*
* Purpose : README file to give a short intro.
*
- * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2007 the SourceForge
+ * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2009 the SourceForge
* Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
*
* Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
*
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-This README is included with the development version of Privoxy 3.0.7. See
+This README is included with the development version of Privoxy 3.0.14. See
http://www.privoxy.org/ for more information. The current code maturity level
-is "beta", but seems stable to us :).
+is "BETA", but seems stable to us :).
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Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for
-enhancing privacy, modifying web page data, managing HTTP cookies, controlling
-access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk.
-Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual
-needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and
-multi-user networks.
+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 based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).
+Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GPL2.
+
+Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI).
+Donations are welcome.
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1. IMPORTANT CHANGES
-December 2007, Privoxy 3.0.7 beta is released. This is a significant upgrade
-with many new and enhanced features, and many bugs fixed. See the "ChangeLog",
-and the "What's New" section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual for
-details and specifics. There are changes related to configuration, so anyone
-upgrading and keeping their old configuration should read ahead first.
+Jun 2009, Privoxy 3.0.13 beta is released.
-NEWS! November 2006, Privoxy 3.0.6 stable is released. This is a significant
-upgrade with many new and enhanced features, and many bugs fixed.
+This release introduces IPv6 support, improved keep-alive support and a bunch
+of minor improvements.. See the "ChangeLog", and the "What's New" section and
+the "Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual for details.
-There was and will not be an official 3.0.4 release. This release cycle was
-used to gather our thoughts, play with some new ideas and refine some old ones.
-It will remain a development cycle with no actual release. 3.0.5 is the fruit
-of these efforts.
+Depending on the feedback it will be either followed by another beta release,
+or by a stable release with the same feature set.
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3. RUN
-privoxy [??help] [??version] [??no-daemon] [??pidfile PIDFILE] [??user USER
-[.GROUP]] [??chroot] [??pre?chroot?nslookup HOSTNAME ][config_file]
+privoxy [--help] [--version] [--no-daemon] [--pidfile PIDFILE] [--user USER
+[.GROUP]] [--chroot] [--pre-chroot-nslookup HOSTNAME ][config_file]
See the man page or User Manual for an explanation of each option, and other
configuration and usage issues.
Or for Red Hat and Fedora based distributions: /etc/rc.d/init.d/privoxy start
-Or Debian: /etc/init.d/privoxy start
+Or Debian and Ubuntu: /etc/init.d/privoxy start
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All users are of course welcome to discuss their issues on the users mailing
list, where the developers also hang around.
+Please don't sent private support requests to individual Privoxy developers,
+either use the mailing lists or the support trackers.
+
Note that the Privoxy mailing lists are moderated. Posts from unsubscribed
addresses have to be accepted manually by a moderator. This may cause a delay
of several days and if you use a subject that doesn't clearly mention Privoxy
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