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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 3.0.18</span> is a stable release.
- The changes since 3.0.17 stable are:</p>
+ <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>
<ul>
<li>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>If the redirect URL contains characters RFC 3986 doesn't
- permit, they are (re)encoded. Not doing this makes Privoxy
- versions from 3.0.5 to 3.0.17 susceptible to HTTP response
- splitting (CWE-113) attacks if the
- +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action is used.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix a logic bug that could cause Privoxy to reuse a server
- socket after it got tainted by a server-header-tagger-induced
- block that was triggered before the whole server response had
- been read. If keep-alive was enabled and the request following
- the blocked one was to the same host and using the same
- forwarding settings, Privoxy would send it on the tainted server
- socket. While the server would simply treat it as a pipelined
- request, Privoxy would later on fail to properly parse the
- server's response as it would try to parse the unread data from
- the first response as server headers for the second one.
- Regression introduced in 3.0.17.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>When implying keep-alive in client_connection(), remember that
- the client didn't. Fixes a regression introduced in 3.0.13 that
- would cause Privoxy to wait for additional client requests after
- receiving a HTTP/1.1 request with "Connection: close" set and
- connection sharing enabled. With clients which terminates the
- client connection after detecting that the whole body has been
- received it doesn't really matter, but with clients that don't
- the connection would be kept open until it timed out.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix a subtle race condition between
- prepare_csp_for_next_request() and sweep() A thread preparing
- itself for the next client request could briefly appear to be
- inactive. If all other threads were already using more recent
- files, the thread could get its files swept away under its feet.
- So far this has only been reproduced while stress testing in
- valgrind while touching action files in a loop. It's unlikely to
- have caused any actual problems in the real world.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Disable filters if SDCH compression is used unless filtering
- is forced. If SDCH was combined with a supported compression
- algorithm, Privoxy previously could try to decompress it and
- ditch the Content-Encoding header even though the SDCH
- compression wasn't dealt with. Reported by zebul666 in
- #3225863.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Make a copy of the --user value and only mess with that when
- splitting user and group. On some operating systems modifying the
- value directly is reflected in the output of ps and friends and
- can be misleading. Reported by zepard in #3292710.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>If forwarded-connect-retries is set, only retry if Privoxy is
- actually forwarding the request. Previously direct connections
- would be retried as well.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fixed a small memory leak when retrying connections with IPv6
- support enabled.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove an incorrect assertion in
- compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list() It could be triggered by a pcrs
- job with an invalid pcre pattern (for example one that contains a
- lone quantifier).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>If the --user argument user[.group] contains a dot, always
- bail out if no group has been specified. Previously the intended,
- but undocumented (and apparently untested), behaviour was to try
- interpreting the whole argument as user name, but the detection
- was flawed and checked for '0' instead of '\0', thus merely
- preventing group names beginning with a zero.</p>
+ <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>In html_code_map[], use a numeric character reference instead
- of ' which wasn't standardized before XHTML 1.0.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix an invalid free when compiled with
- FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION and shut down through
- http://config.privoxy.org/die</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>In get_actions(), fix the "temporary" backwards compatibility
- hack to accept block actions without reason. It also covered
- other actions that should be rejected as invalid. Reported by
- Billy Crook.</p>
+ <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>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Privoxy can (re)compress buffered content before delivering it
- to the client. Disabled by default as most users wouldn't benefit
- from it.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>The +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action checks URL
- segments separately. If there are other parameters behind the
- redirect URL, this makes it unnecessary to cut them off by
- additionally using a +redirect{} pcrs command. Initial patch
- submitted by Jamie Zawinski in #3429848.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>When loading action sections, verify that the referenced
- filters exist. Currently missing filters only result in an error
- message, but eventually the severity will be upgraded to
- fatal.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Allow to bind to multiple separate addresses. Patch set
- submitted by Petr Pisar in #3354485.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Set socket_error to errno if connecting fails in
- rfc2553_connect_to() Previously rejected direct connections could
- be incorrectly reported as DNS issues if Privoxy was compiled
- with IPv6 support.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Adjust url_code_map[] so spaces are replaced with %20 instead
- of '+' While '+' can be used by client's submitting form data,
- this is not actually what Privoxy is using the lookups for. This
- is more of a cosmetic issue and doesn't fix any known
- problems.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>When compiled without FEATURE_FAST_REDIRECTS, do not silently
- ignore +fast-redirect{} directives</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Added a workaround for GNU libc's strptime() reporting
- negative year values when the parsed year is only specified with
- two digits. On affected systems cookies with such a date would
- not be turned into session cookies by the +session-cookies-only
- action. Reported by Vaeinoe in #3403560</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fixed bind failures with certain GNU libc versions if no
- non-loopback IP address has been configured on the system. This
- is mainly an issue if the system is using DHCP and Privoxy is
- started before the network is completely configured. Reported by
- Raphael Marichez in #3349356. Additional insight from Petr
- Pisar.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Privoxy log messages now use the ISO 8601 date format
- %Y-%m-%d. It's only slightly longer than the old format, but
- contains the full date including the year and allows sorting by
- date (when grepping in multiple log files) without hassle.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>In get_last_url(), do not bother trying to decode URLs that do
- not contain at least one '%' sign. It reduces the log noise and a
- number of unnecessary memory allocations.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>In case of SOCKS5 failures, dump the socks response in the log
- message.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Simplify the signal setup in main()</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Streamline socks5_connect() slightly</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>In socks5_connect(), require a complete socks response from
- the server Previously Privoxy didn't care how much data the
- server response contained as long as the first two bytes
- contained the expected values. While at it, shrink the buffer
- size so Privoxy can't read more than a whole socks response.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>In chat(), do not bother to generate a client request in case
- of direct CONNECT requests. It will not be used anyway.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Reduce server_last_modified()'s stack size.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Shorten get_http_time() by using strftime().</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Constify the known_http_methods pointers in
- unknown_method().</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Constify the time_formats pointers in parse_header_time().</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Constify the formerly_valid_actions pointers in
- action_used_to_be_valid().</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Introduce a GNUMakefile MAN_PAGE variable that defaults to
- privoxy.1. The Debian package uses section 8 for the man page and
- this should simplify the patch.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Deduplicate the INADDR_NONE definition for Solaris by moving
- it to jbsockets.h</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>In block_url(), ditch the obsolete workaround for ancient
- Netscape versions that supposedly couldn't properly deal with
- status code 403.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove a useless NULL pointer check in load_trustfile().</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove two useless NULL pointer checks in
- load_one_re_filterfile().</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Change url_code_map[] from an array of pointers to an array of
- arrays It removes an unnecessary layer of indirection and on
- 64bit system reduces the size of the binary a bit.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix various typos. Fixes taken from Debian's 29_typos.dpatch
- by Roland Rosenfeld.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add a dok-tidy GNUMakefile target to clean up the messy HTML
- generated by the other dok targets.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>GNUisms in the GNUMakefile have been removed.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Change the HTTP version in static responses to 1.1</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Synced config.sub and config.guess with upstream
- 2011-11-11/386c7218162c145f5f9e1ff7f558a3fbb66c37c5.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add a dedicated function to parse the values of toggles.
- Reduces duplicated code in load_config() and provides better
- error handling. Invalid or missing toggle values are now a fatal
- error instead of being silently ignored.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Terminate HTML lines in static error messages with \n instead
- of \r\n.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Simplify cgi_error_unknown() a bit.</p>
+ <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>In LogPutString(), don't bother looking at pszText when not
- actually logging anything.</p>
+ <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>Change ssplit()'s fourth parameter from int to size_t. Fixes a
- clang complaint.</p>
+ <p>Add client-header-tagger 'listen-address'.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Add a warning that the statistics currently can't be trusted.
- Mention Privoxy-Log-Parser's --statistics option as an
- alternative for the time being.</p>
+ <p>Include the listen-address in the log message when logging new
+ requests. Patch contributed by pursievro.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>In rfc2553_connect_to(), start setting cgi->error_message
- on error</p>
+ <p>Turn invalid max-client-connections values into fatal
+ errors.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Change the expected status code returned for http://p.p/die
- depending on whether or not FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION is
- available.</p>
+ <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>In cgi_die(), mark the client connection for closing. If the
- client will fetch the style sheet through another connection it
- gets the main thread out of the accept() state and should thus
- trigger the actual shutdown.</p>
+ <p>On Mac OS X the thread id in log messages are more likely to
+ be unique now.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Add a proper CGI message for cgi_die().</p>
+ <p>When complaining about missing filters, the filter type is
+ logged as well.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Don't enforce a logical line length limit in
- read_config_line()</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Slightly refactor server_last_modified() to remove useless
- gmtime*() calls</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>In get_content_type(), also recognize '.jpeg' as JPEG
- extension</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add '.png' to the list of recognized file extensions in
- get_content_type()</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>In block_url(), consistently use the block reason "Request
- blocked by Privoxy" In two places the reason was "Request for
- blocked URL" which hides the fact that the request got blocked by
- Privoxy and isn't necessarily correct as the block may be due to
- tags.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>In listen_loop(), reload the configuration files after
- accepting a new connection instead of before. Previously the
- first connection that arrived after a configuration change would
- still be handled with the old configuration.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>In chat()'s receive-data loop, skip a client socket check if
- the socket will be written to right away anyway. This can
- increase the transfer speed for unfiltered content on fast
- network connections.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>The socket timeout is used for SOCKS negotiations as well
- which previously couldn't timeout.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Don't keep the client connection alive if any configuration
- file changed since the time the connection came in. This is
- closer to Privoxy's behaviour before keep-alive support for
- client connection has been added and also less confusing in
- general.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Treat all Content-Type header values containing the pattern
- 'script' as a sign of text. Reported by pribog in #3134970.</p>
+ <p>A couple of harmless coverity warnings were silenced (CID
+ #161202, CID #161203, CID #161211).</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Moved the site-specific block pattern section below the one
- for the generic patterns so for requests that are matched in
- both, the block reason for the domain is shown which is usually
- more useful than showing the one for the generic pattern.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove -prevent-compression from the fragile alias It's no
- longer used anywhere by default and isn't known to break stuff
- anyway.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add a (disabled) section to block various Facebook tracking
- URLs Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421764.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add a (disabled) section to rewrite and redirect
- click-tracking URLs used on news.google.com Reported by Dan
- Stahlke in #3421755.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock linuxcounter.net/ Reported by Dan Stahlke in
- #3422612.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'www91.intel.com/' which is used by Omniture. Reported
- by Adam Piggott in #3167370.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Disable the handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok option and mark it
- as deprecated. Reminded by tceverling in #2790091.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add ".ivwbox.de/" to the "Cross-site user tracking" section.
- Reported by Nettozahler in #3172525.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock and fast-redirect ".awin1.com/.*=http://" Reported by
- Adam Piggott in #3170921.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block "b.collective-media.net/".</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Widen the Debian popcon exception to "qa.debian.org/popcon".
- Seen in Debian's 05_default_action.dpatch by Roland
- Rosenfeld.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block ".gemius.pl/" which only seems to be used for user
- tracking. Reported by johnd16 in #3002731. Additional input from
- Lee and movax.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Disable banners-by-size filters for '.thinkgeek.com/' The
- filter only seems to catch pictures of the inventory.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block requests for 'go.idmnet.bbelements.com/please/showit/'
- Reported by kacperdominik in #3372959.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock adainitiative.org/</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add a fast-redirects exception for
- '.googleusercontent.com/.*=cache'</p>
+ <p>Filtering is disabled for Range requests to let download
+ resumption and Windows updates work with the default
+ configuration.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Add a fast-redirects exception for
- webcache.googleusercontent.com/</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock http://adassier.wordpress.com/ and
- http://adassier.files.wordpress.com/</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Filter file improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Let the yahoo filter hide '.ads'</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Let the msn filter hide overlay ads for Facebook 'likes' in
- search results and elements with the id 's_notf_div'. They only
- seem to be used to advertise site 'enhancements'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Let the js-events filter additionally disarm setInterval()
- Suggested by dg1727 in #3423775.</p>
+ <p>Unblock ".ardmediathek.de/". Reported by ThTomate in #932.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Clarify the effect of compiling Privoxy with zlib support
- Suggested by dg1727 in #3423782.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Point out that the SourceForge messaging system works like a
- black hole and should thus not be used to contact individual
- developers.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Mention some of the problems one can experience when not
- explicitly configuring an IP addresses as listen address.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Explicitly mention that hostnames can be used instead of IP
- addresses for the listen-address, that only the first address
- returned will be used and what happens if the address is invalid.
- Requested by Calestyo in #3302213.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Log message improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>If only the server connection is kept alive, do not pretend to
- wait for a new client request.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove a superfluous log message in forget_connection()</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>In chat(), properly report missing server responses as such
- instead of calling them empty</p>
+ <p>Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>In forwarded_connect(), fix a log message nobody should ever
- see</p>
+ <p>Remove obsolete FAQ entry about a bug in PHP 4.2.3.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Fix a log message in socks5_connect(), a failed write
- operation was logged as failed read operation</p>
+ <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>Let load_one_actions_file() properly complain about a missing
- '{' at the beginning of the file Simply stating that a line is
- invalid isn't particularly helpful.</p>
+ <p>Note that the templates should be adjusted if Privoxy is
+ running as intercepting proxy without getting all requests.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Do not claim to listen on a socket until Privoxy actually
- does. Patch submitted by Petr Pisar #3354485</p>
+ <p>A bunch of links were converted to https://.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Prevent a duplicated LOG_LEVEL_CLF message when sending out
- the "no-server-data" response</p>
+ <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>Also log the client socket when dropping a connection.</p>
+ <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>Include the destination host in the 'Request ... marked for
- blocking. limit-connect{...} doesn't allow CONNECT ...' message
- Patch submitted by Saperski in #3296250.</p>
+ <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>Prevent a duplicated log message if none of the resolved IP
- addresses were reachable</p>
+ <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>In connect_to(), do not pretend to retry if
- forwarded-connect-retries is zero or unset.</p>
+ <p>Add a FAQ entry for tainted sockets.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>When a specified user or group can't be found, put the name in
- single-quotes when logging it.</p>
+ <p>More sections in the documentation have stable URLs now.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>In rfc2553_connect_to(), explain getnameinfo() errors
- better.</p>
+ <p>FAQ: Explain why 'ping config.privoxy.org' is not expected to
+ reach a local Privoxy installation.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Remove a useless log message in chat()</p>
+ <p>Note that donations done through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently
+ can't be checked automatically.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>When retrying to connect, also log the maximum number of
- connection attempts</p>
+ <p>Updated section regarding starting Privoxy under OS X.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Rephrase a log message in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list().
- Divide the error code and its meaning with a colon. Call the pcrs
- job dynamic and not the filter. Filters may contain dynamic and
- non-dynamic pcrs jobs at the same time. Only mention the name of
- the filter or tagger, but don't claim it's a filter when it could
- be a tagger.</p>
+ <p>Use dedicated start instructions for FreeBSD and
+ ElectroBSD.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>In a fatal error message in load_one_actions_file(), cover
- both URL and TAG patterns.</p>
+ <p>Removed release instructions for AIX. They haven't been
+ working for years and unsurprisingly nobody seems to care.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>In pcrs_strerror(), properly report unknown positive error
- code values as such. Previously they were handled like 0 (no
- error).</p>
+ <p>Removed obsolete reference to the solaris-dist target.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>In compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list(), also log the actual error
- code as pcrs_strerror() doesn't handle all errors reported by
- pcre</p>
+ <p>Updated the release instructions for FreeBSD.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Don't bother trying to continue chatting if the client didn't
- ask for it. Reduces log noise a bit.</p>
+ <p>Removed unfinished release instructions for Amiga OS and HP-UX
+ 11.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Make two fatal error message in load_one_actions_file() more
- descriptive</p>
+ <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>In cgi_send_user_manual(), log when rejecting a file name due
- to '/' or '..'</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>In load_file(), log a message if opening a file failed The CGI
- error message alone isn't too helpful.</p>
+ <p>Various typos have been fixed.</p>
</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
- <li>
- <p>In connection_destination_matches(), improve two log messages
- to help understand why the destinations don't match.</p>
- </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Infrastructure improvements:</p>
+ <ul>
<li>
- <p>Rephrase a log message in serve(). Client request arrival
- should be differentiated from closed client connections now.</p>
+ <p>The website is no longer hosted at SourceForge and can be
+ reached through https now.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>In serve(), log if a client connection isn't reused due to a
- configuration file change.</p>
+ <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>Let mark_server_socket_tainted() always mark the server socket
- tainted, just don't talk about it in cases where it has no
- effect. It doesn't change Privoxy's behaviour, but makes
- understanding the log file easier.</p>
+ <p>Migrating the remaining services from SourceForge is work in
+ progress (TODO list item #53).</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
- <p>configure:</p>
+ <p>Build system improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Added a --disable-ipv6-support switch for platforms where
- support is detected but doesn't actually work.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Do not check for the existence of strerror() and memmove()
- twice</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove a useless test for setpgrp(2). Privoxy doesn't need it
- and it can cause problems when cross-compiling.</p>
+ <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>Rename the --disable-acl-files switch to
- --disable-acl-support. Since about 2001, ACL directives are
- specified in the standard config file.</p>
+ <p>Let the tarball-dist target skip files in ".git".</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Update the URL of the 'Removing outdated PCRE version after
- the next stable release' posting. The old URL stopped working
- after one of SF's recent site "optimizations". Reported by Han
- Liu.</p>
+ <p>Let the tarball-dist target work in cwds other than
+ current.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>Privoxy-Regression-Test:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>Added --shuffle-tests option to increase the chances of
- detection race conditions.</p>
+ <p>Make the 'clean' target faster when run from a git
+ repository.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Added a --local-test-file option that allows to use
- Privoxy-Regression-Test without Privoxy</p>
+ <p>Include tools in the generic distribution.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Added tests for missing socks4 and socks4a forwarders</p>
+ <p>Let the gen-dist target work in cwds other than current.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>The --privoxy-address option now works with IPv6 addresses
- containing brackets, too</p>
+ <p>Sort find output that is used for distribution tarballs to get
+ reproducible results.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Perform limited sanity checks for parameters that are supposed
- to have numerical values.</p>
+ <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>Added a --sleep-time option to specify a number of seconds to
- sleep between tests, defaults to 0.</p>
+ <p>Add regression-tests.action to the files that are
+ distributed.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Disable the range-requests tagger for tests that break if it's
- enabled</p>
+ <p>The gen-dist target which was broken since 2002 (r1.92) has
+ been fixed.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Log messages use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.</p>
+ <p>Remove genclspec.sh which has been obsolete since 2009.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Fix spelling in two error messages.</p>
+ <p>Remove obsolete reference to Redhat spec file.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>In the --help output, include a list of supported tests and
- their default levels.</p>
+ <p>Remove the obsolete announce target which has been commented
+ out years ago.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Adjust the tests to properly deal with FEATURE_TOGGLE being
- disabled.</p>
+ <p>Let rsync skip files if the checksums match.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Privoxy-Log-Parser:</p>
+ <p>Privoxy-Regression-Test:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Perform limited sanity checks for command line parameters that
- are supposed to have numerical values.</p>
+ <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>Implement a --unbreak-lines-only option to try to revert MUA
- breakage.</p>
+ <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>Accept and highlight: Added header: Content-Encoding:
- deflate</p>
+ <p>Fix indentation in perldoc examples.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Accept and highlight: Compressed content from 29258 to 8630
- bytes.</p>
+ <p>Don't overlook directives in the first line of the action
+ file.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Accept and highlight: Client request arrived in time on socket
- 21.</p>
+ <p>Bump version to 0.7.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>Highlight: Didn't receive data in time: a.fsdn.com:443</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Accept log messages with ISO 8601 time stamps, too</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>uagen:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Bump generated Firefox version to 8.0</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Only randomize the release date if the new
- --randomize-release-date option is enabled. Firefox versions
- after 4 use a fixed date string without meaning.</p>
+ <p>Fix detection of the Privoxy version now that https:// is used
+ for the website.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
yourself.</p>
</li>
- <li>
- <p><tt class="FILENAME">standard.action</tt> has been merged into
- the <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> file.</p>
- </li>
-
<li>
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You can change that in the <a href="config.html#DEBUG">debug
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