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- Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.10
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-
-3.0.10 is a stable release which includes many enhancements but no major
-new features. The most prominent improvements are SOCKS5 support and
-zlib support for the default Privoxy builds.
-
-See http://www.privoxy.org/3.0.10/user-manual/whatsnew.html for details.
-
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-ChangeLog for Privoxy
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-
-*** Version 3.0.10 ***
-
-- Ordinary configuration file changes no longer cause program
- termination on OS/2 if the name of the logfile hasn't been
- changed as well. This regression probably crept in with the
- logging improvements in 3.0.7. Reported by Maynard.
-- The img-reorder filter is less likely to mess up JavaScript code in
- img tags. Problem and solution reported by Glenn Washburn in #2014552.
-- The source tar ball now includes Privoxy-Log-Parser,
- a syntax-highlighter for Privoxy logs. For fancy screenshots see:
- http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy-log-parser/
- Documentation is available through perldoc(1).
-
-*** 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.
-- Custom client-header filters that rewrite the request line
- incorrectly no longer cause Privoxy to crash. Reported by din_a4.
-- 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.
-
-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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