X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=7c3ab98e02a26668bdcd9aee5b4f47a781ec4d26;hp=7c833280711ee9e6550459b245dbaa82daf76a07;hb=66b1e23830d60ea98b0ba2ac5644ef24a45f9c55;hpb=8553c0a6c75006ea33dbb8f21855b594fd1f4533 diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 7c833280..7c3ab98e 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,19 +1,2028 @@ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog for Privoxy -------------------------------------------------------------------- +*** Version 3.0.30 UNRELEASED *** + +- Bug fixes: + - 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. + - Let the hide-referrer code tolerate Referer headers with https:// URLs. + Previously they would always be treated like a changed host. + - 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. + - 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. + - Support using https-inspection and client-header-order at the same time. + Privously Privoxy would crash. + Reported by: Kai Raven + - 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. + +- General improvements: + - Allow to rewrite the request destination for https-intercepted + 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. + - 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 + - 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 + - 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. + - Recycle debug bit 4 for Tagging-related messages. + - Improve the message shown when the client-tags CGI page + is requested with no tags configured. + - 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. + - 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. + - The code compiles with older C compilers again. + - Check the chdir() return code to fix a compiler warning. + - Let the crude-parental filter insert a link to Privoxy's webinterface. + - Remove the packages feed from the source tarball. + It's usually out of date when the source tarball is generated + for the release. + - Fix harmless compiler warnings from GCC9 with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2. + - windows: Remove obsolete '$(DEST)/doc/images' target. + - windows: Install the images referenced in the user manual. + - Remove obsolete 'gnu_regex.@OBJEXT@' target. + - 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. + - Add new FEATURES to the show-status page and resort list. + - OpenSSL create_client_ssl_connection(): Remove unused variable. + - Update bug tracker URL in cgi_error_unknown(). + - Properly deal with host certificates without keys and keys without + host certificate which may be left over from a previous Privoxy run + with incorrect configuration. + - Saved a couple of memory allocations when sorting client headers. + - Improved a couple of error messages. + - Saved memory allocations when using OpenSSL and checking if a + key already exists. + - The configure script will bail out if OpenSSL and mbedTLS are + enabled at the same time. + - Log a message right before exiting gracefully. + +- Action file improvements: + - Block requests to eu-tlp03.kameleoon.com/. + - Unblock metrics.sr.ht/. + - Disable fast-redirects for .fsf.org/. + - Disable fast-redirects for .gravater.com/. + - Disable fast-redirects for .ksta.de/ + - Block requests to tag.crsspxl.com/. + - Block requests to analytics.slashdotmedia.com/. + - Block requests to ml314.com/. + - Block requests to .adroll.com/. + - Block requests to fastlane.rubiconproject.com/. + - Block requests to api.theadex.com/ + - Block requests to ih.adscale.de/ + - Block requests to .s400.meetrics.net/ + - Block requests for pp.lp4.io/ + +- Filter file improvements: + - Added new 'allow-autocompletion' filter 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. + - Added an imdb filter. + - Added a sourceforge filter that reduces the amount of ads + for proprietary software. + - Added a github filter that removes the annoying "Sign-Up" + banner and the Cookie disclaimer. + +- privoxy-log-parser: + - Highlight 'Rewritten request line results in downgrade to http'. + - Highlight 'Rewrite detected: ...' messages again. + - Add a handler for tagging messages. + - Bump version to 0.9.2. + - Properly deal with 'Certificate error' crunches + Previously the error description was highlighted as 'host'. + - Highlight: 'Flushed 3153 bytes of request body' + - Highlight 'The last 12078 bytes of the request body have been read' + - Highlight 'Sending data on socket 33 over TLS/SSL failed: ...' + - Log truncated LOG_LEVEL_CLF messages more gracefully + and note that the statistics will be inprecise. + +- privoxy-regression-test: + - Use http://127.0.0.1:8118/ as default privoxy address + unless http_proxy is set through the environment. + - 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. + - 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. + - Use --proxy-header when using a CGI prefix with https:// + and a "Host:" header. + - Allow '|' in tokens and values to allow tag patterns like + "TAG:^(application|text)/(x-)?javascript$". + - When get_cgi_page_or_else() fails, include the URL of the + requested page in the log message. + - privoxy-regression-test: Bump version to 0.7.2 + +- uagen: + - Update example output. + - Recommend the use of the https-inspection action in the documentation. + - Upgrade a couple of URLs to https://. + - Add ElectroBSD to the list of operating systems. + - Bump generated Firefox version to 78 (ESR). + - Bump version to 1.2.2. + + - User Documentation: + - 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 ... + - 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. + - 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. + - Describe how to check if Privoxy has been built with + FEATURE_HTTPS_INSPECTION. + - Add a link to the trusted-cas-file documentation + that explains how the user can create the file herself. + - 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. + - Update the +hide-user-agent example with uagen output. + - Slightly improve the wording of the ca-key-file documentation. + - Explicitly mention Windows 10 as supported so search engines and + users looking for it can find it. + - Import a bunch of contributors from the ChangeLog. + - Remove obsolete doc/gpl.html. + - Upgrade a couple of links to https://. + - Don't prefer the SourceForge patch tracker over the + privoxy-devel mailing list. While at it, link to the + SourceForge patch tracker. + - Mention http-inspection in the 'my browser warns me about + unauthenticated content' FAQ entry. + - Simplify the 'Is there is a license or fee?' FAQ entry. + - Add another +redirect{} example. + - Explicitly mention that interested sponsors should include + the link target in their first mail. + - Clarify that only Privoxy team members can object to new sponsors + and link to the list of current team members. + - Note that sponsor URLs may not contain keyword spam. + - Garbage collect doc/webserver/images which isn't referenced anymore. + - Update the method to reach the proxy settings in Firefox. + - Update proxy_setup.jpg description to refer to Firefox. + - Regenerate proxy_setup.jpg with a more recent Firefox (78.0). + - Regenerate files-in-use.jpg without obsolete standard.action + with modern colors and a slightly better quality. + - Update URL to the actionsfile tracker. + - Update a support request URL. + - Rephrase the 'Can Privoxy run as service' FAQ entry and + remove an obsolete paragraph. + - Let the 'Where can I get updated Actions Files?' entry link to + the gitweb version of default.action.master. + - Update a link to the default.action file. + - Update URLs for trackers and mailing lists. + - Replace CVS reference with git. + - Mention regression-tests.action in the config file. + - Explicitly mention in the config file that access to the + ca key should be limited to Privoxy. + - List more client-specific-tag examples for inspiration. + - Add additional headers to the client-header-order example. + - Note that actions aren't updated after rewrites. + - Explicitly mention that upgrading from http to https with + a client-header filter is not supported + - Note that protocol and host have to be added when rewriting + the destination host for https-inspected requests. + - Explicitly mention that the CA key is used to sign certificates. + +- Developer Manual: + - Flesh out the build instructions for Debian. + - Remove the packaging instructions for RPM-based systems. + They don't work and we don't release RPM packages anymore anyway. + - Remove the packaging instructions for Solaris. + They don't work and we don't release Solaris packages anymore anyway. + - Update the suggested subject for the announce mails. + - Update upload instructions. + ftp://upload.sourceforge.net is no longer functional. + - Remove a couple of package-dependent upload instructions + that don't actually work. + - Remove 'cd current' that no longer works. + - Add regression-tests.action to the list of files that should be installed. + - Stop claiming that there are text versions of the manuals. + We stopped building them in 2008 (9ed36a3c5e6f12). + - Note that the 'webserver' target creates the link needed for the user-manual. + - 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. + - Add the -s flag to the suggested 'git tag' command. We prefer signed tags. + - Mention that merges into 'master' should be avoided. + - Add git commands that should result in a merge-free history. + - Mention Privoxy-Regression-Test. + - Add a section id to reduce link churn. + - Recommend the dok-tidy target when building docs for the webserver. + - Add another plug for the privoxy-devel mailing list. + - Let the intro link the copyright section in the user manual instead + of giving an incomplete summary of the license status. + - Clarify that the webserver target uploads to the SourceForge webserver. + - Mark the documentation for the Mac OS X installers as out of date and + change the SCM name back to CVS. + - Fix the location of the installer modules for Mac OS X. + They are not actually available through git (yet). + - Don't speak of Privoxy version 3 in the past tense. + - Update the list of programs required for the release process. + - Put openssl command in 'command' tags. + - Update description of the webserver target which uses ssh, not scp. + - Remove obsolete reference to config.new. + +- Tests: + - Add another hide-referrer{conditional-block} test. + - Add another hide-referrer{conditional-forge} test. + - Fix a hide-referrer{conditional-forge} test + that expected an acceptable header to be forged. + - Fix a hide-referrer{conditional-block} test + that expected an acceptable Referer to be removed. + - Explain why the "Set Header = Host: whatever.example.org" test is + expected to fail when using a CGI prefix that starts with "https://". + - Explain why a connection-sharing test is known to fail + when using "https://p.p/" as CGI prefix. + - Add a link to Privoxy-Regression-Test to regression-tests.action + in case it isn't packaged. + - Add regression tests for pcre host patterns. + +- Privoxy Infrastructure: + - Import a Privoxy logo for the website. + - Update Tor onion service to HiddenServiceVersion 3. + - Display the "model" photos in a single row and remove placeholder images. + - Regenerate homepage with updated sponsor list. + - Use the '/sponsor' redirect for the link to the sponsor page. + - Git commit messages are sent to the Privoxy-commits mailing list. + +*** Version 3.0.29 stable *** + +- Security/Reliability: + - Fixed memory leaks when a response is buffered and the buffer + limit is reached or Privoxy is running out of memory. + Commits bbd53f1010b and 4490d451f9b. OVE-20201118-0001. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Fixed a memory leak in the show-status CGI handler when + no action files are configured. Commit c62254a686. + OVE-20201118-0002. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Fixed a memory leak in the show-status CGI handler when + no filter files are configured. Commit 1b1370f7a8a. + OVE-20201118-0003. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Fixes a memory leak when client tags are active. + Commit 245e1cf32. OVE-20201118-0004. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Fixed a memory leak if multiple filters are executed + and the last one is skipped due to a pcre error. + Commit 5cfb7bc8fe. OVE-20201118-0005. + - Prevent an unlikely dereference of a NULL-pointer that + could result in a crash if accept-intercepted-requests + was enabled, Privoxy failed to get the request destination + from the Host header and a memory allocation failed. + Commit 7530132349. CID 267165. OVE-20201118-0006. + - Fixed memory leaks in the client-tags CGI handler when + client tags are configured and memory allocations fail. + Commit cf5640eb2a. CID 267168. OVE-20201118-0007. + - Fixed memory leaks in the show-status CGI handler when memory + allocations fail. Commit 064eac5fd0 and commit fdee85c0bf3. + CID 305233. OVE-20201118-0008. + +- General improvements: + - Added experimental https inspection support which allows to filter + https traffic. To enable it, install MbedTLS and configure with + --with-mbedtls, or install OpenSSL or LibreSSL and configure + with --with-openssl. + Afterwards configure the directives in section 7 of the + config file and enable the +https-inspection action. + Initial MbedTLS-based code contributed by Vaclav Svec, + initial OpenSSL support contributed by Maxim Antonov. + With help from Nedzad Hrnjica and Ho+ Ho+ Ho+. + Integration and improvements sponsored by Robert Klemme. + - pcrs: Request JIT compilation if it's supported and + the filter isn't dynamic. This can speed up filtering. + - Added support for Brotli decompression. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Added FEATURE_EXTENDED_STATISTICS to gather statistics for + block reasons and filter executions. To enable it, configure + with --enable-extended-statistics and visit + http://config.privoxy.org/show-status. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Use the IP_FREEBIND socket option, if defined. This allows + Privoxy to bind to not-yet assigned IP addresses which is + useful in failover environments. + Patch by Sam Varshavchik. + - Allow to use extended host patterns and vanilla host patterns + at the same time by prefixing extended host patterns with + "PCRE-HOST-PATTERN:". To enable this, configure with + --enable-pcre-host-patterns. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Added "Cross-origin resource sharing" (CORS) support. + This allows to access Privoxy's CGI interface via JavaScript from + another domain (white-listed with the new cors-allowed-origin directive). + Based on a patch by Nedzad Hrnjica. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme. + - Add SOCKS5 username/password support. + Based on a patch by Sam, improved by Ivan Romanov. + Closes Patch#141 and solves TODO#105. + - Bump the maximum number of action and filter files + to 100 each. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Fixed handling of filters with "split-large-forms 1" + when using the CGI editor. + Reported by withoutname in #921. + - Better detect a mismatch of connection details when + figuring out whether or not a connection can be reused. + - Don't send a "Connection failure" message instead of the + "DNS failure" message. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Let LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST log all requests. Previously unencrypted + requests were only logged with LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST when they weren't + crunched (in which case they were logged with LOG_LEVEL_CRUNCH). + This was documented behaviour, but logging all requests seems more useful. + - Fixed locking around localtime() and gmtime(). + - Removed OS/2 support. We haven't provided OS/2 packages in years, + it complicated the code and it depended on a fallback snprintf() + implementation which is GPLv2 only. + - Remove the fallback snprintf() implementation + Now that OS/2 support is gone we no longer need it. + - Fixed a bunch of format specifiers log messages. + - Added a missing apostrophe in the 'More Privoxy' menu. + - Explicitly prevent use of FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING + without FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE. It makes no sense + and does not compile anyway. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Fix build without FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Downgrade the 'Graceful termination requested' message + to LOG_LEVEL_INFO as it isn't an error. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - decompress_iob(): Downgrade the no-content message to LOG_LEVEL_RE_FILTER + While at it, fix a typo in a comment. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Fixed a couple of cppcheck warnings. + - Rename LOG_LEVEL_GPC to LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST. + Only the shadow knows what "GPC" is supposed to stand for. + - Remove SourceForge references in copyright headers. + - Upgrade a bunch of links to the homepage to https://. + - Add 'no-brotli-accepted' filter which prevents the + use of Brotli compression. + - Changed license for pcrs to GPLv2+ after getting the + permission from Andreas. This allows to redistribute + Privoxy under the GPLv3 which is required when linking + to future mbedTLS versions which are expected to be + licensed under the Apache 2.0 license only. + - Updated a bunch of tests that have to expect status code 403 + now after r1.168/070e904afa5. + - Lowercase the host name in the request line. + - Only set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH if it's not already set so + distributions can overwrite it through the environment. + +- Documentation changes: + - Explain that Privoxy has to be distributed under the + GPLv3 (or later) when linked with an MbedTLS version + that is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. + - Import the GNU GPLv3 and include it the user manual. + - Clarify FEATURE_FORCE_LOAD's description. It allows to bypass + blocking not filtering and only does it if blocks aren't enforced. + Reported by: Robert Klemme + - FAQ: Remove Zwiebelfreunde e.V. from the list of fiduciary sponsors + As of 2021 they no longer handle donations for foreign organisations + due to lack of resources. + - FAQ: Remove an obsolete comment with a link to the long-gone PDF manual. + - FAQ: Add a link to the TODO list. + - FAQ: Change the sponsor amounts to USD slightly rounding the + converted amounts up to get simple numbers. + Receiving USD is apparently easier for SPI and SPI is + preferred by sponsors as they can send invoices. + - Advertise the client-tags CGI page in the user manual. + - Stop advertising the show-version CGI page which no longer exists. + - Add yet another reason why +prevent-compression may cause problems. + - Don't claim that contributors need ssh. It's only needed for committers. + - Replace obsolete CVS instructions with Git instructions. + - Remove an obsolete comment + +- Config file changes: + - Change the suggested default-server-timeout to 5 to match the + suggested keep-alive-timeout. Otherwise using the defaults would + result in Privoxy reducing the default-server-timeout and logging + an error message. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Update the 'debug 1' description. + - Add a missing 'client-specific-tag' directive. + - Comment out trusted-cgi-referer pointing to example.org. + +- Action file improvements: + - Block requests to /(.*/)?piwik\.php + - Block requests to .connectaserver.de/ + - Block requests to pixel.inforsea.com/ + - Block requests to t.vi-serve.com/ + - Block requests to .ioam.de/ + - Block requests to t.9gag.com/img.gif + - Block requests to .pixel.parsely.com/ as image + - Block requests to pixel.wp.com/ + - Disable fast-redirects for .librarything.com/ + - Disable fast-redirects for issue.freebsdfoundation.org/ + - Disable fast-redirects for .twitter.com/.*origin=http + - Unblock belco24.de/ + - Add fast-redirects exception for .wikipedia.org/ + - Add fast-redirects exception for oss-fuzz.com/ + - Disable fast-redirects for .consensu.org/delivery/pixel\.php + and block the requests as image instead + - Unblock .adbinstaller.com/ + Reported by lvm in #942. + - Unblock .adbshell.com + Reported by lvm in #942. + - Unblock .tagesschau.de/ + - Disable fast-redirects for collector.githubapp.com/ + and block requests to it as image instead + - Unblock 'ada*.' + - Add fast-redirects{} exception for sourcepoint.vice.com/ + - Unblock adaway.org/ + Reported by DRS David Soft in AF#945. + - Change two block reasons that previously were the same. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Added a +delay-response{} test. + - Updated the location of the development version + of default.action.master. + +- Privoxy-Log-Parser: + - Added a --keep-date option to keep the date in highlighted messages. + - Highlight new log messages. + - Make gather_loglevel_clf_stats() more tolerant. While at it, + count all CLF messages as requests, even if the request is invalid. + - Only show HTTP version distribution if at least one version has been detected. + - Only show crunch statistics if crunches were detected. + - Warn if the request counts differ. + - Generate statistics if the log only contains LOG_LEVEL_CLF messages + so it can be used with vanilla webserver logs. + Previously Privoxy-specific "Request:" messages were required. + - Align the client-HTTP-version distribution like other distributions + - Bump version to 0.9.1 + - Include status code distribution in the stats. + - Let the statistics include the size of the content Privoxy + transferred excluding HTTP headers. + - Get with the program and expect all requests to be logged with LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST. + It's no longer necessary to count both LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST and + LOG_LEVEL_CRUNCH messages to get the total number of requests. + - Leverage the LOG_LEVEL_CLF message to gather statistics that where + previously taken from LOG_LEVEL_HEADER lines. This results in less + confusing results if https inspection is enabled in which case there + are two LOG_LEVEL_HEADER lines with request lines. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Properly highlight the filter results message. Previously a brace got lost. + - Prefer the number of CLF lines to get the total number of requests + as it works with older Privoxy versions as well. + +- Privoxy-Regression-Test: + - Turn curl's globbing mode off so we can allow more characters in URLs. + - Allow '[' and ']' in URLs. + - Include the action file when complaining about missing Sticky Actions. + - Fix a sentence in the documentation. + - Bump version to 0.7.1 + +- url-pattern-translator: + - Detect a couple of pattern prefixes case-insensitively. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Skip CLIENT-TAG patterns. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Skip patterns that have already been converted. + It should now be safe to "convert" a file multiple times. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Add the new 'PCRE-HOST-PATTERN:' prefix. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + +*** Version 3.0.28 stable *** + +- Bug fixes for regressions in 3.0.27: + - Fixed misplaced parentheses. + Reported by David Binderman. + - Changed two regression tests to depend on config directive + enable-remote-toggle instead of FEATURE_TOGGLE. + +*** Version 3.0.27 stable *** + +- General improvements: + - Add a receive-buffer-size directive which can be used to + set the size of the previously statically allocated buffer + in handle_established_connection(). + Increasing the buffer size increases Privoxy's memory usage but + can lower the number of context switches and thereby reduce the + CPU usage and potentially increase the throughput. + This is mostly relevant for fast network connections and + large downloads that don't require filtering. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Add a listen-backlog directive which specifies the backlog + value passed to listen(). + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Add an enable-accept-filter directive which allows to + toggle accept filter support at run time when compiled + with FEATURE_ACCEPT_FILTER support. + It makes testing more convenient and now that it's + optional we can emit an error message if enabling + the accept filter fails. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Add a delay-response{} action. + This is useful to tar pit JavaScript requests that + are endlessly retried in case of blocks. It can also + be used to simulate a slow Internet connection. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Add a 'trusted-cgi-referrer' directive. + It allows to configure another page or site that can be used + to reach sensitive CGI resources. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Add a --fuzz mode which exposes Privoxy internals to input + from files or stdout. + Mainly tested with American Fuzzy Lop. For details see: + https://www.fabiankeil.de/talks/fuzzing-on-freebsd/ + This work was partially funded with donations and done + as part of the Privoxy month in 2015. + - Consistently use the U(ngreedy) flag in the 'img-reorder' filter. + - listen_loop(): Reuse a single thread attribute object + The object doesn't change and creating a new one for + every thread is a waste of (CPU) time. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Free csp resources in the thread that belongs to the csp instead + of the main thread which has enough on its plate already. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Improve 'socket timeout reached' message. + Log the timeout that was triggered and downgrade the + log level to LOG_LEVEL_CONNECT to reduce the log noise + with common debug settings. + The timeout isn't necessary the result of an error and + usually merely indicates that Privoxy's socket timeout + is lower than the relevant timeouts used by client and + server. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Explicitly taint the server socket in case of CONNECT requests. + This doesn't fix any known problems, but makes + some log messages less confusing. + - Let write_pid_file() terminate if the pid file can't be opened. + Logging the issue at info level is unlikely to help. + - log_error(): Reduce the mutex-protected area by not using a + heap-allocated buffer that is shared between all threads. + This increases performance and reduces the latency with + verbose debug settings and multiple concurrent connections. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Let zalloc() use calloc() if it's available. + In some situations using calloc() can be faster than + malloc() + memset() and it should never be slower. + In the real world the impact of this change is not + expected to be noticeable. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Never use select() when poll() is available. + On most platforms select() is limited by FD_SETSIZE while + poll() is not. This was a scaling issue for multi-user setups. + Using poll() has no downside other than the usual risk + that code modifications may introduce new bugs that have + yet to be found and fixed. + At least in theory this commit could also reduce the latency + when there are lots of connections and select() would use + "bit fields in arrays of integers" to store file descriptors. + Another side effect is that Privoxy no longer has to stop + monitoring the client sockets when pipelined requests are + waiting but can't be read yet. + This code keeps the select()-based code behind ifdefs for + now but hopefully it can be removed soonish to make the + code more readable. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Add a 'reproducible-tarball-dist' target. + It's currently separate from the "tarball-dist" target + because it requires a tar implementation with mtree spec + support. + It's far from being perfect and does not enforce a + reproducible mode, but it's better than nothing. + - Use arc4random() if it's available. + While Privoxy doesn't need high quality pseudo-random numbers + there's no reason not to use them when we can and this silences + a warning emitted by code checkers that can't tell whether or not + the quality matters. + - Show the FEATURE_EXTERNAL_FILTERS status on the status page. + Better late than never. Previously a couple of tests weren't + executed as Privoxy-Regression-Test couldn't detect that the + FEATURE_EXTERNAL_FILTERS dependency was satisfied. + - Ditch FEATURE_IMAGE_DETECT_MSIE. + It's an obsolete workaround we inherited from Junkbuster + and was already disabled by default. + Users that feel the urge to work around issues with + image requests coming from an Internet Explorer version + from more than 15 years ago can still do this using tags. + - Consistently use strdup_or_die() instead of strdup() in + cases where allocation failures aren't expected. + Using strdup_or_die() allows to remove a couple of explicit + error checks which slightly reduces the size of the binary. + - Insert a refresh tag into the /client-tags CGI page when + serving it while a client-specific tag is temporarily enabled. + This makes it less likely that the user ends up + looking at tag state that is out of date. + - Use absolute URLs in the client-tag forms. + It's more consistent with the rest of the CGI page + URLs and makes it more convenient to copy the forms + to external pages. + - cgi_error_disabled(): Use status code 403 and an appropriate response line + - Use a dedicated CGI handler to deal with tag-toggle requests + As a result the /client-tags page is now safe to reach without + trusted Referer header which makes bookmarking or linking to + it more convenient. + Finally, refreshing the /client-tags page to show the + current state can no longer unintentionally repeat the + previous toggle request. + - Don't add a "Connection" header for CONNECT requests. + Explicitly sending "Connection: close" is not necessary and + apparently it causes problems with some forwarding proxies + that will close the connection prematurely. + Reported by Marc Thomas. + - Fix compiler warnings. + +- Bug fixes: + - rfc2553_connect_to(): Properly detect and log when poll() + reached the time out. Previously this was logged as: + Could not connect to [...]: No error: 0. + which isn't very helpful. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - add_tag_for_client(): Set time_to_live properly. + Previously the time_to_live was always set for the first tag. + Attempts to temporarily enable a tag would result in enabling + it permanently unless no tag was enabled already. + - Revert r1.165 which didn't perform as advertised. + While the idea was to use "https:// when creating links + for the user manual on the website", the actual effect + was to use "https://" when Privoxy was supposed to serve + the user manual itself. + Reported by Yossi Zahn on Privoxy-devel@. + - socks5_connect(): Fail in case of unsupported address types. + Previously they would not be detected right away and + Privoxy would fail later on with an error message that + didn't make it obvious that the problem was socks-related. + So far, no such problems have actually been reported. + - socks5_connect(): Properly deal with socks replies that + contain IPv6 addresses. + Previously parts of the reply were left unread and + later on treated as invalid HTTP response data. + Fixes #904 reported by Danny Goossen who also provided + the initial version of this patch. + +- Action file improvements: + - Unblock 'msdn.microsoft.com/'. + It (presumably) isn't used to serve the kind of ads Privoxy should + block by default but happens to serve lots of pages with URLs that + are likely to result in false positives. + Reported by bugreporter1694 in AF#939. + - Disable gif deanimation for requests tagged with CSS-REQUEST. + The action will ignore content that isn't considered text + anyway and explicitly disabling it makes this more obvious + if "action" debugging (debug 65536) is enabled while + "gif deanimation" debugging (debug 256) isn't. + - Explicitly disable HTML filters for requests with CSS-REQUEST tag. + The filters are unlikely to break CSS files but executing + them without (intentionally) getting any hits is a waste of + cpu time and makes the log more noisy when running with + "debug 64". + - Unblock 'adventofcode.com/'. + Reported by Clint Adams in Debian bug #848211. + Fixes Roland's AF#937. + - Unblock 'adlibris.com'. + Reported by Wyrex in #935 + - Unblock .golang.org/ + - Add fast-redirects exception for '.youtube.com/.*origin=http' + +- Privoxy-Log-Parser: + - Don't gather host and resource statistics if they aren't requested. + While the performance impact seems negligible this significantly + reduces the memory usage if there are lots of requests. + - Bump version as the behaviour (slightly) changed. + - Count connection failures as well in statistics mode. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Count connection timeouts as well in statistics mode. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Fix an 'uninitialized value' warning when generating + statistics for a log file without response headers. + While privoxy-log-parser was supposed to detect this already, + the check was flawed and the message the user didn't see was + somewhat confusing anyway. + Now the message is less confusing, more helpful and actually printed. + Reported by: Robert Klemme + +- Documentation improvements: + - Refer to the git sources instead of CVS. + - Use GNU/Linux when referring to the OS instead of the kernel. + - Add FAQ entry for what to do if editing the config file is access denied. + - Add brief HTTP/2 FAQ. + - Add a small fuzzing section to the developer documentation. + - Add a client-header-tagger{client-ip-address} example. + - Stop suggesting that Privoxy is an anonymizing proxy. + The term could lead to Privoxy users overestimating + what it can do on its own (without Tor). + - Make it more obvious that SPI accepts Paypal, too. + Currently most donations are made through the Paypal account + managed by Zwiebelfreunde e.V. and a more even distribution + would be useful. + - Suggest to log applying actions as well when reproducing problems. + - Explicitly mention that Privoxy binaries are built by individuals + on their own systems. Buyer beware! + - Mention the release feed on the homepage. + - Remove a mysterious comment with a GNU FDL link as it isn't + useful and could confuse license scanners. + In May 2002 it was briefly claimed that "this document" was covered + by the GNU FDL. The commit message (r1.5) doesn't explain the motivation + or whether all copyright holders were actually asked and agreed to the + declared license change. + It's thus hard to tell whether or not the license change was legit, + but luckily two days later the "doc license" was "put" "back to GPL" + anyway (r1.6). + At the same time the offending comment with a link to the FDL + (not the GPL) was added for no obvious reason. + Now it's gone again. + +- Regression tests: + - Bump for-privoxy-version to 3.0.27 as we now rely on untrusted + CGI request being rejected with status code 403 (instead of 200). + - Update test for /send-stylesheet and add another one + +- Templates: + - Consistently use https:// when linking to the Privoxy website. + - Remove SourceForge references in Copyright header. + - Remove a couple of SourceForge references in a comment. + While at it, fix the grammar. + - Move the site-specific documentation block before the generic one. + While most Privoxy installations don't have a site-specific + documentation block, in cases were it exists it's likely to + be more relevant than the generic one. + Showing it first makes it less likely that users stop reading + before they reach it, especially on pages that don't fit on + the screen. + +- Build system improvements: + - Prefer openjade to jade. On some systems Jade produces + HTML with unescaped ampersands in URLs. + - Prefer OpenSP to SP to be consistent. + - Have Docbook generated HTML files be straight ASCII. + Dealing with a mixture of ISO-8859 and UTF-8 files is problematic. + - Echo the filename to stderr for 'make dok-tidy'. + Make it a bit easier to find errors in docbook generated HTML. + - Warn when still using select(). + - Warn when compiling without calloc(). + - Make it more obvious that the --with-fdsetsize configure switch + is pointless if poll() is available. + - Remove support for AmigaOS. + - Update windows build system to use supported software. + The cygwin gcc -mno-cygwin option is no longer supported, so + convert the windows build system to use the cygwin cross-compiler + to build "native" code. + - Add --enable-static-linking option for configure + does the same thing as LDFLAGS=-static; ./configure + but nicer than mixing evars and configure options. + +*** Version 3.0.26 stable *** + +- Bug fixes: + - 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. + +- General improvements: + - Log when privoxy is toggled on or off via cgi interface. + - Highlight the "Info: Now toggled " on/off log message + in the Windows log viewer. + - Highlight the loading actions/filter file log message + in the Windows log viewer. + - Mention client-specific tags on the toggle page as a + potentionally more appropriate alternative. + +- Documentation improvements: + - Update download section on the homepage. + The downloads are available from the website now. + - Add sponsor FAQ. + - Remove obsolete reference to mailing lists hosted at SourceForge. + - Update the "Before the Release" section of the developer manual. + +- Infrastructure improvements: + - Add perl script to generate an RSS feed for the packages + Submitted by "Unknown". + +- Build system improvements: + - strptime.h: fix a compiler warning about ambiguous else. + - configure.in: Check for Docbook goo on the BSDs as well. + - GNUMakefile.in: Let the dok-user target remove temporary files. + +*** Version 3.0.25 beta *** + +- Bug fixes: + - 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. + - 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. + +- General improvements: + - 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. + - 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. + - Add client-header-tagger 'listen-address'. + - Include the listen-address in the log message when logging new requests. + Patch contributed by pursievro. + - Turn invalid max-client-connections values into fatal errors. + - 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. + - On Mac OS X the thread id in log messages are more likely to + be unique now. + - When complaining about missing filters, the filter type is logged + as well. + - A couple of harmless coverity warnings were silenced + (CID #161202, CID #161203, CID #161211). + +- Action file improvements: + - Filtering is disabled for Range requests to let download resumption + and Windows updates work with the default configuration. + - Unblock ".ardmediathek.de/". + Reported by ThTomate in #932. + +- Documentation improvements: + - Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits. + - Remove obsolete FAQ entry about a bug in PHP 4.2.3. + - 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. + - Note that the templates should be adjusted if Privoxy is + running as intercepting proxy without getting all requests. + - A bunch of links were converted to https://. + - 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. + - 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. + - 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. + - 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. + - Add a FAQ entry for tainted sockets. + - More sections in the documentation have stable URLs now. + - FAQ: Explain why 'ping config.privoxy.org' is not expected + to reach a local Privoxy installation. + - Note that donations done through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently + can't be checked automatically. + - Updated section regarding starting Privoxy under OS X. + - Use dedicated start instructions for FreeBSD and ElectroBSD. + - Removed release instructions for AIX. They haven't been working + for years and unsurprisingly nobody seems to care. + - Removed obsolete reference to the solaris-dist target. + - Updated the release instructions for FreeBSD. + - Removed unfinished release instructions for Amiga OS and HP-UX 11. + - 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. + - Various typos have been fixed. + +- Infrastructure improvements: + - The website is no longer hosted at SourceForge and + can be reached through https now. + - The mailing lists at SourceForge have been deprecated, + you can subscribe to the new ones at: https://lists.privoxy.org/ + - Migrating the remaining services from SourceForge is + work in progress (TODO list item #53). + +- Build system improvements: + - 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. + - Let the tarball-dist target skip files in ".git". + - Let the tarball-dist target work in cwds other than current. + - Make the 'clean' target faster when run from a git repository. + - Include tools in the generic distribution. + - Let the gen-dist target work in cwds other than current. + - Sort find output that is used for distribution tarballs + to get reproducible results. + - 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. + - Add regression-tests.action to the files that are distributed. + - The gen-dist target which was broken since 2002 (r1.92) has been fixed. + - Remove genclspec.sh which has been obsolete since 2009. + - Remove obsolete reference to Redhat spec file. + - Remove the obsolete announce target which has been commented out years ago. + - Let rsync skip files if the checksums match. + +- Privoxy-Regression-Test: + - 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. + - 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. + - Fix indentation in perldoc examples. + - Don't overlook directives in the first line of the action file. + - Bump version to 0.7. + - Fix detection of the Privoxy version now that https:// + is used for the website. + +*** Version 3.0.24 stable *** + +- Security fixes (denial of service): + - Prevent invalid reads in case of corrupt chunk-encoded content. + CVE-2016-1982. Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer. + - Remove empty Host headers in client requests. + Previously they would result in invalid reads. CVE-2016-1983. + Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer. + +- Bug fixes: + - When using socks5t, send the request body optimistically as well. + Previously the request body wasn't guaranteed to be sent at all + and the error message incorrectly blamed the server. + Fixes #1686 reported by Peter Müller and G4JC. + - Fixed buffer scaling in execute_external_filter() that could lead + to crashes. Submitted by Yang Xia in #892. + - Fixed crashes when executing external filters on platforms like + Mac OS X. Reported by Jonathan McKenzie on ijbswa-users@. + - Properly parse ACL directives with ports when compiled with HAVE_RFC2553. + Previously the port wasn't removed from the host and in case of + 'permit-access 127.0.0.1 example.org:80' Privoxy would try (and fail) + to resolve "example.org:80" instead of example.org. + Reported by Pak Chan on ijbswa-users@. + - Check requests more carefully before serving them forcefully + when blocks aren't enforced. Privoxy always adds the force token + at the beginning of the path, but would previously accept it anywhere + in the request line. This could result in requests being served that + should be blocked. For example in case of pages that were loaded with + force and contained JavaScript to create additionally requests that + embed the origin URL (thus inheriting the force prefix). + The bug is not considered a security issue and the fix does not make + it harder for remote sites to intentionally circumvent blocks if + Privoxy isn't configured to enforce them. + Fixes #1695 reported by Korda. + - Normalize the request line in intercepted requests to make rewriting + the destination more convenient. Previously rewrites for intercepted + requests were expected to fail unless $hostport was being used, but + they failed "the wrong way" and would result in an out-of-memory + message (vanilla host patterns) or a crash (extended host patterns). + Reported by "Guybrush Threepwood" in #1694. + - Enable socket lingering for the correct socket. + Previously it was repeatedly enabled for the listen socket + instead of for the accepted socket. The bug was found by + code inspection and did not cause any (reported) issues. + - Detect and reject parameters for parameter-less actions. + Previously they were silently ignored. + - Fixed invalid reads in internal and outdated pcre code. + Found with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer. + - Prevent invalid read when loading invalid action files. + Found with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer. + - Windows build: Use the correct function to close the event handle. + It's unclear if this bug had a negative impact on Privoxy's behaviour. + Reported by Jarry Xu in #891. + - In case of invalid forward-socks5(t) directives, use the + correct directive name in the error messages. Previously they + referred to forward-socks4t failures. + Reported by Joel Verhagen in #889. + +- General improvements: + - Set NO_DELAY flag for the accepting socket. This significantly reduces + the latency if the operating system is not configured to set the flag + by default. Reported by Johan Sintorn in #894. + - Allow to build with mingw x86_64. Submitted by Rustam Abdullaev in #135. + - Introduce the new forwarding type 'forward-webserver'. + Currently it is only supported by the forward-override{} action and + there's no config directive with the same name. The forwarding type + is similar to 'forward', but the request line only contains the path + instead of the complete URL. + - The CGI editor no longer treats 'standard.action' special. + Nowadays the official "standards" are part of default.action + and there's no obvious reason to disallow editing them through + the cgi editor anyway (if the user decided that the lack of + authentication isn't an issue in her environment). + - Improved error messages when rejecting intercepted requests + with unknown destination. + - A couple of log messages now include the number of active threads. + - Removed non-standard Proxy-Agent headers in HTTP snipplets + to make testing more convenient. + - Include the error code for pcre errors Privoxy does not recognize. + - Config directives with numerical arguments are checked more carefully. + - Privoxy's malloc() wrapper has been changed to prevent zero-size + allocations which should only occur as the result of bugs. + - Various cosmetic changes. + +- Action file improvements: + - Unblock ".deutschlandradiokultur.de/". + Reported by u302320 in #924. + - Add two fast-redirect exceptions for "yandex.ru". + - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for ".plasmaservice.de/". + - Unblock "klikki.fi/adv/". + - Block requests for "resources.infolinks.com/". + Reported by "Black Rider" on ijbswa-users@. + - Block a bunch of criteo domains. + Reported by Black Rider. + - Block "abs.proxistore.com/abe/". + Reported by Black Rider. + - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for ".black-mosquito.org/". + - Disable fast-redirects for "disqus.com/". + +- Documentation improvements: + - FAQ: Explicitly point fingers at ASUS as an example of a + company that has been reported to force malware based on + Privoxy upon its customers. + - Correctly document the action type for a bunch of "multi-value" + actions that were incorrectly documented to be "parameterized". + Reported by Gregory Seidman on ijbswa-users@. + - Fixed the documented type of the forward-override{} action + which is obviously 'parameterized'. + +- Website improvements: + - Users who don't trust binaries served by SourceForge + can get them from a mirror. Migrating away from SourceForge + is planned for 2016 (TODO list item #53). + - The website is now available as onion service + (http://jvauzb4sb3bwlsnc.onion/). + +*** Version 3.0.23 stable *** + +- Bug fixes: + - Fixed a DoS issue in case of client requests with incorrect + chunk-encoded body. When compiled with assertions enabled + (the default) they could previously cause Privoxy to abort(). + Reported by Matthew Daley. CVE-2015-1380. + - Fixed multiple segmentation faults and memory leaks in the + pcrs code. This fix also increases the chances that an invalid + pcrs command is rejected as such. Previously some invalid commands + would be loaded without error. Note that Privoxy's pcrs sources + (action and filter files) are considered trustworthy input and + should not be writable by untrusted third-parties. CVE-2015-1381. + - Fixed an 'invalid read' bug which could at least theoretically + cause Privoxy to crash. So far, no crashes have been observed. + CVE-2015-1382. + - Compiles with --disable-force again. Reported by Kai Raven. + - Client requests with body that can't be delivered no longer + cause pipelined requests behind them to be rejected as invalid. + Reported by Basil Hussain. + +- General improvements: + - If a pcrs command is rejected as invalid, Privoxy now logs + the cause of the problem as text. Previously the pcrs error + code was logged. + - The tests are less likely to cause false positives. + +- Action file improvements: + - '.sify.com/' is no longer blocked. Apparently it is not actually + a pure tracking site (anymore?). Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@. + - Unblock banners on .amnesty.de/ which aren't ads. + +- Documentation improvements: + - The 'Would you like to donate?' section now also contains + a "Paypal" address. + - The list of supported operating systems has been updated. + - The existence of the SF support and feature trackers has been + deemphasized because they have been broken for months. + Most of the time the mailing lists still work. + - The claim that default.action updates are sometimes released + on their own has been removed. It hasn't happened in years. + - Explicitly mention that Tor's port may deviate from the default + when using a bundle. Requested by Andrew on ijbswa-users@. + +*** Version 3.0.22 stable *** + +- Bug fixes: + - Fixed a memory leak when rejecting client connections due to + the socket limit being reached (CID 66382). This affected + Privoxy 3.0.21 when compiled with IPv6 support (on most + platforms this is the default). CVE-2015-1030. + - Fixed an immediate-use-after-free bug (CID 66394) and two + additional unconfirmed use-after-free complaints made by + Coverity scan (CID 66391, CID 66376). CVE-2015-1031. + - Actually show the FORCE_PREFIX value on the show-status page. + - Properly deal with Keep-Alive headers with timeout= parameters + If the timeout still can't be parsed, use the configured + timeout instead of preventing the client from keeping the + connection alive. Fixes #3615312/#870 reported by Bernard Guillot. + - Not using any filter files no longer results in warning messages + unless an action file is referencing header taggers or filters. + Reported by Stefan Kurtz in #3614835. + - Fixed a bug that prevented Privoxy from reusing some reusable + connections. Two bit masks with different purpose unintentionally + shared the same bit. + - A couple of additional bugs were discovered by Coverity Scan. + The fixes that are not expected to affect users are not explicitly + mentioned here, for details please have a look at the CVS logs. + +- General improvements: + - Introduced negative tag patterns NO-REQUEST-TAG and NO-RESPONSE-TAG. + They apply if no matching tag is found after parsing client or + server headers. + - Add support for external filters which allow to process the + response body with a script or program written in any language + the platform supports. External filters are enabled with + +external-filter{} after they have been defined in one of the + filter files with a header line starting with "EXTERNAL-FILTER:". + External filter support is experimental, not compiled by default + and known not to work on all platforms. + - Add support for the 'PATCH' method as defined in RFC5789. + - Reject requests with unsupported Expect header values. + Fixes a couple of Co-Advisor tests. + - Normalize the HTTP-version in forwarded requests and responses. + This is an explicit RFC 2616 MUST and RFC 7230 mandates that + intermediaries send their own HTTP-version in forwarded + messages. + - Server 'Keep-Alive' headers are no longer forwarded. From a user's + point of view it doesn't really matter, but RFC 2616 (obsolete) + mandates that the header is removed and this fixes a Co-Advisor + complaint. + - Change declared template file encoding to UTF-8. The templates + already used a subset of UTF-8 anyway and changing the declaration + allows to properly display UTF-8 characters used in the action files. + This change may require existing action files with ISO-8859-1 + characters that aren't valid UTF-8 to be converted to UTF-8. + Requested by Sam Chen in #582. + - Do not pass rejected keep-alive timeouts to the server. It might + not have caused any problems (we know of), but doing the right + thing shouldn't hurt either. + - Let log_error() use its own buffer size #define to make changing + the log buffer size slightly less inconvenient. + - Turned single-threaded into a "proper" toggle directive with arguments. + - CGI templates no longer enforce new windows for some links. + - Remove an undocumented workaround ('HOST' header removal) for + an Apple iTunes bug that according to #729900 got fixed in 2003. + +- Action file improvements: + - The pattern 'promotions.' is no longer being blocked. + Reported by rakista in #3608540. + - Disable fast-redirects for .microsofttranslator.com/. + - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for .dgb-tagungszentren.de/. + - Add adn.speedtest.net as a site-specific unblocker. + Support request #3612908. + - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for creativecommons.org/. + - Block requests to data.gosquared.com/. Reported by cbug in #3613653. + - Unblock .conrad./newsletter/. Reported by David Bo in #3614238. + - Unblock .bundestag.de/. + - Unblock .rote-hilfe.de/. + - Disable fast-redirects for .facebook.com/plugins/like.php. + - Unblock Stackexchange popup URLs that aren't used to serve ads. + Reported by David Wagner in #3615179. + - Disable fast-redirects for creativecommons.org/. + - Unblock .stopwatchingus.info/. + - Block requests for .adcash.com/script/. + Reported by Tyrexionibus in #3615289. + - Disable HTML filters if the response was tagged as JavaScript. + Filtering JavaScript code with filters intended to deal with HTML + is usually a waste of time and, more importantly, may break stuff. + - Use a custom redirect{} for .washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs\.php\?src= + Previously enabling the 'Advanced' settings (or manually enabling + +fast-redirects{}) prevented some images from being loaded properly. + - Unblock "adina*." Fixes #919 reported by Morton A. Goldberg. + - Block '/.*DigiAd'. + - Unblock 'adele*.'. Reported by Adele Lime in #1663. + - Disable banners-by-size for kggp.de/. + +- Filter file improvements & bug fixes: + - Decrease the chances that js-annoyances creates invalid JavaScript. + Submitted by John McGowan on ijbswa-users@. + - Let the msn filter hide 'related' ads again. + - Remove a stray '1' in the 'html-annoyances' filter. + - Prevent img-reorder from messing up img tags with empty src + attributes. Fixes #880 reported by Duncan. + +- Documentation improvements: + - Updated the 'Would you like to donate?' section. + - Note that invalid forward-override{} parameter syntax isn't + detected until the parameter is used. + - Add another +redirect{} example: a shortcut for illumos bugs. + - Make it more obvious that many operating systems support log + rotation out of the box. + - Fixed dead links. Reported by Mark Nelson in #3614557. + - Rephrased the 'Why is the configuration so complicated?' answer + to be slightly less condescending. Anonymously suggested in #3615122. + - Be more explicit about accept-intercepted-requests's lack of MITM support. + - Make 'demoronizer' FAQ entries more generic. + - Add an example hostname to the --pre-chroot-nslookup description. + - Add an example for a host pattern that matches an IP address. + - Rename the 'domain pattern' to 'host pattern' as it may + contain IP addresses as well. + - Recommend forward-socks5t when using Tor. It seems to work fine and + modifying the Tor configuration to profit from it hasn't been necessary + for a while now. + - Add another redirect{} example to stress that redirect loops can + and should be avoided. + - The usual spelling and grammar fixes. Parts of them were + reported by Reuben Thomas in #3615276. + - Mention the PCRS option letters T and D in the filter section. + - Clarify that handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok is still useful + and will not be removed without replacement. + - Note that security issues shouldn't be reported using the bug tracker. + - Clarify what Privoxy does if both +block{} and +redirect{} apply. + - Removed the obsolete bookmarklets section. + +- Build system improvements: + - Let --with-group properly deal with secondary groups. + Patch submitted by Anatoly Arzhnikov in #3615187. + - Fix web-actions target. + - Add a web-faq target that only updates the FAQ on the webserver. + - Remove already-commented-out non-portable DOSFILTER alternatives. + - Remove the obsolete targets dok-put and dok-get. + - Add a sf-shell target. + +*** Version 3.0.21 stable *** + +- Bug fixes: + - 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. + - 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. + - Compiles on OS/2 again now that unistd.h is only included + on platforms that have it. + +- General improvements: + - The show-status page shows the FEATURE_STRPTIME_SANITY_CHECKS status. + - A couple of assert()s that could theoretically dereference + NULL pointers in debug builds have been relocated. + - Added an LSB info block to the generic start script. + Based on a patch from Natxo Asenjo. + - The max-client-connections default has been changed to 128 + which should be more than enough for most setups. + +- Action file improvements: + - Block rover.ebay./ar.*\&adtype= instead of "/.*\&adtype=" which + caused too man false positives. + Reported by u302320 in #360284, additional feedback from Adam Piggott. + - Unblock '.advrider.com/' and '/.*ADVrider'. + Anonymously reported in #3603636. + - Stop blocking '/js/slider\.js'. + Reported by Adam Piggott in #3606635 and _lvm in #2791160. + +- Filter file improvements: + - Added an iframes filter. + +- Documentation improvements: + - 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. + - 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. + - 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. + - Removed documentation about packages that haven't been provided + in years. + +- Privoxy-Regression-Test: + - 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. + +- GNUmakefile improvements: + - Factor generate-config-file out of config-file to make testing + more convenient. + - The clean target now also takes care of patch leftovers. + +*** Version 3.0.20 beta *** + +- Bug fixes: + - 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. + - 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. + - 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. + - The default-server-timeout and socket-timeout directives accept 0 as + valid value. + - 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. + - Fix the compilation on Windows when configured without IPv6 support. + - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() in case of + socks5 connection failures with "debug 2" enabled. + - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() if a filter + contained nul bytes in the replacement text. + +- General improvements: + - Significantly improved keep-alive support for both client and server + connections. + - New debug log level 65536 which logs all actions that were applied to + the request. + - New directive client-header-order to forward client headers in a + different order than the one in which they arrived. + - 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. + - 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. + - New limit-cookie-lifetime{} action to let cookies expire before the end + of the session. Suggested by Rick Sykes in #1049575. + - 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. + - 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. + - 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. + - 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. + - 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. + - 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. + - 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. + - Set the socket option SO_LINGER for the client socket. + - 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. + - 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). + - 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. + - 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. + - Allow closing curly braces as part of action values as long as they are + escaped. + - 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. + - 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@. + - Decrease the chances of parse failures after requests with unsupported + methods were sent to the CGI interface. + +- Action file improvements: + - Remove the comment that indicated that updated default.action versions + are released on their own. + - Block 'optimize.indieclick.com/' and 'optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/' + - Unblock 'adjamblog.wordpress.com/' and 'adjamblog.files.wordpress.com/'. + Reported by Ryan Farmer in #3496116. + - Unblock '/.*Bugtracker'. Reported by pwhk in #3522341. + - Add test URLs for '.freebsd.org' and '.watson.org'. + - Unblock '.urbandictionary.com/popular'. + - Block '.adnxs.com/'. + - Block 'farm.plista.com/widgetdata.php'. + - Block 'rotation.linuxnewmedia.com/'. + - Block 'reklamy.sfd.pl/'. Reported by kacperdominik in #3399948. + - Block 'g.adspeed.net/'. + - Unblock 'websupport.wdc.com/'. Reported by Adam Piggot in #3577851. + - Block '/openx/www/delivery/'. + - Disable fast-redirects for '.googleapis.com/'. + - Block 'imp.double.net/'. Reported by David Bo in #3070411. + - Block 'gm-link.com/' which is used for email tracking. + Reported by David Bo in #1812733. + - Verify that requests to "bwp." are blocked. URL taken from #1736879 + submitted by Francois Marier. + - Block '/.*bannerid='. Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975779. + - Block 'cltomedia.info/delivery/' and '.adexprt.com/'. + Anonymously reported in #2965254. + - Block 'de17a.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3061472. + - Block 'oskar.tradera.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3060596. + - Block '/scripts/webtrends\.js'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002729. + - Block requests for 'pool.*.adhese.com/'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002716. + - Update path pattern for Coremetrics and add tests. + Pattern and URLs submitted by Adam Piggott #3168443. + - Enable +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} for 'tr.anp.se/'. + Reported by David Bo in #3268832. + - Unblock '.conrad.se/newsletter/banners/'. Reported by David Bo in #3413824. + - Block '.tynt.com/'. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421767. + - Unblock '.bbci.co.uk/radio/'. Reported by Adam Piggott in #3569603. + - Block requests to 'service.maxymiser.net/'. + Reported by johnd16 in #3118401 (with a previous URL). + - Disable fast-redirects for Google's "let's pretend your computer is + infected" page. + - Unblock '/.*download' to resolve actionsfile feedback #3498129. + Submitted by Steven Kolins (soundcloud.com not working). + - Unblock '.wlxrs.com/' which is required by hotmail.com. + Fixes #3413827 submitted by David Bo. + - Add two unblock patterns for popup radio and TV players. + Submitted by Adam Piggott in #3596089. + +- Filter file improvements & bug fixes: + - Add a referer tagger. + - Reduce the likelihood that the google filter messes up HTML-generating + JavaScript. Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3520260. + +- Documentation improvements: + - Revised all OS X sections due to new packaging module (OSXPackageBuilder). + - 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. + - Update 'Signals' section, the only explicitly handled signals are SIGINT, + SIGTERM and SIGHUP. + - Add Haiku to the list of operating systems on which Privoxy is known to + run. + - Add DragonFly to the list of BSDs on which Privoxy is known to run. + - Removed references to redhat-specific documentation set since it no longer + exists. + - Removed references to building PDFs since we no longer do so. + - Multiple listen-address directives are supported since 3.0.18, correct the + documentation to say so. + - Remove bogus section about long and short being preferable to int. + - Corrected some Internet JunkBuster references to Privoxy. + - Removed references to www.junkbusters.com since it is no longer + maintained. Reported by Angelina Matson. + - Various grammar and spelling corrections + - Add a client-header-tagger{} example for disabling filtering for range + requests. + - Correct a URL in the "Privoxy with Tor" FAQ. + - Spell 'refresh-tags' correctly. Reported by Don in #3571927. + - Sort manpage options alphabetically. + - 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. + - Add new contributors since 3.0.19. + +- Log message improvements: + - When stopping to watch a client socket due to pipelining, additionally log + the socket number. + - 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. + - 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. + - 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. + +- Code cleanups: + - Remove compatibility layer for versions prior to 3.0 since it has been + obsolete for more than 10 years now. + - Remove the ijb_isupper() and ijb_tolower() macros from parsers.c since + they aren't used in this file. + - Removed the 'Functions declared include:' comment sections since they tend + to be incomplete, incorrect and out of date and the benefit seems + questionable. + - Various comment grammar and comprehensibility improvements. + - Remove a pointless fflush() call in chat(). Flushing all streams pretty + much all the time for no obvious reason is ridiculous. + - Relocate ijb_isupper()'s definition to project.h and get the ijb_tolower() + definition from there, too. + - Relocate ijb_isdigit()'s definition to project.h. + - Rename ijb_foo macros to privoxy_foo. + - Add malloc_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where malloc() + failures don't need to be handled gracefully. + - Add strdup_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where strdup() + failures don't need to be handled gracefully. + - Replace strdup() calls with strdup_or_die() calls where it's safe and + simplifies the code. + - Fix white-space around parentheses. + - Add missing white-space behind if's and the following parentheses. + - Unwrap a memcpy() call in resolve_hostname_to_ip(). + - Declare pcrs_get_delimiter()'s delimiters[] static const. + - Various optimisations to remove dead code and merge inefficient code + structures for improved clarity, performance or code compactness. + - Various data type corrections. + - Change visibility of several code segments when compiling without + FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE enabled for clarity. + - In pcrs_get_delimiter(), do not use delimiters outside the ASCII range. + Fixes a clang complaint. + - Fix an error message in get_last_url() nobody is supposed to see. + Reported by Matthew Fischer in #3507301. + - Fix a typo in the no-zlib-support complaint. Patch submitted by Matthew + Fischer in #3507304. + - 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. + - Use an enum for the type of the action value. + - Rename action_name's member takes_value to value_type as it isn't used as + boolean. + - Turn family mismatches in match_sockaddr() into fatal errors. + - Let enlist_unique_header() verify that the caller didn't pass a header + containing either \r or \n. + - 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. + - Use privoxy_tolower() instead of vanilla tolower() with manual casting of + the argument. + - Catch ssplit() failures in parse_cgi_parameters(). + +- Privoxy-Regression-Test: + - 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. + - Log to STDOUT instead of STDERR. + - Include the Privoxy version in the output. + - Various grammar and spelling corrections in documentation and code. + - Additional tests for range requests with filtering enabled. + - Tests with mostly invalid range request. + - Add a couple of hide-if-modified-since{} tests with different date formats. + - Cleaned up the format of the regression-tests.action file to match the + format of default.action. + - 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. + +- Privoxy-Log-Parser: + - 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. + - The distribution of client requests per connection is included in + the --statistic output. + - The --accept-unknown-messages option has been removed and the behavior + is now the default. + - Accept and (mostly) highlight new log messages introduced with + Privoxy 3.0.20. + +- uagen: + - Bump generated Firefox version to 17. + +- GNUmakefile improvements: + - The dok-tidy target no longer taints documents with a tidy-mark + - Change RA_MODE from 0664 to 0644. Suggested by Markus Dittrich in + #3505445. + - 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. + - Leave it up to the user whether or not smart tags are inserted. + - 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. + - Ditch a pointless '-r' passed to rm to delete files. + - The config-file target now requires less manual intervention and updates + the original config. + - Change WDUMP to generate ASCII. Add WDUMP_UTF8 to allow UTF-8 in the + AUTHORS file so the names are right. + - Stop pretending that lynx and links are supported for the documentation. + +- configure improvements: + - 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. + - 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. + +*** Version 3.0.19 Stable *** + +- Bug fixes: + - Prevent a segmentation fault when de-chunking buffered content. + It could be triggered by malicious web servers if Privoxy was + configured to filter the content and running on a platform + where SIZE_T_MAX isn't larger than UINT_MAX, which probably + includes most 32-bit systems. On those platforms, all Privoxy + versions before 3.0.19 appear to be affected. + To be on the safe side, this bug should be presumed to allow + code execution as proving that it doesn't seems unrealistic. + - Do not expect a response from the SOCKS4/4A server until it + got something to respond to. This regression was introduced + in 3.0.18 and prevented the SOCKS4/4A negotiation from working. + Reported by qqqqqw in #3459781. + +- General improvements: + - Fix an off-by-one in an error message about connect failures. + - Use a GNUMakefile variable for the webserver root directory and + update the path. Sourceforge changed it which broke various + web-related targets. + - Update the CODE_STATUS description. + +*** Version 3.0.18 Stable *** + +- Bug fixes: + - If a generated 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. + - 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. + - 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. + - 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. + - 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. + - 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. + - If forwarded-connect-retries is set, only retry if Privoxy is actually + forwarding the request. Previously direct connections would be retried + as well. + - Fixed a small memory leak when retrying connections with IPv6 + support enabled. + - 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). + - 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. + - In html_code_map[], use a numeric character reference instead of ' + which wasn't standardized before XHTML 1.0. + - Fix an invalid free when compiled with FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION + and shut down through http://config.privoxy.org/die + - 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. + +- General improvements: + - Privoxy can (re)compress buffered content before delivering + it to the client. Disabled by default as most users wouldn't + benefit from it. + - 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. + - 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. + - Allow to bind to multiple separate addresses. + Patch set submitted by Petr Pisar in #3354485. + - 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. + - 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. + - When compiled without FEATURE_FAST_REDIRECTS, do not silently + ignore +fast-redirect{} directives + - 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 + - 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. + - 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. + - 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. + - In case of SOCKS5 failures, dump the socks response in the log message. + - Simplify the signal setup in main(). + - Streamline socks5_connect() slightly. + - 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. + - In chat(), do not bother to generate a client request in case of + direct CONNECT requests. It will not be used anyway. + - Reduce server_last_modified()'s stack size. + - Shorten get_http_time() by using strftime(). + - Constify the known_http_methods pointers in unknown_method(). + - Constify the time_formats pointers in parse_header_time(). + - Constify the formerly_valid_actions pointers in action_used_to_be_valid(). + - 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. + - Deduplicate the INADDR_NONE definition for Solaris by moving it to jbsockets.h + - In block_url(), ditch the obsolete workaround for ancient Netscape versions + that supposedly couldn't properly deal with status code 403. + - Remove a useless NULL pointer check in load_trustfile(). + - Remove two useless NULL pointer checks in load_one_re_filterfile(). + - 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. + - Fix various typos. Fixes taken from Debian's 29_typos.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld. + - Add a dok-tidy GNUMakefile target to clean up the messy HTML + generated by the other dok targets. + - GNUisms in the GNUMakefile have been removed. + - Change the HTTP version in static responses to 1.1 + - Synced config.sub and config.guess with upstream + 2011-11-11/386c7218162c145f5f9e1ff7f558a3fbb66c37c5. + - 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. + - Terminate HTML lines in static error messages with \n instead of \r\n. + - Simplify cgi_error_unknown() a bit. + - In LogPutString(), don't bother looking at pszText when not + actually logging anything. + - Change ssplit()'s fourth parameter from int to size_t. + Fixes a clang complaint. + - 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. + - In rfc2553_connect_to(), start setting cgi->error_message on error. + - Change the expected status code returned for http://p.p/die depending + on whether or not FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION is available. + - 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. + - Add a proper CGI message for cgi_die(). + - Don't enforce a logical line length limit in read_config_line(). + - Slightly refactor server_last_modified() to remove useless gmtime*() calls. + - In get_content_type(), also recognize '.jpeg' as JPEG extension. + - Add '.png' to the list of recognized file extensions in get_content_type(). + - 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. + - 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. + - 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. + - The socket timeout is used for SOCKS negotiations as well which + previously couldn't timeout. + - 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. + - Treat all Content-Type header values containing the pattern + 'script' as a sign of text. Reported by pribog in #3134970. + +- Action file improvements: + - 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. + - Remove -prevent-compression from the fragile alias. It's no longer + used anywhere by default and isn't known to break stuff anyway. + - Add a (disabled) section to block various Facebook tracking URLs. + Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421764. + - Add a (disabled) section to rewrite and redirect click-tracking + URLs used on news.google.com. + Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421755. + - Unblock linuxcounter.net/. + Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3422612. + - Block 'www91.intel.com/' which is used by Omniture. + Reported by Adam Piggott in #3167370. + - Disable the handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok option and mark it as deprecated. + Reminded by tceverling in #2790091. + - Add ".ivwbox.de/" to the "Cross-site user tracking" section. + Reported by Nettozahler in #3172525. + - Unblock and fast-redirect ".awin1.com/.*=http://". + Reported by Adam Piggott in #3170921. + - Block "b.collective-media.net/". + - Widen the Debian popcon exception to "qa.debian.org/popcon". + Seen in Debian's 05_default_action.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld. + - Block ".gemius.pl/" which only seems to be used for user tracking. + Reported by johnd16 in #3002731. Additional input from Lee and movax. + - Disable banners-by-size filters for '.thinkgeek.com/'. + The filter only seems to catch pictures of the inventory. + - Block requests for 'go.idmnet.bbelements.com/please/showit/'. + Reported by kacperdominik in #3372959. + - Unblock adainitiative.org/. + - Add a fast-redirects exception for '.googleusercontent.com/.*=cache'. + - Add a fast-redirects exception for webcache.googleusercontent.com/. + - Unblock http://adassier.wordpress.com/ and http://adassier.files.wordpress.com/. + +- Filter file improvements: + - Let the yahoo filter hide '.ads'. + - 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'. + - Let the js-events filter additionally disarm setInterval(). + Suggested by dg1727 in #3423775. + +- Documentation improvements: + - Clarify the effect of compiling Privoxy with zlib support. + Suggested by dg1727 in #3423782. + - Point out that the SourceForge messaging system works like a black + hole and should thus not be used to contact individual developers. + - Mention some of the problems one can experience when not explicitly + configuring an IP addresses as listen address. + - 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. + +- Log message improvements: + - If only the server connection is kept alive, do not pretend to + wait for a new client request. + - Remove a superfluous log message in forget_connection(). + - In chat(), properly report missing server responses as such + instead of calling them empty. + - In forwarded_connect(), fix a log message nobody should ever see. + - Fix a log message in socks5_connect(), a failed write operation + was logged as failed read operation. + - 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. + - Do not claim to listen on a socket until Privoxy actually does. + Patch submitted by Petr Pisar #3354485 + - Prevent a duplicated LOG_LEVEL_CLF message when sending out + the "no-server-data" response. + - Also log the client socket when dropping a connection. + - Include the destination host in the 'Request ... marked for + blocking. limit-connect{...} doesn't allow CONNECT ...' message + Patch submitted by Saperski in #3296250. + - Prevent a duplicated log message if none of the resolved IP + addresses were reachable. + - In connect_to(), do not pretend to retry if forwarded-connect-retries + is zero or unset. + - When a specified user or group can't be found, put the name in + single-quotes when logging it. + - In rfc2553_connect_to(), explain getnameinfo() errors better. + - Remove a useless log message in chat(). + - When retrying to connect, also log the maximum number of connection + attempts. + - 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. + - In a fatal error message in load_one_actions_file(), cover both + URL and TAG patterns. + - In pcrs_strerror(), properly report unknown positive error code + values as such. Previously they were handled like 0 (no error). + - In compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list(), also log the actual error code as + pcrs_strerror() doesn't handle all errors reported by pcre. + - Don't bother trying to continue chatting if the client didn't ask for it. + Reduces log noise a bit. + - Make two fatal error message in load_one_actions_file() more descriptive. + - In cgi_send_user_manual(), log when rejecting a file name due to '/' or '..'. + - In load_file(), log a message if opening a file failed. + The CGI error message alone isn't too helpful. + - In connection_destination_matches(), improve two log messages + to help understand why the destinations don't match. + - Rephrase a log message in serve(). Client request arrival + should be differentiated from closed client connections now. + - In serve(), log if a client connection isn't reused due to a + configuration file change. + - 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. + +- configure: + - Added a --disable-ipv6-support switch for platforms where support + is detected but doesn't actually work. + - Do not check for the existence of strerror() and memmove() twice + - Remove a useless test for setpgrp(2). Privoxy doesn't need it and + it can cause problems when cross-compiling. + - Rename the --disable-acl-files switch to --disable-acl-support. + Since about 2001, ACL directives are specified in the standard + config file. + - 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. + +- Privoxy-Regression-Test: + - Added --shuffle-tests option to increase the chances of detection race conditions. + - Added a --local-test-file option that allows to use Privoxy-Regression-Test without Privoxy. + - Added tests for missing socks4 and socks4a forwarders. + - The --privoxy-address option now works with IPv6 addresses containing brackets, too. + - Perform limited sanity checks for parameters that are supposed to have numerical values. + - Added a --sleep-time option to specify a number of seconds to + sleep between tests, defaults to 0. + - Disable the range-requests tagger for tests that break if it's enabled. + - Log messages use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d. + - Fix spelling in two error messages. + - In the --help output, include a list of supported tests and their default levels. + - Adjust the tests to properly deal with FEATURE_TOGGLE being disabled. + +- Privoxy-Log-Parser: + - Perform limited sanity checks for command line parameters that + are supposed to have numerical values. + - Implement a --unbreak-lines-only option to try to revert MUA breakage. + - Accept and highlight: Added header: Content-Encoding: deflate + - Accept and highlight: Compressed content from 29258 to 8630 bytes. + - Accept and highlight: Client request arrived in time on socket 21. + - Highlight: Didn't receive data in time: a.fsdn.com:443 + - Accept log messages with ISO 8601 time stamps, too. + +- uagen: + - Bump generated Firefox version to 8.0. + - 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. + *** Version 3.0.17 Stable *** -- 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. +- Fixed last-chunk-detection for responses where the body was small + enough to be read with the headers, causing Privoxy to wait for the + end of the content until the server closed the connection or the + request timed out. Reported by "Karsten" in #3028326. - 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. + like RFC2616 mandates. Like the previous bug, this caused Privoxy to + wait for the end of the content until the server closed the connection + or the request timed out. 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. +- 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. - 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. - The IPv6 code is enabled by default on Windows versions that support it. @@ -45,8 +2054,8 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - Fix a bunch of anchors that used underscores instead of dashes. - Allow to keep the client connection alive after crunching the previous request. Already opened server connections can be kept alive, too. - - 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. + - 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. - Show the 404 CGI page if cgi_send_user_manual() is called while local user manual delivery is disabled. @@ -72,12 +2081,15 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy refresh tags with refresh times above 9 seconds are covered. - 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 + +block{Might be a web-bug.} -handle-as-empty-document to + +block{Might be a web-bug.} +handle-as-empty-document. - ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 - Block 160x578 Banners. - - Block another omniture tracking domain + - Block another omniture tracking domain. - Added a range-requests tagger. + - 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@. - Documentation improvements: - Explicitly mention how to match all URLs. @@ -85,13 +2097,22 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy its advantage compared to socks4a. Reported by David in #2960129. - Slightly improve the explanation of why filtering may appear slower than it is. + - Grammar fixes for the ACL section. + - Fixed a link to the 'intercepting' entry and add another one. + - Rename the 'Other' section to 'Mailing Lists' and reword it + to make it clear that nobody is forced to use the trackers + - Note that 'anonymously' posting on the trackers may not always + be possible. + - Suggest to enable debug 32768 when suspecting parsing problems. - Privoxy-Log-Parser improvements: + - Gather statistics for ressources, methods, and HTTP versions + used by the client. - Also gather statistics for blocked and redirected requests. - Provide the percentage of keep-alive offers the client accepted. - Add a --url-statistics-threshold option. - - Also gather statistics for ressources, methods, and HTTP versions - used by the client. + - Add a --host-statistics-threshold option to also gather + statistics about how many request where made per host. - Fix a bug in handle_loglevel_header() where a 'scan: ' got lost. - Add a --shorten-thread-ids option to replace the thread id with a decimal number. @@ -100,9 +2121,12 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - Accept and ignore: Continue hack in da house. - Accept and higlight: Rejecting connection from 10.0.0.2. Maximum number of connections reached. - - Accept and highlight actions and filter filte loading: - Loading actions file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.action - Loading filter file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.filter + - Accept and highlight: Loading actions file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.action + - Accept and highlight: Loading filter file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.filter + - Accept and highlight: Killed all-caps Host header line: HOST: bestproxydb.com + - Accept and highlight: Reducing expected bytes to 0. Marking + the server socket tainted after throwing 4 bytes away. + - Accept: Merged multiple header lines to: 'X-FORWARDED-PROTO: http X-HOST: 127.0.0.1' - Code cleanups: - Remove the next member from the client_state struct. Only the main @@ -126,11 +2150,15 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - In log_error(), assert that ival and sval have reasonable values. There's no reason not to abort() if they don't. - Remove an incorrect cgi_error_unknown() call in a - cannnot-happen-situation in send_crunch_response(). + cannot-happen-situation in send_crunch_response(). - Clean up white-space in http_response definition and move the crunch_reason to the beginning. - Turn http_response.reason into an enum and rename it to http_response.crunch_reason. + - Silence a 'gcc (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2' warning on i686 GNU/Linux. + - Fix white-space in a log message in remove_chunked_transfer_coding(). + While at it, add a note that the message doesn't seem to + be entirely correct and should be improved later on. - GNUmakefile improvements: - Use $(SSH) instead of ssh, so one only needs to specify a username once. @@ -197,7 +2225,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - The scripts in the tools directory treat unknown parameters as fatal errors. -*** Version 3.0.15 Beta *** +*** Version 3.0.15 beta *** - In case of missing server data, no error message is send to the client if the request arrived on a reused connection. The client @@ -243,7 +2271,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - Privoxy-Regression-Test supports redirect tests. - Privoxy-Log-Parser can gather some connection statistics. -*** Version 3.0.14 Beta *** +*** Version 3.0.14 beta *** - The latency is taken into account when evaluating whether or not to reuse a connection. This should significantly reduce the number of @@ -278,7 +2306,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - The configure script respects the $PATH variable when searching for groups and id. -*** Version 3.0.13 Beta *** +*** Version 3.0.13 beta *** - Added IPv6 support. Thanks to Petr Pisar who not only provided the initial patch but also helped a lot with the integration. @@ -317,7 +2345,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy if connection-sharing is enabled. - A TODO list has been added to the source tarball to give potential volunteers a better idea of what the current goals are. Donations - are still welcome too: http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE + are still welcome too: https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE *** Version 3.0.12 *** @@ -422,7 +2450,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy-log-parser/ Documentation is available through perldoc(1). -*** Version 3.0.9 Beta *** +*** Version 3.0.9 beta *** - Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper. @@ -536,7 +2564,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy config.txt referenced a nonexisting file - Minor documentation fixes. -*** Version 3.0.7 Beta *** +*** Version 3.0.7 beta *** - Added zlib support to filter content with gzip and deflate encoding. (Patch provided by Wil Mahan) @@ -692,7 +2720,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent, hide-referrer and set-image-blocker. -*** Version 3.0.5 Beta *** +*** Version 3.0.5 beta *** - Windows version can be installed/started as a service. - Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy. @@ -822,7 +2850,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration. - The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes. -*** Version 2.9.14 Beta *** +*** Version 2.9.14 beta *** - Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h) - Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?) @@ -836,7 +2864,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - #include mechansim for common text in templates - Various other minor fixes. -*** Version 2.9.13 Beta *** +*** Version 2.9.13 beta *** - *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is reflected throughout (file locations, etc). @@ -848,7 +2876,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - RPM spec file make over. -*** Version 2.9.12 Beta *** +*** Version 2.9.12 beta *** - **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that @@ -885,7 +2913,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - Various other minor fixes. -*** Version 2.9.11 Beta Changes *** +*** Version 2.9.11 beta Changes *** - Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk). @@ -1008,8 +3036,8 @@ being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2010 the - Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/ +Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2021 the + Privoxy team. https://www.privoxy.org/ Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and