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<h1 class="SECT1"><a name="WHATSNEW" id="WHATSNEW">3. What's New in this
Release</a></h1>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.26</span> changes</p>
-
+ <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.26</span> stable is a bug-fix
+ release for the previously released 3.0.25 beta which introduced
+ client-specific tags and included a couple of minor improvements.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
- <p>accept_connection(): Fix crashes with "listen-addr :8118"</p>
-
- <p>After jbsockets.c v1.136 a valid text representation of the
- host address is required for the $listen-address variable. If no
- host address has been specified, use an empty string to prevent
- NULL pointer dereferences.</p>
-
- <p>The problem was reported by Marvin Renich in Debian bug
- #834941, the offending commit was tracked down by Roland in SF
- Bug #902.</p>
+ <p>Fixed crashes with "listen-addr :8118" (SF Bug #902). The
+ regression was introduced in 3.0.25 beta and reported by Marvin
+ Renich in Debian bug #834941.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>General improvements:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
<p>Log when privoxy is toggled on or off via cgi interface.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Highlight the "Info: Now toggled " on/off log message in the
- windows log viewer.</p>
+ Windows log viewer.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Highlight the loading actions/filter file log message in the
- windows log viewer.</p>
+ Windows log viewer.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Mention client-specific tags on the toggle page as a
potentionally more appropriate alternative.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Documentation improvements:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
<p>Update download section on the homepage. The downloads are
available from the website now.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Add sponsor FAQ</p>
+ <p>Add sponsor FAQ.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Remove obsolete reference to mailing lists hosted at
- SourceForge</p>
+ SourceForge.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Update the "Before the Release" section of the developer
manual.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Infrastructure improvements:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Add perl script to generate an RSS feed for the packages</p>
-
- <p>Submitted by "Unknown":
- https://lists.privoxy.org/pipermail/privoxy-devel/2016-July/000068.html</p>
+ <p>Add perl script to generate an RSS feed for the packages
+ Submitted by "Unknown".</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Build system improvements:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
- <p>strptime.h: fix a compiler warning about ambiguous else</p>
+ <p>strptime.h: fix a compiler warning about ambiguous else.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>configure.in: Check for Docbook goo on the BSDs as well</p>
+ <p>configure.in: Check for Docbook goo on the BSDs as well.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>GNUMakefile.in: Let the dok-user target remove temporary
- files</p>
+ files.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.25</span> beta introduces
- client-specific tags and includes a couple of minor improvements. It will
- be followed by a stable release in the near future.</p>
-
+ <p>Changes between <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.25 beta</span>
+ and the previous release:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
<p>Always use the current toggle state for new requests.
toggle state from the previous request even though the toggle
state could have changed. Reported by Robert Klemme.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Fixed two buffer-overflows in the (deprecated) static pcre
code. These bugs are not considered security issues as the input
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>General improvements:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
<p>Added support for client-specific tags which allow Privoxy
syntax and behaviour may change in future versions. Sponsored by
Robert Klemme.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>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.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Add client-header-tagger 'listen-address'.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Include the listen-address in the log message when logging new
requests. Patch contributed by pursievro.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Turn invalid max-client-connections values into fatal
errors.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>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.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>On Mac OS X the thread id in log messages are more likely to
be unique now.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>When complaining about missing filters, the filter type is
logged as well.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>A couple of harmless coverity warnings were silenced (CID
#161202, CID #161203, CID #161211).</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Action file improvements:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
<p>Filtering is disabled for Range requests to let download
resumption and Windows updates work with the default
configuration.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Unblock ".ardmediathek.de/". Reported by ThTomate in #932.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Documentation improvements:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
<p>Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Remove obsolete FAQ entry about a bug in PHP 4.2.3.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>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.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Note that the templates should be adjusted if Privoxy is
running as intercepting proxy without getting all requests.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>A bunch of links were converted to https://.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>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.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Streamline the "More information" section on the homepage
further by additionally ditching the link to the 'See also'
rest is not significant enough to get a link from the
homepage.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Change the add-header{} example to set the DNT header and use
a complete section to make copy and pasting more convenient. Add
recommended for obvious reasons. Using the DNT header as example
was suggested by Leo Wzukw.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>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.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Add a FAQ entry for tainted sockets.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>More sections in the documentation have stable URLs now.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>FAQ: Explain why 'ping config.privoxy.org' is not expected to
reach a local Privoxy installation.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Note that donations done through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently
can't be checked automatically.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Updated section regarding starting Privoxy under OS X.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Use dedicated start instructions for FreeBSD and
ElectroBSD.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Removed release instructions for AIX. They haven't been
working for years and unsurprisingly nobody seems to care.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Removed obsolete reference to the solaris-dist target.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Updated the release instructions for FreeBSD.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Removed unfinished release instructions for Amiga OS and HP-UX
11.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>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.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Various typos have been fixed.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Infrastructure improvements:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
<p>The website is no longer hosted at SourceForge and can be
reached through https now.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>The mailing lists at SourceForge have been deprecated, you can
subscribe to the new ones at: https://lists.privoxy.org/</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Migrating the remaining services from SourceForge is work in
progress (TODO list item #53).</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Build system improvements:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
<p>Add configure argument to optimistically redefine FD_SETSIZE
connections Privoxy can handle. Only works with some libcs.
Sponsored by Robert Klemme.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Let the tarball-dist target skip files in ".git".</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Let the tarball-dist target work in cwds other than
current.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Make the 'clean' target faster when run from a git
repository.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Include tools in the generic distribution.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Let the gen-dist target work in cwds other than current.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Sort find output that is used for distribution tarballs to get
reproducible results.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>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
and fix the gen-upload target which was looking in the wrong
directory.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Add regression-tests.action to the files that are
distributed.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>The gen-dist target which was broken since 2002 (r1.92) has
been fixed.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Remove genclspec.sh which has been obsolete since 2009.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Remove obsolete reference to Redhat spec file.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Remove the obsolete announce target which has been commented
out years ago.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Let rsync skip files if the checksums match.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Privoxy-Regression-Test:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
<p>Add a "Default level offset" directive which can be used to
a given file without having to remove or disable the tests
completely.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>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.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Fix indentation in perldoc examples.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Don't overlook directives in the first line of the action
file.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Bump version to 0.7.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Fix detection of the Privoxy version now that https:// is used
for the website.</p>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="UPGRADERSNOTE" id="UPGRADERSNOTE">3.1. Note
to Upgraders</a></h2>
-
<p>A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier
versions of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
<p>The recommended way to upgrade <span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is working correctly and finally merge
back your changes using <span class="APPLICATION">diff</span> and
maybe <span class="APPLICATION">patch</span>.</p>
-
<p>There are a number of new features in each <span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> release and most of them have to be
explicitly enabled in the configuration files. Old configuration
configuration files with a new <span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> isn't always possible anyway.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely,
including configuration files, therefore you should really save any
important configuration files!</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing
configuration files, thinking you will want to do that
yourself.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now.
You can change that in the <a href="config.html#DEBUG">debug
more verbose logging until you verified that the new <span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version is working as expected.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Three other config file settings are now off by default:
<a href="config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">enable-remote-toggle</a>,
</ul>
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