- Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.20 beta
+ Announcing Privoxy 3.0.31 stable
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-This is a beta release that introduces some new features and fixes a number of bugs, some of which are reasonably significant. One new feature (tolerate-pipelining) is enabled by default. See below for details.
+Privoxy 3.0.31 fixes two security issues that were discovered while
+preparing the 3.0.30 release. The issues also affect earlier Privoxy
+releases.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-ChangeLog for Privoxy
+ChangeLog for Privoxy 3.0.31
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-*** Version 3.0.20 Beta ***
+- Security/Reliability:
+ - Prevent an assertion from getting triggered by a crafted CGI request.
+ Commit 5bba5b89193fa. OVE-20210130-0001.
+ Reported by: Joshua Rogers (Opera)
+ - Fixed a memory leak when decompression fails "unexpectedly".
+ Commit f431d61740cc0. OVE-20210128-0001.
- 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.
+ - Fixed detection of insufficient data for decompression.
+ Previously Privoxy could try to decompress a partly
+ uninitialized buffer.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+ChangeLog for Privoxy 3.0.30
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - Check the actual URL for redirects when https inspecting requests.
+ Previously Privoxy would only check the path which resulted in
+ rewrite results being rejected as invalid URLs.
+ Reported by withoutname in #1736.
+ - Let the hide-referrer code tolerate Referer headers with https:// URLs.
+ Previously they would always be treated like a changed host.
+ - Use the https headers if the show-request handler is reached through
+ https://. Previously Privoxy would use the http headers which
+ may be empty on a reused connection.
+ - Make CGI_PREFIX protocol-relative when building with FEATURE_HTTPS_INSPECTION.
+ This unbreaks (at least) https://config.privoxy.org/client-tags whose
+ buttons would previously use a http:// URL resulting in browser warnings.
+ - Support using https-inspection and client-header-order at the same time.
+ Previously Privoxy would crash.
+ Reported by: Kai Raven
+ - Properly reject rewrites from http to https as they currently
+ aren't supported. Previously Privoxy would wait for the client
+ to establish an encrypted connection which obviously would not happen.
+ - When https inspection is enabled and Privoxy has been compiled with
+ FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION (not recommended for production builds),
+ the TLS backend resources are free'd later on and only if no active
+ connections are left. Prevents crashes when exiting "gracefully" at the
+ wrong time.
+ - Let the uninstall target remove the config file even if DESTDIR
+ is set and properly announce the deletion of the configuration files.
- 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 receving 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.
+ - Allow to rewrite the request destination for https-inspected
+ requests behind the client's back. The documentation already sort
+ of claimed that it was supported by not especially mentioning that
+ it didn't work for https-inspected requests.
+ Fixes SF bug #923 reported by withoutname.
+ - Add support for filtering client request bodies by using
+ CLIENT-BODY-FILTER filters which can be enabled with the
+ client-body-filter action.
+ Patch submitted by Maxim Antonov.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Add the new action suppress-tag{} which can be used to prevent
+ a tagger from adding a tag. Patch submitted by Maxim Antonov.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Gracefully handle existing website keys without matching certificates.
+ This can happen if Privoxy was previously running with an invalid
+ TLS configuration that didn't allow it to create a certificate.
+ - Recycle debug bit 4 for Tagging-related messages.
+ - Improve the message shown when the client-tags CGI page
+ is requested with no tags configured.
+ - Shorten the 'donate' and 'participate' links used by templates
+ using redirects. Currently the redirects lead to the FAQ entries
+ but in the future we may want to relocate the content and using
+ redirects makes this more convenient.
+ - Log an error when a PCRE-HOST-PATTERN is used with
+ FEATURE_PCRE_HOST_PATTERNS disabled. Don't treat this a
+ fatal error so the regression tests can be used with and
+ without FEATURE_PCRE_HOST_PATTERNS.
+ - The code compiles with older C compilers again.
+ - The chdir() return code is checked to fix a compiler warning.
+ - The packages feed has been removed from the source tarball.
+ It's usually out of date when the source tarball is generated
+ for the release.
+ - Fixed harmless compiler warnings from GCC9 with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2.
+ - windows: Remove obsolete '$(DEST)/doc/images' target.
+ - windows: Install the images referenced in the user manual.
+ - Remove obsolete 'gnu_regex.@OBJEXT@' target.
+ - When installing from the GNUMAkefile, don't create an 'images'
+ directory which is no longer used. The images were relocated to
+ the user-manual directory years ago.
+ - Add new FEATURES to the show-status page and resort list.
+ - Remove unused variable in the OpenSSL-specific code.
+ - Update bug tracker URL in cgi_error_unknown().
+ - Saved a couple of memory allocations when sorting client headers.
+ - Improved a couple of error messages.
+ - Saved memory allocations when using OpenSSL and checking if a
+ key already exists.
+ - The configure script will bail out if OpenSSL and mbedTLS are
+ enabled at the same time.
+ - Log a message right before exiting gracefully.
+ - A couple of structures have been rearranged to require slightly
+ less memory.
+ - When https inspection is enabled and the certificate is invalid
+ the error message is now sent with status code 403 instead of 200.
+ - The Slackware rc script template has been renamed to
+ slackware/rc.privoxy.in to silence complaints when building
+ Debian packages.
+ - When building with MbedTLS support, mbedtls_md5_ret() is used
+ instead of mbedtls_md5() which is deprecated and causes a warning
+ on Debian GNU/Linux.
- 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/' whis 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 ouside 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 potentiallly 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.
+ - Block requests to eu-tlp03.kameleoon.com/.
+ - Unblock metrics.sr.ht/.
+ - Disable fast-redirects for .fsf.org/.
+ - Disable fast-redirects for .gravater.com/.
+ - Disable fast-redirects for .ksta.de/.
+ - Block requests to tag.crsspxl.com/.
+ - Block requests to analytics.slashdotmedia.com/.
+ - Block requests to ml314.com/.
+ - Block requests to .adroll.com/.
+ - Block requests to fastlane.rubiconproject.com/.
+ - Block requests to api.theadex.com/.
+ - Block requests to ih.adscale.de/.
+ - Block requests to .s400.meetrics.net/.
+ - Block requests for pp.lp4.io/.
+ - Block requests for trc-events.taboola.com/.
+
+- Filter file improvements:
+ - A allow-autocompletion filter has been added which changes
+ autocomplete="off" to "on" on input fields to allow autocompletion.
+ Requested by Jamie Zawinski in #370.
+ Filter based on a submission by Aaron Linville.
+ - Added an imdb filter.
+ - Added a sourceforge filter that reduces the amount of ads
+ for proprietary software.
+ - Added a github filter that removes the annoying "Sign-Up"
+ banner and the Cookie disclaimer.
+ - Removed a duplicated pcrs command from the js-annoyances filter.
+ - The crude-parental filter now provides a short reason when blocking,
+ inserts a link to Privoxy's webinterface and adds a new line at
+ the end of the generated page.
- 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.
+ - Highlight a few more messages.
+ - Add a handler for tagging messages.
+ - Properly deal with 'Certificate error' crunches
+ Previously the error description was highlighted as 'host'.
+ - Log truncated LOG_LEVEL_CLF messages more gracefully
+ and note that the statistics will be imprecise.
+ - Fixed perldoc typo.
+ - Bump version to 0.9.2.
+
+- Privoxy-Regression-Test:
+ - Use http://127.0.0.1:8118/ as default Privoxy address
+ unless http_proxy is set through the environment.
+ - Add a --privoxy-cgi-prefix option that specifies the prefix
+ to use when building URLs that are supposed to reach Privoxy's
+ CGI interface. If it's not set, http://p.p/ is used, which is
+ supposed to work with the default Privoxy configuration.
+ If Privoxy has been built with FEATURE_HTTPS_INSPECTION enabled,
+ and if https inspection is activated with the +https-inspection
+ action, this option can be used with "https://p.p/" provided the
+ system running Privoxy-Regression-Test has been configured to
+ trust the certificate used by Privoxy.
+ Note that there are currently two tests in the official
+ regression-tests.action file that are expected to fail
+ when using "https://p.p/" as privoxy-cgi-prefix.
+ - Skip the connection-established response in get_status_code()
+ when looking for the status code with a CGI prefix
+ that starts with https://. We care about the status code
+ sent by the impersonated web server.
+ - Use --proxy-header when using a CGI prefix with https://
+ and a "Host:" header.
+ - Allow '|' in tokens and values to allow tag patterns like
+ "TAG:^(application|text)/(x-)?javascript$".
+ - When get_cgi_page_or_else() fails, include the URL of the
+ requested page in the log message.
+ - Added a --check-bad-ssl option that can be used to verify that
+ Privoxy detects certificate problems when accessing the test
+ sites from badssl.com.
+ - Bumped version to 0.7.2
- 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.
+ - Update example output.
+ - Recommend the use of the https-inspection action in the documentation.
+ - Upgrade a couple of URLs to https://.
+ - Add ElectroBSD to the list of operating systems.
+ - Bumped generated Firefox version to 78 (ESR).
+ - Bumped version to 1.2.2.
+
+ - User documentation:
+ - Remove reference to 'How to Report Bugs Effectively'.
+ It was only rendered as text without URL in the README anyway
+ and there's no indication that users read it ...
+ - Let the dok-readme target fix the location embedded into the
+ README file. This used to be done by CVS but since the git migration
+ it has to be done through other means.
+ - Remove 'experimental' warning for client-specific-tag-related directives.
+ They seem to work reliably and there is no obvious reason
+ why we would change the syntax in the near future.
+ - Describe how to check if Privoxy has been built with
+ FEATURE_HTTPS_INSPECTION.
+ - Add a link to the trusted-cas-file documentation
+ that explains how the user can create the file herself.
+ - Don't explicitly mention the license for the code coming from
+ 'Anonymous Coders' and Junkbusters. It's obviously licensed under
+ the GNU GPL like the rest of Privoxy or we wouldn't be allowed to
+ distribute it.
+ - Update the +hide-user-agent example with uagen output.
+ - Slightly improve the wording of the ca-key-file documentation.
+ - Explicitly mention Windows 10 as supported so search engines and
+ users looking for it can find it.
+ - Import a bunch of contributors from the ChangeLog.
+ - Remove obsolete doc/gpl.html.
+ - Upgrade a couple of links to https://.
+ - Don't prefer the SourceForge patch tracker over the
+ privoxy-devel mailing list. While at it, link to the
+ SourceForge patch tracker.
+ - Mention http-inspection in the 'my browser warns me about
+ unauthenticated content' FAQ entry.
+ - Simplify the 'Is there is a license or fee?' FAQ entry.
+ - Add another +redirect{} example.
+ - Explicitly mention that interested sponsors should include
+ the link target in their first mail.
+ - Clarify that only Privoxy team members can object to new sponsors
+ and link to the list of current team members.
+ - Note that sponsor URLs may not contain keyword spam.
+ - Garbage collect doc/webserver/images which isn't referenced anymore.
+ - Update the method to reach the proxy settings in Firefox.
+ - Update proxy_setup.jpg description to refer to Firefox.
+ - Regenerate proxy_setup.jpg with a more recent Firefox (78.0).
+ - Regenerate files-in-use.jpg without obsolete standard.action
+ with modern colors and a slightly better quality.
+ - Update URL to the actionsfile tracker.
+ - Update a support request URL.
+ - Rephrase the 'Can Privoxy run as service' FAQ entry and
+ remove an obsolete paragraph.
+ - Let the 'Where can I get updated Actions Files?' entry link to
+ the gitweb version of default.action.master.
+ - Update a link to the default.action file.
+ - Update URLs for trackers and mailing lists.
+ - Replace CVS reference with git.
+ - Mention regression-tests.action in the config file.
+ - Explicitly mention in the config file that access to the
+ CA key should be limited to Privoxy.
+ - List more client-specific-tag examples for inspiration.
+ - Add additional headers to the client-header-order example.
+ - Note that actions aren't updated after rewrites.
+ - Explicitly mention that upgrading from http to https with
+ a client-header filter is not supported
+ - Note that protocol and host have to be added when rewriting
+ the destination host for https-inspected requests.
+ - Explicitly mention that the CA key is used to sign certificates.
+ - Put openssl command in 'command' tags.
+ - The man page has been moved from section 1 to man section 8.
+
+- Developer manual:
+ - Flesh out the build instructions for Debian.
+ - Remove the packaging instructions for RPM-based systems.
+ They don't work and we don't release RPM packages anymore anyway.
+ - Remove the packaging instructions for Solaris.
+ They don't work and we don't release Solaris packages anymore anyway.
+ - Update the suggested subject for the announce mails.
+ - Update upload instructions.
+ ftp://upload.sourceforge.net is no longer functional.
+ - Remove a couple of package-dependent upload instructions
+ that don't actually work.
+ - Remove 'cd current' that no longer works.
+ - Add regression-tests.action to the list of files that should be installed.
+ - Stop claiming that there are text versions of the manuals.
+ We stopped building them in 2008 (9ed36a3c5e6f12).
+ - Note that the 'webserver' target creates the link needed for the user-manual.
+ - Suggest to use the master branch as reference when creating
+ the ChangeLog so the steps work when the current branch differs
+ from master which is likely as the developer manual
+ suggests to use a local branch for development.
+ - Add the -s flag to the suggested 'git tag' command. We prefer signed tags.
+ - Mention that merges into 'master' should be avoided.
+ - Add git commands that should result in a merge-free history.
+ - Mention Privoxy-Regression-Test.
+ - Add a section id to reduce link churn.
+ - Recommend the dok-tidy target when building docs for the webserver.
+ - Add another plug for the privoxy-devel mailing list.
+ - Let the intro link the copyright section in the user manual instead
+ of giving an incomplete summary of the license status.
+ - Clarify that the webserver target uploads to the SourceForge webserver.
+ - Mark the documentation for the Mac OS X installers as out of date and
+ change the SCM name back to CVS.
+ - Fix the location of the installer modules for Mac OS X.
+ They are not actually available through git (yet).
+ - Don't speak of Privoxy version 3 in the past tense.
+ - Update the list of programs required for the release process.
+ - Update description of the webserver target which uses ssh, not scp.
+ - Remove obsolete reference to config.new.
+
+- Tests:
+ - Add another hide-referrer{conditional-block} test.
+ - Add another hide-referrer{conditional-forge} test.
+ - Fix a hide-referrer{conditional-forge} test
+ that expected an acceptable header to be forged.
+ - Fix a hide-referrer{conditional-block} test
+ that expected an acceptable Referer to be removed.
+ - Explain why the "Set Header = Host: whatever.example.org" test is
+ expected to fail when using a CGI prefix that starts with "https://".
+ - Explain why a connection-sharing test is known to fail
+ when using "https://p.p/" as CGI prefix.
+ - Add a link to Privoxy-Regression-Test to regression-tests.action
+ in case it isn't packaged.
+ - Add regression tests for pcre host patterns.
+ - Fixed a regression test that is executed when
+ FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION is enabled.
+
+- Privoxy infrastructure:
+ - Import a Privoxy logo for the website.
+ - Update Tor onion service to HiddenServiceVersion 3.
+ - Display the "model" photos in a single row and remove placeholder images.
+ - Regenerate homepage with updated sponsor list.
+ - Use the '/sponsor' redirect for the link to the sponsor page.
+ - Git commit messages are sent to the Privoxy-commits mailing list.
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About Privoxy:
Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.
-Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI).
-
-Helping hands and donations are welcome:
+Our TODO list is rather long. Helping hands and donations are welcome:
- * http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE
+ * https://www.privoxy.org/participate
- * http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
+ * https://www.privoxy.org/donate
-At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows(95, 98, ME, 2000,
-XP, Vista), GNU/Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and
-others), Mac OSX, OS/2, AmigaOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and
-various other flavors of Unix.
+At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows 95 and later versions
+(98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 10 etc.), GNU/Linux
+(RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware and others),
+Mac OS X (10.4 and upwards on PPC and Intel processors), Haiku,
+DragonFly, ElectroBSD, 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. Currently not available on all
+ platforms.
- * Supports "Connection: keep-alive". Outgoing connections can be kept
- alive independently from the client. Currently not available on all
- platforms.
+ * Supports IPv6, provided the operating system does so too,
+ and the configure script detects it.
- * Supports IPv6, provided the operating system does so too,
- and the configure script detects it.
+ * Supports tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on client
+ and server headers.
- * Supports tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on client
- and server headers.
+ * Supports https inspection which allows to filter https requests.
- * Can be run as an "intercepting" proxy, which obviates the need to
- configure browsers individually.
+ * 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.
+ * Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both server and
+ client headers.
- * Can be chained with other proxies.
+ * 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.
+ * 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 <quote>web-bugs</quote> and HTML annoyances, etc.)
+ * Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on size,
+ invisible "web-bugs" and HTML annoyances, 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.
+ * 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.
+ * Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the configuration
+ files, and a more sophisticated and flexible configuration syntax.
- * GIF de-animation.
+ * GIF de-animation.
- * Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection).
+ * Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection).
- * User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages (e.g.
- "blocked" page).
+ * User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages (e.g.
+ "blocked" page).
- * Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes.
-
- * Most features are controllable on a per-site or per-location basis.
+ * Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes.
+ * Most features are controllable on a per-site or per-location basis.
-Download location:
- http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118
-
-Home Page:
- http://www.privoxy.org/
+Home Page:
+ https://www.privoxy.org/
- - Privoxy Developers <ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
+ - Privoxy Developers <privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org>
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