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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 3.0.21</span> stable is a bug-fix
- release for Privoxy 3.0.20 beta. It also addresses a security issue that
- affects all previous Privoxy versions (on some platforms). The changes
- since 3.0.20 beta are:</p>
-
+ <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="WHATSNEW" id="WHATSNEW">3. What's New in this Release</a></h1>
+ <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.30</span> fixes a couple of bugs and introduces a few new features.</p>
+ <p>Changes in <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.30</span> stable:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
- <p>On POSIX-like platforms, network sockets with file descriptor
- values above FD_SETSIZE are properly rejected. Previously they
- could cause memory corruption in configurations that allowed the
- limit to be reached.</p>
+ <p>Check the actual URL for redirects when https inspecting requests. Previously Privoxy would only check
+ the path which resulted in rewrite results being rejected as invalid URLs. Reported by withoutname in
+ #1736.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Compiles on OS/2 again now that unistd.h is only included on
- platforms that have it.</p>
+ <p>Let the hide-referrer code tolerate Referer headers with https:// URLs. Previously they would always be
+ treated like a changed host.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>General improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>The show-status page shows the FEATURE_STRPTIME_SANITY_CHECKS
- status.</p>
+ <p>Use the https headers if the show-request handler is reached through https://. Previously Privoxy would
+ use the http headers which may be empty on a reused connection.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>A couple of assert()s that could theoretically dereference
- NULL pointers in debug builds have been relocated.</p>
+ <p>Make CGI_PREFIX protocol-relative when building with FEATURE_HTTPS_INSPECTION. This unbreaks (at least)
+ https://config.privoxy.org/client-tags whose buttons would previously use a http:// URL resulting in
+ browser warnings.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Added an LSB info block to the generic start script. Based on
- a patch from Natxo Asenjo.</p>
+ <p>Support using https-inspection and client-header-order at the same time. Previously Privoxy would crash.
+ Reported by: Kai Raven</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>The max-client-connections default has been changed to 128
- which should be more than enough for most setups.</p>
+ <p>Properly reject rewrites from http to https as they currently aren't supported. Previously Privoxy would
+ wait for the client to establish an encrypted connection which obviously would not happen.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Action file improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Block rover.ebay./ar.*\&adtype= instead of
- "/.*\&adtype=" which caused too man false positives. Reported
- by u302320 in #360284, additional feedback from Adam Piggott.</p>
- </li>
-
<li>
- <p>Unblock '.advrider.com/' and '/.*ADVrider'. Anonymously
- reported in #3603636.</p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>Stop blocking '/js/slider\.js'.
- Reported by Adam Piggott in #3606635 and _lvm in #2791160.</p>
+ <p>When https inspection is enabled and Privoxy has been compiled with FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION (not
+ recommended for production builds), the TLS backend resources are free'd later on and only if no active
+ connections are left. Prevents crashes when exiting "gracefully" at the wrong time.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Filter file improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Added an iframes filter.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Documentation improvements:</p>
-
+ <p>General improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>The whole GPLv2 text is included in the user manual now, so
- Privoxy can serve it itself and the user can read it without
- having to wade through GPLv3 ads first.</p>
+ <p>Allow to rewrite the request destination for https-inspected requests behind the client's back. The
+ documentation already sort of claimed that it was supported by not especially mentioning that it didn't
+ work for https-inspected requests. Fixes SF bug #923 reported by withoutname.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Properly numbered and underlined a couple of section titles in
- the config that where previously overlooked due to a flaw in the
- conversion script. Reported by Ralf Jungblut.</p>
+ <p>Add support for filtering client request bodies by using CLIENT-BODY-FILTER filters which can be enabled
+ with the client-body-filter action. Patch submitted by Maxim Antonov. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Improved the support instruction to hopefully make it harder
- to unintentionally provide insufficient information when
- requesting support. Previously it wasn't obvious that the
- information we need in bug reports is usually also required in
- support requests.</p>
+ <p>Add the new action suppress-tag{} which can be used to prevent a tagger from adding a tag. Patch
+ submitted by Maxim Antonov. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme</p>
</li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Removed documentation about packages that haven't been
- provided in years.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Privoxy-Regression-Test:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>Only log the test number when not running in verbose mode The
- position of the test is rarely relevant and it previously wasn't
- exactly obvious which one of the numbers was useful to repeat the
- test with --test-number.</p>
+ <p>Gracefully handle existing website keys without matching certificates. This can happen if Privoxy was
+ previously running with an invalid TLS configuration that didn't allow it to create a certificate.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>GNUmakefile improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>Factor generate-config-file out of config-file to make testing
- more convenient.</p>
+ <p>Recycle debug bit 4 for Tagging-related messages.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>The clean target now also takes care of patch leftovers.</p>
+ <p>Improve the message shown when the client-tags CGI page is requested with no tags configured.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.20</span> beta contained the
- following changes compared to the previous stable release:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Bug fixes:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Shorten the 'donate' and 'participate' links used by templates using redirects. Currently the redirects
+ lead to the FAQ entries but in the future we may want to relocate the content and using redirects makes
+ this more convenient.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Log an error when a PCRE-HOST-PATTERN is used with FEATURE_PCRE_HOST_PATTERNS disabled. Don't treat this
+ a fatal error so the regression tests can be used with and without FEATURE_PCRE_HOST_PATTERNS.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>The code compiles with older C compilers again.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>The default-server-timeout and socket-timeout directives
- accept 0 as valid value.</p>
+ <p>The chdir() return code is checked to fix a compiler warning.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>The packages feed has been removed from the source tarball. It's usually out of date when the source
+ tarball is generated for the release.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Fix the compilation on Windows when configured without IPv6
- support.</p>
+ <p>Fixed harmless compiler warnings from GCC9 with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() in
- case of socks5 connection failures with "debug 2" enabled.</p>
+ <p>windows: Remove obsolete '$(DEST)/doc/images' target.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() if a
- filter contained nul bytes in the replacement text.</p>
+ <p>windows: Install the images referenced in the user manual.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>General improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>Significantly improved keep-alive support for both client and
- server connections.</p>
+ <p>Remove obsolete 'gnu_regex.@OBJEXT@' target.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>New debug log level 65536 which logs all actions that were
- applied to the request.</p>
+ <p>When installing from the GNUMAkefile, don't create an 'images' directory which is no longer used. The
+ images were relocated to the user-manual directory years ago.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>New directive client-header-order to forward client headers in
- a different order than the one in which they arrived.</p>
+ <p>Add new FEATURES to the show-status page and resort list.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Remove unused variable in the OpenSSL-specific code.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Update bug tracker URL in cgi_error_unknown().</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>New limit-cookie-lifetime{} action to let cookies expire
- before the end of the session. Suggested by Rick Sykes in
- #1049575.</p>
+ <p>Saved a couple of memory allocations when sorting client headers.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Improved a couple of error messages.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Saved memory allocations when using OpenSSL and checking if a key already exists.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>The configure script will bail out if OpenSSL and mbedTLS are enabled at the same time.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Log a message right before exiting gracefully.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>A couple of structures have been rearranged to require slightly less memory.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>When https inspection is enabled and the certificate is invalid the error message is now sent with
+ status code 403 instead of 200.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>The Slackware rc script template has been renamed to slackware/rc.privoxy.in to silence complaints when
+ building Debian packages.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Set the socket option SO_LINGER for the client socket.</p>
+ <p>When building with MbedTLS support, mbedtls_md5_ret() is used instead of mbedtls_md5() which is
+ deprecated and causes a warning on Debian GNU/Linux.</p>
</li>
-
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Action file improvements:</p>
+ <ul>
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Block requests to eu-tlp03.kameleoon.com/.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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).</p>
+ <p>Unblock metrics.sr.ht/.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Disable fast-redirects for .fsf.org/.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Disable fast-redirects for .gravater.com/.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Allow closing curly braces as part of action values as long as
- they are escaped.</p>
+ <p>Disable fast-redirects for .ksta.de/.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Block requests to tag.crsspxl.com/.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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@.</p>
+ <p>Block requests to analytics.slashdotmedia.com/.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Decrease the chances of parse failures after requests with
- unsupported methods were sent to the CGI interface.</p>
+ <p>Block requests to ml314.com/.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Action file improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>Remove the comment that indicated that updated default.action
- versions are released on their own.</p>
+ <p>Block requests to .adroll.com/.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Block 'optimize.indieclick.com/' and
- 'optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/'</p>
+ <p>Block requests to fastlane.rubiconproject.com/.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Unblock 'adjamblog.wordpress.com/' and
- 'adjamblog.files.wordpress.com/'. Reported by Ryan Farmer in
- #3496116.</p>
+ <p>Block requests to api.theadex.com/.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Unblock '/.*Bugtracker'. Reported by pwhk in #3522341.</p>
+ <p>Block requests to ih.adscale.de/.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Add test URLs for '.freebsd.org' and '.watson.org'.</p>
+ <p>Block requests to .s400.meetrics.net/.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Unblock '.urbandictionary.com/popular'.</p>
+ <p>Block requests for pp.lp4.io/.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Block '.adnxs.com/'.</p>
+ <p>Block requests for trc-events.taboola.com/.</p>
</li>
-
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Filter file improvements:</p>
+ <ul>
<li>
- <p>Block 'farm.plista.com/widgetdata.php'.</p>
+ <p>A allow-autocompletion filter has been added which changes autocomplete="off" to "on" on input fields to
+ allow autocompletion. Requested by Jamie Zawinski in #370. Filter based on a submission by Aaron
+ Linville.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Block 'rotation.linuxnewmedia.com/'.</p>
+ <p>Added an imdb filter.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Block 'reklamy.sfd.pl/'. Reported by kacperdominik in
- #3399948.</p>
+ <p>Added a sourceforge filter that reduces the amount of ads for proprietary software.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Block 'g.adspeed.net/'.</p>
+ <p>Added a github filter that removes the annoying "Sign-Up" banner and the Cookie disclaimer.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Unblock 'websupport.wdc.com/'. Reported by Adam Piggot in
- #3577851.</p>
+ <p>Removed a duplicated pcrs command from the js-annoyances filter.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Block '/openx/www/delivery/'.</p>
+ <p>The crude-parental filter now provides a short reason when blocking, inserts a link to Privoxy's
+ webinterface and adds a new line at the end of the generated page.</p>
</li>
-
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Privoxy-Log-Parser:</p>
+ <ul>
<li>
- <p>Disable fast-redirects for '.googleapis.com/'.</p>
+ <p>Highlight a few more messages.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Block 'imp.double.net/'. Reported by David Bo in #3070411.</p>
+ <p>Add a handler for tagging messages.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Block 'gm-link.com/' which is used for email tracking.
- Reported by David Bo in #1812733.</p>
+ <p>Properly deal with 'Certificate error' crunches Previously the error description was highlighted as
+ 'host'.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Verify that requests to "bwp." are blocked. URL taken from
- #1736879 submitted by Francois Marier.</p>
+ <p>Log truncated LOG_LEVEL_CLF messages more gracefully and note that the statistics will be imprecise.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Block '/.*bannerid='. Reported by Adam Piggott in
- #2975779.</p>
+ <p>Fixed perldoc typo.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Block 'cltomedia.info/delivery/' and '.adexprt.com/'.
- Anonymously reported in #2965254.</p>
+ <p>Bump version to 0.9.2.</p>
</li>
-
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Privoxy-Regression-Test:</p>
+ <ul>
<li>
- <p>Block 'de17a.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3061472.</p>
+ <p>Use http://127.0.0.1:8118/ as default Privoxy address unless http_proxy is set through the
+ environment.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Block 'oskar.tradera.com/'. Reported by David Bo in
- #3060596.</p>
+ <p>Add a --privoxy-cgi-prefix option that specifies the prefix to use when building URLs that are supposed
+ to reach Privoxy's CGI interface. If it's not set, http://p.p/ is used, which is supposed to work with the
+ default Privoxy configuration. If Privoxy has been built with FEATURE_HTTPS_INSPECTION enabled, and if
+ https inspection is activated with the +https-inspection action, this option can be used with
+ "https://p.p/" provided the system running Privoxy-Regression-Test has been configured to trust the
+ certificate used by Privoxy. Note that there are currently two tests in the official
+ regression-tests.action file that are expected to fail when using "https://p.p/" as privoxy-cgi-prefix.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Block '/scripts/webtrends\.js'. Reported by johnd16 in
- #3002729.</p>
+ <p>Skip the connection-established response in get_status_code() when looking for the status code with a
+ CGI prefix that starts with https://. We care about the status code sent by the impersonated web
+ server.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Block requests for 'pool.*.adhese.com/'. Reported by johnd16
- in #3002716.</p>
+ <p>Use --proxy-header when using a CGI prefix with https:// and a "Host:" header.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Update path pattern for Coremetrics and add tests. Pattern and
- URLs submitted by Adam Piggott #3168443.</p>
+ <p>Allow '|' in tokens and values to allow tag patterns like
+ "TAG:^(application|text)/(x-)?javascript$".</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Enable +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} for 'tr.anp.se/'.
- Reported by David Bo in #3268832.</p>
+ <p>When get_cgi_page_or_else() fails, include the URL of the requested page in the log message.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Unblock '.conrad.se/newsletter/banners/'. Reported by David Bo
- in #3413824.</p>
+ <p>Added a --check-bad-ssl option that can be used to verify that Privoxy detects certificate problems when
+ accessing the test sites from badssl.com.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Block '.tynt.com/'. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421767.</p>
+ <p>Bumped version to 0.7.2</p>
</li>
-
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>uagen:</p>
+ <ul>
<li>
- <p>Unblock '.bbci.co.uk/radio/'. Reported by Adam Piggott in
- #3569603.</p>
+ <p>Update example output.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Block requests to 'service.maxymiser.net/'. Reported by
- johnd16 in #3118401 (with a previous URL).</p>
+ <p>Recommend the use of the https-inspection action in the documentation.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Disable fast-redirects for Google's "let's pretend your
- computer is infected" page.</p>
+ <p>Upgrade a couple of URLs to https://.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Unblock '/.*download' to resolve actionsfile feedback
- #3498129. Submitted by Steven Kolins (soundcloud.com not
- working).</p>
+ <p>Add ElectroBSD to the list of operating systems.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Unblock '.wlxrs.com/' which is required by hotmail.com. Fixes
- #3413827 submitted by David Bo.</p>
+ <p>Bumped generated Firefox version to 78 (ESR).</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Add two unblock patterns for popup radio and TV players.
- Submitted by Adam Piggott in #3596089.</p>
+ <p>Bumped version to 1.2.2.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Filter file improvements & bug fixes:</p>
-
+ <p>User documentation:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Add a referer tagger.</p>
+ <p>Remove reference to 'How to Report Bugs Effectively'. It was only rendered as text without URL in the
+ README anyway and there's no indication that users read it ...</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Reduce the likelihood that the google filter messes up
- HTML-generating JavaScript. Reported by Zeno Kugy in
- #3520260.</p>
+ <p>Let the dok-readme target fix the location embedded into the README file. This used to be done by CVS
+ but since the git migration it has to be done through other means.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Documentation improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>Revised all OS X sections due to new packaging module
- (OSXPackageBuilder).</p>
+ <p>Remove 'experimental' warning for client-specific-tag-related directives. They seem to work reliably and
+ there is no obvious reason why we would change the syntax in the near future.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Describe how to check if Privoxy has been built with FEATURE_HTTPS_INSPECTION.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Update 'Signals' section, the only explicitly handled signals
- are SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGHUP.</p>
+ <p>Add a link to the trusted-cas-file documentation that explains how the user can create the file
+ herself.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Add Haiku to the list of operating systems on which Privoxy is
- known to run.</p>
+ <p>Don't explicitly mention the license for the code coming from 'Anonymous Coders' and Junkbusters. It's
+ obviously licensed under the GNU GPL like the rest of Privoxy or we wouldn't be allowed to distribute
+ it.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Add DragonFly to the list of BSDs on which Privoxy is known to
- run.</p>
+ <p>Update the +hide-user-agent example with uagen output.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Removed references to redhat-specific documentation set since
- it no longer exists.</p>
+ <p>Slightly improve the wording of the ca-key-file documentation.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Removed references to building PDFs since we no longer do
- so.</p>
+ <p>Explicitly mention Windows 10 as supported so search engines and users looking for it can find it.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Multiple listen-address directives are supported since 3.0.18,
- correct the documentation to say so.</p>
+ <p>Import a bunch of contributors from the ChangeLog.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Remove bogus section about long and short being preferable to
- int.</p>
+ <p>Remove obsolete doc/gpl.html.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Corrected some Internet JunkBuster references to Privoxy.</p>
+ <p>Upgrade a couple of links to https://.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Removed references to www.junkbusters.com since it is no
- longer maintained. Reported by Angelina Matson.</p>
+ <p>Don't prefer the SourceForge patch tracker over the privoxy-devel mailing list. While at it, link to the
+ SourceForge patch tracker.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Various grammar and spelling corrections</p>
+ <p>Mention http-inspection in the 'my browser warns me about unauthenticated content' FAQ entry.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Add a client-header-tagger{} example for disabling filtering
- for range requests.</p>
+ <p>Simplify the 'Is there is a license or fee?' FAQ entry.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Correct a URL in the "Privoxy with Tor" FAQ.</p>
+ <p>Add another +redirect{} example.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Spell 'refresh-tags' correctly. Reported by Don in
- #3571927.</p>
+ <p>Explicitly mention that interested sponsors should include the link target in their first mail.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Sort manpage options alphabetically.</p>
+ <p>Clarify that only Privoxy team members can object to new sponsors and link to the list of current team
+ members.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Note that sponsor URLs may not contain keyword spam.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Add new contributors since 3.0.19.</p>
+ <p>Garbage collect doc/webserver/images which isn't referenced anymore.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Log message improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>When stopping to watch a client socket due to pipelining,
- additionally log the socket number.</p>
+ <p>Update the method to reach the proxy settings in Firefox.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Update proxy_setup.jpg description to refer to Firefox.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Regenerate proxy_setup.jpg with a more recent Firefox (78.0).</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Regenerate files-in-use.jpg without obsolete standard.action with modern colors and a slightly better
+ quality.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Code cleanups:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>Remove compatibility layer for versions prior to 3.0 since it
- has been obsolete for more than 10 years now.</p>
+ <p>Update URL to the actionsfile tracker.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Remove the ijb_isupper() and ijb_tolower() macros from
- parsers.c since they aren't used in this file.</p>
+ <p>Update a support request URL.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Removed the 'Functions declared include:' comment sections
- since they tend to be incomplete, incorrect and out of date and
- the benefit seems questionable.</p>
+ <p>Rephrase the 'Can Privoxy run as service' FAQ entry and remove an obsolete paragraph.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Various comment grammar and comprehensibility
- improvements.</p>
+ <p>Let the 'Where can I get updated Actions Files?' entry link to the gitweb version of
+ default.action.master.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Remove a pointless fflush() call in chat(). Flushing all
- streams pretty much all the time for no obvious reason is
- ridiculous.</p>
+ <p>Update a link to the default.action file.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Relocate ijb_isupper()'s definition to project.h and get the
- ijb_tolower() definition from there, too.</p>
+ <p>Update URLs for trackers and mailing lists.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Relocate ijb_isdigit()'s definition to project.h.</p>
+ <p>Replace CVS reference with git.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Rename ijb_foo macros to privoxy_foo.</p>
+ <p>Mention regression-tests.action in the config file.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Add malloc_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths
- where malloc() failures don't need to be handled gracefully.</p>
+ <p>Explicitly mention in the config file that access to the CA key should be limited to Privoxy.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Add strdup_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths
- where strdup() failures don't need to be handled gracefully.</p>
+ <p>List more client-specific-tag examples for inspiration.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Replace strdup() calls with strdup_or_die() calls where it's
- safe and simplifies the code.</p>
+ <p>Add additional headers to the client-header-order example.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Fix white-space around parentheses.</p>
+ <p>Note that actions aren't updated after rewrites.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Add missing white-space behind if's and the following
- parentheses.</p>
+ <p>Explicitly mention that upgrading from http to https with a client-header filter is not supported</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Unwrap a memcpy() call in resolve_hostname_to_ip().</p>
+ <p>Note that protocol and host have to be added when rewriting the destination host for https-inspected
+ requests.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Declare pcrs_get_delimiter()'s delimiters[] static const.</p>
+ <p>Explicitly mention that the CA key is used to sign certificates.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Various optimisations to remove dead code and merge
- inefficient code structures for improved clarity, performance or
- code compactness.</p>
+ <p>Put openssl command in 'command' tags.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Various data type corrections.</p>
+ <p>The man page has been moved from section 1 to man section 8.</p>
</li>
-
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Developer manual:</p>
+ <ul>
<li>
- <p>Change visibility of several code segments when compiling
- without FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE enabled for clarity.</p>
+ <p>Flesh out the build instructions for Debian.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>In pcrs_get_delimiter(), do not use delimiters outside the
- ASCII range. Fixes a clang complaint.</p>
+ <p>Remove the packaging instructions for RPM-based systems. They don't work and we don't release RPM
+ packages anymore anyway.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Fix an error message in get_last_url() nobody is supposed to
- see. Reported by Matthew Fischer in #3507301.</p>
+ <p>Remove the packaging instructions for Solaris. They don't work and we don't release Solaris packages
+ anymore anyway.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Fix a typo in the no-zlib-support complaint. Patch submitted
- by Matthew Fischer in #3507304.</p>
+ <p>Update the suggested subject for the announce mails.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Update upload instructions. ftp://upload.sourceforge.net is no longer functional.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Use an enum for the type of the action value.</p>
+ <p>Remove a couple of package-dependent upload instructions that don't actually work.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Rename action_name's member takes_value to value_type as it
- isn't used as boolean.</p>
+ <p>Remove 'cd current' that no longer works.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Turn family mismatches in match_sockaddr() into fatal
- errors.</p>
+ <p>Add regression-tests.action to the list of files that should be installed.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Let enlist_unique_header() verify that the caller didn't pass
- a header containing either \r or \n.</p>
+ <p>Stop claiming that there are text versions of the manuals. We stopped building them in 2008
+ (9ed36a3c5e6f12).</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>Note that the 'webserver' target creates the link needed for the user-manual.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Use privoxy_tolower() instead of vanilla tolower() with manual
- casting of the argument.</p>
+ <p>Suggest to use the master branch as reference when creating the ChangeLog so the steps work when the
+ current branch differs from master which is likely as the developer manual suggests to use a local branch
+ for development.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Catch ssplit() failures in parse_cgi_parameters().</p>
+ <p>Add the -s flag to the suggested 'git tag' command. We prefer signed tags.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Privoxy-Regression-Test:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>Add an 'Overwrite condition' directive to skip any matching
- tests before it. As it has a global scope, using it is more
- convenient than clowning around with the Ignore directive.</p>
+ <p>Mention that merges into 'master' should be avoided.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Log to STDOUT instead of STDERR.</p>
+ <p>Add git commands that should result in a merge-free history.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Include the Privoxy version in the output.</p>
+ <p>Mention Privoxy-Regression-Test.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Various grammar and spelling corrections in documentation and
- code.</p>
+ <p>Add a section id to reduce link churn.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Additional tests for range requests with filtering
- enabled.</p>
+ <p>Recommend the dok-tidy target when building docs for the webserver.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Tests with mostly invalid range request.</p>
+ <p>Add another plug for the privoxy-devel mailing list.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Add a couple of hide-if-modified-since{} tests with different
- date formats.</p>
+ <p>Let the intro link the copyright section in the user manual instead of giving an incomplete summary of
+ the license status.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Cleaned up the format of the regression-tests.action file to
- match the format of default.action.</p>
+ <p>Clarify that the webserver target uploads to the SourceForge webserver.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Remove the "Copyright" line from print_version(). When using
- --help, every line of screen space matters and thus shouldn't be
- wasted on things the user doesn't care about.</p>
+ <p>Mark the documentation for the Mac OS X installers as out of date and change the SCM name back to
+ CVS.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Privoxy-Log-Parser:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>Improve the --statistics performance by skipping sanity checks
- for input that shouldn't affect the results anyway. Add a
- --strict-checks option that enables some of the checks again,
- just in case anybody cares.</p>
+ <p>Fix the location of the installer modules for Mac OS X. They are not actually available through git
+ (yet).</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>The distribution of client requests per connection is included
- in the --statistic output.</p>
+ <p>Don't speak of Privoxy version 3 in the past tense.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>The --accept-unknown-messages option has been removed and the
- behavior is now the default.</p>
+ <p>Update the list of programs required for the release process.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Accept and (mostly) highlight new log messages introduced with
- Privoxy 3.0.20.</p>
+ <p>Update description of the webserver target which uses ssh, not scp.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>uagen:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>Bump generated Firefox version to 17.</p>
+ <p>Remove obsolete reference to config.new.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>GNUmakefile improvements:</p>
-
+ <p>Tests:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>The dok-tidy target no longer taints documents with a
- tidy-mark</p>
+ <p>Add another hide-referrer{conditional-block} test.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Change RA_MODE from 0664 to 0644. Suggested by Markus Dittrich
- in #3505445.</p>
+ <p>Add another hide-referrer{conditional-forge} test.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Remove tidy's clean flag as it changes the scope of
- attributes. Link-specific colors end up being applied to all
- text. Reported by Adam Piggott in #3569551.</p>
+ <p>Fix a hide-referrer{conditional-forge} test that expected an acceptable header to be forged.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Leave it up to the user whether or not smart tags are
- inserted.</p>
+ <p>Fix a hide-referrer{conditional-block} test that expected an acceptable Referer to be removed.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Let w3m itself do the line wrapping for the config file. It
- works better than fmt as it can honour pre tags causing less
- unintentional line breaks.</p>
+ <p>Explain why the "Set Header = Host: whatever.example.org" test is expected to fail when using a CGI
+ prefix that starts with "https://".</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Ditch a pointless '-r' passed to rm to delete files.</p>
+ <p>Explain why a connection-sharing test is known to fail when using "https://p.p/" as CGI prefix.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>The config-file target now requires less manual intervention
- and updates the original config.</p>
+ <p>Add a link to Privoxy-Regression-Test to regression-tests.action in case it isn't packaged.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Change WDUMP to generate ASCII. Add WDUMP_UTF8 to allow UTF-8
- in the AUTHORS file so the names are right.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Stop pretending that lynx and links are supported for the
- documentation.</p>
+ <p>Add regression tests for pcre host patterns.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>configure improvements:</p>
-
+ <p>Privoxy infrastructure:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>On Haiku, do not pass -lpthread to the compiler. Haiku's
- pthreads implementation is contained in its system library,
- libroot, so no additional library needs to be searched. Patch
- submitted by Simon South in #3564815.</p>
+ <p>Import a Privoxy logo for the website.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Update Tor onion service to HiddenServiceVersion 3.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Display the "model" photos in a single row and remove placeholder images.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Regenerate homepage with updated sponsor list.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Use the '/sponsor' redirect for the link to the sponsor page.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Additional Haiku-specific improvements. Disable checks
- intended for multi-user systems as Haiku is presently
- single-user. Group Haiku-specific settings in their own section,
- following the pattern for Solaris, OS/2 and AmigaOS. Add
- additional library-related settings to remove the need for
- providing configure with custom LDFLAGS. Submitted by Simon South
- in #3574538.</p>
+ <p>Git commit messages are sent to the Privoxy-commits mailing list.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
-
<div class="SECT2">
- <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>
-
+ <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 to backup your old configuration
- files, install the new ones, verify that <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
- files obviously don't do that and due to syntax changes using old
- configuration files with a new <span class=
+ <p>The recommended way to upgrade <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is to backup your old
+ configuration files, install the new ones, verify that <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 files obviously don't do
+ that and due to syntax changes using old 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>
+ <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>
+ <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
- section</a> of the configuration file. You may also want to enable
- more verbose logging until you verified that the new <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version is working as expected.</p>
+ <p>In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now. You can change that in the <a href=
+ "config.html#DEBUG">debug section</a> of the configuration file. You may also want to enable 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>,
- <a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE">enable-remote-http-toggle</a>,
- and <a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</a>. If you
- use or want these, you will need to explicitly enable them, and be
- aware of the security issues involved.</p>
+ <p>Three other config file settings are now off by default: <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">enable-remote-toggle</a>, <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE">enable-remote-http-toggle</a>, and <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</a>. If you use or want these, you will need to
+ explicitly enable them, and be aware of the security issues involved.</p>
</li>
</ul>
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