X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=dead1d7cfd89d2372b9617d82bc3f68024220458;hp=ece7ce54b9bcd6891a8b3bb38992e5007ea60d5b;hb=bcbae9c5c737ece712624e9bf06d1b23a8b39476;hpb=80a05a9be053821195f56f5f0d88b0041123549f diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index ece7ce54..dead1d7c 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,50 +1,224 @@ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog for Privoxy -------------------------------------------------------------------- +*** 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 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 + 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. + Patch submitted by oCameLo in #2942729. +- In mingw32 versions, the user.filter file is reachable through the + GUI, just like default.filter is. Feature request 3040263. +- Added the configure option --enable-large-file-support to set a few + defines that are required by platforms like GNU/Linux to support files + larger then 2GB. Mainly interesting for users without proper logfile + management. +- Logging with "debug 16" no longer stops at the first nul byte which is + pretty useless. Non-printable characters are replaced with their hex value + so the result can't span multiple lines making parsing them harder then + necessary. +- Privoxy logs when reading an action, filter or trust file. +- Fixed incorrect regression test markup which caused a test in + 3.0.16 to fail while Privoxy itself was working correctly. + While Privoxy accepts hide-referer, too, the action name is actually + hide-referrer which is also the name used one the final results page, + where the test expected the alias. + +- CGI interface improvements: + - In finish_http_response(), continue to add the 'Connection: close' + header if the client connection will not be kept alive. + Anonymously pointed out in #2987454. + - Apostrophes in block messages no longer cause parse errors + when the blocked page is viewed with JavaScript enabled. + Reported by dg1727 in #3062296. + - 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. + - Show the 404 CGI page if cgi_send_user_manual() is called while + local user manual delivery is disabled. + +- Action file improvements: + - Enable user.filter by default. Suggested by David White in #3001830. + - Block .sitestat.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002725. + - Block .atemda.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002723. + - Block js.adlink.net/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002720. + - Block .analytics.yahoo.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002713. + - Block sb.scorecardresearch.com, too. Reported by dg1727 in #2992652. + - Fix problems noticed on Yahoo mail and news pages. + - Remove the too broad yahoo section, only keeping the + fast-redirects exception as discussed on ijbswa-devel@. + - Don't block adesklets.sourceforge.net. Reported in #2974204. + - Block chartbeat ping tracking. Reported in #2975895. + - Tag CSS and image requests with cautious and medium settings, too. + - Don't handle view.atdmt.com as image. It's used for click-throughs + so users should be able to "go there anyway". + Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975927. + - Also let the refresh-tags filter remove invalid refresh tags where + the 'url=' part is missing. Anonymously reported in #2986382. + While at it, update the description to mention the fact that only + refresh tags with refresh times above 9 seconds are covered. + - 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. + - ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 - Block 160x578 Banners. + - 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. + - Consistently recommend socks5 in the Tor FAQ entry and mention + 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. + - 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. + - Accept and ignore: Looks like we got the last chunk together + with the server headers. We better stop reading. + - 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: 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 + thread needs access to all client states so give it its own struct. + - Garbage-collect request_contains_null_bytes(). + - Ditch redundant code in unload_configfile(). + - Ditch LogGetURLUnderCursor() which doesn't seem to be used anywhere. + - In write_socket(), remove the write-only variable write_len in + an ifdef __OS2__ block. Spotted by cppcheck. + - In connect_to(), don't declare the variable 'flags' on OS/2 where + it isn't used. Spotted by cppcheck. + - Limit the scope of various variables. Spotted by cppcheck. + - In add_to_iob(), turn an interestingly looking for loop into a + boring while loop. + - Code cleanup in preparation for external filters. + - In listen_loop(), mention the socket on which we accepted the + connection, not just the source IP address. + - In write_socket(), also log the socket we're writing to. + - In log_error(), assert that escaped characters get logged + completely or not at all. + - 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 + 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. + - Removed references to the action feedback thingy that hasn't been + working for years. + - Consistently use shell.sourceforge.net instead of shell.sf.net so + one doesn't need to check server fingerprints twice. + - Removed GNUisms in the webserver and webactions targets so they + work with standard tar. + *** Version 3.0.16 Stable *** -- The config file option handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok has - been added to work around Firefox bug #492459, which causes - Firefox to hang if JavaScripts are blocked in certain situations. -- Privoxy-Log-Parser is roughly 40% faster in highlighting mode. -- In daemon mode, fd 0, 1 and 2 are bound to /dev/null. -- Accepts quoted expiration dates even though RFC 2109 10.1.2 - doesn't seem to allow them. Reported anonymously. -- uagen, a Firefox User-Agent generator for Privoxy and Mozilla - browsers has been imported and is available in the tarballs - tools directory. +- Added the config file option handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok to + work around Firefox bug #492459, which causes Firefox to hang + if JavaScripts are blocked in certain situations. The option is + enabled in the default config file. +- Added the config file option default-server-timeout to control the + assumed default server timeout. Since Privoxy no longer returns + an error message for connection resets on reused client connections, + assuming larger server timeout values appears to actually work + pretty well as long as connections aren't shared. - Added optional support for FreeBSD's accf_http(9). Use the configure option --enable-accept-filter to enable it. - Added fancier Privoxy icons for win32. Contributed by Jeff H. +- In daemon mode, fd 0, 1 and 2 are bound to /dev/null. - Resolve localhost using whatever address family the operating system feels like. Previous betas would try to use IPv4 as this - is what most users expect, but this didn't work reliable on + is what most users expect, but this didn't work reliably on GNU/Linux systems. -- Added the config option default-server-timeout to control - the assumed default server timeout. Since Privoxy no longer - returns an error message for connection resets on reused client - connections, assuming larger server timeout values appears to - actually work pretty well as long as connections aren't shared. -- Several log messages about client connections also mention - the socket number. +- In the action lists on CGI pages, actions and their parameters are + no longer separated with a space. The action file parser doesn't + actually allow this and will throw an invalid syntax error if actions + and parameters in the action files are separated. Not adding the + spaces means copy and pasting CGI output into the action files works. +- The default keep-alive timeout has been reduced to 5 seconds to work + around hangs in clients that treat the proxy like any other host and + stop allowing any new connections if the "maximum number of + connections per host" is reached. +- Several webbug URLs that look like they are leading to images are now + blocked as image instead of empty documents. Doing the latter causes + WebKit-based clients to show a "missing image" icon which may mess up + the layout. +- The no-such-domain template is used for DNS resolution + problems with FEATURE_IPV6_SUPPORT enabled. Previously the + connect-failed template was used. Reported by 'zebul666'. +- Accepts quoted expiration dates even though RFC 2109 10.1.2 + doesn't seem to allow them. Reported anonymously. - Don't try to forget connections if connection sharing is disabled. This wasn't a real problem but caused an unnecessary log message. -- The scripts in the tools directory treat unknown parameters - as fatal errors. - The still undocumented --enable-extended-host-patterns configure option has a better description. -- Fixed an error message that would claim a write to the - server failed when actually writing to the client failed. +- Fixed an error message that would claim a write to the server + failed when actually writing to the client failed. - Log the crunch reason before trying to write to the client. The log is easier to read that way. -- In the action lists on CGI pages, actions and their parameters are - no longer separated with a space. The action file parser doesn't - actually allow this and will throw an invalid syntax error if - actions and parameters in the action files are separated. - Not adding the spaces means copy and pasting CGI output into - the action files works. +- Several log messages about client connections also mention + the socket number. - handle-as-empty-document no longer depends on the image blocking code being enabled. +- Privoxy-Log-Parser is roughly 40% faster in highlighting mode. +- uagen, a Firefox User-Agent generator for Privoxy and Mozilla + browsers has been imported and is available in the tarball's + tools directory. +- The scripts in the tools directory treat unknown parameters + as fatal errors. *** Version 3.0.15 Beta *** @@ -164,7 +338,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy the still-open connection will be reused for the client's next request to the same destination. Note that this only matters if connection-sharing is enabled. -- A TODO list has been added to the source tarballs to give potential +- 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