X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fwebserver%2Fuser-manual%2Fwhatsnew.html;h=dd7d25fed05c9704873f81cd983c676c56f26378;hp=b501f163a23846ee1e5496c8b73450d2fcd9ccdb;hb=e61fdec519cef582a2dc5507543a006b539ad3f4;hpb=00ff6723cacb0c08cbf3f1044e8639a89ebc23d7 diff --git a/doc/webserver/user-manual/whatsnew.html b/doc/webserver/user-manual/whatsnew.html index b501f163..dd7d25fe 100644 --- a/doc/webserver/user-manual/whatsnew.html +++ b/doc/webserver/user-manual/whatsnew.html @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ ">
There are many improvements and new features in There are many improvements and new features since Privoxy 3.0.4 - :
Privoxy 3.0.6, the last stable release:
Mulitiple filter files can now be specifed in config. This allows for - locally defined filters that can be maintained separately from the filters as - supplied by the developers. -
- There are a number of new actions: -
redirect -
In addition, fast-redirects - has been significantly improved with enhanced syntax. -
And hide-referrer Header filtering can be done with dedicated header filters now. As a result + the actions "filter-client-headers" and "filter-server-headers" - has a new option, conditional block. -
MS-Windows versions can now be - installed and - started as a Windows service. -
config has two new options: - enable-remote-http-toggle, - and forwarded-connect-retries. -
And there is improved handling of the user-manual - option, for placing documentation and help files on the local system. -
Actions files problems and suggestions are now being directed to: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288. - Please use this to report such configuration related problems as missed - ads, sites that don't function properly due to one action or another, - innocent images being blocked, etc. -
In addition, there are various bug fixes and significant enhancements, including - error pages should no longer be cached if the problem is fixed, better DNS - error handling, and various logging improvements. +>Privoxy 3.0.5 to apply + the content filters to the headers as, well have been removed again.
- On the other hand, some installers may not overwrite any existing configuration + On the other hand, other installers may not overwrite any existing configuration files, thinking you will want to do that. You may want to manually check your saved files against the newer versions to see if the improvements have merit, or whether there are new options that you may want to consider. @@ -414,15 +152,42 @@ HREF="actions-file.html#FAST-REDIRECTS" >fast-redirects - which has changed syntax, and may require adjustments to local configs. + which has changed syntax, and will require adjustments to local configs, + such as user.action. You must reference the new + syntax:
{ +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} } + .example.com + mybank.com + .google. |
The jarfile, cookie logger, is off by default now. +>, + cookie logger, is off by default now.
The default actions setting is now Cautious. Previous + releases had a default setting of Medium. Experienced + users may want to adjust this, as it is fairly conservative by Privoxy + standards and past practices. See http://config.privoxy.org/edit-actions-list?f=default. New users + should try the default settings for a while before turning up the volume. +
The default setting has filtering turned off, which + subsequently means that compression is on. Remember + that filtering does not work on compressed pages, so if you use, or want to + use, filtering, you will need to force compression off. Example: +
{ +filter{google} +prevent-compression } + .google. |
Or if you use a number of filters, or filter many sites, you may just want + to turn off compression for all sites in + default.action (or + user.action). +
Also, session-cookies-only is + off by default now. If you've liked this feature in the past, you may want + to turn it back on in user.action now.