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4 *** Version 3.0.31 stable ***
6 - Security/Reliability:
7 - Prevent an assertion from getting triggered by a crafted CGI request.
8 Commit 5bba5b89193fa. OVE-20210130-0001.
9 Reported by: Joshua Rogers (Opera)
10 - Fixed a memory leak when decompression fails "unexpectedly".
11 Commit f431d61740cc0. OVE-20210128-0001.
14 - Fixed detection of insufficient data for decompression.
15 Previously Privoxy could try to decompress a partly
18 *** Version 3.0.30 stable ***
21 - Check the actual URL for redirects when https inspecting requests.
22 Previously Privoxy would only check the path which resulted in
23 rewrite results being rejected as invalid URLs.
24 Reported by withoutname in #1736.
25 - Let the hide-referrer code tolerate Referer headers with https:// URLs.
26 Previously they would always be treated like a changed host.
27 - Use the https headers if the show-request handler is reached through
28 https://. Previously Privoxy would use the http headers which
29 may be empty on a reused connection.
30 - Make CGI_PREFIX protocol-relative when building with FEATURE_HTTPS_INSPECTION.
31 This unbreaks (at least) https://config.privoxy.org/client-tags whose
32 buttons would previously use a http:// URL resulting in browser warnings.
33 - Support using https-inspection and client-header-order at the same time.
34 Previously Privoxy would crash.
35 Reported by: Kai Raven
36 - Properly reject rewrites from http to https as they currently
37 aren't supported. Previously Privoxy would wait for the client
38 to establish an encrypted connection which obviously would not happen.
39 - When https inspection is enabled and Privoxy has been compiled with
40 FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION (not recommended for production builds),
41 the TLS backend resources are free'd later on and only if no active
42 connections are left. Prevents crashes when exiting "gracefully" at the
44 - Let the uninstall target remove the config file even if DESTDIR
45 is set and properly announce the deletion of the configuration files.
47 - General improvements:
48 - Allow to rewrite the request destination for https-inspected
49 requests behind the client's back. The documentation already sort
50 of claimed that it was supported by not especially mentioning that
51 it didn't work for https-inspected requests.
52 Fixes SF bug #923 reported by withoutname.
53 - Add support for filtering client request bodies by using
54 CLIENT-BODY-FILTER filters which can be enabled with the
55 client-body-filter action.
56 Patch submitted by Maxim Antonov.
57 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
58 - Add the new action suppress-tag{} which can be used to prevent
59 a tagger from adding a tag. Patch submitted by Maxim Antonov.
60 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
61 - Gracefully handle existing website keys without matching certificates.
62 This can happen if Privoxy was previously running with an invalid
63 TLS configuration that didn't allow it to create a certificate.
64 - Recycle debug bit 4 for Tagging-related messages.
65 - Improve the message shown when the client-tags CGI page
66 is requested with no tags configured.
67 - Shorten the 'donate' and 'participate' links used by templates
68 using redirects. Currently the redirects lead to the FAQ entries
69 but in the future we may want to relocate the content and using
70 redirects makes this more convenient.
71 - Log an error when a PCRE-HOST-PATTERN is used with
72 FEATURE_PCRE_HOST_PATTERNS disabled. Don't treat this a
73 fatal error so the regression tests can be used with and
74 without FEATURE_PCRE_HOST_PATTERNS.
75 - The code compiles with older C compilers again.
76 - The chdir() return code is checked to fix a compiler warning.
77 - The packages feed has been removed from the source tarball.
78 It's usually out of date when the source tarball is generated
80 - Fixed harmless compiler warnings from GCC9 with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2.
81 - windows: Remove obsolete '$(DEST)/doc/images' target.
82 - windows: Install the images referenced in the user manual.
83 - Remove obsolete 'gnu_regex.@OBJEXT@' target.
84 - When installing from the GNUMAkefile, don't create an 'images'
85 directory which is no longer used. The images were relocated to
86 the user-manual directory years ago.
87 - Add new FEATURES to the show-status page and resort list.
88 - Remove unused variable in the OpenSSL-specific code.
89 - Update bug tracker URL in cgi_error_unknown().
90 - Saved a couple of memory allocations when sorting client headers.
91 - Improved a couple of error messages.
92 - Saved memory allocations when using OpenSSL and checking if a
94 - The configure script will bail out if OpenSSL and mbedTLS are
95 enabled at the same time.
96 - Log a message right before exiting gracefully.
97 - A couple of structures have been rearranged to require slightly
99 - When https inspection is enabled and the certificate is invalid
100 the error message is now sent with status code 403 instead of 200.
101 - The Slackware rc script template has been renamed to
102 slackware/rc.privoxy.in to silence complaints when building
104 - When building with MbedTLS support, mbedtls_md5_ret() is used
105 instead of mbedtls_md5() which is deprecated and causes a warning
108 - Action file improvements:
109 - Block requests to eu-tlp03.kameleoon.com/.
110 - Unblock metrics.sr.ht/.
111 - Disable fast-redirects for .fsf.org/.
112 - Disable fast-redirects for .gravater.com/.
113 - Disable fast-redirects for .ksta.de/.
114 - Block requests to tag.crsspxl.com/.
115 - Block requests to analytics.slashdotmedia.com/.
116 - Block requests to ml314.com/.
117 - Block requests to .adroll.com/.
118 - Block requests to fastlane.rubiconproject.com/.
119 - Block requests to api.theadex.com/.
120 - Block requests to ih.adscale.de/.
121 - Block requests to .s400.meetrics.net/.
122 - Block requests for pp.lp4.io/.
123 - Block requests for trc-events.taboola.com/.
125 - Filter file improvements:
126 - A allow-autocompletion filter has been added which changes
127 autocomplete="off" to "on" on input fields to allow autocompletion.
128 Requested by Jamie Zawinski in #370.
129 Filter based on a submission by Aaron Linville.
130 - Added an imdb filter.
131 - Added a sourceforge filter that reduces the amount of ads
132 for proprietary software.
133 - Added a github filter that removes the annoying "Sign-Up"
134 banner and the Cookie disclaimer.
135 - Removed a duplicated pcrs command from the js-annoyances filter.
136 - The crude-parental filter now provides a short reason when blocking,
137 inserts a link to Privoxy's webinterface and adds a new line at
138 the end of the generated page.
140 - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
141 - Highlight a few more messages.
142 - Add a handler for tagging messages.
143 - Properly deal with 'Certificate error' crunches
144 Previously the error description was highlighted as 'host'.
145 - Log truncated LOG_LEVEL_CLF messages more gracefully
146 and note that the statistics will be imprecise.
147 - Fixed perldoc typo.
148 - Bump version to 0.9.2.
150 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
151 - Use http://127.0.0.1:8118/ as default Privoxy address
152 unless http_proxy is set through the environment.
153 - Add a --privoxy-cgi-prefix option that specifies the prefix
154 to use when building URLs that are supposed to reach Privoxy's
155 CGI interface. If it's not set, http://p.p/ is used, which is
156 supposed to work with the default Privoxy configuration.
157 If Privoxy has been built with FEATURE_HTTPS_INSPECTION enabled,
158 and if https inspection is activated with the +https-inspection
159 action, this option can be used with "https://p.p/" provided the
160 system running Privoxy-Regression-Test has been configured to
161 trust the certificate used by Privoxy.
162 Note that there are currently two tests in the official
163 regression-tests.action file that are expected to fail
164 when using "https://p.p/" as privoxy-cgi-prefix.
165 - Skip the connection-established response in get_status_code()
166 when looking for the status code with a CGI prefix
167 that starts with https://. We care about the status code
168 sent by the impersonated web server.
169 - Use --proxy-header when using a CGI prefix with https://
170 and a "Host:" header.
171 - Allow '|' in tokens and values to allow tag patterns like
172 "TAG:^(application|text)/(x-)?javascript$".
173 - When get_cgi_page_or_else() fails, include the URL of the
174 requested page in the log message.
175 - Added a --check-bad-ssl option that can be used to verify that
176 Privoxy detects certificate problems when accessing the test
177 sites from badssl.com.
178 - Bumped version to 0.7.2
181 - Update example output.
182 - Recommend the use of the https-inspection action in the documentation.
183 - Upgrade a couple of URLs to https://.
184 - Add ElectroBSD to the list of operating systems.
185 - Bumped generated Firefox version to 78 (ESR).
186 - Bumped version to 1.2.2.
188 - User documentation:
189 - Remove reference to 'How to Report Bugs Effectively'.
190 It was only rendered as text without URL in the README anyway
191 and there's no indication that users read it ...
192 - Let the dok-readme target fix the location embedded into the
193 README file. This used to be done by CVS but since the git migration
194 it has to be done through other means.
195 - Remove 'experimental' warning for client-specific-tag-related directives.
196 They seem to work reliably and there is no obvious reason
197 why we would change the syntax in the near future.
198 - Describe how to check if Privoxy has been built with
199 FEATURE_HTTPS_INSPECTION.
200 - Add a link to the trusted-cas-file documentation
201 that explains how the user can create the file herself.
202 - Don't explicitly mention the license for the code coming from
203 'Anonymous Coders' and Junkbusters. It's obviously licensed under
204 the GNU GPL like the rest of Privoxy or we wouldn't be allowed to
206 - Update the +hide-user-agent example with uagen output.
207 - Slightly improve the wording of the ca-key-file documentation.
208 - Explicitly mention Windows 10 as supported so search engines and
209 users looking for it can find it.
210 - Import a bunch of contributors from the ChangeLog.
211 - Remove obsolete doc/gpl.html.
212 - Upgrade a couple of links to https://.
213 - Don't prefer the SourceForge patch tracker over the
214 privoxy-devel mailing list. While at it, link to the
215 SourceForge patch tracker.
216 - Mention http-inspection in the 'my browser warns me about
217 unauthenticated content' FAQ entry.
218 - Simplify the 'Is there is a license or fee?' FAQ entry.
219 - Add another +redirect{} example.
220 - Explicitly mention that interested sponsors should include
221 the link target in their first mail.
222 - Clarify that only Privoxy team members can object to new sponsors
223 and link to the list of current team members.
224 - Note that sponsor URLs may not contain keyword spam.
225 - Garbage collect doc/webserver/images which isn't referenced anymore.
226 - Update the method to reach the proxy settings in Firefox.
227 - Update proxy_setup.jpg description to refer to Firefox.
228 - Regenerate proxy_setup.jpg with a more recent Firefox (78.0).
229 - Regenerate files-in-use.jpg without obsolete standard.action
230 with modern colors and a slightly better quality.
231 - Update URL to the actionsfile tracker.
232 - Update a support request URL.
233 - Rephrase the 'Can Privoxy run as service' FAQ entry and
234 remove an obsolete paragraph.
235 - Let the 'Where can I get updated Actions Files?' entry link to
236 the gitweb version of default.action.master.
237 - Update a link to the default.action file.
238 - Update URLs for trackers and mailing lists.
239 - Replace CVS reference with git.
240 - Mention regression-tests.action in the config file.
241 - Explicitly mention in the config file that access to the
242 CA key should be limited to Privoxy.
243 - List more client-specific-tag examples for inspiration.
244 - Add additional headers to the client-header-order example.
245 - Note that actions aren't updated after rewrites.
246 - Explicitly mention that upgrading from http to https with
247 a client-header filter is not supported
248 - Note that protocol and host have to be added when rewriting
249 the destination host for https-inspected requests.
250 - Explicitly mention that the CA key is used to sign certificates.
251 - Put openssl command in 'command' tags.
252 - The man page has been moved from section 1 to man section 8.
255 - Flesh out the build instructions for Debian.
256 - Remove the packaging instructions for RPM-based systems.
257 They don't work and we don't release RPM packages anymore anyway.
258 - Remove the packaging instructions for Solaris.
259 They don't work and we don't release Solaris packages anymore anyway.
260 - Update the suggested subject for the announce mails.
261 - Update upload instructions.
262 ftp://upload.sourceforge.net is no longer functional.
263 - Remove a couple of package-dependent upload instructions
264 that don't actually work.
265 - Remove 'cd current' that no longer works.
266 - Add regression-tests.action to the list of files that should be installed.
267 - Stop claiming that there are text versions of the manuals.
268 We stopped building them in 2008 (9ed36a3c5e6f12).
269 - Note that the 'webserver' target creates the link needed for the user-manual.
270 - Suggest to use the master branch as reference when creating
271 the ChangeLog so the steps work when the current branch differs
272 from master which is likely as the developer manual
273 suggests to use a local branch for development.
274 - Add the -s flag to the suggested 'git tag' command. We prefer signed tags.
275 - Mention that merges into 'master' should be avoided.
276 - Add git commands that should result in a merge-free history.
277 - Mention Privoxy-Regression-Test.
278 - Add a section id to reduce link churn.
279 - Recommend the dok-tidy target when building docs for the webserver.
280 - Add another plug for the privoxy-devel mailing list.
281 - Let the intro link the copyright section in the user manual instead
282 of giving an incomplete summary of the license status.
283 - Clarify that the webserver target uploads to the SourceForge webserver.
284 - Mark the documentation for the Mac OS X installers as out of date and
285 change the SCM name back to CVS.
286 - Fix the location of the installer modules for Mac OS X.
287 They are not actually available through git (yet).
288 - Don't speak of Privoxy version 3 in the past tense.
289 - Update the list of programs required for the release process.
290 - Update description of the webserver target which uses ssh, not scp.
291 - Remove obsolete reference to config.new.
294 - Add another hide-referrer{conditional-block} test.
295 - Add another hide-referrer{conditional-forge} test.
296 - Fix a hide-referrer{conditional-forge} test
297 that expected an acceptable header to be forged.
298 - Fix a hide-referrer{conditional-block} test
299 that expected an acceptable Referer to be removed.
300 - Explain why the "Set Header = Host: whatever.example.org" test is
301 expected to fail when using a CGI prefix that starts with "https://".
302 - Explain why a connection-sharing test is known to fail
303 when using "https://p.p/" as CGI prefix.
304 - Add a link to Privoxy-Regression-Test to regression-tests.action
305 in case it isn't packaged.
306 - Add regression tests for pcre host patterns.
307 - Fixed a regression test that is executed when
308 FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION is enabled.
310 - Privoxy infrastructure:
311 - Import a Privoxy logo for the website.
312 - Update Tor onion service to HiddenServiceVersion 3.
313 - Display the "model" photos in a single row and remove placeholder images.
314 - Regenerate homepage with updated sponsor list.
315 - Use the '/sponsor' redirect for the link to the sponsor page.
316 - Git commit messages are sent to the Privoxy-commits mailing list.
318 *** Version 3.0.29 stable ***
320 - Security/Reliability:
321 - Fixed memory leaks when a response is buffered and the buffer
322 limit is reached or Privoxy is running out of memory.
323 Commits bbd53f1010b and 4490d451f9b. OVE-20201118-0001.
324 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
325 - Fixed a memory leak in the show-status CGI handler when
326 no action files are configured. Commit c62254a686.
328 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
329 - Fixed a memory leak in the show-status CGI handler when
330 no filter files are configured. Commit 1b1370f7a8a.
332 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
333 - Fixes a memory leak when client tags are active.
334 Commit 245e1cf32. OVE-20201118-0004.
335 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
336 - Fixed a memory leak if multiple filters are executed
337 and the last one is skipped due to a pcre error.
338 Commit 5cfb7bc8fe. OVE-20201118-0005.
339 - Prevent an unlikely dereference of a NULL-pointer that
340 could result in a crash if accept-intercepted-requests
341 was enabled, Privoxy failed to get the request destination
342 from the Host header and a memory allocation failed.
343 Commit 7530132349. CID 267165. OVE-20201118-0006.
344 - Fixed memory leaks in the client-tags CGI handler when
345 client tags are configured and memory allocations fail.
346 Commit cf5640eb2a. CID 267168. OVE-20201118-0007.
347 - Fixed memory leaks in the show-status CGI handler when memory
348 allocations fail. Commit 064eac5fd0 and commit fdee85c0bf3.
349 CID 305233. OVE-20201118-0008.
351 - General improvements:
352 - Added experimental https inspection support which allows to filter
353 https traffic. To enable it, install MbedTLS and configure with
354 --with-mbedtls, or install OpenSSL or LibreSSL and configure
356 Afterwards configure the directives in section 7 of the
357 config file and enable the +https-inspection action.
358 Initial MbedTLS-based code contributed by Vaclav Svec,
359 initial OpenSSL support contributed by Maxim Antonov.
360 With help from Nedzad Hrnjica and Ho+ Ho+ Ho+.
361 Integration and improvements sponsored by Robert Klemme.
362 - pcrs: Request JIT compilation if it's supported and
363 the filter isn't dynamic. This can speed up filtering.
364 - Added support for Brotli decompression.
365 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
366 - Added FEATURE_EXTENDED_STATISTICS to gather statistics for
367 block reasons and filter executions. To enable it, configure
368 with --enable-extended-statistics and visit
369 http://config.privoxy.org/show-status.
370 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
371 - Use the IP_FREEBIND socket option, if defined. This allows
372 Privoxy to bind to not-yet assigned IP addresses which is
373 useful in failover environments.
374 Patch by Sam Varshavchik.
375 - Allow to use extended host patterns and vanilla host patterns
376 at the same time by prefixing extended host patterns with
377 "PCRE-HOST-PATTERN:". To enable this, configure with
378 --enable-pcre-host-patterns.
379 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
380 - Added "Cross-origin resource sharing" (CORS) support.
381 This allows to access Privoxy's CGI interface via JavaScript from
382 another domain (white-listed with the new cors-allowed-origin directive).
383 Based on a patch by Nedzad Hrnjica.
384 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme.
385 - Add SOCKS5 username/password support.
386 Based on a patch by Sam, improved by Ivan Romanov.
387 Closes Patch#141 and solves TODO#105.
388 - Bump the maximum number of action and filter files
390 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
391 - Fixed handling of filters with "split-large-forms 1"
392 when using the CGI editor.
393 Reported by withoutname in #921.
394 - Better detect a mismatch of connection details when
395 figuring out whether or not a connection can be reused.
396 - Don't send a "Connection failure" message instead of the
397 "DNS failure" message.
398 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
399 - Let LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST log all requests. Previously unencrypted
400 requests were only logged with LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST when they weren't
401 crunched (in which case they were logged with LOG_LEVEL_CRUNCH).
402 This was documented behaviour, but logging all requests seems more useful.
403 - Fixed locking around localtime() and gmtime().
404 - Removed OS/2 support. We haven't provided OS/2 packages in years,
405 it complicated the code and it depended on a fallback snprintf()
406 implementation which is GPLv2 only.
407 - Remove the fallback snprintf() implementation
408 Now that OS/2 support is gone we no longer need it.
409 - Fixed a bunch of format specifiers log messages.
410 - Added a missing apostrophe in the 'More Privoxy' menu.
411 - Explicitly prevent use of FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING
412 without FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE. It makes no sense
413 and does not compile anyway.
414 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
415 - Fix build without FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE.
416 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
417 - Downgrade the 'Graceful termination requested' message
418 to LOG_LEVEL_INFO as it isn't an error.
419 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
420 - decompress_iob(): Downgrade the no-content message to LOG_LEVEL_RE_FILTER
421 While at it, fix a typo in a comment.
422 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
423 - Fixed a couple of cppcheck warnings.
424 - Rename LOG_LEVEL_GPC to LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST.
425 Only the shadow knows what "GPC" is supposed to stand for.
426 - Remove SourceForge references in copyright headers.
427 - Upgrade a bunch of links to the homepage to https://.
428 - Add 'no-brotli-accepted' filter which prevents the
429 use of Brotli compression.
430 - Changed license for pcrs to GPLv2+ after getting the
431 permission from Andreas. This allows to redistribute
432 Privoxy under the GPLv3 which is required when linking
433 to future mbedTLS versions which are expected to be
434 licensed under the Apache 2.0 license only.
435 - Updated a bunch of tests that have to expect status code 403
436 now after r1.168/070e904afa5.
437 - Lowercase the host name in the request line.
438 - Only set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH if it's not already set so
439 distributions can overwrite it through the environment.
441 - Documentation changes:
442 - Explain that Privoxy has to be distributed under the
443 GPLv3 (or later) when linked with an MbedTLS version
444 that is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
445 - Import the GNU GPLv3 and include it the user manual.
446 - Clarify FEATURE_FORCE_LOAD's description. It allows to bypass
447 blocking not filtering and only does it if blocks aren't enforced.
448 Reported by: Robert Klemme
449 - FAQ: Remove Zwiebelfreunde e.V. from the list of fiduciary sponsors
450 As of 2021 they no longer handle donations for foreign organisations
451 due to lack of resources.
452 - FAQ: Remove an obsolete comment with a link to the long-gone PDF manual.
453 - FAQ: Add a link to the TODO list.
454 - FAQ: Change the sponsor amounts to USD slightly rounding the
455 converted amounts up to get simple numbers.
456 Receiving USD is apparently easier for SPI and SPI is
457 preferred by sponsors as they can send invoices.
458 - Advertise the client-tags CGI page in the user manual.
459 - Stop advertising the show-version CGI page which no longer exists.
460 - Add yet another reason why +prevent-compression may cause problems.
461 - Don't claim that contributors need ssh. It's only needed for committers.
462 - Replace obsolete CVS instructions with Git instructions.
463 - Remove an obsolete comment
465 - Config file changes:
466 - Change the suggested default-server-timeout to 5 to match the
467 suggested keep-alive-timeout. Otherwise using the defaults would
468 result in Privoxy reducing the default-server-timeout and logging
470 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
471 - Update the 'debug 1' description.
472 - Add a missing 'client-specific-tag' directive.
473 - Comment out trusted-cgi-referer pointing to example.org.
475 - Action file improvements:
476 - Block requests to /(.*/)?piwik\.php
477 - Block requests to .connectaserver.de/
478 - Block requests to pixel.inforsea.com/
479 - Block requests to t.vi-serve.com/
480 - Block requests to .ioam.de/
481 - Block requests to t.9gag.com/img.gif
482 - Block requests to .pixel.parsely.com/ as image
483 - Block requests to pixel.wp.com/
484 - Disable fast-redirects for .librarything.com/
485 - Disable fast-redirects for issue.freebsdfoundation.org/
486 - Disable fast-redirects for .twitter.com/.*origin=http
487 - Unblock belco24.de/
488 - Add fast-redirects exception for .wikipedia.org/
489 - Add fast-redirects exception for oss-fuzz.com/
490 - Disable fast-redirects for .consensu.org/delivery/pixel\.php
491 and block the requests as image instead
492 - Unblock .adbinstaller.com/
493 Reported by lvm in #942.
494 - Unblock .adbshell.com
495 Reported by lvm in #942.
496 - Unblock .tagesschau.de/
497 - Disable fast-redirects for collector.githubapp.com/
498 and block requests to it as image instead
500 - Add fast-redirects{} exception for sourcepoint.vice.com/
501 - Unblock adaway.org/
502 Reported by DRS David Soft in AF#945.
503 - Change two block reasons that previously were the same.
504 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
505 - Added a +delay-response{} test.
506 - Updated the location of the development version
507 of default.action.master.
509 - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
510 - Added a --keep-date option to keep the date in highlighted messages.
511 - Highlight new log messages.
512 - Make gather_loglevel_clf_stats() more tolerant. While at it,
513 count all CLF messages as requests, even if the request is invalid.
514 - Only show HTTP version distribution if at least one version has been detected.
515 - Only show crunch statistics if crunches were detected.
516 - Warn if the request counts differ.
517 - Generate statistics if the log only contains LOG_LEVEL_CLF messages
518 so it can be used with vanilla webserver logs.
519 Previously Privoxy-specific "Request:" messages were required.
520 - Align the client-HTTP-version distribution like other distributions
521 - Bump version to 0.9.1
522 - Include status code distribution in the stats.
523 - Let the statistics include the size of the content Privoxy
524 transferred excluding HTTP headers.
525 - Get with the program and expect all requests to be logged with LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST.
526 It's no longer necessary to count both LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST and
527 LOG_LEVEL_CRUNCH messages to get the total number of requests.
528 - Leverage the LOG_LEVEL_CLF message to gather statistics that where
529 previously taken from LOG_LEVEL_HEADER lines. This results in less
530 confusing results if https inspection is enabled in which case there
531 are two LOG_LEVEL_HEADER lines with request lines.
532 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
533 - Properly highlight the filter results message. Previously a brace got lost.
534 - Prefer the number of CLF lines to get the total number of requests
535 as it works with older Privoxy versions as well.
537 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
538 - Turn curl's globbing mode off so we can allow more characters in URLs.
539 - Allow '[' and ']' in URLs.
540 - Include the action file when complaining about missing Sticky Actions.
541 - Fix a sentence in the documentation.
542 - Bump version to 0.7.1
544 - url-pattern-translator:
545 - Detect a couple of pattern prefixes case-insensitively.
546 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
547 - Skip CLIENT-TAG patterns.
548 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
549 - Skip patterns that have already been converted.
550 It should now be safe to "convert" a file multiple times.
551 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
552 - Add the new 'PCRE-HOST-PATTERN:' prefix.
553 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
555 *** Version 3.0.28 stable ***
557 - Bug fixes for regressions in 3.0.27:
558 - Fixed misplaced parentheses.
559 Reported by David Binderman.
560 - Changed two regression tests to depend on config directive
561 enable-remote-toggle instead of FEATURE_TOGGLE.
563 *** Version 3.0.27 stable ***
565 - General improvements:
566 - Add a receive-buffer-size directive which can be used to
567 set the size of the previously statically allocated buffer
568 in handle_established_connection().
569 Increasing the buffer size increases Privoxy's memory usage but
570 can lower the number of context switches and thereby reduce the
571 CPU usage and potentially increase the throughput.
572 This is mostly relevant for fast network connections and
573 large downloads that don't require filtering.
574 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
575 - Add a listen-backlog directive which specifies the backlog
576 value passed to listen().
577 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
578 - Add an enable-accept-filter directive which allows to
579 toggle accept filter support at run time when compiled
580 with FEATURE_ACCEPT_FILTER support.
581 It makes testing more convenient and now that it's
582 optional we can emit an error message if enabling
583 the accept filter fails.
584 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
585 - Add a delay-response{} action.
586 This is useful to tar pit JavaScript requests that
587 are endlessly retried in case of blocks. It can also
588 be used to simulate a slow Internet connection.
589 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
590 - Add a 'trusted-cgi-referrer' directive.
591 It allows to configure another page or site that can be used
592 to reach sensitive CGI resources.
593 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
594 - Add a --fuzz mode which exposes Privoxy internals to input
595 from files or stdout.
596 Mainly tested with American Fuzzy Lop. For details see:
597 https://www.fabiankeil.de/talks/fuzzing-on-freebsd/
598 This work was partially funded with donations and done
599 as part of the Privoxy month in 2015.
600 - Consistently use the U(ngreedy) flag in the 'img-reorder' filter.
601 - listen_loop(): Reuse a single thread attribute object
602 The object doesn't change and creating a new one for
603 every thread is a waste of (CPU) time.
604 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
605 - Free csp resources in the thread that belongs to the csp instead
606 of the main thread which has enough on its plate already.
607 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
608 - Improve 'socket timeout reached' message.
609 Log the timeout that was triggered and downgrade the
610 log level to LOG_LEVEL_CONNECT to reduce the log noise
611 with common debug settings.
612 The timeout isn't necessary the result of an error and
613 usually merely indicates that Privoxy's socket timeout
614 is lower than the relevant timeouts used by client and
616 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
617 - Explicitly taint the server socket in case of CONNECT requests.
618 This doesn't fix any known problems, but makes
619 some log messages less confusing.
620 - Let write_pid_file() terminate if the pid file can't be opened.
621 Logging the issue at info level is unlikely to help.
622 - log_error(): Reduce the mutex-protected area by not using a
623 heap-allocated buffer that is shared between all threads.
624 This increases performance and reduces the latency with
625 verbose debug settings and multiple concurrent connections.
626 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
627 - Let zalloc() use calloc() if it's available.
628 In some situations using calloc() can be faster than
629 malloc() + memset() and it should never be slower.
630 In the real world the impact of this change is not
631 expected to be noticeable.
632 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
633 - Never use select() when poll() is available.
634 On most platforms select() is limited by FD_SETSIZE while
635 poll() is not. This was a scaling issue for multi-user setups.
636 Using poll() has no downside other than the usual risk
637 that code modifications may introduce new bugs that have
638 yet to be found and fixed.
639 At least in theory this commit could also reduce the latency
640 when there are lots of connections and select() would use
641 "bit fields in arrays of integers" to store file descriptors.
642 Another side effect is that Privoxy no longer has to stop
643 monitoring the client sockets when pipelined requests are
644 waiting but can't be read yet.
645 This code keeps the select()-based code behind ifdefs for
646 now but hopefully it can be removed soonish to make the
648 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
649 - Add a 'reproducible-tarball-dist' target.
650 It's currently separate from the "tarball-dist" target
651 because it requires a tar implementation with mtree spec
653 It's far from being perfect and does not enforce a
654 reproducible mode, but it's better than nothing.
655 - Use arc4random() if it's available.
656 While Privoxy doesn't need high quality pseudo-random numbers
657 there's no reason not to use them when we can and this silences
658 a warning emitted by code checkers that can't tell whether or not
660 - Show the FEATURE_EXTERNAL_FILTERS status on the status page.
661 Better late than never. Previously a couple of tests weren't
662 executed as Privoxy-Regression-Test couldn't detect that the
663 FEATURE_EXTERNAL_FILTERS dependency was satisfied.
664 - Ditch FEATURE_IMAGE_DETECT_MSIE.
665 It's an obsolete workaround we inherited from Junkbuster
666 and was already disabled by default.
667 Users that feel the urge to work around issues with
668 image requests coming from an Internet Explorer version
669 from more than 15 years ago can still do this using tags.
670 - Consistently use strdup_or_die() instead of strdup() in
671 cases where allocation failures aren't expected.
672 Using strdup_or_die() allows to remove a couple of explicit
673 error checks which slightly reduces the size of the binary.
674 - Insert a refresh tag into the /client-tags CGI page when
675 serving it while a client-specific tag is temporarily enabled.
676 This makes it less likely that the user ends up
677 looking at tag state that is out of date.
678 - Use absolute URLs in the client-tag forms.
679 It's more consistent with the rest of the CGI page
680 URLs and makes it more convenient to copy the forms
682 - cgi_error_disabled(): Use status code 403 and an appropriate response line
683 - Use a dedicated CGI handler to deal with tag-toggle requests
684 As a result the /client-tags page is now safe to reach without
685 trusted Referer header which makes bookmarking or linking to
687 Finally, refreshing the /client-tags page to show the
688 current state can no longer unintentionally repeat the
689 previous toggle request.
690 - Don't add a "Connection" header for CONNECT requests.
691 Explicitly sending "Connection: close" is not necessary and
692 apparently it causes problems with some forwarding proxies
693 that will close the connection prematurely.
694 Reported by Marc Thomas.
695 - Fix compiler warnings.
698 - rfc2553_connect_to(): Properly detect and log when poll()
699 reached the time out. Previously this was logged as:
700 Could not connect to [...]: No error: 0.
701 which isn't very helpful.
702 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
703 - add_tag_for_client(): Set time_to_live properly.
704 Previously the time_to_live was always set for the first tag.
705 Attempts to temporarily enable a tag would result in enabling
706 it permanently unless no tag was enabled already.
707 - Revert r1.165 which didn't perform as advertised.
708 While the idea was to use "https:// when creating links
709 for the user manual on the website", the actual effect
710 was to use "https://" when Privoxy was supposed to serve
711 the user manual itself.
712 Reported by Yossi Zahn on Privoxy-devel@.
713 - socks5_connect(): Fail in case of unsupported address types.
714 Previously they would not be detected right away and
715 Privoxy would fail later on with an error message that
716 didn't make it obvious that the problem was socks-related.
717 So far, no such problems have actually been reported.
718 - socks5_connect(): Properly deal with socks replies that
719 contain IPv6 addresses.
720 Previously parts of the reply were left unread and
721 later on treated as invalid HTTP response data.
722 Fixes #904 reported by Danny Goossen who also provided
723 the initial version of this patch.
725 - Action file improvements:
726 - Unblock 'msdn.microsoft.com/'.
727 It (presumably) isn't used to serve the kind of ads Privoxy should
728 block by default but happens to serve lots of pages with URLs that
729 are likely to result in false positives.
730 Reported by bugreporter1694 in AF#939.
731 - Disable gif deanimation for requests tagged with CSS-REQUEST.
732 The action will ignore content that isn't considered text
733 anyway and explicitly disabling it makes this more obvious
734 if "action" debugging (debug 65536) is enabled while
735 "gif deanimation" debugging (debug 256) isn't.
736 - Explicitly disable HTML filters for requests with CSS-REQUEST tag.
737 The filters are unlikely to break CSS files but executing
738 them without (intentionally) getting any hits is a waste of
739 cpu time and makes the log more noisy when running with
741 - Unblock 'adventofcode.com/'.
742 Reported by Clint Adams in Debian bug #848211.
743 Fixes Roland's AF#937.
744 - Unblock 'adlibris.com'.
745 Reported by Wyrex in #935
746 - Unblock .golang.org/
747 - Add fast-redirects exception for '.youtube.com/.*origin=http'
749 - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
750 - Don't gather host and resource statistics if they aren't requested.
751 While the performance impact seems negligible this significantly
752 reduces the memory usage if there are lots of requests.
753 - Bump version as the behaviour (slightly) changed.
754 - Count connection failures as well in statistics mode.
755 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
756 - Count connection timeouts as well in statistics mode.
757 Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
758 - Fix an 'uninitialized value' warning when generating
759 statistics for a log file without response headers.
760 While privoxy-log-parser was supposed to detect this already,
761 the check was flawed and the message the user didn't see was
762 somewhat confusing anyway.
763 Now the message is less confusing, more helpful and actually printed.
764 Reported by: Robert Klemme
766 - Documentation improvements:
767 - Refer to the git sources instead of CVS.
768 - Use GNU/Linux when referring to the OS instead of the kernel.
769 - Add FAQ entry for what to do if editing the config file is access denied.
770 - Add brief HTTP/2 FAQ.
771 - Add a small fuzzing section to the developer documentation.
772 - Add a client-header-tagger{client-ip-address} example.
773 - Stop suggesting that Privoxy is an anonymizing proxy.
774 The term could lead to Privoxy users overestimating
775 what it can do on its own (without Tor).
776 - Make it more obvious that SPI accepts Paypal, too.
777 Currently most donations are made through the Paypal account
778 managed by Zwiebelfreunde e.V. and a more even distribution
780 - Suggest to log applying actions as well when reproducing problems.
781 - Explicitly mention that Privoxy binaries are built by individuals
782 on their own systems. Buyer beware!
783 - Mention the release feed on the homepage.
784 - Remove a mysterious comment with a GNU FDL link as it isn't
785 useful and could confuse license scanners.
786 In May 2002 it was briefly claimed that "this document" was covered
787 by the GNU FDL. The commit message (r1.5) doesn't explain the motivation
788 or whether all copyright holders were actually asked and agreed to the
789 declared license change.
790 It's thus hard to tell whether or not the license change was legit,
791 but luckily two days later the "doc license" was "put" "back to GPL"
793 At the same time the offending comment with a link to the FDL
794 (not the GPL) was added for no obvious reason.
798 - Bump for-privoxy-version to 3.0.27 as we now rely on untrusted
799 CGI request being rejected with status code 403 (instead of 200).
800 - Update test for /send-stylesheet and add another one
803 - Consistently use https:// when linking to the Privoxy website.
804 - Remove SourceForge references in Copyright header.
805 - Remove a couple of SourceForge references in a comment.
806 While at it, fix the grammar.
807 - Move the site-specific documentation block before the generic one.
808 While most Privoxy installations don't have a site-specific
809 documentation block, in cases were it exists it's likely to
810 be more relevant than the generic one.
811 Showing it first makes it less likely that users stop reading
812 before they reach it, especially on pages that don't fit on
815 - Build system improvements:
816 - Prefer openjade to jade. On some systems Jade produces
817 HTML with unescaped ampersands in URLs.
818 - Prefer OpenSP to SP to be consistent.
819 - Have Docbook generated HTML files be straight ASCII.
820 Dealing with a mixture of ISO-8859 and UTF-8 files is problematic.
821 - Echo the filename to stderr for 'make dok-tidy'.
822 Make it a bit easier to find errors in docbook generated HTML.
823 - Warn when still using select().
824 - Warn when compiling without calloc().
825 - Make it more obvious that the --with-fdsetsize configure switch
826 is pointless if poll() is available.
827 - Remove support for AmigaOS.
828 - Update windows build system to use supported software.
829 The cygwin gcc -mno-cygwin option is no longer supported, so
830 convert the windows build system to use the cygwin cross-compiler
831 to build "native" code.
832 - Add --enable-static-linking option for configure
833 does the same thing as LDFLAGS=-static; ./configure
834 but nicer than mixing evars and configure options.
836 *** Version 3.0.26 stable ***
839 - Fixed crashes with "listen-addr :8118" (SF Bug #902).
840 The regression was introduced in 3.0.25 beta and reported
841 by Marvin Renich in Debian bug #834941.
843 - General improvements:
844 - Log when privoxy is toggled on or off via cgi interface.
845 - Highlight the "Info: Now toggled " on/off log message
846 in the Windows log viewer.
847 - Highlight the loading actions/filter file log message
848 in the Windows log viewer.
849 - Mention client-specific tags on the toggle page as a
850 potentionally more appropriate alternative.
852 - Documentation improvements:
853 - Update download section on the homepage.
854 The downloads are available from the website now.
856 - Remove obsolete reference to mailing lists hosted at SourceForge.
857 - Update the "Before the Release" section of the developer manual.
859 - Infrastructure improvements:
860 - Add perl script to generate an RSS feed for the packages
861 Submitted by "Unknown".
863 - Build system improvements:
864 - strptime.h: fix a compiler warning about ambiguous else.
865 - configure.in: Check for Docbook goo on the BSDs as well.
866 - GNUMakefile.in: Let the dok-user target remove temporary files.
868 *** Version 3.0.25 beta ***
871 - Always use the current toggle state for new requests.
872 Previously new requests on reused connections inherited
873 the toggle state from the previous request even though
874 the toggle state could have changed.
875 Reported by Robert Klemme.
876 - Fixed two buffer-overflows in the (deprecated) static
877 pcre code. These bugs are not considered security issues
878 as the input is trusted.
879 Found with afl-fuzz and ASAN.
881 - General improvements:
882 - Added support for client-specific tags which allow Privoxy
883 admins to pre-define tags that are set for all requests from
884 clients that previously opted in through the CGI interface.
885 They are useful in multi-user setups where admins may
886 want to allow users to disable certain actions and filters
887 for themselves without affecting others.
888 In single-user setups they are useful to allow more fine-grained
889 toggling. For example to disable request blocking while still
890 crunching cookies, or to disable experimental filters only.
891 This is an experimental feature, the syntax and behaviour may
892 change in future versions.
893 Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
894 - Dynamic filters and taggers now support a $listen-address variable
895 which contains the address the request came in on.
896 For external filters the variable is called $PRIVOXY_LISTEN_ADDRESS.
897 Original patch contributed by pursievro.
898 - Add client-header-tagger 'listen-address'.
899 - Include the listen-address in the log message when logging new requests.
900 Patch contributed by pursievro.
901 - Turn invalid max-client-connections values into fatal errors.
902 - The show-status page now shows whether or not dates before 1970
903 and after 2038 are expected to be handled properly.
904 This is mainly useful for Privoxy-Regression-Test but could
905 also come handy when dealing with time-related support requests.
906 - On Mac OS X the thread id in log messages are more likely to
908 - When complaining about missing filters, the filter type is logged
910 - A couple of harmless coverity warnings were silenced
911 (CID #161202, CID #161203, CID #161211).
913 - Action file improvements:
914 - Filtering is disabled for Range requests to let download resumption
915 and Windows updates work with the default configuration.
916 - Unblock ".ardmediathek.de/".
917 Reported by ThTomate in #932.
919 - Documentation improvements:
920 - Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits.
921 - Remove obsolete FAQ entry about a bug in PHP 4.2.3.
922 - Mention the new mailing lists were appropriate.
923 As the archives have not been migrated, continue to
924 mention the archives at SF in the contacting section
926 - Note that the templates should be adjusted if Privoxy is
927 running as intercepting proxy without getting all requests.
928 - A bunch of links were converted to https://.
929 - Rephrase onion service paragraph to make it more obvious
930 that Tor is involved and that the whole website (and not
931 just the homepage) is available as onion service.
932 - Streamline the "More information" section on the homepage further
933 by additionally ditching the link to the 'See also' section
934 of the user manual. The section contains mostly links that are
935 directly reachable from the homepage already and the rest is
936 not significant enough to get a link from the homepage.
937 - Change the add-header{} example to set the DNT header
938 and use a complete section to make copy and pasting
940 Add a comment to make it obvious that adding the
941 header is not recommended for obvious reasons.
942 Using the DNT header as example was suggested by
944 - Streamline the support-and-service template
945 Instead of linking to the various support trackers
946 (whose URLs hopefully change soon), link to the
947 contact section of the user manual to increase the
948 chances that users actually read it.
949 - Add a FAQ entry for tainted sockets.
950 - More sections in the documentation have stable URLs now.
951 - FAQ: Explain why 'ping config.privoxy.org' is not expected
952 to reach a local Privoxy installation.
953 - Note that donations done through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently
954 can't be checked automatically.
955 - Updated section regarding starting Privoxy under OS X.
956 - Use dedicated start instructions for FreeBSD and ElectroBSD.
957 - Removed release instructions for AIX. They haven't been working
958 for years and unsurprisingly nobody seems to care.
959 - Removed obsolete reference to the solaris-dist target.
960 - Updated the release instructions for FreeBSD.
961 - Removed unfinished release instructions for Amiga OS and HP-UX 11.
962 - Added a pointer to the Cygwin Time Machine for getting the last release of
963 Cygwin version 1.5 to use for building Privoxy on Windows.
964 - Various typos have been fixed.
966 - Infrastructure improvements:
967 - The website is no longer hosted at SourceForge and
968 can be reached through https now.
969 - The mailing lists at SourceForge have been deprecated,
970 you can subscribe to the new ones at: https://lists.privoxy.org/
971 - Migrating the remaining services from SourceForge is
972 work in progress (TODO list item #53).
974 - Build system improvements:
975 - Add configure argument to optimistically redefine FD_SETSIZE
976 with the intent to change the maximum number of client
977 connections Privoxy can handle. Only works with some libcs.
978 Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
979 - Let the tarball-dist target skip files in ".git".
980 - Let the tarball-dist target work in cwds other than current.
981 - Make the 'clean' target faster when run from a git repository.
982 - Include tools in the generic distribution.
983 - Let the gen-dist target work in cwds other than current.
984 - Sort find output that is used for distribution tarballs
985 to get reproducible results.
986 - Don't add '-src' to the name of the tar ball generated by the
987 gen-dist target. The package isn't a source distribution but a
989 While at it, use a variable for the name to reduce the chances
990 that the various references get out of sync and fix the gen-upload
991 target which was looking in the wrong directory.
992 - Add regression-tests.action to the files that are distributed.
993 - The gen-dist target which was broken since 2002 (r1.92) has been fixed.
994 - Remove genclspec.sh which has been obsolete since 2009.
995 - Remove obsolete reference to Redhat spec file.
996 - Remove the obsolete announce target which has been commented out years ago.
997 - Let rsync skip files if the checksums match.
999 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
1000 - Add a "Default level offset" directive which can be used to
1001 change the default level by a given value.
1002 This directive affects all tests located after it until the end
1003 of the file or a another "Default level offset" directive is reached.
1004 The purpose of this directive is to make it more convenient to skip
1005 similar tests in a given file without having to remove or disable
1006 the tests completely.
1007 - Let test level 17 depend on FEATURE_64_BIT_TIME_T
1008 instead of FEATURE_PTHREAD which has no direct connection
1010 - Fix indentation in perldoc examples.
1011 - Don't overlook directives in the first line of the action file.
1012 - Bump version to 0.7.
1013 - Fix detection of the Privoxy version now that https://
1014 is used for the website.
1016 *** Version 3.0.24 stable ***
1018 - Security fixes (denial of service):
1019 - Prevent invalid reads in case of corrupt chunk-encoded content.
1020 CVE-2016-1982. Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
1021 - Remove empty Host headers in client requests.
1022 Previously they would result in invalid reads. CVE-2016-1983.
1023 Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
1026 - When using socks5t, send the request body optimistically as well.
1027 Previously the request body wasn't guaranteed to be sent at all
1028 and the error message incorrectly blamed the server.
1029 Fixes #1686 reported by Peter Müller and G4JC.
1030 - Fixed buffer scaling in execute_external_filter() that could lead
1031 to crashes. Submitted by Yang Xia in #892.
1032 - Fixed crashes when executing external filters on platforms like
1033 Mac OS X. Reported by Jonathan McKenzie on ijbswa-users@.
1034 - Properly parse ACL directives with ports when compiled with HAVE_RFC2553.
1035 Previously the port wasn't removed from the host and in case of
1036 'permit-access 127.0.0.1 example.org:80' Privoxy would try (and fail)
1037 to resolve "example.org:80" instead of example.org.
1038 Reported by Pak Chan on ijbswa-users@.
1039 - Check requests more carefully before serving them forcefully
1040 when blocks aren't enforced. Privoxy always adds the force token
1041 at the beginning of the path, but would previously accept it anywhere
1042 in the request line. This could result in requests being served that
1043 should be blocked. For example in case of pages that were loaded with
1044 force and contained JavaScript to create additionally requests that
1045 embed the origin URL (thus inheriting the force prefix).
1046 The bug is not considered a security issue and the fix does not make
1047 it harder for remote sites to intentionally circumvent blocks if
1048 Privoxy isn't configured to enforce them.
1049 Fixes #1695 reported by Korda.
1050 - Normalize the request line in intercepted requests to make rewriting
1051 the destination more convenient. Previously rewrites for intercepted
1052 requests were expected to fail unless $hostport was being used, but
1053 they failed "the wrong way" and would result in an out-of-memory
1054 message (vanilla host patterns) or a crash (extended host patterns).
1055 Reported by "Guybrush Threepwood" in #1694.
1056 - Enable socket lingering for the correct socket.
1057 Previously it was repeatedly enabled for the listen socket
1058 instead of for the accepted socket. The bug was found by
1059 code inspection and did not cause any (reported) issues.
1060 - Detect and reject parameters for parameter-less actions.
1061 Previously they were silently ignored.
1062 - Fixed invalid reads in internal and outdated pcre code.
1063 Found with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
1064 - Prevent invalid read when loading invalid action files.
1065 Found with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
1066 - Windows build: Use the correct function to close the event handle.
1067 It's unclear if this bug had a negative impact on Privoxy's behaviour.
1068 Reported by Jarry Xu in #891.
1069 - In case of invalid forward-socks5(t) directives, use the
1070 correct directive name in the error messages. Previously they
1071 referred to forward-socks4t failures.
1072 Reported by Joel Verhagen in #889.
1074 - General improvements:
1075 - Set NO_DELAY flag for the accepting socket. This significantly reduces
1076 the latency if the operating system is not configured to set the flag
1077 by default. Reported by Johan Sintorn in #894.
1078 - Allow to build with mingw x86_64. Submitted by Rustam Abdullaev in #135.
1079 - Introduce the new forwarding type 'forward-webserver'.
1080 Currently it is only supported by the forward-override{} action and
1081 there's no config directive with the same name. The forwarding type
1082 is similar to 'forward', but the request line only contains the path
1083 instead of the complete URL.
1084 - The CGI editor no longer treats 'standard.action' special.
1085 Nowadays the official "standards" are part of default.action
1086 and there's no obvious reason to disallow editing them through
1087 the cgi editor anyway (if the user decided that the lack of
1088 authentication isn't an issue in her environment).
1089 - Improved error messages when rejecting intercepted requests
1090 with unknown destination.
1091 - A couple of log messages now include the number of active threads.
1092 - Removed non-standard Proxy-Agent headers in HTTP snipplets
1093 to make testing more convenient.
1094 - Include the error code for pcre errors Privoxy does not recognize.
1095 - Config directives with numerical arguments are checked more carefully.
1096 - Privoxy's malloc() wrapper has been changed to prevent zero-size
1097 allocations which should only occur as the result of bugs.
1098 - Various cosmetic changes.
1100 - Action file improvements:
1101 - Unblock ".deutschlandradiokultur.de/".
1102 Reported by u302320 in #924.
1103 - Add two fast-redirect exceptions for "yandex.ru".
1104 - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for ".plasmaservice.de/".
1105 - Unblock "klikki.fi/adv/".
1106 - Block requests for "resources.infolinks.com/".
1107 Reported by "Black Rider" on ijbswa-users@.
1108 - Block a bunch of criteo domains.
1109 Reported by Black Rider.
1110 - Block "abs.proxistore.com/abe/".
1111 Reported by Black Rider.
1112 - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for ".black-mosquito.org/".
1113 - Disable fast-redirects for "disqus.com/".
1115 - Documentation improvements:
1116 - FAQ: Explicitly point fingers at ASUS as an example of a
1117 company that has been reported to force malware based on
1118 Privoxy upon its customers.
1119 - Correctly document the action type for a bunch of "multi-value"
1120 actions that were incorrectly documented to be "parameterized".
1121 Reported by Gregory Seidman on ijbswa-users@.
1122 - Fixed the documented type of the forward-override{} action
1123 which is obviously 'parameterized'.
1125 - Website improvements:
1126 - Users who don't trust binaries served by SourceForge
1127 can get them from a mirror. Migrating away from SourceForge
1128 is planned for 2016 (TODO list item #53).
1129 - The website is now available as onion service
1130 (http://jvauzb4sb3bwlsnc.onion/).
1132 *** Version 3.0.23 stable ***
1135 - Fixed a DoS issue in case of client requests with incorrect
1136 chunk-encoded body. When compiled with assertions enabled
1137 (the default) they could previously cause Privoxy to abort().
1138 Reported by Matthew Daley. CVE-2015-1380.
1139 - Fixed multiple segmentation faults and memory leaks in the
1140 pcrs code. This fix also increases the chances that an invalid
1141 pcrs command is rejected as such. Previously some invalid commands
1142 would be loaded without error. Note that Privoxy's pcrs sources
1143 (action and filter files) are considered trustworthy input and
1144 should not be writable by untrusted third-parties. CVE-2015-1381.
1145 - Fixed an 'invalid read' bug which could at least theoretically
1146 cause Privoxy to crash. So far, no crashes have been observed.
1148 - Compiles with --disable-force again. Reported by Kai Raven.
1149 - Client requests with body that can't be delivered no longer
1150 cause pipelined requests behind them to be rejected as invalid.
1151 Reported by Basil Hussain.
1153 - General improvements:
1154 - If a pcrs command is rejected as invalid, Privoxy now logs
1155 the cause of the problem as text. Previously the pcrs error
1157 - The tests are less likely to cause false positives.
1159 - Action file improvements:
1160 - '.sify.com/' is no longer blocked. Apparently it is not actually
1161 a pure tracking site (anymore?). Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
1162 - Unblock banners on .amnesty.de/ which aren't ads.
1164 - Documentation improvements:
1165 - The 'Would you like to donate?' section now also contains
1167 - The list of supported operating systems has been updated.
1168 - The existence of the SF support and feature trackers has been
1169 deemphasized because they have been broken for months.
1170 Most of the time the mailing lists still work.
1171 - The claim that default.action updates are sometimes released
1172 on their own has been removed. It hasn't happened in years.
1173 - Explicitly mention that Tor's port may deviate from the default
1174 when using a bundle. Requested by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
1176 *** Version 3.0.22 stable ***
1179 - Fixed a memory leak when rejecting client connections due to
1180 the socket limit being reached (CID 66382). This affected
1181 Privoxy 3.0.21 when compiled with IPv6 support (on most
1182 platforms this is the default). CVE-2015-1030.
1183 - Fixed an immediate-use-after-free bug (CID 66394) and two
1184 additional unconfirmed use-after-free complaints made by
1185 Coverity scan (CID 66391, CID 66376). CVE-2015-1031.
1186 - Actually show the FORCE_PREFIX value on the show-status page.
1187 - Properly deal with Keep-Alive headers with timeout= parameters
1188 If the timeout still can't be parsed, use the configured
1189 timeout instead of preventing the client from keeping the
1190 connection alive. Fixes #3615312/#870 reported by Bernard Guillot.
1191 - Not using any filter files no longer results in warning messages
1192 unless an action file is referencing header taggers or filters.
1193 Reported by Stefan Kurtz in #3614835.
1194 - Fixed a bug that prevented Privoxy from reusing some reusable
1195 connections. Two bit masks with different purpose unintentionally
1196 shared the same bit.
1197 - A couple of additional bugs were discovered by Coverity Scan.
1198 The fixes that are not expected to affect users are not explicitly
1199 mentioned here, for details please have a look at the CVS logs.
1201 - General improvements:
1202 - Introduced negative tag patterns NO-REQUEST-TAG and NO-RESPONSE-TAG.
1203 They apply if no matching tag is found after parsing client or
1205 - Add support for external filters which allow to process the
1206 response body with a script or program written in any language
1207 the platform supports. External filters are enabled with
1208 +external-filter{} after they have been defined in one of the
1209 filter files with a header line starting with "EXTERNAL-FILTER:".
1210 External filter support is experimental, not compiled by default
1211 and known not to work on all platforms.
1212 - Add support for the 'PATCH' method as defined in RFC5789.
1213 - Reject requests with unsupported Expect header values.
1214 Fixes a couple of Co-Advisor tests.
1215 - Normalize the HTTP-version in forwarded requests and responses.
1216 This is an explicit RFC 2616 MUST and RFC 7230 mandates that
1217 intermediaries send their own HTTP-version in forwarded
1219 - Server 'Keep-Alive' headers are no longer forwarded. From a user's
1220 point of view it doesn't really matter, but RFC 2616 (obsolete)
1221 mandates that the header is removed and this fixes a Co-Advisor
1223 - Change declared template file encoding to UTF-8. The templates
1224 already used a subset of UTF-8 anyway and changing the declaration
1225 allows to properly display UTF-8 characters used in the action files.
1226 This change may require existing action files with ISO-8859-1
1227 characters that aren't valid UTF-8 to be converted to UTF-8.
1228 Requested by Sam Chen in #582.
1229 - Do not pass rejected keep-alive timeouts to the server. It might
1230 not have caused any problems (we know of), but doing the right
1231 thing shouldn't hurt either.
1232 - Let log_error() use its own buffer size #define to make changing
1233 the log buffer size slightly less inconvenient.
1234 - Turned single-threaded into a "proper" toggle directive with arguments.
1235 - CGI templates no longer enforce new windows for some links.
1236 - Remove an undocumented workaround ('HOST' header removal) for
1237 an Apple iTunes bug that according to #729900 got fixed in 2003.
1239 - Action file improvements:
1240 - The pattern 'promotions.' is no longer being blocked.
1241 Reported by rakista in #3608540.
1242 - Disable fast-redirects for .microsofttranslator.com/.
1243 - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for .dgb-tagungszentren.de/.
1244 - Add adn.speedtest.net as a site-specific unblocker.
1245 Support request #3612908.
1246 - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for creativecommons.org/.
1247 - Block requests to data.gosquared.com/. Reported by cbug in #3613653.
1248 - Unblock .conrad./newsletter/. Reported by David Bo in #3614238.
1249 - Unblock .bundestag.de/.
1250 - Unblock .rote-hilfe.de/.
1251 - Disable fast-redirects for .facebook.com/plugins/like.php.
1252 - Unblock Stackexchange popup URLs that aren't used to serve ads.
1253 Reported by David Wagner in #3615179.
1254 - Disable fast-redirects for creativecommons.org/.
1255 - Unblock .stopwatchingus.info/.
1256 - Block requests for .adcash.com/script/.
1257 Reported by Tyrexionibus in #3615289.
1258 - Disable HTML filters if the response was tagged as JavaScript.
1259 Filtering JavaScript code with filters intended to deal with HTML
1260 is usually a waste of time and, more importantly, may break stuff.
1261 - Use a custom redirect{} for .washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs\.php\?src=
1262 Previously enabling the 'Advanced' settings (or manually enabling
1263 +fast-redirects{}) prevented some images from being loaded properly.
1264 - Unblock "adina*." Fixes #919 reported by Morton A. Goldberg.
1265 - Block '/.*DigiAd'.
1266 - Unblock 'adele*.'. Reported by Adele Lime in #1663.
1267 - Disable banners-by-size for kggp.de/.
1269 - Filter file improvements & bug fixes:
1270 - Decrease the chances that js-annoyances creates invalid JavaScript.
1271 Submitted by John McGowan on ijbswa-users@.
1272 - Let the msn filter hide 'related' ads again.
1273 - Remove a stray '1' in the 'html-annoyances' filter.
1274 - Prevent img-reorder from messing up img tags with empty src
1275 attributes. Fixes #880 reported by Duncan.
1277 - Documentation improvements:
1278 - Updated the 'Would you like to donate?' section.
1279 - Note that invalid forward-override{} parameter syntax isn't
1280 detected until the parameter is used.
1281 - Add another +redirect{} example: a shortcut for illumos bugs.
1282 - Make it more obvious that many operating systems support log
1283 rotation out of the box.
1284 - Fixed dead links. Reported by Mark Nelson in #3614557.
1285 - Rephrased the 'Why is the configuration so complicated?' answer
1286 to be slightly less condescending. Anonymously suggested in #3615122.
1287 - Be more explicit about accept-intercepted-requests's lack of MITM support.
1288 - Make 'demoronizer' FAQ entries more generic.
1289 - Add an example hostname to the --pre-chroot-nslookup description.
1290 - Add an example for a host pattern that matches an IP address.
1291 - Rename the 'domain pattern' to 'host pattern' as it may
1292 contain IP addresses as well.
1293 - Recommend forward-socks5t when using Tor. It seems to work fine and
1294 modifying the Tor configuration to profit from it hasn't been necessary
1296 - Add another redirect{} example to stress that redirect loops can
1297 and should be avoided.
1298 - The usual spelling and grammar fixes. Parts of them were
1299 reported by Reuben Thomas in #3615276.
1300 - Mention the PCRS option letters T and D in the filter section.
1301 - Clarify that handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok is still useful
1302 and will not be removed without replacement.
1303 - Note that security issues shouldn't be reported using the bug tracker.
1304 - Clarify what Privoxy does if both +block{} and +redirect{} apply.
1305 - Removed the obsolete bookmarklets section.
1307 - Build system improvements:
1308 - Let --with-group properly deal with secondary groups.
1309 Patch submitted by Anatoly Arzhnikov in #3615187.
1310 - Fix web-actions target.
1311 - Add a web-faq target that only updates the FAQ on the webserver.
1312 - Remove already-commented-out non-portable DOSFILTER alternatives.
1313 - Remove the obsolete targets dok-put and dok-get.
1314 - Add a sf-shell target.
1316 *** Version 3.0.21 stable ***
1319 - On POSIX-like platforms, network sockets with file descriptor
1320 values above FD_SETSIZE are properly rejected. Previously they
1321 could cause memory corruption in configurations that allowed
1322 the limit to be reached.
1323 - Proxy authentication headers are removed unless the new directive
1324 enable-proxy-authentication-forwarding is used. Forwarding the
1325 headers potentially allows malicious sites to trick the user
1326 into providing them with login information.
1327 Reported by Chris John Riley.
1328 - Compiles on OS/2 again now that unistd.h is only included
1329 on platforms that have it.
1331 - General improvements:
1332 - The show-status page shows the FEATURE_STRPTIME_SANITY_CHECKS status.
1333 - A couple of assert()s that could theoretically dereference
1334 NULL pointers in debug builds have been relocated.
1335 - Added an LSB info block to the generic start script.
1336 Based on a patch from Natxo Asenjo.
1337 - The max-client-connections default has been changed to 128
1338 which should be more than enough for most setups.
1340 - Action file improvements:
1341 - Block rover.ebay./ar.*\&adtype= instead of "/.*\&adtype=" which
1342 caused too man false positives.
1343 Reported by u302320 in #360284, additional feedback from Adam Piggott.
1344 - Unblock '.advrider.com/' and '/.*ADVrider'.
1345 Anonymously reported in #3603636.
1346 - Stop blocking '/js/slider\.js'.
1347 Reported by Adam Piggott in #3606635 and _lvm in #2791160.
1349 - Filter file improvements:
1350 - Added an iframes filter.
1352 - Documentation improvements:
1353 - The whole GPLv2 text is included in the user manual now,
1354 so Privoxy can serve it itself and the user can read it
1355 without having to wade through GPLv3 ads first.
1356 - Properly numbered and underlined a couple of section titles
1357 in the config that where previously overlooked due to a flaw
1358 in the conversion script. Reported by Ralf Jungblut.
1359 - Improved the support instruction to hopefully make it harder to
1360 unintentionally provide insufficient information when requesting
1361 support. Previously it wasn't obvious that the information we need
1362 in bug reports is usually also required in support requests.
1363 - Removed documentation about packages that haven't been provided
1366 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
1367 - Only log the test number when not running in verbose mode
1368 The position of the test is rarely relevant and it previously
1369 wasn't exactly obvious which one of the numbers was useful to
1370 repeat the test with --test-number.
1372 - GNUmakefile improvements:
1373 - Factor generate-config-file out of config-file to make testing
1375 - The clean target now also takes care of patch leftovers.
1377 *** Version 3.0.20 beta ***
1380 - Client sockets are now properly shutdown and drained before being
1381 closed. This fixes page truncation issues with clients that aggressively
1382 pipeline data on platforms that otherwise discard already written data.
1383 The issue mainly affected Opera users and was initially reported
1384 by Kevin in #3464439, szotsaki provided additional information to track
1386 - Fix latency calculation for shared connections (disabled by default).
1387 It was broken since their introduction in 2009. The calculated latency
1388 for most connections would be 0 in which case the timeout detection
1389 failed to account for the real latency.
1390 - Reject URLs with invalid port. Previously they were parsed incorrectly and
1391 characters between the port number and the first slash were silently
1392 dropped as shown by curl test 187.
1393 - The default-server-timeout and socket-timeout directives accept 0 as
1395 - Fix a race condition on Windows that could cause Privoxy to become
1396 unresponsive after toggling it on or off through the taskbar icon.
1397 Reported by Tim H. in #3525694.
1398 - Fix the compilation on Windows when configured without IPv6 support.
1399 - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() in case of
1400 socks5 connection failures with "debug 2" enabled.
1401 - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() if a filter
1402 contained nul bytes in the replacement text.
1404 - General improvements:
1405 - Significantly improved keep-alive support for both client and server
1407 - New debug log level 65536 which logs all actions that were applied to
1409 - New directive client-header-order to forward client headers in a
1410 different order than the one in which they arrived.
1411 - New directive tolerate-pipelining to allow client-side pipelining.
1412 If enabled (3.0.20 beta enables it by default), Privoxy will keep
1413 pipelined client requests around to deal with them once the current
1414 request has been served.
1415 - New --config-test option to let Privoxy exit after checking whether or not
1416 the configuration seems valid. The limitations noted in TODO #22 and #23
1417 still apply. Based on a patch by Ramkumar Chinchani.
1418 - New limit-cookie-lifetime{} action to let cookies expire before the end
1419 of the session. Suggested by Rick Sykes in #1049575.
1420 - Increase the hard-coded maximum number of actions and filter files from
1421 10 to 30 (each). It doesn't significantly affect Privoxy's memory usage
1422 and recompiling wasn't an option for all Privoxy users that reached the
1424 - Add support for chunk-encoded client request bodies. Previously
1425 chunk-encoded request bodies weren't guaranteed to be forwarded correctly,
1426 so this can also be considered a bug fix although chunk-encoded request
1427 bodies aren't commonly used in the real world.
1428 - Add support for Tor's optimistic-data SOCKS extension, which can reduce the
1429 latency for requests on newly created connections. Currently only the
1430 headers are sent optimistically and only if the client request has already
1431 been read completely which rules out requests with large bodies.
1432 - After preventing the client from pipelining, don't signal keep-alive
1433 intentions. When looking at the response headers alone, it previously
1434 wasn't obvious from the client's perspective that no additional responses
1436 - Stop considering client sockets tainted after receiving a request with body.
1437 It hasn't been necessary for a while now and unnecessarily causes test
1438 failures when using curl's test suite.
1439 - Allow HTTP/1.0 clients to signal interest in keep-alive through the
1440 Proxy-Connection header. While such client are rare in the real world, it
1441 doesn't hurt and couple of curl tests rely on it.
1442 - Only remove duplicated Content-Type headers when filters are enabled.
1443 If they are not it doesn't cause ill effects and the user might not want it.
1444 Downgrade the removal message to LOG_LEVEL_HEADER to clarify that it's not
1445 an error in Privoxy and is unlikely to cause any problems in general.
1446 Anonymously reported in #3599335.
1447 - Set the socket option SO_LINGER for the client socket.
1448 - Move several variable declarations to the beginning of their code block.
1449 It's required when compiling with gcc 2.95 which is still used on some
1450 platforms. Initial patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
1451 - Optionally try to sanity-check strptime() results before trusting them.
1452 Broken strptime() implementations have caused problems in the past and
1453 the most recent offender seems to be FreeBSD's libc (standards/173421).
1454 - When filtering is enabled, let Range headers pass if the range starts at
1455 the beginning. This should work around (or at least reduce) the video
1456 playback issues with various Apple clients as reported by Duc in #3426305.
1457 - Do not confuse a client hanging up with a connection time out. If a client
1458 closes its side of the connection without sending a request line, do not
1459 send the CLIENT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_RESPONSE, but report the condition
1461 - Allow closing curly braces as part of action values as long as they are
1463 - On Windows, the logfile is now written before showing the GUI error
1464 message which blocks until the user acknowledges it.
1465 Reported by Adriaan in #3593603.
1466 - Remove an unreasonable parameter limit in the CGI interface. The new
1467 parameter limit depends on the memory available and is currently unlikely
1468 to be reachable, due to other limits in both Privoxy and common clients.
1469 Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
1470 - Decrease the chances of parse failures after requests with unsupported
1471 methods were sent to the CGI interface.
1473 - Action file improvements:
1474 - Remove the comment that indicated that updated default.action versions
1475 are released on their own.
1476 - Block 'optimize.indieclick.com/' and 'optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/'
1477 - Unblock 'adjamblog.wordpress.com/' and 'adjamblog.files.wordpress.com/'.
1478 Reported by Ryan Farmer in #3496116.
1479 - Unblock '/.*Bugtracker'. Reported by pwhk in #3522341.
1480 - Add test URLs for '.freebsd.org' and '.watson.org'.
1481 - Unblock '.urbandictionary.com/popular'.
1482 - Block '.adnxs.com/'.
1483 - Block 'farm.plista.com/widgetdata.php'.
1484 - Block 'rotation.linuxnewmedia.com/'.
1485 - Block 'reklamy.sfd.pl/'. Reported by kacperdominik in #3399948.
1486 - Block 'g.adspeed.net/'.
1487 - Unblock 'websupport.wdc.com/'. Reported by Adam Piggot in #3577851.
1488 - Block '/openx/www/delivery/'.
1489 - Disable fast-redirects for '.googleapis.com/'.
1490 - Block 'imp.double.net/'. Reported by David Bo in #3070411.
1491 - Block 'gm-link.com/' which is used for email tracking.
1492 Reported by David Bo in #1812733.
1493 - Verify that requests to "bwp." are blocked. URL taken from #1736879
1494 submitted by Francois Marier.
1495 - Block '/.*bannerid='. Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975779.
1496 - Block 'cltomedia.info/delivery/' and '.adexprt.com/'.
1497 Anonymously reported in #2965254.
1498 - Block 'de17a.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3061472.
1499 - Block 'oskar.tradera.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3060596.
1500 - Block '/scripts/webtrends\.js'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002729.
1501 - Block requests for 'pool.*.adhese.com/'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002716.
1502 - Update path pattern for Coremetrics and add tests.
1503 Pattern and URLs submitted by Adam Piggott #3168443.
1504 - Enable +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} for 'tr.anp.se/'.
1505 Reported by David Bo in #3268832.
1506 - Unblock '.conrad.se/newsletter/banners/'. Reported by David Bo in #3413824.
1507 - Block '.tynt.com/'. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421767.
1508 - Unblock '.bbci.co.uk/radio/'. Reported by Adam Piggott in #3569603.
1509 - Block requests to 'service.maxymiser.net/'.
1510 Reported by johnd16 in #3118401 (with a previous URL).
1511 - Disable fast-redirects for Google's "let's pretend your computer is
1513 - Unblock '/.*download' to resolve actionsfile feedback #3498129.
1514 Submitted by Steven Kolins (soundcloud.com not working).
1515 - Unblock '.wlxrs.com/' which is required by hotmail.com.
1516 Fixes #3413827 submitted by David Bo.
1517 - Add two unblock patterns for popup radio and TV players.
1518 Submitted by Adam Piggott in #3596089.
1520 - Filter file improvements & bug fixes:
1521 - Add a referer tagger.
1522 - Reduce the likelihood that the google filter messes up HTML-generating
1523 JavaScript. Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3520260.
1525 - Documentation improvements:
1526 - Revised all OS X sections due to new packaging module (OSXPackageBuilder).
1527 - Update the list of supported operating systems to clarify that all Windows
1528 versions after 95 are expected to work and note that the platform-specific
1529 code for AmigaOS and QNX currently isn't maintained.
1530 - Update 'Signals' section, the only explicitly handled signals are SIGINT,
1532 - Add Haiku to the list of operating systems on which Privoxy is known to
1534 - Add DragonFly to the list of BSDs on which Privoxy is known to run.
1535 - Removed references to redhat-specific documentation set since it no longer
1537 - Removed references to building PDFs since we no longer do so.
1538 - Multiple listen-address directives are supported since 3.0.18, correct the
1539 documentation to say so.
1540 - Remove bogus section about long and short being preferable to int.
1541 - Corrected some Internet JunkBuster references to Privoxy.
1542 - Removed references to www.junkbusters.com since it is no longer
1543 maintained. Reported by Angelina Matson.
1544 - Various grammar and spelling corrections
1545 - Add a client-header-tagger{} example for disabling filtering for range
1547 - Correct a URL in the "Privoxy with Tor" FAQ.
1548 - Spell 'refresh-tags' correctly. Reported by Don in #3571927.
1549 - Sort manpage options alphabetically.
1550 - Remove an incorrect sentence in the toggle section. The toggle state
1551 doesn't affect whether or not the Windows version uses the tray icon.
1552 Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3596395.
1553 - Add new contributors since 3.0.19.
1555 - Log message improvements:
1556 - When stopping to watch a client socket due to pipelining, additionally log
1558 - Log the client socket and its condition before closing it. This makes it
1559 more obvious that the socket actually gets closed and should help when
1560 diagnosing problems like #3464439.
1561 - In case of SOCKS5 failures, do not explicitly log the server's response.
1562 It hasn't helped so far and the response can already be logged by enabling
1563 "debug 32768" anyway. This reverts v1.81 and the follow-up bug fix v1.84.
1564 - Relocate the connection-accepted message from listen_loop() to serve().
1565 This way it's printed by the thread that is actually serving the
1566 connection which is nice when grepping for thread ids in log files.
1569 - Remove compatibility layer for versions prior to 3.0 since it has been
1570 obsolete for more than 10 years now.
1571 - Remove the ijb_isupper() and ijb_tolower() macros from parsers.c since
1572 they aren't used in this file.
1573 - Removed the 'Functions declared include:' comment sections since they tend
1574 to be incomplete, incorrect and out of date and the benefit seems
1576 - Various comment grammar and comprehensibility improvements.
1577 - Remove a pointless fflush() call in chat(). Flushing all streams pretty
1578 much all the time for no obvious reason is ridiculous.
1579 - Relocate ijb_isupper()'s definition to project.h and get the ijb_tolower()
1580 definition from there, too.
1581 - Relocate ijb_isdigit()'s definition to project.h.
1582 - Rename ijb_foo macros to privoxy_foo.
1583 - Add malloc_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where malloc()
1584 failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
1585 - Add strdup_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where strdup()
1586 failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
1587 - Replace strdup() calls with strdup_or_die() calls where it's safe and
1588 simplifies the code.
1589 - Fix white-space around parentheses.
1590 - Add missing white-space behind if's and the following parentheses.
1591 - Unwrap a memcpy() call in resolve_hostname_to_ip().
1592 - Declare pcrs_get_delimiter()'s delimiters[] static const.
1593 - Various optimisations to remove dead code and merge inefficient code
1594 structures for improved clarity, performance or code compactness.
1595 - Various data type corrections.
1596 - Change visibility of several code segments when compiling without
1597 FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE enabled for clarity.
1598 - In pcrs_get_delimiter(), do not use delimiters outside the ASCII range.
1599 Fixes a clang complaint.
1600 - Fix an error message in get_last_url() nobody is supposed to see.
1601 Reported by Matthew Fischer in #3507301.
1602 - Fix a typo in the no-zlib-support complaint. Patch submitted by Matthew
1603 Fischer in #3507304.
1604 - Shorten ssplit()'s prototype by removing the last two arguments. We always
1605 want to skip empty fields and ignore leading delimiters, so having
1606 parameters for this only complicates the API.
1607 - Use an enum for the type of the action value.
1608 - Rename action_name's member takes_value to value_type as it isn't used as
1610 - Turn family mismatches in match_sockaddr() into fatal errors.
1611 - Let enlist_unique_header() verify that the caller didn't pass a header
1612 containing either \r or \n.
1613 - Change the hashes used in load_config() to unsigned int. That's what
1614 hash_string() actually returns and using a potentially larger type
1616 - Use privoxy_tolower() instead of vanilla tolower() with manual casting of
1618 - Catch ssplit() failures in parse_cgi_parameters().
1620 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
1621 - Add an 'Overwrite condition' directive to skip any matching tests before
1622 it. As it has a global scope, using it is more convenient than clowning
1623 around with the Ignore directive.
1624 - Log to STDOUT instead of STDERR.
1625 - Include the Privoxy version in the output.
1626 - Various grammar and spelling corrections in documentation and code.
1627 - Additional tests for range requests with filtering enabled.
1628 - Tests with mostly invalid range request.
1629 - Add a couple of hide-if-modified-since{} tests with different date formats.
1630 - Cleaned up the format of the regression-tests.action file to match the
1631 format of default.action.
1632 - Remove the "Copyright" line from print_version(). When using --help, every
1633 line of screen space matters and thus shouldn't be wasted on things the
1634 user doesn't care about.
1636 - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
1637 - Improve the --statistics performance by skipping sanity checks for input
1638 that shouldn't affect the results anyway. Add a --strict-checks option
1639 that enables some of the checks again, just in case anybody cares.
1640 - The distribution of client requests per connection is included in
1641 the --statistic output.
1642 - The --accept-unknown-messages option has been removed and the behavior
1644 - Accept and (mostly) highlight new log messages introduced with
1648 - Bump generated Firefox version to 17.
1650 - GNUmakefile improvements:
1651 - The dok-tidy target no longer taints documents with a tidy-mark
1652 - Change RA_MODE from 0664 to 0644. Suggested by Markus Dittrich in
1654 - Remove tidy's clean flag as it changes the scope of attributes.
1655 Link-specific colors end up being applied to all text. Reported by Adam
1656 Piggott in #3569551.
1657 - Leave it up to the user whether or not smart tags are inserted.
1658 - Let w3m itself do the line wrapping for the config file. It works better
1659 than fmt as it can honour pre tags causing less unintentional line breaks.
1660 - Ditch a pointless '-r' passed to rm to delete files.
1661 - The config-file target now requires less manual intervention and updates
1662 the original config.
1663 - Change WDUMP to generate ASCII. Add WDUMP_UTF8 to allow UTF-8 in the
1664 AUTHORS file so the names are right.
1665 - Stop pretending that lynx and links are supported for the documentation.
1667 - configure improvements:
1668 - On Haiku, do not pass -lpthread to the compiler. Haiku's pthreads
1669 implementation is contained in its system library, libroot, so no
1670 additional library needs to be searched.
1671 Patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
1672 - Additional Haiku-specific improvements. Disable checks intended for
1673 multi-user systems as Haiku is presently single-user. Group Haiku-specific
1674 settings in their own section, following the pattern for Solaris, OS/2 and
1675 AmigaOS. Add additional library-related settings to remove the need for
1676 providing configure with custom LDFLAGS.
1677 Submitted by Simon South in #3574538.
1679 *** Version 3.0.19 Stable ***
1682 - Prevent a segmentation fault when de-chunking buffered content.
1683 It could be triggered by malicious web servers if Privoxy was
1684 configured to filter the content and running on a platform
1685 where SIZE_T_MAX isn't larger than UINT_MAX, which probably
1686 includes most 32-bit systems. On those platforms, all Privoxy
1687 versions before 3.0.19 appear to be affected.
1688 To be on the safe side, this bug should be presumed to allow
1689 code execution as proving that it doesn't seems unrealistic.
1690 - Do not expect a response from the SOCKS4/4A server until it
1691 got something to respond to. This regression was introduced
1692 in 3.0.18 and prevented the SOCKS4/4A negotiation from working.
1693 Reported by qqqqqw in #3459781.
1695 - General improvements:
1696 - Fix an off-by-one in an error message about connect failures.
1697 - Use a GNUMakefile variable for the webserver root directory and
1698 update the path. Sourceforge changed it which broke various
1699 web-related targets.
1700 - Update the CODE_STATUS description.
1702 *** Version 3.0.18 Stable ***
1705 - If a generated redirect URL contains characters RFC 3986 doesn't
1706 permit, they are (re)encoded. Not doing this makes Privoxy versions
1707 from 3.0.5 to 3.0.17 susceptible to HTTP response splitting (CWE-113)
1708 attacks if the +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action is used.
1709 - Fix a logic bug that could cause Privoxy to reuse a server
1710 socket after it got tainted by a server-header-tagger-induced
1711 block that was triggered before the whole server response had
1712 been read. If keep-alive was enabled and the request following
1713 the blocked one was to the same host and using the same forwarding
1714 settings, Privoxy would send it on the tainted server socket.
1715 While the server would simply treat it as a pipelined request,
1716 Privoxy would later on fail to properly parse the server's
1717 response as it would try to parse the unread data from the
1718 first response as server headers for the second one.
1719 Regression introduced in 3.0.17.
1720 - When implying keep-alive in client_connection(), remember that
1721 the client didn't. Fixes a regression introduced in 3.0.13 that
1722 would cause Privoxy to wait for additional client requests after
1723 receiving a HTTP/1.1 request with "Connection: close" set
1724 and connection sharing enabled.
1725 With clients which terminates the client connection after detecting
1726 that the whole body has been received it doesn't really matter,
1727 but with clients that don't the connection would be kept open until
1729 - Fix a subtle race condition between prepare_csp_for_next_request()
1730 and sweep(). A thread preparing itself for the next client request
1731 could briefly appear to be inactive.
1732 If all other threads were already using more recent files,
1733 the thread could get its files swept away under its feet.
1734 So far this has only been reproduced while stress testing in
1735 valgrind while touching action files in a loop. It's unlikely
1736 to have caused any actual problems in the real world.
1737 - Disable filters if SDCH compression is used unless filtering is forced.
1738 If SDCH was combined with a supported compression algorithm, Privoxy
1739 previously could try to decompress it and ditch the Content-Encoding
1740 header even though the SDCH compression wasn't dealt with.
1741 Reported by zebul666 in #3225863.
1742 - Make a copy of the --user value and only mess with that when splitting
1743 user and group. On some operating systems modifying the value directly
1744 is reflected in the output of ps and friends and can be misleading.
1745 Reported by zepard in #3292710.
1746 - If forwarded-connect-retries is set, only retry if Privoxy is actually
1747 forwarding the request. Previously direct connections would be retried
1749 - Fixed a small memory leak when retrying connections with IPv6
1751 - Remove an incorrect assertion in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list()
1752 It could be triggered by a pcrs job with an invalid pcre
1753 pattern (for example one that contains a lone quantifier).
1754 - If the --user argument user[.group] contains a dot, always bail out
1755 if no group has been specified. Previously the intended, but undocumented
1756 (and apparently untested), behaviour was to try interpreting the whole
1757 argument as user name, but the detection was flawed and checked for '0'
1758 instead of '\0', thus merely preventing group names beginning with a zero.
1759 - In html_code_map[], use a numeric character reference instead of '
1760 which wasn't standardized before XHTML 1.0.
1761 - Fix an invalid free when compiled with FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION
1762 and shut down through http://config.privoxy.org/die
1763 - In get_actions(), fix the "temporary" backwards compatibility hack
1764 to accept block actions without reason.
1765 It also covered other actions that should be rejected as invalid.
1766 Reported by Billy Crook.
1768 - General improvements:
1769 - Privoxy can (re)compress buffered content before delivering
1770 it to the client. Disabled by default as most users wouldn't
1772 - The +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action checks URL
1773 segments separately. If there are other parameters behind
1774 the redirect URL, this makes it unnecessary to cut them off
1775 by additionally using a +redirect{} pcrs command.
1776 Initial patch submitted by Jamie Zawinski in #3429848.
1777 - When loading action sections, verify that the referenced filters
1778 exist. Currently missing filters only result in an error message,
1779 but eventually the severity will be upgraded to fatal.
1780 - Allow to bind to multiple separate addresses.
1781 Patch set submitted by Petr Pisar in #3354485.
1782 - Set socket_error to errno if connecting fails in rfc2553_connect_to().
1783 Previously rejected direct connections could be incorrectly reported
1784 as DNS issues if Privoxy was compiled with IPv6 support.
1785 - Adjust url_code_map[] so spaces are replaced with %20 instead of '+'
1786 While '+' can be used by client's submitting form data, this is not
1787 actually what Privoxy is using the lookups for. This is more of a
1788 cosmetic issue and doesn't fix any known problems.
1789 - When compiled without FEATURE_FAST_REDIRECTS, do not silently
1790 ignore +fast-redirect{} directives
1791 - Added a workaround for GNU libc's strptime() reporting negative
1792 year values when the parsed year is only specified with two digits.
1793 On affected systems cookies with such a date would not be turned
1794 into session cookies by the +session-cookies-only action.
1795 Reported by Vaeinoe in #3403560
1796 - Fixed bind failures with certain GNU libc versions if no non-loopback
1797 IP address has been configured on the system. This is mainly an issue
1798 if the system is using DHCP and Privoxy is started before the network
1799 is completely configured.
1800 Reported by Raphael Marichez in #3349356.
1801 Additional insight from Petr Pisar.
1802 - Privoxy log messages now use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
1803 It's only slightly longer than the old format, but contains
1804 the full date including the year and allows sorting by date
1805 (when grepping in multiple log files) without hassle.
1806 - In get_last_url(), do not bother trying to decode URLs that do
1807 not contain at least one '%' sign. It reduces the log noise and
1808 a number of unnecessary memory allocations.
1809 - In case of SOCKS5 failures, dump the socks response in the log message.
1810 - Simplify the signal setup in main().
1811 - Streamline socks5_connect() slightly.
1812 - In socks5_connect(), require a complete socks response from the server.
1813 Previously Privoxy didn't care how much data the server response
1814 contained as long as the first two bytes contained the expected
1815 values. While at it, shrink the buffer size so Privoxy can't read
1816 more than a whole socks response.
1817 - In chat(), do not bother to generate a client request in case of
1818 direct CONNECT requests. It will not be used anyway.
1819 - Reduce server_last_modified()'s stack size.
1820 - Shorten get_http_time() by using strftime().
1821 - Constify the known_http_methods pointers in unknown_method().
1822 - Constify the time_formats pointers in parse_header_time().
1823 - Constify the formerly_valid_actions pointers in action_used_to_be_valid().
1824 - Introduce a GNUMakefile MAN_PAGE variable that defaults to privoxy.1.
1825 The Debian package uses section 8 for the man page and this
1826 should simplify the patch.
1827 - Deduplicate the INADDR_NONE definition for Solaris by moving it to jbsockets.h
1828 - In block_url(), ditch the obsolete workaround for ancient Netscape versions
1829 that supposedly couldn't properly deal with status code 403.
1830 - Remove a useless NULL pointer check in load_trustfile().
1831 - Remove two useless NULL pointer checks in load_one_re_filterfile().
1832 - Change url_code_map[] from an array of pointers to an array of arrays
1833 It removes an unnecessary layer of indirection and on 64bit system reduces
1834 the size of the binary a bit.
1835 - Fix various typos. Fixes taken from Debian's 29_typos.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
1836 - Add a dok-tidy GNUMakefile target to clean up the messy HTML
1837 generated by the other dok targets.
1838 - GNUisms in the GNUMakefile have been removed.
1839 - Change the HTTP version in static responses to 1.1
1840 - Synced config.sub and config.guess with upstream
1841 2011-11-11/386c7218162c145f5f9e1ff7f558a3fbb66c37c5.
1842 - Add a dedicated function to parse the values of toggles. Reduces duplicated
1843 code in load_config() and provides better error handling. Invalid or missing
1844 toggle values are now a fatal error instead of being silently ignored.
1845 - Terminate HTML lines in static error messages with \n instead of \r\n.
1846 - Simplify cgi_error_unknown() a bit.
1847 - In LogPutString(), don't bother looking at pszText when not
1848 actually logging anything.
1849 - Change ssplit()'s fourth parameter from int to size_t.
1850 Fixes a clang complaint.
1851 - Add a warning that the statistics currently can't be trusted.
1852 Mention Privoxy-Log-Parser's --statistics option as
1853 an alternative for the time being.
1854 - In rfc2553_connect_to(), start setting cgi->error_message on error.
1855 - Change the expected status code returned for http://p.p/die depending
1856 on whether or not FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION is available.
1857 - In cgi_die(), mark the client connection for closing.
1858 If the client will fetch the style sheet through another connection
1859 it gets the main thread out of the accept() state and should thus
1860 trigger the actual shutdown.
1861 - Add a proper CGI message for cgi_die().
1862 - Don't enforce a logical line length limit in read_config_line().
1863 - Slightly refactor server_last_modified() to remove useless gmtime*() calls.
1864 - In get_content_type(), also recognize '.jpeg' as JPEG extension.
1865 - Add '.png' to the list of recognized file extensions in get_content_type().
1866 - In block_url(), consistently use the block reason "Request blocked by Privoxy"
1867 In two places the reason was "Request for blocked URL" which hides the
1868 fact that the request got blocked by Privoxy and isn't necessarily
1869 correct as the block may be due to tags.
1870 - In listen_loop(), reload the configuration files after accepting
1871 a new connection instead of before.
1872 Previously the first connection that arrived after a configuration
1873 change would still be handled with the old configuration.
1874 - In chat()'s receive-data loop, skip a client socket check if
1875 the socket will be written to right away anyway. This can
1876 increase the transfer speed for unfiltered content on fast
1877 network connections.
1878 - The socket timeout is used for SOCKS negotiations as well which
1879 previously couldn't timeout.
1880 - Don't keep the client connection alive if any configuration file
1881 changed since the time the connection came in. This is closer to
1882 Privoxy's behaviour before keep-alive support for client connection
1883 has been added and also less confusing in general.
1884 - Treat all Content-Type header values containing the pattern
1885 'script' as a sign of text. Reported by pribog in #3134970.
1887 - Action file improvements:
1888 - Moved the site-specific block pattern section below the one for the
1889 generic patterns so for requests that are matched in both, the block
1890 reason for the domain is shown which is usually more useful than showing
1891 the one for the generic pattern.
1892 - Remove -prevent-compression from the fragile alias. It's no longer
1893 used anywhere by default and isn't known to break stuff anyway.
1894 - Add a (disabled) section to block various Facebook tracking URLs.
1895 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421764.
1896 - Add a (disabled) section to rewrite and redirect click-tracking
1897 URLs used on news.google.com.
1898 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421755.
1899 - Unblock linuxcounter.net/.
1900 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3422612.
1901 - Block 'www91.intel.com/' which is used by Omniture.
1902 Reported by Adam Piggott in #3167370.
1903 - Disable the handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok option and mark it as deprecated.
1904 Reminded by tceverling in #2790091.
1905 - Add ".ivwbox.de/" to the "Cross-site user tracking" section.
1906 Reported by Nettozahler in #3172525.
1907 - Unblock and fast-redirect ".awin1.com/.*=http://".
1908 Reported by Adam Piggott in #3170921.
1909 - Block "b.collective-media.net/".
1910 - Widen the Debian popcon exception to "qa.debian.org/popcon".
1911 Seen in Debian's 05_default_action.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
1912 - Block ".gemius.pl/" which only seems to be used for user tracking.
1913 Reported by johnd16 in #3002731. Additional input from Lee and movax.
1914 - Disable banners-by-size filters for '.thinkgeek.com/'.
1915 The filter only seems to catch pictures of the inventory.
1916 - Block requests for 'go.idmnet.bbelements.com/please/showit/'.
1917 Reported by kacperdominik in #3372959.
1918 - Unblock adainitiative.org/.
1919 - Add a fast-redirects exception for '.googleusercontent.com/.*=cache'.
1920 - Add a fast-redirects exception for webcache.googleusercontent.com/.
1921 - Unblock http://adassier.wordpress.com/ and http://adassier.files.wordpress.com/.
1923 - Filter file improvements:
1924 - Let the yahoo filter hide '.ads'.
1925 - Let the msn filter hide overlay ads for Facebook 'likes' in search
1926 results and elements with the id 's_notf_div'. They only seem to be
1927 used to advertise site 'enhancements'.
1928 - Let the js-events filter additionally disarm setInterval().
1929 Suggested by dg1727 in #3423775.
1931 - Documentation improvements:
1932 - Clarify the effect of compiling Privoxy with zlib support.
1933 Suggested by dg1727 in #3423782.
1934 - Point out that the SourceForge messaging system works like a black
1935 hole and should thus not be used to contact individual developers.
1936 - Mention some of the problems one can experience when not explicitly
1937 configuring an IP addresses as listen address.
1938 - Explicitly mention that hostnames can be used instead of IP addresses
1939 for the listen-address, that only the first address returned will be
1940 used and what happens if the address is invalid.
1941 Requested by Calestyo in #3302213.
1943 - Log message improvements:
1944 - If only the server connection is kept alive, do not pretend to
1945 wait for a new client request.
1946 - Remove a superfluous log message in forget_connection().
1947 - In chat(), properly report missing server responses as such
1948 instead of calling them empty.
1949 - In forwarded_connect(), fix a log message nobody should ever see.
1950 - Fix a log message in socks5_connect(), a failed write operation
1951 was logged as failed read operation.
1952 - Let load_one_actions_file() properly complain about a missing
1953 '{' at the beginning of the file.
1954 Simply stating that a line is invalid isn't particularly helpful.
1955 - Do not claim to listen on a socket until Privoxy actually does.
1956 Patch submitted by Petr Pisar #3354485
1957 - Prevent a duplicated LOG_LEVEL_CLF message when sending out
1958 the "no-server-data" response.
1959 - Also log the client socket when dropping a connection.
1960 - Include the destination host in the 'Request ... marked for
1961 blocking. limit-connect{...} doesn't allow CONNECT ...' message
1962 Patch submitted by Saperski in #3296250.
1963 - Prevent a duplicated log message if none of the resolved IP
1964 addresses were reachable.
1965 - In connect_to(), do not pretend to retry if forwarded-connect-retries
1967 - When a specified user or group can't be found, put the name in
1968 single-quotes when logging it.
1969 - In rfc2553_connect_to(), explain getnameinfo() errors better.
1970 - Remove a useless log message in chat().
1971 - When retrying to connect, also log the maximum number of connection
1973 - Rephrase a log message in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list().
1974 Divide the error code and its meaning with a colon. Call the pcrs
1975 job dynamic and not the filter. Filters may contain dynamic and
1976 non-dynamic pcrs jobs at the same time. Only mention the name of
1977 the filter or tagger, but don't claim it's a filter when it could
1979 - In a fatal error message in load_one_actions_file(), cover both
1980 URL and TAG patterns.
1981 - In pcrs_strerror(), properly report unknown positive error code
1982 values as such. Previously they were handled like 0 (no error).
1983 - In compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list(), also log the actual error code as
1984 pcrs_strerror() doesn't handle all errors reported by pcre.
1985 - Don't bother trying to continue chatting if the client didn't ask for it.
1986 Reduces log noise a bit.
1987 - Make two fatal error message in load_one_actions_file() more descriptive.
1988 - In cgi_send_user_manual(), log when rejecting a file name due to '/' or '..'.
1989 - In load_file(), log a message if opening a file failed.
1990 The CGI error message alone isn't too helpful.
1991 - In connection_destination_matches(), improve two log messages
1992 to help understand why the destinations don't match.
1993 - Rephrase a log message in serve(). Client request arrival
1994 should be differentiated from closed client connections now.
1995 - In serve(), log if a client connection isn't reused due to a
1996 configuration file change.
1997 - Let mark_server_socket_tainted() always mark the server socket tainted,
1998 just don't talk about it in cases where it has no effect. It doesn't change
1999 Privoxy's behaviour, but makes understanding the log file easier.
2002 - Added a --disable-ipv6-support switch for platforms where support
2003 is detected but doesn't actually work.
2004 - Do not check for the existence of strerror() and memmove() twice
2005 - Remove a useless test for setpgrp(2). Privoxy doesn't need it and
2006 it can cause problems when cross-compiling.
2007 - Rename the --disable-acl-files switch to --disable-acl-support.
2008 Since about 2001, ACL directives are specified in the standard
2010 - Update the URL of the 'Removing outdated PCRE version after the
2011 next stable release' posting. The old URL stopped working after
2012 one of SF's recent site "optimizations". Reported by Han Liu.
2014 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
2015 - Added --shuffle-tests option to increase the chances of detection race conditions.
2016 - Added a --local-test-file option that allows to use Privoxy-Regression-Test without Privoxy.
2017 - Added tests for missing socks4 and socks4a forwarders.
2018 - The --privoxy-address option now works with IPv6 addresses containing brackets, too.
2019 - Perform limited sanity checks for parameters that are supposed to have numerical values.
2020 - Added a --sleep-time option to specify a number of seconds to
2021 sleep between tests, defaults to 0.
2022 - Disable the range-requests tagger for tests that break if it's enabled.
2023 - Log messages use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
2024 - Fix spelling in two error messages.
2025 - In the --help output, include a list of supported tests and their default levels.
2026 - Adjust the tests to properly deal with FEATURE_TOGGLE being disabled.
2028 - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
2029 - Perform limited sanity checks for command line parameters that
2030 are supposed to have numerical values.
2031 - Implement a --unbreak-lines-only option to try to revert MUA breakage.
2032 - Accept and highlight: Added header: Content-Encoding: deflate
2033 - Accept and highlight: Compressed content from 29258 to 8630 bytes.
2034 - Accept and highlight: Client request arrived in time on socket 21.
2035 - Highlight: Didn't receive data in time: a.fsdn.com:443
2036 - Accept log messages with ISO 8601 time stamps, too.
2039 - Bump generated Firefox version to 8.0.
2040 - Only randomize the release date if the new --randomize-release-date
2041 option is enabled. Firefox versions after 4 use a fixed date string
2044 *** Version 3.0.17 Stable ***
2046 - Fixed last-chunk-detection for responses where the body was small
2047 enough to be read with the headers, causing Privoxy to wait for the
2048 end of the content until the server closed the connection or the
2049 request timed out. Reported by "Karsten" in #3028326.
2050 - Responses with status code 204 weren't properly detected as body-less
2051 like RFC2616 mandates. Like the previous bug, this caused Privoxy to
2052 wait for the end of the content until the server closed the connection
2053 or the request timed out. Fixes #3022042 and #3025553, reported by a
2054 user with no visible name. Most likely also fixes a bunch of other
2055 AJAX-related problem reports that got closed in the past due to
2056 insufficient information and lack of feedback.
2057 - Fixed an ACL bug that made it impossible to build a blacklist.
2058 Usually the ACL directives are used in a whitelist, which worked
2059 as expected, but blacklisting is still useful for public proxies
2060 where one only needs to deny known abusers access.
2061 - Added LOG_LEVEL_RECEIVED to log the not-yet-parsed data read from the
2062 network. This should make debugging various parsing issues a lot easier.
2063 - The IPv6 code is enabled by default on Windows versions that support it.
2064 Patch submitted by oCameLo in #2942729.
2065 - In mingw32 versions, the user.filter file is reachable through the
2066 GUI, just like default.filter is. Feature request 3040263.
2067 - Added the configure option --enable-large-file-support to set a few
2068 defines that are required by platforms like GNU/Linux to support files
2069 larger then 2GB. Mainly interesting for users without proper logfile
2071 - Logging with "debug 16" no longer stops at the first nul byte which is
2072 pretty useless. Non-printable characters are replaced with their hex value
2073 so the result can't span multiple lines making parsing them harder then
2075 - Privoxy logs when reading an action, filter or trust file.
2076 - Fixed incorrect regression test markup which caused a test in
2077 3.0.16 to fail while Privoxy itself was working correctly.
2078 While Privoxy accepts hide-referer, too, the action name is actually
2079 hide-referrer which is also the name used one the final results page,
2080 where the test expected the alias.
2082 - CGI interface improvements:
2083 - In finish_http_response(), continue to add the 'Connection: close'
2084 header if the client connection will not be kept alive.
2085 Anonymously pointed out in #2987454.
2086 - Apostrophes in block messages no longer cause parse errors
2087 when the blocked page is viewed with JavaScript enabled.
2088 Reported by dg1727 in #3062296.
2089 - Fix a bunch of anchors that used underscores instead of dashes.
2090 - Allow to keep the client connection alive after crunching the previous request.
2091 Already opened server connections can be kept alive, too.
2092 - In cgi_show_url_info(), don't forget to prefix URLs that only contain
2093 http:// or https:// in the path. Fixes #2975765 reported by Adam Piggott.
2094 - Show the 404 CGI page if cgi_send_user_manual() is called while
2095 local user manual delivery is disabled.
2097 - Action file improvements:
2098 - Enable user.filter by default. Suggested by David White in #3001830.
2099 - Block .sitestat.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002725.
2100 - Block .atemda.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002723.
2101 - Block js.adlink.net/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002720.
2102 - Block .analytics.yahoo.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002713.
2103 - Block sb.scorecardresearch.com, too. Reported by dg1727 in #2992652.
2104 - Fix problems noticed on Yahoo mail and news pages.
2105 - Remove the too broad yahoo section, only keeping the
2106 fast-redirects exception as discussed on ijbswa-devel@.
2107 - Don't block adesklets.sourceforge.net. Reported in #2974204.
2108 - Block chartbeat ping tracking. Reported in #2975895.
2109 - Tag CSS and image requests with cautious and medium settings, too.
2110 - Don't handle view.atdmt.com as image. It's used for click-throughs
2111 so users should be able to "go there anyway".
2112 Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975927.
2113 - Also let the refresh-tags filter remove invalid refresh tags where
2114 the 'url=' part is missing. Anonymously reported in #2986382.
2115 While at it, update the description to mention the fact that only
2116 refresh tags with refresh times above 9 seconds are covered.
2117 - javascript needs to be blocked with +handle-as-empty-document to
2118 work around Firefox bug 492459. So move .js blockers from
2119 +block{Might be a web-bug.} -handle-as-empty-document to
2120 +block{Might be a web-bug.} +handle-as-empty-document.
2121 - ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 - Block 160x578 Banners.
2122 - Block another omniture tracking domain.
2123 - Added a range-requests tagger.
2124 - Added two sections to get Flickr's Ajax interface working with
2125 default pre-settings. If you change the configuration to block
2126 cookies by default, you'll need additional exceptions.
2127 Reported by Mathias Homann in #3101419 and by Patrick on ijbswa-users@.
2129 - Documentation improvements:
2130 - Explicitly mention how to match all URLs.
2131 - Consistently recommend socks5 in the Tor FAQ entry and mention
2132 its advantage compared to socks4a. Reported by David in #2960129.
2133 - Slightly improve the explanation of why filtering may appear
2135 - Grammar fixes for the ACL section.
2136 - Fixed a link to the 'intercepting' entry and add another one.
2137 - Rename the 'Other' section to 'Mailing Lists' and reword it
2138 to make it clear that nobody is forced to use the trackers
2139 - Note that 'anonymously' posting on the trackers may not always
2141 - Suggest to enable debug 32768 when suspecting parsing problems.
2143 - Privoxy-Log-Parser improvements:
2144 - Gather statistics for ressources, methods, and HTTP versions
2146 - Also gather statistics for blocked and redirected requests.
2147 - Provide the percentage of keep-alive offers the client accepted.
2148 - Add a --url-statistics-threshold option.
2149 - Add a --host-statistics-threshold option to also gather
2150 statistics about how many request where made per host.
2151 - Fix a bug in handle_loglevel_header() where a 'scan: ' got lost.
2152 - Add a --shorten-thread-ids option to replace the thread id with
2154 - Accept and ignore: Looks like we got the last chunk together
2155 with the server headers. We better stop reading.
2156 - Accept and ignore: Continue hack in da house.
2157 - Accept and higlight: Rejecting connection from 10.0.0.2.
2158 Maximum number of connections reached.
2159 - Accept and highlight: Loading actions file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.action
2160 - Accept and highlight: Loading filter file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.filter
2161 - Accept and highlight: Killed all-caps Host header line: HOST: bestproxydb.com
2162 - Accept and highlight: Reducing expected bytes to 0. Marking
2163 the server socket tainted after throwing 4 bytes away.
2164 - Accept: Merged multiple header lines to: 'X-FORWARDED-PROTO: http X-HOST: 127.0.0.1'
2167 - Remove the next member from the client_state struct. Only the main
2168 thread needs access to all client states so give it its own struct.
2169 - Garbage-collect request_contains_null_bytes().
2170 - Ditch redundant code in unload_configfile().
2171 - Ditch LogGetURLUnderCursor() which doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
2172 - In write_socket(), remove the write-only variable write_len in
2173 an ifdef __OS2__ block. Spotted by cppcheck.
2174 - In connect_to(), don't declare the variable 'flags' on OS/2 where
2175 it isn't used. Spotted by cppcheck.
2176 - Limit the scope of various variables. Spotted by cppcheck.
2177 - In add_to_iob(), turn an interestingly looking for loop into a
2179 - Code cleanup in preparation for external filters.
2180 - In listen_loop(), mention the socket on which we accepted the
2181 connection, not just the source IP address.
2182 - In write_socket(), also log the socket we're writing to.
2183 - In log_error(), assert that escaped characters get logged
2184 completely or not at all.
2185 - In log_error(), assert that ival and sval have reasonable values.
2186 There's no reason not to abort() if they don't.
2187 - Remove an incorrect cgi_error_unknown() call in a
2188 cannot-happen-situation in send_crunch_response().
2189 - Clean up white-space in http_response definition and
2190 move the crunch_reason to the beginning.
2191 - Turn http_response.reason into an enum and rename it
2192 to http_response.crunch_reason.
2193 - Silence a 'gcc (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2' warning on i686 GNU/Linux.
2194 - Fix white-space in a log message in remove_chunked_transfer_coding().
2195 While at it, add a note that the message doesn't seem to
2196 be entirely correct and should be improved later on.
2198 - GNUmakefile improvements:
2199 - Use $(SSH) instead of ssh, so one only needs to specify a username once.
2200 - Removed references to the action feedback thingy that hasn't been
2202 - Consistently use shell.sourceforge.net instead of shell.sf.net so
2203 one doesn't need to check server fingerprints twice.
2204 - Removed GNUisms in the webserver and webactions targets so they
2205 work with standard tar.
2207 *** Version 3.0.16 Stable ***
2209 - Added the config file option handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok to
2210 work around Firefox bug #492459, which causes Firefox to hang
2211 if JavaScripts are blocked in certain situations. The option is
2212 enabled in the default config file.
2213 - Added the config file option default-server-timeout to control the
2214 assumed default server timeout. Since Privoxy no longer returns
2215 an error message for connection resets on reused client connections,
2216 assuming larger server timeout values appears to actually work
2217 pretty well as long as connections aren't shared.
2218 - Added optional support for FreeBSD's accf_http(9). Use the
2219 configure option --enable-accept-filter to enable it.
2220 - Added fancier Privoxy icons for win32. Contributed by Jeff H.
2221 - In daemon mode, fd 0, 1 and 2 are bound to /dev/null.
2222 - Resolve localhost using whatever address family the operating
2223 system feels like. Previous betas would try to use IPv4 as this
2224 is what most users expect, but this didn't work reliably on
2226 - In the action lists on CGI pages, actions and their parameters are
2227 no longer separated with a space. The action file parser doesn't
2228 actually allow this and will throw an invalid syntax error if actions
2229 and parameters in the action files are separated. Not adding the
2230 spaces means copy and pasting CGI output into the action files works.
2231 - The default keep-alive timeout has been reduced to 5 seconds to work
2232 around hangs in clients that treat the proxy like any other host and
2233 stop allowing any new connections if the "maximum number of
2234 connections per host" is reached.
2235 - Several webbug URLs that look like they are leading to images are now
2236 blocked as image instead of empty documents. Doing the latter causes
2237 WebKit-based clients to show a "missing image" icon which may mess up
2239 - The no-such-domain template is used for DNS resolution
2240 problems with FEATURE_IPV6_SUPPORT enabled. Previously the
2241 connect-failed template was used. Reported by 'zebul666'.
2242 - Accepts quoted expiration dates even though RFC 2109 10.1.2
2243 doesn't seem to allow them. Reported anonymously.
2244 - Don't try to forget connections if connection sharing is disabled.
2245 This wasn't a real problem but caused an unnecessary log message.
2246 - The still undocumented --enable-extended-host-patterns configure
2247 option has a better description.
2248 - Fixed an error message that would claim a write to the server
2249 failed when actually writing to the client failed.
2250 - Log the crunch reason before trying to write to the client.
2251 The log is easier to read that way.
2252 - Several log messages about client connections also mention
2254 - handle-as-empty-document no longer depends on the image blocking
2256 - Privoxy-Log-Parser is roughly 40% faster in highlighting mode.
2257 - uagen, a Firefox User-Agent generator for Privoxy and Mozilla
2258 browsers has been imported and is available in the tarball's
2260 - The scripts in the tools directory treat unknown parameters
2263 *** Version 3.0.15 beta ***
2265 - In case of missing server data, no error message is send to the
2266 client if the request arrived on a reused connection. The client
2267 is then supposed to silently retry the request without bothering
2268 the user. This should significantly reduce the frequency of the
2269 "No server or forwarder data received" error message many users
2271 - More reliable detection of prematurely closed client sockets
2272 with keep-alive enabled.
2273 - FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE is decoupled from
2274 FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING and now available on
2276 - Improved handling of POST requests on reused connections.
2277 Should fix problems with stalled connections after submitting
2278 form data with some browser configurations.
2279 - Fixed various latency calculation issues.
2280 - Allows the client to pass NTLM authentication requests to a
2281 forwarding proxy. This was already assumed and hinted to work
2282 in 3.0.13 beta but actually didn't. Now it's confirmed to work
2283 with IE, Firefox and Chrome.
2284 Thanks to Francois Botha and Wan-Teh Chang
2285 - Fixed a calculation problem if receiving the server headers
2286 takes more than two reads, that could cause Privoxy to terminate
2287 the connection prematurely. Reported by Oliver.
2288 - Compiles again on platforms such as OpenBSD and systems
2289 using earlier glibc version that don't support AI_ADDRCONFIG.
2290 Anonymously submitted in #2872591.
2291 - A bunch of MS VC project files and Suse and Redhat RPM spec
2292 files have been removed as they were no longer maintained for
2294 - Overly long action lines are properly rejected with a proper
2295 error message. Previously they would be either rejected as
2296 invalid or cause a core dump through abort().
2297 - Already timed-out connections are no longer temporarily remembered.
2298 They weren't reused anyway, but wasted a socket slot.
2299 - len refers to the number of bytes actually read which might
2300 differ from the ones received. Adjust log messages accordingly.
2301 - The optional JavaScript on the CGI page uses encodeURIComponent()
2302 instead of escape() which doesn't encode all characters that matter.
2303 Anonymously reported in #2832722.
2304 - Fix gcc45 warnings in decompress_iob().
2305 - Various log message improvements.
2306 - Privoxy-Regression-Test supports redirect tests.
2307 - Privoxy-Log-Parser can gather some connection statistics.
2309 *** Version 3.0.14 beta ***
2311 - The latency is taken into account when evaluating whether or not to
2312 reuse a connection. This should significantly reduce the number of
2313 connections problems several users reported.
2314 - If the server doesn't specify how long the connection stays alive,
2315 Privoxy errs on the safe side of caution and assumes it's only a second.
2316 - The error pages for connection timeouts or missing server data use a
2317 Last-Modified date in the past. Retry attempts are detected and Privoxy
2318 removes the If-Modified-Since header to prevent the server from responding
2319 with status code 304 in which case the client would reuse the error message.
2320 - Setting keep-alive-timeout to 0 disables keep-alive support. Previously
2321 Privoxy would claim to allow persistence but not reuse the connection.
2322 - Pipelined requests are less likely to be mistaken for the request
2323 body of the previous request. Note that Privoxy still has no real
2324 pipeline support and will either serialize pipelined requests or
2325 drop them in which case the client has to resent them.
2326 - Fixed a crash on some Windows versions when header randomization
2327 is enabled and the date couldn't be parsed.
2328 - Privoxy's keep-alive timeout for the current connection is reduced
2329 to the one specified in the client's Keep-Alive header.
2330 - For HTTP/1.1 requests, Privoxy implies keep-alive support by not
2331 setting any Connection header instead of using 'Connection: keep-alive'.
2332 - If the socket isn't reusable, Privoxy doesn't temporarily waste
2333 a socket slot to remember the connection.
2334 - If keep-alive support is disabled but compiled in, the client's
2335 Keep-Alive header is removed.
2336 - Fixed a bug on mingw32 where downloading large files failed if
2337 keep-alive support was enabled.
2338 - Fixed a bug that (at least theoretically) could cause log
2339 timestamps to be occasionally off by about a second.
2340 - No Proxy-Connection header if added if there already is one.
2341 - The configure script respects the $PATH variable when searching
2344 *** Version 3.0.13 beta ***
2346 - Added IPv6 support. Thanks to Petr Pisar who not only provided
2347 the initial patch but also helped a lot with the integration.
2348 - Added client-side keep-alive support.
2349 - The connection sharing code is only used if the connection-sharing
2351 - The max-client-connections option has been added to restrict
2352 the number of client connections below a value enforced by
2353 the operating system.
2354 - Fixed a regression reintroduced in 3.0.12 that could cause
2355 crashes on mingw32 if header date randomization was enabled.
2356 - Compressed content with extra fields couldn't be decompressed
2357 and would get passed to the client unfiltered. This problem
2358 has only be detected through statical analysis with clang as
2359 nobody seems to be using extra fields anyway.
2360 - If the server resets the Connection after sending only the headers
2361 Privoxy forwards what it got to the client. Previously Privoxy
2362 would deliver an error message instead.
2363 - Error messages in case of connection timeouts use the right
2365 - If spawning a child to handle a request fails, the client
2366 gets an error message and Privoxy continues to listen for
2367 new requests right away.
2368 - The error messages in case of server-connection timeouts or
2369 prematurely closed server connections are now template-based.
2370 - If zlib support isn't compiled in, Privoxy no longer tries to
2371 filter compressed content unless explicitly asked to do so.
2372 - In case of connections that are denied based on ACL directives,
2373 the memory used for the client IP is no longer leaked.
2374 - Fixed another small memory leak if the client request times out
2375 while waiting for client headers other than the request line.
2376 - The client socket is kept open until the server socket has
2377 been marked as unused. This should increase the chances that
2378 the still-open connection will be reused for the client's next
2379 request to the same destination. Note that this only matters
2380 if connection-sharing is enabled.
2381 - A TODO list has been added to the source tarball to give potential
2382 volunteers a better idea of what the current goals are. Donations
2383 are still welcome too: https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
2385 *** Version 3.0.12 ***
2387 - The socket-timeout option now also works on platforms whose
2388 select() implementation modifies the timeout structure.
2389 Previously the timeout was triggered even if the connection
2390 didn't stall. Reported by cyberpatrol.
2391 - The Connection: keep-alive code properly deals with files
2392 larger than 2GB. Previously the connection was closed too
2394 - The content length for files above 2GB is logged correctly.
2395 - The user-manual directive on the show-status page links to
2396 the documentation location specified with the directive,
2397 not to the Privoxy website.
2398 - When running in daemon mode, Privoxy doesn't log anything
2399 to the console unless there are errors before the logfile
2401 - The show-status page prints warnings about invalid directives
2402 on the same line as the directives themselves.
2403 - Fixed several justified (but harmless) compiler warnings,
2404 mostly on 64 bit platforms.
2405 - The mingw32 version explicitly requests the default charset
2406 to prevent display problems with some fonts available on more
2407 recent Windows versions. Patch by Burberry.
2408 - The mingw32 version uses the Privoxy icon in the alt-tab
2409 windows. Patch by Burberry.
2410 - The timestamp and the thread id is omitted in the "Fatal error"
2411 message box on mingw32.
2412 - Fixed two related mingw32-only buffer overflows. Triggering
2413 them required control over the configuration file, therefore
2414 this isn't seen as a security issue.
2415 - In verbose mode, or if the new option --show-skipped-tests
2416 is used, Privoxy-Regression-Test logs skipped tests and the
2419 *** Version 3.0.11 ***
2421 - On most platforms, outgoing connections can be kept alive and
2422 reused if the server supports it. Whether or not this improves
2423 things depends on the connection.
2424 - When dropping privileges, membership in supplementary groups
2425 is given up as well. Not doing that can lead to Privoxy running
2426 with more rights than necessary and violates the principle of
2427 least privilege. Users of the --user option are advised to update.
2428 Thanks to Matthias Drochner for reporting the problem,
2429 providing the initial patch and testing the final version.
2430 - Passing invalid users or groups with the --user option
2431 didn't lead to program exit. Regression introduced in 3.0.7.
2432 - The match all section has been moved from default.action
2433 to a new file called match-all.action. As a result the
2434 default.action no longer needs to be touched by the user
2435 and can be safely overwritten by updates.
2436 - The standard.action file has been removed. Its content
2437 is now part of the default.action file.
2438 - In some situations the logged content length was slightly too low.
2439 - Crunched requests are logged with their own log level.
2440 If you used "debug 1" in the past, you'll probably want
2441 to additionally enable "debug 1024", otherwise only passed
2442 requests will be logged. If you only care about crunched
2443 requests, simply replace "debug 1" with "debug 1024".
2444 - The crunch reason has been moved to the beginning of the
2445 crunch message. For HTTP URLs, the protocol is logged as well.
2446 - Log messages are shortened by printing the thread id on its
2447 own (as opposed to putting it inside the string "Privoxy()").
2448 - The config option socket-timeout has been added to control
2449 the time Privoxy waits for data to arrive on a socket.
2450 - Support for remote toggling is controlled by the configure
2451 option --disable-toggle only. In previous versions it also
2452 depended on the action editor and thus configuring with the
2453 --disable-editor option would disable remote toggling support
2455 - Requests with invalid HTTP versions are rejected.
2456 - The template symbol @date@ can be used to include a date(1)-like
2457 time string. Initial patch submitted by Endre Szabo.
2458 - Responses from shoutcast servers are accepted again.
2459 Problem reported and fix suggested by Stefan.
2460 - The hide-forwarded-for-headers action has been replaced with
2461 the change-x-forwarded-for{} action which can also be used to
2462 add X-Forwarded-For headers. The latter functionality already
2463 existed in Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.7 but has been removed
2464 as it was often used unintentionally (by not using the
2465 hide-forwarded-for-headers action).
2466 - A "clear log" view option was added to the mingw32 version
2467 to clear out all of the lines in the Privoxy log window.
2468 Based on a patch submitted by T Ford.
2469 - The mingw32 version uses "critical sections" now, which prevents
2470 log message corruption under load. As a side effect, the
2471 "no thread-safe PRNG" warning could be removed as well.
2472 - The mingw32 version's task bar icon is crossed out and
2473 the color changed to gray if Privoxy is toggled off.
2475 *** Version 3.0.10 ***
2477 - Ordinary configuration file changes no longer cause program
2478 termination on OS/2 if the name of the logfile hasn't been
2479 changed as well. This regression probably crept in with the
2480 logging improvements in 3.0.7. Reported by Maynard.
2481 - The img-reorder filter is less likely to mess up JavaScript code in
2482 img tags. Problem and solution reported by Glenn Washburn in #2014552.
2483 - The source tar ball now includes Privoxy-Log-Parser,
2484 a syntax-highlighter for Privoxy logs. For fancy screenshots see:
2485 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy-log-parser/
2486 Documentation is available through perldoc(1).
2488 *** Version 3.0.9 beta ***
2490 - Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by
2491 the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
2492 - The "blocked" CGI pages include a block reason that was
2493 provided as argument to the last-applying block action.
2494 - If enable-edit-actions is disabled (the default since 3.0.7 beta)
2495 the show-status page hides the edit buttons and explains why.
2496 Previously the user would get the "this feature has been disabled"
2497 message after using the edit button.
2498 - Forbidden CONNECT requests are treated like blocks by default.
2499 The now-pointless treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks action
2501 - Not enabling limit-connect now allows CONNECT requests to all ports.
2502 In previous versions it would only allow CONNECT requests to port 443.
2503 Use +limit-connect{443} if you think you need the old default behaviour.
2504 - The CGI editor gets turned off after three edit requests with invalid
2505 file modification timestamps. This makes life harder for attackers
2506 who can leverage browser bugs to send fake Referers and intend to
2507 brute-force edit URLs.
2508 - Action settings for multiple patterns in the same section are
2509 shared in memory. As a result these sections take up less space
2510 (and are loaded slightly faster). Problem reported by Franz Schwartau.
2511 - Linear white space in HTTP headers will be normalized to single
2512 spaces before parsing the header's content, headers split across
2513 multiple lines get merged first. This should prevent problems like:
2514 * letting the session-cookies-only action slip
2515 some Cookies through unmodified,
2516 * only suppressing the first line of a header,
2517 thus creating an invalid one, and
2518 * to incorrectly block headers with valid timestamps
2519 that weren't properly recognized.
2520 Headers that could trigger these problems are unlikely to appear
2521 in "normal" web traffic, but could be intentionally generated to
2522 fool some of Privoxy's header parsers.
2523 - Host information is gathered outside the main thread so it's less
2524 likely to delay other incoming connections if the host is misconfigured.
2525 - New config option "hostname" to use a hostname other than
2526 the one returned by the operating system. Useful to speed-up responses
2527 for CGI requests on misconfigured systems. Requested by Max Khon.
2528 - The CGI editor supports the "disable all filters of this type"
2529 directives "-client-header-filter", "-server-header-filter",
2530 "-client-header-tagger" and "-server-header-tagger".
2531 - Fixed false-positives with the link-by-url filter and URLs that
2532 contain the pattern "/jump/".
2533 - The less-download-windows filter no longer messes
2534 "Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash" headers up.
2535 - In the show-url-info page's "Final results" section active and
2536 inactive actions are listed separately. Patch provided by Lee.
2537 - The GNUmakefile supports the DESTDIR variable. Patch for
2538 the install target submitted by Radoslaw Zielinski.
2539 - Embedding the content of configuration files in the show-status
2540 page is significantly faster now. For a largish action file (1 MB)
2541 a speedup of about 2450 times has been measured. This is mostly
2542 interesting if you are using large action files or regularly use
2543 Privoxy-Regression-Test while running Privoxy through Valgrind,
2544 for stock configuration files it doesn't really matter.
2545 - If zlib support is unavailable and there are content
2546 filters active but the prevent-compression action is disabled,
2547 the show-url-info page includes a warning that compression
2548 might prevent filtering.
2549 - The show-url-info page provides an OpenSearch Description that
2550 allows to access the page through browser search plugins.
2551 - Custom client-header filters that rewrite the request line
2552 incorrectly no longer cause Privoxy to crash. Reported by din_a4.
2553 - The obsolete kill-popups action has been removed as the
2554 PCRS-based popup filters can do the same and are slightly
2556 - The inspect-jpegs action has been removed.
2557 - The send-wafer and send-vanilla-wafer actions have been removed.
2558 They weren't particular useful and their behaviour could be emulated
2559 with add-header anyway.
2560 - Privoxy-Regression-Test has been significantly improved.
2561 - Most sections in the default.action file contain tests for
2562 Privoxy-Regression-Test to verify that they are working as intended.
2563 - Parts of Privoxy have been refactored to increase maintainability.
2564 - Building with zlib (if available) is done by default.
2566 *** Version 3.0.8 ***
2568 - Fixed a small memory leak when listen-address only specifies the port.
2569 - The source tar balls now include Privoxy-Regression-Test which
2570 (upon other things) can be used to automatically detect some
2571 packaging problems. Packagers are welcome to give it a try.
2572 - Reverted a change in 3.0.7 that caused path patterns to be checked
2573 even if the host pattern match already failed. While this doesn't
2574 noticeable affect the performance, it makes it less likely to run
2575 out of stack space with overly-complex path patterns the user might
2577 - Updated the msn, yahoo and google filters to work as advertised again.
2578 - The warning message shown by the show-status CGI page is easier to
2579 understand. Previously it wasn't clear that the error message
2580 is shown below the invalid directive. (Reported by Lee)
2581 - When regenerating Content-Disposition headers the more common
2582 spelling is used for the name. Previously it was written without caps.
2583 - Less confusing log message if the content type isn't overwritten
2584 because force-text-type wasn't used but the old type doesn't look
2585 like content that would be filtered normally.
2586 - Better log messages if the user tries to execute filters that
2588 - Treat the non-standard Request-Range headers like standard range
2589 headers and suppress them if content filtering is enabled.
2590 - Prevent the log messages for CONNECT requests to unacceptable
2591 ports from printing the limit-connect argument as [null] if
2592 limit-connect hasn't been explicitly enabled.
2593 - Don't disable the mingw32 log window if the logfile directive
2594 isn't used. While it was an intentional change in 3.0.7 at least
2595 one user perceived it as a regression and the same effect can
2596 be achieved by disabling all debug directives.
2597 - Fixed two minor problems related to the win32 build process: a css
2598 file was not being in the installer and the trustfile comment in the
2599 config.txt referenced a nonexisting file
2600 - Minor documentation fixes.
2602 *** Version 3.0.7 beta ***
2604 - Added zlib support to filter content with gzip and deflate
2605 encoding. (Patch provided by Wil Mahan)
2606 - Dedicated filters and actions are used for header filtering.
2607 "filter-client-headers" and "filter-client-headers" are no longer
2608 supported, use server-header-filter{} and client-header-filter{}
2610 - Tags can be used to change actions based on HTTP headers.
2611 - New server-header filter: less-download-windows.
2612 - New client-header taggers: css-requests, image-requests,
2613 client-ip-address, http-method, allow-post, complete-url,
2614 user-agent and privoxy-control.
2615 - New server-header taggers: content-type and privoxy-control.
2616 - The forward-override{} action allows to change the forwarding
2617 settings through the action files, for example based on client
2618 headers like the User-Agent, or the request origin.
2619 - Socks errors are no longer handled by the CGI page for
2620 DNS resolution failures.
2621 - CGI pages use favicons to signal whether they are error
2622 or control pages. This is useful if you rely heavily on
2624 - The show-url-info CGI page shows the forwarding settings.
2625 - "Crunch!" log messages (used when Privoxy answers requests
2626 by itself) now also contain the reason.
2627 - Allow to rewrite the request destination behind the client's back.
2628 - Fix socks requests on big-endian platforms. Patch provided by Song Weijia.
2629 - Fixes possible deadlocks and crashes on OpenBSD.
2630 Patch provided by Ralf Horstmann.
2631 - The CGI action editor allows to edit actionfiles with previously
2632 forbidden characters like dots.
2633 - New trust entries are saved with a comment that contains the
2634 trusted referring URL (Suggested by Daniel Griscom).
2635 - Filter descriptions are HTML encoded automatically.
2636 - New config option "split-large-forms" to work
2637 around a browser bug that caused IE6 and IE7 to ignore
2638 the Submit button on the edit-actions-for-url CGI page.
2639 - New config option "allow-cgi-request-crunching" to allow
2640 requests for Privoxy's CGI pages to be blocked, redirected
2641 or (un)trusted like ordinary requests.
2642 - Empty filter files no longer interrupt the filtering process
2643 prematurely and are correctly listed on the show-status CGI page.
2644 - New config option "accept-intercepted-requests" to combine
2645 Privoxy with any packet filter to build an intercepting proxy
2646 for HTTP/1.1 requests (and for HTTP/1.0 requests with Host header set).
2647 - fast-redirects{} catch redirects to https URLs as well.
2648 - redirect{s@foo@bar@} can be used to redirect to a rewritten
2649 version of the original URL.
2650 - Trap unsupported gopher proxy requests.
2651 - Fixed a bug in the User Manual delivery on Windows
2652 (mingw32 only). Images now show up correctly and HTML
2653 pages are no longer padded with garbage data.
2654 - Fixed several minor memory leaks, most of them discovered with Valgrind.
2655 - Only unlink the pidfile if it's actually used.
2656 - Retries after connection problems with forced requests
2657 aren't blocked again.
2658 - On Unix SIGABRT causes a core dump as expected and is no
2659 longer treated as normal shutdown signal.
2660 - The "access denied" CGI page is more descriptive and
2661 allows retries to circumvent the referrer check.
2662 - Updated PCRS to handle unexpected PCRE errors properly.
2663 Fixed crashes that could occur if Privoxy was build
2664 with external PCRE versions newer than Privoxy's internal
2665 one. (Reported by Chung-chieh Shan)
2666 - Fixed crashes with null bytes in PCRS replacement strings
2667 (Patch provided by Felix Gröbert).
2668 - Fixed crashes with header time randomization on mingw32.
2669 - The CGI style sheet is no longer delivered if the referring
2670 page isn't a Privoxy CGI page. This prevents a JavaScript-based
2671 Privoxy detection "attack". Note that detecting Privoxy is
2672 still possible through other ways and Privoxy was never intended
2673 to be invisible anyway.
2674 - Added support for AmigaOS 4, fixed build for AmigaOS 3.x.
2675 - The show-url-info CGI page displays a warning if Privoxy
2676 is currently toggled off.
2677 - The show-status CGI page suppresses the edit button
2678 for action files if Privoxy has no write access.
2679 - Most CGI error pages react properly to HEAD requests.
2680 - Requests with RFC 3253 HTTP methods (used by Subversion)
2681 are accepted. (Patch provided by Petr Kadlec)
2682 - New config option "templdir" to change the location
2683 of the CGI templates to make sure customized templates
2685 - Better handling of "HTTP/1.1 100 Continue" responses.
2686 - The background of the PNG pattern is transparent.
2687 - Fixed XML syntax errors caused by banners-by-size and banners-by-url.
2688 - Fixed crashes and possible action file corruptions
2689 when lines containing hashes are written through the CGI editor.
2690 - Supports dynamic filters which can contain variables.
2691 - Supports tags to change the actions based on client or server headers.
2692 - Incorrect actions are logged before program termination.
2693 - The "actionsfile" syntax in the configuration file is consistent
2694 with the rest of the configuration options and requires the
2695 whole file name. This is an incompatible change, if you use
2696 an old configuration file you might have to append ".action"
2697 to your "actionsfile" directives.
2698 - With the configuration file option "enforce-blocks" the
2699 "go there anyway" mechanism can be disabled without recompiling
2701 - More precise error messages in case of incorrect acl syntax.
2702 - Logs a warning if filtering is enabled but impossible due
2703 to lack of zlib support or use of the prevent-compression action.
2704 - Less noisy handling of Cookie:" and "Connection:" headers.
2705 - Improved error messages in case of connection problems.
2706 - Fix a command-line-parsing bug that was introduced before 3.0.5
2707 beta and caused Privoxy to treat the last argument as configuration
2708 file if no configuration file was specified.
2709 - Treat unknown command line options as fatal errors instead
2710 of silently ignoring them.
2711 - Use string functions with length checks more often.
2712 - Don't log CONNECT requests twice.
2713 - Allow to log the source address for ACL-related connection drops.
2714 - Don't ignore applying filters if the server didn't
2715 specify a Content-Type. Bug reported by Amuro Namie.
2716 - Rejected CONNECT requests are logged with log level info
2717 (enabled by default) and the reason for the block.
2718 - New command line option "--pre-chroot-nslookup hostname" to
2719 intialize the resolver library before chroot'ing. On some systems this
2720 reduces the number of files that must be copied into the chroot tree.
2721 (Patch provided by Stephen Gildea)
2722 - Fix a long-standing memory corruption bug that could cause
2723 Privoxy to overwrite a single byte in memory it didn't explicitly
2724 allocate (but that probably was allocated anyway due to bucket size).
2725 - Send template-based CGI pages as HTTP/1.1 unless the client
2727 - Let the first line in connection established responses
2728 end in \r\n as required by RFC1945. Reported by Bert van Leeuwen.
2729 - If no log file has been specified, disable logging instead of logging
2731 - Don't block stderr when in daemon mode.
2732 - Ignore missing zero-chunks when filtering chunk-encoded content.
2733 Earlier Privoxy versions would buffer and then forward the content
2734 unmodified which caused some browsers to simply show empty pages.
2735 - Fix double free in cgi_edit_actions_list(). Reported by Venustech AD-LAB.
2736 - The code to add X-Forwarded-For headers when the hide-forwarded-for-headers
2737 action isn't being used has been removed.
2738 - Fixed trustfile feature which previously didn't work without FEATURE_TOGGLE.
2740 - Minor code clean-ups, filter and action file updates.
2741 (Some of them reported by Davide Alberani, Markus Elfring,
2742 Stefan Huehner and Adam Piggott)
2744 *** Version 3.0.6 ***
2746 - New content filters: no-ping, google, msn, yahoo and blogspot.
2747 - New header filters: x-httpd-php-to-html, html-to-xml, xml-to-html
2748 and hide-tor-exit-notation.
2749 - The special header "X-Filter: No" now disables header filtering as well.
2750 - Improved the filters img-reorder, js-annoyances, webbugs,
2751 banners-by-size, banners-by-link and ie-exploits to make them
2752 less likely to break anything.
2753 - Removed outdated URL patterns in default.action and added new ones.
2754 - Added redirection from http://p.p/user-manual to http://p.p/user-manual/
2755 - Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent, hide-referrer
2756 and set-image-blocker.
2758 *** Version 3.0.5 beta ***
2760 - Windows version can be installed/started as a service.
2761 - Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy.
2762 - Integrated Fabian Keil's extensive patch. See:
2763 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the
2764 following new or significantly improved actions (among many
2765 other improvements):
2767 content-type-overwrite{}
2768 crunch-client-header{string}
2769 crunch-if-none-match
2770 crunch-server-header{string}
2771 fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}
2772 filter-client-headers
2773 filter-server-headers
2775 handle-as-empty-document
2776 hide-accept-language{}
2777 hide-content-disposition{}
2778 hide-if-modified-since
2779 hide-referrer{conditional-block}
2780 overwrite-last-modified{}
2782 treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks
2784 - Standard-compliant clients are prevented from displaying cached
2785 copies of Privoxy's error messages after the cause of the problem
2787 - Improved DNS error handling.
2788 - Multiple filter files can now be specified in config.
2789 - Added jpeg filtering to defend against MS jpeg vulnerability MS04-028
2790 with the new inspect-jpegs action.
2791 - Removed the "arbitrary" 1000 filter limit - addresses tracker #911950
2792 - Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log
2793 file. The race condition remains for non-pthread implementations.
2794 Reference patch #1175720. Various other logging enhancements.
2795 - A pile of assorted bug fixes, memory leaks, enhancements, etc.
2796 - Moved Actions file reporting mechanism to SF tracker.
2797 - Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and
2798 forwarded-connect-retries.
2799 - Trap unsupported FTP requests.
2800 - Let text/xml be filtered.
2801 - Numerous updates to default.action
2802 - Increase the compiled in limit of trusted referrers from 64 to 512
2803 (for trustfile users).
2805 *** Version 3.0.3 ***
2807 - Fixed yet another two memory leaks. Process growth seems stopped now.
2808 - Further tightened security against malicious toggle-off links.
2809 - Excluded text/plain MIME types from filtering. This fixes a
2810 couple of client-crashing, download corruption and
2811 Privoxy performance issues, whose root cause lies in
2812 web servers labelling content of unknown type as text/plain.
2813 - Assorted fixes for POSIX compliance, signal handling, graceful
2814 termination, compiler warnings, OSX support, Win32 systray,
2815 error logging, hostname wildcards, correct detection of NetBSD.
2816 - Workarounds for client (iTunes etc) and server (PHP < 4.2.3) bugs
2817 including the notorious "blank page" problem.
2818 - Various filter improvements; most notably the unsolicited-popups
2819 filter became less destructive
2820 - Major revamp of the actions file
2822 *** Version 3.0.2 ***
2824 - Fixed two memory leaks, one serious
2825 - Fixed bug in pcrs which could cause crashes with user-defined filters
2826 - Fixed bug in domain name matching
2827 - Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..)
2828 - Added basic support for the OPTIONS and TRACE http methods
2829 - Added workaround for Bug in Mac OSX that made Privoxy crash occasionally
2830 - Refined the default action file through >400 items of user feedback
2832 - Assorted refinements, optimizations and fixes in the js-annoyances,
2833 img-reorder, banners-by-size, banners-by-link, webbugs, refresh-tags,
2834 html-annoyances, content-cookies and fun filters
2835 - Replaced filter "popups" by choice between two modes:
2836 - "unsolicited-popups" tries to catch only the unsolicited ones
2837 - "all-popups" tries to kill them all (as before)
2838 - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas.
2839 - New filter "jumping-windows" that prevents windows from resizing
2840 and moving themselves
2841 - New filter "demoronizer" which fixes MS's abuse of std charsets
2842 (common cases anyway).
2843 - Replaced "nimda" with more general "ie-exploits" filter in which
2844 all filters for exploits shall be collected
2845 - Improved cookie logging
2846 - Rewrote make install target. Added uninstall and install-strip
2848 - Fixed a potential (application-level, NOT OS-level!) security
2849 problem involving remote toggling and action file manipulation
2850 by mailicious websites.
2851 - Added ability to chroot (thanks to Sviatoslav Sviridov)
2852 - Added more action aliases for prehistoric action names
2853 - Add Slackware support to Makefile.
2857 - Fixed Windows startmenu items, log window and tray icon menus.
2858 - Added warning for bogus install target
2859 - Added quicktime-kioskmode filter and improved frameset-borders
2860 - Updated default.action based on latest feedback
2861 - New PDF doc build process
2862 - Add a user contrib module to cvs:
2863 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ijbswa/contrib/
2865 *** Version 2.9.18 ***
2867 - Added workaround for IE bug that broke CGI interface
2868 - Bugfix: String actions now reliably editable through CGI interface
2869 - Three filters fixed (again!)
2870 - Assorted small fixes and doc enhancements
2872 *** Version 2.9.16 ***
2874 - Major revamp of default.action to get rid of years of cruft.
2875 - Same for default.filter
2876 - Re-design and major improvements to the CGI editor interface.
2877 - Address spurious 'out of memory' error due to incorrect file permissions.
2878 - Impose buffer limits while reading client and server headers.
2879 - Better memory and CPU optimization.
2880 - Add Conectiva Linux package.
2881 - user-manual directive added to config for help links from within CGI
2883 - Multiple actions files can now be specified in config.
2884 - Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and
2885 user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
2886 - The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes.
2888 *** Version 2.9.14 beta ***
2890 - Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
2891 - Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
2892 - Fix build failure where certain features were disabled.
2893 - 'blocked-compact' template is removed. Various CGI improvements,
2894 including an adaptive 'blocked' template.
2895 - Various tweaks for actions file to get ready for stable 3.0
2896 - Included a 'Bookmarklet' and PHP scripts for reporting actions file
2897 problems via web interface at privoxy.org. Accessed via internal CGIs.
2898 - Include cgi-style.css for templates.
2899 - #include mechansim for common text in templates
2900 - Various other minor fixes.
2902 *** Version 2.9.13 beta ***
2904 - *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
2905 reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
2906 - ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now
2908 - http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/
2909 - The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern'
2910 (checkerboard) is now the default.
2911 - RPM spec file make over.
2914 *** Version 2.9.12 beta ***
2916 - **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from
2917 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
2919 - More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements.
2920 - Win32 command line fix ups.
2921 - re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a
2922 per site basis. Some new goodies there too.
2923 - +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile
2924 for even more flexibility.
2925 - Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which
2926 displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo.
2927 - PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images
2928 if configured with --enable-no-gif.
2929 - Clean up compiler warnings (mostly).
2930 - Improved handling of failed DNS lookups & diagnostics for failed bind
2932 - Made --no-daemon mode log to tty instead of logfile.
2933 - Various spec file and init script cleanups and improvements (Redhat and
2935 - CGI Editor works on OS/2 now.
2936 - Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT.
2937 - Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file.
2938 - A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help,
2939 --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces
2940 the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges
2941 to the specified user.
2942 - Signal handling cleanups (*nix).
2943 - CGI actions editor improvements and fixes.
2944 - Error handling improvements, especially out of memory.
2945 - Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos
2946 (instead of 'blank').
2947 - configure.in threading fixes for Solaris.
2948 - Various other minor fixes.
2951 *** Version 2.9.11 beta Changes ***
2953 - Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life
2954 of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk).
2955 - Checks for correct header length.
2956 - Fix user:pass@host.domain.com auth bug.
2957 - Better signal handling on *nix.
2958 - Fix CFLAGS hard-coded in configure.in
2959 - Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random
2960 URLs to fail in some cases.
2963 *** Version 2.9.11 Alpha Changes ***
2965 - A web-based editor for the actions file is included (go to http://i.j.b/).
2966 - Web-based toggle IJB on/off support.
2967 - Cookie handling has changed - the new +no-cookies-keep feature is now the
2969 - actionsfile is renamed to ijb.action.
2970 - junkbstr.txt is now config.txt on Win32.
2971 - Support for running IJB as a UNIX daemon process has improved.
2972 - Unix daemon now returns error code on failed start.
2973 - Timestamps in logfile and jarfile now.
2974 - Fix for the Netscape bug reintroduced in 2.9.9.
2975 - make should now abort if gmake (GNU make) not present.
2976 - Many other minor bugfixes
2977 - Start a ChangeLog :)
2981 *** Version 2.9.3 pre-Alpha Changes ***
2983 - Amiga support (completely untested by me - I don't have an Amiga)
2984 - "tinygif 3" support (redirects blocked images to a specified URL, so
2985 the browser doesn't have to load and cache many copies of the same
2987 - one case where there were both local and global "referrer" variables
2988 (yuck!) clarified by renaming the local one to "refer".
2989 - Fixed some places where close() was used instead of close_socket().
2990 Thanks to Jörg Strohmayer (joergs at users.sourceforge.net) for these.
2991 - Temporary hack to get FORCE_LOAD to work with IE. I just lowercased the
2992 FORCE_LOAD_PREFIX. Needs fixing properly.
2993 - Most URLs hardcoded into Junkbuster were changed to go through a script
2994 e.g. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?v=2.9.3&to=faq
2995 The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL:
2996 http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
2998 http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/
2999 ... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway.
3000 TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's
3001 copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page.
3002 - PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option.
3005 *** Version 2.9.2 pre-Alpha Changes ***
3007 - Andreas applied the latest version of the FORCE patch.
3010 *** Version 2.9.1 pre-Alpha Changes ***
3012 - in parsers.c, fixed two #ifdef FORCE to #ifdef FORCE_LOAD
3013 (BTW: I think FORCE is precise enough, since loading remote
3014 data is the whole purpose of a proxy..)
3015 - Set the FORCE_PREFIX (back) to 'IJB-FORCE-LOAD-'. While 'noijb.'
3016 is more elegant and looks like a hostname in the URL, it doesn't
3017 make clear to the inexperienced user that the proxy is bypassed. It
3018 also has a higher name collision risk.
3019 - Filled in the function header templates for my functions in
3020 parsers.c (again). They obviously got lost in our current
3022 - Cut the credit for the §-referrer-option from the config file,
3023 that Stefan had placed there.
3024 - Improved the re_filterfile
3027 *** Version 2.9.0 pre-Alpha Changes ***
3029 - Now use PCRE, not GNU REGEX. I have not yet had chance to check the
3030 syntax of the block/image/cookie file to ensure that they match what
3031 is expected - however they seem to work.
3032 - Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also
3033 use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for
3034 the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from
3035 "acconfig.h" and "configure.in". (Note that to install you do not
3036 need autoconf or autoheader - just run "./configure".)
3037 To see command-line options, run "./configure --help".
3038 This is my first ever autoconf script, so it has some rough edges
3039 (how PCRE is handled is the roughest).
3040 - Error logging code replaced with new module errlog.c, based on the
3041 one from JunkbusterMT (but with the threading code removed).
3042 - Most of Rodney's 0.21 and 0.21A patches applied. (Marked *). I did not
3043 apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional
3044 popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code.
3045 - ACL, Jar and trust files conditionally compiled.
3046 - New source file headers.
3047 - Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the
3048 config files - I think that's worthwhile, but it's 1am and I want to
3050 - RCS tags on .h files.
3051 - RCS tags are const char[] rather than const char *. (Saves 4 bytes
3053 - VC++ project files renamed to vc_junkbuster.*.
3054 - show-proxy-args now shows status of all conditionals, not just REGEX
3055 - Various functions moved around. Most notably all the system-specific
3056 sockets code which was spread between jcc.c, bind.c, and connect.c,
3057 has been moved to "jbsockets.c". The non-system-specific code from
3058 connect.c and socks4.c has been movet to "gateway.c". Also, the
3059 config file loader and the global variables it writes to have been
3060 moved to "loadcfg.c". (Maybe this should go into loaders.c?)
3061 And candidate for the "worst filename ever" award is "miscutil.c",
3062 which contains, well, miscellaneous utility functions like zalloc.
3063 (Suggestions for a better name for this file are welcome!)
3064 - Loaders now use a common function to read a line and skip comments,
3065 and this function also stores the proxy_args.
3066 - Added ./junkbuster --help (Not for Win32 GUI)
3067 - Added ./junkbuster --version (Not for Win32 GUI)
3068 - Win32 resources are now all marked as "U.S. English", rather than
3069 being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English".
3070 - Version number changes to 2.9.0
3073 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
3074 Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2021 the
3075 Privoxy team. https://www.privoxy.org/
3077 Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
3078 by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
3079 Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com/
3081 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
3082 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
3083 Public License as published by the Free Software
3084 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
3085 your option) any later version.
3087 This program is distributed in the hope that it will
3088 be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
3089 implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
3090 PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
3091 License for more details.
3093 The GNU General Public License should be included with
3094 this file. If not, you can view it at
3095 http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
3096 or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59
3097 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.