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- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="WHATSNEW" id="WHATSNEW">3. What's New in this
- Release</a></h1>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.21</span> stable is a bug-fix
- release for Privoxy 3.0.20 beta. It addresses two security issues that
- affect all previous Privoxy versions. The changes since 3.0.20 beta
- are:</p>
-
+ <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="WHATSNEW" id="WHATSNEW">3. What's New in this Release</a></h1>
+ <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.26</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.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
- <p>On POSIX-like platforms, network sockets with file descriptor
- values above FD_SETSIZE are properly rejected. Previously they
- could cause memory corruption in configurations that allowed the
- limit to be reached.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Proxy authentication headers are removed unless the new
- directive enable-proxy-authentication-forwarding is used.
- Forwarding the headers potentially allows malicious sites to
- trick the user into providing them with login information.
- Reported by Chris John Riley.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Compiles on OS/2 again now that unistd.h is only included on
- platforms that have it.</p>
+ <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>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>General improvements:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
- <p>The show-status page shows the FEATURE_STRPTIME_SANITY_CHECKS
- status.</p>
+ <p>Log when privoxy is toggled on or off via cgi interface.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>A couple of assert()s that could theoretically dereference
- NULL pointers in debug builds have been relocated.</p>
+ <p>Highlight the "Info: Now toggled " on/off log message in the Windows log viewer.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Added an LSB info block to the generic start script. Based on
- a patch from Natxo Asenjo.</p>
+ <p>Highlight the loading actions/filter file log message in the Windows log viewer.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>The max-client-connections default has been changed to 128
- which should be more than enough for most setups.</p>
+ <p>Mention client-specific tags on the toggle page as a potentionally more appropriate alternative.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Action file improvements:</p>
-
+ <p>Documentation improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Block rover.ebay./ar.*\&adtype= instead of
- "/.*\&adtype=" which caused too man false positives. Reported
- by u302320 in #360284, additional feedback from Adam Piggott.</p>
+ <p>Update download section on the homepage. The downloads are available from the website now.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Unblock '.advrider.com/' and '/.*ADVrider'. Anonymously
- reported in #3603636.</p>
+ <p>Add sponsor FAQ.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Stop blocking '/js/slider\.js'. Reported by Adam Piggott in
- #3606635 and _lvm in #2791160.</p>
+ <p>Remove obsolete reference to mailing lists hosted at SourceForge.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Filter file improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>Added an iframes filter.</p>
+ <p>Update the "Before the Release" section of the developer manual.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Documentation improvements:</p>
-
+ <p>Infrastructure improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>The whole GPLv2 text is included in the user manual now, so
- Privoxy can serve it itself and the user can read it without
- having to wade through GPLv3 ads first.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Properly numbered and underlined a couple of section titles in
- the config that where previously overlooked due to a flaw in the
- conversion script. Reported by Ralf Jungblut.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Improved the support instruction to hopefully make it harder
- to unintentionally provide insufficient information when
- requesting support. Previously it wasn't obvious that the
- information we need in bug reports is usually also required in
- support requests.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Removed documentation about packages that haven't been
- provided in years.</p>
+ <p>Add perl script to generate an RSS feed for the packages Submitted by "Unknown".</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Privoxy-Regression-Test:</p>
-
+ <p>Build system improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Only log the test number when not running in verbose mode The
- position of the test is rarely relevant and it previously wasn't
- exactly obvious which one of the numbers was useful to repeat the
- test with --test-number.</p>
+ <p>strptime.h: fix a compiler warning about ambiguous else.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>GNUmakefile improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>Factor generate-config-file out of config-file to make testing
- more convenient.</p>
+ <p>configure.in: Check for Docbook goo on the BSDs as well.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>The clean target now also takes care of patch leftovers.</p>
+ <p>GNUMakefile.in: Let the dok-user target remove temporary files.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.20</span> beta contained the
- following changes compared to the previous stable release:</p>
-
+ <p>Changes between <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.25 beta</span> and the previous release:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Client sockets are now properly shutdown and drained before
- being closed. This fixes page truncation issues with clients that
- aggressively pipeline data on platforms that otherwise discard
- already written data. The issue mainly affected Opera users and
- was initially reported by Kevin in #3464439, szotsaki provided
- additional information to track down the cause.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix latency calculation for shared connections (disabled by
- default). It was broken since their introduction in 2009. The
- calculated latency for most connections would be 0 in which case
- the timeout detection failed to account for the real latency.</p>
+ <p>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>Reject URLs with invalid port. Previously they were parsed
- incorrectly and characters between the port number and the first
- slash were silently dropped as shown by curl test 187.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>The default-server-timeout and socket-timeout directives
- accept 0 as valid value.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix a race condition on Windows that could cause Privoxy to
- become unresponsive after toggling it on or off through the
- taskbar icon. Reported by Tim H. in #3525694.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix the compilation on Windows when configured without IPv6
- support.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() in
- case of socks5 connection failures with "debug 2" enabled.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() if a
- filter contained nul bytes in the replacement text.</p>
+ <p>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>Significantly improved keep-alive support for both client and
- server connections.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>New debug log level 65536 which logs all actions that were
- applied to the request.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>New directive client-header-order to forward client headers in
- a different order than the one in which they arrived.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>New directive tolerate-pipelining to allow client-side
- pipelining. If enabled (3.0.20 beta enables it by default),
- Privoxy will keep pipelined client requests around to deal with
- them once the current request has been served.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>New --config-test option to let Privoxy exit after checking
- whether or not the configuration seems valid. The limitations
- noted in TODO #22 and #23 still apply. Based on a patch by
- Ramkumar Chinchani.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>New limit-cookie-lifetime{} action to let cookies expire
- before the end of the session. Suggested by Rick Sykes in
- #1049575.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Increase the hard-coded maximum number of actions and filter
- files from 10 to 30 (each). It doesn't significantly affect
- Privoxy's memory usage and recompiling wasn't an option for all
- Privoxy users that reached the limit.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add support for chunk-encoded client request bodies.
- Previously chunk-encoded request bodies weren't guaranteed to be
- forwarded correctly, so this can also be considered a bug fix
- although chunk-encoded request bodies aren't commonly used in the
- real world.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add support for Tor's optimistic-data SOCKS extension, which
- can reduce the latency for requests on newly created connections.
- Currently only the headers are sent optimistically and only if
- the client request has already been read completely which rules
- out requests with large bodies.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>After preventing the client from pipelining, don't signal
- keep-alive intentions. When looking at the response headers
- alone, it previously wasn't obvious from the client's perspective
- that no additional responses should be expected.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Stop considering client sockets tainted after receiving a
- request with body. It hasn't been necessary for a while now and
- unnecessarily causes test failures when using curl's test
- suite.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Allow HTTP/1.0 clients to signal interest in keep-alive
- through the Proxy-Connection header. While such client are rare
- in the real world, it doesn't hurt and couple of curl tests rely
- on it.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Only remove duplicated Content-Type headers when filters are
- enabled. If they are not it doesn't cause ill effects and the
- user might not want it. Downgrade the removal message to
- LOG_LEVEL_HEADER to clarify that it's not an error in Privoxy and
- is unlikely to cause any problems in general. Anonymously
- reported in #3599335.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Set the socket option SO_LINGER for the client socket.</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>Move several variable declarations to the beginning of their
- code block. It's required when compiling with gcc 2.95 which is
- still used on some platforms. Initial patch submitted by Simon
- South in #3564815.</p>
+ <p>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>Optionally try to sanity-check strptime() results before
- trusting them. Broken strptime() implementations have caused
- problems in the past and the most recent offender seems to be
- FreeBSD's libc (standards/173421).</p>
+ <p>Add client-header-tagger 'listen-address'.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>When filtering is enabled, let Range headers pass if the range
- starts at the beginning. This should work around (or at least
- reduce) the video playback issues with various Apple clients as
- reported by Duc in #3426305.</p>
+ <p>Include the listen-address in the log message when logging new requests. Patch contributed by
+ pursievro.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Do not confuse a client hanging up with a connection time out.
- If a client closes its side of the connection without sending a
- request line, do not send the CLIENT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_RESPONSE,
- but report the condition properly.</p>
+ <p>Turn invalid max-client-connections values into fatal errors.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Allow closing curly braces as part of action values as long as
- they are escaped.</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>On Windows, the logfile is now written before showing the GUI
- error message which blocks until the user acknowledges it.
- Reported by Adriaan in #3593603.</p>
+ <p>On Mac OS X the thread id in log messages are more likely to be unique now.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Remove an unreasonable parameter limit in the CGI interface.
- The new parameter limit depends on the memory available and is
- currently unlikely to be reachable, due to other limits in both
- Privoxy and common clients. Reported by Andrew on
- ijbswa-users@.</p>
+ <p>When complaining about missing filters, the filter type is logged as well.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Decrease the chances of parse failures after requests with
- unsupported methods were sent to the CGI interface.</p>
+ <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>Remove the comment that indicated that updated default.action
- versions are released on their own.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'optimize.indieclick.com/' and
- 'optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/'</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock 'adjamblog.wordpress.com/' and
- 'adjamblog.files.wordpress.com/'. Reported by Ryan Farmer in
- #3496116.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock '/.*Bugtracker'. Reported by pwhk in #3522341.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add test URLs for '.freebsd.org' and '.watson.org'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock '.urbandictionary.com/popular'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block '.adnxs.com/'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'farm.plista.com/widgetdata.php'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'rotation.linuxnewmedia.com/'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'reklamy.sfd.pl/'. Reported by kacperdominik in
- #3399948.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'g.adspeed.net/'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock 'websupport.wdc.com/'. Reported by Adam Piggot in
- #3577851.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block '/openx/www/delivery/'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Disable fast-redirects for '.googleapis.com/'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'imp.double.net/'. Reported by David Bo in #3070411.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'gm-link.com/' which is used for email tracking.
- Reported by David Bo in #1812733.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Verify that requests to "bwp." are blocked. URL taken from
- #1736879 submitted by Francois Marier.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block '/.*bannerid='. Reported by Adam Piggott in
- #2975779.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'cltomedia.info/delivery/' and '.adexprt.com/'.
- Anonymously reported in #2965254.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'de17a.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3061472.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block 'oskar.tradera.com/'. Reported by David Bo in
- #3060596.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block '/scripts/webtrends\.js'. Reported by johnd16 in
- #3002729.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block requests for 'pool.*.adhese.com/'. Reported by johnd16
- in #3002716.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Update path pattern for Coremetrics and add tests. Pattern and
- URLs submitted by Adam Piggott #3168443.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Enable +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} for 'tr.anp.se/'.
- Reported by David Bo in #3268832.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock '.conrad.se/newsletter/banners/'. Reported by David Bo
- in #3413824.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block '.tynt.com/'. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421767.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock '.bbci.co.uk/radio/'. Reported by Adam Piggott in
- #3569603.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Block requests to 'service.maxymiser.net/'. Reported by
- johnd16 in #3118401 (with a previous URL).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Disable fast-redirects for Google's "let's pretend your
- computer is infected" page.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock '/.*download' to resolve actionsfile feedback
- #3498129. Submitted by Steven Kolins (soundcloud.com not
- working).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock '.wlxrs.com/' which is required by hotmail.com. Fixes
- #3413827 submitted by David Bo.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add two unblock patterns for popup radio and TV players.
- Submitted by Adam Piggott in #3596089.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Filter file improvements & bug fixes:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Add a referer tagger.</p>
+ <p>Filtering is disabled for Range requests to let download resumption and Windows updates work with the
+ default configuration.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Reduce the likelihood that the google filter messes up
- HTML-generating JavaScript. Reported by Zeno Kugy in
- #3520260.</p>
+ <p>Unblock ".ardmediathek.de/". Reported by ThTomate in #932.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Documentation improvements:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Revised all OS X sections due to new packaging module
- (OSXPackageBuilder).</p>
+ <p>Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Update the list of supported operating systems to clarify that
- all Windows versions after 95 are expected to work and note that
- the platform-specific code for AmigaOS and QNX currently isn't
- maintained.</p>
+ <p>Remove obsolete FAQ entry about a bug in PHP 4.2.3.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Update 'Signals' section, the only explicitly handled signals
- are SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGHUP.</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>Add Haiku to the list of operating systems on which Privoxy is
- known to run.</p>
+ <p>Note that the templates should be adjusted if Privoxy is running as intercepting proxy without getting
+ all requests.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Add DragonFly to the list of BSDs on which Privoxy is known to
- run.</p>
+ <p>A bunch of links were converted to https://.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Removed references to redhat-specific documentation set since
- it no longer exists.</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>Removed references to building PDFs since we no longer do
- so.</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>Multiple listen-address directives are supported since 3.0.18,
- correct the documentation to say so.</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>Remove bogus section about long and short being preferable to
- int.</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>Corrected some Internet JunkBuster references to Privoxy.</p>
+ <p>Add a FAQ entry for tainted sockets.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Removed references to www.junkbusters.com since it is no
- longer maintained. Reported by Angelina Matson.</p>
+ <p>More sections in the documentation have stable URLs now.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Various grammar and spelling corrections</p>
+ <p>FAQ: Explain why 'ping config.privoxy.org' is not expected to reach a local Privoxy installation.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Add a client-header-tagger{} example for disabling filtering
- for range requests.</p>
+ <p>Note that donations done through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently can't be checked automatically.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Correct a URL in the "Privoxy with Tor" FAQ.</p>
+ <p>Updated section regarding starting Privoxy under OS X.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Spell 'refresh-tags' correctly. Reported by Don in
- #3571927.</p>
+ <p>Use dedicated start instructions for FreeBSD and ElectroBSD.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Sort manpage options alphabetically.</p>
+ <p>Removed release instructions for AIX. They haven't been working for years and unsurprisingly nobody
+ seems to care.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Remove an incorrect sentence in the toggle section. The toggle
- state doesn't affect whether or not the Windows version uses the
- tray icon. Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3596395.</p>
+ <p>Removed obsolete reference to the solaris-dist target.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Add new contributors since 3.0.19.</p>
+ <p>Updated the release instructions for FreeBSD.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Log message improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>When stopping to watch a client socket due to pipelining,
- additionally log the socket number.</p>
- </li>
-
<li>
- <p>Log the client socket and its condition before closing it.
- This makes it more obvious that the socket actually gets closed
- and should help when diagnosing problems like #3464439.</p>
+ <p>Removed unfinished release instructions for Amiga OS and HP-UX 11.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>In case of SOCKS5 failures, do not explicitly log the server's
- response. It hasn't helped so far and the response can already be
- logged by enabling "debug 32768" anyway. This reverts v1.81 and
- the follow-up bug fix v1.84.</p>
+ <p>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>Relocate the connection-accepted message from listen_loop() to
- serve(). This way it's printed by the thread that is actually
- serving the connection which is nice when grepping for thread ids
- in log files.</p>
+ <p>Various typos have been fixed.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Code cleanups:</p>
-
+ <p>Infrastructure improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Remove compatibility layer for versions prior to 3.0 since it
- has been obsolete for more than 10 years now.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove the ijb_isupper() and ijb_tolower() macros from
- parsers.c since they aren't used in this file.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Removed the 'Functions declared include:' comment sections
- since they tend to be incomplete, incorrect and out of date and
- the benefit seems questionable.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Various comment grammar and comprehensibility
- improvements.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove a pointless fflush() call in chat(). Flushing all
- streams pretty much all the time for no obvious reason is
- ridiculous.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Relocate ijb_isupper()'s definition to project.h and get the
- ijb_tolower() definition from there, too.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Relocate ijb_isdigit()'s definition to project.h.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Rename ijb_foo macros to privoxy_foo.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add malloc_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths
- where malloc() failures don't need to be handled gracefully.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add strdup_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths
- where strdup() failures don't need to be handled gracefully.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Replace strdup() calls with strdup_or_die() calls where it's
- safe and simplifies the code.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix white-space around parentheses.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add missing white-space behind if's and the following
- parentheses.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unwrap a memcpy() call in resolve_hostname_to_ip().</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Declare pcrs_get_delimiter()'s delimiters[] static const.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Various optimisations to remove dead code and merge
- inefficient code structures for improved clarity, performance or
- code compactness.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Various data type corrections.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Change visibility of several code segments when compiling
- without FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE enabled for clarity.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>In pcrs_get_delimiter(), do not use delimiters outside the
- ASCII range. Fixes a clang complaint.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix an error message in get_last_url() nobody is supposed to
- see. Reported by Matthew Fischer in #3507301.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix a typo in the no-zlib-support complaint. Patch submitted
- by Matthew Fischer in #3507304.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Shorten ssplit()'s prototype by removing the last two
- arguments. We always want to skip empty fields and ignore leading
- delimiters, so having parameters for this only complicates the
- API.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Use an enum for the type of the action value.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Rename action_name's member takes_value to value_type as it
- isn't used as boolean.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Turn family mismatches in match_sockaddr() into fatal
- errors.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Let enlist_unique_header() verify that the caller didn't pass
- a header containing either \r or \n.</p>
+ <p>The website is no longer hosted at SourceForge and can be reached through https now.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Change the hashes used in load_config() to unsigned int.
- That's what hash_string() actually returns and using a
- potentially larger type is at best useless.</p>
+ <p>The mailing lists at SourceForge have been deprecated, you can subscribe to the new ones at:
+ https://lists.privoxy.org/</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Use privoxy_tolower() instead of vanilla tolower() with manual
- casting of the argument.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Catch ssplit() failures in parse_cgi_parameters().</p>
+ <p>Migrating the remaining services from SourceForge is work in progress (TODO list item #53).</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Privoxy-Regression-Test:</p>
-
+ <p>Build system improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Add an 'Overwrite condition' directive to skip any matching
- tests before it. As it has a global scope, using it is more
- convenient than clowning around with the Ignore directive.</p>
+ <p>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>Log to STDOUT instead of STDERR.</p>
+ <p>Let the tarball-dist target skip files in ".git".</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Include the Privoxy version in the output.</p>
+ <p>Let the tarball-dist target work in cwds other than current.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Various grammar and spelling corrections in documentation and
- code.</p>
+ <p>Make the 'clean' target faster when run from a git repository.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Additional tests for range requests with filtering
- enabled.</p>
+ <p>Include tools in the generic distribution.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Tests with mostly invalid range request.</p>
+ <p>Let the gen-dist target work in cwds other than current.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Add a couple of hide-if-modified-since{} tests with different
- date formats.</p>
+ <p>Sort find output that is used for distribution tarballs to get reproducible results.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Cleaned up the format of the regression-tests.action file to
- match the format of default.action.</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>Remove the "Copyright" line from print_version(). When using
- --help, every line of screen space matters and thus shouldn't be
- wasted on things the user doesn't care about.</p>
+ <p>Add regression-tests.action to the files that are distributed.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Privoxy-Log-Parser:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>Improve the --statistics performance by skipping sanity checks
- for input that shouldn't affect the results anyway. Add a
- --strict-checks option that enables some of the checks again,
- just in case anybody cares.</p>
+ <p>The gen-dist target which was broken since 2002 (r1.92) has been fixed.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>The distribution of client requests per connection is included
- in the --statistic output.</p>
+ <p>Remove genclspec.sh which has been obsolete since 2009.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>The --accept-unknown-messages option has been removed and the
- behavior is now the default.</p>
+ <p>Remove obsolete reference to Redhat spec file.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Accept and (mostly) highlight new log messages introduced with
- Privoxy 3.0.20.</p>
+ <p>Remove the obsolete announce target which has been commented out years ago.</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>uagen:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>Bump generated Firefox version to 17.</p>
+ <p>Let rsync skip files if the checksums match.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>GNUmakefile improvements:</p>
-
+ <p>Privoxy-Regression-Test:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>The dok-tidy target no longer taints documents with a
- tidy-mark</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Change RA_MODE from 0664 to 0644. Suggested by Markus Dittrich
- in #3505445.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove tidy's clean flag as it changes the scope of
- attributes. Link-specific colors end up being applied to all
- text. Reported by Adam Piggott in #3569551.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Leave it up to the user whether or not smart tags are
- inserted.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Let w3m itself do the line wrapping for the config file. It
- works better than fmt as it can honour pre tags causing less
- unintentional line breaks.</p>
+ <p>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>Ditch a pointless '-r' passed to rm to delete files.</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>The config-file target now requires less manual intervention
- and updates the original config.</p>
+ <p>Fix indentation in perldoc examples.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Change WDUMP to generate ASCII. Add WDUMP_UTF8 to allow UTF-8
- in the AUTHORS file so the names are right.</p>
+ <p>Don't overlook directives in the first line of the action file.</p>
</li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Stop pretending that lynx and links are supported for the
- documentation.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>configure improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>On Haiku, do not pass -lpthread to the compiler. Haiku's
- pthreads implementation is contained in its system library,
- libroot, so no additional library needs to be searched. Patch
- submitted by Simon South in #3564815.</p>
+ <p>Bump version to 0.7.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Additional Haiku-specific improvements. Disable checks
- intended for multi-user systems as Haiku is presently
- single-user. Group Haiku-specific settings in their own section,
- following the pattern for Solaris, OS/2 and AmigaOS. Add
- additional library-related settings to remove the need for
- providing configure with custom LDFLAGS. Submitted by Simon South
- in #3574538.</p>
+ <p>Fix detection of the Privoxy version now that https:// is used for the website.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
-
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- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="UPGRADERSNOTE" id="UPGRADERSNOTE">3.1. Note
- to Upgraders</a></h2>
-
- <p>A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier
- versions of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>:</p>
-
+ <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="UPGRADERSNOTE" id="UPGRADERSNOTE">3.1. Note to Upgraders</a></h2>
+ <p>A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier versions of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>The recommended way to upgrade <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is to backup your old configuration
- files, install the new ones, verify that <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is working correctly and finally merge
- back your changes using <span class="APPLICATION">diff</span> and
- maybe <span class="APPLICATION">patch</span>.</p>
-
- <p>There are a number of new features in each <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> release and most of them have to be
- explicitly enabled in the configuration files. Old configuration
- files obviously don't do that and due to syntax changes using old
- configuration files with a new <span class=
+ <p>The recommended way to upgrade <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is to backup your old
+ configuration files, install the new ones, verify that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is working
+ correctly and finally merge back your changes using <span class="APPLICATION">diff</span> and maybe
+ <span class="APPLICATION">patch</span>.</p>
+ <p>There are a number of new features in each <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> release and most of
+ them have to be explicitly enabled in the configuration files. Old configuration files obviously don't do
+ that and due to syntax changes using old configuration files with a new <span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> isn't always possible anyway.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely,
- including configuration files, therefore you should really save any
- important configuration files!</p>
+ <p>Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely, including configuration files, therefore you
+ should really save any important configuration files!</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing
- configuration files, thinking you will want to do that
- yourself.</p>
+ <p>On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing configuration files, thinking you will want
+ to do that yourself.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now.
- You can change that in the <a href="config.html#DEBUG">debug
- section</a> of the configuration file. You may also want to enable
- more verbose logging until you verified that the new <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version is working as expected.</p>
+ <p>In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now. You can change that in the <a href=
+ "config.html#DEBUG">debug section</a> of the configuration file. You may also want to enable more verbose
+ logging until you verified that the new <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version is working as
+ expected.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Three other config file settings are now off by default:
- <a href="config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">enable-remote-toggle</a>,
- <a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE">enable-remote-http-toggle</a>,
- and <a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</a>. If you
- use or want these, you will need to explicitly enable them, and be
- aware of the security issues involved.</p>
+ <p>Three other config file settings are now off by default: <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">enable-remote-toggle</a>, <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE">enable-remote-http-toggle</a>, and <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</a>. If you use or want these, you will need to
+ explicitly enable them, and be aware of the security issues involved.</p>
</li>
</ul>
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