURE_TOGGLE.
+
+*** Version 3.0.27 stable ***
+
+- General improvements:
+ - Add a receive-buffer-size directive which can be used to
+ set the size of the previously statically allocated buffer
+ in handle_established_connection().
+ Increasing the buffer size increases Privoxy's memory usage but
+ can lower the number of context switches and thereby reduce the
+ CPU usage and potentially increase the throughput.
+ This is mostly relevant for fast network connections and
+ large downloads that don't require filtering.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Add a listen-backlog directive which specifies the backlog
+ value passed to listen().
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Add an enable-accept-filter directive which allows to
+ toggle accept filter support at run time when compiled
+ with FEATURE_ACCEPT_FILTER support.
+ It makes testing more convenient and now that it's
+ optional we can emit an error message if enabling
+ the accept filter fails.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Add a delay-response{} action.
+ This is useful to tar pit JavaScript requests that
+ are endlessly retried in case of blocks. It can also
+ be used to simulate a slow Internet connection.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Add a 'trusted-cgi-referrer' directive.
+ It allows to configure another page or site that can be used
+ to reach sensitive CGI resources.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Add a --fuzz mode which exposes Privoxy internals to input
+ from files or stdout.
+ Mainly tested with American Fuzzy Lop. For details see:
+ https://www.fabiankeil.de/talks/fuzzing-on-freebsd/
+ This work was partially funded with donations and done
+ as part of the Privoxy month in 2015.
+ - Consistently use the U(ngreedy) flag in the 'img-reorder' filter.
+ - listen_loop(): Reuse a single thread attribute object
+ The object doesn't change and creating a new one for
+ every thread is a waste of (CPU) time.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Free csp resources in the thread that belongs to the csp instead
+ of the main thread which has enough on its plate already.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Improve 'socket timeout reached' message.
+ Log the timeout that was triggered and downgrade the
+ log level to LOG_LEVEL_CONNECT to reduce the log noise
+ with common debug settings.
+ The timeout isn't necessary the result of an error and
+ usually merely indicates that Privoxy's socket timeout
+ is lower than the relevant timeouts used by client and
+ server.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Explicitly taint the server socket in case of CONNECT requests.
+ This doesn't fix any known problems, but makes
+ some log messages less confusing.
+ - Let write_pid_file() terminate if the pid file can't be opened.
+ Logging the issue at info level is unlikely to help.
+ - log_error(): Reduce the mutex-protected area by not using a
+ heap-allocated buffer that is shared between all threads.
+ This increases performance and reduces the latency with
+ verbose debug settings and multiple concurrent connections.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Let zalloc() use calloc() if it's available.
+ In some situations using calloc() can be faster than
+ malloc() + memset() and it should never be slower.
+ In the real world the impact of this change is not
+ expected to be noticeable.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Never use select() when poll() is available.
+ On most platforms select() is limited by FD_SETSIZE while
+ poll() is not. This was a scaling issue for multi-user setups.
+ Using poll() has no downside other than the usual risk
+ that code modifications may introduce new bugs that have
+ yet to be found and fixed.
+ At least in theory this commit could also reduce the latency
+ when there are lots of connections and select() would use
+ "bit fields in arrays of integers" to store file descriptors.
+ Another side effect is that Privoxy no longer has to stop
+ monitoring the client sockets when pipelined requests are
+ waiting but can't be read yet.
+ This code keeps the select()-based code behind ifdefs for
+ now but hopefully it can be removed soonish to make the
+ code more readable.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Add a 'reproducible-tarball-dist' target.
+ It's currently separate from the "tarball-dist" target
+ because it requires a tar implementation with mtree spec
+ support.
+ It's far from being perfect and does not enforce a
+ reproducible mode, but it's better than nothing.
+ - Use arc4random() if it's available.
+ While Privoxy doesn't need high quality pseudo-random numbers
+ there's no reason not to use them when we can and this silences
+ a warning emitted by code checkers that can't tell whether or not
+ the quality matters.
+ - Show the FEATURE_EXTERNAL_FILTERS status on the status page.
+ Better late than never. Previously a couple of tests weren't
+ executed as Privoxy-Regression-Test couldn't detect that the
+ FEATURE_EXTERNAL_FILTERS dependency was satisfied.
+ - Ditch FEATURE_IMAGE_DETECT_MSIE.
+ It's an obsolete workaround we inherited from Junkbuster
+ and was already disabled by default.
+ Users that feel the urge to work around issues with
+ image requests coming from an Internet Explorer version
+ from more than 15 years ago can still do this using tags.
+ - Consistently use strdup_or_die() instead of strdup() in
+ cases where allocation failures aren't expected.
+ Using strdup_or_die() allows to remove a couple of explicit
+ error checks which slightly reduces the size of the binary.
+ - Insert a refresh tag into the /client-tags CGI page when
+ serving it while a client-specific tag is temporarily enabled.
+ This makes it less likely that the user ends up
+ looking at tag state that is out of date.
+ - Use absolute URLs in the client-tag forms.
+ It's more consistent with the rest of the CGI page
+ URLs and makes it more convenient to copy the forms
+ to external pages.
+ - cgi_error_disabled(): Use status code 403 and an appropriate response line
+ - Use a dedicated CGI handler to deal with tag-toggle requests
+ As a result the /client-tags page is now safe to reach without
+ trusted Referer header which makes bookmarking or linking to
+ it more convenient.
+ Finally, refreshing the /client-tags page to show the
+ current state can no longer unintentionally repeat the
+ previous toggle request.
+ - Don't add a "Connection" header for CONNECT requests.
+ Explicitly sending "Connection: close" is not necessary and
+ apparently it causes problems with some forwarding proxies
+ that will close the connection prematurely.
+ Reported by Marc Thomas.
+ - Fix compiler warnings.
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - rfc2553_connect_to(): Properly detect and log when poll()
+ reached the time out. Previously this was logged as:
+ Could not connect to [...]: No error: 0.
+ which isn't very helpful.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - add_tag_for_client(): Set time_to_live properly.
+ Previously the time_to_live was always set for the first tag.
+ Attempts to temporarily enable a tag would result in enabling
+ it permanently unless no tag was enabled already.
+ - Revert r1.165 which didn't perform as advertised.
+ While the idea was to use "https:// when creating links
+ for the user manual on the website", the actual effect
+ was to use "https://" when Privoxy was supposed to serve
+ the user manual itself.
+ Reported by Yossi Zahn on Privoxy-devel@.
+ - socks5_connect(): Fail in case of unsupported address types.
+ Previously they would not be detected right away and
+ Privoxy would fail later on with an error message that
+ didn't make it obvious that the problem was socks-related.
+ So far, no such problems have actually been reported.
+ - socks5_connect(): Properly deal with socks replies that
+ contain IPv6 addresses.
+ Previously parts of the reply were left unread and
+ later on treated as invalid HTTP response data.
+ Fixes #904 reported by Danny Goossen who also provided
+ the initial version of this patch.
+
+- Action file improvements:
+ - Unblock 'msdn.microsoft.com/'.
+ It (presumably) isn't used to serve the kind of ads Privoxy should
+ block by default but happens to serve lots of pages with URLs that
+ are likely to result in false positives.
+ Reported by bugreporter1694 in AF#939.
+ - Disable gif deanimation for requests tagged with CSS-REQUEST.
+ The action will ignore content that isn't considered text
+ anyway and explicitly disabling it makes this more obvious
+ if "action" debugging (debug 65536) is enabled while
+ "gif deanimation" debugging (debug 256) isn't.
+ - Explicitly disable HTML filters for requests with CSS-REQUEST tag.
+ The filters are unlikely to break CSS files but executing
+ them without (intentionally) getting any hits is a waste of
+ cpu time and makes the log more noisy when running with
+ "debug 64".
+ - Unblock 'adventofcode.com/'.
+ Reported by Clint Adams in Debian bug #848211.
+ Fixes Roland's AF#937.
+ - Unblock 'adlibris.com'.
+ Reported by Wyrex in #935
+ - Unblock .golang.org/
+ - Add fast-redirects exception for '.youtube.com/.*origin=http'
+
+- Privoxy-Log-Parser:
+ - Don't gather host and resource statistics if they aren't requested.
+ While the performance impact seems negligible this significantly
+ reduces the memory usage if there are lots of requests.
+ - Bump version as the behaviour (slightly) changed.
+ - Count connection failures as well in statistics mode.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Count connection timeouts as well in statistics mode.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Fix an 'uninitialized value' warning when generating
+ statistics for a log file without response headers.
+ While privoxy-log-parser was supposed to detect this already,
+ the check was flawed and the message the user didn't see was
+ somewhat confusing anyway.
+ Now the message is less confusing, more helpful and actually printed.
+ Reported by: Robert Klemme
+
+- Documentation improvements:
+ - Refer to the git sources instead of CVS.
+ - Use GNU/Linux when referring to the OS instead of the kernel.
+ - Add FAQ entry for what to do if editing the config file is access denied.
+ - Add brief HTTP/2 FAQ.
+ - Add a small fuzzing section to the developer documentation.
+ - Add a client-header-tagger{client-ip-address} example.
+ - Stop suggesting that Privoxy is an anonymizing proxy.
+ The term could lead to Privoxy users overestimating
+ what it can do on its own (without Tor).
+ - Make it more obvious that SPI accepts Paypal, too.
+ Currently most donations are made through the Paypal account
+ managed by Zwiebelfreunde e.V. and a more even distribution
+ would be useful.
+ - Suggest to log applying actions as well when reproducing problems.
+ - Explicitly mention that Privoxy binaries are built by individuals
+ on their own systems. Buyer beware!
+ - Mention the release feed on the homepage.
+ - Remove a mysterious comment with a GNU FDL link as it isn't
+ useful and could confuse license scanners.
+ In May 2002 it was briefly claimed that "this document" was covered
+ by the GNU FDL. The commit message (r1.5) doesn't explain the motivation
+ or whether all copyright holders were actually asked and agreed to the
+ declared license change.
+ It's thus hard to tell whether or not the license change was legit,
+ but luckily two days later the "doc license" was "put" "back to GPL"
+ anyway (r1.6).
+ At the same time the offending comment with a link to the FDL
+ (not the GPL) was added for no obvious reason.
+ Now it's gone again.
+
+- Regression tests:
+ - Bump for-privoxy-version to 3.0.27 as we now rely on untrusted
+ CGI request being rejected with status code 403 (instead of 200).
+ - Update test for /send-stylesheet and add another one
+
+- Templates:
+ - Consistently use https:// when linking to the Privoxy website.
+ - Remove SourceForge references in Copyright header.
+ - Remove a couple of SourceForge references in a comment.
+ While at it, fix the grammar.
+ - Move the site-specific documentation block before the generic one.
+ While most Privoxy installations don't have a site-specific
+ documentation block, in cases were it exists it's likely to
+ be more relevant than the generic one.
+ Showing it first makes it less likely that users stop reading
+ before they reach it, especially on pages that don't fit on
+ the screen.
+
+- Build system improvements:
+ - Prefer openjade to jade. On some systems Jade produces
+ HTML with unescaped ampersands in URLs.
+ - Prefer OpenSP to SP to be consistent.
+ - Have Docbook generated HTML files be straight ASCII.
+ Dealing with a mixture of ISO-8859 and UTF-8 files is problematic.
+ - Echo the filename to stderr for 'make dok-tidy'.
+ Make it a bit easier to find errors in docbook generated HTML.
+ - Warn when still using select().
+ - Warn when compiling without calloc().
+ - Make it more obvious that the --with-fdsetsize configure switch
+ is pointless if poll() is available.
+ - Remove support for AmigaOS.
+ - Update windows build system to use supported software.
+ The cygwin gcc -mno-cygwin option is no longer supported, so
+ convert the windows build system to use the cygwin cross-compiler
+ to build "native" code.
+ - Add --enable-static-linking option for configure
+ does the same thing as LDFLAGS=-static; ./configure
+ but nicer than mixing evars and configure options.
+
+*** Version 3.0.26 stable ***
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - Fixed crashes with "listen-addr :8118" (SF Bug #902).
+ The regression was introduced in 3.0.25 beta and reported
+ by Marvin Renich in Debian bug #834941.
+
+- General improvements:
+ - Log when privoxy is toggled on or off via cgi interface.
+ - Highlight the "Info: Now toggled " on/off log message
+ in the Windows log viewer.
+ - Highlight the loading actions/filter file log message
+ in the Windows log viewer.
+ - Mention client-specific tags on the toggle page as a
+ potentionally more appropriate alternative.
+
+- Documentation improvements:
+ - Update download section on the homepage.
+ The downloads are available from the website now.
+ - Add sponsor FAQ.
+ - Remove obsolete reference to mailing lists hosted at SourceForge.
+ - Update the "Before the Release" section of the developer manual.
+
+- Infrastructure improvements:
+ - Add perl script to generate an RSS feed for the packages
+ Submitted by "Unknown".
+
+- Build system improvements:
+ - strptime.h: fix a compiler warning about ambiguous else.
+ - configure.in: Check for Docbook goo on the BSDs as well.
+ - GNUMakefile.in: Let the dok-user target remove temporary files.
+
+*** Version 3.0.25 beta ***
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - Always use the current toggle state for new requests.
+ Previously new requests on reused connections inherited
+ the toggle state from the previous request even though
+ the toggle state could have changed.
+ Reported by Robert Klemme.
+ - Fixed two buffer-overflows in the (deprecated) static
+ pcre code. These bugs are not considered security issues
+ as the input is trusted.
+ Found with afl-fuzz and ASAN.
+
+- General improvements:
+ - Added support for client-specific tags which allow Privoxy
+ admins to pre-define tags that are set for all requests from
+ clients that previously opted in through the CGI interface.
+ They are useful in multi-user setups where admins may
+ want to allow users to disable certain actions and filters
+ for themselves without affecting others.
+ In single-user setups they are useful to allow more fine-grained
+ toggling. For example to disable request blocking while still
+ crunching cookies, or to disable experimental filters only.
+ This is an experimental feature, the syntax and behaviour may
+ change in future versions.
+ Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
+ - Dynamic filters and taggers now support a $listen-address variable
+ which contains the address the request came in on.
+ For external filters the variable is called $PRIVOXY_LISTEN_ADDRESS.
+ Original patch contributed by pursievro.
+ - Add client-header-tagger 'listen-address'.
+ - Include the listen-address in the log message when logging new requests.
+ Patch contributed by pursievro.
+ - Turn invalid max-client-connections values into fatal errors.
+ - The show-status page now shows whether or not dates before 1970
+ and after 2038 are expected to be handled properly.
+ This is mainly useful for Privoxy-Regression-Test but could
+ also come handy when dealing with time-related support requests.
+ - On Mac OS X the thread id in log messages are more likely to
+ be unique now.
+ - When complaining about missing filters, the filter type is logged
+ as well.
+ - A couple of harmless coverity warnings were silenced
+ (CID #161202, CID #161203, CID #161211).
+
+- Action file improvements:
+ - Filtering is disabled for Range requests to let download resumption
+ and Windows updates work with the default configuration.
+ - Unblock ".ardmediathek.de/".
+ Reported by ThTomate in #932.
+
+- Documentation improvements:
+ - Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits.
+ - Remove obsolete FAQ entry about a bug in PHP 4.2.3.
+ - Mention the new mailing lists were appropriate.
+ As the archives have not been migrated, continue to
+ mention the archives at SF in the contacting section
+ for now.
+ - Note that the templates should be adjusted if Privoxy is
+ running as intercepting proxy without getting all requests.
+ - A bunch of links were converted to https://.
+ - Rephrase onion service paragraph to make it more obvious
+ that Tor is involved and that the whole website (and not
+ just the homepage) is available as onion service.
+ - Streamline the "More information" section on the homepage further
+ by additionally ditching the link to the 'See also' section
+ of the user manual. The section contains mostly links that are
+ directly reachable from the homepage already and the rest is
+ not significant enough to get a link from the homepage.
+ - Change the add-header{} example to set the DNT header
+ and use a complete section to make copy and pasting
+ more convenient.
+ Add a comment to make it obvious that adding the
+ header is not recommended for obvious reasons.
+ Using the DNT header as example was suggested by
+ Leo Wzukw.
+ - Streamline the support-and-service template
+ Instead of linking to the various support trackers
+ (whose URLs hopefully change soon), link to the
+ contact section of the user manual to increase the
+ chances that users actually read it.
+ - Add a FAQ entry for tainted sockets.
+ - More sections in the documentation have stable URLs now.
+ - FAQ: Explain why 'ping config.privoxy.org' is not expected
+ to reach a local Privoxy installation.
+ - Note that donations done through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently
+ can't be checked automatically.
+ - Updated section regarding starting Privoxy under OS X.
+ - Use dedicated start instructions for FreeBSD and ElectroBSD.
+ - Removed release instructions for AIX. They haven't been working
+ for years and unsurprisingly nobody seems to care.
+ - Removed obsolete reference to the solaris-dist target.
+ - Updated the release instructions for FreeBSD.
+ - Removed unfinished release instructions for Amiga OS and HP-UX 11.
+ - Added a pointer to the Cygwin Time Machine for getting the last release of
+ Cygwin version 1.5 to use for building Privoxy on Windows.
+ - Various typos have been fixed.
+
+- Infrastructure improvements:
+ - The website is no longer hosted at SourceForge and
+ can be reached through https now.
+ - The mailing lists at SourceForge have been deprecated,
+ you can subscribe to the new ones at: https://lists.privoxy.org/
+ - Migrating the remaining services from SourceForge is
+ work in progress (TODO list item #53).
+
+- Build system improvements:
+ - Add configure argument to optimistically redefine FD_SETSIZE
+ with the intent to change the maximum number of client
+ connections Privoxy can handle. Only works with some libcs.
+ Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
+ - Let the tarball-dist target skip files in ".git".
+ - Let the tarball-dist target work in cwds other than current.
+ - Make the 'clean' target faster when run from a git repository.
+ - Include tools in the generic distribution.
+ - Let the gen-dist target work in cwds other than current.
+ - Sort find output that is used for distribution tarballs
+ to get reproducible results.
+ - Don't add '-src' to the name of the tar ball generated by the
+ gen-dist target. The package isn't a source distribution but a
+ binary package.
+ While at it, use a variable for the name to reduce the chances
+ that the various references get out of sync and fix the gen-upload
+ target which was looking in the wrong directory.
+ - Add regression-tests.action to the files that are distributed.
+ - The gen-dist target which was broken since 2002 (r1.92) has been fixed.
+ - Remove genclspec.sh which has been obsolete since 2009.
+ - Remove obsolete reference to Redhat spec file.
+ - Remove the obsolete announce target which has been commented out years ago.
+ - Let rsync skip files if the checksums match.
+
+- Privoxy-Regression-Test:
+ - Add a "Default level offset" directive which can be used to
+ change the default level by a given value.
+ This directive affects all tests located after it until the end
+ of the file or a another "Default level offset" directive is reached.
+ The purpose of this directive is to make it more convenient to skip
+ similar tests in a given file without having to remove or disable
+ the tests completely.
+ - Let test level 17 depend on FEATURE_64_BIT_TIME_T
+ instead of FEATURE_PTHREAD which has no direct connection
+ to the time_t size.
+ - Fix indentation in perldoc examples.
+ - Don't overlook directives in the first line of the action file.
+ - Bump version to 0.7.
+ - Fix detection of the Privoxy version now that https://
+ is used for the website.
+
+*** Version 3.0.24 stable ***
+
+- Security fixes (denial of service):
+ - Prevent invalid reads in case of corrupt chunk-encoded content.
+ CVE-2016-1982. Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
+ - Remove empty Host headers in client requests.
+ Previously they would result in invalid reads. CVE-2016-1983.
+ Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - When using socks5t, send the request body optimistically as well.
+ Previously the request body wasn't guaranteed to be sent at all
+ and the error message incorrectly blamed the server.
+ Fixes #1686 reported by Peter Müller and G4JC.
+ - Fixed buffer scaling in execute_external_filter() that could lead
+ to crashes. Submitted by Yang Xia in #892.
+ - Fixed crashes when executing external filters on platforms like
+ Mac OS X. Reported by Jonathan McKenzie on ijbswa-users@.
+ - Properly parse ACL directives with ports when compiled with HAVE_RFC2553.
+ Previously the port wasn't removed from the host and in case of
+ 'permit-access 127.0.0.1 example.org:80' Privoxy would try (and fail)
+ to resolve "example.org:80" instead of example.org.
+ Reported by Pak Chan on ijbswa-users@.
+ - Check requests more carefully before serving them forcefully
+ when blocks aren't enforced. Privoxy always adds the force token
+ at the beginning of the path, but would previously accept it anywhere
+ in the request line. This could result in requests being served that
+ should be blocked. For example in case of pages that were loaded with
+ force and contained JavaScript to create additionally requests that
+ embed the origin URL (thus inheriting the force prefix).
+ The bug is not considered a security issue and the fix does not make
+ it harder for remote sites to intentionally circumvent blocks if
+ Privoxy isn't configured to enforce them.
+ Fixes #1695 reported by Korda.
+ - Normalize the request line in intercepted requests to make rewriting
+ the destination more convenient. Previously rewrites for intercepted
+ requests were expected to fail unless $hostport was being used, but
+ they failed "the wrong way" and would result in an out-of-memory
+ message (vanilla host patterns) or a crash (extended host patterns).
+ Reported by "Guybrush Threepwood" in #1694.
+ - Enable socket lingering for the correct socket.
+ Previously it was repeatedly enabled for the listen socket
+ instead of for the accepted socket. The bug was found by
+ code inspection and did not cause any (reported) issues.
+ - Detect and reject parameters for parameter-less actions.
+ Previously they were silently ignored.
+ - Fixed invalid reads in internal and outdated pcre code.
+ Found with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
+ - Prevent invalid read when loading invalid action files.
+ Found with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
+ - Windows build: Use the correct function to close the event handle.
+ It's unclear if this bug had a negative impact on Privoxy's behaviour.
+ Reported by Jarry Xu in #891.
+ - In case of invalid forward-socks5(t) directives, use the
+ correct directive name in the error messages. Previously they
+ referred to forward-socks4t failures.
+ Reported by Joel Verhagen in #889.
+
+- General improvements:
+ - Set NO_DELAY flag for the accepting socket. This significantly reduces
+ the latency if the operating system is not configured to set the flag
+ by default. Reported by Johan Sintorn in #894.
+ - Allow to build with mingw x86_64. Submitted by Rustam Abdullaev in #135.
+ - Introduce the new forwarding type 'forward-webserver'.
+ Currently it is only supported by the forward-override{} action and
+ there's no config directive with the same name. The forwarding type
+ is similar to 'forward', but the request line only contains the path
+ instead of the complete URL.
+ - The CGI editor no longer treats 'standard.action' special.
+ Nowadays the official "standards" are part of default.action
+ and there's no obvious reason to disallow editing them through
+ the cgi editor anyway (if the user decided that the lack of
+ authentication isn't an issue in her environment).
+ - Improved error messages when rejecting intercepted requests
+ with unknown destination.
+ - A couple of log messages now include the number of active threads.
+ - Removed non-standard Proxy-Agent headers in HTTP snipplets
+ to make testing more convenient.
+ - Include the error code for pcre errors Privoxy does not recognize.
+ - Config directives with numerical arguments are checked more carefully.
+ - Privoxy's malloc() wrapper has been changed to prevent zero-size
+ allocations which should only occur as the result of bugs.
+ - Various cosmetic changes.
+
+- Action file improvements:
+ - Unblock ".deutschlandradiokultur.de/".
+ Reported by u302320 in #924.
+ - Add two fast-redirect exceptions for "yandex.ru".
+ - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for ".plasmaservice.de/".
+ - Unblock "klikki.fi/adv/".
+ - Block requests for "resources.infolinks.com/".
+ Reported by "Black Rider" on ijbswa-users@.
+ - Block a bunch of criteo domains.
+ Reported by Black Rider.
+ - Block "abs.proxistore.com/abe/".
+ Reported by Black Rider.
+ - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for ".black-mosquito.org/".
+ - Disable fast-redirects for "disqus.com/".
+
+- Documentation improvements:
+ - FAQ: Explicitly point fingers at ASUS as an example of a
+ company that has been reported to force malware based on
+ Privoxy upon its customers.
+ - Correctly document the action type for a bunch of "multi-value"
+ actions that were incorrectly documented to be "parameterized".
+ Reported by Gregory Seidman on ijbswa-users@.
+ - Fixed the documented type of the forward-override{} action
+ which is obviously 'parameterized'.
+
+- Website improvements:
+ - Users who don't trust binaries served by SourceForge
+ can get them from a mirror. Migrating away from SourceForge
+ is planned for 2016 (TODO list item #53).
+ - The website is now available as onion service
+ (http://jvauzb4sb3bwlsnc.onion/).
+
+*** Version 3.0.23 stable ***
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - Fixed a DoS issue in case of client requests with incorrect
+ chunk-encoded body. When compiled with assertions enabled
+ (the default) they could previously cause Privoxy to abort().
+ Reported by Matthew Daley. CVE-2015-1380.
+ - Fixed multiple segmentation faults and memory leaks in the
+ pcrs code. This fix also increases the chances that an invalid
+ pcrs command is rejected as such. Previously some invalid commands
+ would be loaded without error. Note that Privoxy's pcrs sources
+ (action and filter files) are considered trustworthy input and
+ should not be writable by untrusted third-parties. CVE-2015-1381.
+ - Fixed an 'invalid read' bug which could at least theoretically
+ cause Privoxy to crash. So far, no crashes have been observed.
+ CVE-2015-1382.
+ - Compiles with --disable-force again. Reported by Kai Raven.
+ - Client requests with body that can't be delivered no longer
+ cause pipelined requests behind them to be rejected as invalid.
+ Reported by Basil Hussain.
+
+- General improvements:
+ - If a pcrs command is rejected as invalid, Privoxy now logs
+ the cause of the problem as text. Previously the pcrs error
+ code was logged.
+ - The tests are less likely to cause false positives.
+
+- Action file improvements:
+ - '.sify.com/' is no longer blocked. Apparently it is not actually
+ a pure tracking site (anymore?). Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
+ - Unblock banners on .amnesty.de/ which aren't ads.
+
+- Documentation improvements:
+ - The 'Would you like to donate?' section now also contains
+ a "Paypal" address.
+ - The list of supported operating systems has been updated.
+ - The existence of the SF support and feature trackers has been
+ deemphasized because they have been broken for months.
+ Most of the time the mailing lists still work.
+ - The claim that default.action updates are sometimes released
+ on their own has been removed. It hasn't happened in years.
+ - Explicitly mention that Tor's port may deviate from the default
+ when using a bundle. Requested by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
+
+*** Version 3.0.22 stable ***
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - Fixed a memory leak when rejecting client connections due to
+ the socket limit being reached (CID 66382). This affected
+ Privoxy 3.0.21 when compiled with IPv6 support (on most
+ platforms this is the default). CVE-2015-1030.
+ - Fixed an immediate-use-after-free bug (CID 66394) and two
+ additional unconfirmed use-after-free complaints made by
+ Coverity scan (CID 66391, CID 66376). CVE-2015-1031.
+ - Actually show the FORCE_PREFIX value on the show-status page.
+ - Properly deal with Keep-Alive headers with timeout= parameters
+ If the timeout still can't be parsed, use the configured
+ timeout instead of preventing the client from keeping the
+ connection alive. Fixes #3615312/#870 reported by Bernard Guillot.
+ - Not using any filter files no longer results in warning messages
+ unless an action file is referencing header taggers or filters.
+ Reported by Stefan Kurtz in #3614835.
+ - Fixed a bug that prevented Privoxy from reusing some reusable
+ connections. Two bit masks with different purpose unintentionally
+ shared the same bit.
+ - A couple of additional bugs were discovered by Coverity Scan.
+ The fixes that are not expected to affect users are not explicitly
+ mentioned here, for details please have a look at the CVS logs.
+
+- General improvements:
+ - Introduced negative tag patterns NO-REQUEST-TAG and NO-RESPONSE-TAG.
+ They apply if no matching tag is found after parsing client or
+ server headers.
+ - Add support for external filters which allow to process the
+ response body with a script or program written in any language
+ the platform supports. External filters are enabled with
+ +external-filter{} after they have been defined in one of the
+ filter files with a header line starting with "EXTERNAL-FILTER:".
+ External filter support is experimental, not compiled by default
+ and known not to work on all platforms.
+ - Add support for the 'PATCH' method as defined in RFC5789.
+ - Reject requests with unsupported Expect header values.
+ Fixes a couple of Co-Advisor tests.
+ - Normalize the HTTP-version in forwarded requests and responses.
+ This is an explicit RFC 2616 MUST and RFC 7230 mandates that
+ intermediaries send their own HTTP-version in forwarded
+ messages.
+ - Server 'Keep-Alive' headers are no longer forwarded. From a user's
+ point of view it doesn't really matter, but RFC 2616 (obsolete)
+ mandates that the header is removed and this fixes a Co-Advisor
+ complaint.
+ - Change declared template file encoding to UTF-8. The templates
+ already used a subset of UTF-8 anyway and changing the declaration
+ allows to properly display UTF-8 characters used in the action files.
+ This change may require existing action files with ISO-8859-1
+ characters that aren't valid UTF-8 to be converted to UTF-8.
+ Requested by Sam Chen in #582.
+ - Do not pass rejected keep-alive timeouts to the server. It might
+ not have caused any problems (we know of), but doing the right
+ thing shouldn't hurt either.
+ - Let log_error() use its own buffer size #define to make changing
+ the log buffer size slightly less inconvenient.
+ - Turned single-threaded into a "proper" toggle directive with arguments.
+ - CGI templates no longer enforce new windows for some links.
+ - Remove an undocumented workaround ('HOST' header removal) for
+ an Apple iTunes bug that according to #729900 got fixed in 2003.
+
+- Action file improvements:
+ - The pattern 'promotions.' is no longer being blocked.
+ Reported by rakista in #3608540.
+ - Disable fast-redirects for .microsofttranslator.com/.
+ - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for .dgb-tagungszentren.de/.
+ - Add adn.speedtest.net as a site-specific unblocker.
+ Support request #3612908.
+ - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for creativecommons.org/.
+ - Block requests to data.gosquared.com/. Reported by cbug in #3613653.
+ - Unblock .conrad./newsletter/. Reported by David Bo in #3614238.
+ - Unblock .bundestag.de/.
+ - Unblock .rote-hilfe.de/.
+ - Disable fast-redirects for .facebook.com/plugins/like.php.
+ - Unblock Stackexchange popup URLs that aren't used to serve ads.
+ Reported by David Wagner in #3615179.
+ - Disable fast-redirects for creativecommons.org/.
+ - Unblock .stopwatchingus.info/.
+ - Block requests for .adcash.com/script/.
+ Reported by Tyrexionibus in #3615289.
+ - Disable HTML filters if the response was tagged as JavaScript.
+ Filtering JavaScript code with filters intended to deal with HTML
+ is usually a waste of time and, more importantly, may break stuff.
+ - Use a custom redirect{} for .washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs\.php\?src=
+ Previously enabling the 'Advanced' settings (or manually enabling
+ +fast-redirects{}) prevented some images from being loaded properly.
+ - Unblock "adina*." Fixes #919 reported by Morton A. Goldberg.
+ - Block '/.*DigiAd'.
+ - Unblock 'adele*.'. Reported by Adele Lime in #1663.
+ - Disable banners-by-size for kggp.de/.
+
+- Filter file improvements & bug fixes:
+ - Decrease the chances that js-annoyances creates invalid JavaScript.
+ Submitted by John McGowan on ijbswa-users@.
+ - Let the msn filter hide 'related' ads again.
+ - Remove a stray '1' in the 'html-annoyances' filter.
+ - Prevent img-reorder from messing up img tags with empty src
+ attributes. Fixes #880 reported by Duncan.
+
+- Documentation improvements:
+ - Updated the 'Would you like to donate?' section.
+ - Note that invalid forward-override{} parameter syntax isn't
+ detected until the parameter is used.
+ - Add another +redirect{} example: a shortcut for illumos bugs.
+ - Make it more obvious that many operating systems support log
+ rotation out of the box.
+ - Fixed dead links. Reported by Mark Nelson in #3614557.
+ - Rephrased the 'Why is the configuration so complicated?' answer
+ to be slightly less condescending. Anonymously suggested in #3615122.
+ - Be more explicit about accept-intercepted-requests's lack of MITM support.
+ - Make 'demoronizer' FAQ entries more generic.
+ - Add an example hostname to the --pre-chroot-nslookup description.
+ - Add an example for a host pattern that matches an IP address.
+ - Rename the 'domain pattern' to 'host pattern' as it may
+ contain IP addresses as well.
+ - Recommend forward-socks5t when using Tor. It seems to work fine and
+ modifying the Tor configuration to profit from it hasn't been necessary
+ for a while now.
+ - Add another redirect{} example to stress that redirect loops can
+ and should be avoided.
+ - The usual spelling and grammar fixes. Parts of them were
+ reported by Reuben Thomas in #3615276.
+ - Mention the PCRS option letters T and D in the filter section.
+ - Clarify that handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok is still useful
+ and will not be removed without replacement.
+ - Note that security issues shouldn't be reported using the bug tracker.
+ - Clarify what Privoxy does if both +block{} and +redirect{} apply.
+ - Removed the obsolete bookmarklets section.
+
+- Build system improvements:
+ - Let --with-group properly deal with secondary groups.
+ Patch submitted by Anatoly Arzhnikov in #3615187.
+ - Fix web-actions target.
+ - Add a web-faq target that only updates the FAQ on the webserver.
+ - Remove already-commented-out non-portable DOSFILTER alternatives.
+ - Remove the obsolete targets dok-put and dok-get.
+ - Add a sf-shell target.
+
+*** Version 3.0.21 stable ***
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - On POSIX-like platforms, network sockets with file descriptor
+ values above FD_SETSIZE are properly rejected. Previously they
+ could cause memory corruption in configurations that allowed
+ the limit to be reached.
+ - Proxy authentication headers are removed unless the new directive
+ enable-proxy-authentication-forwarding is used. Forwarding the
+ headers potentially allows malicious sites to trick the user
+ into providing them with login information.
+ Reported by Chris John Riley.
+ - Compiles on OS/2 again now that unistd.h is only included
+ on platforms that have it.
+
+- General improvements:
+ - The show-status page shows the FEATURE_STRPTIME_SANITY_CHECKS status.
+ - A couple of assert()s that could theoretically dereference
+ NULL pointers in debug builds have been relocated.
+ - Added an LSB info block to the generic start script.
+ Based on a patch from Natxo Asenjo.
+ - The max-client-connections default has been changed to 128
+ which should be more than enough for most setups.
+
+- Action file improvements:
+ - Block rover.ebay./ar.*\&adtype= instead of "/.*\&adtype=" which
+ caused too man false positives.
+ Reported by u302320 in #360284, additional feedback from Adam Piggott.
+ - Unblock '.advrider.com/' and '/.*ADVrider'.
+ Anonymously reported in #3603636.
+ - Stop blocking '/js/slider\.js'.
+ Reported by Adam Piggott in #3606635 and _lvm in #2791160.
+
+- Filter file improvements:
+ - Added an iframes filter.
+
+- Documentation improvements:
+ - The whole GPLv2 text is included in the user manual now,
+ so Privoxy can serve it itself and the user can read it
+ without having to wade through GPLv3 ads first.
+ - Properly numbered and underlined a couple of section titles
+ in the config that where previously overlooked due to a flaw
+ in the conversion script. Reported by Ralf Jungblut.
+ - Improved the support instruction to hopefully make it harder to
+ unintentionally provide insufficient information when requesting
+ support. Previously it wasn't obvious that the information we need
+ in bug reports is usually also required in support requests.
+ - Removed documentation about packages that haven't been provided
+ in years.
+
+- Privoxy-Regression-Test:
+ - Only log the test number when not running in verbose mode
+ The position of the test is rarely relevant and it previously
+ wasn't exactly obvious which one of the numbers was useful to
+ repeat the test with --test-number.
+
+- GNUmakefile improvements:
+ - Factor generate-config-file out of config-file to make testing
+ more convenient.
+ - The clean target now also takes care of patch leftovers.
+
+*** Version 3.0.20 beta ***
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - Client sockets are now properly shutdown and drained before being
+ closed. This fixes page truncation issues with clients that aggressively
+ pipeline data on platforms that otherwise discard already written data.
+ The issue mainly affected Opera users and was initially reported
+ by Kevin in #3464439, szotsaki provided additional information to track
+ down the cause.
+ - Fix latency calculation for shared connections (disabled by default).
+ It was broken since their introduction in 2009. The calculated latency
+ for most connections would be 0 in which case the timeout detection
+ failed to account for the real latency.
+ - Reject URLs with invalid port. Previously they were parsed incorrectly and
+ characters between the port number and the first slash were silently
+ dropped as shown by curl test 187.
+ - The default-server-timeout and socket-timeout directives accept 0 as
+ valid value.
+ - Fix a race condition on Windows that could cause Privoxy to become
+ unresponsive after toggling it on or off through the taskbar icon.
+ Reported by Tim H. in #3525694.
+ - Fix the compilation on Windows when configured without IPv6 support.
+ - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() in case of
+ socks5 connection failures with "debug 2" enabled.
+ - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() if a filter
+ contained nul bytes in the replacement text.
+
+- General improvements:
+ - Significantly improved keep-alive support for both client and server
+ connections.
+ - New debug log level 65536 which logs all actions that were applied to
+ the request.
+ - New directive client-header-order to forward client headers in a
+ different order than the one in which they arrived.
+ - New directive tolerate-pipelining to allow client-side pipelining.
+ If enabled (3.0.20 beta enables it by default), Privoxy will keep
+ pipelined client requests around to deal with them once the current
+ request has been served.
+ - New --config-test option to let Privoxy exit after checking whether or not
+ the configuration seems valid. The limitations noted in TODO #22 and #23
+ still apply. Based on a patch by Ramkumar Chinchani.
+ - New limit-cookie-lifetime{} action to let cookies expire before the end
+ of the session. Suggested by Rick Sykes in #1049575.
+ - Increase the hard-coded maximum number of actions and filter files from
+ 10 to 30 (each). It doesn't significantly affect Privoxy's memory usage
+ and recompiling wasn't an option for all Privoxy users that reached the
+ limit.
+ - Add support for chunk-encoded client request bodies. Previously
+ chunk-encoded request bodies weren't guaranteed to be forwarded correctly,
+ so this can also be considered a bug fix although chunk-encoded request
+ bodies aren't commonly used in the real world.
+ - Add support for Tor's optimistic-data SOCKS extension, which can reduce the
+ latency for requests on newly created connections. Currently only the
+ headers are sent optimistically and only if the client request has already
+ been read completely which rules out requests with large bodies.
+ - After preventing the client from pipelining, don't signal keep-alive
+ intentions. When looking at the response headers alone, it previously
+ wasn't obvious from the client's perspective that no additional responses
+ should be expected.
+ - Stop considering client sockets tainted after receiving a request with body.
+ It hasn't been necessary for a while now and unnecessarily causes test
+ failures when using curl's test suite.
+ - Allow HTTP/1.0 clients to signal interest in keep-alive through the
+ Proxy-Connection header. While such client are rare in the real world, it
+ doesn't hurt and couple of curl tests rely on it.
+ - Only remove duplicated Content-Type headers when filters are enabled.
+ If they are not it doesn't cause ill effects and the user might not want it.
+ Downgrade the removal message to LOG_LEVEL_HEADER to clarify that it's not
+ an error in Privoxy and is unlikely to cause any problems in general.
+ Anonymously reported in #3599335.
+ - Set the socket option SO_LINGER for the client socket.
+ - Move several variable declarations to the beginning of their code block.
+ It's required when compiling with gcc 2.95 which is still used on some
+ platforms. Initial patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
+ - Optionally try to sanity-check strptime() results before trusting them.
+ Broken strptime() implementations have caused problems in the past and
+ the most recent offender seems to be FreeBSD's libc (standards/173421).
+ - When filtering is enabled, let Range headers pass if the range starts at
+ the beginning. This should work around (or at least reduce) the video
+ playback issues with various Apple clients as reported by Duc in #3426305.
+ - Do not confuse a client hanging up with a connection time out. If a client
+ closes its side of the connection without sending a request line, do not
+ send the CLIENT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_RESPONSE, but report the condition
+ properly.
+ - Allow closing curly braces as part of action values as long as they are
+ escaped.
+ - On Windows, the logfile is now written before showing the GUI error
+ message which blocks until the user acknowledges it.
+ Reported by Adriaan in #3593603.
+ - Remove an unreasonable parameter limit in the CGI interface. The new
+ parameter limit depends on the memory available and is currently unlikely
+ to be reachable, due to other limits in both Privoxy and common clients.
+ Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
+ - Decrease the chances of parse failures after requests with unsupported
+ methods were sent to the CGI interface.
+
+- Action file improvements:
+ - Remove the comment that indicated that updated default.action versions
+ are released on their own.
+ - Block 'optimize.indieclick.com/' and 'optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/'
+ - Unblock 'adjamblog.wordpress.com/' and 'adjamblog.files.wordpress.com/'.
+ Reported by Ryan Farmer in #3496116.
+ - Unblock '/.*Bugtracker'. Reported by pwhk in #3522341.
+ - Add test URLs for '.freebsd.org' and '.watson.org'.
+ - Unblock '.urbandictionary.com/popular'.
+ - Block '.adnxs.com/'.
+ - Block 'farm.plista.com/widgetdata.php'.
+ - Block 'rotation.linuxnewmedia.com/'.
+ - Block 'reklamy.sfd.pl/'. Reported by kacperdominik in #3399948.
+ - Block 'g.adspeed.net/'.
+ - Unblock 'websupport.wdc.com/'. Reported by Adam Piggot in #3577851.
+ - Block '/openx/www/delivery/'.
+ - Disable fast-redirects for '.googleapis.com/'.
+ - Block 'imp.double.net/'. Reported by David Bo in #3070411.
+ - Block 'gm-link.com/' which is used for email tracking.
+ Reported by David Bo in #1812733.
+ - Verify that requests to "bwp." are blocked. URL taken from #1736879
+ submitted by Francois Marier.
+ - Block '/.*bannerid='. Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975779.
+ - Block 'cltomedia.info/delivery/' and '.adexprt.com/'.
+ Anonymously reported in #2965254.
+ - Block 'de17a.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3061472.
+ - Block 'oskar.tradera.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3060596.
+ - Block '/scripts/webtrends\.js'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002729.
+ - Block requests for 'pool.*.adhese.com/'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002716.
+ - Update path pattern for Coremetrics and add tests.
+ Pattern and URLs submitted by Adam Piggott #3168443.
+ - Enable +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} for 'tr.anp.se/'.
+ Reported by David Bo in #3268832.
+ - Unblock '.conrad.se/newsletter/banners/'. Reported by David Bo in #3413824.
+ - Block '.tynt.com/'. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421767.
+ - Unblock '.bbci.co.uk/radio/'. Reported by Adam Piggott in #3569603.
+ - Block requests to 'service.maxymiser.net/'.
+ Reported by johnd16 in #3118401 (with a previous URL).
+ - Disable fast-redirects for Google's "let's pretend your computer is
+ infected" page.
+ - Unblock '/.*download' to resolve actionsfile feedback #3498129.
+ Submitted by Steven Kolins (soundcloud.com not working).
+ - Unblock '.wlxrs.com/' which is required by hotmail.com.
+ Fixes #3413827 submitted by David Bo.
+ - Add two unblock patterns for popup radio and TV players.
+ Submitted by Adam Piggott in #3596089.
+
+- Filter file improvements & bug fixes:
+ - Add a referer tagger.
+ - Reduce the likelihood that the google filter messes up HTML-generating
+ JavaScript. Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3520260.
+
+- Documentation improvements:
+ - Revised all OS X sections due to new packaging module (OSXPackageBuilder).
+ - Update the list of supported operating systems to clarify that all Windows
+ versions after 95 are expected to work and note that the platform-specific
+ code for AmigaOS and QNX currently isn't maintained.
+ - Update 'Signals' section, the only explicitly handled signals are SIGINT,
+ SIGTERM and SIGHUP.
+ - Add Haiku to the list of operating systems on which Privoxy is known to
+ run.
+ - Add DragonFly to the list of BSDs on which Privoxy is known to run.
+ - Removed references to redhat-specific documentation set since it no longer
+ exists.
+ - Removed references to building PDFs since we no longer do so.
+ - Multiple listen-address directives are supported since 3.0.18, correct the
+ documentation to say so.
+ - Remove bogus section about long and short being preferable to int.
+ - Corrected some Internet JunkBuster references to Privoxy.
+ - Removed references to www.junkbusters.com since it is no longer
+ maintained. Reported by Angelina Matson.
+ - Various grammar and spelling corrections
+ - Add a client-header-tagger{} example for disabling filtering for range
+ requests.
+ - Correct a URL in the "Privoxy with Tor" FAQ.
+ - Spell 'refresh-tags' correctly. Reported by Don in #3571927.
+ - Sort manpage options alphabetically.
+ - Remove an incorrect sentence in the toggle section. The toggle state
+ doesn't affect whether or not the Windows version uses the tray icon.
+ Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3596395.
+ - Add new contributors since 3.0.19.
+
+- Log message improvements:
+ - When stopping to watch a client socket due to pipelining, additionally log
+ the socket number.
+ - Log the client socket and its condition before closing it. This makes it
+ more obvious that the socket actually gets closed and should help when
+ diagnosing problems like #3464439.
+ - In case of SOCKS5 failures, do not explicitly log the server's response.
+ It hasn't helped so far and the response can already be logged by enabling
+ "debug 32768" anyway. This reverts v1.81 and the follow-up bug fix v1.84.
+ - Relocate the connection-accepted message from listen_loop() to serve().
+ This way it's printed by the thread that is actually serving the
+ connection which is nice when grepping for thread ids in log files.
+
+- Code cleanups:
+ - Remove compatibility layer for versions prior to 3.0 since it has been
+ obsolete for more than 10 years now.
+ - Remove the ijb_isupper() and ijb_tolower() macros from parsers.c since
+ they aren't used in this file.
+ - Removed the 'Functions declared include:' comment sections since they tend
+ to be incomplete, incorrect and out of date and the benefit seems
+ questionable.
+ - Various comment grammar and comprehensibility improvements.
+ - Remove a pointless fflush() call in chat(). Flushing all streams pretty
+ much all the time for no obvious reason is ridiculous.
+ - Relocate ijb_isupper()'s definition to project.h and get the ijb_tolower()
+ definition from there, too.
+ - Relocate ijb_isdigit()'s definition to project.h.
+ - Rename ijb_foo macros to privoxy_foo.
+ - Add malloc_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where malloc()
+ failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
+ - Add strdup_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where strdup()
+ failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
+ - Replace strdup() calls with strdup_or_die() calls where it's safe and
+ simplifies the code.
+ - Fix white-space around parentheses.
+ - Add missing white-space behind if's and the following parentheses.
+ - Unwrap a memcpy() call in resolve_hostname_to_ip().
+ - Declare pcrs_get_delimiter()'s delimiters[] static const.
+ - Various optimisations to remove dead code and merge inefficient code
+ structures for improved clarity, performance or code compactness.
+ - Various data type corrections.
+ - Change visibility of several code segments when compiling without
+ FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE enabled for clarity.
+ - In pcrs_get_delimiter(), do not use delimiters outside the ASCII range.
+ Fixes a clang complaint.
+ - Fix an error message in get_last_url() nobody is supposed to see.
+ Reported by Matthew Fischer in #3507301.
+ - Fix a typo in the no-zlib-support complaint. Patch submitted by Matthew
+ Fischer in #3507304.
+ - Shorten ssplit()'s prototype by removing the last two arguments. We always
+ want to skip empty fields and ignore leading delimiters, so having
+ parameters for this only complicates the API.
+ - Use an enum for the type of the action value.
+ - Rename action_name's member takes_value to value_type as it isn't used as
+ boolean.
+ - Turn family mismatches in match_sockaddr() into fatal errors.
+ - Let enlist_unique_header() verify that the caller didn't pass a header
+ containing either \r or \n.
+ - Change the hashes used in load_config() to unsigned int. That's what
+ hash_string() actually returns and using a potentially larger type
+ is at best useless.
+ - Use privoxy_tolower() instead of vanilla tolower() with manual casting of
+ the argument.
+ - Catch ssplit() failures in parse_cgi_parameters().
+
+- Privoxy-Regression-Test:
+ - Add an 'Overwrite condition' directive to skip any matching tests before
+ it. As it has a global scope, using it is more convenient than clowning
+ around with the Ignore directive.
+ - Log to STDOUT instead of STDERR.
+ - Include the Privoxy version in the output.
+ - Various grammar and spelling corrections in documentation and code.
+ - Additional tests for range requests with filtering enabled.
+ - Tests with mostly invalid range request.
+ - Add a couple of hide-if-modified-since{} tests with different date formats.
+ - Cleaned up the format of the regression-tests.action file to match the
+ format of default.action.
+ - Remove the "Copyright" line from print_version(). When using --help, every
+ line of screen space matters and thus shouldn't be wasted on things the
+ user doesn't care about.
+
+- Privoxy-Log-Parser:
+ - Improve the --statistics performance by skipping sanity checks for input
+ that shouldn't affect the results anyway. Add a --strict-checks option
+ that enables some of the checks again, just in case anybody cares.
+ - The distribution of client requests per connection is included in
+ the --statistic output.
+ - The --accept-unknown-messages option has been removed and the behavior
+ is now the default.
+ - Accept and (mostly) highlight new log messages introduced with
+ Privoxy 3.0.20.
+
+- uagen:
+ - Bump generated Firefox version to 17.
+
+- GNUmakefile improvements:
+ - The dok-tidy target no longer taints documents with a tidy-mark
+ - Change RA_MODE from 0664 to 0644. Suggested by Markus Dittrich in
+ #3505445.
+ - Remove tidy's clean flag as it changes the scope of attributes.
+ Link-specific colors end up being applied to all text. Reported by Adam
+ Piggott in #3569551.
+ - Leave it up to the user whether or not smart tags are inserted.
+ - Let w3m itself do the line wrapping for the config file. It works better
+ than fmt as it can honour pre tags causing less unintentional line breaks.
+ - Ditch a pointless '-r' passed to rm to delete files.
+ - The config-file target now requires less manual intervention and updates
+ the original config.
+ - Change WDUMP to generate ASCII. Add WDUMP_UTF8 to allow UTF-8 in the
+ AUTHORS file so the names are right.
+ - Stop pretending that lynx and links are supported for the documentation.
+
+- configure improvements:
+ - On Haiku, do not pass -lpthread to the compiler. Haiku's pthreads
+ implementation is contained in its system library, libroot, so no
+ additional library needs to be searched.
+ Patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
+ - Additional Haiku-specific improvements. Disable checks intended for
+ multi-user systems as Haiku is presently single-user. Group Haiku-specific
+ settings in their own section, following the pattern for Solaris, OS/2 and
+ AmigaOS. Add additional library-related settings to remove the need for
+ providing configure with custom LDFLAGS.
+ Submitted by Simon South in #3574538.
+
+*** Version 3.0.19 Stable ***
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - Prevent a segmentation fault when de-chunking buffered content.
+ It could be triggered by malicious web servers if Privoxy was
+ configured to filter the content and running on a platform
+ where SIZE_T_MAX isn't larger than UINT_MAX, which probably
+ includes most 32-bit systems. On those platforms, all Privoxy
+ versions before 3.0.19 appear to be affected.
+ To be on the safe side, this bug should be presumed to allow
+ code execution as proving that it doesn't seems unrealistic.
+ - Do not expect a response from the SOCKS4/4A server until it
+ got something to respond to. This regression was introduced
+ in 3.0.18 and prevented the SOCKS4/4A negotiation from working.
+ Reported by qqqqqw in #3459781.
+
+- General improvements:
+ - Fix an off-by-one in an error message about connect failures.
+ - Use a GNUMakefile variable for the webserver root directory and
+ update the path. Sourceforge changed it which broke various
+ web-related targets.
+ - Update the CODE_STATUS description.
+
*** Version 3.0.18 Stable ***
- Bug fixes:
- The scripts in the tools directory treat unknown parameters
as fatal errors.
-*** Version 3.0.15 Beta ***
+*** Version 3.0.15 beta ***
- In case of missing server data, no error message is send to the
client if the request arrived on a reused connection. The client
- Privoxy-Regression-Test supports redirect tests.
- Privoxy-Log-Parser can gather some connection statistics.
-*** Version 3.0.14 Beta ***
+*** Version 3.0.14 beta ***
- The latency is taken into account when evaluating whether or not to
reuse a connection. This should significantly reduce the number of
- The configure script respects the $PATH variable when searching
for groups and id.
-*** Version 3.0.13 Beta ***
+*** 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.
if connection-sharing is enabled.
- A TODO list has been added to the source tarball to give potential
volunteers a better idea of what the current goals are. Donations
- are still welcome too: http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
+ are still welcome too: https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
*** Version 3.0.12 ***
http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy-log-parser/
Documentation is available through perldoc(1).
-*** Version 3.0.9 Beta ***
+*** Version 3.0.9 beta ***
- Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by
the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
config.txt referenced a nonexisting file
- Minor documentation fixes.
-*** Version 3.0.7 Beta ***
+*** Version 3.0.7 beta ***
- Added zlib support to filter content with gzip and deflate
encoding. (Patch provided by Wil Mahan)
- Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent, hide-referrer
and set-image-blocker.
-*** Version 3.0.5 Beta ***
+*** Version 3.0.5 beta ***
- Windows version can be installed/started as a service.
- Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy.
user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
- The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes.
-*** Version 2.9.14 Beta ***
+*** Version 2.9.14 beta ***
- Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
- Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
- #include mechansim for common text in templates
- Various other minor fixes.
-*** Version 2.9.13 Beta ***
+*** Version 2.9.13 beta ***
- *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
- RPM spec file make over.
-*** Version 2.9.12 Beta ***
+*** 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
- Various other minor fixes.
-*** Version 2.9.11 Beta Changes ***
+*** 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).
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-Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2010 the
- Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
+Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2018 the
+ Privoxy team. https://www.privoxy.org/
Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
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