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<!entity p-authors SYSTEM "p-authors.sgml">
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-<!entity p-version "3.0.14">
-<!entity p-status "BETA">
+<!entity p-version "3.0.16">
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- $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.109 2009/07/18 16:24:39 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.118 2010/02/11 13:59:48 fabiankeil Exp $
- Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
========================================================================
<subscript>
<!-- Completely the wrong markup, but very little is allowed -->
<!-- in this part of an article. FIXME -->
- <link linkend="copyright">Copyright</link> &my-copy; 2001-2009 by
+ <link linkend="copyright">Copyright</link> &my-copy; 2001-2010 by
<ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy Developers</ulink>
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.109 2009/07/18 16:24:39 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.118 2010/02/11 13:59:48 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
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time being is still the comments in the source files and in the individual
configuration files. Development of a new version is currently nearing
completion, and includes significant changes and enhancements over
- earlier versions.]]>.
+ earlier versions]]>.
</para>
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<sect1 id="whatsnew">
<title>What's New in this Release</title>
<para>
- <application>Privoxy 3.0.14 Beta</application> is a bugfix-release
- for the previous beta which introduced IPv6 support, improved keep-alive
- support and a bunch of minor improvements. The changes since 3.0.12:
+ <application>Privoxy 3.0.16</application> is a stable release.
+ The changes since 3.0.15 beta are:
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Added the config file option handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok to
+ work around Firefox bug #492459, which causes Firefox to hang
+ if JavaScripts are blocked in certain situations. The option is
+ enabled in the default config file.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Added the config option default-server-timeout to control the
+ assumed default server timeout. Since Privoxy no longer returns
+ an error message for connection resets on reused client connections,
+ assuming larger server timeout values appears to actually work
+ pretty well as long as connections aren't shared.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Added optional support for FreeBSD's accf_http(9). Use the
+ configure option --enable-accept-filter to enable it.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Added fancier Privoxy icons for win32. Contributed by Jeff H.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ In daemon mode, fd 0, 1 and 2 are bound to /dev/null.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Resolve localhost using whatever address family the operating
+ system feels like. Previous betas would try to use IPv4 as this
+ is what most users expect, but this didn't work reliable on
+ GNU/Linux systems.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ In the action lists on CGI pages, actions and their parameters are
+ no longer separated with a space. The action file parser doesn't
+ actually allow this and will throw an invalid syntax error if actions
+ and parameters in the action files are separated. Not adding the
+ spaces means copy and pasting CGI output into the action files works.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The default keep-alive timeout has been reduced to 5 seconds to work
+ around hangs in clients that treat the proxy like any other host and
+ stop allowing any new connections if the "maximum number of
+ connections per host" is reached.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Several webbug URLs that look like they are leading to images are now
+ blocked as image instead of empty documents. Doing the latter causes
+ WebKit-based clients to show a "missing image" icon which may mess up
+ the layout.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Accepts quoted expiration dates even though RFC 2109 10.1.2
+ doesn't seem to allow them. Reported anonymously.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Don't try to forget connections if connection sharing is disabled.
+ This wasn't a real problem but caused an unnecessary log message.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The still undocumented --enable-extended-host-patterns configure
+ option has a better description.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fixed an error message that would claim a write to the server
+ failed when actually writing to the client failed.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Log the crunch reason before trying to write to the client.
+ The log is easier to read that way.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Several log messages about client connections also mention
+ the socket number.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ handle-as-empty-document no longer depends on the image blocking
+ code being enabled.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Privoxy-Log-Parser is roughly 40% faster in highlighting mode.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ uagen, a Firefox User-Agent generator for Privoxy and Mozilla
+ browsers has been imported and is available in the tarballs
+ tools directory.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The scripts in the tools directory treat unknown parameters
+ as fatal errors.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ If you missed the previous two beta versions, you may also be
+ interested in the additional changes since 3.0.12, the
+ last stable release:
</para>
<para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Added client-side keep-alive support. This should also allow
- NTLM authentication through Privoxy, but this hasn't been
- confirmed yet.
+ Added client-side keep-alive support.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
are still welcome too: http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ In case of missing server data, no error message is send to the
+ client if the request arrived on a reused connection. The client
+ is then supposed to silently retry the request without bothering
+ the user. This should significantly reduce the frequency of the
+ "No server or forwarder data received" error message many users
+ reported.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ More reliable detection of prematurely closed client sockets
+ with keep-alive enabled.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE is decoupled from
+ FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING and now available on
+ all platforms.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improved handling of POST requests on reused connections.
+ Should fix problems with stalled connections after submitting
+ form data with some browser configurations.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fixed various latency calculation issues.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allows the client to pass NTLM authentication requests to a
+ forwarding proxy. This was already assumed and hinted to work
+ in 3.0.13 beta but actually didn't. Now it's confirmed to work
+ with IE, Firefox and Chrome.
+ Thanks to Francois Botha and Wan-Teh Chang
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fixed a calculation problem if receiving the server headers
+ takes more than two reads, that could cause Privoxy to terminate
+ the connection prematurely. Reported by Oliver.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Compiles again on platforms such as OpenBSD and systems
+ using earlier glibc version that don't support AI_ADDRCONFIG.
+ Anonymously submitted in #2872591.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ A bunch of MS VC project files and Suse and Redhat RPM spec
+ files have been removed as they were no longer maintained for
+ quite some time.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Overly long action lines are properly rejected with a proper
+ error message. Previously they would be either rejected as
+ invalid or cause a core dump through abort().
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Already timed-out connections are no longer temporarily remembered.
+ They weren't reused anyway, but wasted a socket slot.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ len refers to the number of bytes actually read which might
+ differ from the ones received. Adjust log messages accordingly.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The optional JavaScript on the CGI page uses encodeURIComponent()
+ instead of escape() which doesn't encode all characters that matter.
+ Anonymously reported in #2832722.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix gcc45 warnings in decompress_iob().
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Various log message improvements.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Privoxy-Regression-Test supports redirect tests.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Privoxy-Log-Parser can gather some connection statistics.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<quote>HTTP headers</quote> are, you definitely don't need to worry about this
one.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Headers added by this action are not modified by other actions.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
USA
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+ Mention that the headers added by the add-header action aren't modified by other actions.
+
+ Revision 2.117 2010/01/11 12:56:04 fabiankeil
+ Bump copyright range as p-config.sgml's copyright line is only used in the config file.
+
+ Revision 2.116 2009/11/15 14:24:12 fabiankeil
+ Prepare to generate docs for 3.0.16 UNRELEASED.
+
+ Revision 2.115 2009/10/10 06:19:34 fabiankeil
+ Ditch a duplicated 'since'.
+
+ Revision 2.114 2009/10/10 05:51:48 fabiankeil
+ Update "What's new" section.
+
+ Revision 2.113 2009/10/10 05:48:55 fabiankeil
+ Prepare for 3.0.15 beta.
+
+ Revision 2.112 2009/07/24 12:20:30 fabiankeil
+ Remove duplicated period.
+
+ Revision 2.111 2009/07/18 18:11:11 fabiankeil
+ Don't claim that NTLM should work when there are multiple reports that it doesn't.
+
+ Revision 2.110 2009/07/18 16:25:17 fabiankeil
+ Fix trailing whitespace.
+
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