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4 *** Version 3.0.20 Beta ***
7 - Client sockets are now properly shutdown and drained before being
8 closed. This fixes page truncation issues with clients that aggressively
9 pipeline data on platforms that otherwise discard already written data.
10 The issue mainly affected Opera users and was initially reported
11 by Kevin in #3464439, szotsaki provided additional information to track
13 - Fix latency calculation for shared connections (disabled by default).
14 It was broken since their introduction in 2009. The calculated latency
15 for most connections would be 0 in which case the timeout detection
16 failed to account for the real latency.
17 - Reject URLs with invalid port. Previously they were parsed incorrectly and
18 characters between the port number and the first slash were silently
19 dropped as shown by curl test 187.
20 - The default-server-timeout and socket-timeout directives accept 0 as
22 - Fix a race condition on Windows that could cause Privoxy to become
23 unresponsive after toggling it on or off through the taskbar icon.
24 Reported by Tim H. in #3525694.
25 - Fix the compilation on Windows when configured without IPv6 support.
26 - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() in case of
27 socks5 connection failures with "debug 2" enabled.
28 - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() if a filter
29 contained nul bytes in the replacement text.
31 - General improvements:
32 - Significantly improved keep-alive support for both client and server
34 - New debug log level 65536 which logs all actions that were applied to
36 - New directive client-header-order to forward client headers in a
37 different order than the one in which they arrived.
38 - New directive tolerate-pipelining to allow client-side pipelining.
39 If enabled (3.0.20 beta enables it by default), Privoxy will keep
40 pipelined client requests around to deal with them once the current
41 request has been served.
42 - New --config-test option to let Privoxy exit after checking whether or not
43 the configuration seems valid. The limitations noted in TODO #22 and #23
44 still apply. Based on a patch by Ramkumar Chinchani.
45 - New limit-cookie-lifetime{} action to let cookies expire before the end
46 of the session. Suggested by Rick Sykes in #1049575.
47 - Increase the hard-coded maximum number of actions and filter files from
48 10 to 30 (each). It doesn't significantly affect Privoxy's memory usage
49 and recompiling wasn't an option for all Privoxy users that reached the
51 - Add support for chunk-encoded client request bodies. Previously
52 chunk-encoded request bodies weren't guaranteed to be forwarded correctly,
53 so this can also be considered a bug fix although chunk-encoded request
54 bodies aren't commonly used in the real world.
55 - Add support for Tor's optimistic-data SOCKS extension, which can reduce the
56 latency for requests on newly created connections. Currently only the
57 headers are sent optimistically and only if the client request has already
58 been read completely which rules out requests with large bodies.
59 - After preventing the client from pipelining, don't signal keep-alive
60 intentions. When looking at the response headers alone, it previously
61 wasn't obvious from the client's perspective that no additional responses
63 - Stop considering client sockets tainted after receiving a request with body.
64 It hasn't been necessary for a while now and unnecessarily causes test
65 failures when using curl's test suite.
66 - Allow HTTP/1.0 clients to signal interest in keep-alive through the
67 Proxy-Connection header. While such client are rare in the real world, it
68 doesn't hurt and couple of curl tests rely on it.
69 - Only remove duplicated Content-Type headers when filters are enabled.
70 If they are not it doesn't cause ill effects and the user might not want it.
71 Downgrade the removal message to LOG_LEVEL_HEADER to clarify that it's not
72 an error in Privoxy and is unlikely to cause any problems in general.
73 Anonymously reported in #3599335.
74 - Set the socket option SO_LINGER for the client socket.
75 - Move several variable declarations to the beginning of their code block.
76 It's required when compiling with gcc 2.95 which is still used on some
77 platforms. Initial patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
78 - Optionally try to sanity-check strptime() results before trusting them.
79 Broken strptime() implementations have caused problems in the past and
80 the most recent offender seems to be FreeBSD's libc (standards/173421).
81 - When filtering is enabled, let Range headers pass if the range starts at
82 the beginning. This should work around (or at least reduce) the video
83 playback issues with various Apple clients as reported by Duc in #3426305.
84 - Do not confuse a client hanging up with a connection time out. If a client
85 closes its side of the connection without sending a request line, do not
86 send the CLIENT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_RESPONSE, but report the condition
88 - Allow closing curly braces as part of action values as long as they are
90 - On Windows, the logfile is now written before showing the GUI error
91 message which blocks until the user acknowledges it.
92 Reported by Adriaan in #3593603.
93 - Remove an unreasonable parameter limit in the CGI interface. The new
94 parameter limit depends on the memory available and is currently unlikely
95 to be reachable, due to other limits in both Privoxy and common clients.
96 Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
97 - Decrease the chances of parse failures after requests with unsupported
98 methods were sent to the CGI interface.
100 - Action file improvements:
101 - Remove the comment that indicated that updated default.action versions
102 are released on their own.
103 - Block 'optimize.indieclick.com/' and 'optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/'
104 - Unblock 'adjamblog.wordpress.com/' and 'adjamblog.files.wordpress.com/'.
105 Reported by Ryan Farmer in #3496116.
106 - Unblock '/.*Bugtracker'. Reported by pwhk in #3522341.
107 - Add test URLs for '.freebsd.org' and '.watson.org'.
108 - Unblock '.urbandictionary.com/popular'.
109 - Block '.adnxs.com/'.
110 - Block 'farm.plista.com/widgetdata.php'.
111 - Block 'rotation.linuxnewmedia.com/'.
112 - Block 'reklamy.sfd.pl/'. Reported by kacperdominik in #3399948.
113 - Block 'g.adspeed.net/'.
114 - Unblock 'websupport.wdc.com/'. Reported by Adam Piggot in #3577851.
115 - Block '/openx/www/delivery/'.
116 - Disable fast-redirects for '.googleapis.com/'.
117 - Block 'imp.double.net/'. Reported by David Bo in #3070411.
118 - Block 'gm-link.com/' which is used for email tracking.
119 Reported by David Bo in #1812733.
120 - Verify that requests to "bwp." are blocked. URL taken from #1736879
121 submitted by Francois Marier.
122 - Block '/.*bannerid='. Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975779.
123 - Block 'cltomedia.info/delivery/' and '.adexprt.com/'.
124 Anonymously reported in #2965254.
125 - Block 'de17a.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3061472.
126 - Block 'oskar.tradera.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3060596.
127 - Block '/scripts/webtrends\.js'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002729.
128 - Block requests for 'pool.*.adhese.com/'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002716.
129 - Update path pattern for Coremetrics and add tests.
130 Pattern and URLs submitted by Adam Piggott #3168443.
131 - Enable +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} for 'tr.anp.se/'.
132 Reported by David Bo in #3268832.
133 - Unblock '.conrad.se/newsletter/banners/'. Reported by David Bo in #3413824.
134 - Block '.tynt.com/'. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421767.
135 - Unblock '.bbci.co.uk/radio/'. Reported by Adam Piggott in #3569603.
136 - Block requests to 'service.maxymiser.net/'.
137 Reported by johnd16 in #3118401 (with a previous URL).
138 - Disable fast-redirects for Google's "let's pretend your computer is
140 - Unblock '/.*download' to resolve actionsfile feedback #3498129.
141 Submitted by Steven Kolins (soundcloud.com not working).
142 - Unblock '.wlxrs.com/' which is required by hotmail.com.
143 Fixes #3413827 submitted by David Bo.
144 - Add two unblock patterns for popup radio and TV players.
145 Submitted by Adam Piggott in #3596089.
147 - Filter file improvements & bug fixes:
148 - Add a referer tagger.
149 - Reduce the likelihood that the google filter messes up HTML-generating
150 JavaScript. Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3520260.
152 - Documentation improvements:
153 - Revised all OS X sections due to new packaging module (OSXPackageBuilder).
154 - Update the list of supported operating systems to clarify that all Windows
155 versions after 95 are expected to work and note that the platform-specific
156 code for AmigaOS and QNX currently isn't maintained.
157 - Update 'Signals' section, the only explicitly handled signals are SIGINT,
159 - Add Haiku to the list of operating systems on which Privoxy is known to
161 - Add DragonFly to the list of BSDs on which Privoxy is known to run.
162 - Removed references to redhat-specific documentation set since it no longer
164 - Removed references to building PDFs since we no longer do so.
165 - Multiple listen-address directives are supported since 3.0.18, correct the
166 documentation to say so.
167 - Remove bogus section about long and short being preferable to int.
168 - Corrected some Internet JunkBuster references to Privoxy.
169 - Removed references to www.junkbusters.com since it is no longer
170 maintained. Reported by Angelina Matson.
171 - Various grammar and spelling corrections
172 - Add a client-header-tagger{} example for disabling filtering for range
174 - Correct a URL in the "Privoxy with Tor" FAQ.
175 - Spell 'refresh-tags' correctly. Reported by Don in #3571927.
176 - Sort manpage options alphabetically.
177 - Remove an incorrect sentence in the toggle section. The toggle state
178 doesn't affect whether or not the Windows version uses the tray icon.
179 Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3596395.
180 - Add new contributors since 3.0.19.
182 - Log message improvements:
183 - When stopping to watch a client socket due to pipelining, additionally log
185 - Log the client socket and its condition before closing it. This makes it
186 more obvious that the socket actually gets closed and should help when
187 diagnosing problems like #3464439.
188 - In case of SOCKS5 failures, do not explicitly log the server's response.
189 It hasn't helped so far and the response can already be logged by enabling
190 "debug 32768" anyway. This reverts v1.81 and the follow-up bug fix v1.84.
191 - Relocate the connection-accepted message from listen_loop() to serve().
192 This way it's printed by the thread that is actually serving the
193 connection which is nice when grepping for thread ids in log files.
196 - Remove compatibility layer for versions prior to 3.0 since it has been
197 obsolete for more than 10 years now.
198 - Remove the ijb_isupper() and ijb_tolower() macros from parsers.c since
199 they aren't used in this file.
200 - Removed the 'Functions declared include:' comment sections since they tend
201 to be incomplete, incorrect and out of date and the benefit seems
203 - Various comment grammar and comprehensibility improvements.
204 - Remove a pointless fflush() call in chat(). Flushing all streams pretty
205 much all the time for no obvious reason is ridiculous.
206 - Relocate ijb_isupper()'s definition to project.h and get the ijb_tolower()
207 definition from there, too.
208 - Relocate ijb_isdigit()'s definition to project.h.
209 - Rename ijb_foo macros to privoxy_foo.
210 - Add malloc_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where malloc()
211 failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
212 - Add strdup_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where strdup()
213 failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
214 - Replace strdup() calls with strdup_or_die() calls where it's safe and
216 - Fix white-space around parentheses.
217 - Add missing white-space behind if's and the following parentheses.
218 - Unwrap a memcpy() call in resolve_hostname_to_ip().
219 - Declare pcrs_get_delimiter()'s delimiters[] static const.
220 - Various optimisations to remove dead code and merge inefficient code
221 structures for improved clarity, performance or code compactness.
222 - Various data type corrections.
223 - Change visibility of several code segments when compiling without
224 FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE enabled for clarity.
225 - In pcrs_get_delimiter(), do not use delimiters outside the ASCII range.
226 Fixes a clang complaint.
227 - Fix an error message in get_last_url() nobody is supposed to see.
228 Reported by Matthew Fischer in #3507301.
229 - Fix a typo in the no-zlib-support complaint. Patch submitted by Matthew
231 - Shorten ssplit()'s prototype by removing the last two arguments. We always
232 want to skip empty fields and ignore leading delimiters, so having
233 parameters for this only complicates the API.
234 - Use an enum for the type of the action value.
235 - Rename action_name's member takes_value to value_type as it isn't used as
237 - Turn family mismatches in match_sockaddr() into fatal errors.
238 - Let enlist_unique_header() verify that the caller didn't pass a header
239 containing either \r or \n.
240 - Change the hashes used in load_config() to unsigned int. That's what
241 hash_string() actually returns and using a potentially larger type
243 - Use privoxy_tolower() instead of vanilla tolower() with manual casting of
245 - Catch ssplit() failures in parse_cgi_parameters().
247 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
248 - Add an 'Overwrite condition' directive to skip any matching tests before
249 it. As it has a global scope, using it is more convenient than clowning
250 around with the Ignore directive.
251 - Log to STDOUT instead of STDERR.
252 - Include the Privoxy version in the output.
253 - Various grammar and spelling corrections in documentation and code.
254 - Additional tests for range requests with filtering enabled.
255 - Tests with mostly invalid range request.
256 - Add a couple of hide-if-modified-since{} tests with different date formats.
257 - Cleaned up the format of the regression-tests.action file to match the
258 format of default.action.
259 - Remove the "Copyright" line from print_version(). When using --help, every
260 line of screen space matters and thus shouldn't be wasted on things the
261 user doesn't care about.
263 - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
264 - Improve the --statistics performance by skipping sanity checks for input
265 that shouldn't affect the results anyway. Add a --strict-checks option
266 that enables some of the checks again, just in case anybody cares.
267 - The distribution of client requests per connection is included in
268 the --statistic output.
269 - The --accept-unknown-messages option has been removed and the behavior
271 - Accept and (mostly) highlight new log messages introduced with
275 - Bump generated Firefox version to 17.
277 - GNUmakefile improvements:
278 - The dok-tidy target no longer taints documents with a tidy-mark
279 - Change RA_MODE from 0664 to 0644. Suggested by Markus Dittrich in
281 - Remove tidy's clean flag as it changes the scope of attributes.
282 Link-specific colors end up being applied to all text. Reported by Adam
284 - Leave it up to the user whether or not smart tags are inserted.
285 - Let w3m itself do the line wrapping for the config file. It works better
286 than fmt as it can honour pre tags causing less unintentional line breaks.
287 - Ditch a pointless '-r' passed to rm to delete files.
288 - The config-file target now requires less manual intervention and updates
290 - Change WDUMP to generate ASCII. Add WDUMP_UTF8 to allow UTF-8 in the
291 AUTHORS file so the names are right.
292 - Stop pretending that lynx and links are supported for the documentation.
294 - configure improvements:
295 - On Haiku, do not pass -lpthread to the compiler. Haiku's pthreads
296 implementation is contained in its system library, libroot, so no
297 additional library needs to be searched.
298 Patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
299 - Additional Haiku-specific improvements. Disable checks intended for
300 multi-user systems as Haiku is presently single-user. Group Haiku-specific
301 settings in their own section, following the pattern for Solaris, OS/2 and
302 AmigaOS. Add additional library-related settings to remove the need for
303 providing configure with custom LDFLAGS.
304 Submitted by Simon South in #3574538.
306 *** Version 3.0.19 Stable ***
309 - Prevent a segmentation fault when de-chunking buffered content.
310 It could be triggered by malicious web servers if Privoxy was
311 configured to filter the content and running on a platform
312 where SIZE_T_MAX isn't larger than UINT_MAX, which probably
313 includes most 32-bit systems. On those platforms, all Privoxy
314 versions before 3.0.19 appear to be affected.
315 To be on the safe side, this bug should be presumed to allow
316 code execution as proving that it doesn't seems unrealistic.
317 - Do not expect a response from the SOCKS4/4A server until it
318 got something to respond to. This regression was introduced
319 in 3.0.18 and prevented the SOCKS4/4A negotiation from working.
320 Reported by qqqqqw in #3459781.
322 - General improvements:
323 - Fix an off-by-one in an error message about connect failures.
324 - Use a GNUMakefile variable for the webserver root directory and
325 update the path. Sourceforge changed it which broke various
327 - Update the CODE_STATUS description.
329 *** Version 3.0.18 Stable ***
332 - If a generated redirect URL contains characters RFC 3986 doesn't
333 permit, they are (re)encoded. Not doing this makes Privoxy versions
334 from 3.0.5 to 3.0.17 susceptible to HTTP response splitting (CWE-113)
335 attacks if the +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action is used.
336 - Fix a logic bug that could cause Privoxy to reuse a server
337 socket after it got tainted by a server-header-tagger-induced
338 block that was triggered before the whole server response had
339 been read. If keep-alive was enabled and the request following
340 the blocked one was to the same host and using the same forwarding
341 settings, Privoxy would send it on the tainted server socket.
342 While the server would simply treat it as a pipelined request,
343 Privoxy would later on fail to properly parse the server's
344 response as it would try to parse the unread data from the
345 first response as server headers for the second one.
346 Regression introduced in 3.0.17.
347 - When implying keep-alive in client_connection(), remember that
348 the client didn't. Fixes a regression introduced in 3.0.13 that
349 would cause Privoxy to wait for additional client requests after
350 receiving a HTTP/1.1 request with "Connection: close" set
351 and connection sharing enabled.
352 With clients which terminates the client connection after detecting
353 that the whole body has been received it doesn't really matter,
354 but with clients that don't the connection would be kept open until
356 - Fix a subtle race condition between prepare_csp_for_next_request()
357 and sweep(). A thread preparing itself for the next client request
358 could briefly appear to be inactive.
359 If all other threads were already using more recent files,
360 the thread could get its files swept away under its feet.
361 So far this has only been reproduced while stress testing in
362 valgrind while touching action files in a loop. It's unlikely
363 to have caused any actual problems in the real world.
364 - Disable filters if SDCH compression is used unless filtering is forced.
365 If SDCH was combined with a supported compression algorithm, Privoxy
366 previously could try to decompress it and ditch the Content-Encoding
367 header even though the SDCH compression wasn't dealt with.
368 Reported by zebul666 in #3225863.
369 - Make a copy of the --user value and only mess with that when splitting
370 user and group. On some operating systems modifying the value directly
371 is reflected in the output of ps and friends and can be misleading.
372 Reported by zepard in #3292710.
373 - If forwarded-connect-retries is set, only retry if Privoxy is actually
374 forwarding the request. Previously direct connections would be retried
376 - Fixed a small memory leak when retrying connections with IPv6
378 - Remove an incorrect assertion in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list()
379 It could be triggered by a pcrs job with an invalid pcre
380 pattern (for example one that contains a lone quantifier).
381 - If the --user argument user[.group] contains a dot, always bail out
382 if no group has been specified. Previously the intended, but undocumented
383 (and apparently untested), behaviour was to try interpreting the whole
384 argument as user name, but the detection was flawed and checked for '0'
385 instead of '\0', thus merely preventing group names beginning with a zero.
386 - In html_code_map[], use a numeric character reference instead of '
387 which wasn't standardized before XHTML 1.0.
388 - Fix an invalid free when compiled with FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION
389 and shut down through http://config.privoxy.org/die
390 - In get_actions(), fix the "temporary" backwards compatibility hack
391 to accept block actions without reason.
392 It also covered other actions that should be rejected as invalid.
393 Reported by Billy Crook.
395 - General improvements:
396 - Privoxy can (re)compress buffered content before delivering
397 it to the client. Disabled by default as most users wouldn't
399 - The +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action checks URL
400 segments separately. If there are other parameters behind
401 the redirect URL, this makes it unnecessary to cut them off
402 by additionally using a +redirect{} pcrs command.
403 Initial patch submitted by Jamie Zawinski in #3429848.
404 - When loading action sections, verify that the referenced filters
405 exist. Currently missing filters only result in an error message,
406 but eventually the severity will be upgraded to fatal.
407 - Allow to bind to multiple separate addresses.
408 Patch set submitted by Petr Pisar in #3354485.
409 - Set socket_error to errno if connecting fails in rfc2553_connect_to().
410 Previously rejected direct connections could be incorrectly reported
411 as DNS issues if Privoxy was compiled with IPv6 support.
412 - Adjust url_code_map[] so spaces are replaced with %20 instead of '+'
413 While '+' can be used by client's submitting form data, this is not
414 actually what Privoxy is using the lookups for. This is more of a
415 cosmetic issue and doesn't fix any known problems.
416 - When compiled without FEATURE_FAST_REDIRECTS, do not silently
417 ignore +fast-redirect{} directives
418 - Added a workaround for GNU libc's strptime() reporting negative
419 year values when the parsed year is only specified with two digits.
420 On affected systems cookies with such a date would not be turned
421 into session cookies by the +session-cookies-only action.
422 Reported by Vaeinoe in #3403560
423 - Fixed bind failures with certain GNU libc versions if no non-loopback
424 IP address has been configured on the system. This is mainly an issue
425 if the system is using DHCP and Privoxy is started before the network
426 is completely configured.
427 Reported by Raphael Marichez in #3349356.
428 Additional insight from Petr Pisar.
429 - Privoxy log messages now use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
430 It's only slightly longer than the old format, but contains
431 the full date including the year and allows sorting by date
432 (when grepping in multiple log files) without hassle.
433 - In get_last_url(), do not bother trying to decode URLs that do
434 not contain at least one '%' sign. It reduces the log noise and
435 a number of unnecessary memory allocations.
436 - In case of SOCKS5 failures, dump the socks response in the log message.
437 - Simplify the signal setup in main().
438 - Streamline socks5_connect() slightly.
439 - In socks5_connect(), require a complete socks response from the server.
440 Previously Privoxy didn't care how much data the server response
441 contained as long as the first two bytes contained the expected
442 values. While at it, shrink the buffer size so Privoxy can't read
443 more than a whole socks response.
444 - In chat(), do not bother to generate a client request in case of
445 direct CONNECT requests. It will not be used anyway.
446 - Reduce server_last_modified()'s stack size.
447 - Shorten get_http_time() by using strftime().
448 - Constify the known_http_methods pointers in unknown_method().
449 - Constify the time_formats pointers in parse_header_time().
450 - Constify the formerly_valid_actions pointers in action_used_to_be_valid().
451 - Introduce a GNUMakefile MAN_PAGE variable that defaults to privoxy.1.
452 The Debian package uses section 8 for the man page and this
453 should simplify the patch.
454 - Deduplicate the INADDR_NONE definition for Solaris by moving it to jbsockets.h
455 - In block_url(), ditch the obsolete workaround for ancient Netscape versions
456 that supposedly couldn't properly deal with status code 403.
457 - Remove a useless NULL pointer check in load_trustfile().
458 - Remove two useless NULL pointer checks in load_one_re_filterfile().
459 - Change url_code_map[] from an array of pointers to an array of arrays
460 It removes an unnecessary layer of indirection and on 64bit system reduces
461 the size of the binary a bit.
462 - Fix various typos. Fixes taken from Debian's 29_typos.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
463 - Add a dok-tidy GNUMakefile target to clean up the messy HTML
464 generated by the other dok targets.
465 - GNUisms in the GNUMakefile have been removed.
466 - Change the HTTP version in static responses to 1.1
467 - Synced config.sub and config.guess with upstream
468 2011-11-11/386c7218162c145f5f9e1ff7f558a3fbb66c37c5.
469 - Add a dedicated function to parse the values of toggles. Reduces duplicated
470 code in load_config() and provides better error handling. Invalid or missing
471 toggle values are now a fatal error instead of being silently ignored.
472 - Terminate HTML lines in static error messages with \n instead of \r\n.
473 - Simplify cgi_error_unknown() a bit.
474 - In LogPutString(), don't bother looking at pszText when not
475 actually logging anything.
476 - Change ssplit()'s fourth parameter from int to size_t.
477 Fixes a clang complaint.
478 - Add a warning that the statistics currently can't be trusted.
479 Mention Privoxy-Log-Parser's --statistics option as
480 an alternative for the time being.
481 - In rfc2553_connect_to(), start setting cgi->error_message on error.
482 - Change the expected status code returned for http://p.p/die depending
483 on whether or not FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION is available.
484 - In cgi_die(), mark the client connection for closing.
485 If the client will fetch the style sheet through another connection
486 it gets the main thread out of the accept() state and should thus
487 trigger the actual shutdown.
488 - Add a proper CGI message for cgi_die().
489 - Don't enforce a logical line length limit in read_config_line().
490 - Slightly refactor server_last_modified() to remove useless gmtime*() calls.
491 - In get_content_type(), also recognize '.jpeg' as JPEG extension.
492 - Add '.png' to the list of recognized file extensions in get_content_type().
493 - In block_url(), consistently use the block reason "Request blocked by Privoxy"
494 In two places the reason was "Request for blocked URL" which hides the
495 fact that the request got blocked by Privoxy and isn't necessarily
496 correct as the block may be due to tags.
497 - In listen_loop(), reload the configuration files after accepting
498 a new connection instead of before.
499 Previously the first connection that arrived after a configuration
500 change would still be handled with the old configuration.
501 - In chat()'s receive-data loop, skip a client socket check if
502 the socket will be written to right away anyway. This can
503 increase the transfer speed for unfiltered content on fast
505 - The socket timeout is used for SOCKS negotiations as well which
506 previously couldn't timeout.
507 - Don't keep the client connection alive if any configuration file
508 changed since the time the connection came in. This is closer to
509 Privoxy's behaviour before keep-alive support for client connection
510 has been added and also less confusing in general.
511 - Treat all Content-Type header values containing the pattern
512 'script' as a sign of text. Reported by pribog in #3134970.
514 - Action file improvements:
515 - Moved the site-specific block pattern section below the one for the
516 generic patterns so for requests that are matched in both, the block
517 reason for the domain is shown which is usually more useful than showing
518 the one for the generic pattern.
519 - Remove -prevent-compression from the fragile alias. It's no longer
520 used anywhere by default and isn't known to break stuff anyway.
521 - Add a (disabled) section to block various Facebook tracking URLs.
522 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421764.
523 - Add a (disabled) section to rewrite and redirect click-tracking
524 URLs used on news.google.com.
525 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421755.
526 - Unblock linuxcounter.net/.
527 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3422612.
528 - Block 'www91.intel.com/' which is used by Omniture.
529 Reported by Adam Piggott in #3167370.
530 - Disable the handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok option and mark it as deprecated.
531 Reminded by tceverling in #2790091.
532 - Add ".ivwbox.de/" to the "Cross-site user tracking" section.
533 Reported by Nettozahler in #3172525.
534 - Unblock and fast-redirect ".awin1.com/.*=http://".
535 Reported by Adam Piggott in #3170921.
536 - Block "b.collective-media.net/".
537 - Widen the Debian popcon exception to "qa.debian.org/popcon".
538 Seen in Debian's 05_default_action.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
539 - Block ".gemius.pl/" which only seems to be used for user tracking.
540 Reported by johnd16 in #3002731. Additional input from Lee and movax.
541 - Disable banners-by-size filters for '.thinkgeek.com/'.
542 The filter only seems to catch pictures of the inventory.
543 - Block requests for 'go.idmnet.bbelements.com/please/showit/'.
544 Reported by kacperdominik in #3372959.
545 - Unblock adainitiative.org/.
546 - Add a fast-redirects exception for '.googleusercontent.com/.*=cache'.
547 - Add a fast-redirects exception for webcache.googleusercontent.com/.
548 - Unblock http://adassier.wordpress.com/ and http://adassier.files.wordpress.com/.
550 - Filter file improvements:
551 - Let the yahoo filter hide '.ads'.
552 - Let the msn filter hide overlay ads for Facebook 'likes' in search
553 results and elements with the id 's_notf_div'. They only seem to be
554 used to advertise site 'enhancements'.
555 - Let the js-events filter additionally disarm setInterval().
556 Suggested by dg1727 in #3423775.
558 - Documentation improvements:
559 - Clarify the effect of compiling Privoxy with zlib support.
560 Suggested by dg1727 in #3423782.
561 - Point out that the SourceForge messaging system works like a black
562 hole and should thus not be used to contact individual developers.
563 - Mention some of the problems one can experience when not explicitly
564 configuring an IP addresses as listen address.
565 - Explicitly mention that hostnames can be used instead of IP addresses
566 for the listen-address, that only the first address returned will be
567 used and what happens if the address is invalid.
568 Requested by Calestyo in #3302213.
570 - Log message improvements:
571 - If only the server connection is kept alive, do not pretend to
572 wait for a new client request.
573 - Remove a superfluous log message in forget_connection().
574 - In chat(), properly report missing server responses as such
575 instead of calling them empty.
576 - In forwarded_connect(), fix a log message nobody should ever see.
577 - Fix a log message in socks5_connect(), a failed write operation
578 was logged as failed read operation.
579 - Let load_one_actions_file() properly complain about a missing
580 '{' at the beginning of the file.
581 Simply stating that a line is invalid isn't particularly helpful.
582 - Do not claim to listen on a socket until Privoxy actually does.
583 Patch submitted by Petr Pisar #3354485
584 - Prevent a duplicated LOG_LEVEL_CLF message when sending out
585 the "no-server-data" response.
586 - Also log the client socket when dropping a connection.
587 - Include the destination host in the 'Request ... marked for
588 blocking. limit-connect{...} doesn't allow CONNECT ...' message
589 Patch submitted by Saperski in #3296250.
590 - Prevent a duplicated log message if none of the resolved IP
591 addresses were reachable.
592 - In connect_to(), do not pretend to retry if forwarded-connect-retries
594 - When a specified user or group can't be found, put the name in
595 single-quotes when logging it.
596 - In rfc2553_connect_to(), explain getnameinfo() errors better.
597 - Remove a useless log message in chat().
598 - When retrying to connect, also log the maximum number of connection
600 - Rephrase a log message in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list().
601 Divide the error code and its meaning with a colon. Call the pcrs
602 job dynamic and not the filter. Filters may contain dynamic and
603 non-dynamic pcrs jobs at the same time. Only mention the name of
604 the filter or tagger, but don't claim it's a filter when it could
606 - In a fatal error message in load_one_actions_file(), cover both
607 URL and TAG patterns.
608 - In pcrs_strerror(), properly report unknown positive error code
609 values as such. Previously they were handled like 0 (no error).
610 - In compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list(), also log the actual error code as
611 pcrs_strerror() doesn't handle all errors reported by pcre.
612 - Don't bother trying to continue chatting if the client didn't ask for it.
613 Reduces log noise a bit.
614 - Make two fatal error message in load_one_actions_file() more descriptive.
615 - In cgi_send_user_manual(), log when rejecting a file name due to '/' or '..'.
616 - In load_file(), log a message if opening a file failed.
617 The CGI error message alone isn't too helpful.
618 - In connection_destination_matches(), improve two log messages
619 to help understand why the destinations don't match.
620 - Rephrase a log message in serve(). Client request arrival
621 should be differentiated from closed client connections now.
622 - In serve(), log if a client connection isn't reused due to a
623 configuration file change.
624 - Let mark_server_socket_tainted() always mark the server socket tainted,
625 just don't talk about it in cases where it has no effect. It doesn't change
626 Privoxy's behaviour, but makes understanding the log file easier.
629 - Added a --disable-ipv6-support switch for platforms where support
630 is detected but doesn't actually work.
631 - Do not check for the existence of strerror() and memmove() twice
632 - Remove a useless test for setpgrp(2). Privoxy doesn't need it and
633 it can cause problems when cross-compiling.
634 - Rename the --disable-acl-files switch to --disable-acl-support.
635 Since about 2001, ACL directives are specified in the standard
637 - Update the URL of the 'Removing outdated PCRE version after the
638 next stable release' posting. The old URL stopped working after
639 one of SF's recent site "optimizations". Reported by Han Liu.
641 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
642 - Added --shuffle-tests option to increase the chances of detection race conditions.
643 - Added a --local-test-file option that allows to use Privoxy-Regression-Test without Privoxy.
644 - Added tests for missing socks4 and socks4a forwarders.
645 - The --privoxy-address option now works with IPv6 addresses containing brackets, too.
646 - Perform limited sanity checks for parameters that are supposed to have numerical values.
647 - Added a --sleep-time option to specify a number of seconds to
648 sleep between tests, defaults to 0.
649 - Disable the range-requests tagger for tests that break if it's enabled.
650 - Log messages use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
651 - Fix spelling in two error messages.
652 - In the --help output, include a list of supported tests and their default levels.
653 - Adjust the tests to properly deal with FEATURE_TOGGLE being disabled.
655 - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
656 - Perform limited sanity checks for command line parameters that
657 are supposed to have numerical values.
658 - Implement a --unbreak-lines-only option to try to revert MUA breakage.
659 - Accept and highlight: Added header: Content-Encoding: deflate
660 - Accept and highlight: Compressed content from 29258 to 8630 bytes.
661 - Accept and highlight: Client request arrived in time on socket 21.
662 - Highlight: Didn't receive data in time: a.fsdn.com:443
663 - Accept log messages with ISO 8601 time stamps, too.
666 - Bump generated Firefox version to 8.0.
667 - Only randomize the release date if the new --randomize-release-date
668 option is enabled. Firefox versions after 4 use a fixed date string
671 *** Version 3.0.17 Stable ***
673 - Fixed last-chunk-detection for responses where the body was small
674 enough to be read with the headers, causing Privoxy to wait for the
675 end of the content until the server closed the connection or the
676 request timed out. Reported by "Karsten" in #3028326.
677 - Responses with status code 204 weren't properly detected as body-less
678 like RFC2616 mandates. Like the previous bug, this caused Privoxy to
679 wait for the end of the content until the server closed the connection
680 or the request timed out. Fixes #3022042 and #3025553, reported by a
681 user with no visible name. Most likely also fixes a bunch of other
682 AJAX-related problem reports that got closed in the past due to
683 insufficient information and lack of feedback.
684 - Fixed an ACL bug that made it impossible to build a blacklist.
685 Usually the ACL directives are used in a whitelist, which worked
686 as expected, but blacklisting is still useful for public proxies
687 where one only needs to deny known abusers access.
688 - Added LOG_LEVEL_RECEIVED to log the not-yet-parsed data read from the
689 network. This should make debugging various parsing issues a lot easier.
690 - The IPv6 code is enabled by default on Windows versions that support it.
691 Patch submitted by oCameLo in #2942729.
692 - In mingw32 versions, the user.filter file is reachable through the
693 GUI, just like default.filter is. Feature request 3040263.
694 - Added the configure option --enable-large-file-support to set a few
695 defines that are required by platforms like GNU/Linux to support files
696 larger then 2GB. Mainly interesting for users without proper logfile
698 - Logging with "debug 16" no longer stops at the first nul byte which is
699 pretty useless. Non-printable characters are replaced with their hex value
700 so the result can't span multiple lines making parsing them harder then
702 - Privoxy logs when reading an action, filter or trust file.
703 - Fixed incorrect regression test markup which caused a test in
704 3.0.16 to fail while Privoxy itself was working correctly.
705 While Privoxy accepts hide-referer, too, the action name is actually
706 hide-referrer which is also the name used one the final results page,
707 where the test expected the alias.
709 - CGI interface improvements:
710 - In finish_http_response(), continue to add the 'Connection: close'
711 header if the client connection will not be kept alive.
712 Anonymously pointed out in #2987454.
713 - Apostrophes in block messages no longer cause parse errors
714 when the blocked page is viewed with JavaScript enabled.
715 Reported by dg1727 in #3062296.
716 - Fix a bunch of anchors that used underscores instead of dashes.
717 - Allow to keep the client connection alive after crunching the previous request.
718 Already opened server connections can be kept alive, too.
719 - In cgi_show_url_info(), don't forget to prefix URLs that only contain
720 http:// or https:// in the path. Fixes #2975765 reported by Adam Piggott.
721 - Show the 404 CGI page if cgi_send_user_manual() is called while
722 local user manual delivery is disabled.
724 - Action file improvements:
725 - Enable user.filter by default. Suggested by David White in #3001830.
726 - Block .sitestat.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002725.
727 - Block .atemda.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002723.
728 - Block js.adlink.net/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002720.
729 - Block .analytics.yahoo.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002713.
730 - Block sb.scorecardresearch.com, too. Reported by dg1727 in #2992652.
731 - Fix problems noticed on Yahoo mail and news pages.
732 - Remove the too broad yahoo section, only keeping the
733 fast-redirects exception as discussed on ijbswa-devel@.
734 - Don't block adesklets.sourceforge.net. Reported in #2974204.
735 - Block chartbeat ping tracking. Reported in #2975895.
736 - Tag CSS and image requests with cautious and medium settings, too.
737 - Don't handle view.atdmt.com as image. It's used for click-throughs
738 so users should be able to "go there anyway".
739 Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975927.
740 - Also let the refresh-tags filter remove invalid refresh tags where
741 the 'url=' part is missing. Anonymously reported in #2986382.
742 While at it, update the description to mention the fact that only
743 refresh tags with refresh times above 9 seconds are covered.
744 - javascript needs to be blocked with +handle-as-empty-document to
745 work around Firefox bug 492459. So move .js blockers from
746 +block{Might be a web-bug.} -handle-as-empty-document to
747 +block{Might be a web-bug.} +handle-as-empty-document.
748 - ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 - Block 160x578 Banners.
749 - Block another omniture tracking domain.
750 - Added a range-requests tagger.
751 - Added two sections to get Flickr's Ajax interface working with
752 default pre-settings. If you change the configuration to block
753 cookies by default, you'll need additional exceptions.
754 Reported by Mathias Homann in #3101419 and by Patrick on ijbswa-users@.
756 - Documentation improvements:
757 - Explicitly mention how to match all URLs.
758 - Consistently recommend socks5 in the Tor FAQ entry and mention
759 its advantage compared to socks4a. Reported by David in #2960129.
760 - Slightly improve the explanation of why filtering may appear
762 - Grammar fixes for the ACL section.
763 - Fixed a link to the 'intercepting' entry and add another one.
764 - Rename the 'Other' section to 'Mailing Lists' and reword it
765 to make it clear that nobody is forced to use the trackers
766 - Note that 'anonymously' posting on the trackers may not always
768 - Suggest to enable debug 32768 when suspecting parsing problems.
770 - Privoxy-Log-Parser improvements:
771 - Gather statistics for ressources, methods, and HTTP versions
773 - Also gather statistics for blocked and redirected requests.
774 - Provide the percentage of keep-alive offers the client accepted.
775 - Add a --url-statistics-threshold option.
776 - Add a --host-statistics-threshold option to also gather
777 statistics about how many request where made per host.
778 - Fix a bug in handle_loglevel_header() where a 'scan: ' got lost.
779 - Add a --shorten-thread-ids option to replace the thread id with
781 - Accept and ignore: Looks like we got the last chunk together
782 with the server headers. We better stop reading.
783 - Accept and ignore: Continue hack in da house.
784 - Accept and higlight: Rejecting connection from 10.0.0.2.
785 Maximum number of connections reached.
786 - Accept and highlight: Loading actions file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.action
787 - Accept and highlight: Loading filter file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.filter
788 - Accept and highlight: Killed all-caps Host header line: HOST: bestproxydb.com
789 - Accept and highlight: Reducing expected bytes to 0. Marking
790 the server socket tainted after throwing 4 bytes away.
791 - Accept: Merged multiple header lines to: 'X-FORWARDED-PROTO: http X-HOST: 127.0.0.1'
794 - Remove the next member from the client_state struct. Only the main
795 thread needs access to all client states so give it its own struct.
796 - Garbage-collect request_contains_null_bytes().
797 - Ditch redundant code in unload_configfile().
798 - Ditch LogGetURLUnderCursor() which doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
799 - In write_socket(), remove the write-only variable write_len in
800 an ifdef __OS2__ block. Spotted by cppcheck.
801 - In connect_to(), don't declare the variable 'flags' on OS/2 where
802 it isn't used. Spotted by cppcheck.
803 - Limit the scope of various variables. Spotted by cppcheck.
804 - In add_to_iob(), turn an interestingly looking for loop into a
806 - Code cleanup in preparation for external filters.
807 - In listen_loop(), mention the socket on which we accepted the
808 connection, not just the source IP address.
809 - In write_socket(), also log the socket we're writing to.
810 - In log_error(), assert that escaped characters get logged
811 completely or not at all.
812 - In log_error(), assert that ival and sval have reasonable values.
813 There's no reason not to abort() if they don't.
814 - Remove an incorrect cgi_error_unknown() call in a
815 cannot-happen-situation in send_crunch_response().
816 - Clean up white-space in http_response definition and
817 move the crunch_reason to the beginning.
818 - Turn http_response.reason into an enum and rename it
819 to http_response.crunch_reason.
820 - Silence a 'gcc (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2' warning on i686 GNU/Linux.
821 - Fix white-space in a log message in remove_chunked_transfer_coding().
822 While at it, add a note that the message doesn't seem to
823 be entirely correct and should be improved later on.
825 - GNUmakefile improvements:
826 - Use $(SSH) instead of ssh, so one only needs to specify a username once.
827 - Removed references to the action feedback thingy that hasn't been
829 - Consistently use shell.sourceforge.net instead of shell.sf.net so
830 one doesn't need to check server fingerprints twice.
831 - Removed GNUisms in the webserver and webactions targets so they
832 work with standard tar.
834 *** Version 3.0.16 Stable ***
836 - Added the config file option handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok to
837 work around Firefox bug #492459, which causes Firefox to hang
838 if JavaScripts are blocked in certain situations. The option is
839 enabled in the default config file.
840 - Added the config file option default-server-timeout to control the
841 assumed default server timeout. Since Privoxy no longer returns
842 an error message for connection resets on reused client connections,
843 assuming larger server timeout values appears to actually work
844 pretty well as long as connections aren't shared.
845 - Added optional support for FreeBSD's accf_http(9). Use the
846 configure option --enable-accept-filter to enable it.
847 - Added fancier Privoxy icons for win32. Contributed by Jeff H.
848 - In daemon mode, fd 0, 1 and 2 are bound to /dev/null.
849 - Resolve localhost using whatever address family the operating
850 system feels like. Previous betas would try to use IPv4 as this
851 is what most users expect, but this didn't work reliably on
853 - In the action lists on CGI pages, actions and their parameters are
854 no longer separated with a space. The action file parser doesn't
855 actually allow this and will throw an invalid syntax error if actions
856 and parameters in the action files are separated. Not adding the
857 spaces means copy and pasting CGI output into the action files works.
858 - The default keep-alive timeout has been reduced to 5 seconds to work
859 around hangs in clients that treat the proxy like any other host and
860 stop allowing any new connections if the "maximum number of
861 connections per host" is reached.
862 - Several webbug URLs that look like they are leading to images are now
863 blocked as image instead of empty documents. Doing the latter causes
864 WebKit-based clients to show a "missing image" icon which may mess up
866 - The no-such-domain template is used for DNS resolution
867 problems with FEATURE_IPV6_SUPPORT enabled. Previously the
868 connect-failed template was used. Reported by 'zebul666'.
869 - Accepts quoted expiration dates even though RFC 2109 10.1.2
870 doesn't seem to allow them. Reported anonymously.
871 - Don't try to forget connections if connection sharing is disabled.
872 This wasn't a real problem but caused an unnecessary log message.
873 - The still undocumented --enable-extended-host-patterns configure
874 option has a better description.
875 - Fixed an error message that would claim a write to the server
876 failed when actually writing to the client failed.
877 - Log the crunch reason before trying to write to the client.
878 The log is easier to read that way.
879 - Several log messages about client connections also mention
881 - handle-as-empty-document no longer depends on the image blocking
883 - Privoxy-Log-Parser is roughly 40% faster in highlighting mode.
884 - uagen, a Firefox User-Agent generator for Privoxy and Mozilla
885 browsers has been imported and is available in the tarball's
887 - The scripts in the tools directory treat unknown parameters
890 *** Version 3.0.15 Beta ***
892 - In case of missing server data, no error message is send to the
893 client if the request arrived on a reused connection. The client
894 is then supposed to silently retry the request without bothering
895 the user. This should significantly reduce the frequency of the
896 "No server or forwarder data received" error message many users
898 - More reliable detection of prematurely closed client sockets
899 with keep-alive enabled.
900 - FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE is decoupled from
901 FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING and now available on
903 - Improved handling of POST requests on reused connections.
904 Should fix problems with stalled connections after submitting
905 form data with some browser configurations.
906 - Fixed various latency calculation issues.
907 - Allows the client to pass NTLM authentication requests to a
908 forwarding proxy. This was already assumed and hinted to work
909 in 3.0.13 beta but actually didn't. Now it's confirmed to work
910 with IE, Firefox and Chrome.
911 Thanks to Francois Botha and Wan-Teh Chang
912 - Fixed a calculation problem if receiving the server headers
913 takes more than two reads, that could cause Privoxy to terminate
914 the connection prematurely. Reported by Oliver.
915 - Compiles again on platforms such as OpenBSD and systems
916 using earlier glibc version that don't support AI_ADDRCONFIG.
917 Anonymously submitted in #2872591.
918 - A bunch of MS VC project files and Suse and Redhat RPM spec
919 files have been removed as they were no longer maintained for
921 - Overly long action lines are properly rejected with a proper
922 error message. Previously they would be either rejected as
923 invalid or cause a core dump through abort().
924 - Already timed-out connections are no longer temporarily remembered.
925 They weren't reused anyway, but wasted a socket slot.
926 - len refers to the number of bytes actually read which might
927 differ from the ones received. Adjust log messages accordingly.
928 - The optional JavaScript on the CGI page uses encodeURIComponent()
929 instead of escape() which doesn't encode all characters that matter.
930 Anonymously reported in #2832722.
931 - Fix gcc45 warnings in decompress_iob().
932 - Various log message improvements.
933 - Privoxy-Regression-Test supports redirect tests.
934 - Privoxy-Log-Parser can gather some connection statistics.
936 *** Version 3.0.14 Beta ***
938 - The latency is taken into account when evaluating whether or not to
939 reuse a connection. This should significantly reduce the number of
940 connections problems several users reported.
941 - If the server doesn't specify how long the connection stays alive,
942 Privoxy errs on the safe side of caution and assumes it's only a second.
943 - The error pages for connection timeouts or missing server data use a
944 Last-Modified date in the past. Retry attempts are detected and Privoxy
945 removes the If-Modified-Since header to prevent the server from responding
946 with status code 304 in which case the client would reuse the error message.
947 - Setting keep-alive-timeout to 0 disables keep-alive support. Previously
948 Privoxy would claim to allow persistence but not reuse the connection.
949 - Pipelined requests are less likely to be mistaken for the request
950 body of the previous request. Note that Privoxy still has no real
951 pipeline support and will either serialize pipelined requests or
952 drop them in which case the client has to resent them.
953 - Fixed a crash on some Windows versions when header randomization
954 is enabled and the date couldn't be parsed.
955 - Privoxy's keep-alive timeout for the current connection is reduced
956 to the one specified in the client's Keep-Alive header.
957 - For HTTP/1.1 requests, Privoxy implies keep-alive support by not
958 setting any Connection header instead of using 'Connection: keep-alive'.
959 - If the socket isn't reusable, Privoxy doesn't temporarily waste
960 a socket slot to remember the connection.
961 - If keep-alive support is disabled but compiled in, the client's
962 Keep-Alive header is removed.
963 - Fixed a bug on mingw32 where downloading large files failed if
964 keep-alive support was enabled.
965 - Fixed a bug that (at least theoretically) could cause log
966 timestamps to be occasionally off by about a second.
967 - No Proxy-Connection header if added if there already is one.
968 - The configure script respects the $PATH variable when searching
971 *** Version 3.0.13 Beta ***
973 - Added IPv6 support. Thanks to Petr Pisar who not only provided
974 the initial patch but also helped a lot with the integration.
975 - Added client-side keep-alive support.
976 - The connection sharing code is only used if the connection-sharing
978 - The max-client-connections option has been added to restrict
979 the number of client connections below a value enforced by
980 the operating system.
981 - Fixed a regression reintroduced in 3.0.12 that could cause
982 crashes on mingw32 if header date randomization was enabled.
983 - Compressed content with extra fields couldn't be decompressed
984 and would get passed to the client unfiltered. This problem
985 has only be detected through statical analysis with clang as
986 nobody seems to be using extra fields anyway.
987 - If the server resets the Connection after sending only the headers
988 Privoxy forwards what it got to the client. Previously Privoxy
989 would deliver an error message instead.
990 - Error messages in case of connection timeouts use the right
992 - If spawning a child to handle a request fails, the client
993 gets an error message and Privoxy continues to listen for
994 new requests right away.
995 - The error messages in case of server-connection timeouts or
996 prematurely closed server connections are now template-based.
997 - If zlib support isn't compiled in, Privoxy no longer tries to
998 filter compressed content unless explicitly asked to do so.
999 - In case of connections that are denied based on ACL directives,
1000 the memory used for the client IP is no longer leaked.
1001 - Fixed another small memory leak if the client request times out
1002 while waiting for client headers other than the request line.
1003 - The client socket is kept open until the server socket has
1004 been marked as unused. This should increase the chances that
1005 the still-open connection will be reused for the client's next
1006 request to the same destination. Note that this only matters
1007 if connection-sharing is enabled.
1008 - A TODO list has been added to the source tarball to give potential
1009 volunteers a better idea of what the current goals are. Donations
1010 are still welcome too: http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
1012 *** Version 3.0.12 ***
1014 - The socket-timeout option now also works on platforms whose
1015 select() implementation modifies the timeout structure.
1016 Previously the timeout was triggered even if the connection
1017 didn't stall. Reported by cyberpatrol.
1018 - The Connection: keep-alive code properly deals with files
1019 larger than 2GB. Previously the connection was closed too
1021 - The content length for files above 2GB is logged correctly.
1022 - The user-manual directive on the show-status page links to
1023 the documentation location specified with the directive,
1024 not to the Privoxy website.
1025 - When running in daemon mode, Privoxy doesn't log anything
1026 to the console unless there are errors before the logfile
1028 - The show-status page prints warnings about invalid directives
1029 on the same line as the directives themselves.
1030 - Fixed several justified (but harmless) compiler warnings,
1031 mostly on 64 bit platforms.
1032 - The mingw32 version explicitly requests the default charset
1033 to prevent display problems with some fonts available on more
1034 recent Windows versions. Patch by Burberry.
1035 - The mingw32 version uses the Privoxy icon in the alt-tab
1036 windows. Patch by Burberry.
1037 - The timestamp and the thread id is omitted in the "Fatal error"
1038 message box on mingw32.
1039 - Fixed two related mingw32-only buffer overflows. Triggering
1040 them required control over the configuration file, therefore
1041 this isn't seen as a security issue.
1042 - In verbose mode, or if the new option --show-skipped-tests
1043 is used, Privoxy-Regression-Test logs skipped tests and the
1046 *** Version 3.0.11 ***
1048 - On most platforms, outgoing connections can be kept alive and
1049 reused if the server supports it. Whether or not this improves
1050 things depends on the connection.
1051 - When dropping privileges, membership in supplementary groups
1052 is given up as well. Not doing that can lead to Privoxy running
1053 with more rights than necessary and violates the principle of
1054 least privilege. Users of the --user option are advised to update.
1055 Thanks to Matthias Drochner for reporting the problem,
1056 providing the initial patch and testing the final version.
1057 - Passing invalid users or groups with the --user option
1058 didn't lead to program exit. Regression introduced in 3.0.7.
1059 - The match all section has been moved from default.action
1060 to a new file called match-all.action. As a result the
1061 default.action no longer needs to be touched by the user
1062 and can be safely overwritten by updates.
1063 - The standard.action file has been removed. Its content
1064 is now part of the default.action file.
1065 - In some situations the logged content length was slightly too low.
1066 - Crunched requests are logged with their own log level.
1067 If you used "debug 1" in the past, you'll probably want
1068 to additionally enable "debug 1024", otherwise only passed
1069 requests will be logged. If you only care about crunched
1070 requests, simply replace "debug 1" with "debug 1024".
1071 - The crunch reason has been moved to the beginning of the
1072 crunch message. For HTTP URLs, the protocol is logged as well.
1073 - Log messages are shortened by printing the thread id on its
1074 own (as opposed to putting it inside the string "Privoxy()").
1075 - The config option socket-timeout has been added to control
1076 the time Privoxy waits for data to arrive on a socket.
1077 - Support for remote toggling is controlled by the configure
1078 option --disable-toggle only. In previous versions it also
1079 depended on the action editor and thus configuring with the
1080 --disable-editor option would disable remote toggling support
1082 - Requests with invalid HTTP versions are rejected.
1083 - The template symbol @date@ can be used to include a date(1)-like
1084 time string. Initial patch submitted by Endre Szabo.
1085 - Responses from shoutcast servers are accepted again.
1086 Problem reported and fix suggested by Stefan.
1087 - The hide-forwarded-for-headers action has been replaced with
1088 the change-x-forwarded-for{} action which can also be used to
1089 add X-Forwarded-For headers. The latter functionality already
1090 existed in Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.7 but has been removed
1091 as it was often used unintentionally (by not using the
1092 hide-forwarded-for-headers action).
1093 - A "clear log" view option was added to the mingw32 version
1094 to clear out all of the lines in the Privoxy log window.
1095 Based on a patch submitted by T Ford.
1096 - The mingw32 version uses "critical sections" now, which prevents
1097 log message corruption under load. As a side effect, the
1098 "no thread-safe PRNG" warning could be removed as well.
1099 - The mingw32 version's task bar icon is crossed out and
1100 the color changed to gray if Privoxy is toggled off.
1102 *** Version 3.0.10 ***
1104 - Ordinary configuration file changes no longer cause program
1105 termination on OS/2 if the name of the logfile hasn't been
1106 changed as well. This regression probably crept in with the
1107 logging improvements in 3.0.7. Reported by Maynard.
1108 - The img-reorder filter is less likely to mess up JavaScript code in
1109 img tags. Problem and solution reported by Glenn Washburn in #2014552.
1110 - The source tar ball now includes Privoxy-Log-Parser,
1111 a syntax-highlighter for Privoxy logs. For fancy screenshots see:
1112 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy-log-parser/
1113 Documentation is available through perldoc(1).
1115 *** Version 3.0.9 Beta ***
1117 - Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by
1118 the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
1119 - The "blocked" CGI pages include a block reason that was
1120 provided as argument to the last-applying block action.
1121 - If enable-edit-actions is disabled (the default since 3.0.7 beta)
1122 the show-status page hides the edit buttons and explains why.
1123 Previously the user would get the "this feature has been disabled"
1124 message after using the edit button.
1125 - Forbidden CONNECT requests are treated like blocks by default.
1126 The now-pointless treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks action
1128 - Not enabling limit-connect now allows CONNECT requests to all ports.
1129 In previous versions it would only allow CONNECT requests to port 443.
1130 Use +limit-connect{443} if you think you need the old default behaviour.
1131 - The CGI editor gets turned off after three edit requests with invalid
1132 file modification timestamps. This makes life harder for attackers
1133 who can leverage browser bugs to send fake Referers and intend to
1134 brute-force edit URLs.
1135 - Action settings for multiple patterns in the same section are
1136 shared in memory. As a result these sections take up less space
1137 (and are loaded slightly faster). Problem reported by Franz Schwartau.
1138 - Linear white space in HTTP headers will be normalized to single
1139 spaces before parsing the header's content, headers split across
1140 multiple lines get merged first. This should prevent problems like:
1141 * letting the session-cookies-only action slip
1142 some Cookies through unmodified,
1143 * only suppressing the first line of a header,
1144 thus creating an invalid one, and
1145 * to incorrectly block headers with valid timestamps
1146 that weren't properly recognized.
1147 Headers that could trigger these problems are unlikely to appear
1148 in "normal" web traffic, but could be intentionally generated to
1149 fool some of Privoxy's header parsers.
1150 - Host information is gathered outside the main thread so it's less
1151 likely to delay other incoming connections if the host is misconfigured.
1152 - New config option "hostname" to use a hostname other than
1153 the one returned by the operating system. Useful to speed-up responses
1154 for CGI requests on misconfigured systems. Requested by Max Khon.
1155 - The CGI editor supports the "disable all filters of this type"
1156 directives "-client-header-filter", "-server-header-filter",
1157 "-client-header-tagger" and "-server-header-tagger".
1158 - Fixed false-positives with the link-by-url filter and URLs that
1159 contain the pattern "/jump/".
1160 - The less-download-windows filter no longer messes
1161 "Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash" headers up.
1162 - In the show-url-info page's "Final results" section active and
1163 inactive actions are listed separately. Patch provided by Lee.
1164 - The GNUmakefile supports the DESTDIR variable. Patch for
1165 the install target submitted by Radoslaw Zielinski.
1166 - Embedding the content of configuration files in the show-status
1167 page is significantly faster now. For a largish action file (1 MB)
1168 a speedup of about 2450 times has been measured. This is mostly
1169 interesting if you are using large action files or regularly use
1170 Privoxy-Regression-Test while running Privoxy through Valgrind,
1171 for stock configuration files it doesn't really matter.
1172 - If zlib support is unavailable and there are content
1173 filters active but the prevent-compression action is disabled,
1174 the show-url-info page includes a warning that compression
1175 might prevent filtering.
1176 - The show-url-info page provides an OpenSearch Description that
1177 allows to access the page through browser search plugins.
1178 - Custom client-header filters that rewrite the request line
1179 incorrectly no longer cause Privoxy to crash. Reported by din_a4.
1180 - The obsolete kill-popups action has been removed as the
1181 PCRS-based popup filters can do the same and are slightly
1183 - The inspect-jpegs action has been removed.
1184 - The send-wafer and send-vanilla-wafer actions have been removed.
1185 They weren't particular useful and their behaviour could be emulated
1186 with add-header anyway.
1187 - Privoxy-Regression-Test has been significantly improved.
1188 - Most sections in the default.action file contain tests for
1189 Privoxy-Regression-Test to verify that they are working as intended.
1190 - Parts of Privoxy have been refactored to increase maintainability.
1191 - Building with zlib (if available) is done by default.
1193 *** Version 3.0.8 ***
1195 - Fixed a small memory leak when listen-address only specifies the port.
1196 - The source tar balls now include Privoxy-Regression-Test which
1197 (upon other things) can be used to automatically detect some
1198 packaging problems. Packagers are welcome to give it a try.
1199 - Reverted a change in 3.0.7 that caused path patterns to be checked
1200 even if the host pattern match already failed. While this doesn't
1201 noticeable affect the performance, it makes it less likely to run
1202 out of stack space with overly-complex path patterns the user might
1204 - Updated the msn, yahoo and google filters to work as advertised again.
1205 - The warning message shown by the show-status CGI page is easier to
1206 understand. Previously it wasn't clear that the error message
1207 is shown below the invalid directive. (Reported by Lee)
1208 - When regenerating Content-Disposition headers the more common
1209 spelling is used for the name. Previously it was written without caps.
1210 - Less confusing log message if the content type isn't overwritten
1211 because force-text-type wasn't used but the old type doesn't look
1212 like content that would be filtered normally.
1213 - Better log messages if the user tries to execute filters that
1215 - Treat the non-standard Request-Range headers like standard range
1216 headers and suppress them if content filtering is enabled.
1217 - Prevent the log messages for CONNECT requests to unacceptable
1218 ports from printing the limit-connect argument as [null] if
1219 limit-connect hasn't been explicitly enabled.
1220 - Don't disable the mingw32 log window if the logfile directive
1221 isn't used. While it was an intentional change in 3.0.7 at least
1222 one user perceived it as a regression and the same effect can
1223 be achieved by disabling all debug directives.
1224 - Fixed two minor problems related to the win32 build process: a css
1225 file was not being in the installer and the trustfile comment in the
1226 config.txt referenced a nonexisting file
1227 - Minor documentation fixes.
1229 *** Version 3.0.7 Beta ***
1231 - Added zlib support to filter content with gzip and deflate
1232 encoding. (Patch provided by Wil Mahan)
1233 - Dedicated filters and actions are used for header filtering.
1234 "filter-client-headers" and "filter-client-headers" are no longer
1235 supported, use server-header-filter{} and client-header-filter{}
1237 - Tags can be used to change actions based on HTTP headers.
1238 - New server-header filter: less-download-windows.
1239 - New client-header taggers: css-requests, image-requests,
1240 client-ip-address, http-method, allow-post, complete-url,
1241 user-agent and privoxy-control.
1242 - New server-header taggers: content-type and privoxy-control.
1243 - The forward-override{} action allows to change the forwarding
1244 settings through the action files, for example based on client
1245 headers like the User-Agent, or the request origin.
1246 - Socks errors are no longer handled by the CGI page for
1247 DNS resolution failures.
1248 - CGI pages use favicons to signal whether they are error
1249 or control pages. This is useful if you rely heavily on
1251 - The show-url-info CGI page shows the forwarding settings.
1252 - "Crunch!" log messages (used when Privoxy answers requests
1253 by itself) now also contain the reason.
1254 - Allow to rewrite the request destination behind the client's back.
1255 - Fix socks requests on big-endian platforms. Patch provided by Song Weijia.
1256 - Fixes possible deadlocks and crashes on OpenBSD.
1257 Patch provided by Ralf Horstmann.
1258 - The CGI action editor allows to edit actionfiles with previously
1259 forbidden characters like dots.
1260 - New trust entries are saved with a comment that contains the
1261 trusted referring URL (Suggested by Daniel Griscom).
1262 - Filter descriptions are HTML encoded automatically.
1263 - New config option "split-large-forms" to work
1264 around a browser bug that caused IE6 and IE7 to ignore
1265 the Submit button on the edit-actions-for-url CGI page.
1266 - New config option "allow-cgi-request-crunching" to allow
1267 requests for Privoxy's CGI pages to be blocked, redirected
1268 or (un)trusted like ordinary requests.
1269 - Empty filter files no longer interrupt the filtering process
1270 prematurely and are correctly listed on the show-status CGI page.
1271 - New config option "accept-intercepted-requests" to combine
1272 Privoxy with any packet filter to build an intercepting proxy
1273 for HTTP/1.1 requests (and for HTTP/1.0 requests with Host header set).
1274 - fast-redirects{} catch redirects to https URLs as well.
1275 - redirect{s@foo@bar@} can be used to redirect to a rewritten
1276 version of the original URL.
1277 - Trap unsupported gopher proxy requests.
1278 - Fixed a bug in the User Manual delivery on Windows
1279 (mingw32 only). Images now show up correctly and HTML
1280 pages are no longer padded with garbage data.
1281 - Fixed several minor memory leaks, most of them discovered with Valgrind.
1282 - Only unlink the pidfile if it's actually used.
1283 - Retries after connection problems with forced requests
1284 aren't blocked again.
1285 - On Unix SIGABRT causes a core dump as expected and is no
1286 longer treated as normal shutdown signal.
1287 - The "access denied" CGI page is more descriptive and
1288 allows retries to circumvent the referrer check.
1289 - Updated PCRS to handle unexpected PCRE errors properly.
1290 Fixed crashes that could occur if Privoxy was build
1291 with external PCRE versions newer than Privoxy's internal
1292 one. (Reported by Chung-chieh Shan)
1293 - Fixed crashes with null bytes in PCRS replacement strings
1294 (Patch provided by Felix Gröbert).
1295 - Fixed crashes with header time randomization on mingw32.
1296 - The CGI style sheet is no longer delivered if the referring
1297 page isn't a Privoxy CGI page. This prevents a JavaScript-based
1298 Privoxy detection "attack". Note that detecting Privoxy is
1299 still possible through other ways and Privoxy was never intended
1300 to be invisible anyway.
1301 - Added support for AmigaOS 4, fixed build for AmigaOS 3.x.
1302 - The show-url-info CGI page displays a warning if Privoxy
1303 is currently toggled off.
1304 - The show-status CGI page suppresses the edit button
1305 for action files if Privoxy has no write access.
1306 - Most CGI error pages react properly to HEAD requests.
1307 - Requests with RFC 3253 HTTP methods (used by Subversion)
1308 are accepted. (Patch provided by Petr Kadlec)
1309 - New config option "templdir" to change the location
1310 of the CGI templates to make sure customized templates
1312 - Better handling of "HTTP/1.1 100 Continue" responses.
1313 - The background of the PNG pattern is transparent.
1314 - Fixed XML syntax errors caused by banners-by-size and banners-by-url.
1315 - Fixed crashes and possible action file corruptions
1316 when lines containing hashes are written through the CGI editor.
1317 - Supports dynamic filters which can contain variables.
1318 - Supports tags to change the actions based on client or server headers.
1319 - Incorrect actions are logged before program termination.
1320 - The "actionsfile" syntax in the configuration file is consistent
1321 with the rest of the configuration options and requires the
1322 whole file name. This is an incompatible change, if you use
1323 an old configuration file you might have to append ".action"
1324 to your "actionsfile" directives.
1325 - With the configuration file option "enforce-blocks" the
1326 "go there anyway" mechanism can be disabled without recompiling
1328 - More precise error messages in case of incorrect acl syntax.
1329 - Logs a warning if filtering is enabled but impossible due
1330 to lack of zlib support or use of the prevent-compression action.
1331 - Less noisy handling of Cookie:" and "Connection:" headers.
1332 - Improved error messages in case of connection problems.
1333 - Fix a command-line-parsing bug that was introduced before 3.0.5
1334 beta and caused Privoxy to treat the last argument as configuration
1335 file if no configuration file was specified.
1336 - Treat unknown command line options as fatal errors instead
1337 of silently ignoring them.
1338 - Use string functions with length checks more often.
1339 - Don't log CONNECT requests twice.
1340 - Allow to log the source address for ACL-related connection drops.
1341 - Don't ignore applying filters if the server didn't
1342 specify a Content-Type. Bug reported by Amuro Namie.
1343 - Rejected CONNECT requests are logged with log level info
1344 (enabled by default) and the reason for the block.
1345 - New command line option "--pre-chroot-nslookup hostname" to
1346 intialize the resolver library before chroot'ing. On some systems this
1347 reduces the number of files that must be copied into the chroot tree.
1348 (Patch provided by Stephen Gildea)
1349 - Fix a long-standing memory corruption bug that could cause
1350 Privoxy to overwrite a single byte in memory it didn't explicitly
1351 allocate (but that probably was allocated anyway due to bucket size).
1352 - Send template-based CGI pages as HTTP/1.1 unless the client
1354 - Let the first line in connection established responses
1355 end in \r\n as required by RFC1945. Reported by Bert van Leeuwen.
1356 - If no log file has been specified, disable logging instead of logging
1358 - Don't block stderr when in daemon mode.
1359 - Ignore missing zero-chunks when filtering chunk-encoded content.
1360 Earlier Privoxy versions would buffer and then forward the content
1361 unmodified which caused some browsers to simply show empty pages.
1362 - Fix double free in cgi_edit_actions_list(). Reported by Venustech AD-LAB.
1363 - The code to add X-Forwarded-For headers when the hide-forwarded-for-headers
1364 action isn't being used has been removed.
1365 - Fixed trustfile feature which previously didn't work without FEATURE_TOGGLE.
1367 - Minor code clean-ups, filter and action file updates.
1368 (Some of them reported by Davide Alberani, Markus Elfring,
1369 Stefan Huehner and Adam Piggott)
1371 *** Version 3.0.6 ***
1373 - New content filters: no-ping, google, msn, yahoo and blogspot.
1374 - New header filters: x-httpd-php-to-html, html-to-xml, xml-to-html
1375 and hide-tor-exit-notation.
1376 - The special header "X-Filter: No" now disables header filtering as well.
1377 - Improved the filters img-reorder, js-annoyances, webbugs,
1378 banners-by-size, banners-by-link and ie-exploits to make them
1379 less likely to break anything.
1380 - Removed outdated URL patterns in default.action and added new ones.
1381 - Added redirection from http://p.p/user-manual to http://p.p/user-manual/
1382 - Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent, hide-referrer
1383 and set-image-blocker.
1385 *** Version 3.0.5 Beta ***
1387 - Windows version can be installed/started as a service.
1388 - Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy.
1389 - Integrated Fabian Keil's extensive patch. See:
1390 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the
1391 following new or significantly improved actions (among many
1392 other improvements):
1394 content-type-overwrite{}
1395 crunch-client-header{string}
1396 crunch-if-none-match
1397 crunch-server-header{string}
1398 fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}
1399 filter-client-headers
1400 filter-server-headers
1402 handle-as-empty-document
1403 hide-accept-language{}
1404 hide-content-disposition{}
1405 hide-if-modified-since
1406 hide-referrer{conditional-block}
1407 overwrite-last-modified{}
1409 treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks
1411 - Standard-compliant clients are prevented from displaying cached
1412 copies of Privoxy's error messages after the cause of the problem
1414 - Improved DNS error handling.
1415 - Multiple filter files can now be specified in config.
1416 - Added jpeg filtering to defend against MS jpeg vulnerability MS04-028
1417 with the new inspect-jpegs action.
1418 - Removed the "arbitrary" 1000 filter limit - addresses tracker #911950
1419 - Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log
1420 file. The race condition remains for non-pthread implementations.
1421 Reference patch #1175720. Various other logging enhancements.
1422 - A pile of assorted bug fixes, memory leaks, enhancements, etc.
1423 - Moved Actions file reporting mechanism to SF tracker.
1424 - Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and
1425 forwarded-connect-retries.
1426 - Trap unsupported FTP requests.
1427 - Let text/xml be filtered.
1428 - Numerous updates to default.action
1429 - Increase the compiled in limit of trusted referrers from 64 to 512
1430 (for trustfile users).
1432 *** Version 3.0.3 ***
1434 - Fixed yet another two memory leaks. Process growth seems stopped now.
1435 - Further tightened security against malicious toggle-off links.
1436 - Excluded text/plain MIME types from filtering. This fixes a
1437 couple of client-crashing, download corruption and
1438 Privoxy performance issues, whose root cause lies in
1439 web servers labelling content of unknown type as text/plain.
1440 - Assorted fixes for POSIX compliance, signal handling, graceful
1441 termination, compiler warnings, OSX support, Win32 systray,
1442 error logging, hostname wildcards, correct detection of NetBSD.
1443 - Workarounds for client (iTunes etc) and server (PHP < 4.2.3) bugs
1444 including the notorious "blank page" problem.
1445 - Various filter improvements; most notably the unsolicited-popups
1446 filter became less destructive
1447 - Major revamp of the actions file
1449 *** Version 3.0.2 ***
1451 - Fixed two memory leaks, one serious
1452 - Fixed bug in pcrs which could cause crashes with user-defined filters
1453 - Fixed bug in domain name matching
1454 - Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..)
1455 - Added basic support for the OPTIONS and TRACE http methods
1456 - Added workaround for Bug in Mac OSX that made Privoxy crash occasionally
1457 - Refined the default action file through >400 items of user feedback
1459 - Assorted refinements, optimizations and fixes in the js-annoyances,
1460 img-reorder, banners-by-size, banners-by-link, webbugs, refresh-tags,
1461 html-annoyances, content-cookies and fun filters
1462 - Replaced filter "popups" by choice between two modes:
1463 - "unsolicited-popups" tries to catch only the unsolicited ones
1464 - "all-popups" tries to kill them all (as before)
1465 - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas.
1466 - New filter "jumping-windows" that prevents windows from resizing
1467 and moving themselves
1468 - New filter "demoronizer" which fixes MS's abuse of std charsets
1469 (common cases anyway).
1470 - Replaced "nimda" with more general "ie-exploits" filter in which
1471 all filters for exploits shall be collected
1472 - Improved cookie logging
1473 - Rewrote make install target. Added uninstall and install-strip
1475 - Fixed a potential (application-level, NOT OS-level!) security
1476 problem involving remote toggling and action file manipulation
1477 by mailicious websites.
1478 - Added ability to chroot (thanks to Sviatoslav Sviridov)
1479 - Added more action aliases for prehistoric action names
1480 - Add Slackware support to Makefile.
1484 - Fixed Windows startmenu items, log window and tray icon menus.
1485 - Added warning for bogus install target
1486 - Added quicktime-kioskmode filter and improved frameset-borders
1487 - Updated default.action based on latest feedback
1488 - New PDF doc build process
1489 - Add a user contrib module to cvs:
1490 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ijbswa/contrib/
1492 *** Version 2.9.18 ***
1494 - Added workaround for IE bug that broke CGI interface
1495 - Bugfix: String actions now reliably editable through CGI interface
1496 - Three filters fixed (again!)
1497 - Assorted small fixes and doc enhancements
1499 *** Version 2.9.16 ***
1501 - Major revamp of default.action to get rid of years of cruft.
1502 - Same for default.filter
1503 - Re-design and major improvements to the CGI editor interface.
1504 - Address spurious 'out of memory' error due to incorrect file permissions.
1505 - Impose buffer limits while reading client and server headers.
1506 - Better memory and CPU optimization.
1507 - Add Conectiva Linux package.
1508 - user-manual directive added to config for help links from within CGI
1510 - Multiple actions files can now be specified in config.
1511 - Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and
1512 user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
1513 - The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes.
1515 *** Version 2.9.14 Beta ***
1517 - Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
1518 - Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
1519 - Fix build failure where certain features were disabled.
1520 - 'blocked-compact' template is removed. Various CGI improvements,
1521 including an adaptive 'blocked' template.
1522 - Various tweaks for actions file to get ready for stable 3.0
1523 - Included a 'Bookmarklet' and PHP scripts for reporting actions file
1524 problems via web interface at privoxy.org. Accessed via internal CGIs.
1525 - Include cgi-style.css for templates.
1526 - #include mechansim for common text in templates
1527 - Various other minor fixes.
1529 *** Version 2.9.13 Beta ***
1531 - *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
1532 reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
1533 - ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now
1535 - http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/
1536 - The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern'
1537 (checkerboard) is now the default.
1538 - RPM spec file make over.
1541 *** Version 2.9.12 Beta ***
1543 - **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from
1544 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
1546 - More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements.
1547 - Win32 command line fix ups.
1548 - re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a
1549 per site basis. Some new goodies there too.
1550 - +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile
1551 for even more flexibility.
1552 - Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which
1553 displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo.
1554 - PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images
1555 if configured with --enable-no-gif.
1556 - Clean up compiler warnings (mostly).
1557 - Improved handling of failed DNS lookups & diagnostics for failed bind
1559 - Made --no-daemon mode log to tty instead of logfile.
1560 - Various spec file and init script cleanups and improvements (Redhat and
1562 - CGI Editor works on OS/2 now.
1563 - Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT.
1564 - Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file.
1565 - A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help,
1566 --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces
1567 the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges
1568 to the specified user.
1569 - Signal handling cleanups (*nix).
1570 - CGI actions editor improvements and fixes.
1571 - Error handling improvements, especially out of memory.
1572 - Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos
1573 (instead of 'blank').
1574 - configure.in threading fixes for Solaris.
1575 - Various other minor fixes.
1578 *** Version 2.9.11 Beta Changes ***
1580 - Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life
1581 of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk).
1582 - Checks for correct header length.
1583 - Fix user:pass@host.domain.com auth bug.
1584 - Better signal handling on *nix.
1585 - Fix CFLAGS hard-coded in configure.in
1586 - Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random
1587 URLs to fail in some cases.
1590 *** Version 2.9.11 Alpha Changes ***
1592 - A web-based editor for the actions file is included (go to http://i.j.b/).
1593 - Web-based toggle IJB on/off support.
1594 - Cookie handling has changed - the new +no-cookies-keep feature is now the
1596 - actionsfile is renamed to ijb.action.
1597 - junkbstr.txt is now config.txt on Win32.
1598 - Support for running IJB as a UNIX daemon process has improved.
1599 - Unix daemon now returns error code on failed start.
1600 - Timestamps in logfile and jarfile now.
1601 - Fix for the Netscape bug reintroduced in 2.9.9.
1602 - make should now abort if gmake (GNU make) not present.
1603 - Many other minor bugfixes
1604 - Start a ChangeLog :)
1608 *** Version 2.9.3 pre-Alpha Changes ***
1610 - Amiga support (completely untested by me - I don't have an Amiga)
1611 - "tinygif 3" support (redirects blocked images to a specified URL, so
1612 the browser doesn't have to load and cache many copies of the same
1614 - one case where there were both local and global "referrer" variables
1615 (yuck!) clarified by renaming the local one to "refer".
1616 - Fixed some places where close() was used instead of close_socket().
1617 Thanks to Jörg Strohmayer (joergs at users.sourceforge.net) for these.
1618 - Temporary hack to get FORCE_LOAD to work with IE. I just lowercased the
1619 FORCE_LOAD_PREFIX. Needs fixing properly.
1620 - Most URLs hardcoded into Junkbuster were changed to go through a script
1621 e.g. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?v=2.9.3&to=faq
1622 The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL:
1623 http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
1625 http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/
1626 ... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway.
1627 TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's
1628 copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page.
1629 - PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option.
1632 *** Version 2.9.2 pre-Alpha Changes ***
1634 - Andreas applied the latest version of the FORCE patch.
1637 *** Version 2.9.1 pre-Alpha Changes ***
1639 - in parsers.c, fixed two #ifdef FORCE to #ifdef FORCE_LOAD
1640 (BTW: I think FORCE is precise enough, since loading remote
1641 data is the whole purpose of a proxy..)
1642 - Set the FORCE_PREFIX (back) to 'IJB-FORCE-LOAD-'. While 'noijb.'
1643 is more elegant and looks like a hostname in the URL, it doesn't
1644 make clear to the inexperienced user that the proxy is bypassed. It
1645 also has a higher name collision risk.
1646 - Filled in the function header templates for my functions in
1647 parsers.c (again). They obviously got lost in our current
1649 - Cut the credit for the §-referrer-option from the config file,
1650 that Stefan had placed there.
1651 - Improved the re_filterfile
1654 *** Version 2.9.0 pre-Alpha Changes ***
1656 - Now use PCRE, not GNU REGEX. I have not yet had chance to check the
1657 syntax of the block/image/cookie file to ensure that they match what
1658 is expected - however they seem to work.
1659 - Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also
1660 use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for
1661 the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from
1662 "acconfig.h" and "configure.in". (Note that to install you do not
1663 need autoconf or autoheader - just run "./configure".)
1664 To see command-line options, run "./configure --help".
1665 This is my first ever autoconf script, so it has some rough edges
1666 (how PCRE is handled is the roughest).
1667 - Error logging code replaced with new module errlog.c, based on the
1668 one from JunkbusterMT (but with the threading code removed).
1669 - Most of Rodney's 0.21 and 0.21A patches applied. (Marked *). I did not
1670 apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional
1671 popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code.
1672 - ACL, Jar and trust files conditionally compiled.
1673 - New source file headers.
1674 - Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the
1675 config files - I think that's worthwhile, but it's 1am and I want to
1677 - RCS tags on .h files.
1678 - RCS tags are const char[] rather than const char *. (Saves 4 bytes
1680 - VC++ project files renamed to vc_junkbuster.*.
1681 - show-proxy-args now shows status of all conditionals, not just REGEX
1682 - Various functions moved around. Most notably all the system-specific
1683 sockets code which was spread between jcc.c, bind.c, and connect.c,
1684 has been moved to "jbsockets.c". The non-system-specific code from
1685 connect.c and socks4.c has been movet to "gateway.c". Also, the
1686 config file loader and the global variables it writes to have been
1687 moved to "loadcfg.c". (Maybe this should go into loaders.c?)
1688 And candidate for the "worst filename ever" award is "miscutil.c",
1689 which contains, well, miscellaneous utility functions like zalloc.
1690 (Suggestions for a better name for this file are welcome!)
1691 - Loaders now use a common function to read a line and skip comments,
1692 and this function also stores the proxy_args.
1693 - Added ./junkbuster --help (Not for Win32 GUI)
1694 - Added ./junkbuster --version (Not for Win32 GUI)
1695 - Win32 resources are now all marked as "U.S. English", rather than
1696 being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English".
1697 - Version number changes to 2.9.0
1700 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
1701 Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2010 the
1702 Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
1704 Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
1705 by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
1706 Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com/
1708 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
1709 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
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