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+ Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.9 Beta
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+
+3.0.9 is a beta release which includes many enhancements but no major
+new features. The most prominent improvements features are SOCKS5
+support and zlib support for the default Privoxy builds.
+
+See http://www.privoxy.org/3.0.9/user-manual/whatsnew.html for details.
+
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+ChangeLog for Privoxy
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+*** Version 3.0.9 Beta ***
+
+- Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by
+ the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
+- The "blocked" CGI pages include a block reason that was
+ provided as argument to the last-applying block action.
+- If enable-edit-actions is disabled (the default since 3.0.7 beta)
+ the show-status page hides the edit buttons and explains why.
+ Previously the user would get the "this feature has been disabled"
+ message after using the edit button.
+- Forbidden CONNECT requests are treated like blocks by default.
+ The now-pointless treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks action
+ has been removed.
+- Not enabling limit-connect now allows CONNECT requests to all ports.
+ In previous versions it would only allow CONNECT requests to port 443.
+ Use +limit-connect{443} if you think you need the old default behaviour.
+- The CGI editor gets turned off after three edit requests with invalid
+ file modification timestamps. This makes life harder for attackers
+ who can leverage browser bugs to send fake Referers and intend to
+ brute-force edit URLs.
+- Action settings for multiple patterns in the same section are
+ shared in memory. As a result these sections take up less space
+ (and are loaded slightly faster). Problem reported by Franz Schwartau.
+- Linear white space in HTTP headers will be normalized to single
+ spaces before parsing the header's content, headers split across
+ multiple lines get merged first. This should prevent problems like:
+ * letting the session-cookies-only action slip
+ some Cookies through unmodified,
+ * only suppressing the first line of a header,
+ thus creating an invalid one, and
+ * to incorrectly block headers with valid timestamps
+ that weren't properly recognized.
+ Headers that could trigger these problems are unlikely to appear
+ in "normal" web traffic, but could be intentionally generated to
+ fool some of Privoxy's header parsers.
+- Host information is gathered outside the main thread so it's less
+ likely to delay other incoming connections if the host is misconfigured.
+- New config option "hostname" to use a hostname other than
+ the one returned by the operating system. Useful to speed-up responses
+ for CGI requests on misconfigured systems. Requested by Max Khon.
+- The CGI editor supports the "disable all filters of this type"
+ directives "-client-header-filter", "-server-header-filter",
+ "-client-header-tagger" and "-server-header-tagger".
+- Fixed false-positives with the link-by-url filter and URLs that
+ contain the pattern "/jump/".
+- The less-download-windows filter no longer messes
+ "Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash" headers up.
+- In the show-url-info page's "Final results" section active and
+ inactive actions are listed separately. Patch provided by Lee.
+- The GNUmakefile supports the DESTDIR variable. Patch for
+ the install target submitted by Radoslaw Zielinski.
+- Embedding the content of configuration files in the show-status
+ page is significantly faster now. For a largish action file (1 MB)
+ a speedup of about 2450 times has been measured. This is mostly
+ interesting if you are using large action files or regularly use
+ Privoxy-Regression-Test while running Privoxy through Valgrind,
+ for stock configuration files it doesn't really matter.
+- If zlib support is unavailable and there are content
+ filters active but the prevent-compression action is disabled,
+ the show-url-info page includes a warning that compression
+ might prevent filtering.
+- The show-url-info page provides an OpenSearch Description that
+ allows to access the page through browser search plugins.
+- The obsolete kill-popups action has been removed as the
+ PCRS-based popup filters can do the same and are slightly
+ less unreliable.
+- The inspect-jpegs action has been removed.
+- The send-wafer and send-vanilla-wafer actions have been removed.
+ They weren't particular useful and their behaviour could be emulated
+ with add-header anyway.
+- Privoxy-Regression-Test has been significantly improved.
+- Most sections in the default.action file contain tests for
+ Privoxy-Regression-Test to verify that they are working as intended.
+- Parts of Privoxy have been refactored to increase maintainability.
+- Building with zlib (if available) is done by default.
+
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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 traditional features of ad and junk blocking, and cookie
+management, Privoxy adds these features:
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection).
+
+ * Multi-threaded (POSIX and native threads).
+
+ * User-customizable HTML templates for all 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.
+
+ * Many smaller new features added, limitations and bugs removed, and security
+ holes fixed.
+
+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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