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+ Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.11
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+
+3.0.11 is a stable release which includes many enhancements but no major
+new features. The most prominent new feature is support for "keep-alive"
+connection. There are many small improvements.
+
+See http://www.privoxy.org/3.0.11/user-manual/whatsnew.html for details.
+
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+ChangeLog for Privoxy
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+
+*** Version 3.0.11 ***
+
+- On most platforms, outgoing connections can be kept alive and
+ reused if the server supports it. Whether or not this improves
+ things depends on the connection.
+- When dropping privileges, membership in supplementary groups
+ is given up as well. Not doing that can lead to Privoxy running
+ with more rights than necessary and violates the principle of
+ least privilege. Users of the --user option are advised to update.
+ Thanks to Matthias Drochner for reporting the problem,
+ providing the initial patch and testing the final version.
+- Passing invalid users or groups with the --user option
+ didn't lead to program exit. Regression introduced in 3.0.7.
+- The match all section has been moved from default.action
+ to a new file called match-all.action. As a result the
+ default.action no longer needs to be touched by the user
+ and can be safely overwritten by updates.
+- The standard.action file has been removed. Its content
+ is now part of the default.action file.
+- In some situations the logged content length was slightly too low.
+- Crunched requests are logged with their own log level.
+ If you used "debug 1" in the past, you'll probably want
+ to additionally enable "debug 1024", otherwise only passed
+ requests will be logged. If you only care about crunched
+ requests, simply replace "debug 1" with "debug 1024".
+- The crunch reason has been moved to the beginning of the
+ crunch message. For HTTP URLs, the protocol is logged as well.
+- Log messages are shortened by not printing the thread id
+ on its own (as opposed to putting it inside "Privoxy()".
+- The config option socket-timeout has been added to control
+ the time Privoxy waits for data to arrive on a socket.
+- Support for remote toggling is controlled by the configure
+ option --disable-toggle only. In previous versions it also
+ depended on the action editor and thus configuring with the
+ --disable-editor option would disable remote toggling support
+ as well.
+- Requests with invalid HTTP versions are rejected.
+- The template symbol @date@ can be used to include a date(1)-like
+ time string. Initial patch submitted by Endre Szabo.
+- Responses from shoutcast servers are accepted again.
+ Problem reported and fix suggested by Stefan.
+- The hide-forwarded-for-headers action has been replaced with
+ the change-x-forwarded-for{} action which can also be used to
+ add X-Forwarded-For headers. The latter functionality already
+ existed in Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.7 but has been removed
+ as it was often used unintentionally (by not using the
+ hide-forwarded-for-headers action).
+- A "clear log" view option was added to the mingw32 version
+ to clear out all of the lines in the Privoxy log window.
+ Based on a patch submitted by T Ford.
+- The mingw32 version uses "critical sections" now, which prevents
+ log message corruption under load. As a side effect, the
+ "no thread-safe PRNG" warning could be removed as well.
+- The mingw32 version's task bar icon is crossed out and
+ the color changed to gray if Privoxy is toggled off.
+
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+About Privoxy:
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+
+Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for
+protecting privacy, modifying web page data, managing cookies,
+controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other
+obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible
+configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs
+and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems
+and multi-user networks.
+
+Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).
+
+At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows(95, 98, ME, 2000,
+XP, Vista), Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and
+others), Mac OSX, OS/2, AmigaOS, 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:
+
+
+ * Can keep outgoing connections alive and reuse them later on.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both server and
+ client headers.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on size,
+ invisible "web-bugs", JavaScript and HTML annoyances, pop-up windows,
+ 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.
+
+ * Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the configuration
+ files, and a more sophisticated and flexible configuration syntax.
+
+ * Improved cookie management features (e.g. session based cookies).
+
+ * GIF de-animation.
+
+ * Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection).
+
+ * Multi-threaded (POSIX and native threads).
+
+ * User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages (e.g.
+ "blocked" page).
+
+ * Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes.
+
+ * Improved signal handling, and a true daemon mode (Unix).
+
+ * Every feature now controllable on a per-site or per-location basis,
+ configuration more powerful and versatile over-all.
+
+
+Download location:
+ http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118
+
+Home Page:
+ http://www.privoxy.org/
+
+
+ - Privoxy Developers <ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
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