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Privoxy 3.0.26 stable is a bug-fix - release for the previously released 3.0.25 beta which introduced - client-specific tags and included a couple of minor improvements.
+Privoxy 3.0.27 stable scales better in multi-user environments and brings a + couple of tuning directives.
Bug fixes:
+General improvements:
Fixed crashes with "listen-addr :8118" (SF Bug #902). The - regression was introduced in 3.0.25 beta and reported by Marvin - Renich in Debian bug #834941.
+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
General improvements:
-Log when privoxy is toggled on or off via cgi interface.
+Add a listen-backlog directive which specifies the backlog value passed to listen(). Sponsored by: + Robert Klemme
Highlight the "Info: Now toggled " on/off log message in the - Windows log viewer.
+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
Highlight the loading actions/filter file log message in the - Windows log viewer.
+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
Mention client-specific tags on the toggle page as a - potentionally more appropriate alternative.
+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
Documentation improvements:
-Update download section on the homepage. The downloads are - available from the website now.
+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.
Add sponsor FAQ.
+Consistently use the U(ngreedy) flag in the 'img-reorder' filter.
Remove obsolete reference to mailing lists hosted at - SourceForge.
+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
Update the "Before the Release" section of the developer - manual.
+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
Infrastructure improvements:
-Add perl script to generate an RSS feed for the packages - Submitted by "Unknown".
+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
Build system improvements:
-strptime.h: fix a compiler warning about ambiguous else.
+Explicitly taint the server socket in case of CONNECT requests. This doesn't fix any known problems, but + makes some log messages less confusing.
configure.in: Check for Docbook goo on the BSDs as well.
+Let write_pid_file() terminate if the pid file can't be opened. Logging the issue at info level is + unlikely to help.
GNUMakefile.in: Let the dok-user target remove temporary - files.
+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
Changes between Privoxy 3.0.25 beta - and the previous release:
-Bug fixes:
-Always use the current toggle state for new requests. - Previously new requests on reused connections inherited the - toggle state from the previous request even though the toggle - state could have changed. Reported 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
Fixed two buffer-overflows in the (deprecated) static pcre - code. These bugs are not considered security issues as the input - is trusted. Found with afl-fuzz and ASAN.
+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
General improvements:
-Added support for client-specific tags which allow Privoxy - admins to pre-define tags that are set for all requests from - clients that previously opted in through the CGI interface. They - are useful in multi-user setups where admins may want to allow - users to disable certain actions and filters for themselves - without affecting others. In single-user setups they are useful - to allow more fine-grained toggling. For example to disable - request blocking while still crunching cookies, or to disable - experimental filters only. This is an experimental feature, the - syntax and behaviour may change in future versions. 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.
Dynamic filters and taggers now support a $listen-address - variable which contains the address the request came in on. For - external filters the variable is called $PRIVOXY_LISTEN_ADDRESS. - Original patch contributed by pursievro.
+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.
Add client-header-tagger 'listen-address'.
+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.
Include the listen-address in the log message when logging new - requests. Patch contributed by pursievro.
+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.
Turn invalid max-client-connections values into fatal - errors.
+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.
The show-status page now shows whether or not dates before - 1970 and after 2038 are expected to be handled properly. This is - mainly useful for Privoxy-Regression-Test but could also come - handy when dealing with time-related support requests.
+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.
On Mac OS X the thread id in log messages are more likely to - be unique now.
+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.
When complaining about missing filters, the filter type is - logged as well.
+cgi_error_disabled(): Use status code 403 and an appropriate response line
A couple of harmless coverity warnings were silenced (CID - #161202, CID #161203, CID #161211).
+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.
Action file improvements:
-Filtering is disabled for Range requests to let download - resumption and Windows updates work with the default - configuration.
+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.
Unblock ".ardmediathek.de/". Reported by ThTomate in #932.
+Fix compiler warnings.
Documentation improvements:
+Bug fixes:
Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits.
-Remove obsolete FAQ entry about a bug in PHP 4.2.3.
-Mention the new mailing lists were appropriate. As the - archives have not been migrated, continue to mention the archives - at SF in the contacting section for now.
+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
Note that the templates should be adjusted if Privoxy is - running as intercepting proxy without getting all requests.
+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.
A bunch of links were converted to https://.
+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@.
Rephrase onion service paragraph to make it more obvious that - Tor is involved and that the whole website (and not just the - homepage) is available as onion service.
+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.
Streamline the "More information" section on the homepage - further by additionally ditching the link to the 'See also' - section of the user manual. The section contains mostly links - that are directly reachable from the homepage already and the - rest is not significant enough to get a link from the - homepage.
-Change the add-header{} example to set the DNT header and use - a complete section to make copy and pasting more convenient. Add - a comment to make it obvious that adding the header is not - recommended for obvious reasons. Using the DNT header as example - was suggested by Leo Wzukw.
-Streamline the support-and-service template Instead of linking - to the various support trackers (whose URLs hopefully change - soon), link to the contact section of the user manual to increase - the chances that users actually read it.
+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.
Action file improvements:
+Add a FAQ entry for tainted sockets.
+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.
More sections in the documentation have stable URLs now.
+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.
FAQ: Explain why 'ping config.privoxy.org' is not expected to - reach a local Privoxy installation.
+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".
Note that donations done through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently - can't be checked automatically.
+Unblock 'adventofcode.com/'. Reported by Clint Adams in Debian bug #848211. Fixes Roland's AF#937.
Updated section regarding starting Privoxy under OS X.
+Unblock 'adlibris.com'. Reported by Wyrex in #935
Use dedicated start instructions for FreeBSD and - ElectroBSD.
+Unblock .golang.org/
Removed release instructions for AIX. They haven't been - working for years and unsurprisingly nobody seems to care.
+Add fast-redirects exception for '.youtube.com/.*origin=http'
Privoxy-Log-Parser:
+Removed obsolete reference to the solaris-dist target.
+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.
Updated the release instructions for FreeBSD.
+Bump version as the behaviour (slightly) changed.
Removed unfinished release instructions for Amiga OS and HP-UX - 11.
+Count connection failures as well in statistics mode. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
Added a pointer to the Cygwin Time Machine for getting the - last release of Cygwin version 1.5 to use for building Privoxy on - Windows.
+Count connection timeouts as well in statistics mode. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
Various typos have been fixed.
+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
Infrastructure improvements:
+Documentation improvements:
The website is no longer hosted at SourceForge and can be - reached through https now.
+Refer to the git sources instead of CVS.
The mailing lists at SourceForge have been deprecated, you can - subscribe to the new ones at: https://lists.privoxy.org/
+Use GNU/Linux when referring to the OS instead of the kernel.
Migrating the remaining services from SourceForge is work in - progress (TODO list item #53).
+Add FAQ entry for what to do if editing the config file is access denied.
+Add brief HTTP/2 FAQ.
Build system improvements:
-Add configure argument to optimistically redefine FD_SETSIZE - with the intent to change the maximum number of client - connections Privoxy can handle. Only works with some libcs. - Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
+Add a small fuzzing section to the developer documentation.
Let the tarball-dist target skip files in ".git".
+Add a client-header-tagger{client-ip-address} example.
Let the tarball-dist target work in cwds other than - current.
+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 the 'clean' target faster when run from a git - repository.
+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.
Include tools in the generic distribution.
+Suggest to log applying actions as well when reproducing problems.
Let the gen-dist target work in cwds other than current.
+Explicitly mention that Privoxy binaries are built by individuals on their own systems. Buyer + beware!
Sort find output that is used for distribution tarballs to get - reproducible results.
+Mention the release feed on the homepage.
Don't add '-src' to the name of the tar ball generated by the - gen-dist target. The package isn't a source distribution but a - binary package. While at it, use a variable for the name to - reduce the chances that the various references get out of sync - and fix the gen-upload target which was looking in the wrong - directory.
+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:
+Add regression-tests.action to the files that are - distributed.
+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).
The gen-dist target which was broken since 2002 (r1.92) has - been fixed.
+Update test for /send-stylesheet and add another one
Templates:
+Remove genclspec.sh which has been obsolete since 2009.
+Consistently use https:// when linking to the Privoxy website.
Remove obsolete reference to Redhat spec file.
+Remove SourceForge references in Copyright header.
Remove the obsolete announce target which has been commented - out years ago.
+Remove a couple of SourceForge references in a comment. While at it, fix the grammar.
Let rsync skip files if the checksums match.
+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.
Privoxy-Regression-Test:
+Build system improvements:
Add a "Default level offset" directive which can be used to - change the default level by a given value. This directive affects - all tests located after it until the end of the file or a another - "Default level offset" directive is reached. The purpose of this - directive is to make it more convenient to skip similar tests in - a given file without having to remove or disable the tests - completely.
+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().
Let test level 17 depend on FEATURE_64_BIT_TIME_T instead of - FEATURE_PTHREAD which has no direct connection to the time_t - size.
+Warn when compiling without calloc().
Fix indentation in perldoc examples.
+Make it more obvious that the --with-fdsetsize configure switch is pointless if poll() is available.
Don't overlook directives in the first line of the action - file.
+Remove support for AmigaOS.
Bump version to 0.7.
+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.
Fix detection of the Privoxy version now that https:// is used - for the website.
+Add --enable-static-linking option for configure does the same thing as LDFLAGS=-static; ./configure but + nicer than mixing evars and configure options.
A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier - versions of Privoxy:
+A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier versions of Privoxy:
The recommended way to upgrade Privoxy is to backup your old configuration - files, install the new ones, verify that Privoxy is working correctly and finally merge - back your changes using diff and - maybe patch.
-There are a number of new features in each Privoxy release and most of them have to be - explicitly enabled in the configuration files. Old configuration - files obviously don't do that and due to syntax changes using old - configuration files with a new The recommended way to upgrade Privoxy is to backup your old + configuration files, install the new ones, verify that Privoxy is working + correctly and finally merge back your changes using diff and maybe + patch.
+There are a number of new features in each Privoxy release and most of + them have to be explicitly enabled in the configuration files. Old configuration files obviously don't do + that and due to syntax changes using old configuration files with a new Privoxy isn't always possible anyway.
Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely, - including configuration files, therefore you should really save any - important configuration files!
+Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely, including configuration files, therefore you + should really save any important configuration files!
On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing - configuration files, thinking you will want to do that - yourself.
+On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing configuration files, thinking you will want + to do that yourself.
In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now. - You can change that in the debug - section of the configuration file. You may also want to enable - more verbose logging until you verified that the new Privoxy version is working as expected.
+In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now. You can change that in the debug section of the configuration file. You may also want to enable more verbose + logging until you verified that the new Privoxy version is working as + expected.
Three other config file settings are now off by default: - enable-remote-toggle, - enable-remote-http-toggle, - and enable-edit-actions. If you - use or want these, you will need to explicitly enable them, and be - aware of the security issues involved.
+Three other config file settings are now off by default: enable-remote-toggle, enable-remote-http-toggle, and enable-edit-actions. If you use or want these, you will need to + explicitly enable them, and be aware of the security issues involved.