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4 *** Version 3.0.21 stable ***
7 - On POSIX-like platforms, network sockets with file descriptor
8 values above FD_SETSIZE are properly rejected. Previously they
9 could cause memory corruption in configurations that allowed
10 the limit to be reached.
11 - Compiles on OS/2 again now that unistd.h is only included
12 on platforms that have it.
14 - General improvements:
15 - The show-status page shows the FEATURE_STRPTIME_SANITY_CHECKS status.
16 - A couple of assert()s that could theoretically dereference
17 NULL pointers in debug builds have been relocated.
18 - Added an LSB info block to the generic start script.
19 Based on a patch from Natxo Asenjo.
20 - The max-client-connections default has been changed to 128
21 which should be more than enough for most setups.
23 - Action file improvements:
24 - Block rover.ebay./ar.*\&adtype= instead of "/.*\&adtype=" which
25 caused too man false positives.
26 Reported by u302320 in #360284, additional feedback from Adam Piggott.
27 - Unblock '.advrider.com/' and '/.*ADVrider'.
28 Anonymously reported in #3603636.
30 - Filter file improvements:
31 - Added an iframes filter.
33 - Documentation improvements:
34 - The whole GPLv2 text is included in the user manual now,
35 so Privoxy can serve it itself and the user can read it
36 without having to wade through GPLv3 ads first.
37 - Properly numbered and underlined a couple of section titles
38 in the config that where previously overlooked due to a flaw
39 in the conversion script. Reported by Ralf Jungblut.
40 - Improved the support instruction to hopefully make it harder to
41 unintentionally provide insufficient information when requesting
42 support. Previously it wasn't obvious that the information we need
43 in bug reports is usually also required in support requests.
44 - Removed documentation about packages that haven't been provided
47 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
48 - Only log the test number when not running in verbose mode
49 The position of the test is rarely relevant and it previously
50 wasn't exactly obvious which one of the numbers was useful to
51 repeat the test with --test-number.
53 - GNUmakefile improvements:
54 - Factor generate-config-file out of config-file to make testing
56 - The clean target now also takes care of patch leftovers.
58 *** Version 3.0.20 beta ***
61 - Client sockets are now properly shutdown and drained before being
62 closed. This fixes page truncation issues with clients that aggressively
63 pipeline data on platforms that otherwise discard already written data.
64 The issue mainly affected Opera users and was initially reported
65 by Kevin in #3464439, szotsaki provided additional information to track
67 - Fix latency calculation for shared connections (disabled by default).
68 It was broken since their introduction in 2009. The calculated latency
69 for most connections would be 0 in which case the timeout detection
70 failed to account for the real latency.
71 - Reject URLs with invalid port. Previously they were parsed incorrectly and
72 characters between the port number and the first slash were silently
73 dropped as shown by curl test 187.
74 - The default-server-timeout and socket-timeout directives accept 0 as
76 - Fix a race condition on Windows that could cause Privoxy to become
77 unresponsive after toggling it on or off through the taskbar icon.
78 Reported by Tim H. in #3525694.
79 - Fix the compilation on Windows when configured without IPv6 support.
80 - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() in case of
81 socks5 connection failures with "debug 2" enabled.
82 - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() if a filter
83 contained nul bytes in the replacement text.
85 - General improvements:
86 - Significantly improved keep-alive support for both client and server
88 - New debug log level 65536 which logs all actions that were applied to
90 - New directive client-header-order to forward client headers in a
91 different order than the one in which they arrived.
92 - New directive tolerate-pipelining to allow client-side pipelining.
93 If enabled (3.0.20 beta enables it by default), Privoxy will keep
94 pipelined client requests around to deal with them once the current
95 request has been served.
96 - New --config-test option to let Privoxy exit after checking whether or not
97 the configuration seems valid. The limitations noted in TODO #22 and #23
98 still apply. Based on a patch by Ramkumar Chinchani.
99 - New limit-cookie-lifetime{} action to let cookies expire before the end
100 of the session. Suggested by Rick Sykes in #1049575.
101 - Increase the hard-coded maximum number of actions and filter files from
102 10 to 30 (each). It doesn't significantly affect Privoxy's memory usage
103 and recompiling wasn't an option for all Privoxy users that reached the
105 - Add support for chunk-encoded client request bodies. Previously
106 chunk-encoded request bodies weren't guaranteed to be forwarded correctly,
107 so this can also be considered a bug fix although chunk-encoded request
108 bodies aren't commonly used in the real world.
109 - Add support for Tor's optimistic-data SOCKS extension, which can reduce the
110 latency for requests on newly created connections. Currently only the
111 headers are sent optimistically and only if the client request has already
112 been read completely which rules out requests with large bodies.
113 - After preventing the client from pipelining, don't signal keep-alive
114 intentions. When looking at the response headers alone, it previously
115 wasn't obvious from the client's perspective that no additional responses
117 - Stop considering client sockets tainted after receiving a request with body.
118 It hasn't been necessary for a while now and unnecessarily causes test
119 failures when using curl's test suite.
120 - Allow HTTP/1.0 clients to signal interest in keep-alive through the
121 Proxy-Connection header. While such client are rare in the real world, it
122 doesn't hurt and couple of curl tests rely on it.
123 - Only remove duplicated Content-Type headers when filters are enabled.
124 If they are not it doesn't cause ill effects and the user might not want it.
125 Downgrade the removal message to LOG_LEVEL_HEADER to clarify that it's not
126 an error in Privoxy and is unlikely to cause any problems in general.
127 Anonymously reported in #3599335.
128 - Set the socket option SO_LINGER for the client socket.
129 - Move several variable declarations to the beginning of their code block.
130 It's required when compiling with gcc 2.95 which is still used on some
131 platforms. Initial patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
132 - Optionally try to sanity-check strptime() results before trusting them.
133 Broken strptime() implementations have caused problems in the past and
134 the most recent offender seems to be FreeBSD's libc (standards/173421).
135 - When filtering is enabled, let Range headers pass if the range starts at
136 the beginning. This should work around (or at least reduce) the video
137 playback issues with various Apple clients as reported by Duc in #3426305.
138 - Do not confuse a client hanging up with a connection time out. If a client
139 closes its side of the connection without sending a request line, do not
140 send the CLIENT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_RESPONSE, but report the condition
142 - Allow closing curly braces as part of action values as long as they are
144 - On Windows, the logfile is now written before showing the GUI error
145 message which blocks until the user acknowledges it.
146 Reported by Adriaan in #3593603.
147 - Remove an unreasonable parameter limit in the CGI interface. The new
148 parameter limit depends on the memory available and is currently unlikely
149 to be reachable, due to other limits in both Privoxy and common clients.
150 Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
151 - Decrease the chances of parse failures after requests with unsupported
152 methods were sent to the CGI interface.
154 - Action file improvements:
155 - Remove the comment that indicated that updated default.action versions
156 are released on their own.
157 - Block 'optimize.indieclick.com/' and 'optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/'
158 - Unblock 'adjamblog.wordpress.com/' and 'adjamblog.files.wordpress.com/'.
159 Reported by Ryan Farmer in #3496116.
160 - Unblock '/.*Bugtracker'. Reported by pwhk in #3522341.
161 - Add test URLs for '.freebsd.org' and '.watson.org'.
162 - Unblock '.urbandictionary.com/popular'.
163 - Block '.adnxs.com/'.
164 - Block 'farm.plista.com/widgetdata.php'.
165 - Block 'rotation.linuxnewmedia.com/'.
166 - Block 'reklamy.sfd.pl/'. Reported by kacperdominik in #3399948.
167 - Block 'g.adspeed.net/'.
168 - Unblock 'websupport.wdc.com/'. Reported by Adam Piggot in #3577851.
169 - Block '/openx/www/delivery/'.
170 - Disable fast-redirects for '.googleapis.com/'.
171 - Block 'imp.double.net/'. Reported by David Bo in #3070411.
172 - Block 'gm-link.com/' which is used for email tracking.
173 Reported by David Bo in #1812733.
174 - Verify that requests to "bwp." are blocked. URL taken from #1736879
175 submitted by Francois Marier.
176 - Block '/.*bannerid='. Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975779.
177 - Block 'cltomedia.info/delivery/' and '.adexprt.com/'.
178 Anonymously reported in #2965254.
179 - Block 'de17a.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3061472.
180 - Block 'oskar.tradera.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3060596.
181 - Block '/scripts/webtrends\.js'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002729.
182 - Block requests for 'pool.*.adhese.com/'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002716.
183 - Update path pattern for Coremetrics and add tests.
184 Pattern and URLs submitted by Adam Piggott #3168443.
185 - Enable +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} for 'tr.anp.se/'.
186 Reported by David Bo in #3268832.
187 - Unblock '.conrad.se/newsletter/banners/'. Reported by David Bo in #3413824.
188 - Block '.tynt.com/'. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421767.
189 - Unblock '.bbci.co.uk/radio/'. Reported by Adam Piggott in #3569603.
190 - Block requests to 'service.maxymiser.net/'.
191 Reported by johnd16 in #3118401 (with a previous URL).
192 - Disable fast-redirects for Google's "let's pretend your computer is
194 - Unblock '/.*download' to resolve actionsfile feedback #3498129.
195 Submitted by Steven Kolins (soundcloud.com not working).
196 - Unblock '.wlxrs.com/' which is required by hotmail.com.
197 Fixes #3413827 submitted by David Bo.
198 - Add two unblock patterns for popup radio and TV players.
199 Submitted by Adam Piggott in #3596089.
201 - Filter file improvements & bug fixes:
202 - Add a referer tagger.
203 - Reduce the likelihood that the google filter messes up HTML-generating
204 JavaScript. Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3520260.
206 - Documentation improvements:
207 - Revised all OS X sections due to new packaging module (OSXPackageBuilder).
208 - Update the list of supported operating systems to clarify that all Windows
209 versions after 95 are expected to work and note that the platform-specific
210 code for AmigaOS and QNX currently isn't maintained.
211 - Update 'Signals' section, the only explicitly handled signals are SIGINT,
213 - Add Haiku to the list of operating systems on which Privoxy is known to
215 - Add DragonFly to the list of BSDs on which Privoxy is known to run.
216 - Removed references to redhat-specific documentation set since it no longer
218 - Removed references to building PDFs since we no longer do so.
219 - Multiple listen-address directives are supported since 3.0.18, correct the
220 documentation to say so.
221 - Remove bogus section about long and short being preferable to int.
222 - Corrected some Internet JunkBuster references to Privoxy.
223 - Removed references to www.junkbusters.com since it is no longer
224 maintained. Reported by Angelina Matson.
225 - Various grammar and spelling corrections
226 - Add a client-header-tagger{} example for disabling filtering for range
228 - Correct a URL in the "Privoxy with Tor" FAQ.
229 - Spell 'refresh-tags' correctly. Reported by Don in #3571927.
230 - Sort manpage options alphabetically.
231 - Remove an incorrect sentence in the toggle section. The toggle state
232 doesn't affect whether or not the Windows version uses the tray icon.
233 Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3596395.
234 - Add new contributors since 3.0.19.
236 - Log message improvements:
237 - When stopping to watch a client socket due to pipelining, additionally log
239 - Log the client socket and its condition before closing it. This makes it
240 more obvious that the socket actually gets closed and should help when
241 diagnosing problems like #3464439.
242 - In case of SOCKS5 failures, do not explicitly log the server's response.
243 It hasn't helped so far and the response can already be logged by enabling
244 "debug 32768" anyway. This reverts v1.81 and the follow-up bug fix v1.84.
245 - Relocate the connection-accepted message from listen_loop() to serve().
246 This way it's printed by the thread that is actually serving the
247 connection which is nice when grepping for thread ids in log files.
250 - Remove compatibility layer for versions prior to 3.0 since it has been
251 obsolete for more than 10 years now.
252 - Remove the ijb_isupper() and ijb_tolower() macros from parsers.c since
253 they aren't used in this file.
254 - Removed the 'Functions declared include:' comment sections since they tend
255 to be incomplete, incorrect and out of date and the benefit seems
257 - Various comment grammar and comprehensibility improvements.
258 - Remove a pointless fflush() call in chat(). Flushing all streams pretty
259 much all the time for no obvious reason is ridiculous.
260 - Relocate ijb_isupper()'s definition to project.h and get the ijb_tolower()
261 definition from there, too.
262 - Relocate ijb_isdigit()'s definition to project.h.
263 - Rename ijb_foo macros to privoxy_foo.
264 - Add malloc_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where malloc()
265 failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
266 - Add strdup_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where strdup()
267 failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
268 - Replace strdup() calls with strdup_or_die() calls where it's safe and
270 - Fix white-space around parentheses.
271 - Add missing white-space behind if's and the following parentheses.
272 - Unwrap a memcpy() call in resolve_hostname_to_ip().
273 - Declare pcrs_get_delimiter()'s delimiters[] static const.
274 - Various optimisations to remove dead code and merge inefficient code
275 structures for improved clarity, performance or code compactness.
276 - Various data type corrections.
277 - Change visibility of several code segments when compiling without
278 FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE enabled for clarity.
279 - In pcrs_get_delimiter(), do not use delimiters outside the ASCII range.
280 Fixes a clang complaint.
281 - Fix an error message in get_last_url() nobody is supposed to see.
282 Reported by Matthew Fischer in #3507301.
283 - Fix a typo in the no-zlib-support complaint. Patch submitted by Matthew
285 - Shorten ssplit()'s prototype by removing the last two arguments. We always
286 want to skip empty fields and ignore leading delimiters, so having
287 parameters for this only complicates the API.
288 - Use an enum for the type of the action value.
289 - Rename action_name's member takes_value to value_type as it isn't used as
291 - Turn family mismatches in match_sockaddr() into fatal errors.
292 - Let enlist_unique_header() verify that the caller didn't pass a header
293 containing either \r or \n.
294 - Change the hashes used in load_config() to unsigned int. That's what
295 hash_string() actually returns and using a potentially larger type
297 - Use privoxy_tolower() instead of vanilla tolower() with manual casting of
299 - Catch ssplit() failures in parse_cgi_parameters().
301 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
302 - Add an 'Overwrite condition' directive to skip any matching tests before
303 it. As it has a global scope, using it is more convenient than clowning
304 around with the Ignore directive.
305 - Log to STDOUT instead of STDERR.
306 - Include the Privoxy version in the output.
307 - Various grammar and spelling corrections in documentation and code.
308 - Additional tests for range requests with filtering enabled.
309 - Tests with mostly invalid range request.
310 - Add a couple of hide-if-modified-since{} tests with different date formats.
311 - Cleaned up the format of the regression-tests.action file to match the
312 format of default.action.
313 - Remove the "Copyright" line from print_version(). When using --help, every
314 line of screen space matters and thus shouldn't be wasted on things the
315 user doesn't care about.
317 - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
318 - Improve the --statistics performance by skipping sanity checks for input
319 that shouldn't affect the results anyway. Add a --strict-checks option
320 that enables some of the checks again, just in case anybody cares.
321 - The distribution of client requests per connection is included in
322 the --statistic output.
323 - The --accept-unknown-messages option has been removed and the behavior
325 - Accept and (mostly) highlight new log messages introduced with
329 - Bump generated Firefox version to 17.
331 - GNUmakefile improvements:
332 - The dok-tidy target no longer taints documents with a tidy-mark
333 - Change RA_MODE from 0664 to 0644. Suggested by Markus Dittrich in
335 - Remove tidy's clean flag as it changes the scope of attributes.
336 Link-specific colors end up being applied to all text. Reported by Adam
338 - Leave it up to the user whether or not smart tags are inserted.
339 - Let w3m itself do the line wrapping for the config file. It works better
340 than fmt as it can honour pre tags causing less unintentional line breaks.
341 - Ditch a pointless '-r' passed to rm to delete files.
342 - The config-file target now requires less manual intervention and updates
344 - Change WDUMP to generate ASCII. Add WDUMP_UTF8 to allow UTF-8 in the
345 AUTHORS file so the names are right.
346 - Stop pretending that lynx and links are supported for the documentation.
348 - configure improvements:
349 - On Haiku, do not pass -lpthread to the compiler. Haiku's pthreads
350 implementation is contained in its system library, libroot, so no
351 additional library needs to be searched.
352 Patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
353 - Additional Haiku-specific improvements. Disable checks intended for
354 multi-user systems as Haiku is presently single-user. Group Haiku-specific
355 settings in their own section, following the pattern for Solaris, OS/2 and
356 AmigaOS. Add additional library-related settings to remove the need for
357 providing configure with custom LDFLAGS.
358 Submitted by Simon South in #3574538.
360 *** Version 3.0.19 Stable ***
363 - Prevent a segmentation fault when de-chunking buffered content.
364 It could be triggered by malicious web servers if Privoxy was
365 configured to filter the content and running on a platform
366 where SIZE_T_MAX isn't larger than UINT_MAX, which probably
367 includes most 32-bit systems. On those platforms, all Privoxy
368 versions before 3.0.19 appear to be affected.
369 To be on the safe side, this bug should be presumed to allow
370 code execution as proving that it doesn't seems unrealistic.
371 - Do not expect a response from the SOCKS4/4A server until it
372 got something to respond to. This regression was introduced
373 in 3.0.18 and prevented the SOCKS4/4A negotiation from working.
374 Reported by qqqqqw in #3459781.
376 - General improvements:
377 - Fix an off-by-one in an error message about connect failures.
378 - Use a GNUMakefile variable for the webserver root directory and
379 update the path. Sourceforge changed it which broke various
381 - Update the CODE_STATUS description.
383 *** Version 3.0.18 Stable ***
386 - If a generated redirect URL contains characters RFC 3986 doesn't
387 permit, they are (re)encoded. Not doing this makes Privoxy versions
388 from 3.0.5 to 3.0.17 susceptible to HTTP response splitting (CWE-113)
389 attacks if the +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action is used.
390 - Fix a logic bug that could cause Privoxy to reuse a server
391 socket after it got tainted by a server-header-tagger-induced
392 block that was triggered before the whole server response had
393 been read. If keep-alive was enabled and the request following
394 the blocked one was to the same host and using the same forwarding
395 settings, Privoxy would send it on the tainted server socket.
396 While the server would simply treat it as a pipelined request,
397 Privoxy would later on fail to properly parse the server's
398 response as it would try to parse the unread data from the
399 first response as server headers for the second one.
400 Regression introduced in 3.0.17.
401 - When implying keep-alive in client_connection(), remember that
402 the client didn't. Fixes a regression introduced in 3.0.13 that
403 would cause Privoxy to wait for additional client requests after
404 receiving a HTTP/1.1 request with "Connection: close" set
405 and connection sharing enabled.
406 With clients which terminates the client connection after detecting
407 that the whole body has been received it doesn't really matter,
408 but with clients that don't the connection would be kept open until
410 - Fix a subtle race condition between prepare_csp_for_next_request()
411 and sweep(). A thread preparing itself for the next client request
412 could briefly appear to be inactive.
413 If all other threads were already using more recent files,
414 the thread could get its files swept away under its feet.
415 So far this has only been reproduced while stress testing in
416 valgrind while touching action files in a loop. It's unlikely
417 to have caused any actual problems in the real world.
418 - Disable filters if SDCH compression is used unless filtering is forced.
419 If SDCH was combined with a supported compression algorithm, Privoxy
420 previously could try to decompress it and ditch the Content-Encoding
421 header even though the SDCH compression wasn't dealt with.
422 Reported by zebul666 in #3225863.
423 - Make a copy of the --user value and only mess with that when splitting
424 user and group. On some operating systems modifying the value directly
425 is reflected in the output of ps and friends and can be misleading.
426 Reported by zepard in #3292710.
427 - If forwarded-connect-retries is set, only retry if Privoxy is actually
428 forwarding the request. Previously direct connections would be retried
430 - Fixed a small memory leak when retrying connections with IPv6
432 - Remove an incorrect assertion in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list()
433 It could be triggered by a pcrs job with an invalid pcre
434 pattern (for example one that contains a lone quantifier).
435 - If the --user argument user[.group] contains a dot, always bail out
436 if no group has been specified. Previously the intended, but undocumented
437 (and apparently untested), behaviour was to try interpreting the whole
438 argument as user name, but the detection was flawed and checked for '0'
439 instead of '\0', thus merely preventing group names beginning with a zero.
440 - In html_code_map[], use a numeric character reference instead of '
441 which wasn't standardized before XHTML 1.0.
442 - Fix an invalid free when compiled with FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION
443 and shut down through http://config.privoxy.org/die
444 - In get_actions(), fix the "temporary" backwards compatibility hack
445 to accept block actions without reason.
446 It also covered other actions that should be rejected as invalid.
447 Reported by Billy Crook.
449 - General improvements:
450 - Privoxy can (re)compress buffered content before delivering
451 it to the client. Disabled by default as most users wouldn't
453 - The +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action checks URL
454 segments separately. If there are other parameters behind
455 the redirect URL, this makes it unnecessary to cut them off
456 by additionally using a +redirect{} pcrs command.
457 Initial patch submitted by Jamie Zawinski in #3429848.
458 - When loading action sections, verify that the referenced filters
459 exist. Currently missing filters only result in an error message,
460 but eventually the severity will be upgraded to fatal.
461 - Allow to bind to multiple separate addresses.
462 Patch set submitted by Petr Pisar in #3354485.
463 - Set socket_error to errno if connecting fails in rfc2553_connect_to().
464 Previously rejected direct connections could be incorrectly reported
465 as DNS issues if Privoxy was compiled with IPv6 support.
466 - Adjust url_code_map[] so spaces are replaced with %20 instead of '+'
467 While '+' can be used by client's submitting form data, this is not
468 actually what Privoxy is using the lookups for. This is more of a
469 cosmetic issue and doesn't fix any known problems.
470 - When compiled without FEATURE_FAST_REDIRECTS, do not silently
471 ignore +fast-redirect{} directives
472 - Added a workaround for GNU libc's strptime() reporting negative
473 year values when the parsed year is only specified with two digits.
474 On affected systems cookies with such a date would not be turned
475 into session cookies by the +session-cookies-only action.
476 Reported by Vaeinoe in #3403560
477 - Fixed bind failures with certain GNU libc versions if no non-loopback
478 IP address has been configured on the system. This is mainly an issue
479 if the system is using DHCP and Privoxy is started before the network
480 is completely configured.
481 Reported by Raphael Marichez in #3349356.
482 Additional insight from Petr Pisar.
483 - Privoxy log messages now use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
484 It's only slightly longer than the old format, but contains
485 the full date including the year and allows sorting by date
486 (when grepping in multiple log files) without hassle.
487 - In get_last_url(), do not bother trying to decode URLs that do
488 not contain at least one '%' sign. It reduces the log noise and
489 a number of unnecessary memory allocations.
490 - In case of SOCKS5 failures, dump the socks response in the log message.
491 - Simplify the signal setup in main().
492 - Streamline socks5_connect() slightly.
493 - In socks5_connect(), require a complete socks response from the server.
494 Previously Privoxy didn't care how much data the server response
495 contained as long as the first two bytes contained the expected
496 values. While at it, shrink the buffer size so Privoxy can't read
497 more than a whole socks response.
498 - In chat(), do not bother to generate a client request in case of
499 direct CONNECT requests. It will not be used anyway.
500 - Reduce server_last_modified()'s stack size.
501 - Shorten get_http_time() by using strftime().
502 - Constify the known_http_methods pointers in unknown_method().
503 - Constify the time_formats pointers in parse_header_time().
504 - Constify the formerly_valid_actions pointers in action_used_to_be_valid().
505 - Introduce a GNUMakefile MAN_PAGE variable that defaults to privoxy.1.
506 The Debian package uses section 8 for the man page and this
507 should simplify the patch.
508 - Deduplicate the INADDR_NONE definition for Solaris by moving it to jbsockets.h
509 - In block_url(), ditch the obsolete workaround for ancient Netscape versions
510 that supposedly couldn't properly deal with status code 403.
511 - Remove a useless NULL pointer check in load_trustfile().
512 - Remove two useless NULL pointer checks in load_one_re_filterfile().
513 - Change url_code_map[] from an array of pointers to an array of arrays
514 It removes an unnecessary layer of indirection and on 64bit system reduces
515 the size of the binary a bit.
516 - Fix various typos. Fixes taken from Debian's 29_typos.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
517 - Add a dok-tidy GNUMakefile target to clean up the messy HTML
518 generated by the other dok targets.
519 - GNUisms in the GNUMakefile have been removed.
520 - Change the HTTP version in static responses to 1.1
521 - Synced config.sub and config.guess with upstream
522 2011-11-11/386c7218162c145f5f9e1ff7f558a3fbb66c37c5.
523 - Add a dedicated function to parse the values of toggles. Reduces duplicated
524 code in load_config() and provides better error handling. Invalid or missing
525 toggle values are now a fatal error instead of being silently ignored.
526 - Terminate HTML lines in static error messages with \n instead of \r\n.
527 - Simplify cgi_error_unknown() a bit.
528 - In LogPutString(), don't bother looking at pszText when not
529 actually logging anything.
530 - Change ssplit()'s fourth parameter from int to size_t.
531 Fixes a clang complaint.
532 - Add a warning that the statistics currently can't be trusted.
533 Mention Privoxy-Log-Parser's --statistics option as
534 an alternative for the time being.
535 - In rfc2553_connect_to(), start setting cgi->error_message on error.
536 - Change the expected status code returned for http://p.p/die depending
537 on whether or not FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION is available.
538 - In cgi_die(), mark the client connection for closing.
539 If the client will fetch the style sheet through another connection
540 it gets the main thread out of the accept() state and should thus
541 trigger the actual shutdown.
542 - Add a proper CGI message for cgi_die().
543 - Don't enforce a logical line length limit in read_config_line().
544 - Slightly refactor server_last_modified() to remove useless gmtime*() calls.
545 - In get_content_type(), also recognize '.jpeg' as JPEG extension.
546 - Add '.png' to the list of recognized file extensions in get_content_type().
547 - In block_url(), consistently use the block reason "Request blocked by Privoxy"
548 In two places the reason was "Request for blocked URL" which hides the
549 fact that the request got blocked by Privoxy and isn't necessarily
550 correct as the block may be due to tags.
551 - In listen_loop(), reload the configuration files after accepting
552 a new connection instead of before.
553 Previously the first connection that arrived after a configuration
554 change would still be handled with the old configuration.
555 - In chat()'s receive-data loop, skip a client socket check if
556 the socket will be written to right away anyway. This can
557 increase the transfer speed for unfiltered content on fast
559 - The socket timeout is used for SOCKS negotiations as well which
560 previously couldn't timeout.
561 - Don't keep the client connection alive if any configuration file
562 changed since the time the connection came in. This is closer to
563 Privoxy's behaviour before keep-alive support for client connection
564 has been added and also less confusing in general.
565 - Treat all Content-Type header values containing the pattern
566 'script' as a sign of text. Reported by pribog in #3134970.
568 - Action file improvements:
569 - Moved the site-specific block pattern section below the one for the
570 generic patterns so for requests that are matched in both, the block
571 reason for the domain is shown which is usually more useful than showing
572 the one for the generic pattern.
573 - Remove -prevent-compression from the fragile alias. It's no longer
574 used anywhere by default and isn't known to break stuff anyway.
575 - Add a (disabled) section to block various Facebook tracking URLs.
576 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421764.
577 - Add a (disabled) section to rewrite and redirect click-tracking
578 URLs used on news.google.com.
579 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421755.
580 - Unblock linuxcounter.net/.
581 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3422612.
582 - Block 'www91.intel.com/' which is used by Omniture.
583 Reported by Adam Piggott in #3167370.
584 - Disable the handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok option and mark it as deprecated.
585 Reminded by tceverling in #2790091.
586 - Add ".ivwbox.de/" to the "Cross-site user tracking" section.
587 Reported by Nettozahler in #3172525.
588 - Unblock and fast-redirect ".awin1.com/.*=http://".
589 Reported by Adam Piggott in #3170921.
590 - Block "b.collective-media.net/".
591 - Widen the Debian popcon exception to "qa.debian.org/popcon".
592 Seen in Debian's 05_default_action.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
593 - Block ".gemius.pl/" which only seems to be used for user tracking.
594 Reported by johnd16 in #3002731. Additional input from Lee and movax.
595 - Disable banners-by-size filters for '.thinkgeek.com/'.
596 The filter only seems to catch pictures of the inventory.
597 - Block requests for 'go.idmnet.bbelements.com/please/showit/'.
598 Reported by kacperdominik in #3372959.
599 - Unblock adainitiative.org/.
600 - Add a fast-redirects exception for '.googleusercontent.com/.*=cache'.
601 - Add a fast-redirects exception for webcache.googleusercontent.com/.
602 - Unblock http://adassier.wordpress.com/ and http://adassier.files.wordpress.com/.
604 - Filter file improvements:
605 - Let the yahoo filter hide '.ads'.
606 - Let the msn filter hide overlay ads for Facebook 'likes' in search
607 results and elements with the id 's_notf_div'. They only seem to be
608 used to advertise site 'enhancements'.
609 - Let the js-events filter additionally disarm setInterval().
610 Suggested by dg1727 in #3423775.
612 - Documentation improvements:
613 - Clarify the effect of compiling Privoxy with zlib support.
614 Suggested by dg1727 in #3423782.
615 - Point out that the SourceForge messaging system works like a black
616 hole and should thus not be used to contact individual developers.
617 - Mention some of the problems one can experience when not explicitly
618 configuring an IP addresses as listen address.
619 - Explicitly mention that hostnames can be used instead of IP addresses
620 for the listen-address, that only the first address returned will be
621 used and what happens if the address is invalid.
622 Requested by Calestyo in #3302213.
624 - Log message improvements:
625 - If only the server connection is kept alive, do not pretend to
626 wait for a new client request.
627 - Remove a superfluous log message in forget_connection().
628 - In chat(), properly report missing server responses as such
629 instead of calling them empty.
630 - In forwarded_connect(), fix a log message nobody should ever see.
631 - Fix a log message in socks5_connect(), a failed write operation
632 was logged as failed read operation.
633 - Let load_one_actions_file() properly complain about a missing
634 '{' at the beginning of the file.
635 Simply stating that a line is invalid isn't particularly helpful.
636 - Do not claim to listen on a socket until Privoxy actually does.
637 Patch submitted by Petr Pisar #3354485
638 - Prevent a duplicated LOG_LEVEL_CLF message when sending out
639 the "no-server-data" response.
640 - Also log the client socket when dropping a connection.
641 - Include the destination host in the 'Request ... marked for
642 blocking. limit-connect{...} doesn't allow CONNECT ...' message
643 Patch submitted by Saperski in #3296250.
644 - Prevent a duplicated log message if none of the resolved IP
645 addresses were reachable.
646 - In connect_to(), do not pretend to retry if forwarded-connect-retries
648 - When a specified user or group can't be found, put the name in
649 single-quotes when logging it.
650 - In rfc2553_connect_to(), explain getnameinfo() errors better.
651 - Remove a useless log message in chat().
652 - When retrying to connect, also log the maximum number of connection
654 - Rephrase a log message in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list().
655 Divide the error code and its meaning with a colon. Call the pcrs
656 job dynamic and not the filter. Filters may contain dynamic and
657 non-dynamic pcrs jobs at the same time. Only mention the name of
658 the filter or tagger, but don't claim it's a filter when it could
660 - In a fatal error message in load_one_actions_file(), cover both
661 URL and TAG patterns.
662 - In pcrs_strerror(), properly report unknown positive error code
663 values as such. Previously they were handled like 0 (no error).
664 - In compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list(), also log the actual error code as
665 pcrs_strerror() doesn't handle all errors reported by pcre.
666 - Don't bother trying to continue chatting if the client didn't ask for it.
667 Reduces log noise a bit.
668 - Make two fatal error message in load_one_actions_file() more descriptive.
669 - In cgi_send_user_manual(), log when rejecting a file name due to '/' or '..'.
670 - In load_file(), log a message if opening a file failed.
671 The CGI error message alone isn't too helpful.
672 - In connection_destination_matches(), improve two log messages
673 to help understand why the destinations don't match.
674 - Rephrase a log message in serve(). Client request arrival
675 should be differentiated from closed client connections now.
676 - In serve(), log if a client connection isn't reused due to a
677 configuration file change.
678 - Let mark_server_socket_tainted() always mark the server socket tainted,
679 just don't talk about it in cases where it has no effect. It doesn't change
680 Privoxy's behaviour, but makes understanding the log file easier.
683 - Added a --disable-ipv6-support switch for platforms where support
684 is detected but doesn't actually work.
685 - Do not check for the existence of strerror() and memmove() twice
686 - Remove a useless test for setpgrp(2). Privoxy doesn't need it and
687 it can cause problems when cross-compiling.
688 - Rename the --disable-acl-files switch to --disable-acl-support.
689 Since about 2001, ACL directives are specified in the standard
691 - Update the URL of the 'Removing outdated PCRE version after the
692 next stable release' posting. The old URL stopped working after
693 one of SF's recent site "optimizations". Reported by Han Liu.
695 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
696 - Added --shuffle-tests option to increase the chances of detection race conditions.
697 - Added a --local-test-file option that allows to use Privoxy-Regression-Test without Privoxy.
698 - Added tests for missing socks4 and socks4a forwarders.
699 - The --privoxy-address option now works with IPv6 addresses containing brackets, too.
700 - Perform limited sanity checks for parameters that are supposed to have numerical values.
701 - Added a --sleep-time option to specify a number of seconds to
702 sleep between tests, defaults to 0.
703 - Disable the range-requests tagger for tests that break if it's enabled.
704 - Log messages use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
705 - Fix spelling in two error messages.
706 - In the --help output, include a list of supported tests and their default levels.
707 - Adjust the tests to properly deal with FEATURE_TOGGLE being disabled.
709 - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
710 - Perform limited sanity checks for command line parameters that
711 are supposed to have numerical values.
712 - Implement a --unbreak-lines-only option to try to revert MUA breakage.
713 - Accept and highlight: Added header: Content-Encoding: deflate
714 - Accept and highlight: Compressed content from 29258 to 8630 bytes.
715 - Accept and highlight: Client request arrived in time on socket 21.
716 - Highlight: Didn't receive data in time: a.fsdn.com:443
717 - Accept log messages with ISO 8601 time stamps, too.
720 - Bump generated Firefox version to 8.0.
721 - Only randomize the release date if the new --randomize-release-date
722 option is enabled. Firefox versions after 4 use a fixed date string
725 *** Version 3.0.17 Stable ***
727 - Fixed last-chunk-detection for responses where the body was small
728 enough to be read with the headers, causing Privoxy to wait for the
729 end of the content until the server closed the connection or the
730 request timed out. Reported by "Karsten" in #3028326.
731 - Responses with status code 204 weren't properly detected as body-less
732 like RFC2616 mandates. Like the previous bug, this caused Privoxy to
733 wait for the end of the content until the server closed the connection
734 or the request timed out. Fixes #3022042 and #3025553, reported by a
735 user with no visible name. Most likely also fixes a bunch of other
736 AJAX-related problem reports that got closed in the past due to
737 insufficient information and lack of feedback.
738 - Fixed an ACL bug that made it impossible to build a blacklist.
739 Usually the ACL directives are used in a whitelist, which worked
740 as expected, but blacklisting is still useful for public proxies
741 where one only needs to deny known abusers access.
742 - Added LOG_LEVEL_RECEIVED to log the not-yet-parsed data read from the
743 network. This should make debugging various parsing issues a lot easier.
744 - The IPv6 code is enabled by default on Windows versions that support it.
745 Patch submitted by oCameLo in #2942729.
746 - In mingw32 versions, the user.filter file is reachable through the
747 GUI, just like default.filter is. Feature request 3040263.
748 - Added the configure option --enable-large-file-support to set a few
749 defines that are required by platforms like GNU/Linux to support files
750 larger then 2GB. Mainly interesting for users without proper logfile
752 - Logging with "debug 16" no longer stops at the first nul byte which is
753 pretty useless. Non-printable characters are replaced with their hex value
754 so the result can't span multiple lines making parsing them harder then
756 - Privoxy logs when reading an action, filter or trust file.
757 - Fixed incorrect regression test markup which caused a test in
758 3.0.16 to fail while Privoxy itself was working correctly.
759 While Privoxy accepts hide-referer, too, the action name is actually
760 hide-referrer which is also the name used one the final results page,
761 where the test expected the alias.
763 - CGI interface improvements:
764 - In finish_http_response(), continue to add the 'Connection: close'
765 header if the client connection will not be kept alive.
766 Anonymously pointed out in #2987454.
767 - Apostrophes in block messages no longer cause parse errors
768 when the blocked page is viewed with JavaScript enabled.
769 Reported by dg1727 in #3062296.
770 - Fix a bunch of anchors that used underscores instead of dashes.
771 - Allow to keep the client connection alive after crunching the previous request.
772 Already opened server connections can be kept alive, too.
773 - In cgi_show_url_info(), don't forget to prefix URLs that only contain
774 http:// or https:// in the path. Fixes #2975765 reported by Adam Piggott.
775 - Show the 404 CGI page if cgi_send_user_manual() is called while
776 local user manual delivery is disabled.
778 - Action file improvements:
779 - Enable user.filter by default. Suggested by David White in #3001830.
780 - Block .sitestat.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002725.
781 - Block .atemda.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002723.
782 - Block js.adlink.net/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002720.
783 - Block .analytics.yahoo.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002713.
784 - Block sb.scorecardresearch.com, too. Reported by dg1727 in #2992652.
785 - Fix problems noticed on Yahoo mail and news pages.
786 - Remove the too broad yahoo section, only keeping the
787 fast-redirects exception as discussed on ijbswa-devel@.
788 - Don't block adesklets.sourceforge.net. Reported in #2974204.
789 - Block chartbeat ping tracking. Reported in #2975895.
790 - Tag CSS and image requests with cautious and medium settings, too.
791 - Don't handle view.atdmt.com as image. It's used for click-throughs
792 so users should be able to "go there anyway".
793 Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975927.
794 - Also let the refresh-tags filter remove invalid refresh tags where
795 the 'url=' part is missing. Anonymously reported in #2986382.
796 While at it, update the description to mention the fact that only
797 refresh tags with refresh times above 9 seconds are covered.
798 - javascript needs to be blocked with +handle-as-empty-document to
799 work around Firefox bug 492459. So move .js blockers from
800 +block{Might be a web-bug.} -handle-as-empty-document to
801 +block{Might be a web-bug.} +handle-as-empty-document.
802 - ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 - Block 160x578 Banners.
803 - Block another omniture tracking domain.
804 - Added a range-requests tagger.
805 - Added two sections to get Flickr's Ajax interface working with
806 default pre-settings. If you change the configuration to block
807 cookies by default, you'll need additional exceptions.
808 Reported by Mathias Homann in #3101419 and by Patrick on ijbswa-users@.
810 - Documentation improvements:
811 - Explicitly mention how to match all URLs.
812 - Consistently recommend socks5 in the Tor FAQ entry and mention
813 its advantage compared to socks4a. Reported by David in #2960129.
814 - Slightly improve the explanation of why filtering may appear
816 - Grammar fixes for the ACL section.
817 - Fixed a link to the 'intercepting' entry and add another one.
818 - Rename the 'Other' section to 'Mailing Lists' and reword it
819 to make it clear that nobody is forced to use the trackers
820 - Note that 'anonymously' posting on the trackers may not always
822 - Suggest to enable debug 32768 when suspecting parsing problems.
824 - Privoxy-Log-Parser improvements:
825 - Gather statistics for ressources, methods, and HTTP versions
827 - Also gather statistics for blocked and redirected requests.
828 - Provide the percentage of keep-alive offers the client accepted.
829 - Add a --url-statistics-threshold option.
830 - Add a --host-statistics-threshold option to also gather
831 statistics about how many request where made per host.
832 - Fix a bug in handle_loglevel_header() where a 'scan: ' got lost.
833 - Add a --shorten-thread-ids option to replace the thread id with
835 - Accept and ignore: Looks like we got the last chunk together
836 with the server headers. We better stop reading.
837 - Accept and ignore: Continue hack in da house.
838 - Accept and higlight: Rejecting connection from 10.0.0.2.
839 Maximum number of connections reached.
840 - Accept and highlight: Loading actions file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.action
841 - Accept and highlight: Loading filter file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.filter
842 - Accept and highlight: Killed all-caps Host header line: HOST: bestproxydb.com
843 - Accept and highlight: Reducing expected bytes to 0. Marking
844 the server socket tainted after throwing 4 bytes away.
845 - Accept: Merged multiple header lines to: 'X-FORWARDED-PROTO: http X-HOST: 127.0.0.1'
848 - Remove the next member from the client_state struct. Only the main
849 thread needs access to all client states so give it its own struct.
850 - Garbage-collect request_contains_null_bytes().
851 - Ditch redundant code in unload_configfile().
852 - Ditch LogGetURLUnderCursor() which doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
853 - In write_socket(), remove the write-only variable write_len in
854 an ifdef __OS2__ block. Spotted by cppcheck.
855 - In connect_to(), don't declare the variable 'flags' on OS/2 where
856 it isn't used. Spotted by cppcheck.
857 - Limit the scope of various variables. Spotted by cppcheck.
858 - In add_to_iob(), turn an interestingly looking for loop into a
860 - Code cleanup in preparation for external filters.
861 - In listen_loop(), mention the socket on which we accepted the
862 connection, not just the source IP address.
863 - In write_socket(), also log the socket we're writing to.
864 - In log_error(), assert that escaped characters get logged
865 completely or not at all.
866 - In log_error(), assert that ival and sval have reasonable values.
867 There's no reason not to abort() if they don't.
868 - Remove an incorrect cgi_error_unknown() call in a
869 cannot-happen-situation in send_crunch_response().
870 - Clean up white-space in http_response definition and
871 move the crunch_reason to the beginning.
872 - Turn http_response.reason into an enum and rename it
873 to http_response.crunch_reason.
874 - Silence a 'gcc (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2' warning on i686 GNU/Linux.
875 - Fix white-space in a log message in remove_chunked_transfer_coding().
876 While at it, add a note that the message doesn't seem to
877 be entirely correct and should be improved later on.
879 - GNUmakefile improvements:
880 - Use $(SSH) instead of ssh, so one only needs to specify a username once.
881 - Removed references to the action feedback thingy that hasn't been
883 - Consistently use shell.sourceforge.net instead of shell.sf.net so
884 one doesn't need to check server fingerprints twice.
885 - Removed GNUisms in the webserver and webactions targets so they
886 work with standard tar.
888 *** Version 3.0.16 Stable ***
890 - Added the config file option handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok to
891 work around Firefox bug #492459, which causes Firefox to hang
892 if JavaScripts are blocked in certain situations. The option is
893 enabled in the default config file.
894 - Added the config file option default-server-timeout to control the
895 assumed default server timeout. Since Privoxy no longer returns
896 an error message for connection resets on reused client connections,
897 assuming larger server timeout values appears to actually work
898 pretty well as long as connections aren't shared.
899 - Added optional support for FreeBSD's accf_http(9). Use the
900 configure option --enable-accept-filter to enable it.
901 - Added fancier Privoxy icons for win32. Contributed by Jeff H.
902 - In daemon mode, fd 0, 1 and 2 are bound to /dev/null.
903 - Resolve localhost using whatever address family the operating
904 system feels like. Previous betas would try to use IPv4 as this
905 is what most users expect, but this didn't work reliably on
907 - In the action lists on CGI pages, actions and their parameters are
908 no longer separated with a space. The action file parser doesn't
909 actually allow this and will throw an invalid syntax error if actions
910 and parameters in the action files are separated. Not adding the
911 spaces means copy and pasting CGI output into the action files works.
912 - The default keep-alive timeout has been reduced to 5 seconds to work
913 around hangs in clients that treat the proxy like any other host and
914 stop allowing any new connections if the "maximum number of
915 connections per host" is reached.
916 - Several webbug URLs that look like they are leading to images are now
917 blocked as image instead of empty documents. Doing the latter causes
918 WebKit-based clients to show a "missing image" icon which may mess up
920 - The no-such-domain template is used for DNS resolution
921 problems with FEATURE_IPV6_SUPPORT enabled. Previously the
922 connect-failed template was used. Reported by 'zebul666'.
923 - Accepts quoted expiration dates even though RFC 2109 10.1.2
924 doesn't seem to allow them. Reported anonymously.
925 - Don't try to forget connections if connection sharing is disabled.
926 This wasn't a real problem but caused an unnecessary log message.
927 - The still undocumented --enable-extended-host-patterns configure
928 option has a better description.
929 - Fixed an error message that would claim a write to the server
930 failed when actually writing to the client failed.
931 - Log the crunch reason before trying to write to the client.
932 The log is easier to read that way.
933 - Several log messages about client connections also mention
935 - handle-as-empty-document no longer depends on the image blocking
937 - Privoxy-Log-Parser is roughly 40% faster in highlighting mode.
938 - uagen, a Firefox User-Agent generator for Privoxy and Mozilla
939 browsers has been imported and is available in the tarball's
941 - The scripts in the tools directory treat unknown parameters
944 *** Version 3.0.15 beta ***
946 - In case of missing server data, no error message is send to the
947 client if the request arrived on a reused connection. The client
948 is then supposed to silently retry the request without bothering
949 the user. This should significantly reduce the frequency of the
950 "No server or forwarder data received" error message many users
952 - More reliable detection of prematurely closed client sockets
953 with keep-alive enabled.
954 - FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE is decoupled from
955 FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING and now available on
957 - Improved handling of POST requests on reused connections.
958 Should fix problems with stalled connections after submitting
959 form data with some browser configurations.
960 - Fixed various latency calculation issues.
961 - Allows the client to pass NTLM authentication requests to a
962 forwarding proxy. This was already assumed and hinted to work
963 in 3.0.13 beta but actually didn't. Now it's confirmed to work
964 with IE, Firefox and Chrome.
965 Thanks to Francois Botha and Wan-Teh Chang
966 - Fixed a calculation problem if receiving the server headers
967 takes more than two reads, that could cause Privoxy to terminate
968 the connection prematurely. Reported by Oliver.
969 - Compiles again on platforms such as OpenBSD and systems
970 using earlier glibc version that don't support AI_ADDRCONFIG.
971 Anonymously submitted in #2872591.
972 - A bunch of MS VC project files and Suse and Redhat RPM spec
973 files have been removed as they were no longer maintained for
975 - Overly long action lines are properly rejected with a proper
976 error message. Previously they would be either rejected as
977 invalid or cause a core dump through abort().
978 - Already timed-out connections are no longer temporarily remembered.
979 They weren't reused anyway, but wasted a socket slot.
980 - len refers to the number of bytes actually read which might
981 differ from the ones received. Adjust log messages accordingly.
982 - The optional JavaScript on the CGI page uses encodeURIComponent()
983 instead of escape() which doesn't encode all characters that matter.
984 Anonymously reported in #2832722.
985 - Fix gcc45 warnings in decompress_iob().
986 - Various log message improvements.
987 - Privoxy-Regression-Test supports redirect tests.
988 - Privoxy-Log-Parser can gather some connection statistics.
990 *** Version 3.0.14 beta ***
992 - The latency is taken into account when evaluating whether or not to
993 reuse a connection. This should significantly reduce the number of
994 connections problems several users reported.
995 - If the server doesn't specify how long the connection stays alive,
996 Privoxy errs on the safe side of caution and assumes it's only a second.
997 - The error pages for connection timeouts or missing server data use a
998 Last-Modified date in the past. Retry attempts are detected and Privoxy
999 removes the If-Modified-Since header to prevent the server from responding
1000 with status code 304 in which case the client would reuse the error message.
1001 - Setting keep-alive-timeout to 0 disables keep-alive support. Previously
1002 Privoxy would claim to allow persistence but not reuse the connection.
1003 - Pipelined requests are less likely to be mistaken for the request
1004 body of the previous request. Note that Privoxy still has no real
1005 pipeline support and will either serialize pipelined requests or
1006 drop them in which case the client has to resent them.
1007 - Fixed a crash on some Windows versions when header randomization
1008 is enabled and the date couldn't be parsed.
1009 - Privoxy's keep-alive timeout for the current connection is reduced
1010 to the one specified in the client's Keep-Alive header.
1011 - For HTTP/1.1 requests, Privoxy implies keep-alive support by not
1012 setting any Connection header instead of using 'Connection: keep-alive'.
1013 - If the socket isn't reusable, Privoxy doesn't temporarily waste
1014 a socket slot to remember the connection.
1015 - If keep-alive support is disabled but compiled in, the client's
1016 Keep-Alive header is removed.
1017 - Fixed a bug on mingw32 where downloading large files failed if
1018 keep-alive support was enabled.
1019 - Fixed a bug that (at least theoretically) could cause log
1020 timestamps to be occasionally off by about a second.
1021 - No Proxy-Connection header if added if there already is one.
1022 - The configure script respects the $PATH variable when searching
1025 *** Version 3.0.13 beta ***
1027 - Added IPv6 support. Thanks to Petr Pisar who not only provided
1028 the initial patch but also helped a lot with the integration.
1029 - Added client-side keep-alive support.
1030 - The connection sharing code is only used if the connection-sharing
1032 - The max-client-connections option has been added to restrict
1033 the number of client connections below a value enforced by
1034 the operating system.
1035 - Fixed a regression reintroduced in 3.0.12 that could cause
1036 crashes on mingw32 if header date randomization was enabled.
1037 - Compressed content with extra fields couldn't be decompressed
1038 and would get passed to the client unfiltered. This problem
1039 has only be detected through statical analysis with clang as
1040 nobody seems to be using extra fields anyway.
1041 - If the server resets the Connection after sending only the headers
1042 Privoxy forwards what it got to the client. Previously Privoxy
1043 would deliver an error message instead.
1044 - Error messages in case of connection timeouts use the right
1046 - If spawning a child to handle a request fails, the client
1047 gets an error message and Privoxy continues to listen for
1048 new requests right away.
1049 - The error messages in case of server-connection timeouts or
1050 prematurely closed server connections are now template-based.
1051 - If zlib support isn't compiled in, Privoxy no longer tries to
1052 filter compressed content unless explicitly asked to do so.
1053 - In case of connections that are denied based on ACL directives,
1054 the memory used for the client IP is no longer leaked.
1055 - Fixed another small memory leak if the client request times out
1056 while waiting for client headers other than the request line.
1057 - The client socket is kept open until the server socket has
1058 been marked as unused. This should increase the chances that
1059 the still-open connection will be reused for the client's next
1060 request to the same destination. Note that this only matters
1061 if connection-sharing is enabled.
1062 - A TODO list has been added to the source tarball to give potential
1063 volunteers a better idea of what the current goals are. Donations
1064 are still welcome too: http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
1066 *** Version 3.0.12 ***
1068 - The socket-timeout option now also works on platforms whose
1069 select() implementation modifies the timeout structure.
1070 Previously the timeout was triggered even if the connection
1071 didn't stall. Reported by cyberpatrol.
1072 - The Connection: keep-alive code properly deals with files
1073 larger than 2GB. Previously the connection was closed too
1075 - The content length for files above 2GB is logged correctly.
1076 - The user-manual directive on the show-status page links to
1077 the documentation location specified with the directive,
1078 not to the Privoxy website.
1079 - When running in daemon mode, Privoxy doesn't log anything
1080 to the console unless there are errors before the logfile
1082 - The show-status page prints warnings about invalid directives
1083 on the same line as the directives themselves.
1084 - Fixed several justified (but harmless) compiler warnings,
1085 mostly on 64 bit platforms.
1086 - The mingw32 version explicitly requests the default charset
1087 to prevent display problems with some fonts available on more
1088 recent Windows versions. Patch by Burberry.
1089 - The mingw32 version uses the Privoxy icon in the alt-tab
1090 windows. Patch by Burberry.
1091 - The timestamp and the thread id is omitted in the "Fatal error"
1092 message box on mingw32.
1093 - Fixed two related mingw32-only buffer overflows. Triggering
1094 them required control over the configuration file, therefore
1095 this isn't seen as a security issue.
1096 - In verbose mode, or if the new option --show-skipped-tests
1097 is used, Privoxy-Regression-Test logs skipped tests and the
1100 *** Version 3.0.11 ***
1102 - On most platforms, outgoing connections can be kept alive and
1103 reused if the server supports it. Whether or not this improves
1104 things depends on the connection.
1105 - When dropping privileges, membership in supplementary groups
1106 is given up as well. Not doing that can lead to Privoxy running
1107 with more rights than necessary and violates the principle of
1108 least privilege. Users of the --user option are advised to update.
1109 Thanks to Matthias Drochner for reporting the problem,
1110 providing the initial patch and testing the final version.
1111 - Passing invalid users or groups with the --user option
1112 didn't lead to program exit. Regression introduced in 3.0.7.
1113 - The match all section has been moved from default.action
1114 to a new file called match-all.action. As a result the
1115 default.action no longer needs to be touched by the user
1116 and can be safely overwritten by updates.
1117 - The standard.action file has been removed. Its content
1118 is now part of the default.action file.
1119 - In some situations the logged content length was slightly too low.
1120 - Crunched requests are logged with their own log level.
1121 If you used "debug 1" in the past, you'll probably want
1122 to additionally enable "debug 1024", otherwise only passed
1123 requests will be logged. If you only care about crunched
1124 requests, simply replace "debug 1" with "debug 1024".
1125 - The crunch reason has been moved to the beginning of the
1126 crunch message. For HTTP URLs, the protocol is logged as well.
1127 - Log messages are shortened by printing the thread id on its
1128 own (as opposed to putting it inside the string "Privoxy()").
1129 - The config option socket-timeout has been added to control
1130 the time Privoxy waits for data to arrive on a socket.
1131 - Support for remote toggling is controlled by the configure
1132 option --disable-toggle only. In previous versions it also
1133 depended on the action editor and thus configuring with the
1134 --disable-editor option would disable remote toggling support
1136 - Requests with invalid HTTP versions are rejected.
1137 - The template symbol @date@ can be used to include a date(1)-like
1138 time string. Initial patch submitted by Endre Szabo.
1139 - Responses from shoutcast servers are accepted again.
1140 Problem reported and fix suggested by Stefan.
1141 - The hide-forwarded-for-headers action has been replaced with
1142 the change-x-forwarded-for{} action which can also be used to
1143 add X-Forwarded-For headers. The latter functionality already
1144 existed in Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.7 but has been removed
1145 as it was often used unintentionally (by not using the
1146 hide-forwarded-for-headers action).
1147 - A "clear log" view option was added to the mingw32 version
1148 to clear out all of the lines in the Privoxy log window.
1149 Based on a patch submitted by T Ford.
1150 - The mingw32 version uses "critical sections" now, which prevents
1151 log message corruption under load. As a side effect, the
1152 "no thread-safe PRNG" warning could be removed as well.
1153 - The mingw32 version's task bar icon is crossed out and
1154 the color changed to gray if Privoxy is toggled off.
1156 *** Version 3.0.10 ***
1158 - Ordinary configuration file changes no longer cause program
1159 termination on OS/2 if the name of the logfile hasn't been
1160 changed as well. This regression probably crept in with the
1161 logging improvements in 3.0.7. Reported by Maynard.
1162 - The img-reorder filter is less likely to mess up JavaScript code in
1163 img tags. Problem and solution reported by Glenn Washburn in #2014552.
1164 - The source tar ball now includes Privoxy-Log-Parser,
1165 a syntax-highlighter for Privoxy logs. For fancy screenshots see:
1166 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy-log-parser/
1167 Documentation is available through perldoc(1).
1169 *** Version 3.0.9 beta ***
1171 - Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by
1172 the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
1173 - The "blocked" CGI pages include a block reason that was
1174 provided as argument to the last-applying block action.
1175 - If enable-edit-actions is disabled (the default since 3.0.7 beta)
1176 the show-status page hides the edit buttons and explains why.
1177 Previously the user would get the "this feature has been disabled"
1178 message after using the edit button.
1179 - Forbidden CONNECT requests are treated like blocks by default.
1180 The now-pointless treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks action
1182 - Not enabling limit-connect now allows CONNECT requests to all ports.
1183 In previous versions it would only allow CONNECT requests to port 443.
1184 Use +limit-connect{443} if you think you need the old default behaviour.
1185 - The CGI editor gets turned off after three edit requests with invalid
1186 file modification timestamps. This makes life harder for attackers
1187 who can leverage browser bugs to send fake Referers and intend to
1188 brute-force edit URLs.
1189 - Action settings for multiple patterns in the same section are
1190 shared in memory. As a result these sections take up less space
1191 (and are loaded slightly faster). Problem reported by Franz Schwartau.
1192 - Linear white space in HTTP headers will be normalized to single
1193 spaces before parsing the header's content, headers split across
1194 multiple lines get merged first. This should prevent problems like:
1195 * letting the session-cookies-only action slip
1196 some Cookies through unmodified,
1197 * only suppressing the first line of a header,
1198 thus creating an invalid one, and
1199 * to incorrectly block headers with valid timestamps
1200 that weren't properly recognized.
1201 Headers that could trigger these problems are unlikely to appear
1202 in "normal" web traffic, but could be intentionally generated to
1203 fool some of Privoxy's header parsers.
1204 - Host information is gathered outside the main thread so it's less
1205 likely to delay other incoming connections if the host is misconfigured.
1206 - New config option "hostname" to use a hostname other than
1207 the one returned by the operating system. Useful to speed-up responses
1208 for CGI requests on misconfigured systems. Requested by Max Khon.
1209 - The CGI editor supports the "disable all filters of this type"
1210 directives "-client-header-filter", "-server-header-filter",
1211 "-client-header-tagger" and "-server-header-tagger".
1212 - Fixed false-positives with the link-by-url filter and URLs that
1213 contain the pattern "/jump/".
1214 - The less-download-windows filter no longer messes
1215 "Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash" headers up.
1216 - In the show-url-info page's "Final results" section active and
1217 inactive actions are listed separately. Patch provided by Lee.
1218 - The GNUmakefile supports the DESTDIR variable. Patch for
1219 the install target submitted by Radoslaw Zielinski.
1220 - Embedding the content of configuration files in the show-status
1221 page is significantly faster now. For a largish action file (1 MB)
1222 a speedup of about 2450 times has been measured. This is mostly
1223 interesting if you are using large action files or regularly use
1224 Privoxy-Regression-Test while running Privoxy through Valgrind,
1225 for stock configuration files it doesn't really matter.
1226 - If zlib support is unavailable and there are content
1227 filters active but the prevent-compression action is disabled,
1228 the show-url-info page includes a warning that compression
1229 might prevent filtering.
1230 - The show-url-info page provides an OpenSearch Description that
1231 allows to access the page through browser search plugins.
1232 - Custom client-header filters that rewrite the request line
1233 incorrectly no longer cause Privoxy to crash. Reported by din_a4.
1234 - The obsolete kill-popups action has been removed as the
1235 PCRS-based popup filters can do the same and are slightly
1237 - The inspect-jpegs action has been removed.
1238 - The send-wafer and send-vanilla-wafer actions have been removed.
1239 They weren't particular useful and their behaviour could be emulated
1240 with add-header anyway.
1241 - Privoxy-Regression-Test has been significantly improved.
1242 - Most sections in the default.action file contain tests for
1243 Privoxy-Regression-Test to verify that they are working as intended.
1244 - Parts of Privoxy have been refactored to increase maintainability.
1245 - Building with zlib (if available) is done by default.
1247 *** Version 3.0.8 ***
1249 - Fixed a small memory leak when listen-address only specifies the port.
1250 - The source tar balls now include Privoxy-Regression-Test which
1251 (upon other things) can be used to automatically detect some
1252 packaging problems. Packagers are welcome to give it a try.
1253 - Reverted a change in 3.0.7 that caused path patterns to be checked
1254 even if the host pattern match already failed. While this doesn't
1255 noticeable affect the performance, it makes it less likely to run
1256 out of stack space with overly-complex path patterns the user might
1258 - Updated the msn, yahoo and google filters to work as advertised again.
1259 - The warning message shown by the show-status CGI page is easier to
1260 understand. Previously it wasn't clear that the error message
1261 is shown below the invalid directive. (Reported by Lee)
1262 - When regenerating Content-Disposition headers the more common
1263 spelling is used for the name. Previously it was written without caps.
1264 - Less confusing log message if the content type isn't overwritten
1265 because force-text-type wasn't used but the old type doesn't look
1266 like content that would be filtered normally.
1267 - Better log messages if the user tries to execute filters that
1269 - Treat the non-standard Request-Range headers like standard range
1270 headers and suppress them if content filtering is enabled.
1271 - Prevent the log messages for CONNECT requests to unacceptable
1272 ports from printing the limit-connect argument as [null] if
1273 limit-connect hasn't been explicitly enabled.
1274 - Don't disable the mingw32 log window if the logfile directive
1275 isn't used. While it was an intentional change in 3.0.7 at least
1276 one user perceived it as a regression and the same effect can
1277 be achieved by disabling all debug directives.
1278 - Fixed two minor problems related to the win32 build process: a css
1279 file was not being in the installer and the trustfile comment in the
1280 config.txt referenced a nonexisting file
1281 - Minor documentation fixes.
1283 *** Version 3.0.7 beta ***
1285 - Added zlib support to filter content with gzip and deflate
1286 encoding. (Patch provided by Wil Mahan)
1287 - Dedicated filters and actions are used for header filtering.
1288 "filter-client-headers" and "filter-client-headers" are no longer
1289 supported, use server-header-filter{} and client-header-filter{}
1291 - Tags can be used to change actions based on HTTP headers.
1292 - New server-header filter: less-download-windows.
1293 - New client-header taggers: css-requests, image-requests,
1294 client-ip-address, http-method, allow-post, complete-url,
1295 user-agent and privoxy-control.
1296 - New server-header taggers: content-type and privoxy-control.
1297 - The forward-override{} action allows to change the forwarding
1298 settings through the action files, for example based on client
1299 headers like the User-Agent, or the request origin.
1300 - Socks errors are no longer handled by the CGI page for
1301 DNS resolution failures.
1302 - CGI pages use favicons to signal whether they are error
1303 or control pages. This is useful if you rely heavily on
1305 - The show-url-info CGI page shows the forwarding settings.
1306 - "Crunch!" log messages (used when Privoxy answers requests
1307 by itself) now also contain the reason.
1308 - Allow to rewrite the request destination behind the client's back.
1309 - Fix socks requests on big-endian platforms. Patch provided by Song Weijia.
1310 - Fixes possible deadlocks and crashes on OpenBSD.
1311 Patch provided by Ralf Horstmann.
1312 - The CGI action editor allows to edit actionfiles with previously
1313 forbidden characters like dots.
1314 - New trust entries are saved with a comment that contains the
1315 trusted referring URL (Suggested by Daniel Griscom).
1316 - Filter descriptions are HTML encoded automatically.
1317 - New config option "split-large-forms" to work
1318 around a browser bug that caused IE6 and IE7 to ignore
1319 the Submit button on the edit-actions-for-url CGI page.
1320 - New config option "allow-cgi-request-crunching" to allow
1321 requests for Privoxy's CGI pages to be blocked, redirected
1322 or (un)trusted like ordinary requests.
1323 - Empty filter files no longer interrupt the filtering process
1324 prematurely and are correctly listed on the show-status CGI page.
1325 - New config option "accept-intercepted-requests" to combine
1326 Privoxy with any packet filter to build an intercepting proxy
1327 for HTTP/1.1 requests (and for HTTP/1.0 requests with Host header set).
1328 - fast-redirects{} catch redirects to https URLs as well.
1329 - redirect{s@foo@bar@} can be used to redirect to a rewritten
1330 version of the original URL.
1331 - Trap unsupported gopher proxy requests.
1332 - Fixed a bug in the User Manual delivery on Windows
1333 (mingw32 only). Images now show up correctly and HTML
1334 pages are no longer padded with garbage data.
1335 - Fixed several minor memory leaks, most of them discovered with Valgrind.
1336 - Only unlink the pidfile if it's actually used.
1337 - Retries after connection problems with forced requests
1338 aren't blocked again.
1339 - On Unix SIGABRT causes a core dump as expected and is no
1340 longer treated as normal shutdown signal.
1341 - The "access denied" CGI page is more descriptive and
1342 allows retries to circumvent the referrer check.
1343 - Updated PCRS to handle unexpected PCRE errors properly.
1344 Fixed crashes that could occur if Privoxy was build
1345 with external PCRE versions newer than Privoxy's internal
1346 one. (Reported by Chung-chieh Shan)
1347 - Fixed crashes with null bytes in PCRS replacement strings
1348 (Patch provided by Felix Gröbert).
1349 - Fixed crashes with header time randomization on mingw32.
1350 - The CGI style sheet is no longer delivered if the referring
1351 page isn't a Privoxy CGI page. This prevents a JavaScript-based
1352 Privoxy detection "attack". Note that detecting Privoxy is
1353 still possible through other ways and Privoxy was never intended
1354 to be invisible anyway.
1355 - Added support for AmigaOS 4, fixed build for AmigaOS 3.x.
1356 - The show-url-info CGI page displays a warning if Privoxy
1357 is currently toggled off.
1358 - The show-status CGI page suppresses the edit button
1359 for action files if Privoxy has no write access.
1360 - Most CGI error pages react properly to HEAD requests.
1361 - Requests with RFC 3253 HTTP methods (used by Subversion)
1362 are accepted. (Patch provided by Petr Kadlec)
1363 - New config option "templdir" to change the location
1364 of the CGI templates to make sure customized templates
1366 - Better handling of "HTTP/1.1 100 Continue" responses.
1367 - The background of the PNG pattern is transparent.
1368 - Fixed XML syntax errors caused by banners-by-size and banners-by-url.
1369 - Fixed crashes and possible action file corruptions
1370 when lines containing hashes are written through the CGI editor.
1371 - Supports dynamic filters which can contain variables.
1372 - Supports tags to change the actions based on client or server headers.
1373 - Incorrect actions are logged before program termination.
1374 - The "actionsfile" syntax in the configuration file is consistent
1375 with the rest of the configuration options and requires the
1376 whole file name. This is an incompatible change, if you use
1377 an old configuration file you might have to append ".action"
1378 to your "actionsfile" directives.
1379 - With the configuration file option "enforce-blocks" the
1380 "go there anyway" mechanism can be disabled without recompiling
1382 - More precise error messages in case of incorrect acl syntax.
1383 - Logs a warning if filtering is enabled but impossible due
1384 to lack of zlib support or use of the prevent-compression action.
1385 - Less noisy handling of Cookie:" and "Connection:" headers.
1386 - Improved error messages in case of connection problems.
1387 - Fix a command-line-parsing bug that was introduced before 3.0.5
1388 beta and caused Privoxy to treat the last argument as configuration
1389 file if no configuration file was specified.
1390 - Treat unknown command line options as fatal errors instead
1391 of silently ignoring them.
1392 - Use string functions with length checks more often.
1393 - Don't log CONNECT requests twice.
1394 - Allow to log the source address for ACL-related connection drops.
1395 - Don't ignore applying filters if the server didn't
1396 specify a Content-Type. Bug reported by Amuro Namie.
1397 - Rejected CONNECT requests are logged with log level info
1398 (enabled by default) and the reason for the block.
1399 - New command line option "--pre-chroot-nslookup hostname" to
1400 intialize the resolver library before chroot'ing. On some systems this
1401 reduces the number of files that must be copied into the chroot tree.
1402 (Patch provided by Stephen Gildea)
1403 - Fix a long-standing memory corruption bug that could cause
1404 Privoxy to overwrite a single byte in memory it didn't explicitly
1405 allocate (but that probably was allocated anyway due to bucket size).
1406 - Send template-based CGI pages as HTTP/1.1 unless the client
1408 - Let the first line in connection established responses
1409 end in \r\n as required by RFC1945. Reported by Bert van Leeuwen.
1410 - If no log file has been specified, disable logging instead of logging
1412 - Don't block stderr when in daemon mode.
1413 - Ignore missing zero-chunks when filtering chunk-encoded content.
1414 Earlier Privoxy versions would buffer and then forward the content
1415 unmodified which caused some browsers to simply show empty pages.
1416 - Fix double free in cgi_edit_actions_list(). Reported by Venustech AD-LAB.
1417 - The code to add X-Forwarded-For headers when the hide-forwarded-for-headers
1418 action isn't being used has been removed.
1419 - Fixed trustfile feature which previously didn't work without FEATURE_TOGGLE.
1421 - Minor code clean-ups, filter and action file updates.
1422 (Some of them reported by Davide Alberani, Markus Elfring,
1423 Stefan Huehner and Adam Piggott)
1425 *** Version 3.0.6 ***
1427 - New content filters: no-ping, google, msn, yahoo and blogspot.
1428 - New header filters: x-httpd-php-to-html, html-to-xml, xml-to-html
1429 and hide-tor-exit-notation.
1430 - The special header "X-Filter: No" now disables header filtering as well.
1431 - Improved the filters img-reorder, js-annoyances, webbugs,
1432 banners-by-size, banners-by-link and ie-exploits to make them
1433 less likely to break anything.
1434 - Removed outdated URL patterns in default.action and added new ones.
1435 - Added redirection from http://p.p/user-manual to http://p.p/user-manual/
1436 - Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent, hide-referrer
1437 and set-image-blocker.
1439 *** Version 3.0.5 beta ***
1441 - Windows version can be installed/started as a service.
1442 - Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy.
1443 - Integrated Fabian Keil's extensive patch. See:
1444 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the
1445 following new or significantly improved actions (among many
1446 other improvements):
1448 content-type-overwrite{}
1449 crunch-client-header{string}
1450 crunch-if-none-match
1451 crunch-server-header{string}
1452 fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}
1453 filter-client-headers
1454 filter-server-headers
1456 handle-as-empty-document
1457 hide-accept-language{}
1458 hide-content-disposition{}
1459 hide-if-modified-since
1460 hide-referrer{conditional-block}
1461 overwrite-last-modified{}
1463 treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks
1465 - Standard-compliant clients are prevented from displaying cached
1466 copies of Privoxy's error messages after the cause of the problem
1468 - Improved DNS error handling.
1469 - Multiple filter files can now be specified in config.
1470 - Added jpeg filtering to defend against MS jpeg vulnerability MS04-028
1471 with the new inspect-jpegs action.
1472 - Removed the "arbitrary" 1000 filter limit - addresses tracker #911950
1473 - Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log
1474 file. The race condition remains for non-pthread implementations.
1475 Reference patch #1175720. Various other logging enhancements.
1476 - A pile of assorted bug fixes, memory leaks, enhancements, etc.
1477 - Moved Actions file reporting mechanism to SF tracker.
1478 - Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and
1479 forwarded-connect-retries.
1480 - Trap unsupported FTP requests.
1481 - Let text/xml be filtered.
1482 - Numerous updates to default.action
1483 - Increase the compiled in limit of trusted referrers from 64 to 512
1484 (for trustfile users).
1486 *** Version 3.0.3 ***
1488 - Fixed yet another two memory leaks. Process growth seems stopped now.
1489 - Further tightened security against malicious toggle-off links.
1490 - Excluded text/plain MIME types from filtering. This fixes a
1491 couple of client-crashing, download corruption and
1492 Privoxy performance issues, whose root cause lies in
1493 web servers labelling content of unknown type as text/plain.
1494 - Assorted fixes for POSIX compliance, signal handling, graceful
1495 termination, compiler warnings, OSX support, Win32 systray,
1496 error logging, hostname wildcards, correct detection of NetBSD.
1497 - Workarounds for client (iTunes etc) and server (PHP < 4.2.3) bugs
1498 including the notorious "blank page" problem.
1499 - Various filter improvements; most notably the unsolicited-popups
1500 filter became less destructive
1501 - Major revamp of the actions file
1503 *** Version 3.0.2 ***
1505 - Fixed two memory leaks, one serious
1506 - Fixed bug in pcrs which could cause crashes with user-defined filters
1507 - Fixed bug in domain name matching
1508 - Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..)
1509 - Added basic support for the OPTIONS and TRACE http methods
1510 - Added workaround for Bug in Mac OSX that made Privoxy crash occasionally
1511 - Refined the default action file through >400 items of user feedback
1513 - Assorted refinements, optimizations and fixes in the js-annoyances,
1514 img-reorder, banners-by-size, banners-by-link, webbugs, refresh-tags,
1515 html-annoyances, content-cookies and fun filters
1516 - Replaced filter "popups" by choice between two modes:
1517 - "unsolicited-popups" tries to catch only the unsolicited ones
1518 - "all-popups" tries to kill them all (as before)
1519 - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas.
1520 - New filter "jumping-windows" that prevents windows from resizing
1521 and moving themselves
1522 - New filter "demoronizer" which fixes MS's abuse of std charsets
1523 (common cases anyway).
1524 - Replaced "nimda" with more general "ie-exploits" filter in which
1525 all filters for exploits shall be collected
1526 - Improved cookie logging
1527 - Rewrote make install target. Added uninstall and install-strip
1529 - Fixed a potential (application-level, NOT OS-level!) security
1530 problem involving remote toggling and action file manipulation
1531 by mailicious websites.
1532 - Added ability to chroot (thanks to Sviatoslav Sviridov)
1533 - Added more action aliases for prehistoric action names
1534 - Add Slackware support to Makefile.
1538 - Fixed Windows startmenu items, log window and tray icon menus.
1539 - Added warning for bogus install target
1540 - Added quicktime-kioskmode filter and improved frameset-borders
1541 - Updated default.action based on latest feedback
1542 - New PDF doc build process
1543 - Add a user contrib module to cvs:
1544 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ijbswa/contrib/
1546 *** Version 2.9.18 ***
1548 - Added workaround for IE bug that broke CGI interface
1549 - Bugfix: String actions now reliably editable through CGI interface
1550 - Three filters fixed (again!)
1551 - Assorted small fixes and doc enhancements
1553 *** Version 2.9.16 ***
1555 - Major revamp of default.action to get rid of years of cruft.
1556 - Same for default.filter
1557 - Re-design and major improvements to the CGI editor interface.
1558 - Address spurious 'out of memory' error due to incorrect file permissions.
1559 - Impose buffer limits while reading client and server headers.
1560 - Better memory and CPU optimization.
1561 - Add Conectiva Linux package.
1562 - user-manual directive added to config for help links from within CGI
1564 - Multiple actions files can now be specified in config.
1565 - Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and
1566 user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
1567 - The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes.
1569 *** Version 2.9.14 beta ***
1571 - Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
1572 - Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
1573 - Fix build failure where certain features were disabled.
1574 - 'blocked-compact' template is removed. Various CGI improvements,
1575 including an adaptive 'blocked' template.
1576 - Various tweaks for actions file to get ready for stable 3.0
1577 - Included a 'Bookmarklet' and PHP scripts for reporting actions file
1578 problems via web interface at privoxy.org. Accessed via internal CGIs.
1579 - Include cgi-style.css for templates.
1580 - #include mechansim for common text in templates
1581 - Various other minor fixes.
1583 *** Version 2.9.13 beta ***
1585 - *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
1586 reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
1587 - ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now
1589 - http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/
1590 - The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern'
1591 (checkerboard) is now the default.
1592 - RPM spec file make over.
1595 *** Version 2.9.12 beta ***
1597 - **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from
1598 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
1600 - More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements.
1601 - Win32 command line fix ups.
1602 - re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a
1603 per site basis. Some new goodies there too.
1604 - +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile
1605 for even more flexibility.
1606 - Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which
1607 displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo.
1608 - PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images
1609 if configured with --enable-no-gif.
1610 - Clean up compiler warnings (mostly).
1611 - Improved handling of failed DNS lookups & diagnostics for failed bind
1613 - Made --no-daemon mode log to tty instead of logfile.
1614 - Various spec file and init script cleanups and improvements (Redhat and
1616 - CGI Editor works on OS/2 now.
1617 - Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT.
1618 - Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file.
1619 - A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help,
1620 --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces
1621 the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges
1622 to the specified user.
1623 - Signal handling cleanups (*nix).
1624 - CGI actions editor improvements and fixes.
1625 - Error handling improvements, especially out of memory.
1626 - Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos
1627 (instead of 'blank').
1628 - configure.in threading fixes for Solaris.
1629 - Various other minor fixes.
1632 *** Version 2.9.11 beta Changes ***
1634 - Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life
1635 of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk).
1636 - Checks for correct header length.
1637 - Fix user:pass@host.domain.com auth bug.
1638 - Better signal handling on *nix.
1639 - Fix CFLAGS hard-coded in configure.in
1640 - Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random
1641 URLs to fail in some cases.
1644 *** Version 2.9.11 Alpha Changes ***
1646 - A web-based editor for the actions file is included (go to http://i.j.b/).
1647 - Web-based toggle IJB on/off support.
1648 - Cookie handling has changed - the new +no-cookies-keep feature is now the
1650 - actionsfile is renamed to ijb.action.
1651 - junkbstr.txt is now config.txt on Win32.
1652 - Support for running IJB as a UNIX daemon process has improved.
1653 - Unix daemon now returns error code on failed start.
1654 - Timestamps in logfile and jarfile now.
1655 - Fix for the Netscape bug reintroduced in 2.9.9.
1656 - make should now abort if gmake (GNU make) not present.
1657 - Many other minor bugfixes
1658 - Start a ChangeLog :)
1662 *** Version 2.9.3 pre-Alpha Changes ***
1664 - Amiga support (completely untested by me - I don't have an Amiga)
1665 - "tinygif 3" support (redirects blocked images to a specified URL, so
1666 the browser doesn't have to load and cache many copies of the same
1668 - one case where there were both local and global "referrer" variables
1669 (yuck!) clarified by renaming the local one to "refer".
1670 - Fixed some places where close() was used instead of close_socket().
1671 Thanks to Jörg Strohmayer (joergs at users.sourceforge.net) for these.
1672 - Temporary hack to get FORCE_LOAD to work with IE. I just lowercased the
1673 FORCE_LOAD_PREFIX. Needs fixing properly.
1674 - Most URLs hardcoded into Junkbuster were changed to go through a script
1675 e.g. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?v=2.9.3&to=faq
1676 The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL:
1677 http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
1679 http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/
1680 ... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway.
1681 TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's
1682 copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page.
1683 - PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option.
1686 *** Version 2.9.2 pre-Alpha Changes ***
1688 - Andreas applied the latest version of the FORCE patch.
1691 *** Version 2.9.1 pre-Alpha Changes ***
1693 - in parsers.c, fixed two #ifdef FORCE to #ifdef FORCE_LOAD
1694 (BTW: I think FORCE is precise enough, since loading remote
1695 data is the whole purpose of a proxy..)
1696 - Set the FORCE_PREFIX (back) to 'IJB-FORCE-LOAD-'. While 'noijb.'
1697 is more elegant and looks like a hostname in the URL, it doesn't
1698 make clear to the inexperienced user that the proxy is bypassed. It
1699 also has a higher name collision risk.
1700 - Filled in the function header templates for my functions in
1701 parsers.c (again). They obviously got lost in our current
1703 - Cut the credit for the §-referrer-option from the config file,
1704 that Stefan had placed there.
1705 - Improved the re_filterfile
1708 *** Version 2.9.0 pre-Alpha Changes ***
1710 - Now use PCRE, not GNU REGEX. I have not yet had chance to check the
1711 syntax of the block/image/cookie file to ensure that they match what
1712 is expected - however they seem to work.
1713 - Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also
1714 use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for
1715 the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from
1716 "acconfig.h" and "configure.in". (Note that to install you do not
1717 need autoconf or autoheader - just run "./configure".)
1718 To see command-line options, run "./configure --help".
1719 This is my first ever autoconf script, so it has some rough edges
1720 (how PCRE is handled is the roughest).
1721 - Error logging code replaced with new module errlog.c, based on the
1722 one from JunkbusterMT (but with the threading code removed).
1723 - Most of Rodney's 0.21 and 0.21A patches applied. (Marked *). I did not
1724 apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional
1725 popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code.
1726 - ACL, Jar and trust files conditionally compiled.
1727 - New source file headers.
1728 - Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the
1729 config files - I think that's worthwhile, but it's 1am and I want to
1731 - RCS tags on .h files.
1732 - RCS tags are const char[] rather than const char *. (Saves 4 bytes
1734 - VC++ project files renamed to vc_junkbuster.*.
1735 - show-proxy-args now shows status of all conditionals, not just REGEX
1736 - Various functions moved around. Most notably all the system-specific
1737 sockets code which was spread between jcc.c, bind.c, and connect.c,
1738 has been moved to "jbsockets.c". The non-system-specific code from
1739 connect.c and socks4.c has been movet to "gateway.c". Also, the
1740 config file loader and the global variables it writes to have been
1741 moved to "loadcfg.c". (Maybe this should go into loaders.c?)
1742 And candidate for the "worst filename ever" award is "miscutil.c",
1743 which contains, well, miscellaneous utility functions like zalloc.
1744 (Suggestions for a better name for this file are welcome!)
1745 - Loaders now use a common function to read a line and skip comments,
1746 and this function also stores the proxy_args.
1747 - Added ./junkbuster --help (Not for Win32 GUI)
1748 - Added ./junkbuster --version (Not for Win32 GUI)
1749 - Win32 resources are now all marked as "U.S. English", rather than
1750 being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English".
1751 - Version number changes to 2.9.0
1754 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
1755 Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2013 the
1756 Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
1758 Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
1759 by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
1760 Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com/
1762 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
1763 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
1764 Public License as published by the Free Software
1765 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
1766 your option) any later version.
1768 This program is distributed in the hope that it will
1769 be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
1770 implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
1771 PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
1772 License for more details.
1774 The GNU General Public License should be included with
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1777 or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59
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