X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fsource%2Freadme.sgml;h=3faa66bac69eb5ff24336630816408fe0d73cfd5;hp=5aa28d778067d0f01036d632b957f79934474df8;hb=7ae12b2afe7124cc23216f76aec2acdd5c085595;hpb=7ac6dc216389c4fd86f6b54308e3296dc46f4f65 diff --git a/doc/source/readme.sgml b/doc/source/readme.sgml index 5aa28d77..3faa66ba 100644 --- a/doc/source/readme.sgml +++ b/doc/source/readme.sgml @@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ - - - - + + + + @@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ Purpose : README for Privoxy - $Id: readme.sgml,v 2.24 2009/02/18 18:55:34 fabiankeil Exp $ + $Id: readme.sgml,v 2.42 2010/11/13 13:04:39 fabiankeil Exp $ - Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/ + Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/ See LICENSE. ======================================================================== @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ * * Purpose : README file to give a short intro. * - * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2009 the SourceForge + * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2010 the * Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/ * * Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written @@ -128,30 +128,23 @@ IMPORTANT CHANGES - Privoxy is between releases. The current code base should be considered - development quality. Please report any problems to the developers. + November 2010, Privoxy 3.0.17 stable is released. - February 2009, Privoxy 3.0.11 is released. + This is mainly a bug-fix release for the previously released + Privoxy 3.0.16. - 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. + It contains fixes for two bugs that could cause connections to hang + under certain circumstances when keep-alive support was enabled, + until they timed out or where closed by the server. - 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. + As usual, there are also a bunch of minor improvements. + For details please see the "ChangeLog", the "What's New" section or + the "Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual. + @@ -179,12 +172,6 @@ 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 - @@ -203,7 +190,7 @@ Be sure to set your browser(s) for HTTP/HTTPS Proxy at <IP>:<Port>, or whatever you specify in the config file under 'listen-address'. DEFAULT is - localhost:8118. Note that Privoxy ONLY proxies HTTP (and HTTPS) traffic. Do not try it + 127.0.0.1:8118. Note that Privoxy ONLY proxies HTTP (and HTTPS) traffic. Do not try it with FTP or other protocols for the simple reason it does not work. @@ -257,7 +244,7 @@ - +