- Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.11
+ Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.12
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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 "keep-alive" support for
-outgoing connections.
+Privoxy 3.0.12-stable is primarily a bugfix release.
-See http://www.privoxy.org/3.0.11/user-manual/whatsnew.html for details.
+See http://www.privoxy.org/3.0.12/user-manual/whatsnew.html for details.
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ChangeLog for Privoxy
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+*** Version 3.0.12 ***
+
+- The socket-timeout option now also works on platforms whose
+ select() implementation modifies the timeout structure.
+ Previously the timeout was triggered even if the connection
+ didn't stall. Reported by cyberpatrol.
+- The Connection: keep-alive code properly deals with files
+ larger than 2GB. Previously the connection was closed too
+ early.
+- The content length for files above 2GB is logged correctly.
+- The user-manual directive on the show-status page links to
+ the documentation location specified with the directive,
+ not to the Privoxy website.
+- When running in daemon mode, Privoxy doesn't log anything
+ to the console unless there are errors before the logfile
+ has been opened.
+- The show-status page prints warnings about invalid directives
+ on the same line as the directives themselves.
+- Fixed several justified (but harmless) compiler warnings,
+ mostly on 64 bit platforms.
+- The mingw32 version explicitly requests the default charset
+ to prevent display problems with some fonts available on more
+ recent Windows versions. Patch by Burberry.
+- The mingw32 version uses the Privoxy icon in the alt-tab
+ windows. Patch by Burberry.
+- The timestamp and the thread id is omitted in the "Fatal error"
+ message box on mingw32.
+- Fixed two related mingw32-only buffer overflows. Triggering
+ them required control over the configuration file, therefore
+ this isn't seen as a security issue.
+- In verbose mode, or if the new option --show-skipped-tests
+ is used, Privoxy-Regression-Test logs skipped tests and the
+ skip reason.
-*** 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 printing the thread id on its
- own (as opposed to putting it inside the string "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 non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering
-capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data,
-managing HTTP cookies, controlling access, and removing ads,
-banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy
-has a 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 a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for
+enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling
+access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a
+flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and
+tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user
+networks.
-Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).
+Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GPL2.
At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows(95, 98, ME, 2000,
XP, Vista), Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and
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