- - The clean target now also takes care of patch leftovers.
-
-*** 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 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.
-
-- 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().
+ 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.