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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.
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- 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>
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- <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>
- Changes between <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.25 beta</span>
- and the previous release:
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+ <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.31</span> fixes two security issues that were discovered while preparing
+ the 3.0.30 release. The issues also affect earlier Privoxy releases.</p>
+ <p>Changes in <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.31</span> stable:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Security/Reliability:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Prevent an assertion from getting triggered by a crafted CGI request. Commit 5bba5b89193fa.
+ OVE-20210130-0001. Reported by: Joshua Rogers (Opera)</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Fixed a memory leak when decompression fails "unexpectedly". Commit f431d61740cc0.
+ OVE-20210128-0001.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Bug fixes:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Fixed detection of insufficient data for decompression. Previously Privoxy could try to decompress a
+ partly uninitialized buffer.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>Changes in <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.30</span> stable:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Bug fixes:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <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>Let the hide-referrer code tolerate Referer headers with https:// URLs. Previously they would always be
+ treated like a changed host.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>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>Support using https-inspection and client-header-order at the same time. Previously Privoxy would crash.
+ Reported by: Kai Raven</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>
+ <li>
+ <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>
+ <li>
+ <p>Let the uninstall target remove the config file even if DESTDIR is set and properly announce the
+ deletion of the configuration files.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>General improvements:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <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>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>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>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>
+ <li>
+ <p>Recycle debug bit 4 for Tagging-related messages.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Improve the message shown when the client-tags CGI page is requested with no tags configured.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>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>The code compiles with older C compilers again.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>The chdir() return code is checked to fix a compiler warning.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>Fixed harmless compiler warnings from GCC9 with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>windows: Remove obsolete '$(DEST)/doc/images' target.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>windows: Install the images referenced in the user manual.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Remove obsolete 'gnu_regex.@OBJEXT@' target.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>Add new FEATURES to the show-status page and resort list.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Remove unused variable in the OpenSSL-specific code.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Update bug tracker URL in cgi_error_unknown().</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Saved a couple of memory allocations when sorting client headers.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Improved a couple of error messages.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Saved memory allocations when using OpenSSL and checking if a key already exists.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>The configure script will bail out if OpenSSL and mbedTLS are enabled at the same time.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Log a message right before exiting gracefully.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>A couple of structures have been rearranged to require slightly less memory.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>The Slackware rc script template has been renamed to slackware/rc.privoxy.in to silence complaints when
+ building Debian packages.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>Block requests to eu-tlp03.kameleoon.com/.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Unblock metrics.sr.ht/.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Disable fast-redirects for .fsf.org/.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Disable fast-redirects for .gravater.com/.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Disable fast-redirects for .ksta.de/.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests to tag.crsspxl.com/.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests to analytics.slashdotmedia.com/.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests to ml314.com/.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests to .adroll.com/.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests to fastlane.rubiconproject.com/.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests to api.theadex.com/.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests to ih.adscale.de/.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests to .s400.meetrics.net/.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests for pp.lp4.io/.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Block requests for trc-events.taboola.com/.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Filter file improvements:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <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>Added an imdb filter.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Added a sourceforge filter that reduces the amount of ads for proprietary software.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Added a github filter that removes the annoying "Sign-Up" banner and the Cookie disclaimer.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Removed a duplicated pcrs command from the js-annoyances filter.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>Highlight a few more messages.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add a handler for tagging messages.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Properly deal with 'Certificate error' crunches Previously the error description was highlighted as
+ 'host'.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Log truncated LOG_LEVEL_CLF messages more gracefully and note that the statistics will be imprecise.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Fixed perldoc typo.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Bump version to 0.9.2.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Privoxy-Regression-Test:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Use http://127.0.0.1:8118/ as default Privoxy address unless http_proxy is set through the
+ environment.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>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>Use --proxy-header when using a CGI prefix with https:// and a "Host:" header.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Allow '|' in tokens and values to allow tag patterns like
+ "TAG:^(application|text)/(x-)?javascript$".</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>When get_cgi_page_or_else() fails, include the URL of the requested page in the log message.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>Bumped version to 0.7.2</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>uagen:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Update example output.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Recommend the use of the https-inspection action in the documentation.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Upgrade a couple of URLs to https://.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add ElectroBSD to the list of operating systems.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Bumped generated Firefox version to 78 (ESR).</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Bumped version to 1.2.2.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>User documentation:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <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>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>
+ <li>
+ <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>Describe how to check if Privoxy has been built with FEATURE_HTTPS_INSPECTION.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add a link to the trusted-cas-file documentation that explains how the user can create the file
+ herself.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>Update the +hide-user-agent example with uagen output.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Slightly improve the wording of the ca-key-file documentation.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Explicitly mention Windows 10 as supported so search engines and users looking for it can find it.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Import a bunch of contributors from the ChangeLog.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Remove obsolete doc/gpl.html.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Upgrade a couple of links to https://.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>Mention http-inspection in the 'my browser warns me about unauthenticated content' FAQ entry.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Simplify the 'Is there is a license or fee?' FAQ entry.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add another +redirect{} example.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Explicitly mention that interested sponsors should include the link target in their first mail.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>Note that sponsor URLs may not contain keyword spam.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Garbage collect doc/webserver/images which isn't referenced anymore.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Update the method to reach the proxy settings in Firefox.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Update proxy_setup.jpg description to refer to Firefox.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Regenerate proxy_setup.jpg with a more recent Firefox (78.0).</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Regenerate files-in-use.jpg without obsolete standard.action with modern colors and a slightly better
+ quality.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Update URL to the actionsfile tracker.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Update a support request URL.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Rephrase the 'Can Privoxy run as service' FAQ entry and remove an obsolete paragraph.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Let the 'Where can I get updated Actions Files?' entry link to the gitweb version of
+ default.action.master.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Update a link to the default.action file.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Update URLs for trackers and mailing lists.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Replace CVS reference with git.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Mention regression-tests.action in the config file.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Explicitly mention in the config file that access to the CA key should be limited to Privoxy.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>List more client-specific-tag examples for inspiration.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add additional headers to the client-header-order example.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Note that actions aren't updated after rewrites.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Explicitly mention that upgrading from http to https with a client-header filter is not supported</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Note that protocol and host have to be added when rewriting the destination host for https-inspected
+ requests.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Explicitly mention that the CA key is used to sign certificates.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Put openssl command in 'command' tags.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>Flesh out the build instructions for Debian.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>Remove the packaging instructions for Solaris. They don't work and we don't release Solaris packages
+ anymore anyway.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Update the suggested subject for the announce mails.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Update upload instructions. ftp://upload.sourceforge.net is no longer functional.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Remove a couple of package-dependent upload instructions that don't actually work.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Remove 'cd current' that no longer works.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add regression-tests.action to the list of files that should be installed.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Stop claiming that there are text versions of the manuals. We stopped building them in 2008
+ (9ed36a3c5e6f12).</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Note that the 'webserver' target creates the link needed for the user-manual.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>Add the -s flag to the suggested 'git tag' command. We prefer signed tags.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Mention that merges into 'master' should be avoided.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add git commands that should result in a merge-free history.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Mention Privoxy-Regression-Test.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add a section id to reduce link churn.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Recommend the dok-tidy target when building docs for the webserver.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add another plug for the privoxy-devel mailing list.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>Clarify that the webserver target uploads to the SourceForge webserver.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Mark the documentation for the Mac OS X installers as out of date and change the SCM name back to
+ CVS.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Fix the location of the installer modules for Mac OS X. They are not actually available through git
+ (yet).</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Don't speak of Privoxy version 3 in the past tense.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Update the list of programs required for the release process.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Update description of the webserver target which uses ssh, not scp.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Remove obsolete reference to config.new.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Tests:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add another hide-referrer{conditional-block} test.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add another hide-referrer{conditional-forge} test.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Fix a hide-referrer{conditional-forge} test that expected an acceptable header to be forged.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Fix a hide-referrer{conditional-block} test that expected an acceptable Referer to be removed.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <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>Explain why a connection-sharing test is known to fail when using "https://p.p/" as CGI prefix.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add a link to Privoxy-Regression-Test to regression-tests.action in case it isn't packaged.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add regression tests for pcre host patterns.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Fixed a regression test that is executed when FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION is enabled.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Privoxy infrastructure:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <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>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>
<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>
- </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>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>
- 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>Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely, including configuration files, therefore you
+ should really save any important configuration files!</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>On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing configuration files, thinking you will want
+ to do that yourself.</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>
+ <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>
- 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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