- Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.19 stable
+ Announcing Privoxy 3.0.29 stable
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-This is a bug-fix release for the previously released
-Privoxy 3.0.18. One of the fixes addresses a security issue.
+Privoxy 3.0.29 stable fixes a couple of memory leaks and introduces
+https inspection which allows to filter encrypted requests and
+responses.
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-ChangeLog for Privoxy
+ChangeLog for Privoxy 3.0.29
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-*** 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.
-
-*** Version 3.0.18 stable ***
-
-- Bug fixes:
- - If a generated redirect URL contains characters RFC 3986 doesn't
- permit, they are (re)encoded. Not doing this makes Privoxy versions
- from 3.0.5 to 3.0.17 susceptible to HTTP response splitting (CWE-113)
- attacks if the +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action is used.
- - Fix a logic bug that could cause Privoxy to reuse a server
- socket after it got tainted by a server-header-tagger-induced
- block that was triggered before the whole server response had
- been read. If keep-alive was enabled and the request following
- the blocked one was to the same host and using the same forwarding
- settings, Privoxy would send it on the tainted server socket.
- While the server would simply treat it as a pipelined request,
- Privoxy would later on fail to properly parse the server's
- response as it would try to parse the unread data from the
- first response as server headers for the second one.
- Regression introduced in 3.0.17.
- - When implying keep-alive in client_connection(), remember that
- the client didn't. Fixes a regression introduced in 3.0.13 that
- would cause Privoxy to wait for additional client requests after
- receiving a HTTP/1.1 request with "Connection: close" set
- and connection sharing enabled.
- With clients which terminates the client connection after detecting
- that the whole body has been received it doesn't really matter,
- but with clients that don't the connection would be kept open until
- it timed out.
- - Fix a subtle race condition between prepare_csp_for_next_request()
- and sweep(). A thread preparing itself for the next client request
- could briefly appear to be inactive.
- If all other threads were already using more recent files,
- the thread could get its files swept away under its feet.
- So far this has only been reproduced while stress testing in
- valgrind while touching action files in a loop. It's unlikely
- to have caused any actual problems in the real world.
- - Disable filters if SDCH compression is used unless filtering is forced.
- If SDCH was combined with a supported compression algorithm, Privoxy
- previously could try to decompress it and ditch the Content-Encoding
- header even though the SDCH compression wasn't dealt with.
- Reported by zebul666 in #3225863.
- - Make a copy of the --user value and only mess with that when splitting
- user and group. On some operating systems modifying the value directly
- is reflected in the output of ps and friends and can be misleading.
- Reported by zepard in #3292710.
- - If forwarded-connect-retries is set, only retry if Privoxy is actually
- forwarding the request. Previously direct connections would be retried
- as well.
- - Fixed a small memory leak when retrying connections with IPv6
- support enabled.
- - Remove an incorrect assertion in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list()
- It could be triggered by a pcrs job with an invalid pcre
- pattern (for example one that contains a lone quantifier).
- - If the --user argument user[.group] contains a dot, always bail out
- if no group has been specified. Previously the intended, but undocumented
- (and apparently untested), behaviour was to try interpreting the whole
- argument as user name, but the detection was flawed and checked for '0'
- instead of '\0', thus merely preventing group names beginning with a zero.
- - In html_code_map[], use a numeric character reference instead of '
- which wasn't standardized before XHTML 1.0.
- - Fix an invalid free when compiled with FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION
- and shut down through http://config.privoxy.org/die
- - In get_actions(), fix the "temporary" backwards compatibility hack
- to accept block actions without reason.
- It also covered other actions that should be rejected as invalid.
- Reported by Billy Crook.
+- Security/Reliability:
+ - Fixed memory leaks when a response is buffered and the buffer
+ limit is reached or Privoxy is running out of memory.
+ Commits bbd53f1010b and 4490d451f9b. OVE-20201118-0001.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Fixed a memory leak in the show-status CGI handler when
+ no action files are configured. Commit c62254a686.
+ OVE-20201118-0002.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Fixed a memory leak in the show-status CGI handler when
+ no filter files are configured. Commit 1b1370f7a8a.
+ OVE-20201118-0003.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Fixes a memory leak when client tags are active.
+ Commit 245e1cf32. OVE-20201118-0004.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Fixed a memory leak if multiple filters are executed
+ and the last one is skipped due to a pcre error.
+ Commit 5cfb7bc8fe. OVE-20201118-0005.
+ - Prevent an unlikely dereference of a NULL-pointer that
+ could result in a crash if accept-intercepted-requests
+ was enabled, Privoxy failed to get the request destination
+ from the Host header and a memory allocation failed.
+ Commit 7530132349. CID 267165. OVE-20201118-0006.
+ - Fixed memory leaks in the client-tags CGI handler when
+ client tags are configured and memory allocations fail.
+ Commit cf5640eb2a. CID 267168. OVE-20201118-0007.
+ - Fixed memory leaks in the show-status CGI handler when memory
+ allocations fail. Commit 064eac5fd0 and commit fdee85c0bf3.
+ CID 305233. OVE-20201118-0008.
- General improvements:
- - Privoxy can (re)compress buffered content before delivering
- it to the client. Disabled by default as most users wouldn't
- benefit from it.
- - The +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action checks URL
- segments separately. If there are other parameters behind
- the redirect URL, this makes it unnecessary to cut them off
- by additionally using a +redirect{} pcrs command.
- Initial patch submitted by Jamie Zawinski in #3429848.
- - When loading action sections, verify that the referenced filters
- exist. Currently missing filters only result in an error message,
- but eventually the severity will be upgraded to fatal.
- - Allow to bind to multiple separate addresses.
- Patch set submitted by Petr Pisar in #3354485.
- - Set socket_error to errno if connecting fails in rfc2553_connect_to().
- Previously rejected direct connections could be incorrectly reported
- as DNS issues if Privoxy was compiled with IPv6 support.
- - Adjust url_code_map[] so spaces are replaced with %20 instead of '+'
- While '+' can be used by client's submitting form data, this is not
- actually what Privoxy is using the lookups for. This is more of a
- cosmetic issue and doesn't fix any known problems.
- - When compiled without FEATURE_FAST_REDIRECTS, do not silently
- ignore +fast-redirect{} directives
- - Added a workaround for GNU libc's strptime() reporting negative
- year values when the parsed year is only specified with two digits.
- On affected systems cookies with such a date would not be turned
- into session cookies by the +session-cookies-only action.
- Reported by Vaeinoe in #3403560
- - Fixed bind failures with certain GNU libc versions if no non-loopback
- IP address has been configured on the system. This is mainly an issue
- if the system is using DHCP and Privoxy is started before the network
- is completely configured.
- Reported by Raphael Marichez in #3349356.
- Additional insight from Petr Pisar.
- - Privoxy log messages now use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
- It's only slightly longer than the old format, but contains
- the full date including the year and allows sorting by date
- (when grepping in multiple log files) without hassle.
- - In get_last_url(), do not bother trying to decode URLs that do
- not contain at least one '%' sign. It reduces the log noise and
- a number of unnecessary memory allocations.
- - In case of SOCKS5 failures, dump the socks response in the log message.
- - Simplify the signal setup in main().
- - Streamline socks5_connect() slightly.
- - In socks5_connect(), require a complete socks response from the server.
- Previously Privoxy didn't care how much data the server response
- contained as long as the first two bytes contained the expected
- values. While at it, shrink the buffer size so Privoxy can't read
- more than a whole socks response.
- - In chat(), do not bother to generate a client request in case of
- direct CONNECT requests. It will not be used anyway.
- - Reduce server_last_modified()'s stack size.
- - Shorten get_http_time() by using strftime().
- - Constify the known_http_methods pointers in unknown_method().
- - Constify the time_formats pointers in parse_header_time().
- - Constify the formerly_valid_actions pointers in action_used_to_be_valid().
- - Introduce a GNUMakefile MAN_PAGE variable that defaults to privoxy.1.
- The Debian package uses section 8 for the man page and this
- should simplify the patch.
- - Deduplicate the INADDR_NONE definition for Solaris by moving it to jbsockets.h
- - In block_url(), ditch the obsolete workaround for ancient Netscape versions
- that supposedly couldn't properly deal with status code 403.
- - Remove a useless NULL pointer check in load_trustfile().
- - Remove two useless NULL pointer checks in load_one_re_filterfile().
- - Change url_code_map[] from an array of pointers to an array of arrays
- It removes an unnecessary layer of indirection and on 64bit system reduces
- the size of the binary a bit.
- - Fix various typos. Fixes taken from Debian's 29_typos.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
- - Add a dok-tidy GNUMakefile target to clean up the messy HTML
- generated by the other dok targets.
- - GNUisms in the GNUMakefile have been removed.
- - Change the HTTP version in static responses to 1.1
- - Synced config.sub and config.guess with upstream
- 2011-11-11/386c7218162c145f5f9e1ff7f558a3fbb66c37c5.
- - Add a dedicated function to parse the values of toggles. Reduces duplicated
- code in load_config() and provides better error handling. Invalid or missing
- toggle values are now a fatal error instead of being silently ignored.
- - Terminate HTML lines in static error messages with \n instead of \r\n.
- - Simplify cgi_error_unknown() a bit.
- - In LogPutString(), don't bother looking at pszText when not
- actually logging anything.
- - Change ssplit()'s fourth parameter from int to size_t.
- Fixes a clang complaint.
- - Add a warning that the statistics currently can't be trusted.
- Mention Privoxy-Log-Parser's --statistics option as
- an alternative for the time being.
- - In rfc2553_connect_to(), start setting cgi->error_message on error.
- - Change the expected status code returned for http://p.p/die depending
- on whether or not FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION is available.
- - In cgi_die(), mark the client connection for closing.
- If the client will fetch the style sheet through another connection
- it gets the main thread out of the accept() state and should thus
- trigger the actual shutdown.
- - Add a proper CGI message for cgi_die().
- - Don't enforce a logical line length limit in read_config_line().
- - Slightly refactor server_last_modified() to remove useless gmtime*() calls.
- - In get_content_type(), also recognize '.jpeg' as JPEG extension.
- - Add '.png' to the list of recognized file extensions in get_content_type().
- - In block_url(), consistently use the block reason "Request blocked by Privoxy"
- In two places the reason was "Request for blocked URL" which hides the
- fact that the request got blocked by Privoxy and isn't necessarily
- correct as the block may be due to tags.
- - In listen_loop(), reload the configuration files after accepting
- a new connection instead of before.
- Previously the first connection that arrived after a configuration
- change would still be handled with the old configuration.
- - In chat()'s receive-data loop, skip a client socket check if
- the socket will be written to right away anyway. This can
- increase the transfer speed for unfiltered content on fast
- network connections.
- - The socket timeout is used for SOCKS negotiations as well which
- previously couldn't timeout.
- - Don't keep the client connection alive if any configuration file
- changed since the time the connection came in. This is closer to
- Privoxy's behaviour before keep-alive support for client connection
- has been added and also less confusing in general.
- - Treat all Content-Type header values containing the pattern
- 'script' as a sign of text. Reported by pribog in #3134970.
+ - Added experimental https inspection support which allows to filter
+ https traffic. To enable it, install MbedTLS and configure with
+ --with-mbedtls, or install OpenSSL or LibreSSL and configure
+ with --with-openssl.
+ Afterwards configure the directives in section 7 of the
+ config file and enable the +https-inspection action.
+ Initial MbedTLS-based code contributed by Vaclav Svec,
+ initial OpenSSL support contributed by Maxim Antonov.
+ With help from Nedzad Hrnjica and Ho+ Ho+ Ho+.
+ Integration and improvements sponsored by Robert Klemme.
+ - pcrs: Request JIT compilation if it's supported and
+ the filter isn't dynamic. This can speed up filtering.
+ - Added support for Brotli decompression.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Added FEATURE_EXTENDED_STATISTICS to gather statistics for
+ block reasons and filter executions. To enable it, configure
+ with --enable-extended-statistics and visit
+ http://config.privoxy.org/show-status.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Use the IP_FREEBIND socket option, if defined. This allows
+ Privoxy to bind to not-yet assigned IP addresses which is
+ useful in failover environments.
+ Patch by Sam Varshavchik.
+ - Allow to use extended host patterns and vanilla host patterns
+ at the same time by prefixing extended host patterns with
+ "PCRE-HOST-PATTERN:". To enable this, configure with
+ --enable-pcre-host-patterns.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Added "Cross-origin resource sharing" (CORS) support.
+ This allows to access Privoxy's CGI interface via JavaScript from
+ another domain (white-listed with the new cors-allowed-origin directive).
+ Based on a patch by Nedzad Hrnjica.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme.
+ - Add SOCKS5 username/password support.
+ Based on a patch by Sam, improved by Ivan Romanov.
+ Closes Patch#141 and solves TODO#105.
+ - Bump the maximum number of action and filter files
+ to 100 each.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Fixed handling of filters with "split-large-forms 1"
+ when using the CGI editor.
+ Reported by withoutname in #921.
+ - Better detect a mismatch of connection details when
+ figuring out whether or not a connection can be reused.
+ - Don't send a "Connection failure" message instead of the
+ "DNS failure" message.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Let LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST log all requests. Previously unencrypted
+ requests were only logged with LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST when they weren't
+ crunched (in which case they were logged with LOG_LEVEL_CRUNCH).
+ This was documented behaviour, but logging all requests seems more useful.
+ - Fixed locking around localtime() and gmtime().
+ - Removed OS/2 support. We haven't provided OS/2 packages in years,
+ it complicated the code and it depended on a fallback snprintf()
+ implementation which is GPLv2 only.
+ - Remove the fallback snprintf() implementation
+ Now that OS/2 support is gone we no longer need it.
+ - Fixed a bunch of format specifiers log messages.
+ - Added a missing apostrophe in the 'More Privoxy' menu.
+ - Explicitly prevent use of FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING
+ without FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE. It makes no sense
+ and does not compile anyway.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Fix build without FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Downgrade the 'Graceful termination requested' message
+ to LOG_LEVEL_INFO as it isn't an error.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - decompress_iob(): Downgrade the no-content message to LOG_LEVEL_RE_FILTER
+ While at it, fix a typo in a comment.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Fixed a couple of cppcheck warnings.
+ - Rename LOG_LEVEL_GPC to LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST.
+ Only the shadow knows what "GPC" is supposed to stand for.
+ - Remove SourceForge references in copyright headers.
+ - Upgrade a bunch of links to the homepage to https://.
+ - Add 'no-brotli-accepted' filter which prevents the
+ use of Brotli compression.
+ - Changed license for pcrs to GPLv2+ after getting the
+ permission from Andreas. This allows to redistribute
+ Privoxy under the GPLv3 which is required when linking
+ to future mbedTLS versions which are expected to be
+ licensed under the Apache 2.0 license only.
+ - Updated a bunch of tests that have to expect status code 403
+ now after r1.168/070e904afa5.
+ - Lowercase the host name in the request line.
+ - Only set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH if it's not already set so
+ distributions can overwrite it through the environment.
+
+- Documentation changes:
+ - Explain that Privoxy has to be distributed under the
+ GPLv3 (or later) when linked with an MbedTLS version
+ that is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
+ - Import the GNU GPLv3 and include it the user manual.
+ - Clarify FEATURE_FORCE_LOAD's description. It allows to bypass
+ blocking not filtering and only does it if blocks aren't enforced.
+ Reported by: Robert Klemme
+ - FAQ: Remove Zwiebelfreunde e.V. from the list of fiduciary sponsors
+ As of 2021 they no longer handle donations for foreign organisations
+ due to lack of resources.
+ - FAQ: Remove an obsolete comment with a link to the long-gone PDF manual.
+ - FAQ: Add a link to the TODO list.
+ - FAQ: Change the sponsor amounts to USD slightly rounding the
+ converted amounts up to get simple numbers.
+ Receiving USD is apparently easier for SPI and SPI is
+ preferred by sponsors as they can send invoices.
+ - Advertise the client-tags CGI page in the user manual.
+ - Stop advertising the show-version CGI page which no longer exists.
+ - Add yet another reason why +prevent-compression may cause problems.
+ - Don't claim that contributors need ssh. It's only needed for committers.
+ - Replace obsolete CVS instructions with Git instructions.
+ - Remove an obsolete comment
+
+- Config file changes:
+ - Change the suggested default-server-timeout to 5 to match the
+ suggested keep-alive-timeout. Otherwise using the defaults would
+ result in Privoxy reducing the default-server-timeout and logging
+ an error message.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Update the 'debug 1' description.
+ - Add a missing 'client-specific-tag' directive.
+ - Comment out trusted-cgi-referer pointing to example.org.
- Action file improvements:
- - Moved the site-specific block pattern section below the one for the
- generic patterns so for requests that are matched in both, the block
- reason for the domain is shown which is usually more useful than showing
- the one for the generic pattern.
- - Remove -prevent-compression from the fragile alias. It's no longer
- used anywhere by default and isn't known to break stuff anyway.
- - Add a (disabled) section to block various Facebook tracking URLs.
- Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421764.
- - Add a (disabled) section to rewrite and redirect click-tracking
- URLs used on news.google.com.
- Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421755.
- - Unblock linuxcounter.net/.
- Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3422612.
- - Block 'www91.intel.com/' which is used by Omniture.
- Reported by Adam Piggott in #3167370.
- - Disable the handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok option and mark it as deprecated.
- Reminded by tceverling in #2790091.
- - Add ".ivwbox.de/" to the "Cross-site user tracking" section.
- Reported by Nettozahler in #3172525.
- - Unblock and fast-redirect ".awin1.com/.*=http://".
- Reported by Adam Piggott in #3170921.
- - Block "b.collective-media.net/".
- - Widen the Debian popcon exception to "qa.debian.org/popcon".
- Seen in Debian's 05_default_action.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
- - Block ".gemius.pl/" which only seems to be used for user tracking.
- Reported by johnd16 in #3002731. Additional input from Lee and movax.
- - Disable banners-by-size filters for '.thinkgeek.com/'.
- The filter only seems to catch pictures of the inventory.
- - Block requests for 'go.idmnet.bbelements.com/please/showit/'.
- Reported by kacperdominik in #3372959.
- - Unblock adainitiative.org/.
- - Add a fast-redirects exception for '.googleusercontent.com/.*=cache'.
- - Add a fast-redirects exception for webcache.googleusercontent.com/.
- - Unblock http://adassier.wordpress.com/ and http://adassier.files.wordpress.com/.
-
-- Filter file improvements:
- - Let the yahoo filter hide '.ads'.
- - Let the msn filter hide overlay ads for Facebook 'likes' in search
- results and elements with the id 's_notf_div'. They only seem to be
- used to advertise site 'enhancements'.
- - Let the js-events filter additionally disarm setInterval().
- Suggested by dg1727 in #3423775.
-
-- Documentation improvements:
- - Clarify the effect of compiling Privoxy with zlib support.
- Suggested by dg1727 in #3423782.
- - Point out that the SourceForge messaging system works like a black
- hole and should thus not be used to contact individual developers.
- - Mention some of the problems one can experience when not explicitly
- configuring an IP addresses as listen address.
- - Explicitly mention that hostnames can be used instead of IP addresses
- for the listen-address, that only the first address returned will be
- used and what happens if the address is invalid.
- Requested by Calestyo in #3302213.
-
-- Log message improvements:
- - If only the server connection is kept alive, do not pretend to
- wait for a new client request.
- - Remove a superfluous log message in forget_connection().
- - In chat(), properly report missing server responses as such
- instead of calling them empty.
- - In forwarded_connect(), fix a log message nobody should ever see.
- - Fix a log message in socks5_connect(), a failed write operation
- was logged as failed read operation.
- - Let load_one_actions_file() properly complain about a missing
- '{' at the beginning of the file.
- Simply stating that a line is invalid isn't particularly helpful.
- - Do not claim to listen on a socket until Privoxy actually does.
- Patch submitted by Petr Pisar #3354485
- - Prevent a duplicated LOG_LEVEL_CLF message when sending out
- the "no-server-data" response.
- - Also log the client socket when dropping a connection.
- - Include the destination host in the 'Request ... marked for
- blocking. limit-connect{...} doesn't allow CONNECT ...' message
- Patch submitted by Saperski in #3296250.
- - Prevent a duplicated log message if none of the resolved IP
- addresses were reachable.
- - In connect_to(), do not pretend to retry if forwarded-connect-retries
- is zero or unset.
- - When a specified user or group can't be found, put the name in
- single-quotes when logging it.
- - In rfc2553_connect_to(), explain getnameinfo() errors better.
- - Remove a useless log message in chat().
- - When retrying to connect, also log the maximum number of connection
- attempts.
- - Rephrase a log message in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list().
- Divide the error code and its meaning with a colon. Call the pcrs
- job dynamic and not the filter. Filters may contain dynamic and
- non-dynamic pcrs jobs at the same time. Only mention the name of
- the filter or tagger, but don't claim it's a filter when it could
- be a tagger.
- - In a fatal error message in load_one_actions_file(), cover both
- URL and TAG patterns.
- - In pcrs_strerror(), properly report unknown positive error code
- values as such. Previously they were handled like 0 (no error).
- - In compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list(), also log the actual error code as
- pcrs_strerror() doesn't handle all errors reported by pcre.
- - Don't bother trying to continue chatting if the client didn't ask for it.
- Reduces log noise a bit.
- - Make two fatal error message in load_one_actions_file() more descriptive.
- - In cgi_send_user_manual(), log when rejecting a file name due to '/' or '..'.
- - In load_file(), log a message if opening a file failed.
- The CGI error message alone isn't too helpful.
- - In connection_destination_matches(), improve two log messages
- to help understand why the destinations don't match.
- - Rephrase a log message in serve(). Client request arrival
- should be differentiated from closed client connections now.
- - In serve(), log if a client connection isn't reused due to a
- configuration file change.
- - Let mark_server_socket_tainted() always mark the server socket tainted,
- just don't talk about it in cases where it has no effect. It doesn't change
- Privoxy's behaviour, but makes understanding the log file easier.
-
-- configure:
- - Added a --disable-ipv6-support switch for platforms where support
- is detected but doesn't actually work.
- - Do not check for the existence of strerror() and memmove() twice
- - Remove a useless test for setpgrp(2). Privoxy doesn't need it and
- it can cause problems when cross-compiling.
- - Rename the --disable-acl-files switch to --disable-acl-support.
- Since about 2001, ACL directives are specified in the standard
- config file.
- - Update the URL of the 'Removing outdated PCRE version after the
- next stable release' posting. The old URL stopped working after
- one of SF's recent site "optimizations". Reported by Han Liu.
+ - Block requests to /(.*/)?piwik\.php
+ - Block requests to .connectaserver.de/
+ - Block requests to pixel.inforsea.com/
+ - Block requests to t.vi-serve.com/
+ - Block requests to .ioam.de/
+ - Block requests to t.9gag.com/img.gif
+ - Block requests to .pixel.parsely.com/ as image
+ - Block requests to pixel.wp.com/
+ - Disable fast-redirects for .librarything.com/
+ - Disable fast-redirects for issue.freebsdfoundation.org/
+ - Disable fast-redirects for .twitter.com/.*origin=http
+ - Unblock belco24.de/
+ - Add fast-redirects exception for .wikipedia.org/
+ - Add fast-redirects exception for oss-fuzz.com/
+ - Disable fast-redirects for .consensu.org/delivery/pixel\.php
+ and block the requests as image instead
+ - Unblock .adbinstaller.com/
+ Reported by lvm in #942.
+ - Unblock .adbshell.com
+ Reported by lvm in #942.
+ - Unblock .tagesschau.de/
+ - Disable fast-redirects for collector.githubapp.com/
+ and block requests to it as image instead
+ - Unblock 'ada*.'
+ - Add fast-redirects{} exception for sourcepoint.vice.com/
+ - Unblock adaway.org/
+ Reported by DRS David Soft in AF#945.
+ - Change two block reasons that previously were the same.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Added a +delay-response{} test.
+ - Updated the location of the development version
+ of default.action.master.
+
+- Privoxy-Log-Parser:
+ - Added a --keep-date option to keep the date in highlighted messages.
+ - Highlight new log messages.
+ - Make gather_loglevel_clf_stats() more tolerant. While at it,
+ count all CLF messages as requests, even if the request is invalid.
+ - Only show HTTP version distribution if at least one version has been detected.
+ - Only show crunch statistics if crunches were detected.
+ - Warn if the request counts differ.
+ - Generate statistics if the log only contains LOG_LEVEL_CLF messages
+ so it can be used with vanilla webserver logs.
+ Previously Privoxy-specific "Request:" messages were required.
+ - Align the client-HTTP-version distribution like other distributions
+ - Bump version to 0.9.1
+ - Include status code distribution in the stats.
+ - Let the statistics include the size of the content Privoxy
+ transferred excluding HTTP headers.
+ - Get with the program and expect all requests to be logged with LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST.
+ It's no longer necessary to count both LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST and
+ LOG_LEVEL_CRUNCH messages to get the total number of requests.
+ - Leverage the LOG_LEVEL_CLF message to gather statistics that where
+ previously taken from LOG_LEVEL_HEADER lines. This results in less
+ confusing results if https inspection is enabled in which case there
+ are two LOG_LEVEL_HEADER lines with request lines.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Properly highlight the filter results message. Previously a brace got lost.
+ - Prefer the number of CLF lines to get the total number of requests
+ as it works with older Privoxy versions as well.
- Privoxy-Regression-Test:
- - Added --shuffle-tests option to increase the chances of detection race conditions.
- - Added a --local-test-file option that allows to use Privoxy-Regression-Test without Privoxy.
- - Added tests for missing socks4 and socks4a forwarders.
- - The --privoxy-address option now works with IPv6 addresses containing brackets, too.
- - Perform limited sanity checks for parameters that are supposed to have numerical values.
- - Added a --sleep-time option to specify a number of seconds to
- sleep between tests, defaults to 0.
- - Disable the range-requests tagger for tests that break if it's enabled.
- - Log messages use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
- - Fix spelling in two error messages.
- - In the --help output, include a list of supported tests and their default levels.
- - Adjust the tests to properly deal with FEATURE_TOGGLE being disabled.
+ - Turn curl's globbing mode off so we can allow more characters in URLs.
+ - Allow '[' and ']' in URLs.
+ - Include the action file when complaining about missing Sticky Actions.
+ - Fix a sentence in the documentation.
+ - Bump version to 0.7.1
+
+- url-pattern-translator:
+ - Detect a couple of pattern prefixes case-insensitively.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Skip CLIENT-TAG patterns.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Skip patterns that have already been converted.
+ It should now be safe to "convert" a file multiple times.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
+ - Add the new 'PCRE-HOST-PATTERN:' prefix.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
-- Privoxy-Log-Parser:
- - Perform limited sanity checks for command line parameters that
- are supposed to have numerical values.
- - Implement a --unbreak-lines-only option to try to revert MUA breakage.
- - Accept and highlight: Added header: Content-Encoding: deflate
- - Accept and highlight: Compressed content from 29258 to 8630 bytes.
- - Accept and highlight: Client request arrived in time on socket 21.
- - Highlight: Didn't receive data in time: a.fsdn.com:443
- - Accept log messages with ISO 8601 time stamps, too.
-
-- uagen:
- - Bump generated Firefox version to 8.0.
- - Only randomize the release date if the new --randomize-release-date
- option is enabled. Firefox versions after 4 use a fixed date string
- without meaning.
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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), 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.
+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), 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.
+ * Supports https inspection which allows to filter https requests.
- * 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>