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4 *** Version 3.0.26 stable ***
7 - Fixed crashes with "listen-addr :8118" (SF Bug #902).
8 The regression was introduced in 3.0.25 beta and reported
9 by Marvin Renich in Debian bug #834941.
11 - General improvements:
12 - Log when privoxy is toggled on or off via cgi interface.
13 - Highlight the "Info: Now toggled " on/off log message
14 in the Windows log viewer.
15 - Highlight the loading actions/filter file log message
16 in the Windows log viewer.
17 - Mention client-specific tags on the toggle page as a
18 potentionally more appropriate alternative.
20 - Documentation improvements:
21 - Update download section on the homepage.
22 The downloads are available from the website now.
24 - Remove obsolete reference to mailing lists hosted at SourceForge.
25 - Update the "Before the Release" section of the developer manual.
27 - Infrastructure improvements:
28 - Add perl script to generate an RSS feed for the packages
29 Submitted by "Unknown".
31 - Build system improvements:
32 - strptime.h: fix a compiler warning about ambiguous else.
33 - configure.in: Check for Docbook goo on the BSDs as well.
34 - GNUMakefile.in: Let the dok-user target remove temporary files.
36 *** Version 3.0.25 beta ***
39 - Always use the current toggle state for new requests.
40 Previously new requests on reused connections inherited
41 the toggle state from the previous request even though
42 the toggle state could have changed.
43 Reported by Robert Klemme.
44 - Fixed two buffer-overflows in the (deprecated) static
45 pcre code. These bugs are not considered security issues
46 as the input is trusted.
47 Found with afl-fuzz and ASAN.
49 - General improvements:
50 - Added support for client-specific tags which allow Privoxy
51 admins to pre-define tags that are set for all requests from
52 clients that previously opted in through the CGI interface.
53 They are useful in multi-user setups where admins may
54 want to allow users to disable certain actions and filters
55 for themselves without affecting others.
56 In single-user setups they are useful to allow more fine-grained
57 toggling. For example to disable request blocking while still
58 crunching cookies, or to disable experimental filters only.
59 This is an experimental feature, the syntax and behaviour may
60 change in future versions.
61 Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
62 - Dynamic filters and taggers now support a $listen-address variable
63 which contains the address the request came in on.
64 For external filters the variable is called $PRIVOXY_LISTEN_ADDRESS.
65 Original patch contributed by pursievro.
66 - Add client-header-tagger 'listen-address'.
67 - Include the listen-address in the log message when logging new requests.
68 Patch contributed by pursievro.
69 - Turn invalid max-client-connections values into fatal errors.
70 - The show-status page now shows whether or not dates before 1970
71 and after 2038 are expected to be handled properly.
72 This is mainly useful for Privoxy-Regression-Test but could
73 also come handy when dealing with time-related support requests.
74 - On Mac OS X the thread id in log messages are more likely to
76 - When complaining about missing filters, the filter type is logged
78 - A couple of harmless coverity warnings were silenced
79 (CID #161202, CID #161203, CID #161211).
81 - Action file improvements:
82 - Filtering is disabled for Range requests to let download resumption
83 and Windows updates work with the default configuration.
84 - Unblock ".ardmediathek.de/".
85 Reported by ThTomate in #932.
87 - Documentation improvements:
88 - Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits.
89 - Remove obsolete FAQ entry about a bug in PHP 4.2.3.
90 - Mention the new mailing lists were appropriate.
91 As the archives have not been migrated, continue to
92 mention the archives at SF in the contacting section
94 - Note that the templates should be adjusted if Privoxy is
95 running as intercepting proxy without getting all requests.
96 - A bunch of links were converted to https://.
97 - Rephrase onion service paragraph to make it more obvious
98 that Tor is involved and that the whole website (and not
99 just the homepage) is available as onion service.
100 - Streamline the "More information" section on the homepage further
101 by additionally ditching the link to the 'See also' section
102 of the user manual. The section contains mostly links that are
103 directly reachable from the homepage already and the rest is
104 not significant enough to get a link from the homepage.
105 - Change the add-header{} example to set the DNT header
106 and use a complete section to make copy and pasting
108 Add a comment to make it obvious that adding the
109 header is not recommended for obvious reasons.
110 Using the DNT header as example was suggested by
112 - Streamline the support-and-service template
113 Instead of linking to the various support trackers
114 (whose URLs hopefully change soon), link to the
115 contact section of the user manual to increase the
116 chances that users actually read it.
117 - Add a FAQ entry for tainted sockets.
118 - More sections in the documentation have stable URLs now.
119 - FAQ: Explain why 'ping config.privoxy.org' is not expected
120 to reach a local Privoxy installation.
121 - Note that donations done through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently
122 can't be checked automatically.
123 - Updated section regarding starting Privoxy under OS X.
124 - Use dedicated start instructions for FreeBSD and ElectroBSD.
125 - Removed release instructions for AIX. They haven't been working
126 for years and unsurprisingly nobody seems to care.
127 - Removed obsolete reference to the solaris-dist target.
128 - Updated the release instructions for FreeBSD.
129 - Removed unfinished release instructions for Amiga OS and HP-UX 11.
130 - Added a pointer to the Cygwin Time Machine for getting the last release of
131 Cygwin version 1.5 to use for building Privoxy on Windows.
132 - Various typos have been fixed.
134 - Infrastructure improvements:
135 - The website is no longer hosted at SourceForge and
136 can be reached through https now.
137 - The mailing lists at SourceForge have been deprecated,
138 you can subscribe to the new ones at: https://lists.privoxy.org/
139 - Migrating the remaining services from SourceForge is
140 work in progress (TODO list item #53).
142 - Build system improvements:
143 - Add configure argument to optimistically redefine FD_SETSIZE
144 with the intent to change the maximum number of client
145 connections Privoxy can handle. Only works with some libcs.
146 Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
147 - Let the tarball-dist target skip files in ".git".
148 - Let the tarball-dist target work in cwds other than current.
149 - Make the 'clean' target faster when run from a git repository.
150 - Include tools in the generic distribution.
151 - Let the gen-dist target work in cwds other than current.
152 - Sort find output that is used for distribution tarballs
153 to get reproducible results.
154 - Don't add '-src' to the name of the tar ball generated by the
155 gen-dist target. The package isn't a source distribution but a
157 While at it, use a variable for the name to reduce the chances
158 that the various references get out of sync and fix the gen-upload
159 target which was looking in the wrong directory.
160 - Add regression-tests.action to the files that are distributed.
161 - The gen-dist target which was broken since 2002 (r1.92) has been fixed.
162 - Remove genclspec.sh which has been obsolete since 2009.
163 - Remove obsolete reference to Redhat spec file.
164 - Remove the obsolete announce target which has been commented out years ago.
165 - Let rsync skip files if the checksums match.
167 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
168 - Add a "Default level offset" directive which can be used to
169 change the default level by a given value.
170 This directive affects all tests located after it until the end
171 of the file or a another "Default level offset" directive is reached.
172 The purpose of this directive is to make it more convenient to skip
173 similar tests in a given file without having to remove or disable
174 the tests completely.
175 - Let test level 17 depend on FEATURE_64_BIT_TIME_T
176 instead of FEATURE_PTHREAD which has no direct connection
178 - Fix indentation in perldoc examples.
179 - Don't overlook directives in the first line of the action file.
180 - Bump version to 0.7.
181 - Fix detection of the Privoxy version now that https://
182 is used for the website.
184 *** Version 3.0.24 stable ***
186 - Security fixes (denial of service):
187 - Prevent invalid reads in case of corrupt chunk-encoded content.
188 CVE-2016-1982. Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
189 - Remove empty Host headers in client requests.
190 Previously they would result in invalid reads. CVE-2016-1983.
191 Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
194 - When using socks5t, send the request body optimistically as well.
195 Previously the request body wasn't guaranteed to be sent at all
196 and the error message incorrectly blamed the server.
197 Fixes #1686 reported by Peter Müller and G4JC.
198 - Fixed buffer scaling in execute_external_filter() that could lead
199 to crashes. Submitted by Yang Xia in #892.
200 - Fixed crashes when executing external filters on platforms like
201 Mac OS X. Reported by Jonathan McKenzie on ijbswa-users@.
202 - Properly parse ACL directives with ports when compiled with HAVE_RFC2553.
203 Previously the port wasn't removed from the host and in case of
204 'permit-access 127.0.0.1 example.org:80' Privoxy would try (and fail)
205 to resolve "example.org:80" instead of example.org.
206 Reported by Pak Chan on ijbswa-users@.
207 - Check requests more carefully before serving them forcefully
208 when blocks aren't enforced. Privoxy always adds the force token
209 at the beginning of the path, but would previously accept it anywhere
210 in the request line. This could result in requests being served that
211 should be blocked. For example in case of pages that were loaded with
212 force and contained JavaScript to create additionally requests that
213 embed the origin URL (thus inheriting the force prefix).
214 The bug is not considered a security issue and the fix does not make
215 it harder for remote sites to intentionally circumvent blocks if
216 Privoxy isn't configured to enforce them.
217 Fixes #1695 reported by Korda.
218 - Normalize the request line in intercepted requests to make rewriting
219 the destination more convenient. Previously rewrites for intercepted
220 requests were expected to fail unless $hostport was being used, but
221 they failed "the wrong way" and would result in an out-of-memory
222 message (vanilla host patterns) or a crash (extended host patterns).
223 Reported by "Guybrush Threepwood" in #1694.
224 - Enable socket lingering for the correct socket.
225 Previously it was repeatedly enabled for the listen socket
226 instead of for the accepted socket. The bug was found by
227 code inspection and did not cause any (reported) issues.
228 - Detect and reject parameters for parameter-less actions.
229 Previously they were silently ignored.
230 - Fixed invalid reads in internal and outdated pcre code.
231 Found with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
232 - Prevent invalid read when loading invalid action files.
233 Found with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
234 - Windows build: Use the correct function to close the event handle.
235 It's unclear if this bug had a negative impact on Privoxy's behaviour.
236 Reported by Jarry Xu in #891.
237 - In case of invalid forward-socks5(t) directives, use the
238 correct directive name in the error messages. Previously they
239 referred to forward-socks4t failures.
240 Reported by Joel Verhagen in #889.
242 - General improvements:
243 - Set NO_DELAY flag for the accepting socket. This significantly reduces
244 the latency if the operating system is not configured to set the flag
245 by default. Reported by Johan Sintorn in #894.
246 - Allow to build with mingw x86_64. Submitted by Rustam Abdullaev in #135.
247 - Introduce the new forwarding type 'forward-webserver'.
248 Currently it is only supported by the forward-override{} action and
249 there's no config directive with the same name. The forwarding type
250 is similar to 'forward', but the request line only contains the path
251 instead of the complete URL.
252 - The CGI editor no longer treats 'standard.action' special.
253 Nowadays the official "standards" are part of default.action
254 and there's no obvious reason to disallow editing them through
255 the cgi editor anyway (if the user decided that the lack of
256 authentication isn't an issue in her environment).
257 - Improved error messages when rejecting intercepted requests
258 with unknown destination.
259 - A couple of log messages now include the number of active threads.
260 - Removed non-standard Proxy-Agent headers in HTTP snipplets
261 to make testing more convenient.
262 - Include the error code for pcre errors Privoxy does not recognize.
263 - Config directives with numerical arguments are checked more carefully.
264 - Privoxy's malloc() wrapper has been changed to prevent zero-size
265 allocations which should only occur as the result of bugs.
266 - Various cosmetic changes.
268 - Action file improvements:
269 - Unblock ".deutschlandradiokultur.de/".
270 Reported by u302320 in #924.
271 - Add two fast-redirect exceptions for "yandex.ru".
272 - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for ".plasmaservice.de/".
273 - Unblock "klikki.fi/adv/".
274 - Block requests for "resources.infolinks.com/".
275 Reported by "Black Rider" on ijbswa-users@.
276 - Block a bunch of criteo domains.
277 Reported by Black Rider.
278 - Block "abs.proxistore.com/abe/".
279 Reported by Black Rider.
280 - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for ".black-mosquito.org/".
281 - Disable fast-redirects for "disqus.com/".
283 - Documentation improvements:
284 - FAQ: Explicitly point fingers at ASUS as an example of a
285 company that has been reported to force malware based on
286 Privoxy upon its customers.
287 - Correctly document the action type for a bunch of "multi-value"
288 actions that were incorrectly documented to be "parameterized".
289 Reported by Gregory Seidman on ijbswa-users@.
290 - Fixed the documented type of the forward-override{} action
291 which is obviously 'parameterized'.
293 - Website improvements:
294 - Users who don't trust binaries served by SourceForge
295 can get them from a mirror. Migrating away from SourceForge
296 is planned for 2016 (TODO list item #53).
297 - The website is now available as onion service
298 (http://jvauzb4sb3bwlsnc.onion/).
300 *** Version 3.0.23 stable ***
303 - Fixed a DoS issue in case of client requests with incorrect
304 chunk-encoded body. When compiled with assertions enabled
305 (the default) they could previously cause Privoxy to abort().
306 Reported by Matthew Daley. CVE-2015-1380.
307 - Fixed multiple segmentation faults and memory leaks in the
308 pcrs code. This fix also increases the chances that an invalid
309 pcrs command is rejected as such. Previously some invalid commands
310 would be loaded without error. Note that Privoxy's pcrs sources
311 (action and filter files) are considered trustworthy input and
312 should not be writable by untrusted third-parties. CVE-2015-1381.
313 - Fixed an 'invalid read' bug which could at least theoretically
314 cause Privoxy to crash. So far, no crashes have been observed.
316 - Compiles with --disable-force again. Reported by Kai Raven.
317 - Client requests with body that can't be delivered no longer
318 cause pipelined requests behind them to be rejected as invalid.
319 Reported by Basil Hussain.
321 - General improvements:
322 - If a pcrs command is rejected as invalid, Privoxy now logs
323 the cause of the problem as text. Previously the pcrs error
325 - The tests are less likely to cause false positives.
327 - Action file improvements:
328 - '.sify.com/' is no longer blocked. Apparently it is not actually
329 a pure tracking site (anymore?). Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
330 - Unblock banners on .amnesty.de/ which aren't ads.
332 - Documentation improvements:
333 - The 'Would you like to donate?' section now also contains
335 - The list of supported operating systems has been updated.
336 - The existence of the SF support and feature trackers has been
337 deemphasized because they have been broken for months.
338 Most of the time the mailing lists still work.
339 - The claim that default.action updates are sometimes released
340 on their own has been removed. It hasn't happened in years.
341 - Explicitly mention that Tor's port may deviate from the default
342 when using a bundle. Requested by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
344 *** Version 3.0.22 stable ***
347 - Fixed a memory leak when rejecting client connections due to
348 the socket limit being reached (CID 66382). This affected
349 Privoxy 3.0.21 when compiled with IPv6 support (on most
350 platforms this is the default). CVE-2015-1030.
351 - Fixed an immediate-use-after-free bug (CID 66394) and two
352 additional unconfirmed use-after-free complaints made by
353 Coverity scan (CID 66391, CID 66376). CVE-2015-1031.
354 - Actually show the FORCE_PREFIX value on the show-status page.
355 - Properly deal with Keep-Alive headers with timeout= parameters
356 If the timeout still can't be parsed, use the configured
357 timeout instead of preventing the client from keeping the
358 connection alive. Fixes #3615312/#870 reported by Bernard Guillot.
359 - Not using any filter files no longer results in warning messages
360 unless an action file is referencing header taggers or filters.
361 Reported by Stefan Kurtz in #3614835.
362 - Fixed a bug that prevented Privoxy from reusing some reusable
363 connections. Two bit masks with different purpose unintentionally
365 - A couple of additional bugs were discovered by Coverity Scan.
366 The fixes that are not expected to affect users are not explicitly
367 mentioned here, for details please have a look at the CVS logs.
369 - General improvements:
370 - Introduced negative tag patterns NO-REQUEST-TAG and NO-RESPONSE-TAG.
371 They apply if no matching tag is found after parsing client or
373 - Add support for external filters which allow to process the
374 response body with a script or program written in any language
375 the platform supports. External filters are enabled with
376 +external-filter{} after they have been defined in one of the
377 filter files with a header line starting with "EXTERNAL-FILTER:".
378 External filter support is experimental, not compiled by default
379 and known not to work on all platforms.
380 - Add support for the 'PATCH' method as defined in RFC5789.
381 - Reject requests with unsupported Expect header values.
382 Fixes a couple of Co-Advisor tests.
383 - Normalize the HTTP-version in forwarded requests and responses.
384 This is an explicit RFC 2616 MUST and RFC 7230 mandates that
385 intermediaries send their own HTTP-version in forwarded
387 - Server 'Keep-Alive' headers are no longer forwarded. From a user's
388 point of view it doesn't really matter, but RFC 2616 (obsolete)
389 mandates that the header is removed and this fixes a Co-Advisor
391 - Change declared template file encoding to UTF-8. The templates
392 already used a subset of UTF-8 anyway and changing the declaration
393 allows to properly display UTF-8 characters used in the action files.
394 This change may require existing action files with ISO-8859-1
395 characters that aren't valid UTF-8 to be converted to UTF-8.
396 Requested by Sam Chen in #582.
397 - Do not pass rejected keep-alive timeouts to the server. It might
398 not have caused any problems (we know of), but doing the right
399 thing shouldn't hurt either.
400 - Let log_error() use its own buffer size #define to make changing
401 the log buffer size slightly less inconvenient.
402 - Turned single-threaded into a "proper" toggle directive with arguments.
403 - CGI templates no longer enforce new windows for some links.
404 - Remove an undocumented workaround ('HOST' header removal) for
405 an Apple iTunes bug that according to #729900 got fixed in 2003.
407 - Action file improvements:
408 - The pattern 'promotions.' is no longer being blocked.
409 Reported by rakista in #3608540.
410 - Disable fast-redirects for .microsofttranslator.com/.
411 - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for .dgb-tagungszentren.de/.
412 - Add adn.speedtest.net as a site-specific unblocker.
413 Support request #3612908.
414 - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for creativecommons.org/.
415 - Block requests to data.gosquared.com/. Reported by cbug in #3613653.
416 - Unblock .conrad./newsletter/. Reported by David Bo in #3614238.
417 - Unblock .bundestag.de/.
418 - Unblock .rote-hilfe.de/.
419 - Disable fast-redirects for .facebook.com/plugins/like.php.
420 - Unblock Stackexchange popup URLs that aren't used to serve ads.
421 Reported by David Wagner in #3615179.
422 - Disable fast-redirects for creativecommons.org/.
423 - Unblock .stopwatchingus.info/.
424 - Block requests for .adcash.com/script/.
425 Reported by Tyrexionibus in #3615289.
426 - Disable HTML filters if the response was tagged as JavaScript.
427 Filtering JavaScript code with filters intended to deal with HTML
428 is usually a waste of time and, more importantly, may break stuff.
429 - Use a custom redirect{} for .washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs\.php\?src=
430 Previously enabling the 'Advanced' settings (or manually enabling
431 +fast-redirects{}) prevented some images from being loaded properly.
432 - Unblock "adina*." Fixes #919 reported by Morton A. Goldberg.
434 - Unblock 'adele*.'. Reported by Adele Lime in #1663.
435 - Disable banners-by-size for kggp.de/.
437 - Filter file improvements & bug fixes:
438 - Decrease the chances that js-annoyances creates invalid JavaScript.
439 Submitted by John McGowan on ijbswa-users@.
440 - Let the msn filter hide 'related' ads again.
441 - Remove a stray '1' in the 'html-annoyances' filter.
442 - Prevent img-reorder from messing up img tags with empty src
443 attributes. Fixes #880 reported by Duncan.
445 - Documentation improvements:
446 - Updated the 'Would you like to donate?' section.
447 - Note that invalid forward-override{} parameter syntax isn't
448 detected until the parameter is used.
449 - Add another +redirect{} example: a shortcut for illumos bugs.
450 - Make it more obvious that many operating systems support log
451 rotation out of the box.
452 - Fixed dead links. Reported by Mark Nelson in #3614557.
453 - Rephrased the 'Why is the configuration so complicated?' answer
454 to be slightly less condescending. Anonymously suggested in #3615122.
455 - Be more explicit about accept-intercepted-requests's lack of MITM support.
456 - Make 'demoronizer' FAQ entries more generic.
457 - Add an example hostname to the --pre-chroot-nslookup description.
458 - Add an example for a host pattern that matches an IP address.
459 - Rename the 'domain pattern' to 'host pattern' as it may
460 contain IP addresses as well.
461 - Recommend forward-socks5t when using Tor. It seems to work fine and
462 modifying the Tor configuration to profit from it hasn't been necessary
464 - Add another redirect{} example to stress that redirect loops can
465 and should be avoided.
466 - The usual spelling and grammar fixes. Parts of them were
467 reported by Reuben Thomas in #3615276.
468 - Mention the PCRS option letters T and D in the filter section.
469 - Clarify that handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok is still useful
470 and will not be removed without replacement.
471 - Note that security issues shouldn't be reported using the bug tracker.
472 - Clarify what Privoxy does if both +block{} and +redirect{} apply.
473 - Removed the obsolete bookmarklets section.
475 - Build system improvements:
476 - Let --with-group properly deal with secondary groups.
477 Patch submitted by Anatoly Arzhnikov in #3615187.
478 - Fix web-actions target.
479 - Add a web-faq target that only updates the FAQ on the webserver.
480 - Remove already-commented-out non-portable DOSFILTER alternatives.
481 - Remove the obsolete targets dok-put and dok-get.
482 - Add a sf-shell target.
484 *** Version 3.0.21 stable ***
487 - On POSIX-like platforms, network sockets with file descriptor
488 values above FD_SETSIZE are properly rejected. Previously they
489 could cause memory corruption in configurations that allowed
490 the limit to be reached.
491 - Proxy authentication headers are removed unless the new directive
492 enable-proxy-authentication-forwarding is used. Forwarding the
493 headers potentially allows malicious sites to trick the user
494 into providing them with login information.
495 Reported by Chris John Riley.
496 - Compiles on OS/2 again now that unistd.h is only included
497 on platforms that have it.
499 - General improvements:
500 - The show-status page shows the FEATURE_STRPTIME_SANITY_CHECKS status.
501 - A couple of assert()s that could theoretically dereference
502 NULL pointers in debug builds have been relocated.
503 - Added an LSB info block to the generic start script.
504 Based on a patch from Natxo Asenjo.
505 - The max-client-connections default has been changed to 128
506 which should be more than enough for most setups.
508 - Action file improvements:
509 - Block rover.ebay./ar.*\&adtype= instead of "/.*\&adtype=" which
510 caused too man false positives.
511 Reported by u302320 in #360284, additional feedback from Adam Piggott.
512 - Unblock '.advrider.com/' and '/.*ADVrider'.
513 Anonymously reported in #3603636.
514 - Stop blocking '/js/slider\.js'.
515 Reported by Adam Piggott in #3606635 and _lvm in #2791160.
517 - Filter file improvements:
518 - Added an iframes filter.
520 - Documentation improvements:
521 - The whole GPLv2 text is included in the user manual now,
522 so Privoxy can serve it itself and the user can read it
523 without having to wade through GPLv3 ads first.
524 - Properly numbered and underlined a couple of section titles
525 in the config that where previously overlooked due to a flaw
526 in the conversion script. Reported by Ralf Jungblut.
527 - Improved the support instruction to hopefully make it harder to
528 unintentionally provide insufficient information when requesting
529 support. Previously it wasn't obvious that the information we need
530 in bug reports is usually also required in support requests.
531 - Removed documentation about packages that haven't been provided
534 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
535 - Only log the test number when not running in verbose mode
536 The position of the test is rarely relevant and it previously
537 wasn't exactly obvious which one of the numbers was useful to
538 repeat the test with --test-number.
540 - GNUmakefile improvements:
541 - Factor generate-config-file out of config-file to make testing
543 - The clean target now also takes care of patch leftovers.
545 *** Version 3.0.20 beta ***
548 - Client sockets are now properly shutdown and drained before being
549 closed. This fixes page truncation issues with clients that aggressively
550 pipeline data on platforms that otherwise discard already written data.
551 The issue mainly affected Opera users and was initially reported
552 by Kevin in #3464439, szotsaki provided additional information to track
554 - Fix latency calculation for shared connections (disabled by default).
555 It was broken since their introduction in 2009. The calculated latency
556 for most connections would be 0 in which case the timeout detection
557 failed to account for the real latency.
558 - Reject URLs with invalid port. Previously they were parsed incorrectly and
559 characters between the port number and the first slash were silently
560 dropped as shown by curl test 187.
561 - The default-server-timeout and socket-timeout directives accept 0 as
563 - Fix a race condition on Windows that could cause Privoxy to become
564 unresponsive after toggling it on or off through the taskbar icon.
565 Reported by Tim H. in #3525694.
566 - Fix the compilation on Windows when configured without IPv6 support.
567 - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() in case of
568 socks5 connection failures with "debug 2" enabled.
569 - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() if a filter
570 contained nul bytes in the replacement text.
572 - General improvements:
573 - Significantly improved keep-alive support for both client and server
575 - New debug log level 65536 which logs all actions that were applied to
577 - New directive client-header-order to forward client headers in a
578 different order than the one in which they arrived.
579 - New directive tolerate-pipelining to allow client-side pipelining.
580 If enabled (3.0.20 beta enables it by default), Privoxy will keep
581 pipelined client requests around to deal with them once the current
582 request has been served.
583 - New --config-test option to let Privoxy exit after checking whether or not
584 the configuration seems valid. The limitations noted in TODO #22 and #23
585 still apply. Based on a patch by Ramkumar Chinchani.
586 - New limit-cookie-lifetime{} action to let cookies expire before the end
587 of the session. Suggested by Rick Sykes in #1049575.
588 - Increase the hard-coded maximum number of actions and filter files from
589 10 to 30 (each). It doesn't significantly affect Privoxy's memory usage
590 and recompiling wasn't an option for all Privoxy users that reached the
592 - Add support for chunk-encoded client request bodies. Previously
593 chunk-encoded request bodies weren't guaranteed to be forwarded correctly,
594 so this can also be considered a bug fix although chunk-encoded request
595 bodies aren't commonly used in the real world.
596 - Add support for Tor's optimistic-data SOCKS extension, which can reduce the
597 latency for requests on newly created connections. Currently only the
598 headers are sent optimistically and only if the client request has already
599 been read completely which rules out requests with large bodies.
600 - After preventing the client from pipelining, don't signal keep-alive
601 intentions. When looking at the response headers alone, it previously
602 wasn't obvious from the client's perspective that no additional responses
604 - Stop considering client sockets tainted after receiving a request with body.
605 It hasn't been necessary for a while now and unnecessarily causes test
606 failures when using curl's test suite.
607 - Allow HTTP/1.0 clients to signal interest in keep-alive through the
608 Proxy-Connection header. While such client are rare in the real world, it
609 doesn't hurt and couple of curl tests rely on it.
610 - Only remove duplicated Content-Type headers when filters are enabled.
611 If they are not it doesn't cause ill effects and the user might not want it.
612 Downgrade the removal message to LOG_LEVEL_HEADER to clarify that it's not
613 an error in Privoxy and is unlikely to cause any problems in general.
614 Anonymously reported in #3599335.
615 - Set the socket option SO_LINGER for the client socket.
616 - Move several variable declarations to the beginning of their code block.
617 It's required when compiling with gcc 2.95 which is still used on some
618 platforms. Initial patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
619 - Optionally try to sanity-check strptime() results before trusting them.
620 Broken strptime() implementations have caused problems in the past and
621 the most recent offender seems to be FreeBSD's libc (standards/173421).
622 - When filtering is enabled, let Range headers pass if the range starts at
623 the beginning. This should work around (or at least reduce) the video
624 playback issues with various Apple clients as reported by Duc in #3426305.
625 - Do not confuse a client hanging up with a connection time out. If a client
626 closes its side of the connection without sending a request line, do not
627 send the CLIENT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_RESPONSE, but report the condition
629 - Allow closing curly braces as part of action values as long as they are
631 - On Windows, the logfile is now written before showing the GUI error
632 message which blocks until the user acknowledges it.
633 Reported by Adriaan in #3593603.
634 - Remove an unreasonable parameter limit in the CGI interface. The new
635 parameter limit depends on the memory available and is currently unlikely
636 to be reachable, due to other limits in both Privoxy and common clients.
637 Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
638 - Decrease the chances of parse failures after requests with unsupported
639 methods were sent to the CGI interface.
641 - Action file improvements:
642 - Remove the comment that indicated that updated default.action versions
643 are released on their own.
644 - Block 'optimize.indieclick.com/' and 'optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/'
645 - Unblock 'adjamblog.wordpress.com/' and 'adjamblog.files.wordpress.com/'.
646 Reported by Ryan Farmer in #3496116.
647 - Unblock '/.*Bugtracker'. Reported by pwhk in #3522341.
648 - Add test URLs for '.freebsd.org' and '.watson.org'.
649 - Unblock '.urbandictionary.com/popular'.
650 - Block '.adnxs.com/'.
651 - Block 'farm.plista.com/widgetdata.php'.
652 - Block 'rotation.linuxnewmedia.com/'.
653 - Block 'reklamy.sfd.pl/'. Reported by kacperdominik in #3399948.
654 - Block 'g.adspeed.net/'.
655 - Unblock 'websupport.wdc.com/'. Reported by Adam Piggot in #3577851.
656 - Block '/openx/www/delivery/'.
657 - Disable fast-redirects for '.googleapis.com/'.
658 - Block 'imp.double.net/'. Reported by David Bo in #3070411.
659 - Block 'gm-link.com/' which is used for email tracking.
660 Reported by David Bo in #1812733.
661 - Verify that requests to "bwp." are blocked. URL taken from #1736879
662 submitted by Francois Marier.
663 - Block '/.*bannerid='. Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975779.
664 - Block 'cltomedia.info/delivery/' and '.adexprt.com/'.
665 Anonymously reported in #2965254.
666 - Block 'de17a.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3061472.
667 - Block 'oskar.tradera.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3060596.
668 - Block '/scripts/webtrends\.js'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002729.
669 - Block requests for 'pool.*.adhese.com/'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002716.
670 - Update path pattern for Coremetrics and add tests.
671 Pattern and URLs submitted by Adam Piggott #3168443.
672 - Enable +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} for 'tr.anp.se/'.
673 Reported by David Bo in #3268832.
674 - Unblock '.conrad.se/newsletter/banners/'. Reported by David Bo in #3413824.
675 - Block '.tynt.com/'. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421767.
676 - Unblock '.bbci.co.uk/radio/'. Reported by Adam Piggott in #3569603.
677 - Block requests to 'service.maxymiser.net/'.
678 Reported by johnd16 in #3118401 (with a previous URL).
679 - Disable fast-redirects for Google's "let's pretend your computer is
681 - Unblock '/.*download' to resolve actionsfile feedback #3498129.
682 Submitted by Steven Kolins (soundcloud.com not working).
683 - Unblock '.wlxrs.com/' which is required by hotmail.com.
684 Fixes #3413827 submitted by David Bo.
685 - Add two unblock patterns for popup radio and TV players.
686 Submitted by Adam Piggott in #3596089.
688 - Filter file improvements & bug fixes:
689 - Add a referer tagger.
690 - Reduce the likelihood that the google filter messes up HTML-generating
691 JavaScript. Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3520260.
693 - Documentation improvements:
694 - Revised all OS X sections due to new packaging module (OSXPackageBuilder).
695 - Update the list of supported operating systems to clarify that all Windows
696 versions after 95 are expected to work and note that the platform-specific
697 code for AmigaOS and QNX currently isn't maintained.
698 - Update 'Signals' section, the only explicitly handled signals are SIGINT,
700 - Add Haiku to the list of operating systems on which Privoxy is known to
702 - Add DragonFly to the list of BSDs on which Privoxy is known to run.
703 - Removed references to redhat-specific documentation set since it no longer
705 - Removed references to building PDFs since we no longer do so.
706 - Multiple listen-address directives are supported since 3.0.18, correct the
707 documentation to say so.
708 - Remove bogus section about long and short being preferable to int.
709 - Corrected some Internet JunkBuster references to Privoxy.
710 - Removed references to www.junkbusters.com since it is no longer
711 maintained. Reported by Angelina Matson.
712 - Various grammar and spelling corrections
713 - Add a client-header-tagger{} example for disabling filtering for range
715 - Correct a URL in the "Privoxy with Tor" FAQ.
716 - Spell 'refresh-tags' correctly. Reported by Don in #3571927.
717 - Sort manpage options alphabetically.
718 - Remove an incorrect sentence in the toggle section. The toggle state
719 doesn't affect whether or not the Windows version uses the tray icon.
720 Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3596395.
721 - Add new contributors since 3.0.19.
723 - Log message improvements:
724 - When stopping to watch a client socket due to pipelining, additionally log
726 - Log the client socket and its condition before closing it. This makes it
727 more obvious that the socket actually gets closed and should help when
728 diagnosing problems like #3464439.
729 - In case of SOCKS5 failures, do not explicitly log the server's response.
730 It hasn't helped so far and the response can already be logged by enabling
731 "debug 32768" anyway. This reverts v1.81 and the follow-up bug fix v1.84.
732 - Relocate the connection-accepted message from listen_loop() to serve().
733 This way it's printed by the thread that is actually serving the
734 connection which is nice when grepping for thread ids in log files.
737 - Remove compatibility layer for versions prior to 3.0 since it has been
738 obsolete for more than 10 years now.
739 - Remove the ijb_isupper() and ijb_tolower() macros from parsers.c since
740 they aren't used in this file.
741 - Removed the 'Functions declared include:' comment sections since they tend
742 to be incomplete, incorrect and out of date and the benefit seems
744 - Various comment grammar and comprehensibility improvements.
745 - Remove a pointless fflush() call in chat(). Flushing all streams pretty
746 much all the time for no obvious reason is ridiculous.
747 - Relocate ijb_isupper()'s definition to project.h and get the ijb_tolower()
748 definition from there, too.
749 - Relocate ijb_isdigit()'s definition to project.h.
750 - Rename ijb_foo macros to privoxy_foo.
751 - Add malloc_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where malloc()
752 failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
753 - Add strdup_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where strdup()
754 failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
755 - Replace strdup() calls with strdup_or_die() calls where it's safe and
757 - Fix white-space around parentheses.
758 - Add missing white-space behind if's and the following parentheses.
759 - Unwrap a memcpy() call in resolve_hostname_to_ip().
760 - Declare pcrs_get_delimiter()'s delimiters[] static const.
761 - Various optimisations to remove dead code and merge inefficient code
762 structures for improved clarity, performance or code compactness.
763 - Various data type corrections.
764 - Change visibility of several code segments when compiling without
765 FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE enabled for clarity.
766 - In pcrs_get_delimiter(), do not use delimiters outside the ASCII range.
767 Fixes a clang complaint.
768 - Fix an error message in get_last_url() nobody is supposed to see.
769 Reported by Matthew Fischer in #3507301.
770 - Fix a typo in the no-zlib-support complaint. Patch submitted by Matthew
772 - Shorten ssplit()'s prototype by removing the last two arguments. We always
773 want to skip empty fields and ignore leading delimiters, so having
774 parameters for this only complicates the API.
775 - Use an enum for the type of the action value.
776 - Rename action_name's member takes_value to value_type as it isn't used as
778 - Turn family mismatches in match_sockaddr() into fatal errors.
779 - Let enlist_unique_header() verify that the caller didn't pass a header
780 containing either \r or \n.
781 - Change the hashes used in load_config() to unsigned int. That's what
782 hash_string() actually returns and using a potentially larger type
784 - Use privoxy_tolower() instead of vanilla tolower() with manual casting of
786 - Catch ssplit() failures in parse_cgi_parameters().
788 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
789 - Add an 'Overwrite condition' directive to skip any matching tests before
790 it. As it has a global scope, using it is more convenient than clowning
791 around with the Ignore directive.
792 - Log to STDOUT instead of STDERR.
793 - Include the Privoxy version in the output.
794 - Various grammar and spelling corrections in documentation and code.
795 - Additional tests for range requests with filtering enabled.
796 - Tests with mostly invalid range request.
797 - Add a couple of hide-if-modified-since{} tests with different date formats.
798 - Cleaned up the format of the regression-tests.action file to match the
799 format of default.action.
800 - Remove the "Copyright" line from print_version(). When using --help, every
801 line of screen space matters and thus shouldn't be wasted on things the
802 user doesn't care about.
804 - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
805 - Improve the --statistics performance by skipping sanity checks for input
806 that shouldn't affect the results anyway. Add a --strict-checks option
807 that enables some of the checks again, just in case anybody cares.
808 - The distribution of client requests per connection is included in
809 the --statistic output.
810 - The --accept-unknown-messages option has been removed and the behavior
812 - Accept and (mostly) highlight new log messages introduced with
816 - Bump generated Firefox version to 17.
818 - GNUmakefile improvements:
819 - The dok-tidy target no longer taints documents with a tidy-mark
820 - Change RA_MODE from 0664 to 0644. Suggested by Markus Dittrich in
822 - Remove tidy's clean flag as it changes the scope of attributes.
823 Link-specific colors end up being applied to all text. Reported by Adam
825 - Leave it up to the user whether or not smart tags are inserted.
826 - Let w3m itself do the line wrapping for the config file. It works better
827 than fmt as it can honour pre tags causing less unintentional line breaks.
828 - Ditch a pointless '-r' passed to rm to delete files.
829 - The config-file target now requires less manual intervention and updates
831 - Change WDUMP to generate ASCII. Add WDUMP_UTF8 to allow UTF-8 in the
832 AUTHORS file so the names are right.
833 - Stop pretending that lynx and links are supported for the documentation.
835 - configure improvements:
836 - On Haiku, do not pass -lpthread to the compiler. Haiku's pthreads
837 implementation is contained in its system library, libroot, so no
838 additional library needs to be searched.
839 Patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
840 - Additional Haiku-specific improvements. Disable checks intended for
841 multi-user systems as Haiku is presently single-user. Group Haiku-specific
842 settings in their own section, following the pattern for Solaris, OS/2 and
843 AmigaOS. Add additional library-related settings to remove the need for
844 providing configure with custom LDFLAGS.
845 Submitted by Simon South in #3574538.
847 *** Version 3.0.19 Stable ***
850 - Prevent a segmentation fault when de-chunking buffered content.
851 It could be triggered by malicious web servers if Privoxy was
852 configured to filter the content and running on a platform
853 where SIZE_T_MAX isn't larger than UINT_MAX, which probably
854 includes most 32-bit systems. On those platforms, all Privoxy
855 versions before 3.0.19 appear to be affected.
856 To be on the safe side, this bug should be presumed to allow
857 code execution as proving that it doesn't seems unrealistic.
858 - Do not expect a response from the SOCKS4/4A server until it
859 got something to respond to. This regression was introduced
860 in 3.0.18 and prevented the SOCKS4/4A negotiation from working.
861 Reported by qqqqqw in #3459781.
863 - General improvements:
864 - Fix an off-by-one in an error message about connect failures.
865 - Use a GNUMakefile variable for the webserver root directory and
866 update the path. Sourceforge changed it which broke various
868 - Update the CODE_STATUS description.
870 *** Version 3.0.18 Stable ***
873 - If a generated redirect URL contains characters RFC 3986 doesn't
874 permit, they are (re)encoded. Not doing this makes Privoxy versions
875 from 3.0.5 to 3.0.17 susceptible to HTTP response splitting (CWE-113)
876 attacks if the +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action is used.
877 - Fix a logic bug that could cause Privoxy to reuse a server
878 socket after it got tainted by a server-header-tagger-induced
879 block that was triggered before the whole server response had
880 been read. If keep-alive was enabled and the request following
881 the blocked one was to the same host and using the same forwarding
882 settings, Privoxy would send it on the tainted server socket.
883 While the server would simply treat it as a pipelined request,
884 Privoxy would later on fail to properly parse the server's
885 response as it would try to parse the unread data from the
886 first response as server headers for the second one.
887 Regression introduced in 3.0.17.
888 - When implying keep-alive in client_connection(), remember that
889 the client didn't. Fixes a regression introduced in 3.0.13 that
890 would cause Privoxy to wait for additional client requests after
891 receiving a HTTP/1.1 request with "Connection: close" set
892 and connection sharing enabled.
893 With clients which terminates the client connection after detecting
894 that the whole body has been received it doesn't really matter,
895 but with clients that don't the connection would be kept open until
897 - Fix a subtle race condition between prepare_csp_for_next_request()
898 and sweep(). A thread preparing itself for the next client request
899 could briefly appear to be inactive.
900 If all other threads were already using more recent files,
901 the thread could get its files swept away under its feet.
902 So far this has only been reproduced while stress testing in
903 valgrind while touching action files in a loop. It's unlikely
904 to have caused any actual problems in the real world.
905 - Disable filters if SDCH compression is used unless filtering is forced.
906 If SDCH was combined with a supported compression algorithm, Privoxy
907 previously could try to decompress it and ditch the Content-Encoding
908 header even though the SDCH compression wasn't dealt with.
909 Reported by zebul666 in #3225863.
910 - Make a copy of the --user value and only mess with that when splitting
911 user and group. On some operating systems modifying the value directly
912 is reflected in the output of ps and friends and can be misleading.
913 Reported by zepard in #3292710.
914 - If forwarded-connect-retries is set, only retry if Privoxy is actually
915 forwarding the request. Previously direct connections would be retried
917 - Fixed a small memory leak when retrying connections with IPv6
919 - Remove an incorrect assertion in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list()
920 It could be triggered by a pcrs job with an invalid pcre
921 pattern (for example one that contains a lone quantifier).
922 - If the --user argument user[.group] contains a dot, always bail out
923 if no group has been specified. Previously the intended, but undocumented
924 (and apparently untested), behaviour was to try interpreting the whole
925 argument as user name, but the detection was flawed and checked for '0'
926 instead of '\0', thus merely preventing group names beginning with a zero.
927 - In html_code_map[], use a numeric character reference instead of '
928 which wasn't standardized before XHTML 1.0.
929 - Fix an invalid free when compiled with FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION
930 and shut down through http://config.privoxy.org/die
931 - In get_actions(), fix the "temporary" backwards compatibility hack
932 to accept block actions without reason.
933 It also covered other actions that should be rejected as invalid.
934 Reported by Billy Crook.
936 - General improvements:
937 - Privoxy can (re)compress buffered content before delivering
938 it to the client. Disabled by default as most users wouldn't
940 - The +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action checks URL
941 segments separately. If there are other parameters behind
942 the redirect URL, this makes it unnecessary to cut them off
943 by additionally using a +redirect{} pcrs command.
944 Initial patch submitted by Jamie Zawinski in #3429848.
945 - When loading action sections, verify that the referenced filters
946 exist. Currently missing filters only result in an error message,
947 but eventually the severity will be upgraded to fatal.
948 - Allow to bind to multiple separate addresses.
949 Patch set submitted by Petr Pisar in #3354485.
950 - Set socket_error to errno if connecting fails in rfc2553_connect_to().
951 Previously rejected direct connections could be incorrectly reported
952 as DNS issues if Privoxy was compiled with IPv6 support.
953 - Adjust url_code_map[] so spaces are replaced with %20 instead of '+'
954 While '+' can be used by client's submitting form data, this is not
955 actually what Privoxy is using the lookups for. This is more of a
956 cosmetic issue and doesn't fix any known problems.
957 - When compiled without FEATURE_FAST_REDIRECTS, do not silently
958 ignore +fast-redirect{} directives
959 - Added a workaround for GNU libc's strptime() reporting negative
960 year values when the parsed year is only specified with two digits.
961 On affected systems cookies with such a date would not be turned
962 into session cookies by the +session-cookies-only action.
963 Reported by Vaeinoe in #3403560
964 - Fixed bind failures with certain GNU libc versions if no non-loopback
965 IP address has been configured on the system. This is mainly an issue
966 if the system is using DHCP and Privoxy is started before the network
967 is completely configured.
968 Reported by Raphael Marichez in #3349356.
969 Additional insight from Petr Pisar.
970 - Privoxy log messages now use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
971 It's only slightly longer than the old format, but contains
972 the full date including the year and allows sorting by date
973 (when grepping in multiple log files) without hassle.
974 - In get_last_url(), do not bother trying to decode URLs that do
975 not contain at least one '%' sign. It reduces the log noise and
976 a number of unnecessary memory allocations.
977 - In case of SOCKS5 failures, dump the socks response in the log message.
978 - Simplify the signal setup in main().
979 - Streamline socks5_connect() slightly.
980 - In socks5_connect(), require a complete socks response from the server.
981 Previously Privoxy didn't care how much data the server response
982 contained as long as the first two bytes contained the expected
983 values. While at it, shrink the buffer size so Privoxy can't read
984 more than a whole socks response.
985 - In chat(), do not bother to generate a client request in case of
986 direct CONNECT requests. It will not be used anyway.
987 - Reduce server_last_modified()'s stack size.
988 - Shorten get_http_time() by using strftime().
989 - Constify the known_http_methods pointers in unknown_method().
990 - Constify the time_formats pointers in parse_header_time().
991 - Constify the formerly_valid_actions pointers in action_used_to_be_valid().
992 - Introduce a GNUMakefile MAN_PAGE variable that defaults to privoxy.1.
993 The Debian package uses section 8 for the man page and this
994 should simplify the patch.
995 - Deduplicate the INADDR_NONE definition for Solaris by moving it to jbsockets.h
996 - In block_url(), ditch the obsolete workaround for ancient Netscape versions
997 that supposedly couldn't properly deal with status code 403.
998 - Remove a useless NULL pointer check in load_trustfile().
999 - Remove two useless NULL pointer checks in load_one_re_filterfile().
1000 - Change url_code_map[] from an array of pointers to an array of arrays
1001 It removes an unnecessary layer of indirection and on 64bit system reduces
1002 the size of the binary a bit.
1003 - Fix various typos. Fixes taken from Debian's 29_typos.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
1004 - Add a dok-tidy GNUMakefile target to clean up the messy HTML
1005 generated by the other dok targets.
1006 - GNUisms in the GNUMakefile have been removed.
1007 - Change the HTTP version in static responses to 1.1
1008 - Synced config.sub and config.guess with upstream
1009 2011-11-11/386c7218162c145f5f9e1ff7f558a3fbb66c37c5.
1010 - Add a dedicated function to parse the values of toggles. Reduces duplicated
1011 code in load_config() and provides better error handling. Invalid or missing
1012 toggle values are now a fatal error instead of being silently ignored.
1013 - Terminate HTML lines in static error messages with \n instead of \r\n.
1014 - Simplify cgi_error_unknown() a bit.
1015 - In LogPutString(), don't bother looking at pszText when not
1016 actually logging anything.
1017 - Change ssplit()'s fourth parameter from int to size_t.
1018 Fixes a clang complaint.
1019 - Add a warning that the statistics currently can't be trusted.
1020 Mention Privoxy-Log-Parser's --statistics option as
1021 an alternative for the time being.
1022 - In rfc2553_connect_to(), start setting cgi->error_message on error.
1023 - Change the expected status code returned for http://p.p/die depending
1024 on whether or not FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION is available.
1025 - In cgi_die(), mark the client connection for closing.
1026 If the client will fetch the style sheet through another connection
1027 it gets the main thread out of the accept() state and should thus
1028 trigger the actual shutdown.
1029 - Add a proper CGI message for cgi_die().
1030 - Don't enforce a logical line length limit in read_config_line().
1031 - Slightly refactor server_last_modified() to remove useless gmtime*() calls.
1032 - In get_content_type(), also recognize '.jpeg' as JPEG extension.
1033 - Add '.png' to the list of recognized file extensions in get_content_type().
1034 - In block_url(), consistently use the block reason "Request blocked by Privoxy"
1035 In two places the reason was "Request for blocked URL" which hides the
1036 fact that the request got blocked by Privoxy and isn't necessarily
1037 correct as the block may be due to tags.
1038 - In listen_loop(), reload the configuration files after accepting
1039 a new connection instead of before.
1040 Previously the first connection that arrived after a configuration
1041 change would still be handled with the old configuration.
1042 - In chat()'s receive-data loop, skip a client socket check if
1043 the socket will be written to right away anyway. This can
1044 increase the transfer speed for unfiltered content on fast
1045 network connections.
1046 - The socket timeout is used for SOCKS negotiations as well which
1047 previously couldn't timeout.
1048 - Don't keep the client connection alive if any configuration file
1049 changed since the time the connection came in. This is closer to
1050 Privoxy's behaviour before keep-alive support for client connection
1051 has been added and also less confusing in general.
1052 - Treat all Content-Type header values containing the pattern
1053 'script' as a sign of text. Reported by pribog in #3134970.
1055 - Action file improvements:
1056 - Moved the site-specific block pattern section below the one for the
1057 generic patterns so for requests that are matched in both, the block
1058 reason for the domain is shown which is usually more useful than showing
1059 the one for the generic pattern.
1060 - Remove -prevent-compression from the fragile alias. It's no longer
1061 used anywhere by default and isn't known to break stuff anyway.
1062 - Add a (disabled) section to block various Facebook tracking URLs.
1063 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421764.
1064 - Add a (disabled) section to rewrite and redirect click-tracking
1065 URLs used on news.google.com.
1066 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421755.
1067 - Unblock linuxcounter.net/.
1068 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3422612.
1069 - Block 'www91.intel.com/' which is used by Omniture.
1070 Reported by Adam Piggott in #3167370.
1071 - Disable the handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok option and mark it as deprecated.
1072 Reminded by tceverling in #2790091.
1073 - Add ".ivwbox.de/" to the "Cross-site user tracking" section.
1074 Reported by Nettozahler in #3172525.
1075 - Unblock and fast-redirect ".awin1.com/.*=http://".
1076 Reported by Adam Piggott in #3170921.
1077 - Block "b.collective-media.net/".
1078 - Widen the Debian popcon exception to "qa.debian.org/popcon".
1079 Seen in Debian's 05_default_action.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
1080 - Block ".gemius.pl/" which only seems to be used for user tracking.
1081 Reported by johnd16 in #3002731. Additional input from Lee and movax.
1082 - Disable banners-by-size filters for '.thinkgeek.com/'.
1083 The filter only seems to catch pictures of the inventory.
1084 - Block requests for 'go.idmnet.bbelements.com/please/showit/'.
1085 Reported by kacperdominik in #3372959.
1086 - Unblock adainitiative.org/.
1087 - Add a fast-redirects exception for '.googleusercontent.com/.*=cache'.
1088 - Add a fast-redirects exception for webcache.googleusercontent.com/.
1089 - Unblock http://adassier.wordpress.com/ and http://adassier.files.wordpress.com/.
1091 - Filter file improvements:
1092 - Let the yahoo filter hide '.ads'.
1093 - Let the msn filter hide overlay ads for Facebook 'likes' in search
1094 results and elements with the id 's_notf_div'. They only seem to be
1095 used to advertise site 'enhancements'.
1096 - Let the js-events filter additionally disarm setInterval().
1097 Suggested by dg1727 in #3423775.
1099 - Documentation improvements:
1100 - Clarify the effect of compiling Privoxy with zlib support.
1101 Suggested by dg1727 in #3423782.
1102 - Point out that the SourceForge messaging system works like a black
1103 hole and should thus not be used to contact individual developers.
1104 - Mention some of the problems one can experience when not explicitly
1105 configuring an IP addresses as listen address.
1106 - Explicitly mention that hostnames can be used instead of IP addresses
1107 for the listen-address, that only the first address returned will be
1108 used and what happens if the address is invalid.
1109 Requested by Calestyo in #3302213.
1111 - Log message improvements:
1112 - If only the server connection is kept alive, do not pretend to
1113 wait for a new client request.
1114 - Remove a superfluous log message in forget_connection().
1115 - In chat(), properly report missing server responses as such
1116 instead of calling them empty.
1117 - In forwarded_connect(), fix a log message nobody should ever see.
1118 - Fix a log message in socks5_connect(), a failed write operation
1119 was logged as failed read operation.
1120 - Let load_one_actions_file() properly complain about a missing
1121 '{' at the beginning of the file.
1122 Simply stating that a line is invalid isn't particularly helpful.
1123 - Do not claim to listen on a socket until Privoxy actually does.
1124 Patch submitted by Petr Pisar #3354485
1125 - Prevent a duplicated LOG_LEVEL_CLF message when sending out
1126 the "no-server-data" response.
1127 - Also log the client socket when dropping a connection.
1128 - Include the destination host in the 'Request ... marked for
1129 blocking. limit-connect{...} doesn't allow CONNECT ...' message
1130 Patch submitted by Saperski in #3296250.
1131 - Prevent a duplicated log message if none of the resolved IP
1132 addresses were reachable.
1133 - In connect_to(), do not pretend to retry if forwarded-connect-retries
1135 - When a specified user or group can't be found, put the name in
1136 single-quotes when logging it.
1137 - In rfc2553_connect_to(), explain getnameinfo() errors better.
1138 - Remove a useless log message in chat().
1139 - When retrying to connect, also log the maximum number of connection
1141 - Rephrase a log message in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list().
1142 Divide the error code and its meaning with a colon. Call the pcrs
1143 job dynamic and not the filter. Filters may contain dynamic and
1144 non-dynamic pcrs jobs at the same time. Only mention the name of
1145 the filter or tagger, but don't claim it's a filter when it could
1147 - In a fatal error message in load_one_actions_file(), cover both
1148 URL and TAG patterns.
1149 - In pcrs_strerror(), properly report unknown positive error code
1150 values as such. Previously they were handled like 0 (no error).
1151 - In compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list(), also log the actual error code as
1152 pcrs_strerror() doesn't handle all errors reported by pcre.
1153 - Don't bother trying to continue chatting if the client didn't ask for it.
1154 Reduces log noise a bit.
1155 - Make two fatal error message in load_one_actions_file() more descriptive.
1156 - In cgi_send_user_manual(), log when rejecting a file name due to '/' or '..'.
1157 - In load_file(), log a message if opening a file failed.
1158 The CGI error message alone isn't too helpful.
1159 - In connection_destination_matches(), improve two log messages
1160 to help understand why the destinations don't match.
1161 - Rephrase a log message in serve(). Client request arrival
1162 should be differentiated from closed client connections now.
1163 - In serve(), log if a client connection isn't reused due to a
1164 configuration file change.
1165 - Let mark_server_socket_tainted() always mark the server socket tainted,
1166 just don't talk about it in cases where it has no effect. It doesn't change
1167 Privoxy's behaviour, but makes understanding the log file easier.
1170 - Added a --disable-ipv6-support switch for platforms where support
1171 is detected but doesn't actually work.
1172 - Do not check for the existence of strerror() and memmove() twice
1173 - Remove a useless test for setpgrp(2). Privoxy doesn't need it and
1174 it can cause problems when cross-compiling.
1175 - Rename the --disable-acl-files switch to --disable-acl-support.
1176 Since about 2001, ACL directives are specified in the standard
1178 - Update the URL of the 'Removing outdated PCRE version after the
1179 next stable release' posting. The old URL stopped working after
1180 one of SF's recent site "optimizations". Reported by Han Liu.
1182 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
1183 - Added --shuffle-tests option to increase the chances of detection race conditions.
1184 - Added a --local-test-file option that allows to use Privoxy-Regression-Test without Privoxy.
1185 - Added tests for missing socks4 and socks4a forwarders.
1186 - The --privoxy-address option now works with IPv6 addresses containing brackets, too.
1187 - Perform limited sanity checks for parameters that are supposed to have numerical values.
1188 - Added a --sleep-time option to specify a number of seconds to
1189 sleep between tests, defaults to 0.
1190 - Disable the range-requests tagger for tests that break if it's enabled.
1191 - Log messages use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
1192 - Fix spelling in two error messages.
1193 - In the --help output, include a list of supported tests and their default levels.
1194 - Adjust the tests to properly deal with FEATURE_TOGGLE being disabled.
1196 - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
1197 - Perform limited sanity checks for command line parameters that
1198 are supposed to have numerical values.
1199 - Implement a --unbreak-lines-only option to try to revert MUA breakage.
1200 - Accept and highlight: Added header: Content-Encoding: deflate
1201 - Accept and highlight: Compressed content from 29258 to 8630 bytes.
1202 - Accept and highlight: Client request arrived in time on socket 21.
1203 - Highlight: Didn't receive data in time: a.fsdn.com:443
1204 - Accept log messages with ISO 8601 time stamps, too.
1207 - Bump generated Firefox version to 8.0.
1208 - Only randomize the release date if the new --randomize-release-date
1209 option is enabled. Firefox versions after 4 use a fixed date string
1212 *** Version 3.0.17 Stable ***
1214 - Fixed last-chunk-detection for responses where the body was small
1215 enough to be read with the headers, causing Privoxy to wait for the
1216 end of the content until the server closed the connection or the
1217 request timed out. Reported by "Karsten" in #3028326.
1218 - Responses with status code 204 weren't properly detected as body-less
1219 like RFC2616 mandates. Like the previous bug, this caused Privoxy to
1220 wait for the end of the content until the server closed the connection
1221 or the request timed out. Fixes #3022042 and #3025553, reported by a
1222 user with no visible name. Most likely also fixes a bunch of other
1223 AJAX-related problem reports that got closed in the past due to
1224 insufficient information and lack of feedback.
1225 - Fixed an ACL bug that made it impossible to build a blacklist.
1226 Usually the ACL directives are used in a whitelist, which worked
1227 as expected, but blacklisting is still useful for public proxies
1228 where one only needs to deny known abusers access.
1229 - Added LOG_LEVEL_RECEIVED to log the not-yet-parsed data read from the
1230 network. This should make debugging various parsing issues a lot easier.
1231 - The IPv6 code is enabled by default on Windows versions that support it.
1232 Patch submitted by oCameLo in #2942729.
1233 - In mingw32 versions, the user.filter file is reachable through the
1234 GUI, just like default.filter is. Feature request 3040263.
1235 - Added the configure option --enable-large-file-support to set a few
1236 defines that are required by platforms like GNU/Linux to support files
1237 larger then 2GB. Mainly interesting for users without proper logfile
1239 - Logging with "debug 16" no longer stops at the first nul byte which is
1240 pretty useless. Non-printable characters are replaced with their hex value
1241 so the result can't span multiple lines making parsing them harder then
1243 - Privoxy logs when reading an action, filter or trust file.
1244 - Fixed incorrect regression test markup which caused a test in
1245 3.0.16 to fail while Privoxy itself was working correctly.
1246 While Privoxy accepts hide-referer, too, the action name is actually
1247 hide-referrer which is also the name used one the final results page,
1248 where the test expected the alias.
1250 - CGI interface improvements:
1251 - In finish_http_response(), continue to add the 'Connection: close'
1252 header if the client connection will not be kept alive.
1253 Anonymously pointed out in #2987454.
1254 - Apostrophes in block messages no longer cause parse errors
1255 when the blocked page is viewed with JavaScript enabled.
1256 Reported by dg1727 in #3062296.
1257 - Fix a bunch of anchors that used underscores instead of dashes.
1258 - Allow to keep the client connection alive after crunching the previous request.
1259 Already opened server connections can be kept alive, too.
1260 - In cgi_show_url_info(), don't forget to prefix URLs that only contain
1261 http:// or https:// in the path. Fixes #2975765 reported by Adam Piggott.
1262 - Show the 404 CGI page if cgi_send_user_manual() is called while
1263 local user manual delivery is disabled.
1265 - Action file improvements:
1266 - Enable user.filter by default. Suggested by David White in #3001830.
1267 - Block .sitestat.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002725.
1268 - Block .atemda.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002723.
1269 - Block js.adlink.net/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002720.
1270 - Block .analytics.yahoo.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002713.
1271 - Block sb.scorecardresearch.com, too. Reported by dg1727 in #2992652.
1272 - Fix problems noticed on Yahoo mail and news pages.
1273 - Remove the too broad yahoo section, only keeping the
1274 fast-redirects exception as discussed on ijbswa-devel@.
1275 - Don't block adesklets.sourceforge.net. Reported in #2974204.
1276 - Block chartbeat ping tracking. Reported in #2975895.
1277 - Tag CSS and image requests with cautious and medium settings, too.
1278 - Don't handle view.atdmt.com as image. It's used for click-throughs
1279 so users should be able to "go there anyway".
1280 Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975927.
1281 - Also let the refresh-tags filter remove invalid refresh tags where
1282 the 'url=' part is missing. Anonymously reported in #2986382.
1283 While at it, update the description to mention the fact that only
1284 refresh tags with refresh times above 9 seconds are covered.
1285 - javascript needs to be blocked with +handle-as-empty-document to
1286 work around Firefox bug 492459. So move .js blockers from
1287 +block{Might be a web-bug.} -handle-as-empty-document to
1288 +block{Might be a web-bug.} +handle-as-empty-document.
1289 - ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 - Block 160x578 Banners.
1290 - Block another omniture tracking domain.
1291 - Added a range-requests tagger.
1292 - Added two sections to get Flickr's Ajax interface working with
1293 default pre-settings. If you change the configuration to block
1294 cookies by default, you'll need additional exceptions.
1295 Reported by Mathias Homann in #3101419 and by Patrick on ijbswa-users@.
1297 - Documentation improvements:
1298 - Explicitly mention how to match all URLs.
1299 - Consistently recommend socks5 in the Tor FAQ entry and mention
1300 its advantage compared to socks4a. Reported by David in #2960129.
1301 - Slightly improve the explanation of why filtering may appear
1303 - Grammar fixes for the ACL section.
1304 - Fixed a link to the 'intercepting' entry and add another one.
1305 - Rename the 'Other' section to 'Mailing Lists' and reword it
1306 to make it clear that nobody is forced to use the trackers
1307 - Note that 'anonymously' posting on the trackers may not always
1309 - Suggest to enable debug 32768 when suspecting parsing problems.
1311 - Privoxy-Log-Parser improvements:
1312 - Gather statistics for ressources, methods, and HTTP versions
1314 - Also gather statistics for blocked and redirected requests.
1315 - Provide the percentage of keep-alive offers the client accepted.
1316 - Add a --url-statistics-threshold option.
1317 - Add a --host-statistics-threshold option to also gather
1318 statistics about how many request where made per host.
1319 - Fix a bug in handle_loglevel_header() where a 'scan: ' got lost.
1320 - Add a --shorten-thread-ids option to replace the thread id with
1322 - Accept and ignore: Looks like we got the last chunk together
1323 with the server headers. We better stop reading.
1324 - Accept and ignore: Continue hack in da house.
1325 - Accept and higlight: Rejecting connection from 10.0.0.2.
1326 Maximum number of connections reached.
1327 - Accept and highlight: Loading actions file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.action
1328 - Accept and highlight: Loading filter file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.filter
1329 - Accept and highlight: Killed all-caps Host header line: HOST: bestproxydb.com
1330 - Accept and highlight: Reducing expected bytes to 0. Marking
1331 the server socket tainted after throwing 4 bytes away.
1332 - Accept: Merged multiple header lines to: 'X-FORWARDED-PROTO: http X-HOST: 127.0.0.1'
1335 - Remove the next member from the client_state struct. Only the main
1336 thread needs access to all client states so give it its own struct.
1337 - Garbage-collect request_contains_null_bytes().
1338 - Ditch redundant code in unload_configfile().
1339 - Ditch LogGetURLUnderCursor() which doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
1340 - In write_socket(), remove the write-only variable write_len in
1341 an ifdef __OS2__ block. Spotted by cppcheck.
1342 - In connect_to(), don't declare the variable 'flags' on OS/2 where
1343 it isn't used. Spotted by cppcheck.
1344 - Limit the scope of various variables. Spotted by cppcheck.
1345 - In add_to_iob(), turn an interestingly looking for loop into a
1347 - Code cleanup in preparation for external filters.
1348 - In listen_loop(), mention the socket on which we accepted the
1349 connection, not just the source IP address.
1350 - In write_socket(), also log the socket we're writing to.
1351 - In log_error(), assert that escaped characters get logged
1352 completely or not at all.
1353 - In log_error(), assert that ival and sval have reasonable values.
1354 There's no reason not to abort() if they don't.
1355 - Remove an incorrect cgi_error_unknown() call in a
1356 cannot-happen-situation in send_crunch_response().
1357 - Clean up white-space in http_response definition and
1358 move the crunch_reason to the beginning.
1359 - Turn http_response.reason into an enum and rename it
1360 to http_response.crunch_reason.
1361 - Silence a 'gcc (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2' warning on i686 GNU/Linux.
1362 - Fix white-space in a log message in remove_chunked_transfer_coding().
1363 While at it, add a note that the message doesn't seem to
1364 be entirely correct and should be improved later on.
1366 - GNUmakefile improvements:
1367 - Use $(SSH) instead of ssh, so one only needs to specify a username once.
1368 - Removed references to the action feedback thingy that hasn't been
1370 - Consistently use shell.sourceforge.net instead of shell.sf.net so
1371 one doesn't need to check server fingerprints twice.
1372 - Removed GNUisms in the webserver and webactions targets so they
1373 work with standard tar.
1375 *** Version 3.0.16 Stable ***
1377 - Added the config file option handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok to
1378 work around Firefox bug #492459, which causes Firefox to hang
1379 if JavaScripts are blocked in certain situations. The option is
1380 enabled in the default config file.
1381 - Added the config file option default-server-timeout to control the
1382 assumed default server timeout. Since Privoxy no longer returns
1383 an error message for connection resets on reused client connections,
1384 assuming larger server timeout values appears to actually work
1385 pretty well as long as connections aren't shared.
1386 - Added optional support for FreeBSD's accf_http(9). Use the
1387 configure option --enable-accept-filter to enable it.
1388 - Added fancier Privoxy icons for win32. Contributed by Jeff H.
1389 - In daemon mode, fd 0, 1 and 2 are bound to /dev/null.
1390 - Resolve localhost using whatever address family the operating
1391 system feels like. Previous betas would try to use IPv4 as this
1392 is what most users expect, but this didn't work reliably on
1394 - In the action lists on CGI pages, actions and their parameters are
1395 no longer separated with a space. The action file parser doesn't
1396 actually allow this and will throw an invalid syntax error if actions
1397 and parameters in the action files are separated. Not adding the
1398 spaces means copy and pasting CGI output into the action files works.
1399 - The default keep-alive timeout has been reduced to 5 seconds to work
1400 around hangs in clients that treat the proxy like any other host and
1401 stop allowing any new connections if the "maximum number of
1402 connections per host" is reached.
1403 - Several webbug URLs that look like they are leading to images are now
1404 blocked as image instead of empty documents. Doing the latter causes
1405 WebKit-based clients to show a "missing image" icon which may mess up
1407 - The no-such-domain template is used for DNS resolution
1408 problems with FEATURE_IPV6_SUPPORT enabled. Previously the
1409 connect-failed template was used. Reported by 'zebul666'.
1410 - Accepts quoted expiration dates even though RFC 2109 10.1.2
1411 doesn't seem to allow them. Reported anonymously.
1412 - Don't try to forget connections if connection sharing is disabled.
1413 This wasn't a real problem but caused an unnecessary log message.
1414 - The still undocumented --enable-extended-host-patterns configure
1415 option has a better description.
1416 - Fixed an error message that would claim a write to the server
1417 failed when actually writing to the client failed.
1418 - Log the crunch reason before trying to write to the client.
1419 The log is easier to read that way.
1420 - Several log messages about client connections also mention
1422 - handle-as-empty-document no longer depends on the image blocking
1424 - Privoxy-Log-Parser is roughly 40% faster in highlighting mode.
1425 - uagen, a Firefox User-Agent generator for Privoxy and Mozilla
1426 browsers has been imported and is available in the tarball's
1428 - The scripts in the tools directory treat unknown parameters
1431 *** Version 3.0.15 beta ***
1433 - In case of missing server data, no error message is send to the
1434 client if the request arrived on a reused connection. The client
1435 is then supposed to silently retry the request without bothering
1436 the user. This should significantly reduce the frequency of the
1437 "No server or forwarder data received" error message many users
1439 - More reliable detection of prematurely closed client sockets
1440 with keep-alive enabled.
1441 - FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE is decoupled from
1442 FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING and now available on
1444 - Improved handling of POST requests on reused connections.
1445 Should fix problems with stalled connections after submitting
1446 form data with some browser configurations.
1447 - Fixed various latency calculation issues.
1448 - Allows the client to pass NTLM authentication requests to a
1449 forwarding proxy. This was already assumed and hinted to work
1450 in 3.0.13 beta but actually didn't. Now it's confirmed to work
1451 with IE, Firefox and Chrome.
1452 Thanks to Francois Botha and Wan-Teh Chang
1453 - Fixed a calculation problem if receiving the server headers
1454 takes more than two reads, that could cause Privoxy to terminate
1455 the connection prematurely. Reported by Oliver.
1456 - Compiles again on platforms such as OpenBSD and systems
1457 using earlier glibc version that don't support AI_ADDRCONFIG.
1458 Anonymously submitted in #2872591.
1459 - A bunch of MS VC project files and Suse and Redhat RPM spec
1460 files have been removed as they were no longer maintained for
1462 - Overly long action lines are properly rejected with a proper
1463 error message. Previously they would be either rejected as
1464 invalid or cause a core dump through abort().
1465 - Already timed-out connections are no longer temporarily remembered.
1466 They weren't reused anyway, but wasted a socket slot.
1467 - len refers to the number of bytes actually read which might
1468 differ from the ones received. Adjust log messages accordingly.
1469 - The optional JavaScript on the CGI page uses encodeURIComponent()
1470 instead of escape() which doesn't encode all characters that matter.
1471 Anonymously reported in #2832722.
1472 - Fix gcc45 warnings in decompress_iob().
1473 - Various log message improvements.
1474 - Privoxy-Regression-Test supports redirect tests.
1475 - Privoxy-Log-Parser can gather some connection statistics.
1477 *** Version 3.0.14 beta ***
1479 - The latency is taken into account when evaluating whether or not to
1480 reuse a connection. This should significantly reduce the number of
1481 connections problems several users reported.
1482 - If the server doesn't specify how long the connection stays alive,
1483 Privoxy errs on the safe side of caution and assumes it's only a second.
1484 - The error pages for connection timeouts or missing server data use a
1485 Last-Modified date in the past. Retry attempts are detected and Privoxy
1486 removes the If-Modified-Since header to prevent the server from responding
1487 with status code 304 in which case the client would reuse the error message.
1488 - Setting keep-alive-timeout to 0 disables keep-alive support. Previously
1489 Privoxy would claim to allow persistence but not reuse the connection.
1490 - Pipelined requests are less likely to be mistaken for the request
1491 body of the previous request. Note that Privoxy still has no real
1492 pipeline support and will either serialize pipelined requests or
1493 drop them in which case the client has to resent them.
1494 - Fixed a crash on some Windows versions when header randomization
1495 is enabled and the date couldn't be parsed.
1496 - Privoxy's keep-alive timeout for the current connection is reduced
1497 to the one specified in the client's Keep-Alive header.
1498 - For HTTP/1.1 requests, Privoxy implies keep-alive support by not
1499 setting any Connection header instead of using 'Connection: keep-alive'.
1500 - If the socket isn't reusable, Privoxy doesn't temporarily waste
1501 a socket slot to remember the connection.
1502 - If keep-alive support is disabled but compiled in, the client's
1503 Keep-Alive header is removed.
1504 - Fixed a bug on mingw32 where downloading large files failed if
1505 keep-alive support was enabled.
1506 - Fixed a bug that (at least theoretically) could cause log
1507 timestamps to be occasionally off by about a second.
1508 - No Proxy-Connection header if added if there already is one.
1509 - The configure script respects the $PATH variable when searching
1512 *** Version 3.0.13 beta ***
1514 - Added IPv6 support. Thanks to Petr Pisar who not only provided
1515 the initial patch but also helped a lot with the integration.
1516 - Added client-side keep-alive support.
1517 - The connection sharing code is only used if the connection-sharing
1519 - The max-client-connections option has been added to restrict
1520 the number of client connections below a value enforced by
1521 the operating system.
1522 - Fixed a regression reintroduced in 3.0.12 that could cause
1523 crashes on mingw32 if header date randomization was enabled.
1524 - Compressed content with extra fields couldn't be decompressed
1525 and would get passed to the client unfiltered. This problem
1526 has only be detected through statical analysis with clang as
1527 nobody seems to be using extra fields anyway.
1528 - If the server resets the Connection after sending only the headers
1529 Privoxy forwards what it got to the client. Previously Privoxy
1530 would deliver an error message instead.
1531 - Error messages in case of connection timeouts use the right
1533 - If spawning a child to handle a request fails, the client
1534 gets an error message and Privoxy continues to listen for
1535 new requests right away.
1536 - The error messages in case of server-connection timeouts or
1537 prematurely closed server connections are now template-based.
1538 - If zlib support isn't compiled in, Privoxy no longer tries to
1539 filter compressed content unless explicitly asked to do so.
1540 - In case of connections that are denied based on ACL directives,
1541 the memory used for the client IP is no longer leaked.
1542 - Fixed another small memory leak if the client request times out
1543 while waiting for client headers other than the request line.
1544 - The client socket is kept open until the server socket has
1545 been marked as unused. This should increase the chances that
1546 the still-open connection will be reused for the client's next
1547 request to the same destination. Note that this only matters
1548 if connection-sharing is enabled.
1549 - A TODO list has been added to the source tarball to give potential
1550 volunteers a better idea of what the current goals are. Donations
1551 are still welcome too: http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
1553 *** Version 3.0.12 ***
1555 - The socket-timeout option now also works on platforms whose
1556 select() implementation modifies the timeout structure.
1557 Previously the timeout was triggered even if the connection
1558 didn't stall. Reported by cyberpatrol.
1559 - The Connection: keep-alive code properly deals with files
1560 larger than 2GB. Previously the connection was closed too
1562 - The content length for files above 2GB is logged correctly.
1563 - The user-manual directive on the show-status page links to
1564 the documentation location specified with the directive,
1565 not to the Privoxy website.
1566 - When running in daemon mode, Privoxy doesn't log anything
1567 to the console unless there are errors before the logfile
1569 - The show-status page prints warnings about invalid directives
1570 on the same line as the directives themselves.
1571 - Fixed several justified (but harmless) compiler warnings,
1572 mostly on 64 bit platforms.
1573 - The mingw32 version explicitly requests the default charset
1574 to prevent display problems with some fonts available on more
1575 recent Windows versions. Patch by Burberry.
1576 - The mingw32 version uses the Privoxy icon in the alt-tab
1577 windows. Patch by Burberry.
1578 - The timestamp and the thread id is omitted in the "Fatal error"
1579 message box on mingw32.
1580 - Fixed two related mingw32-only buffer overflows. Triggering
1581 them required control over the configuration file, therefore
1582 this isn't seen as a security issue.
1583 - In verbose mode, or if the new option --show-skipped-tests
1584 is used, Privoxy-Regression-Test logs skipped tests and the
1587 *** Version 3.0.11 ***
1589 - On most platforms, outgoing connections can be kept alive and
1590 reused if the server supports it. Whether or not this improves
1591 things depends on the connection.
1592 - When dropping privileges, membership in supplementary groups
1593 is given up as well. Not doing that can lead to Privoxy running
1594 with more rights than necessary and violates the principle of
1595 least privilege. Users of the --user option are advised to update.
1596 Thanks to Matthias Drochner for reporting the problem,
1597 providing the initial patch and testing the final version.
1598 - Passing invalid users or groups with the --user option
1599 didn't lead to program exit. Regression introduced in 3.0.7.
1600 - The match all section has been moved from default.action
1601 to a new file called match-all.action. As a result the
1602 default.action no longer needs to be touched by the user
1603 and can be safely overwritten by updates.
1604 - The standard.action file has been removed. Its content
1605 is now part of the default.action file.
1606 - In some situations the logged content length was slightly too low.
1607 - Crunched requests are logged with their own log level.
1608 If you used "debug 1" in the past, you'll probably want
1609 to additionally enable "debug 1024", otherwise only passed
1610 requests will be logged. If you only care about crunched
1611 requests, simply replace "debug 1" with "debug 1024".
1612 - The crunch reason has been moved to the beginning of the
1613 crunch message. For HTTP URLs, the protocol is logged as well.
1614 - Log messages are shortened by printing the thread id on its
1615 own (as opposed to putting it inside the string "Privoxy()").
1616 - The config option socket-timeout has been added to control
1617 the time Privoxy waits for data to arrive on a socket.
1618 - Support for remote toggling is controlled by the configure
1619 option --disable-toggle only. In previous versions it also
1620 depended on the action editor and thus configuring with the
1621 --disable-editor option would disable remote toggling support
1623 - Requests with invalid HTTP versions are rejected.
1624 - The template symbol @date@ can be used to include a date(1)-like
1625 time string. Initial patch submitted by Endre Szabo.
1626 - Responses from shoutcast servers are accepted again.
1627 Problem reported and fix suggested by Stefan.
1628 - The hide-forwarded-for-headers action has been replaced with
1629 the change-x-forwarded-for{} action which can also be used to
1630 add X-Forwarded-For headers. The latter functionality already
1631 existed in Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.7 but has been removed
1632 as it was often used unintentionally (by not using the
1633 hide-forwarded-for-headers action).
1634 - A "clear log" view option was added to the mingw32 version
1635 to clear out all of the lines in the Privoxy log window.
1636 Based on a patch submitted by T Ford.
1637 - The mingw32 version uses "critical sections" now, which prevents
1638 log message corruption under load. As a side effect, the
1639 "no thread-safe PRNG" warning could be removed as well.
1640 - The mingw32 version's task bar icon is crossed out and
1641 the color changed to gray if Privoxy is toggled off.
1643 *** Version 3.0.10 ***
1645 - Ordinary configuration file changes no longer cause program
1646 termination on OS/2 if the name of the logfile hasn't been
1647 changed as well. This regression probably crept in with the
1648 logging improvements in 3.0.7. Reported by Maynard.
1649 - The img-reorder filter is less likely to mess up JavaScript code in
1650 img tags. Problem and solution reported by Glenn Washburn in #2014552.
1651 - The source tar ball now includes Privoxy-Log-Parser,
1652 a syntax-highlighter for Privoxy logs. For fancy screenshots see:
1653 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy-log-parser/
1654 Documentation is available through perldoc(1).
1656 *** Version 3.0.9 beta ***
1658 - Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by
1659 the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
1660 - The "blocked" CGI pages include a block reason that was
1661 provided as argument to the last-applying block action.
1662 - If enable-edit-actions is disabled (the default since 3.0.7 beta)
1663 the show-status page hides the edit buttons and explains why.
1664 Previously the user would get the "this feature has been disabled"
1665 message after using the edit button.
1666 - Forbidden CONNECT requests are treated like blocks by default.
1667 The now-pointless treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks action
1669 - Not enabling limit-connect now allows CONNECT requests to all ports.
1670 In previous versions it would only allow CONNECT requests to port 443.
1671 Use +limit-connect{443} if you think you need the old default behaviour.
1672 - The CGI editor gets turned off after three edit requests with invalid
1673 file modification timestamps. This makes life harder for attackers
1674 who can leverage browser bugs to send fake Referers and intend to
1675 brute-force edit URLs.
1676 - Action settings for multiple patterns in the same section are
1677 shared in memory. As a result these sections take up less space
1678 (and are loaded slightly faster). Problem reported by Franz Schwartau.
1679 - Linear white space in HTTP headers will be normalized to single
1680 spaces before parsing the header's content, headers split across
1681 multiple lines get merged first. This should prevent problems like:
1682 * letting the session-cookies-only action slip
1683 some Cookies through unmodified,
1684 * only suppressing the first line of a header,
1685 thus creating an invalid one, and
1686 * to incorrectly block headers with valid timestamps
1687 that weren't properly recognized.
1688 Headers that could trigger these problems are unlikely to appear
1689 in "normal" web traffic, but could be intentionally generated to
1690 fool some of Privoxy's header parsers.
1691 - Host information is gathered outside the main thread so it's less
1692 likely to delay other incoming connections if the host is misconfigured.
1693 - New config option "hostname" to use a hostname other than
1694 the one returned by the operating system. Useful to speed-up responses
1695 for CGI requests on misconfigured systems. Requested by Max Khon.
1696 - The CGI editor supports the "disable all filters of this type"
1697 directives "-client-header-filter", "-server-header-filter",
1698 "-client-header-tagger" and "-server-header-tagger".
1699 - Fixed false-positives with the link-by-url filter and URLs that
1700 contain the pattern "/jump/".
1701 - The less-download-windows filter no longer messes
1702 "Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash" headers up.
1703 - In the show-url-info page's "Final results" section active and
1704 inactive actions are listed separately. Patch provided by Lee.
1705 - The GNUmakefile supports the DESTDIR variable. Patch for
1706 the install target submitted by Radoslaw Zielinski.
1707 - Embedding the content of configuration files in the show-status
1708 page is significantly faster now. For a largish action file (1 MB)
1709 a speedup of about 2450 times has been measured. This is mostly
1710 interesting if you are using large action files or regularly use
1711 Privoxy-Regression-Test while running Privoxy through Valgrind,
1712 for stock configuration files it doesn't really matter.
1713 - If zlib support is unavailable and there are content
1714 filters active but the prevent-compression action is disabled,
1715 the show-url-info page includes a warning that compression
1716 might prevent filtering.
1717 - The show-url-info page provides an OpenSearch Description that
1718 allows to access the page through browser search plugins.
1719 - Custom client-header filters that rewrite the request line
1720 incorrectly no longer cause Privoxy to crash. Reported by din_a4.
1721 - The obsolete kill-popups action has been removed as the
1722 PCRS-based popup filters can do the same and are slightly
1724 - The inspect-jpegs action has been removed.
1725 - The send-wafer and send-vanilla-wafer actions have been removed.
1726 They weren't particular useful and their behaviour could be emulated
1727 with add-header anyway.
1728 - Privoxy-Regression-Test has been significantly improved.
1729 - Most sections in the default.action file contain tests for
1730 Privoxy-Regression-Test to verify that they are working as intended.
1731 - Parts of Privoxy have been refactored to increase maintainability.
1732 - Building with zlib (if available) is done by default.
1734 *** Version 3.0.8 ***
1736 - Fixed a small memory leak when listen-address only specifies the port.
1737 - The source tar balls now include Privoxy-Regression-Test which
1738 (upon other things) can be used to automatically detect some
1739 packaging problems. Packagers are welcome to give it a try.
1740 - Reverted a change in 3.0.7 that caused path patterns to be checked
1741 even if the host pattern match already failed. While this doesn't
1742 noticeable affect the performance, it makes it less likely to run
1743 out of stack space with overly-complex path patterns the user might
1745 - Updated the msn, yahoo and google filters to work as advertised again.
1746 - The warning message shown by the show-status CGI page is easier to
1747 understand. Previously it wasn't clear that the error message
1748 is shown below the invalid directive. (Reported by Lee)
1749 - When regenerating Content-Disposition headers the more common
1750 spelling is used for the name. Previously it was written without caps.
1751 - Less confusing log message if the content type isn't overwritten
1752 because force-text-type wasn't used but the old type doesn't look
1753 like content that would be filtered normally.
1754 - Better log messages if the user tries to execute filters that
1756 - Treat the non-standard Request-Range headers like standard range
1757 headers and suppress them if content filtering is enabled.
1758 - Prevent the log messages for CONNECT requests to unacceptable
1759 ports from printing the limit-connect argument as [null] if
1760 limit-connect hasn't been explicitly enabled.
1761 - Don't disable the mingw32 log window if the logfile directive
1762 isn't used. While it was an intentional change in 3.0.7 at least
1763 one user perceived it as a regression and the same effect can
1764 be achieved by disabling all debug directives.
1765 - Fixed two minor problems related to the win32 build process: a css
1766 file was not being in the installer and the trustfile comment in the
1767 config.txt referenced a nonexisting file
1768 - Minor documentation fixes.
1770 *** Version 3.0.7 beta ***
1772 - Added zlib support to filter content with gzip and deflate
1773 encoding. (Patch provided by Wil Mahan)
1774 - Dedicated filters and actions are used for header filtering.
1775 "filter-client-headers" and "filter-client-headers" are no longer
1776 supported, use server-header-filter{} and client-header-filter{}
1778 - Tags can be used to change actions based on HTTP headers.
1779 - New server-header filter: less-download-windows.
1780 - New client-header taggers: css-requests, image-requests,
1781 client-ip-address, http-method, allow-post, complete-url,
1782 user-agent and privoxy-control.
1783 - New server-header taggers: content-type and privoxy-control.
1784 - The forward-override{} action allows to change the forwarding
1785 settings through the action files, for example based on client
1786 headers like the User-Agent, or the request origin.
1787 - Socks errors are no longer handled by the CGI page for
1788 DNS resolution failures.
1789 - CGI pages use favicons to signal whether they are error
1790 or control pages. This is useful if you rely heavily on
1792 - The show-url-info CGI page shows the forwarding settings.
1793 - "Crunch!" log messages (used when Privoxy answers requests
1794 by itself) now also contain the reason.
1795 - Allow to rewrite the request destination behind the client's back.
1796 - Fix socks requests on big-endian platforms. Patch provided by Song Weijia.
1797 - Fixes possible deadlocks and crashes on OpenBSD.
1798 Patch provided by Ralf Horstmann.
1799 - The CGI action editor allows to edit actionfiles with previously
1800 forbidden characters like dots.
1801 - New trust entries are saved with a comment that contains the
1802 trusted referring URL (Suggested by Daniel Griscom).
1803 - Filter descriptions are HTML encoded automatically.
1804 - New config option "split-large-forms" to work
1805 around a browser bug that caused IE6 and IE7 to ignore
1806 the Submit button on the edit-actions-for-url CGI page.
1807 - New config option "allow-cgi-request-crunching" to allow
1808 requests for Privoxy's CGI pages to be blocked, redirected
1809 or (un)trusted like ordinary requests.
1810 - Empty filter files no longer interrupt the filtering process
1811 prematurely and are correctly listed on the show-status CGI page.
1812 - New config option "accept-intercepted-requests" to combine
1813 Privoxy with any packet filter to build an intercepting proxy
1814 for HTTP/1.1 requests (and for HTTP/1.0 requests with Host header set).
1815 - fast-redirects{} catch redirects to https URLs as well.
1816 - redirect{s@foo@bar@} can be used to redirect to a rewritten
1817 version of the original URL.
1818 - Trap unsupported gopher proxy requests.
1819 - Fixed a bug in the User Manual delivery on Windows
1820 (mingw32 only). Images now show up correctly and HTML
1821 pages are no longer padded with garbage data.
1822 - Fixed several minor memory leaks, most of them discovered with Valgrind.
1823 - Only unlink the pidfile if it's actually used.
1824 - Retries after connection problems with forced requests
1825 aren't blocked again.
1826 - On Unix SIGABRT causes a core dump as expected and is no
1827 longer treated as normal shutdown signal.
1828 - The "access denied" CGI page is more descriptive and
1829 allows retries to circumvent the referrer check.
1830 - Updated PCRS to handle unexpected PCRE errors properly.
1831 Fixed crashes that could occur if Privoxy was build
1832 with external PCRE versions newer than Privoxy's internal
1833 one. (Reported by Chung-chieh Shan)
1834 - Fixed crashes with null bytes in PCRS replacement strings
1835 (Patch provided by Felix Gröbert).
1836 - Fixed crashes with header time randomization on mingw32.
1837 - The CGI style sheet is no longer delivered if the referring
1838 page isn't a Privoxy CGI page. This prevents a JavaScript-based
1839 Privoxy detection "attack". Note that detecting Privoxy is
1840 still possible through other ways and Privoxy was never intended
1841 to be invisible anyway.
1842 - Added support for AmigaOS 4, fixed build for AmigaOS 3.x.
1843 - The show-url-info CGI page displays a warning if Privoxy
1844 is currently toggled off.
1845 - The show-status CGI page suppresses the edit button
1846 for action files if Privoxy has no write access.
1847 - Most CGI error pages react properly to HEAD requests.
1848 - Requests with RFC 3253 HTTP methods (used by Subversion)
1849 are accepted. (Patch provided by Petr Kadlec)
1850 - New config option "templdir" to change the location
1851 of the CGI templates to make sure customized templates
1853 - Better handling of "HTTP/1.1 100 Continue" responses.
1854 - The background of the PNG pattern is transparent.
1855 - Fixed XML syntax errors caused by banners-by-size and banners-by-url.
1856 - Fixed crashes and possible action file corruptions
1857 when lines containing hashes are written through the CGI editor.
1858 - Supports dynamic filters which can contain variables.
1859 - Supports tags to change the actions based on client or server headers.
1860 - Incorrect actions are logged before program termination.
1861 - The "actionsfile" syntax in the configuration file is consistent
1862 with the rest of the configuration options and requires the
1863 whole file name. This is an incompatible change, if you use
1864 an old configuration file you might have to append ".action"
1865 to your "actionsfile" directives.
1866 - With the configuration file option "enforce-blocks" the
1867 "go there anyway" mechanism can be disabled without recompiling
1869 - More precise error messages in case of incorrect acl syntax.
1870 - Logs a warning if filtering is enabled but impossible due
1871 to lack of zlib support or use of the prevent-compression action.
1872 - Less noisy handling of Cookie:" and "Connection:" headers.
1873 - Improved error messages in case of connection problems.
1874 - Fix a command-line-parsing bug that was introduced before 3.0.5
1875 beta and caused Privoxy to treat the last argument as configuration
1876 file if no configuration file was specified.
1877 - Treat unknown command line options as fatal errors instead
1878 of silently ignoring them.
1879 - Use string functions with length checks more often.
1880 - Don't log CONNECT requests twice.
1881 - Allow to log the source address for ACL-related connection drops.
1882 - Don't ignore applying filters if the server didn't
1883 specify a Content-Type. Bug reported by Amuro Namie.
1884 - Rejected CONNECT requests are logged with log level info
1885 (enabled by default) and the reason for the block.
1886 - New command line option "--pre-chroot-nslookup hostname" to
1887 intialize the resolver library before chroot'ing. On some systems this
1888 reduces the number of files that must be copied into the chroot tree.
1889 (Patch provided by Stephen Gildea)
1890 - Fix a long-standing memory corruption bug that could cause
1891 Privoxy to overwrite a single byte in memory it didn't explicitly
1892 allocate (but that probably was allocated anyway due to bucket size).
1893 - Send template-based CGI pages as HTTP/1.1 unless the client
1895 - Let the first line in connection established responses
1896 end in \r\n as required by RFC1945. Reported by Bert van Leeuwen.
1897 - If no log file has been specified, disable logging instead of logging
1899 - Don't block stderr when in daemon mode.
1900 - Ignore missing zero-chunks when filtering chunk-encoded content.
1901 Earlier Privoxy versions would buffer and then forward the content
1902 unmodified which caused some browsers to simply show empty pages.
1903 - Fix double free in cgi_edit_actions_list(). Reported by Venustech AD-LAB.
1904 - The code to add X-Forwarded-For headers when the hide-forwarded-for-headers
1905 action isn't being used has been removed.
1906 - Fixed trustfile feature which previously didn't work without FEATURE_TOGGLE.
1908 - Minor code clean-ups, filter and action file updates.
1909 (Some of them reported by Davide Alberani, Markus Elfring,
1910 Stefan Huehner and Adam Piggott)
1912 *** Version 3.0.6 ***
1914 - New content filters: no-ping, google, msn, yahoo and blogspot.
1915 - New header filters: x-httpd-php-to-html, html-to-xml, xml-to-html
1916 and hide-tor-exit-notation.
1917 - The special header "X-Filter: No" now disables header filtering as well.
1918 - Improved the filters img-reorder, js-annoyances, webbugs,
1919 banners-by-size, banners-by-link and ie-exploits to make them
1920 less likely to break anything.
1921 - Removed outdated URL patterns in default.action and added new ones.
1922 - Added redirection from http://p.p/user-manual to http://p.p/user-manual/
1923 - Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent, hide-referrer
1924 and set-image-blocker.
1926 *** Version 3.0.5 beta ***
1928 - Windows version can be installed/started as a service.
1929 - Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy.
1930 - Integrated Fabian Keil's extensive patch. See:
1931 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the
1932 following new or significantly improved actions (among many
1933 other improvements):
1935 content-type-overwrite{}
1936 crunch-client-header{string}
1937 crunch-if-none-match
1938 crunch-server-header{string}
1939 fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}
1940 filter-client-headers
1941 filter-server-headers
1943 handle-as-empty-document
1944 hide-accept-language{}
1945 hide-content-disposition{}
1946 hide-if-modified-since
1947 hide-referrer{conditional-block}
1948 overwrite-last-modified{}
1950 treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks
1952 - Standard-compliant clients are prevented from displaying cached
1953 copies of Privoxy's error messages after the cause of the problem
1955 - Improved DNS error handling.
1956 - Multiple filter files can now be specified in config.
1957 - Added jpeg filtering to defend against MS jpeg vulnerability MS04-028
1958 with the new inspect-jpegs action.
1959 - Removed the "arbitrary" 1000 filter limit - addresses tracker #911950
1960 - Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log
1961 file. The race condition remains for non-pthread implementations.
1962 Reference patch #1175720. Various other logging enhancements.
1963 - A pile of assorted bug fixes, memory leaks, enhancements, etc.
1964 - Moved Actions file reporting mechanism to SF tracker.
1965 - Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and
1966 forwarded-connect-retries.
1967 - Trap unsupported FTP requests.
1968 - Let text/xml be filtered.
1969 - Numerous updates to default.action
1970 - Increase the compiled in limit of trusted referrers from 64 to 512
1971 (for trustfile users).
1973 *** Version 3.0.3 ***
1975 - Fixed yet another two memory leaks. Process growth seems stopped now.
1976 - Further tightened security against malicious toggle-off links.
1977 - Excluded text/plain MIME types from filtering. This fixes a
1978 couple of client-crashing, download corruption and
1979 Privoxy performance issues, whose root cause lies in
1980 web servers labelling content of unknown type as text/plain.
1981 - Assorted fixes for POSIX compliance, signal handling, graceful
1982 termination, compiler warnings, OSX support, Win32 systray,
1983 error logging, hostname wildcards, correct detection of NetBSD.
1984 - Workarounds for client (iTunes etc) and server (PHP < 4.2.3) bugs
1985 including the notorious "blank page" problem.
1986 - Various filter improvements; most notably the unsolicited-popups
1987 filter became less destructive
1988 - Major revamp of the actions file
1990 *** Version 3.0.2 ***
1992 - Fixed two memory leaks, one serious
1993 - Fixed bug in pcrs which could cause crashes with user-defined filters
1994 - Fixed bug in domain name matching
1995 - Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..)
1996 - Added basic support for the OPTIONS and TRACE http methods
1997 - Added workaround for Bug in Mac OSX that made Privoxy crash occasionally
1998 - Refined the default action file through >400 items of user feedback
2000 - Assorted refinements, optimizations and fixes in the js-annoyances,
2001 img-reorder, banners-by-size, banners-by-link, webbugs, refresh-tags,
2002 html-annoyances, content-cookies and fun filters
2003 - Replaced filter "popups" by choice between two modes:
2004 - "unsolicited-popups" tries to catch only the unsolicited ones
2005 - "all-popups" tries to kill them all (as before)
2006 - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas.
2007 - New filter "jumping-windows" that prevents windows from resizing
2008 and moving themselves
2009 - New filter "demoronizer" which fixes MS's abuse of std charsets
2010 (common cases anyway).
2011 - Replaced "nimda" with more general "ie-exploits" filter in which
2012 all filters for exploits shall be collected
2013 - Improved cookie logging
2014 - Rewrote make install target. Added uninstall and install-strip
2016 - Fixed a potential (application-level, NOT OS-level!) security
2017 problem involving remote toggling and action file manipulation
2018 by mailicious websites.
2019 - Added ability to chroot (thanks to Sviatoslav Sviridov)
2020 - Added more action aliases for prehistoric action names
2021 - Add Slackware support to Makefile.
2025 - Fixed Windows startmenu items, log window and tray icon menus.
2026 - Added warning for bogus install target
2027 - Added quicktime-kioskmode filter and improved frameset-borders
2028 - Updated default.action based on latest feedback
2029 - New PDF doc build process
2030 - Add a user contrib module to cvs:
2031 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ijbswa/contrib/
2033 *** Version 2.9.18 ***
2035 - Added workaround for IE bug that broke CGI interface
2036 - Bugfix: String actions now reliably editable through CGI interface
2037 - Three filters fixed (again!)
2038 - Assorted small fixes and doc enhancements
2040 *** Version 2.9.16 ***
2042 - Major revamp of default.action to get rid of years of cruft.
2043 - Same for default.filter
2044 - Re-design and major improvements to the CGI editor interface.
2045 - Address spurious 'out of memory' error due to incorrect file permissions.
2046 - Impose buffer limits while reading client and server headers.
2047 - Better memory and CPU optimization.
2048 - Add Conectiva Linux package.
2049 - user-manual directive added to config for help links from within CGI
2051 - Multiple actions files can now be specified in config.
2052 - Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and
2053 user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
2054 - The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes.
2056 *** Version 2.9.14 beta ***
2058 - Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
2059 - Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
2060 - Fix build failure where certain features were disabled.
2061 - 'blocked-compact' template is removed. Various CGI improvements,
2062 including an adaptive 'blocked' template.
2063 - Various tweaks for actions file to get ready for stable 3.0
2064 - Included a 'Bookmarklet' and PHP scripts for reporting actions file
2065 problems via web interface at privoxy.org. Accessed via internal CGIs.
2066 - Include cgi-style.css for templates.
2067 - #include mechansim for common text in templates
2068 - Various other minor fixes.
2070 *** Version 2.9.13 beta ***
2072 - *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
2073 reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
2074 - ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now
2076 - http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/
2077 - The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern'
2078 (checkerboard) is now the default.
2079 - RPM spec file make over.
2082 *** Version 2.9.12 beta ***
2084 - **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from
2085 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
2087 - More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements.
2088 - Win32 command line fix ups.
2089 - re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a
2090 per site basis. Some new goodies there too.
2091 - +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile
2092 for even more flexibility.
2093 - Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which
2094 displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo.
2095 - PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images
2096 if configured with --enable-no-gif.
2097 - Clean up compiler warnings (mostly).
2098 - Improved handling of failed DNS lookups & diagnostics for failed bind
2100 - Made --no-daemon mode log to tty instead of logfile.
2101 - Various spec file and init script cleanups and improvements (Redhat and
2103 - CGI Editor works on OS/2 now.
2104 - Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT.
2105 - Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file.
2106 - A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help,
2107 --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces
2108 the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges
2109 to the specified user.
2110 - Signal handling cleanups (*nix).
2111 - CGI actions editor improvements and fixes.
2112 - Error handling improvements, especially out of memory.
2113 - Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos
2114 (instead of 'blank').
2115 - configure.in threading fixes for Solaris.
2116 - Various other minor fixes.
2119 *** Version 2.9.11 beta Changes ***
2121 - Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life
2122 of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk).
2123 - Checks for correct header length.
2124 - Fix user:pass@host.domain.com auth bug.
2125 - Better signal handling on *nix.
2126 - Fix CFLAGS hard-coded in configure.in
2127 - Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random
2128 URLs to fail in some cases.
2131 *** Version 2.9.11 Alpha Changes ***
2133 - A web-based editor for the actions file is included (go to http://i.j.b/).
2134 - Web-based toggle IJB on/off support.
2135 - Cookie handling has changed - the new +no-cookies-keep feature is now the
2137 - actionsfile is renamed to ijb.action.
2138 - junkbstr.txt is now config.txt on Win32.
2139 - Support for running IJB as a UNIX daemon process has improved.
2140 - Unix daemon now returns error code on failed start.
2141 - Timestamps in logfile and jarfile now.
2142 - Fix for the Netscape bug reintroduced in 2.9.9.
2143 - make should now abort if gmake (GNU make) not present.
2144 - Many other minor bugfixes
2145 - Start a ChangeLog :)
2149 *** Version 2.9.3 pre-Alpha Changes ***
2151 - Amiga support (completely untested by me - I don't have an Amiga)
2152 - "tinygif 3" support (redirects blocked images to a specified URL, so
2153 the browser doesn't have to load and cache many copies of the same
2155 - one case where there were both local and global "referrer" variables
2156 (yuck!) clarified by renaming the local one to "refer".
2157 - Fixed some places where close() was used instead of close_socket().
2158 Thanks to Jörg Strohmayer (joergs at users.sourceforge.net) for these.
2159 - Temporary hack to get FORCE_LOAD to work with IE. I just lowercased the
2160 FORCE_LOAD_PREFIX. Needs fixing properly.
2161 - Most URLs hardcoded into Junkbuster were changed to go through a script
2162 e.g. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?v=2.9.3&to=faq
2163 The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL:
2164 http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
2166 http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/
2167 ... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway.
2168 TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's
2169 copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page.
2170 - PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option.
2173 *** Version 2.9.2 pre-Alpha Changes ***
2175 - Andreas applied the latest version of the FORCE patch.
2178 *** Version 2.9.1 pre-Alpha Changes ***
2180 - in parsers.c, fixed two #ifdef FORCE to #ifdef FORCE_LOAD
2181 (BTW: I think FORCE is precise enough, since loading remote
2182 data is the whole purpose of a proxy..)
2183 - Set the FORCE_PREFIX (back) to 'IJB-FORCE-LOAD-'. While 'noijb.'
2184 is more elegant and looks like a hostname in the URL, it doesn't
2185 make clear to the inexperienced user that the proxy is bypassed. It
2186 also has a higher name collision risk.
2187 - Filled in the function header templates for my functions in
2188 parsers.c (again). They obviously got lost in our current
2190 - Cut the credit for the §-referrer-option from the config file,
2191 that Stefan had placed there.
2192 - Improved the re_filterfile
2195 *** Version 2.9.0 pre-Alpha Changes ***
2197 - Now use PCRE, not GNU REGEX. I have not yet had chance to check the
2198 syntax of the block/image/cookie file to ensure that they match what
2199 is expected - however they seem to work.
2200 - Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also
2201 use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for
2202 the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from
2203 "acconfig.h" and "configure.in". (Note that to install you do not
2204 need autoconf or autoheader - just run "./configure".)
2205 To see command-line options, run "./configure --help".
2206 This is my first ever autoconf script, so it has some rough edges
2207 (how PCRE is handled is the roughest).
2208 - Error logging code replaced with new module errlog.c, based on the
2209 one from JunkbusterMT (but with the threading code removed).
2210 - Most of Rodney's 0.21 and 0.21A patches applied. (Marked *). I did not
2211 apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional
2212 popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code.
2213 - ACL, Jar and trust files conditionally compiled.
2214 - New source file headers.
2215 - Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the
2216 config files - I think that's worthwhile, but it's 1am and I want to
2218 - RCS tags on .h files.
2219 - RCS tags are const char[] rather than const char *. (Saves 4 bytes
2221 - VC++ project files renamed to vc_junkbuster.*.
2222 - show-proxy-args now shows status of all conditionals, not just REGEX
2223 - Various functions moved around. Most notably all the system-specific
2224 sockets code which was spread between jcc.c, bind.c, and connect.c,
2225 has been moved to "jbsockets.c". The non-system-specific code from
2226 connect.c and socks4.c has been movet to "gateway.c". Also, the
2227 config file loader and the global variables it writes to have been
2228 moved to "loadcfg.c". (Maybe this should go into loaders.c?)
2229 And candidate for the "worst filename ever" award is "miscutil.c",
2230 which contains, well, miscellaneous utility functions like zalloc.
2231 (Suggestions for a better name for this file are welcome!)
2232 - Loaders now use a common function to read a line and skip comments,
2233 and this function also stores the proxy_args.
2234 - Added ./junkbuster --help (Not for Win32 GUI)
2235 - Added ./junkbuster --version (Not for Win32 GUI)
2236 - Win32 resources are now all marked as "U.S. English", rather than
2237 being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English".
2238 - Version number changes to 2.9.0
2241 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
2242 Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2016 the
2243 Privoxy team. https://www.privoxy.org/
2245 Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
2246 by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
2247 Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com/
2249 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
2250 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
2251 Public License as published by the Free Software
2252 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
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2255 This program is distributed in the hope that it will
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2258 PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
2259 License for more details.
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