- Announcing Privoxy 3.0.21 stable
+ Announcing Privoxy 3.0.28 stable
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-This is a bug-fix release for Privoxy 3.0.20 beta. It also addresses
-a security issue that affects all previous Privoxy versions (on some
-platforms).
+Privoxy 3.0.27 stable scales better in multi-user environments
+and brings a couple of tuning directives.
+
+Privoxy 3.0.28 stable fixes two regressions introduced in 3.0.27.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-ChangeLog for Privoxy
+ChangeLog for Privoxy 3.0.28
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-*** 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.
- - Compiles on OS/2 again now that unistd.h is only included
- on platforms that have it.
+- 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.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+ChangeLog for Privoxy 3.0.27
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
- 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 ***
+ - 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:
- - 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.
+ - 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:
- - 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.
+ - 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:
- - 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.
+ - 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.
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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).
+Our TODO list is rather long. Helping hands and donations are welcome:
-Helping hands and donations are welcome:
+ * https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE
- * http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE
-
- * http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
+ * https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows 95 and later versions
(98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 etc.), GNU/Linux (RedHat, SuSE,
Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware and others), Mac OS X (10.4 and
-upwards on PPC and Intel processors), OS/2, Haiku, DragonFly,
+upwards on PPC and Intel processors), OS/2, 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.
- * 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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