- Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.17 stable
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-
-This is mainly a bug-fix release for the previously released Privoxy 3.0.16.
-
-It contains fixes for two bugs that could cause connections to hang under
-certain circumstances when keep-alive support was enabled, until they timed
-out or where closed by the server.
-
-See http://www.privoxy.org/3.0.17/user-manual/whatsnew.html for details.
+ Announcing Privoxy 3.0.25 beta
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+Privoxy 3.0.25 beta introduces client-specific tags and includes
+a couple of minor improvements. It will be followed by a stable
+release in the near future.
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ChangeLog for Privoxy
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-*** Version 3.0.17 Stable ***
-
-- Fixed last-chunk-detection for responses where the content was small
- enough to be read with the body, causing Privoxy to wait for the
- end of the content until the server closed the connection.
- Reported by "Karsten" in #3028326.
-- Responses with status code 204 weren't properly detected as body-less
- like RFC2616 mandates. Like the previous bug, this caused Privoxy
- to wait for the end of the content until the server closed the connection.
- Fixes #3022042 and #3025553, reported by a user with no visible name.
- Most likely also fixes a bunch of other AJAX-related problem reports
- that got closed in the past due to insufficient information and lack
- of feedback.
-- Fixed an ACL bug that made it impossible to build a blacklist.
- Usually the ACL directives are used in a whitelist, which worked
- as expected, but blacklisting is still useful for public proxies
- where one only needs to deny known abusers access.
-- Added LOG_LEVEL_RECEIVED to log the not-yet-parsed data read from the
- network. This should make debugging various parsing issues a lot easier.
-- The IPv6 code is enabled by default on Windows versions that support it.
- Patch submitted by oCameLo in #2942729.
-- In mingw32 versions, the user.filter file is reachable through the
- GUI, just like default.filter is. Feature request 3040263.
-- Added the configure option --enable-large-file-support to set a few
- defines that are required by platforms like GNU/Linux to support files
- larger then 2GB. Mainly interesting for users without proper logfile
- management.
-- Logging with "debug 16" no longer stops at the first nul byte which is
- pretty useless. Non-printable characters are replaced with their hex value
- so the result can't span multiple lines making parsing them harder then
- necessary.
-- Privoxy logs when reading an action, filter or trust file.
-- Fixed incorrect regression test markup which caused a test in
- 3.0.16 to fail while Privoxy itself was working correctly.
- While Privoxy accepts hide-referer, too, the action name is actually
- hide-referrer which is also the name used one the final results page,
- where the test expected the alias.
-
-- CGI interface improvements:
- - In finish_http_response(), continue to add the 'Connection: close'
- header if the client connection will not be kept alive.
- Anonymously pointed out in #2987454.
- - Apostrophes in block messages no longer cause parse errors
- when the blocked page is viewed with JavaScript enabled.
- Reported by dg1727 in #3062296.
- - Fix a bunch of anchors that used underscores instead of dashes.
- - Allow to keep the client connection alive after crunching the previous request.
- Already opened server connections can be kept alive, too.
- - In cgi_show_url_info(), don't forget to prefix URLs that only contain
- http:// or https:// in the path. Fixes #2975765 reported by Adam Piggott.
- - Show the 404 CGI page if cgi_send_user_manual() is called while
- local user manual delivery is disabled.
+- Bug fixes:
+ - Always use the current toggle state for new requests.
+ Previously new requests on reused connections inherited
+ the toggle state from the previous request even though
+ the toggle state could have changed.
+ Reported by Robert Klemme.
+ - Fixed two buffer-overflows in the (deprecated) static
+ pcre code. These bugs are not considered security issues
+ as the input is trusted.
+ Found with afl-fuzz and ASAN.
+
+- General improvements:
+ - Added support for client-specific tags which allow Privoxy
+ admins to pre-define tags that are set for all requests from
+ clients that previously opted in through the CGI interface.
+ They are useful in multi-user setups where admins may
+ want to allow users to disable certain actions and filters
+ for themselves without affecting others.
+ In single-user setups they are useful to allow more fine-grained
+ toggling. For example to disable request blocking while still
+ crunching cookies, or to disable experimental filters only.
+ This is an experimental feature, the syntax and behaviour may
+ change in future versions.
+ Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
+ - Dynamic filters and taggers now support a $listen-address variable
+ which contains the address the request came in on.
+ For external filters the variable is called $PRIVOXY_LISTEN_ADDRESS.
+ Original patch contributed by pursievro.
+ - Add client-header-tagger 'listen-address'.
+ - Include the listen-address in the log message when logging new requests.
+ Patch contributed by pursievro.
+ - Turn invalid max-client-connections values into fatal errors.
+ - The show-status page now shows whether or not dates before 1970
+ and after 2038 are expected to be handled properly.
+ This is mainly useful for Privoxy-Regression-Test but could
+ also come handy when dealing with time-related support requests.
+ - On Mac OS X the thread id in log messages are more likely to
+ be unique now.
+ - When complaining about missing filters, the filter type is logged
+ as well.
+ - A couple of harmless coverity warnings were silenced
+ (CID #161202, CID #161203, CID #161211).
- Action file improvements:
- - Enable user.filter by default. Suggested by David White in #3001830.
- - Block .sitestat.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002725.
- - Block .atemda.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002723.
- - Block js.adlink.net/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002720.
- - Block .analytics.yahoo.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002713.
- - Block sb.scorecardresearch.com, too. Reported by dg1727 in #2992652.
- - Fix problems noticed on Yahoo mail and news pages.
- - Remove the too broad yahoo section, only keeping the
- fast-redirects exception as discussed on ijbswa-devel@.
- - Don't block adesklets.sourceforge.net. Reported in #2974204.
- - Block chartbeat ping tracking. Reported in #2975895.
- - Tag CSS and image requests with cautious and medium settings, too.
- - Don't handle view.atdmt.com as image. It's used for click-throughs
- so users should be able to "go there anyway".
- Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975927.
- - Also let the refresh-tags filter remove invalid refresh tags where
- the 'url=' part is missing. Anonymously reported in #2986382.
- While at it, update the description to mention the fact that only
- refresh tags with refresh times above 9 seconds are covered.
- - javascript needs to be blocked with +handle-as-empty-document to
- work around Firefox bug 492459. So move .js blockers from
- +block{Might be a web-bug.} -handle-as-empty-document
- to
- +block{Might be a web-bug.} +handle-as-empty-document
- - ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 - Block 160x578 Banners.
- - Block another omniture tracking domain
- - Added a range-requests tagger.
- - Added two sections to get Flickr's Ajax interface working with
- default pre-settings. If you change the configuration to block
- cookies by default, you'll need additional exceptions.
- Reported by Mathias Homann in #3101419 and by Patrick on ijbswa-users@
+ - Filtering is disabled for Range requests to let download resumption
+ and Windows updates work with the default configuration.
+ - Unblock ".ardmediathek.de/".
+ Reported by ThTomate in #932.
- Documentation improvements:
- - Explicitly mention how to match all URLs.
- - Consistently recommend socks5 in the Tor FAQ entry and mention
- its advantage compared to socks4a. Reported by David in #2960129.
- - Slightly improve the explanation of why filtering may appear
- slower than it is.
- - Grammar fixes for the ACL section.
-
-- Privoxy-Log-Parser improvements:
- - Also gather statistics for blocked and redirected requests.
- - Provide the percentage of keep-alive offers the client accepted.
- - Add a --url-statistics-threshold option.
- - Also gather statistics for ressources, methods, and HTTP versions
- used by the client.
- - Add a --host-statistics-threshold option to also gather
- statistics about how many request where made per host.
- - Fix a bug in handle_loglevel_header() where a 'scan: ' got lost.
- - Add a --shorten-thread-ids option to replace the thread id with
- a decimal number.
- - Accept and ignore: Looks like we got the last chunk together
- with the server headers. We better stop reading.
- - Accept and ignore: Continue hack in da house.
- - Accept and higlight: Rejecting connection from 10.0.0.2.
- Maximum number of connections reached.
- - Accept and highlight: Loading actions file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.action
- - Accept and highlight: Loading filter file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.filter
- - Accept and highlight: Killed all-caps Host header line: HOST: bestproxydb.com
- - Accept and highlight: Reducing expected bytes to 0. Marking
- the server socket tainted after throwing 4 bytes away.
- - Accept: Merged multiple header lines to: 'X-FORWARDED-PROTO: http X-HOST: 127.0.0.1'
-
-- Code cleanups:
- - Remove the next member from the client_state struct. Only the main
- thread needs access to all client states so give it its own struct.
- - Garbage-collect request_contains_null_bytes().
- - Ditch redundant code in unload_configfile().
- - Ditch LogGetURLUnderCursor() which doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
- - In write_socket(), remove the write-only variable write_len in
- an ifdef __OS2__ block. Spotted by cppcheck.
- - In connect_to(), don't declare the variable 'flags' on OS/2 where
- it isn't used. Spotted by cppcheck.
- - Limit the scope of various variables. Spotted by cppcheck.
- - In add_to_iob(), turn an interestingly looking for loop into a
- boring while loop.
- - Code cleanup in preparation for external filters.
- - In listen_loop(), mention the socket on which we accepted the
- connection, not just the source IP address.
- - In write_socket(), also log the socket we're writing to.
- - In log_error(), assert that escaped characters get logged
- completely or not at all.
- - In log_error(), assert that ival and sval have reasonable values.
- There's no reason not to abort() if they don't.
- - Remove an incorrect cgi_error_unknown() call in a
- cannnot-happen-situation in send_crunch_response().
- - Clean up white-space in http_response definition and
- move the crunch_reason to the beginning.
- - Turn http_response.reason into an enum and rename it
- to http_response.crunch_reason.
- - Silence a 'gcc (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2' warning on i686 GNU/Linux.
-
-- GNUmakefile improvements:
- - Use $(SSH) instead of ssh, so one only needs to specify a username once.
- - Removed references to the action feedback thingy that hasn't been
- working for years.
- - Consistently use shell.sourceforge.net instead of shell.sf.net so
- one doesn't need to check server fingerprints twice.
- - Removed GNUisms in the webserver and webactions targets so they
- work with standard tar.
+ - Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits.
+ - Remove obsolete FAQ entry about a bug in PHP 4.2.3.
+ - Mention the new mailing lists were appropriate.
+ As the archives have not been migrated, continue to
+ mention the archives at SF in the contacting section
+ for now.
+ - Note that the templates should be adjusted if Privoxy is
+ running as intercepting proxy without getting all requests.
+ - A bunch of links were converted to https://.
+ - Rephrase onion service paragraph to make it more obvious
+ that Tor is involved and that the whole website (and not
+ just the homepage) is available as onion service.
+ - Streamline the "More information" section on the homepage further
+ by additionally ditching the link to the 'See also' section
+ of the user manual. The section contains mostly links that are
+ directly reachable from the homepage already and the rest is
+ not significant enough to get a link from the homepage.
+ - Change the add-header{} example to set the DNT header
+ and use a complete section to make copy and pasting
+ more convenient.
+ Add a comment to make it obvious that adding the
+ header is not recommended for obvious reasons.
+ Using the DNT header as example was suggested by
+ Leo Wzukw.
+ - Streamline the support-and-service template
+ Instead of linking to the various support trackers
+ (whose URLs hopefully change soon), link to the
+ contact section of the user manual to increase the
+ chances that users actually read it.
+ - Add a FAQ entry for tainted sockets.
+ - More sections in the documentation have stable URLs now.
+ - FAQ: Explain why 'ping config.privoxy.org' is not expected
+ to reach a local Privoxy installation.
+ - Note that donations done through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently
+ can't be checked automatically.
+ - Updated section regarding starting Privoxy under OS X.
+ - Use dedicated start instructions for FreeBSD and ElectroBSD.
+ - Removed release instructions for AIX. They haven't been working
+ for years and unsurprisingly nobody seems to care.
+ - Removed obsolete reference to the solaris-dist target.
+ - Updated the release instructions for FreeBSD.
+ - Removed unfinished release instructions for Amiga OS and HP-UX 11.
+ - Added a pointer to the Cygwin Time Machine for getting the last release of
+ Cygwin version 1.5 to use for building Privoxy on Windows.
+ - Various typos have been fixed.
+
+- Infrastructure improvements:
+ - The website is no longer hosted at SourceForge and
+ can be reached through https now.
+ - The mailing lists at SourceForge have been deprecated,
+ you can subscribe to the new ones at: https://lists.privoxy.org/
+ - Migrating the remaining services from SourceForge is
+ work in progress (TODO list item #53).
+
+- Build system improvements:
+ - Add configure argument to optimistically redefine FD_SETSIZE
+ with the intent to change the maximum number of client
+ connections Privoxy can handle. Only works with some libcs.
+ Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
+ - Let the tarball-dist target skip files in ".git".
+ - Let the tarball-dist target work in cwds other than current.
+ - Make the 'clean' target faster when run from a git repository.
+ - Include tools in the generic distribution.
+ - Let the gen-dist target work in cwds other than current.
+ - Sort find output that is used for distribution tarballs
+ to get reproducible results.
+ - Don't add '-src' to the name of the tar ball generated by the
+ gen-dist target. The package isn't a source distribution but a
+ binary package.
+ While at it, use a variable for the name to reduce the chances
+ that the various references get out of sync and fix the gen-upload
+ target which was looking in the wrong directory.
+ - Add regression-tests.action to the files that are distributed.
+ - The gen-dist target which was broken since 2002 (r1.92) has been fixed.
+ - Remove genclspec.sh which has been obsolete since 2009.
+ - Remove obsolete reference to Redhat spec file.
+ - Remove the obsolete announce target which has been commented out years ago.
+ - Let rsync skip files if the checksums match.
+
+- Privoxy-Regression-Test:
+ - Add a "Default level offset" directive which can be used to
+ change the default level by a given value.
+ This directive affects all tests located after it until the end
+ of the file or a another "Default level offset" directive is reached.
+ The purpose of this directive is to make it more convenient to skip
+ similar tests in a given file without having to remove or disable
+ the tests completely.
+ - Let test level 17 depend on FEATURE_64_BIT_TIME_T
+ instead of FEATURE_PTHREAD which has no direct connection
+ to the time_t size.
+ - Fix indentation in perldoc examples.
+ - Don't overlook directives in the first line of the action file.
+ - Bump version to 0.7.
+ - Fix detection of the Privoxy version now that https://
+ is used for the website.
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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
+ * https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
- * 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
-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 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, 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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