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> <SPAN
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->Privoxy 3.0.12</SPAN
-> is mainly a bugfix release:</P
+>Privoxy 3.0.16</SPAN
+> is a stable release.
+ The changes since 3.0.15 beta are:</P
><P
> <P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
-> The socket-timeout option now also works on platforms whose
- select() implementation modifies the timeout structure.
- Previously the timeout was triggered even if the connection
- didn't stall. Reported by cyberpatrol.
+> Fixed last-chunk-detection for responses where the content was small
+ enough to be read with the body, causing Privoxy to wait for the
+ end of the content until the server closed the connection.
+ Reported by "Karsten" in #3028326.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The Connection: keep-alive code properly deals with files
- larger than 2GB. Previously the connection was closed too
- early.
+> Responses with status code 204 weren't properly detected as body-less
+ like RFC2616 mandates. Like the previous bug, this caused Privoxy
+ to wait for the end of the content until the server closed the connection.
+ Fixes #3022042 and #3025553, reported by a user with no visible name.
+ Most likely also fixes a bunch of other AJAX-related problem reports
+ that got closed in the past due to insufficient information and lack
+ of feedback.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The content length for files above 2GB is logged correctly.
+> Fixed an ACL bug that made it impossible to build a blacklist.
+ Usually the ACL directives are used in a whitelist, which worked
+ as expected, but blacklisting is still useful for public proxies
+ where one only needs to deny known abusers access.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The user-manual directive on the show-status page links to
- the documentation location specified with the directive,
- not to the Privoxy website.
+> Added LOG_LEVEL_RECEIVED to log the not-yet-parsed data read from the
+ network. This should make debugging various parsing issues a lot easier.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> When running in daemon mode, Privoxy doesn't log anything
- to the console unless there are errors before the logfile
- has been opened.
+> The IPv6 code is enabled by default on Windows versions that support it.
+ Patch submitted by oCameLo in #2942729.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The show-status page prints warnings about invalid directives
- on the same line as the directives themselves.
+> In mingw32 versions, the user.filter file is reachable through the
+ GUI, just like default.filter is. Feature request 3040263.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Fixed several justified (but harmless) compiler warnings,
- mostly on 64 bit platforms.
+> Added the configure option --enable-large-file-support to set a few
+ defines that are required by platforms like GNU/Linux to support files
+ larger then 2GB. Mainly interesting for users without proper logfile
+ management.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The mingw32 version explicitly requests the default charset
- to prevent display problems with some fonts available on more
- recent Windows versions. Patch by Burberry.
+> Logging with "debug 16" no longer stops at the first nul byte which is
+ pretty useless. Non-printable characters are replaced with their hex value
+ so the result can't span multiple lines making parsing them harder then
+ necessary.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The mingw32 version uses the Privoxy icon in the alt-tab
- windows. Patch by Burberry.
+> Privoxy logs when reading an action, filter or trust file.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The timestamp and the thread id is omitted in the "Fatal error"
- message box on mingw32.
+> Fixed incorrect regression test markup which caused a test in
+ 3.0.16 to fail while Privoxy itself was working correctly.
+ While Privoxy accepts hide-referer, too, the action name is actually
+ hide-referrer which is also the name used one the final results page,
+ where the test expected the alias.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Fixed two related mingw32-only buffer overflows. Triggering
- them required control over the configuration file, therefore
- this isn't seen as a security issue.
+> CGI interface improvements:
+ <P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+> In finish_http_response(), continue to add the 'Connection: close'
+ header if the client connection will not be kept alive.
+ Anonymously pointed out in #2987454.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Apostrophes in block messages no longer cause parse errors
+ when the blocked page is viewed with JavaScript enabled.
+ Reported by dg1727 in #3062296.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Fix a bunch of anchors that used underscores instead of dashes.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Allow to keep the client connection alive after crunching the previous request.
+ Already opened server connections can be kept alive, too.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> In cgi_show_url_info(), don't forget to prefix URLs that only contain http:// or https:// in the path.
+ Fixes #2975765 reported by Adam Piggott.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Show the 404 CGI page if cgi_send_user_manual() is called while
+ local user manual delivery is disabled.
+ </P
+></LI
+></UL
+>
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Action file improvements:
+ <P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+> Enable user.filter by default. Suggested by David White in #3001830.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Block .sitestat.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002725.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Block .atemda.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002723.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Block js.adlink.net/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002720.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Block .analytics.yahoo.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002713.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Block sb.scorecardresearch.com, too. Reported by dg1727 in #2992652.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Fix problems noticed on Yahoo mail and news pages.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Remove the too broad yahoo section, only keeping the
+ fast-redirects exception as discussed on ijbswa-devel@.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Don't block adesklets.sourceforge.net. Reported in #2974204.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Block chartbeat ping tracking. Reported in #2975895.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Tag CSS and image requests with cautious and medium settings, too.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Don't handle view.atdmt.com as image. It's used for click-throughs
+ so users should be able to "go there anyway".
+ Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975927.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Also let the refresh-tags filter remove invalid refresh tags where
+ the 'url=' part is missing. Anonymously reported in #2986382.
+ While at it, update the description to mention the fact that only
+ refresh tags with refresh times above 9 seconds are covered.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> javascript needs to be blocked with +handle-as-empty-document to
+ work around Firefox bug 492459. So move .js blockers from
+ +block{Might be a web-bug.} -handle-as-empty-document
+ to
+ +block{Might be a web-bug.} +handle-as-empty-document
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 - Block 160x578 Banners.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Block another omniture tracking domain
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Added a range-requests tagger.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Added two sections to get Flickr's Ajax interface working with
+ default pre-settings. If you change the configuration to block
+ cookies by default, you'll need additional exceptions.
+ Reported by Mathias Homann in #3101419 and by Patrick on ijbswa-users@
+ </P
+></LI
+></UL
+>
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Documentation improvements:
+ <P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+> Explicitly mention how to match all URLs.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Consistently recommend socks5 in the Tor FAQ entry and mention
+ its advantage compared to socks4a. Reported by David in #2960129.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Slightly improve the explanation of why filtering may appear
+ slower than it is.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Grammar fixes for the ACL section.
+ </P
+></LI
+></UL
+>
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Privoxy-Log-Parser improvements:
+ <P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+> Also gather statistics for blocked and redirected requests.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Provide the percentage of keep-alive offers the client accepted.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Add a --url-statistics-threshold option.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Also gather statistics for ressources, methods, and HTTP versions
+ used by the client.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Add a --host-statistics-threshold option to also gather
+ statistics about how many request where made per host.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Fix a bug in handle_loglevel_header() where a 'scan: ' got lost.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Add a --shorten-thread-ids option to replace the thread id with
+ a decimal number.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Accept and ignore: Looks like we got the last chunk together
+ with the server headers. We better stop reading.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Accept and ignore: Continue hack in da house.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Accept and higlight: Rejecting connection from 10.0.0.2.
+ Maximum number of connections reached.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Accept and highlight: Loading actions file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.action
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Accept and highlight: Loading filter file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.filter
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Accept and highlight: Killed all-caps Host header line: HOST: bestproxydb.com
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Accept and highlight: Reducing expected bytes to 0. Marking
+ the server socket tainted after throwing 4 bytes away.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Accept: Merged multiple header lines to: 'X-FORWARDED-PROTO: http X-HOST: 127.0.0.1'
+ </P
+></LI
+></UL
+>
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Code cleanups:
+ <P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+> Remove the next member from the client_state struct. Only the main
+ thread needs access to all client states so give it its own struct.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Garbage-collect request_contains_null_bytes().
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Ditch redundant code in unload_configfile().
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Ditch LogGetURLUnderCursor() which doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> In write_socket(), remove the write-only variable write_len in
+ an ifdef __OS2__ block. Spotted by cppcheck.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> In connect_to(), don't declare the variable 'flags' on OS/2 where
+ it isn't used. Spotted by cppcheck.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Limit the scope of various variables. Spotted by cppcheck.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> In add_to_iob(), turn an interestingly looking for loop into a
+ boring while loop.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Code cleanup in preparation for external filters.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> In listen_loop(), mention the socket on which we accepted the
+ connection, not just the source IP address.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> In write_socket(), also log the socket we're writing to.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> In log_error(), assert that escaped characters get logged
+ completely or not at all.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> In log_error(), assert that ival and sval have reasonable values.
+ There's no reason not to abort() if they don't.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Remove an incorrect cgi_error_unknown() call in a
+ cannnot-happen-situation in send_crunch_response().
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Clean up white-space in http_response definition and
+ move the crunch_reason to the beginning.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Turn http_response.reason into an enum and rename it
+ to http_response.crunch_reason.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Silence a 'gcc (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2' warning on i686 GNU/Linux.
+ </P
+></LI
+></UL
+>
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> In verbose mode, or if the new option --show-skipped-tests
- is used, Privoxy-Regression-Test logs skipped tests and the
- skip reason.
+> GNUmakefile improvements:
+ <P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+> Use $(SSH) instead of ssh, so one only needs to specify a username once.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Removed references to the action feedback thingy that hasn't been
+ working for years.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Consistently use shell.sourceforge.net instead of shell.sf.net so
+ one doesn't need to check server fingerprints twice.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Removed GNUisms in the webserver and webactions targets so they
+ work with standard tar.
+ </P
+></LI
+></UL
+>
</P
></LI
></UL
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