- Announcing Privoxy 3.0.23 stable
+ Announcing Privoxy 3.0.25 beta
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-Privoxy 3.0.23 stable is a bug-fix release, some of the fixed bugs
-are security issues (CVE requests pending):
-
+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 3.0.23 stable ***
-
- Bug fixes:
- - Fixed a DoS issue in case of client requests with incorrect
- chunk-encoded body. When compiled with assertions enabled
- (the default) they could previously cause Privoxy to abort().
- Reported by Matthew Daley.
- - Fixed multiple segmentation faults and memory leaks in the
- pcrs code. This fix also increases the chances that an invalid
- pcrs command is rejected as such. Previously some invalid commands
- would be loaded without error. Note that Privoxy's pcrs sources
- (action and filter files) are considered trustworthy input and
- should not be writable by untrusted third-parties.
- - Fixed an 'invalid read' bug which could at least theoretically
- cause Privoxy to crash. So far, no crashes have been observed.
- - Compiles with --disable-force again. Reported by Kay Raven.
- - Client requests with body that can't be delivered no longer
- cause pipelined requests behind them to be rejected as invalid.
- Reported by Basil Hussain.
+ - 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:
- - If a pcrs command is rejected as invalid, Privoxy now logs
- the cause of the problem as text. Previously the pcrs error
- code was logged.
- - The tests are less likely to cause false positives.
+ - 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:
- - '.sify.com/' is no longer blocked. Apparently it is not actually
- a pure tracking site (anymore?). Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
- - Unblock banners on .amnesty.de/ which aren't ads.
+ - 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:
- - The 'Would you like to donate?' section now also contains
- a "Paypal" address.
- - The list of supported operating systems has been updated.
- - The existence of the SF support and feature trackers has been
- deemphasized because they have been broken for months.
- Most of the time the mailing lists still work.
- - The claim that default.action updates are sometimes released
- on their own has been removed. It hasn't happened in years.
- - Explicitly mention that Tor's port may deviate from the default
- when using a bundle. Requested by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
+ - 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:
Our TODO list is rather long. Helping hands and donations are welcome:
- * http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE
+ * https://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,
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.)
+ 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
* 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/
+ https://www.privoxy.org/
- - Privoxy Developers <ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
+ - Privoxy Developers <privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org>
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