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- <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.
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- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <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>
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- <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>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- Highlight the loading actions/filter file log message in the
- 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>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- Remove obsolete reference to mailing lists hosted at
- 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
- 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>
- </li>
- <li>
- <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>
- </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>
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+ <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.29</span> fixes a couple of memory leaks and introduces https inspection
+ which allows to filter encrypted requests and responses.</p>
+ <p>Changes in <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.29</span> stable:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Security/Reliability:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>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</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Fixes a memory leak when client tags are active. Commit 245e1cf32. OVE-20201118-0004. Sponsored by:
+ Robert Klemme</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Fixed memory leaks in the show-status CGI handler when memory allocations fail. Commit 064eac5fd0 and
+ commit fdee85c0bf3. CID 305233. OVE-20201118-0008.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>General improvements:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>pcrs: Request JIT compilation if it's supported and the filter isn't dynamic. This can speed up
+ filtering.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Added support for Brotli decompression. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add SOCKS5 username/password support. Based on a patch by Sam, improved by Ivan Romanov. Closes
+ Patch#141 and solves TODO#105.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Bump the maximum number of action and filter files to 100 each. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Fixed handling of filters with "split-large-forms 1" when using the CGI editor. Reported by withoutname
+ in #921.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Better detect a mismatch of connection details when figuring out whether or not a connection can be
+ reused.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Don't send a "Connection failure" message instead of the "DNS failure" message. Sponsored by: Robert
+ Klemme</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Fixed locking around localtime() and gmtime().</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Remove the fallback snprintf() implementation Now that OS/2 support is gone we no longer need it.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Fixed a bunch of format specifiers log messages.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Added a missing apostrophe in the 'More Privoxy' menu.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Fix build without FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Downgrade the 'Graceful termination requested' message to LOG_LEVEL_INFO as it isn't an error. Sponsored
+ by: Robert Klemme</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Fixed a couple of cppcheck warnings.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Rename LOG_LEVEL_GPC to LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST. Only the shadow knows what "GPC" is supposed to stand
+ for.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Remove SourceForge references in copyright headers.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Upgrade a bunch of links to the homepage to https://.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add 'no-brotli-accepted' filter which prevents the use of Brotli compression.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Updated a bunch of tests that have to expect status code 403 now after r1.168/070e904afa5.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Lowercase the host name in the request line.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Only set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH if it's not already set so distributions can overwrite it through the
+ environment.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Documentation changes:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Import the GNU GPLv3 and include it the user manual.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>FAQ: Remove an obsolete comment with a link to the long-gone PDF manual.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>FAQ: Add a link to the TODO list.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Advertise the client-tags CGI page in the user manual.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Stop advertising the show-version CGI page which no longer exists.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add yet another reason why +prevent-compression may cause problems.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Don't claim that contributors need ssh. It's only needed for committers.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Replace obsolete CVS instructions with Git instructions.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Remove an obsolete comment</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Config file changes:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>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</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Update the 'debug 1' description.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add a missing 'client-specific-tag' directive.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Comment out trusted-cgi-referer pointing to example.org.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Action file improvements:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests to /(.*/)?piwik\.php</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests to .connectaserver.de/</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests to pixel.inforsea.com/</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests to t.vi-serve.com/</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests to .ioam.de/</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests to t.9gag.com/img.gif</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests to .pixel.parsely.com/ as image</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests to pixel.wp.com/</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Disable fast-redirects for .librarything.com/</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Disable fast-redirects for issue.freebsdfoundation.org/</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Disable fast-redirects for .twitter.com/.*origin=http</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Unblock belco24.de/</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add fast-redirects exception for .wikipedia.org/</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add fast-redirects exception for oss-fuzz.com/</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Disable fast-redirects for .consensu.org/delivery/pixel\.php and block the requests as image instead</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Unblock .adbinstaller.com/ Reported by lvm in #942.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Unblock .adbshell.com Reported by lvm in #942.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Unblock .tagesschau.de/</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Disable fast-redirects for collector.githubapp.com/ and block requests to it as image instead</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Unblock 'ada*.'</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add fast-redirects{} exception for sourcepoint.vice.com/</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Unblock adaway.org/ Reported by DRS David Soft in AF#945.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Change two block reasons that previously were the same. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Added a +delay-response{} test.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Updated the location of the development version of default.action.master.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Privoxy-Log-Parser:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Added a --keep-date option to keep the date in highlighted messages.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Highlight new log messages.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Make gather_loglevel_clf_stats() more tolerant. While at it, count all CLF messages as requests, even if
+ the request is invalid.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Only show HTTP version distribution if at least one version has been detected.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Only show crunch statistics if crunches were detected.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Warn if the request counts differ.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Align the client-HTTP-version distribution like other distributions</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Bump version to 0.9.1</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Include status code distribution in the stats.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Let the statistics include the size of the content Privoxy transferred excluding HTTP headers.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>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</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Properly highlight the filter results message. Previously a brace got lost.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Prefer the number of CLF lines to get the total number of requests as it works with older Privoxy
+ versions as well.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Privoxy-Regression-Test:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Turn curl's globbing mode off so we can allow more characters in URLs.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Allow '[' and ']' in URLs.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Include the action file when complaining about missing Sticky Actions.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Fix a sentence in the documentation.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Bump version to 0.7.1</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>url-pattern-translator:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Detect a couple of pattern prefixes case-insensitively. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Skip CLIENT-TAG patterns. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Skip patterns that have already been converted. It should now be safe to "convert" a file multiple
+ times. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add the new 'PCRE-HOST-PATTERN:' prefix. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme</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>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>
- Bug fixes:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>
- Always use the current toggle state for new requests.
- Previously new requests on reused connections inherited the
- toggle state from the previous request even though the toggle
- state could have changed. Reported by Robert Klemme.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- Fixed two buffer-overflows in the (deprecated) static pcre
- code. These bugs are not considered security issues as the
- input is trusted. Found with afl-fuzz and ASAN.
- </p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- General improvements:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>
- Added support for client-specific tags which allow Privoxy
- admins to pre-define tags that are set for all requests from
- clients that previously opted in through the CGI interface.
- They are useful in multi-user setups where admins may want to
- allow users to disable certain actions and filters for
- themselves without affecting others. In single-user setups
- they are useful to allow more fine-grained toggling. For
- example to disable request blocking while still crunching
- cookies, or to disable experimental filters only. This is an
- experimental feature, the syntax and behaviour may change in
- future versions. Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
- </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>
+ <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>
- 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>
+ <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>
- 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'
- section of the user manual. The section contains mostly links
- that are directly reachable from the homepage already and the
- rest is not significant enough to get a link from the
- homepage.
- </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 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.
- </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>
+ <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>
- 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>
+ <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>
- Build system improvements:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>
- 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.
- </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 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.
- </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
- change the default level by a given value. This directive
- affects all tests located after it until the end of the file
- or a another "Default level offset" directive is reached. The
- purpose of this directive is to make it more convenient to
- skip similar tests in a given file without having to remove
- or disable the tests completely.
- </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>
- </li>
- </ul>
+ <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>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2">
- <a name="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>
- <p>
- </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=
- "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
- 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>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </div>
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