X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=e918b035e51a1334bf2606f8408dae6822a7f327;hp=931b4579ab9d17604ef8585b9322641b242e6fcf;hb=d0a9e3c2111dc1d6564ed1517da25629b36f006f;hpb=a54cb7d58d243d60158fe414d205d658e9e1a7a2 diff --git a/README b/README index 931b4579..e918b035 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ * * Purpose : README file to give a short intro. * - * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2009 the SourceForge + * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2009 the * Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/ * * Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written @@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ * *********************************************************************/ -This README is included with Privoxy 3.0.12. See http://www.privoxy.org/ for -more information. The current code maturity level is "stable". +This README is included with the development version of Privoxy 3.0.15. See +http://www.privoxy.org/ for more information. The current code maturity level +is "beta", but seems stable to us :). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -46,31 +47,22 @@ networks. 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 -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. - -February 2009, Privoxy 3.0.11 is released. +October 2009, Privoxy 3.0.15 beta is released. -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. +This is a bugfix-release for the previous betas which introduced IPv6 support, +improved keep-alive support and a bunch of minor improvements. See the +"ChangeLog", and the "What's New" section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in the +User Manual for details. -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. +Depending on the feedback it will be either followed by yet another beta +release, or by a stable release with the same feature set. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -93,8 +85,6 @@ If no config_file is specified on the command line, Privoxy will look for a file named 'config' in the current directory (except Win32 which will look for 'config.txt'). If no config_file is found, Privoxy will fail to start. -Or for Red Hat and Fedora based distributions: /etc/rc.d/init.d/privoxy start - Or Debian and Ubuntu: /etc/init.d/privoxy start ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -119,16 +109,22 @@ try it with FTP or other protocols for the simple reason it does not work. The actions list can be configured via the web interface accessed via http:// p.p/, as well other options. +All configuration files are subject to unannounced changes during the +development process. + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. DOCUMENTATION -There should be documentation in the 'doc' subdirectory. In particular, see the -User Manual there, the FAQ, and those interested in Privoxy development, should -look at developer-manual. +There should be documentation in the 'doc' subdirectory, but it may not be +completed at this point. In particular, see the User Manual there, the FAQ, and +those interested in Privoxy development, should look at developer-manual. -The source and configuration files are all well commented. The main -configuration files are: 'config', 'default.action', and 'default.filter'. +The most up to date source of information on the current development version, +may still be either comments in the source code, or the included configuration +files. The source and configuration files are all well commented. The main +configuration files are: 'config', 'default.action', and 'default.filter' in +the top-level source directory. Included documentation may vary according to platform and packager. All documentation is posted on http://www.privoxy.org, in case you don't have it,