X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=fb01b170ff359960dd6475eb81f1dffadb283e8d;hp=83d12ba64d3031b8ce46f36bbf142db6c508e1a2;hb=c0fa6e4d858713c1b09a8016a97f479d42f2656d;hpb=44225e7688c759c05dff02c5b85162b7dabc8e31 diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 83d12ba6..fb01b170 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,50 +1,978 @@ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog for Privoxy -------------------------------------------------------------------- +*** 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 receving 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/' whis 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 ouside 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 potentiallly 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 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 + 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 *** + +- 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 reliably on + GNU/Linux systems. +- 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 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. +- Log the crunch reason before trying to write to the client. + The log is easier to read that way. +- 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 *** + +- In case of missing server data, no error message is send to the + client if the request arrived on a reused connection. The client + is then supposed to silently retry the request without bothering + the user. This should significantly reduce the frequency of the + "No server or forwarder data received" error message many users + reported. +- More reliable detection of prematurely closed client sockets + with keep-alive enabled. +- FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE is decoupled from + FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING and now available on + all platforms. +- Improved handling of POST requests on reused connections. + Should fix problems with stalled connections after submitting + form data with some browser configurations. +- Fixed various latency calculation issues. +- Allows the client to pass NTLM authentication requests to a + forwarding proxy. This was already assumed and hinted to work + in 3.0.13 beta but actually didn't. Now it's confirmed to work + with IE, Firefox and Chrome. + Thanks to Francois Botha and Wan-Teh Chang +- Fixed a calculation problem if receiving the server headers + takes more than two reads, that could cause Privoxy to terminate + the connection prematurely. Reported by Oliver. +- Compiles again on platforms such as OpenBSD and systems + using earlier glibc version that don't support AI_ADDRCONFIG. + Anonymously submitted in #2872591. +- A bunch of MS VC project files and Suse and Redhat RPM spec + files have been removed as they were no longer maintained for + quite some time. +- Overly long action lines are properly rejected with a proper + error message. Previously they would be either rejected as + invalid or cause a core dump through abort(). +- Already timed-out connections are no longer temporarily remembered. + They weren't reused anyway, but wasted a socket slot. +- len refers to the number of bytes actually read which might + differ from the ones received. Adjust log messages accordingly. +- The optional JavaScript on the CGI page uses encodeURIComponent() + instead of escape() which doesn't encode all characters that matter. + Anonymously reported in #2832722. +- Fix gcc45 warnings in decompress_iob(). +- Various log message improvements. +- Privoxy-Regression-Test supports redirect tests. +- Privoxy-Log-Parser can gather some connection statistics. + *** Version 3.0.14 Beta *** -- The error pages for connection timeouts or missing server data - use a Last-Modified date in the past. Retry attempts are detected - and Privoxy removes the If-Modified-Since header to prevent the - server from responding with status code 304 in which case the client - would reuse the error message.. -- Setting keep-alive-timeout to 0 disables keep-alive support. - Previously Privoxy would claim to allow persistence but not reuse - the connection. -- Fixed a crash on some Windows versions when header randomization - is enabled and the date can't be parsed. -- The configure script respects the $PATH variable when searching - for groups and id. +- The latency is taken into account when evaluating whether or not to + reuse a connection. This should significantly reduce the number of + connections problems several users reported. +- If the server doesn't specify how long the connection stays alive, + Privoxy errs on the safe side of caution and assumes it's only a second. +- The error pages for connection timeouts or missing server data use a + Last-Modified date in the past. Retry attempts are detected and Privoxy + removes the If-Modified-Since header to prevent the server from responding + with status code 304 in which case the client would reuse the error message. +- Setting keep-alive-timeout to 0 disables keep-alive support. Previously + Privoxy would claim to allow persistence but not reuse the connection. - Pipelined requests are less likely to be mistaken for the request body of the previous request. Note that Privoxy still has no real - Pipelining support and will either serialize pipelined requests or + pipeline support and will either serialize pipelined requests or drop them in which case the client has to resent them. -- Takes the latency into account when evaluating whether or not to - reuse a connection. This should significantly reduce the number of - connections problems several users reported. -- If the client's Keep-Alive header specifies a timeout below - Privoxy's, it will be used instead. +- Fixed a crash on some Windows versions when header randomization + is enabled and the date couldn't be parsed. +- Privoxy's keep-alive timeout for the current connection is reduced + to the one specified in the client's Keep-Alive header. - For HTTP/1.1 requests, Privoxy implies keep-alive support by not setting any Connection header instead of using 'Connection: keep-alive'. - If the socket isn't reusable, Privoxy doesn't temporarily waste a socket slot to remember the connection. - If keep-alive support is disabled but compiled in, the client's Keep-Alive header is removed. -- If the server doesn't specify how long the connection stays alive, - Privoxy errs on the safe side of caution and assumes it's only a second. - Fixed a bug on mingw32 where downloading large files failed if keep-alive support was enabled. -- Fixed a bug that (at least theoretically) could cause log timestamps - to be occasionally off by about a second. -- Don't add another Proxy-Connection header if there already is one. +- Fixed a bug that (at least theoretically) could cause log + timestamps to be occasionally off by about a second. +- No Proxy-Connection header if added if there already is one. +- The configure script respects the $PATH variable when searching + for groups and id. *** 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. -- Added client-side keep-alive support. This should also allow - NTLM authentication through Privoxy, but this hasn't been - confirmed yet. +- Added client-side keep-alive support. - The connection sharing code is only used if the connection-sharing option is enabled. - The max-client-connections option has been added to restrict @@ -77,7 +1005,7 @@ 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 @@ -116,7 +1044,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy skip reason. *** Version 3.0.11 *** - + - On most platforms, outgoing connections can be kept alive and reused if the server supports it. Whether or not this improves things depends on the connection. @@ -331,7 +1259,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy forbidden characters like dots. - New trust entries are saved with a comment that contains the trusted referring URL (Suggested by Daniel Griscom). -- Filter descriptions are HTML encoded automatically. +- Filter descriptions are HTML encoded automatically. - New config option "split-large-forms" to work around a browser bug that caused IE6 and IE7 to ignore the Submit button on the edit-actions-for-url CGI page. @@ -370,11 +1298,11 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy Privoxy detection "attack". Note that detecting Privoxy is still possible through other ways and Privoxy was never intended to be invisible anyway. -- Added support for AmigaOS 4, fixed build for AmigaOS 3.x. +- Added support for AmigaOS 4, fixed build for AmigaOS 3.x. - The show-url-info CGI page displays a warning if Privoxy is currently toggled off. - The show-status CGI page suppresses the edit button - for action files if Privoxy has no write access. + for action files if Privoxy has no write access. - Most CGI error pages react properly to HEAD requests. - Requests with RFC 3253 HTTP methods (used by Subversion) are accepted. (Patch provided by Petr Kadlec) @@ -449,18 +1377,18 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - Improved the filters img-reorder, js-annoyances, webbugs, banners-by-size, banners-by-link and ie-exploits to make them less likely to break anything. -- Removed outdated URL patterns in default.action and added new ones. +- Removed outdated URL patterns in default.action and added new ones. - Added redirection from http://p.p/user-manual to http://p.p/user-manual/ - Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent, hide-referrer and set-image-blocker. - + *** 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. - Integrated Fabian Keil's extensive patch. See: - http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the - following new or significantly improved actions (among many + http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the + following new or significantly improved actions (among many other improvements): content-type-overwrite{} @@ -488,17 +1416,17 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - Added jpeg filtering to defend against MS jpeg vulnerability MS04-028 with the new inspect-jpegs action. - Removed the "arbitrary" 1000 filter limit - addresses tracker #911950 -- Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log +- Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log file. The race condition remains for non-pthread implementations. Reference patch #1175720. Various other logging enhancements. - A pile of assorted bug fixes, memory leaks, enhancements, etc. - Moved Actions file reporting mechanism to SF tracker. -- Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and +- Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and forwarded-connect-retries. - Trap unsupported FTP requests. - Let text/xml be filtered. - Numerous updates to default.action -- Increase the compiled in limit of trusted referrers from 64 to 512 +- Increase the compiled in limit of trusted referrers from 64 to 512 (for trustfile users). *** Version 3.0.3 *** @@ -515,15 +1443,15 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - Workarounds for client (iTunes etc) and server (PHP < 4.2.3) bugs including the notorious "blank page" problem. - Various filter improvements; most notably the unsolicited-popups - filter became less destructive + filter became less destructive - Major revamp of the actions file - + *** Version 3.0.2 *** - Fixed two memory leaks, one serious - Fixed bug in pcrs which could cause crashes with user-defined filters - Fixed bug in domain name matching -- Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..) +- Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..) - Added basic support for the OPTIONS and TRACE http methods - Added workaround for Bug in Mac OSX that made Privoxy crash occasionally - Refined the default action file through >400 items of user feedback @@ -534,7 +1462,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - Replaced filter "popups" by choice between two modes: - "unsolicited-popups" tries to catch only the unsolicited ones - "all-popups" tries to kill them all (as before) - - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas. + - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas. - New filter "jumping-windows" that prevents windows from resizing and moving themselves - New filter "demoronizer" which fixes MS's abuse of std charsets @@ -558,7 +1486,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - Added quicktime-kioskmode filter and improved frameset-borders - Updated default.action based on latest feedback - New PDF doc build process -- Add a user contrib module to cvs: +- Add a user contrib module to cvs: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ijbswa/contrib/ *** Version 2.9.18 *** @@ -568,7 +1496,7 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - Three filters fixed (again!) - Assorted small fixes and doc enhancements -*** Version 2.9.16 *** +*** Version 2.9.16 *** - Major revamp of default.action to get rid of years of cruft. - Same for default.filter @@ -580,11 +1508,11 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - user-manual directive added to config for help links from within CGI editor. - Multiple actions files can now be specified in config. -- Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and +- Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and 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 (?) @@ -598,30 +1526,30 @@ 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 +- *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is reflected throughout (file locations, etc). -- ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now +- ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now default.filter. - http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/ -- The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern' +- The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern' (checkerboard) is now the default. - 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 +- **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from + 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that is.) - More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements. - Win32 command line fix ups. -- re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a +- re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a per site basis. Some new goodies there too. - +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile - for even more flexibility. -- Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which + for even more flexibility. +- Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo. - PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images if configured with --enable-no-gif. @@ -634,14 +1562,14 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy - CGI Editor works on OS/2 now. - Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT. - Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file. -- A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help, +- A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help, --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces - the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges + the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges to the specified user. - Signal handling cleanups (*nix). - CGI actions editor improvements and fixes. - Error handling improvements, especially out of memory. -- Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos +- Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos (instead of 'blank'). - configure.in threading fixes for Solaris. - Various other minor fixes. @@ -649,14 +1577,14 @@ ChangeLog for Privoxy *** 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). +- Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life + of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk). - Checks for correct header length. - Fix user:pass@host.domain.com auth bug. - Better signal handling on *nix. - Fix CFLAGS hard-coded in configure.in -- Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random -URLs to fail in some cases. +- Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random + URLs to fail in some cases. *** Version 2.9.11 Alpha Changes *** @@ -696,7 +1624,7 @@ The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL: and the home page: http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/ ... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway. -TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's +TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page. - PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option. @@ -720,7 +1648,7 @@ parsers.c (again). They obviously got lost in our current patch war ;-) - Cut the credit for the ยง-referrer-option from the config file, that Stefan had placed there. -- Improved the re_filterfile +- Improved the re_filterfile *** Version 2.9.0 pre-Alpha Changes *** @@ -728,9 +1656,9 @@ that Stefan had placed there. - Now use PCRE, not GNU REGEX. I have not yet had chance to check the syntax of the block/image/cookie file to ensure that they match what is expected - however they seem to work. -- Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also -use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for -the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from +- Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also +use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for +the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from "acconfig.h" and "configure.in". (Note that to install you do not need autoconf or autoheader - just run "./configure".) To see command-line options, run "./configure --help". @@ -743,7 +1671,7 @@ apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code. - ACL, Jar and trust files conditionally compiled. - New source file headers. -- Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the +- Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the config files - I think that's worthwhile, but it's 1am and I want to get this released!) - RCS tags on .h files. @@ -769,16 +1697,15 @@ being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English". - Version number changes to 2.9.0 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2008 the SourceForge +Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2010 the Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/ Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written - by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and + by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com/ - This program is free software; you can redistribute it + This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at