- Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.12
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-
-Privoxy 3.0.12-stable is primarily a bugfix release.
+ Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.20 beta
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-See http://www.privoxy.org/3.0.12/user-manual/whatsnew.html for details.
+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.
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ChangeLog for Privoxy
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-*** Version 3.0.12 ***
-
-- The socket-timeout option now also works on platforms whose
- select() implementation modifies the timeout structure.
- Previously the timeout was triggered even if the connection
- didn't stall. Reported by cyberpatrol.
-- The Connection: keep-alive code properly deals with files
- larger than 2GB. Previously the connection was closed too
- early.
-- The content length for files above 2GB is logged correctly.
-- The user-manual directive on the show-status page links to
- the documentation location specified with the directive,
- not to the Privoxy website.
-- When running in daemon mode, Privoxy doesn't log anything
- to the console unless there are errors before the logfile
- has been opened.
-- The show-status page prints warnings about invalid directives
- on the same line as the directives themselves.
-- Fixed several justified (but harmless) compiler warnings,
- mostly on 64 bit platforms.
-- The mingw32 version explicitly requests the default charset
- to prevent display problems with some fonts available on more
- recent Windows versions. Patch by Burberry.
-- The mingw32 version uses the Privoxy icon in the alt-tab
- windows. Patch by Burberry.
-- The timestamp and the thread id is omitted in the "Fatal error"
- message box on mingw32.
-- Fixed two related mingw32-only buffer overflows. Triggering
- them required control over the configuration file, therefore
- this isn't seen as a security issue.
-- In verbose mode, or if the new option --show-skipped-tests
- is used, Privoxy-Regression-Test logs skipped tests and the
- skip reason.
-
+*** Version 3.0.20 Beta ***
+
+- 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 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.
+
+*** Version 3.0.19 Stable ***
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - Prevent a segmentation fault when de-chunking buffered content.
+ It could be triggered by malicious web servers if Privoxy was
+ configured to filter the content and running on a platform
+ where SIZE_T_MAX isn't larger than UINT_MAX, which probably
+ includes most 32-bit systems. On those platforms, all Privoxy
+ versions before 3.0.19 appear to be affected.
+ To be on the safe side, this bug should be presumed to allow
+ code execution as proving that it doesn't seems unrealistic.
+ - Do not expect a response from the SOCKS4/4A server until it
+ got something to respond to. This regression was introduced
+ in 3.0.18 and prevented the SOCKS4/4A negotiation from working.
+ Reported by qqqqqw in #3459781.
+
+- General improvements:
+ - Fix an off-by-one in an error message about connect failures.
+ - Use a GNUMakefile variable for the webserver root directory and
+ update the path. Sourceforge changed it which broke various
+ web-related targets.
+ - Update the CODE_STATUS description.
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About Privoxy:
tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user
networks.
-Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GPL2.
+Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.
Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI).
-Donations are welcome: http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
+
+Helping hands and donations are welcome:
+
+ * http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE
+
+ * http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows(95, 98, ME, 2000,
-XP, Vista), Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and
+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.
more control, more privacy and more freedom:
- * Can keep outgoing connections alive and reuse them later on.
+ * 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 tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on client
and server headers.
tracing of rule and filter effects. Remote toggling.
* Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on size,
- invisible "web-bugs", JavaScript and HTML annoyances, pop-up windows,
- etc.)
+ invisible <quote>web-bugs</quote> and HTML annoyances, etc.)
* Modularized configuration that allows for standard settings and user
settings to reside in separate files, so that installing updated actions
* Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the configuration
files, and a more sophisticated and flexible configuration syntax.
- * Improved cookie management features (e.g. session based cookies).
-
* GIF de-animation.
* Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection).
- * Multi-threaded (POSIX and native threads).
-
* User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages (e.g.
"blocked" page).
* Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes.
-
- * Improved signal handling, and a true daemon mode (Unix).
- * Every feature now controllable on a per-site or per-location basis,
- configuration more powerful and versatile over-all.
+ * Most features are controllable on a per-site or per-location basis.
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