X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fwebserver%2Fannounce.txt;h=a8ca9db12419f3ee23026169d2762c74376893b4;hp=77935ca75d20d1b10a486413da14ea898c7cdfea;hb=4376aa94df36415efdaa8aab15d0cbc317f39280;hpb=34d589c8ead9b9759a0aa82e92b596962e680873 diff --git a/doc/webserver/announce.txt b/doc/webserver/announce.txt index 77935ca7..a8ca9db1 100644 --- a/doc/webserver/announce.txt +++ b/doc/webserver/announce.txt @@ -1,315 +1,293 @@ - Announcing Privoxy 3.0.20 beta + Announcing Privoxy 3.0.28 stable -------------------------------------------------------------------- -This is a beta release that introduces new features and fixes a -couple of bugs. One new feature (tolerate-pipelining) is enabled -in the default configuration, depending on the feedback it may be -disabled in the next release. +Privoxy 3.0.27 stable scales better in multi-user environments +and brings a couple of tuning directives. + +Privoxy 3.0.28 stable fixes two regressions introduced in 3.0.27. -------------------------------------------------------------------- -ChangeLog for Privoxy +ChangeLog for Privoxy 3.0.28 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -*** 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. +- Bug fixes for regressions in 3.0.27: + - Fixed misplaced parentheses. + Reported by David Binderman. + - Changed two regression tests to depend on config directive + enable-remote-toggle instead of FEATURE_TOGGLE. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +ChangeLog for Privoxy 3.0.27 +-------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 receiving 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. + - Add a receive-buffer-size directive which can be used to + set the size of the previously statically allocated buffer + in handle_established_connection(). + Increasing the buffer size increases Privoxy's memory usage but + can lower the number of context switches and thereby reduce the + CPU usage and potentially increase the throughput. + This is mostly relevant for fast network connections and + large downloads that don't require filtering. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Add a listen-backlog directive which specifies the backlog + value passed to listen(). + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Add an enable-accept-filter directive which allows to + toggle accept filter support at run time when compiled + with FEATURE_ACCEPT_FILTER support. + It makes testing more convenient and now that it's + optional we can emit an error message if enabling + the accept filter fails. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Add a delay-response{} action. + This is useful to tar pit JavaScript requests that + are endlessly retried in case of blocks. It can also + be used to simulate a slow Internet connection. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Add a 'trusted-cgi-referrer' directive. + It allows to configure another page or site that can be used + to reach sensitive CGI resources. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Add a --fuzz mode which exposes Privoxy internals to input + from files or stdout. + Mainly tested with American Fuzzy Lop. For details see: + https://www.fabiankeil.de/talks/fuzzing-on-freebsd/ + This work was partially funded with donations and done + as part of the Privoxy month in 2015. + - Consistently use the U(ngreedy) flag in the 'img-reorder' filter. + - listen_loop(): Reuse a single thread attribute object + The object doesn't change and creating a new one for + every thread is a waste of (CPU) time. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Free csp resources in the thread that belongs to the csp instead + of the main thread which has enough on its plate already. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Improve 'socket timeout reached' message. + Log the timeout that was triggered and downgrade the + log level to LOG_LEVEL_CONNECT to reduce the log noise + with common debug settings. + The timeout isn't necessary the result of an error and + usually merely indicates that Privoxy's socket timeout + is lower than the relevant timeouts used by client and + server. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Explicitly taint the server socket in case of CONNECT requests. + This doesn't fix any known problems, but makes + some log messages less confusing. + - Let write_pid_file() terminate if the pid file can't be opened. + Logging the issue at info level is unlikely to help. + - log_error(): Reduce the mutex-protected area by not using a + heap-allocated buffer that is shared between all threads. + This increases performance and reduces the latency with + verbose debug settings and multiple concurrent connections. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Let zalloc() use calloc() if it's available. + In some situations using calloc() can be faster than + malloc() + memset() and it should never be slower. + In the real world the impact of this change is not + expected to be noticeable. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Never use select() when poll() is available. + On most platforms select() is limited by FD_SETSIZE while + poll() is not. This was a scaling issue for multi-user setups. + Using poll() has no downside other than the usual risk + that code modifications may introduce new bugs that have + yet to be found and fixed. + At least in theory this commit could also reduce the latency + when there are lots of connections and select() would use + "bit fields in arrays of integers" to store file descriptors. + Another side effect is that Privoxy no longer has to stop + monitoring the client sockets when pipelined requests are + waiting but can't be read yet. + This code keeps the select()-based code behind ifdefs for + now but hopefully it can be removed soonish to make the + code more readable. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Add a 'reproducible-tarball-dist' target. + It's currently separate from the "tarball-dist" target + because it requires a tar implementation with mtree spec + support. + It's far from being perfect and does not enforce a + reproducible mode, but it's better than nothing. + - Use arc4random() if it's available. + While Privoxy doesn't need high quality pseudo-random numbers + there's no reason not to use them when we can and this silences + a warning emitted by code checkers that can't tell whether or not + the quality matters. + - Show the FEATURE_EXTERNAL_FILTERS status on the status page. + Better late than never. Previously a couple of tests weren't + executed as Privoxy-Regression-Test couldn't detect that the + FEATURE_EXTERNAL_FILTERS dependency was satisfied. + - Ditch FEATURE_IMAGE_DETECT_MSIE. + It's an obsolete workaround we inherited from Junkbuster + and was already disabled by default. + Users that feel the urge to work around issues with + image requests coming from an Internet Explorer version + from more than 15 years ago can still do this using tags. + - Consistently use strdup_or_die() instead of strdup() in + cases where allocation failures aren't expected. + Using strdup_or_die() allows to remove a couple of explicit + error checks which slightly reduces the size of the binary. + - Insert a refresh tag into the /client-tags CGI page when + serving it while a client-specific tag is temporarily enabled. + This makes it less likely that the user ends up + looking at tag state that is out of date. + - Use absolute URLs in the client-tag forms. + It's more consistent with the rest of the CGI page + URLs and makes it more convenient to copy the forms + to external pages. + - cgi_error_disabled(): Use status code 403 and an appropriate response line + - Use a dedicated CGI handler to deal with tag-toggle requests + As a result the /client-tags page is now safe to reach without + trusted Referer header which makes bookmarking or linking to + it more convenient. + Finally, refreshing the /client-tags page to show the + current state can no longer unintentionally repeat the + previous toggle request. + - Don't add a "Connection" header for CONNECT requests. + Explicitly sending "Connection: close" is not necessary and + apparently it causes problems with some forwarding proxies + that will close the connection prematurely. + Reported by Marc Thomas. + - Fix compiler warnings. -- 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/' which 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. +- Bug fixes: + - rfc2553_connect_to(): Properly detect and log when poll() + reached the time out. Previously this was logged as: + Could not connect to [...]: No error: 0. + which isn't very helpful. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - add_tag_for_client(): Set time_to_live properly. + Previously the time_to_live was always set for the first tag. + Attempts to temporarily enable a tag would result in enabling + it permanently unless no tag was enabled already. + - Revert r1.165 which didn't perform as advertised. + While the idea was to use "https:// when creating links + for the user manual on the website", the actual effect + was to use "https://" when Privoxy was supposed to serve + the user manual itself. + Reported by Yossi Zahn on Privoxy-devel@. + - socks5_connect(): Fail in case of unsupported address types. + Previously they would not be detected right away and + Privoxy would fail later on with an error message that + didn't make it obvious that the problem was socks-related. + So far, no such problems have actually been reported. + - socks5_connect(): Properly deal with socks replies that + contain IPv6 addresses. + Previously parts of the reply were left unread and + later on treated as invalid HTTP response data. + Fixes #904 reported by Danny Goossen who also provided + the initial version of this patch. -- 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 outside 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 potentially 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. +- Action file improvements: + - Unblock 'msdn.microsoft.com/'. + It (presumably) isn't used to serve the kind of ads Privoxy should + block by default but happens to serve lots of pages with URLs that + are likely to result in false positives. + Reported by bugreporter1694 in AF#939. + - Disable gif deanimation for requests tagged with CSS-REQUEST. + The action will ignore content that isn't considered text + anyway and explicitly disabling it makes this more obvious + if "action" debugging (debug 65536) is enabled while + "gif deanimation" debugging (debug 256) isn't. + - Explicitly disable HTML filters for requests with CSS-REQUEST tag. + The filters are unlikely to break CSS files but executing + them without (intentionally) getting any hits is a waste of + cpu time and makes the log more noisy when running with + "debug 64". + - Unblock 'adventofcode.com/'. + Reported by Clint Adams in Debian bug #848211. + Fixes Roland's AF#937. + - Unblock 'adlibris.com'. + Reported by Wyrex in #935 + - Unblock .golang.org/ + - Add fast-redirects exception for '.youtube.com/.*origin=http' - 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. + - Don't gather host and resource statistics if they aren't requested. + While the performance impact seems negligible this significantly + reduces the memory usage if there are lots of requests. + - Bump version as the behaviour (slightly) changed. + - Count connection failures as well in statistics mode. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Count connection timeouts as well in statistics mode. + Sponsored by: Robert Klemme + - Fix an 'uninitialized value' warning when generating + statistics for a log file without response headers. + While privoxy-log-parser was supposed to detect this already, + the check was flawed and the message the user didn't see was + somewhat confusing anyway. + Now the message is less confusing, more helpful and actually printed. + Reported by: Robert Klemme + +- Documentation improvements: + - Refer to the git sources instead of CVS. + - Use GNU/Linux when referring to the OS instead of the kernel. + - Add FAQ entry for what to do if editing the config file is access denied. + - Add brief HTTP/2 FAQ. + - Add a small fuzzing section to the developer documentation. + - Add a client-header-tagger{client-ip-address} example. + - Stop suggesting that Privoxy is an anonymizing proxy. + The term could lead to Privoxy users overestimating + what it can do on its own (without Tor). + - Make it more obvious that SPI accepts Paypal, too. + Currently most donations are made through the Paypal account + managed by Zwiebelfreunde e.V. and a more even distribution + would be useful. + - Suggest to log applying actions as well when reproducing problems. + - Explicitly mention that Privoxy binaries are built by individuals + on their own systems. Buyer beware! + - Mention the release feed on the homepage. + - Remove a mysterious comment with a GNU FDL link as it isn't + useful and could confuse license scanners. + In May 2002 it was briefly claimed that "this document" was covered + by the GNU FDL. The commit message (r1.5) doesn't explain the motivation + or whether all copyright holders were actually asked and agreed to the + declared license change. + It's thus hard to tell whether or not the license change was legit, + but luckily two days later the "doc license" was "put" "back to GPL" + anyway (r1.6). + At the same time the offending comment with a link to the FDL + (not the GPL) was added for no obvious reason. + Now it's gone again. + +- Regression tests: + - Bump for-privoxy-version to 3.0.27 as we now rely on untrusted + CGI request being rejected with status code 403 (instead of 200). + - Update test for /send-stylesheet and add another one + +- Templates: + - Consistently use https:// when linking to the Privoxy website. + - Remove SourceForge references in Copyright header. + - Remove a couple of SourceForge references in a comment. + While at it, fix the grammar. + - Move the site-specific documentation block before the generic one. + While most Privoxy installations don't have a site-specific + documentation block, in cases were it exists it's likely to + be more relevant than the generic one. + Showing it first makes it less likely that users stop reading + before they reach it, especially on pages that don't fit on + the screen. + +- Build system improvements: + - Prefer openjade to jade. On some systems Jade produces + HTML with unescaped ampersands in URLs. + - Prefer OpenSP to SP to be consistent. + - Have Docbook generated HTML files be straight ASCII. + Dealing with a mixture of ISO-8859 and UTF-8 files is problematic. + - Echo the filename to stderr for 'make dok-tidy'. + Make it a bit easier to find errors in docbook generated HTML. + - Warn when still using select(). + - Warn when compiling without calloc(). + - Make it more obvious that the --with-fdsetsize configure switch + is pointless if poll() is available. + - Remove support for AmigaOS. + - Update windows build system to use supported software. + The cygwin gcc -mno-cygwin option is no longer supported, so + convert the windows build system to use the cygwin cross-compiler + to build "native" code. + - Add --enable-static-linking option for configure + does the same thing as LDFLAGS=-static; ./configure + but nicer than mixing evars and configure options. ----------------------------------------------------------------- About Privoxy: @@ -324,74 +302,67 @@ networks. Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2. -Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI). - -Helping hands and donations are welcome: +Our TODO list is rather long. Helping hands and donations are welcome: - * http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE + * https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE - * http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE + * https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows 95 and later versions (98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 etc.), GNU/Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware and others), Mac OS X (10.4 and -upwards on PPC and Intel processors), OS/2, Haiku, DragonFly, +upwards on PPC and Intel processors), OS/2, Haiku, DragonFly, ElectroBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and various other flavors of Unix. In addition to the core features of ad blocking and cookie management, Privoxy provides many supplemental features, that give the end-user more control, more privacy and more freedom: + * Supports "Connection: keep-alive". Outgoing connections can be kept + alive independently from the client. Currently not available on all + platforms. - * Supports "Connection: keep-alive". Outgoing connections can be kept - alive independently from the client. Currently not available on all - platforms. + * Supports IPv6, provided the operating system does so too, + and the configure script detects it. - * Supports IPv6, provided the operating system does so too, - and the configure script detects it. + * Supports tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on client + and server headers. - * Supports tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on client - and server headers. + * Can be run as an "intercepting" proxy, which obviates the need to + configure browsers individually. - * Can be run as an "intercepting" proxy, which obviates the need to - configure browsers individually. + * Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both server and + client headers. - * Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both server and - client headers. + * Can be chained with other proxies. - * Can be chained with other proxies. + * Integrated browser based configuration and control utility at + http://config.privoxy.org/ (shortcut: http://p.p/). Browser-based + tracing of rule and filter effects. Remote toggling. - * Integrated browser based configuration and control utility at - http://config.privoxy.org/ (shortcut: http://p.p/). Browser-based - tracing of rule and filter effects. Remote toggling. + * Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on size, + invisible "web-bugs" and HTML annoyances, etc.) - * Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on size, - invisible web-bugs and HTML annoyances, etc.) + * Modularized configuration that allows for standard settings and user + settings to reside in separate files, so that installing updated actions + files won't overwrite individual user settings. - * Modularized configuration that allows for standard settings and user - settings to reside in separate files, so that installing updated actions - files won't overwrite individual user settings. + * Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the configuration + files, and a more sophisticated and flexible configuration syntax. - * Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the configuration - files, and a more sophisticated and flexible configuration syntax. + * GIF de-animation. - * GIF de-animation. + * Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection). - * Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection). + * User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages (e.g. + "blocked" page). - * User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages (e.g. - "blocked" page). - - * Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes. - - * Most features are controllable on a per-site or per-location basis. + * Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes. + * Most features are controllable on a per-site or per-location basis. -Download location: - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118 - -Home Page: - http://www.privoxy.org/ +Home Page: + https://www.privoxy.org/ - - Privoxy Developers + - Privoxy Developers