*
* Purpose : README file to give a short intro.
*
- * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2009 the SourceForge
+ * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2009 the
* Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
*
* Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
*
*********************************************************************/
-This README is included with the development version of Privoxy 3.0.12. See
+This README is included with the development version of Privoxy 3.0.15. See
http://www.privoxy.org/ for more information. The current code maturity level
-is "UNRELEASED", 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
-Privoxy is between releases. The current code base should be considered
-development quality. Please report any problems to the developers.
-
-February 2009, Privoxy 3.0.11 is released.
+October 2009, Privoxy 3.0.15 beta is released.
-As usual there are changes that effect the configuration. See the "ChangeLog",
-and the "What's New" section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual for
-details and specifics.
+This is a bugfix-release for the previous betas which introduced 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.
-This is a stable release, and marks a departure for Privoxy development.
-
-Previously, odd numbered releases were considered beta versions and were only
-released at the end of the development cycle when the code was already believed
-to be stable. Usually it was, so the stable release contained pretty much the
-same code, but got a higher version number. In the future we intend to release
-several snapshots between stable releases. There will probably still be about
-two stable releases per year, but hopefully about six snapshots instead of the
-two betas we have now. The intentions is to make testing without CVS access
-easier.
+Depending on the feedback it will be either followed by yet another beta
+release, or by a stable release with the same feature set.
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file named 'config' in the current directory (except Win32 which will look for
'config.txt'). If no config_file is found, Privoxy will fail to start.
-Or for Red Hat and Fedora based distributions: /etc/rc.d/init.d/privoxy start
-
Or Debian and Ubuntu: /etc/init.d/privoxy start
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