X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=8655adf8c392155265a9d01754a75fbe287b0416;hp=5062f2b9f6379dda88d3bbd7ab38659aea60db78;hb=cf89cd7ace9007341dc8835f4b9c818dfb831666;hpb=82194f5cef6a1a9e3a7b4c34b2e3040a31cc596a diff --git a/README b/README index 5062f2b9..8655adf8 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ * * Purpose : README file to give a short intro. * - * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2008 the SourceForge + * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2009 the SourceForge * Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/ * * Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written @@ -32,41 +32,48 @@ * *********************************************************************/ -This README is included with Privoxy 3.0.8. See http://www.privoxy.org/ for +This README is included with Privoxy 3.0.12. See http://www.privoxy.org/ for more information. The current code maturity level is "stable". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for -enhancing privacy, modifying web page data, managing HTTP cookies, controlling -access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. -Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual -needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and -multi-user networks. +enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling +access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a +flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and +tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user +networks. -Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm). +Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GPL2. + +Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI). +Donations are welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. IMPORTANT CHANGES -NEWS! January 2008, Privoxy 3.0.8 stable is released. This is a significant -upgrade with many new and enhanced features, and many bugs fixed. All Privoxy -users are encouraged to upgrade. See the "ChangeLog", and the "What's New" -section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual for details and -specifics. There are changes related to configuration, so anyone upgrading and -keeping their old configuration should read ahead first. +March 2009, Privoxy 3.0.12 is released. + +This is primarily a bug fix release. See the "ChangeLog", and the "What's New" +section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual for details. -December 2007, Privoxy 3.0.7 is released. This is a beta release in preparation -for the forthcoming 3.0.8 release. +February 2009, Privoxy 3.0.11 is released. -NEWS! November 2006, Privoxy 3.0.6 stable is released. This is a significant -upgrade with many new and enhanced features, and many bugs fixed. +As usual there are changes that effect the configuration. See the "ChangeLog", +and the "What's New" section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual for +details and specifics. -There was and will not be an official 3.0.4 release. This release cycle was -used to gather our thoughts, play with some new ideas and refine some old ones. -It will remain a development cycle with no actual release. 3.0.5 is the fruit -of these efforts. +This is a stable release, and marks a departure for Privoxy development. + +Previously, odd numbered releases were considered beta versions and were only +released at the end of the development cycle when the code was already believed +to be stable. Usually it was, so the stable release contained pretty much the +same code, but got a higher version number. In the future we intend to release +several snapshots between stable releases. There will probably still be about +two stable releases per year, but hopefully about six snapshots instead of the +two betas we have now. The intentions is to make testing without CVS access +easier. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -91,7 +98,7 @@ file named 'config' in the current directory (except Win32 which will look for Or for Red Hat and Fedora based distributions: /etc/rc.d/init.d/privoxy start -Or Debian: /etc/init.d/privoxy start +Or Debian and Ubuntu: /etc/init.d/privoxy start ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -148,6 +155,9 @@ http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=211118 All users are of course welcome to discuss their issues on the users mailing list, where the developers also hang around. +Please don't sent private support requests to individual Privoxy developers, +either use the mailing lists or the support trackers. + Note that the Privoxy mailing lists are moderated. Posts from unsubscribed addresses have to be accepted manually by a moderator. This may cause a delay of several days and if you use a subject that doesn't clearly mention Privoxy