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4 *** Version 3.0.26 stable ***
7 - Fixed crashes with "listen-addr :8118" (SF Bug #902).
8 The regression was introduced in 3.0.25 beta and reported
9 by Marvin Renich in Debian bug #834941.
11 - General improvements:
12 - Log when privoxy is toggled on or off via cgi interface.
13 - Highlight the "Info: Now toggled " on/off log message
14 in the Windows log viewer.
15 - Highlight the loading actions/filter file log message
16 in the Windows log viewer.
17 - Mention client-specific tags on the toggle page as a
18 potentionally more appropriate alternative.
20 - Documentation improvements:
21 - Update download section on the homepage.
22 The downloads are available from the website now.
24 - Remove obsolete reference to mailing lists hosted at SourceForge.
25 - Update the "Before the Release" section of the developer manual.
27 - Infrastructure improvements:
28 - Add perl script to generate an RSS feed for the packages
29 Submitted by "Unknown":
30 https://lists.privoxy.org/pipermail/privoxy-devel/2016-July/000068.html
32 - Build system improvements:
33 - strptime.h: fix a compiler warning about ambiguous else.
34 - configure.in: Check for Docbook goo on the BSDs as well.
35 - GNUMakefile.in: Let the dok-user target remove temporary files.
37 *** Version 3.0.25 beta ***
40 - Always use the current toggle state for new requests.
41 Previously new requests on reused connections inherited
42 the toggle state from the previous request even though
43 the toggle state could have changed.
44 Reported by Robert Klemme.
45 - Fixed two buffer-overflows in the (deprecated) static
46 pcre code. These bugs are not considered security issues
47 as the input is trusted.
48 Found with afl-fuzz and ASAN.
50 - General improvements:
51 - Added support for client-specific tags which allow Privoxy
52 admins to pre-define tags that are set for all requests from
53 clients that previously opted in through the CGI interface.
54 They are useful in multi-user setups where admins may
55 want to allow users to disable certain actions and filters
56 for themselves without affecting others.
57 In single-user setups they are useful to allow more fine-grained
58 toggling. For example to disable request blocking while still
59 crunching cookies, or to disable experimental filters only.
60 This is an experimental feature, the syntax and behaviour may
61 change in future versions.
62 Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
63 - Dynamic filters and taggers now support a $listen-address variable
64 which contains the address the request came in on.
65 For external filters the variable is called $PRIVOXY_LISTEN_ADDRESS.
66 Original patch contributed by pursievro.
67 - Add client-header-tagger 'listen-address'.
68 - Include the listen-address in the log message when logging new requests.
69 Patch contributed by pursievro.
70 - Turn invalid max-client-connections values into fatal errors.
71 - The show-status page now shows whether or not dates before 1970
72 and after 2038 are expected to be handled properly.
73 This is mainly useful for Privoxy-Regression-Test but could
74 also come handy when dealing with time-related support requests.
75 - On Mac OS X the thread id in log messages are more likely to
77 - When complaining about missing filters, the filter type is logged
79 - A couple of harmless coverity warnings were silenced
80 (CID #161202, CID #161203, CID #161211).
82 - Action file improvements:
83 - Filtering is disabled for Range requests to let download resumption
84 and Windows updates work with the default configuration.
85 - Unblock ".ardmediathek.de/".
86 Reported by ThTomate in #932.
88 - Documentation improvements:
89 - Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits.
90 - Remove obsolete FAQ entry about a bug in PHP 4.2.3.
91 - Mention the new mailing lists were appropriate.
92 As the archives have not been migrated, continue to
93 mention the archives at SF in the contacting section
95 - Note that the templates should be adjusted if Privoxy is
96 running as intercepting proxy without getting all requests.
97 - A bunch of links were converted to https://.
98 - Rephrase onion service paragraph to make it more obvious
99 that Tor is involved and that the whole website (and not
100 just the homepage) is available as onion service.
101 - Streamline the "More information" section on the homepage further
102 by additionally ditching the link to the 'See also' section
103 of the user manual. The section contains mostly links that are
104 directly reachable from the homepage already and the rest is
105 not significant enough to get a link from the homepage.
106 - Change the add-header{} example to set the DNT header
107 and use a complete section to make copy and pasting
109 Add a comment to make it obvious that adding the
110 header is not recommended for obvious reasons.
111 Using the DNT header as example was suggested by
113 - Streamline the support-and-service template
114 Instead of linking to the various support trackers
115 (whose URLs hopefully change soon), link to the
116 contact section of the user manual to increase the
117 chances that users actually read it.
118 - Add a FAQ entry for tainted sockets.
119 - More sections in the documentation have stable URLs now.
120 - FAQ: Explain why 'ping config.privoxy.org' is not expected
121 to reach a local Privoxy installation.
122 - Note that donations done through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently
123 can't be checked automatically.
124 - Updated section regarding starting Privoxy under OS X.
125 - Use dedicated start instructions for FreeBSD and ElectroBSD.
126 - Removed release instructions for AIX. They haven't been working
127 for years and unsurprisingly nobody seems to care.
128 - Removed obsolete reference to the solaris-dist target.
129 - Updated the release instructions for FreeBSD.
130 - Removed unfinished release instructions for Amiga OS and HP-UX 11.
131 - Added a pointer to the Cygwin Time Machine for getting the last release of
132 Cygwin version 1.5 to use for building Privoxy on Windows.
133 - Various typos have been fixed.
135 - Infrastructure improvements:
136 - The website is no longer hosted at SourceForge and
137 can be reached through https now.
138 - The mailing lists at SourceForge have been deprecated,
139 you can subscribe to the new ones at: https://lists.privoxy.org/
140 - Migrating the remaining services from SourceForge is
141 work in progress (TODO list item #53).
143 - Build system improvements:
144 - Add configure argument to optimistically redefine FD_SETSIZE
145 with the intent to change the maximum number of client
146 connections Privoxy can handle. Only works with some libcs.
147 Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
148 - Let the tarball-dist target skip files in ".git".
149 - Let the tarball-dist target work in cwds other than current.
150 - Make the 'clean' target faster when run from a git repository.
151 - Include tools in the generic distribution.
152 - Let the gen-dist target work in cwds other than current.
153 - Sort find output that is used for distribution tarballs
154 to get reproducible results.
155 - Don't add '-src' to the name of the tar ball generated by the
156 gen-dist target. The package isn't a source distribution but a
158 While at it, use a variable for the name to reduce the chances
159 that the various references get out of sync and fix the gen-upload
160 target which was looking in the wrong directory.
161 - Add regression-tests.action to the files that are distributed.
162 - The gen-dist target which was broken since 2002 (r1.92) has been fixed.
163 - Remove genclspec.sh which has been obsolete since 2009.
164 - Remove obsolete reference to Redhat spec file.
165 - Remove the obsolete announce target which has been commented out years ago.
166 - Let rsync skip files if the checksums match.
168 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
169 - Add a "Default level offset" directive which can be used to
170 change the default level by a given value.
171 This directive affects all tests located after it until the end
172 of the file or a another "Default level offset" directive is reached.
173 The purpose of this directive is to make it more convenient to skip
174 similar tests in a given file without having to remove or disable
175 the tests completely.
176 - Let test level 17 depend on FEATURE_64_BIT_TIME_T
177 instead of FEATURE_PTHREAD which has no direct connection
179 - Fix indentation in perldoc examples.
180 - Don't overlook directives in the first line of the action file.
181 - Bump version to 0.7.
182 - Fix detection of the Privoxy version now that https://
183 is used for the website.
185 *** Version 3.0.24 stable ***
187 - Security fixes (denial of service):
188 - Prevent invalid reads in case of corrupt chunk-encoded content.
189 CVE-2016-1982. Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
190 - Remove empty Host headers in client requests.
191 Previously they would result in invalid reads. CVE-2016-1983.
192 Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
195 - When using socks5t, send the request body optimistically as well.
196 Previously the request body wasn't guaranteed to be sent at all
197 and the error message incorrectly blamed the server.
198 Fixes #1686 reported by Peter Müller and G4JC.
199 - Fixed buffer scaling in execute_external_filter() that could lead
200 to crashes. Submitted by Yang Xia in #892.
201 - Fixed crashes when executing external filters on platforms like
202 Mac OS X. Reported by Jonathan McKenzie on ijbswa-users@.
203 - Properly parse ACL directives with ports when compiled with HAVE_RFC2553.
204 Previously the port wasn't removed from the host and in case of
205 'permit-access 127.0.0.1 example.org:80' Privoxy would try (and fail)
206 to resolve "example.org:80" instead of example.org.
207 Reported by Pak Chan on ijbswa-users@.
208 - Check requests more carefully before serving them forcefully
209 when blocks aren't enforced. Privoxy always adds the force token
210 at the beginning of the path, but would previously accept it anywhere
211 in the request line. This could result in requests being served that
212 should be blocked. For example in case of pages that were loaded with
213 force and contained JavaScript to create additionally requests that
214 embed the origin URL (thus inheriting the force prefix).
215 The bug is not considered a security issue and the fix does not make
216 it harder for remote sites to intentionally circumvent blocks if
217 Privoxy isn't configured to enforce them.
218 Fixes #1695 reported by Korda.
219 - Normalize the request line in intercepted requests to make rewriting
220 the destination more convenient. Previously rewrites for intercepted
221 requests were expected to fail unless $hostport was being used, but
222 they failed "the wrong way" and would result in an out-of-memory
223 message (vanilla host patterns) or a crash (extended host patterns).
224 Reported by "Guybrush Threepwood" in #1694.
225 - Enable socket lingering for the correct socket.
226 Previously it was repeatedly enabled for the listen socket
227 instead of for the accepted socket. The bug was found by
228 code inspection and did not cause any (reported) issues.
229 - Detect and reject parameters for parameter-less actions.
230 Previously they were silently ignored.
231 - Fixed invalid reads in internal and outdated pcre code.
232 Found with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
233 - Prevent invalid read when loading invalid action files.
234 Found with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
235 - Windows build: Use the correct function to close the event handle.
236 It's unclear if this bug had a negative impact on Privoxy's behaviour.
237 Reported by Jarry Xu in #891.
238 - In case of invalid forward-socks5(t) directives, use the
239 correct directive name in the error messages. Previously they
240 referred to forward-socks4t failures.
241 Reported by Joel Verhagen in #889.
243 - General improvements:
244 - Set NO_DELAY flag for the accepting socket. This significantly reduces
245 the latency if the operating system is not configured to set the flag
246 by default. Reported by Johan Sintorn in #894.
247 - Allow to build with mingw x86_64. Submitted by Rustam Abdullaev in #135.
248 - Introduce the new forwarding type 'forward-webserver'.
249 Currently it is only supported by the forward-override{} action and
250 there's no config directive with the same name. The forwarding type
251 is similar to 'forward', but the request line only contains the path
252 instead of the complete URL.
253 - The CGI editor no longer treats 'standard.action' special.
254 Nowadays the official "standards" are part of default.action
255 and there's no obvious reason to disallow editing them through
256 the cgi editor anyway (if the user decided that the lack of
257 authentication isn't an issue in her environment).
258 - Improved error messages when rejecting intercepted requests
259 with unknown destination.
260 - A couple of log messages now include the number of active threads.
261 - Removed non-standard Proxy-Agent headers in HTTP snipplets
262 to make testing more convenient.
263 - Include the error code for pcre errors Privoxy does not recognize.
264 - Config directives with numerical arguments are checked more carefully.
265 - Privoxy's malloc() wrapper has been changed to prevent zero-size
266 allocations which should only occur as the result of bugs.
267 - Various cosmetic changes.
269 - Action file improvements:
270 - Unblock ".deutschlandradiokultur.de/".
271 Reported by u302320 in #924.
272 - Add two fast-redirect exceptions for "yandex.ru".
273 - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for ".plasmaservice.de/".
274 - Unblock "klikki.fi/adv/".
275 - Block requests for "resources.infolinks.com/".
276 Reported by "Black Rider" on ijbswa-users@.
277 - Block a bunch of criteo domains.
278 Reported by Black Rider.
279 - Block "abs.proxistore.com/abe/".
280 Reported by Black Rider.
281 - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for ".black-mosquito.org/".
282 - Disable fast-redirects for "disqus.com/".
284 - Documentation improvements:
285 - FAQ: Explicitly point fingers at ASUS as an example of a
286 company that has been reported to force malware based on
287 Privoxy upon its customers.
288 - Correctly document the action type for a bunch of "multi-value"
289 actions that were incorrectly documented to be "parameterized".
290 Reported by Gregory Seidman on ijbswa-users@.
291 - Fixed the documented type of the forward-override{} action
292 which is obviously 'parameterized'.
294 - Website improvements:
295 - Users who don't trust binaries served by SourceForge
296 can get them from a mirror. Migrating away from SourceForge
297 is planned for 2016 (TODO list item #53).
298 - The website is now available as onion service
299 (http://jvauzb4sb3bwlsnc.onion/).
301 *** Version 3.0.23 stable ***
304 - Fixed a DoS issue in case of client requests with incorrect
305 chunk-encoded body. When compiled with assertions enabled
306 (the default) they could previously cause Privoxy to abort().
307 Reported by Matthew Daley. CVE-2015-1380.
308 - Fixed multiple segmentation faults and memory leaks in the
309 pcrs code. This fix also increases the chances that an invalid
310 pcrs command is rejected as such. Previously some invalid commands
311 would be loaded without error. Note that Privoxy's pcrs sources
312 (action and filter files) are considered trustworthy input and
313 should not be writable by untrusted third-parties. CVE-2015-1381.
314 - Fixed an 'invalid read' bug which could at least theoretically
315 cause Privoxy to crash. So far, no crashes have been observed.
317 - Compiles with --disable-force again. Reported by Kai Raven.
318 - Client requests with body that can't be delivered no longer
319 cause pipelined requests behind them to be rejected as invalid.
320 Reported by Basil Hussain.
322 - General improvements:
323 - If a pcrs command is rejected as invalid, Privoxy now logs
324 the cause of the problem as text. Previously the pcrs error
326 - The tests are less likely to cause false positives.
328 - Action file improvements:
329 - '.sify.com/' is no longer blocked. Apparently it is not actually
330 a pure tracking site (anymore?). Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
331 - Unblock banners on .amnesty.de/ which aren't ads.
333 - Documentation improvements:
334 - The 'Would you like to donate?' section now also contains
336 - The list of supported operating systems has been updated.
337 - The existence of the SF support and feature trackers has been
338 deemphasized because they have been broken for months.
339 Most of the time the mailing lists still work.
340 - The claim that default.action updates are sometimes released
341 on their own has been removed. It hasn't happened in years.
342 - Explicitly mention that Tor's port may deviate from the default
343 when using a bundle. Requested by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
345 *** Version 3.0.22 stable ***
348 - Fixed a memory leak when rejecting client connections due to
349 the socket limit being reached (CID 66382). This affected
350 Privoxy 3.0.21 when compiled with IPv6 support (on most
351 platforms this is the default). CVE-2015-1030.
352 - Fixed an immediate-use-after-free bug (CID 66394) and two
353 additional unconfirmed use-after-free complaints made by
354 Coverity scan (CID 66391, CID 66376). CVE-2015-1031.
355 - Actually show the FORCE_PREFIX value on the show-status page.
356 - Properly deal with Keep-Alive headers with timeout= parameters
357 If the timeout still can't be parsed, use the configured
358 timeout instead of preventing the client from keeping the
359 connection alive. Fixes #3615312/#870 reported by Bernard Guillot.
360 - Not using any filter files no longer results in warning messages
361 unless an action file is referencing header taggers or filters.
362 Reported by Stefan Kurtz in #3614835.
363 - Fixed a bug that prevented Privoxy from reusing some reusable
364 connections. Two bit masks with different purpose unintentionally
366 - A couple of additional bugs were discovered by Coverity Scan.
367 The fixes that are not expected to affect users are not explicitly
368 mentioned here, for details please have a look at the CVS logs.
370 - General improvements:
371 - Introduced negative tag patterns NO-REQUEST-TAG and NO-RESPONSE-TAG.
372 They apply if no matching tag is found after parsing client or
374 - Add support for external filters which allow to process the
375 response body with a script or program written in any language
376 the platform supports. External filters are enabled with
377 +external-filter{} after they have been defined in one of the
378 filter files with a header line starting with "EXTERNAL-FILTER:".
379 External filter support is experimental, not compiled by default
380 and known not to work on all platforms.
381 - Add support for the 'PATCH' method as defined in RFC5789.
382 - Reject requests with unsupported Expect header values.
383 Fixes a couple of Co-Advisor tests.
384 - Normalize the HTTP-version in forwarded requests and responses.
385 This is an explicit RFC 2616 MUST and RFC 7230 mandates that
386 intermediaries send their own HTTP-version in forwarded
388 - Server 'Keep-Alive' headers are no longer forwarded. From a user's
389 point of view it doesn't really matter, but RFC 2616 (obsolete)
390 mandates that the header is removed and this fixes a Co-Advisor
392 - Change declared template file encoding to UTF-8. The templates
393 already used a subset of UTF-8 anyway and changing the declaration
394 allows to properly display UTF-8 characters used in the action files.
395 This change may require existing action files with ISO-8859-1
396 characters that aren't valid UTF-8 to be converted to UTF-8.
397 Requested by Sam Chen in #582.
398 - Do not pass rejected keep-alive timeouts to the server. It might
399 not have caused any problems (we know of), but doing the right
400 thing shouldn't hurt either.
401 - Let log_error() use its own buffer size #define to make changing
402 the log buffer size slightly less inconvenient.
403 - Turned single-threaded into a "proper" toggle directive with arguments.
404 - CGI templates no longer enforce new windows for some links.
405 - Remove an undocumented workaround ('HOST' header removal) for
406 an Apple iTunes bug that according to #729900 got fixed in 2003.
408 - Action file improvements:
409 - The pattern 'promotions.' is no longer being blocked.
410 Reported by rakista in #3608540.
411 - Disable fast-redirects for .microsofttranslator.com/.
412 - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for .dgb-tagungszentren.de/.
413 - Add adn.speedtest.net as a site-specific unblocker.
414 Support request #3612908.
415 - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for creativecommons.org/.
416 - Block requests to data.gosquared.com/. Reported by cbug in #3613653.
417 - Unblock .conrad./newsletter/. Reported by David Bo in #3614238.
418 - Unblock .bundestag.de/.
419 - Unblock .rote-hilfe.de/.
420 - Disable fast-redirects for .facebook.com/plugins/like.php.
421 - Unblock Stackexchange popup URLs that aren't used to serve ads.
422 Reported by David Wagner in #3615179.
423 - Disable fast-redirects for creativecommons.org/.
424 - Unblock .stopwatchingus.info/.
425 - Block requests for .adcash.com/script/.
426 Reported by Tyrexionibus in #3615289.
427 - Disable HTML filters if the response was tagged as JavaScript.
428 Filtering JavaScript code with filters intended to deal with HTML
429 is usually a waste of time and, more importantly, may break stuff.
430 - Use a custom redirect{} for .washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs\.php\?src=
431 Previously enabling the 'Advanced' settings (or manually enabling
432 +fast-redirects{}) prevented some images from being loaded properly.
433 - Unblock "adina*." Fixes #919 reported by Morton A. Goldberg.
435 - Unblock 'adele*.'. Reported by Adele Lime in #1663.
436 - Disable banners-by-size for kggp.de/.
438 - Filter file improvements & bug fixes:
439 - Decrease the chances that js-annoyances creates invalid JavaScript.
440 Submitted by John McGowan on ijbswa-users@.
441 - Let the msn filter hide 'related' ads again.
442 - Remove a stray '1' in the 'html-annoyances' filter.
443 - Prevent img-reorder from messing up img tags with empty src
444 attributes. Fixes #880 reported by Duncan.
446 - Documentation improvements:
447 - Updated the 'Would you like to donate?' section.
448 - Note that invalid forward-override{} parameter syntax isn't
449 detected until the parameter is used.
450 - Add another +redirect{} example: a shortcut for illumos bugs.
451 - Make it more obvious that many operating systems support log
452 rotation out of the box.
453 - Fixed dead links. Reported by Mark Nelson in #3614557.
454 - Rephrased the 'Why is the configuration so complicated?' answer
455 to be slightly less condescending. Anonymously suggested in #3615122.
456 - Be more explicit about accept-intercepted-requests's lack of MITM support.
457 - Make 'demoronizer' FAQ entries more generic.
458 - Add an example hostname to the --pre-chroot-nslookup description.
459 - Add an example for a host pattern that matches an IP address.
460 - Rename the 'domain pattern' to 'host pattern' as it may
461 contain IP addresses as well.
462 - Recommend forward-socks5t when using Tor. It seems to work fine and
463 modifying the Tor configuration to profit from it hasn't been necessary
465 - Add another redirect{} example to stress that redirect loops can
466 and should be avoided.
467 - The usual spelling and grammar fixes. Parts of them were
468 reported by Reuben Thomas in #3615276.
469 - Mention the PCRS option letters T and D in the filter section.
470 - Clarify that handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok is still useful
471 and will not be removed without replacement.
472 - Note that security issues shouldn't be reported using the bug tracker.
473 - Clarify what Privoxy does if both +block{} and +redirect{} apply.
474 - Removed the obsolete bookmarklets section.
476 - Build system improvements:
477 - Let --with-group properly deal with secondary groups.
478 Patch submitted by Anatoly Arzhnikov in #3615187.
479 - Fix web-actions target.
480 - Add a web-faq target that only updates the FAQ on the webserver.
481 - Remove already-commented-out non-portable DOSFILTER alternatives.
482 - Remove the obsolete targets dok-put and dok-get.
483 - Add a sf-shell target.
485 *** Version 3.0.21 stable ***
488 - On POSIX-like platforms, network sockets with file descriptor
489 values above FD_SETSIZE are properly rejected. Previously they
490 could cause memory corruption in configurations that allowed
491 the limit to be reached.
492 - Proxy authentication headers are removed unless the new directive
493 enable-proxy-authentication-forwarding is used. Forwarding the
494 headers potentially allows malicious sites to trick the user
495 into providing them with login information.
496 Reported by Chris John Riley.
497 - Compiles on OS/2 again now that unistd.h is only included
498 on platforms that have it.
500 - General improvements:
501 - The show-status page shows the FEATURE_STRPTIME_SANITY_CHECKS status.
502 - A couple of assert()s that could theoretically dereference
503 NULL pointers in debug builds have been relocated.
504 - Added an LSB info block to the generic start script.
505 Based on a patch from Natxo Asenjo.
506 - The max-client-connections default has been changed to 128
507 which should be more than enough for most setups.
509 - Action file improvements:
510 - Block rover.ebay./ar.*\&adtype= instead of "/.*\&adtype=" which
511 caused too man false positives.
512 Reported by u302320 in #360284, additional feedback from Adam Piggott.
513 - Unblock '.advrider.com/' and '/.*ADVrider'.
514 Anonymously reported in #3603636.
515 - Stop blocking '/js/slider\.js'.
516 Reported by Adam Piggott in #3606635 and _lvm in #2791160.
518 - Filter file improvements:
519 - Added an iframes filter.
521 - Documentation improvements:
522 - The whole GPLv2 text is included in the user manual now,
523 so Privoxy can serve it itself and the user can read it
524 without having to wade through GPLv3 ads first.
525 - Properly numbered and underlined a couple of section titles
526 in the config that where previously overlooked due to a flaw
527 in the conversion script. Reported by Ralf Jungblut.
528 - Improved the support instruction to hopefully make it harder to
529 unintentionally provide insufficient information when requesting
530 support. Previously it wasn't obvious that the information we need
531 in bug reports is usually also required in support requests.
532 - Removed documentation about packages that haven't been provided
535 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
536 - Only log the test number when not running in verbose mode
537 The position of the test is rarely relevant and it previously
538 wasn't exactly obvious which one of the numbers was useful to
539 repeat the test with --test-number.
541 - GNUmakefile improvements:
542 - Factor generate-config-file out of config-file to make testing
544 - The clean target now also takes care of patch leftovers.
546 *** Version 3.0.20 beta ***
549 - Client sockets are now properly shutdown and drained before being
550 closed. This fixes page truncation issues with clients that aggressively
551 pipeline data on platforms that otherwise discard already written data.
552 The issue mainly affected Opera users and was initially reported
553 by Kevin in #3464439, szotsaki provided additional information to track
555 - Fix latency calculation for shared connections (disabled by default).
556 It was broken since their introduction in 2009. The calculated latency
557 for most connections would be 0 in which case the timeout detection
558 failed to account for the real latency.
559 - Reject URLs with invalid port. Previously they were parsed incorrectly and
560 characters between the port number and the first slash were silently
561 dropped as shown by curl test 187.
562 - The default-server-timeout and socket-timeout directives accept 0 as
564 - Fix a race condition on Windows that could cause Privoxy to become
565 unresponsive after toggling it on or off through the taskbar icon.
566 Reported by Tim H. in #3525694.
567 - Fix the compilation on Windows when configured without IPv6 support.
568 - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() in case of
569 socks5 connection failures with "debug 2" enabled.
570 - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() if a filter
571 contained nul bytes in the replacement text.
573 - General improvements:
574 - Significantly improved keep-alive support for both client and server
576 - New debug log level 65536 which logs all actions that were applied to
578 - New directive client-header-order to forward client headers in a
579 different order than the one in which they arrived.
580 - New directive tolerate-pipelining to allow client-side pipelining.
581 If enabled (3.0.20 beta enables it by default), Privoxy will keep
582 pipelined client requests around to deal with them once the current
583 request has been served.
584 - New --config-test option to let Privoxy exit after checking whether or not
585 the configuration seems valid. The limitations noted in TODO #22 and #23
586 still apply. Based on a patch by Ramkumar Chinchani.
587 - New limit-cookie-lifetime{} action to let cookies expire before the end
588 of the session. Suggested by Rick Sykes in #1049575.
589 - Increase the hard-coded maximum number of actions and filter files from
590 10 to 30 (each). It doesn't significantly affect Privoxy's memory usage
591 and recompiling wasn't an option for all Privoxy users that reached the
593 - Add support for chunk-encoded client request bodies. Previously
594 chunk-encoded request bodies weren't guaranteed to be forwarded correctly,
595 so this can also be considered a bug fix although chunk-encoded request
596 bodies aren't commonly used in the real world.
597 - Add support for Tor's optimistic-data SOCKS extension, which can reduce the
598 latency for requests on newly created connections. Currently only the
599 headers are sent optimistically and only if the client request has already
600 been read completely which rules out requests with large bodies.
601 - After preventing the client from pipelining, don't signal keep-alive
602 intentions. When looking at the response headers alone, it previously
603 wasn't obvious from the client's perspective that no additional responses
605 - Stop considering client sockets tainted after receiving a request with body.
606 It hasn't been necessary for a while now and unnecessarily causes test
607 failures when using curl's test suite.
608 - Allow HTTP/1.0 clients to signal interest in keep-alive through the
609 Proxy-Connection header. While such client are rare in the real world, it
610 doesn't hurt and couple of curl tests rely on it.
611 - Only remove duplicated Content-Type headers when filters are enabled.
612 If they are not it doesn't cause ill effects and the user might not want it.
613 Downgrade the removal message to LOG_LEVEL_HEADER to clarify that it's not
614 an error in Privoxy and is unlikely to cause any problems in general.
615 Anonymously reported in #3599335.
616 - Set the socket option SO_LINGER for the client socket.
617 - Move several variable declarations to the beginning of their code block.
618 It's required when compiling with gcc 2.95 which is still used on some
619 platforms. Initial patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
620 - Optionally try to sanity-check strptime() results before trusting them.
621 Broken strptime() implementations have caused problems in the past and
622 the most recent offender seems to be FreeBSD's libc (standards/173421).
623 - When filtering is enabled, let Range headers pass if the range starts at
624 the beginning. This should work around (or at least reduce) the video
625 playback issues with various Apple clients as reported by Duc in #3426305.
626 - Do not confuse a client hanging up with a connection time out. If a client
627 closes its side of the connection without sending a request line, do not
628 send the CLIENT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_RESPONSE, but report the condition
630 - Allow closing curly braces as part of action values as long as they are
632 - On Windows, the logfile is now written before showing the GUI error
633 message which blocks until the user acknowledges it.
634 Reported by Adriaan in #3593603.
635 - Remove an unreasonable parameter limit in the CGI interface. The new
636 parameter limit depends on the memory available and is currently unlikely
637 to be reachable, due to other limits in both Privoxy and common clients.
638 Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
639 - Decrease the chances of parse failures after requests with unsupported
640 methods were sent to the CGI interface.
642 - Action file improvements:
643 - Remove the comment that indicated that updated default.action versions
644 are released on their own.
645 - Block 'optimize.indieclick.com/' and 'optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/'
646 - Unblock 'adjamblog.wordpress.com/' and 'adjamblog.files.wordpress.com/'.
647 Reported by Ryan Farmer in #3496116.
648 - Unblock '/.*Bugtracker'. Reported by pwhk in #3522341.
649 - Add test URLs for '.freebsd.org' and '.watson.org'.
650 - Unblock '.urbandictionary.com/popular'.
651 - Block '.adnxs.com/'.
652 - Block 'farm.plista.com/widgetdata.php'.
653 - Block 'rotation.linuxnewmedia.com/'.
654 - Block 'reklamy.sfd.pl/'. Reported by kacperdominik in #3399948.
655 - Block 'g.adspeed.net/'.
656 - Unblock 'websupport.wdc.com/'. Reported by Adam Piggot in #3577851.
657 - Block '/openx/www/delivery/'.
658 - Disable fast-redirects for '.googleapis.com/'.
659 - Block 'imp.double.net/'. Reported by David Bo in #3070411.
660 - Block 'gm-link.com/' which is used for email tracking.
661 Reported by David Bo in #1812733.
662 - Verify that requests to "bwp." are blocked. URL taken from #1736879
663 submitted by Francois Marier.
664 - Block '/.*bannerid='. Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975779.
665 - Block 'cltomedia.info/delivery/' and '.adexprt.com/'.
666 Anonymously reported in #2965254.
667 - Block 'de17a.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3061472.
668 - Block 'oskar.tradera.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3060596.
669 - Block '/scripts/webtrends\.js'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002729.
670 - Block requests for 'pool.*.adhese.com/'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002716.
671 - Update path pattern for Coremetrics and add tests.
672 Pattern and URLs submitted by Adam Piggott #3168443.
673 - Enable +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} for 'tr.anp.se/'.
674 Reported by David Bo in #3268832.
675 - Unblock '.conrad.se/newsletter/banners/'. Reported by David Bo in #3413824.
676 - Block '.tynt.com/'. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421767.
677 - Unblock '.bbci.co.uk/radio/'. Reported by Adam Piggott in #3569603.
678 - Block requests to 'service.maxymiser.net/'.
679 Reported by johnd16 in #3118401 (with a previous URL).
680 - Disable fast-redirects for Google's "let's pretend your computer is
682 - Unblock '/.*download' to resolve actionsfile feedback #3498129.
683 Submitted by Steven Kolins (soundcloud.com not working).
684 - Unblock '.wlxrs.com/' which is required by hotmail.com.
685 Fixes #3413827 submitted by David Bo.
686 - Add two unblock patterns for popup radio and TV players.
687 Submitted by Adam Piggott in #3596089.
689 - Filter file improvements & bug fixes:
690 - Add a referer tagger.
691 - Reduce the likelihood that the google filter messes up HTML-generating
692 JavaScript. Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3520260.
694 - Documentation improvements:
695 - Revised all OS X sections due to new packaging module (OSXPackageBuilder).
696 - Update the list of supported operating systems to clarify that all Windows
697 versions after 95 are expected to work and note that the platform-specific
698 code for AmigaOS and QNX currently isn't maintained.
699 - Update 'Signals' section, the only explicitly handled signals are SIGINT,
701 - Add Haiku to the list of operating systems on which Privoxy is known to
703 - Add DragonFly to the list of BSDs on which Privoxy is known to run.
704 - Removed references to redhat-specific documentation set since it no longer
706 - Removed references to building PDFs since we no longer do so.
707 - Multiple listen-address directives are supported since 3.0.18, correct the
708 documentation to say so.
709 - Remove bogus section about long and short being preferable to int.
710 - Corrected some Internet JunkBuster references to Privoxy.
711 - Removed references to www.junkbusters.com since it is no longer
712 maintained. Reported by Angelina Matson.
713 - Various grammar and spelling corrections
714 - Add a client-header-tagger{} example for disabling filtering for range
716 - Correct a URL in the "Privoxy with Tor" FAQ.
717 - Spell 'refresh-tags' correctly. Reported by Don in #3571927.
718 - Sort manpage options alphabetically.
719 - Remove an incorrect sentence in the toggle section. The toggle state
720 doesn't affect whether or not the Windows version uses the tray icon.
721 Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3596395.
722 - Add new contributors since 3.0.19.
724 - Log message improvements:
725 - When stopping to watch a client socket due to pipelining, additionally log
727 - Log the client socket and its condition before closing it. This makes it
728 more obvious that the socket actually gets closed and should help when
729 diagnosing problems like #3464439.
730 - In case of SOCKS5 failures, do not explicitly log the server's response.
731 It hasn't helped so far and the response can already be logged by enabling
732 "debug 32768" anyway. This reverts v1.81 and the follow-up bug fix v1.84.
733 - Relocate the connection-accepted message from listen_loop() to serve().
734 This way it's printed by the thread that is actually serving the
735 connection which is nice when grepping for thread ids in log files.
738 - Remove compatibility layer for versions prior to 3.0 since it has been
739 obsolete for more than 10 years now.
740 - Remove the ijb_isupper() and ijb_tolower() macros from parsers.c since
741 they aren't used in this file.
742 - Removed the 'Functions declared include:' comment sections since they tend
743 to be incomplete, incorrect and out of date and the benefit seems
745 - Various comment grammar and comprehensibility improvements.
746 - Remove a pointless fflush() call in chat(). Flushing all streams pretty
747 much all the time for no obvious reason is ridiculous.
748 - Relocate ijb_isupper()'s definition to project.h and get the ijb_tolower()
749 definition from there, too.
750 - Relocate ijb_isdigit()'s definition to project.h.
751 - Rename ijb_foo macros to privoxy_foo.
752 - Add malloc_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where malloc()
753 failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
754 - Add strdup_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where strdup()
755 failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
756 - Replace strdup() calls with strdup_or_die() calls where it's safe and
758 - Fix white-space around parentheses.
759 - Add missing white-space behind if's and the following parentheses.
760 - Unwrap a memcpy() call in resolve_hostname_to_ip().
761 - Declare pcrs_get_delimiter()'s delimiters[] static const.
762 - Various optimisations to remove dead code and merge inefficient code
763 structures for improved clarity, performance or code compactness.
764 - Various data type corrections.
765 - Change visibility of several code segments when compiling without
766 FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE enabled for clarity.
767 - In pcrs_get_delimiter(), do not use delimiters outside the ASCII range.
768 Fixes a clang complaint.
769 - Fix an error message in get_last_url() nobody is supposed to see.
770 Reported by Matthew Fischer in #3507301.
771 - Fix a typo in the no-zlib-support complaint. Patch submitted by Matthew
773 - Shorten ssplit()'s prototype by removing the last two arguments. We always
774 want to skip empty fields and ignore leading delimiters, so having
775 parameters for this only complicates the API.
776 - Use an enum for the type of the action value.
777 - Rename action_name's member takes_value to value_type as it isn't used as
779 - Turn family mismatches in match_sockaddr() into fatal errors.
780 - Let enlist_unique_header() verify that the caller didn't pass a header
781 containing either \r or \n.
782 - Change the hashes used in load_config() to unsigned int. That's what
783 hash_string() actually returns and using a potentially larger type
785 - Use privoxy_tolower() instead of vanilla tolower() with manual casting of
787 - Catch ssplit() failures in parse_cgi_parameters().
789 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
790 - Add an 'Overwrite condition' directive to skip any matching tests before
791 it. As it has a global scope, using it is more convenient than clowning
792 around with the Ignore directive.
793 - Log to STDOUT instead of STDERR.
794 - Include the Privoxy version in the output.
795 - Various grammar and spelling corrections in documentation and code.
796 - Additional tests for range requests with filtering enabled.
797 - Tests with mostly invalid range request.
798 - Add a couple of hide-if-modified-since{} tests with different date formats.
799 - Cleaned up the format of the regression-tests.action file to match the
800 format of default.action.
801 - Remove the "Copyright" line from print_version(). When using --help, every
802 line of screen space matters and thus shouldn't be wasted on things the
803 user doesn't care about.
805 - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
806 - Improve the --statistics performance by skipping sanity checks for input
807 that shouldn't affect the results anyway. Add a --strict-checks option
808 that enables some of the checks again, just in case anybody cares.
809 - The distribution of client requests per connection is included in
810 the --statistic output.
811 - The --accept-unknown-messages option has been removed and the behavior
813 - Accept and (mostly) highlight new log messages introduced with
817 - Bump generated Firefox version to 17.
819 - GNUmakefile improvements:
820 - The dok-tidy target no longer taints documents with a tidy-mark
821 - Change RA_MODE from 0664 to 0644. Suggested by Markus Dittrich in
823 - Remove tidy's clean flag as it changes the scope of attributes.
824 Link-specific colors end up being applied to all text. Reported by Adam
826 - Leave it up to the user whether or not smart tags are inserted.
827 - Let w3m itself do the line wrapping for the config file. It works better
828 than fmt as it can honour pre tags causing less unintentional line breaks.
829 - Ditch a pointless '-r' passed to rm to delete files.
830 - The config-file target now requires less manual intervention and updates
832 - Change WDUMP to generate ASCII. Add WDUMP_UTF8 to allow UTF-8 in the
833 AUTHORS file so the names are right.
834 - Stop pretending that lynx and links are supported for the documentation.
836 - configure improvements:
837 - On Haiku, do not pass -lpthread to the compiler. Haiku's pthreads
838 implementation is contained in its system library, libroot, so no
839 additional library needs to be searched.
840 Patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
841 - Additional Haiku-specific improvements. Disable checks intended for
842 multi-user systems as Haiku is presently single-user. Group Haiku-specific
843 settings in their own section, following the pattern for Solaris, OS/2 and
844 AmigaOS. Add additional library-related settings to remove the need for
845 providing configure with custom LDFLAGS.
846 Submitted by Simon South in #3574538.
848 *** Version 3.0.19 Stable ***
851 - Prevent a segmentation fault when de-chunking buffered content.
852 It could be triggered by malicious web servers if Privoxy was
853 configured to filter the content and running on a platform
854 where SIZE_T_MAX isn't larger than UINT_MAX, which probably
855 includes most 32-bit systems. On those platforms, all Privoxy
856 versions before 3.0.19 appear to be affected.
857 To be on the safe side, this bug should be presumed to allow
858 code execution as proving that it doesn't seems unrealistic.
859 - Do not expect a response from the SOCKS4/4A server until it
860 got something to respond to. This regression was introduced
861 in 3.0.18 and prevented the SOCKS4/4A negotiation from working.
862 Reported by qqqqqw in #3459781.
864 - General improvements:
865 - Fix an off-by-one in an error message about connect failures.
866 - Use a GNUMakefile variable for the webserver root directory and
867 update the path. Sourceforge changed it which broke various
869 - Update the CODE_STATUS description.
871 *** Version 3.0.18 Stable ***
874 - If a generated redirect URL contains characters RFC 3986 doesn't
875 permit, they are (re)encoded. Not doing this makes Privoxy versions
876 from 3.0.5 to 3.0.17 susceptible to HTTP response splitting (CWE-113)
877 attacks if the +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action is used.
878 - Fix a logic bug that could cause Privoxy to reuse a server
879 socket after it got tainted by a server-header-tagger-induced
880 block that was triggered before the whole server response had
881 been read. If keep-alive was enabled and the request following
882 the blocked one was to the same host and using the same forwarding
883 settings, Privoxy would send it on the tainted server socket.
884 While the server would simply treat it as a pipelined request,
885 Privoxy would later on fail to properly parse the server's
886 response as it would try to parse the unread data from the
887 first response as server headers for the second one.
888 Regression introduced in 3.0.17.
889 - When implying keep-alive in client_connection(), remember that
890 the client didn't. Fixes a regression introduced in 3.0.13 that
891 would cause Privoxy to wait for additional client requests after
892 receiving a HTTP/1.1 request with "Connection: close" set
893 and connection sharing enabled.
894 With clients which terminates the client connection after detecting
895 that the whole body has been received it doesn't really matter,
896 but with clients that don't the connection would be kept open until
898 - Fix a subtle race condition between prepare_csp_for_next_request()
899 and sweep(). A thread preparing itself for the next client request
900 could briefly appear to be inactive.
901 If all other threads were already using more recent files,
902 the thread could get its files swept away under its feet.
903 So far this has only been reproduced while stress testing in
904 valgrind while touching action files in a loop. It's unlikely
905 to have caused any actual problems in the real world.
906 - Disable filters if SDCH compression is used unless filtering is forced.
907 If SDCH was combined with a supported compression algorithm, Privoxy
908 previously could try to decompress it and ditch the Content-Encoding
909 header even though the SDCH compression wasn't dealt with.
910 Reported by zebul666 in #3225863.
911 - Make a copy of the --user value and only mess with that when splitting
912 user and group. On some operating systems modifying the value directly
913 is reflected in the output of ps and friends and can be misleading.
914 Reported by zepard in #3292710.
915 - If forwarded-connect-retries is set, only retry if Privoxy is actually
916 forwarding the request. Previously direct connections would be retried
918 - Fixed a small memory leak when retrying connections with IPv6
920 - Remove an incorrect assertion in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list()
921 It could be triggered by a pcrs job with an invalid pcre
922 pattern (for example one that contains a lone quantifier).
923 - If the --user argument user[.group] contains a dot, always bail out
924 if no group has been specified. Previously the intended, but undocumented
925 (and apparently untested), behaviour was to try interpreting the whole
926 argument as user name, but the detection was flawed and checked for '0'
927 instead of '\0', thus merely preventing group names beginning with a zero.
928 - In html_code_map[], use a numeric character reference instead of '
929 which wasn't standardized before XHTML 1.0.
930 - Fix an invalid free when compiled with FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION
931 and shut down through http://config.privoxy.org/die
932 - In get_actions(), fix the "temporary" backwards compatibility hack
933 to accept block actions without reason.
934 It also covered other actions that should be rejected as invalid.
935 Reported by Billy Crook.
937 - General improvements:
938 - Privoxy can (re)compress buffered content before delivering
939 it to the client. Disabled by default as most users wouldn't
941 - The +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action checks URL
942 segments separately. If there are other parameters behind
943 the redirect URL, this makes it unnecessary to cut them off
944 by additionally using a +redirect{} pcrs command.
945 Initial patch submitted by Jamie Zawinski in #3429848.
946 - When loading action sections, verify that the referenced filters
947 exist. Currently missing filters only result in an error message,
948 but eventually the severity will be upgraded to fatal.
949 - Allow to bind to multiple separate addresses.
950 Patch set submitted by Petr Pisar in #3354485.
951 - Set socket_error to errno if connecting fails in rfc2553_connect_to().
952 Previously rejected direct connections could be incorrectly reported
953 as DNS issues if Privoxy was compiled with IPv6 support.
954 - Adjust url_code_map[] so spaces are replaced with %20 instead of '+'
955 While '+' can be used by client's submitting form data, this is not
956 actually what Privoxy is using the lookups for. This is more of a
957 cosmetic issue and doesn't fix any known problems.
958 - When compiled without FEATURE_FAST_REDIRECTS, do not silently
959 ignore +fast-redirect{} directives
960 - Added a workaround for GNU libc's strptime() reporting negative
961 year values when the parsed year is only specified with two digits.
962 On affected systems cookies with such a date would not be turned
963 into session cookies by the +session-cookies-only action.
964 Reported by Vaeinoe in #3403560
965 - Fixed bind failures with certain GNU libc versions if no non-loopback
966 IP address has been configured on the system. This is mainly an issue
967 if the system is using DHCP and Privoxy is started before the network
968 is completely configured.
969 Reported by Raphael Marichez in #3349356.
970 Additional insight from Petr Pisar.
971 - Privoxy log messages now use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
972 It's only slightly longer than the old format, but contains
973 the full date including the year and allows sorting by date
974 (when grepping in multiple log files) without hassle.
975 - In get_last_url(), do not bother trying to decode URLs that do
976 not contain at least one '%' sign. It reduces the log noise and
977 a number of unnecessary memory allocations.
978 - In case of SOCKS5 failures, dump the socks response in the log message.
979 - Simplify the signal setup in main().
980 - Streamline socks5_connect() slightly.
981 - In socks5_connect(), require a complete socks response from the server.
982 Previously Privoxy didn't care how much data the server response
983 contained as long as the first two bytes contained the expected
984 values. While at it, shrink the buffer size so Privoxy can't read
985 more than a whole socks response.
986 - In chat(), do not bother to generate a client request in case of
987 direct CONNECT requests. It will not be used anyway.
988 - Reduce server_last_modified()'s stack size.
989 - Shorten get_http_time() by using strftime().
990 - Constify the known_http_methods pointers in unknown_method().
991 - Constify the time_formats pointers in parse_header_time().
992 - Constify the formerly_valid_actions pointers in action_used_to_be_valid().
993 - Introduce a GNUMakefile MAN_PAGE variable that defaults to privoxy.1.
994 The Debian package uses section 8 for the man page and this
995 should simplify the patch.
996 - Deduplicate the INADDR_NONE definition for Solaris by moving it to jbsockets.h
997 - In block_url(), ditch the obsolete workaround for ancient Netscape versions
998 that supposedly couldn't properly deal with status code 403.
999 - Remove a useless NULL pointer check in load_trustfile().
1000 - Remove two useless NULL pointer checks in load_one_re_filterfile().
1001 - Change url_code_map[] from an array of pointers to an array of arrays
1002 It removes an unnecessary layer of indirection and on 64bit system reduces
1003 the size of the binary a bit.
1004 - Fix various typos. Fixes taken from Debian's 29_typos.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
1005 - Add a dok-tidy GNUMakefile target to clean up the messy HTML
1006 generated by the other dok targets.
1007 - GNUisms in the GNUMakefile have been removed.
1008 - Change the HTTP version in static responses to 1.1
1009 - Synced config.sub and config.guess with upstream
1010 2011-11-11/386c7218162c145f5f9e1ff7f558a3fbb66c37c5.
1011 - Add a dedicated function to parse the values of toggles. Reduces duplicated
1012 code in load_config() and provides better error handling. Invalid or missing
1013 toggle values are now a fatal error instead of being silently ignored.
1014 - Terminate HTML lines in static error messages with \n instead of \r\n.
1015 - Simplify cgi_error_unknown() a bit.
1016 - In LogPutString(), don't bother looking at pszText when not
1017 actually logging anything.
1018 - Change ssplit()'s fourth parameter from int to size_t.
1019 Fixes a clang complaint.
1020 - Add a warning that the statistics currently can't be trusted.
1021 Mention Privoxy-Log-Parser's --statistics option as
1022 an alternative for the time being.
1023 - In rfc2553_connect_to(), start setting cgi->error_message on error.
1024 - Change the expected status code returned for http://p.p/die depending
1025 on whether or not FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION is available.
1026 - In cgi_die(), mark the client connection for closing.
1027 If the client will fetch the style sheet through another connection
1028 it gets the main thread out of the accept() state and should thus
1029 trigger the actual shutdown.
1030 - Add a proper CGI message for cgi_die().
1031 - Don't enforce a logical line length limit in read_config_line().
1032 - Slightly refactor server_last_modified() to remove useless gmtime*() calls.
1033 - In get_content_type(), also recognize '.jpeg' as JPEG extension.
1034 - Add '.png' to the list of recognized file extensions in get_content_type().
1035 - In block_url(), consistently use the block reason "Request blocked by Privoxy"
1036 In two places the reason was "Request for blocked URL" which hides the
1037 fact that the request got blocked by Privoxy and isn't necessarily
1038 correct as the block may be due to tags.
1039 - In listen_loop(), reload the configuration files after accepting
1040 a new connection instead of before.
1041 Previously the first connection that arrived after a configuration
1042 change would still be handled with the old configuration.
1043 - In chat()'s receive-data loop, skip a client socket check if
1044 the socket will be written to right away anyway. This can
1045 increase the transfer speed for unfiltered content on fast
1046 network connections.
1047 - The socket timeout is used for SOCKS negotiations as well which
1048 previously couldn't timeout.
1049 - Don't keep the client connection alive if any configuration file
1050 changed since the time the connection came in. This is closer to
1051 Privoxy's behaviour before keep-alive support for client connection
1052 has been added and also less confusing in general.
1053 - Treat all Content-Type header values containing the pattern
1054 'script' as a sign of text. Reported by pribog in #3134970.
1056 - Action file improvements:
1057 - Moved the site-specific block pattern section below the one for the
1058 generic patterns so for requests that are matched in both, the block
1059 reason for the domain is shown which is usually more useful than showing
1060 the one for the generic pattern.
1061 - Remove -prevent-compression from the fragile alias. It's no longer
1062 used anywhere by default and isn't known to break stuff anyway.
1063 - Add a (disabled) section to block various Facebook tracking URLs.
1064 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421764.
1065 - Add a (disabled) section to rewrite and redirect click-tracking
1066 URLs used on news.google.com.
1067 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421755.
1068 - Unblock linuxcounter.net/.
1069 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3422612.
1070 - Block 'www91.intel.com/' which is used by Omniture.
1071 Reported by Adam Piggott in #3167370.
1072 - Disable the handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok option and mark it as deprecated.
1073 Reminded by tceverling in #2790091.
1074 - Add ".ivwbox.de/" to the "Cross-site user tracking" section.
1075 Reported by Nettozahler in #3172525.
1076 - Unblock and fast-redirect ".awin1.com/.*=http://".
1077 Reported by Adam Piggott in #3170921.
1078 - Block "b.collective-media.net/".
1079 - Widen the Debian popcon exception to "qa.debian.org/popcon".
1080 Seen in Debian's 05_default_action.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
1081 - Block ".gemius.pl/" which only seems to be used for user tracking.
1082 Reported by johnd16 in #3002731. Additional input from Lee and movax.
1083 - Disable banners-by-size filters for '.thinkgeek.com/'.
1084 The filter only seems to catch pictures of the inventory.
1085 - Block requests for 'go.idmnet.bbelements.com/please/showit/'.
1086 Reported by kacperdominik in #3372959.
1087 - Unblock adainitiative.org/.
1088 - Add a fast-redirects exception for '.googleusercontent.com/.*=cache'.
1089 - Add a fast-redirects exception for webcache.googleusercontent.com/.
1090 - Unblock http://adassier.wordpress.com/ and http://adassier.files.wordpress.com/.
1092 - Filter file improvements:
1093 - Let the yahoo filter hide '.ads'.
1094 - Let the msn filter hide overlay ads for Facebook 'likes' in search
1095 results and elements with the id 's_notf_div'. They only seem to be
1096 used to advertise site 'enhancements'.
1097 - Let the js-events filter additionally disarm setInterval().
1098 Suggested by dg1727 in #3423775.
1100 - Documentation improvements:
1101 - Clarify the effect of compiling Privoxy with zlib support.
1102 Suggested by dg1727 in #3423782.
1103 - Point out that the SourceForge messaging system works like a black
1104 hole and should thus not be used to contact individual developers.
1105 - Mention some of the problems one can experience when not explicitly
1106 configuring an IP addresses as listen address.
1107 - Explicitly mention that hostnames can be used instead of IP addresses
1108 for the listen-address, that only the first address returned will be
1109 used and what happens if the address is invalid.
1110 Requested by Calestyo in #3302213.
1112 - Log message improvements:
1113 - If only the server connection is kept alive, do not pretend to
1114 wait for a new client request.
1115 - Remove a superfluous log message in forget_connection().
1116 - In chat(), properly report missing server responses as such
1117 instead of calling them empty.
1118 - In forwarded_connect(), fix a log message nobody should ever see.
1119 - Fix a log message in socks5_connect(), a failed write operation
1120 was logged as failed read operation.
1121 - Let load_one_actions_file() properly complain about a missing
1122 '{' at the beginning of the file.
1123 Simply stating that a line is invalid isn't particularly helpful.
1124 - Do not claim to listen on a socket until Privoxy actually does.
1125 Patch submitted by Petr Pisar #3354485
1126 - Prevent a duplicated LOG_LEVEL_CLF message when sending out
1127 the "no-server-data" response.
1128 - Also log the client socket when dropping a connection.
1129 - Include the destination host in the 'Request ... marked for
1130 blocking. limit-connect{...} doesn't allow CONNECT ...' message
1131 Patch submitted by Saperski in #3296250.
1132 - Prevent a duplicated log message if none of the resolved IP
1133 addresses were reachable.
1134 - In connect_to(), do not pretend to retry if forwarded-connect-retries
1136 - When a specified user or group can't be found, put the name in
1137 single-quotes when logging it.
1138 - In rfc2553_connect_to(), explain getnameinfo() errors better.
1139 - Remove a useless log message in chat().
1140 - When retrying to connect, also log the maximum number of connection
1142 - Rephrase a log message in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list().
1143 Divide the error code and its meaning with a colon. Call the pcrs
1144 job dynamic and not the filter. Filters may contain dynamic and
1145 non-dynamic pcrs jobs at the same time. Only mention the name of
1146 the filter or tagger, but don't claim it's a filter when it could
1148 - In a fatal error message in load_one_actions_file(), cover both
1149 URL and TAG patterns.
1150 - In pcrs_strerror(), properly report unknown positive error code
1151 values as such. Previously they were handled like 0 (no error).
1152 - In compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list(), also log the actual error code as
1153 pcrs_strerror() doesn't handle all errors reported by pcre.
1154 - Don't bother trying to continue chatting if the client didn't ask for it.
1155 Reduces log noise a bit.
1156 - Make two fatal error message in load_one_actions_file() more descriptive.
1157 - In cgi_send_user_manual(), log when rejecting a file name due to '/' or '..'.
1158 - In load_file(), log a message if opening a file failed.
1159 The CGI error message alone isn't too helpful.
1160 - In connection_destination_matches(), improve two log messages
1161 to help understand why the destinations don't match.
1162 - Rephrase a log message in serve(). Client request arrival
1163 should be differentiated from closed client connections now.
1164 - In serve(), log if a client connection isn't reused due to a
1165 configuration file change.
1166 - Let mark_server_socket_tainted() always mark the server socket tainted,
1167 just don't talk about it in cases where it has no effect. It doesn't change
1168 Privoxy's behaviour, but makes understanding the log file easier.
1171 - Added a --disable-ipv6-support switch for platforms where support
1172 is detected but doesn't actually work.
1173 - Do not check for the existence of strerror() and memmove() twice
1174 - Remove a useless test for setpgrp(2). Privoxy doesn't need it and
1175 it can cause problems when cross-compiling.
1176 - Rename the --disable-acl-files switch to --disable-acl-support.
1177 Since about 2001, ACL directives are specified in the standard
1179 - Update the URL of the 'Removing outdated PCRE version after the
1180 next stable release' posting. The old URL stopped working after
1181 one of SF's recent site "optimizations". Reported by Han Liu.
1183 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
1184 - Added --shuffle-tests option to increase the chances of detection race conditions.
1185 - Added a --local-test-file option that allows to use Privoxy-Regression-Test without Privoxy.
1186 - Added tests for missing socks4 and socks4a forwarders.
1187 - The --privoxy-address option now works with IPv6 addresses containing brackets, too.
1188 - Perform limited sanity checks for parameters that are supposed to have numerical values.
1189 - Added a --sleep-time option to specify a number of seconds to
1190 sleep between tests, defaults to 0.
1191 - Disable the range-requests tagger for tests that break if it's enabled.
1192 - Log messages use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
1193 - Fix spelling in two error messages.
1194 - In the --help output, include a list of supported tests and their default levels.
1195 - Adjust the tests to properly deal with FEATURE_TOGGLE being disabled.
1197 - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
1198 - Perform limited sanity checks for command line parameters that
1199 are supposed to have numerical values.
1200 - Implement a --unbreak-lines-only option to try to revert MUA breakage.
1201 - Accept and highlight: Added header: Content-Encoding: deflate
1202 - Accept and highlight: Compressed content from 29258 to 8630 bytes.
1203 - Accept and highlight: Client request arrived in time on socket 21.
1204 - Highlight: Didn't receive data in time: a.fsdn.com:443
1205 - Accept log messages with ISO 8601 time stamps, too.
1208 - Bump generated Firefox version to 8.0.
1209 - Only randomize the release date if the new --randomize-release-date
1210 option is enabled. Firefox versions after 4 use a fixed date string
1213 *** Version 3.0.17 Stable ***
1215 - Fixed last-chunk-detection for responses where the body was small
1216 enough to be read with the headers, causing Privoxy to wait for the
1217 end of the content until the server closed the connection or the
1218 request timed out. Reported by "Karsten" in #3028326.
1219 - Responses with status code 204 weren't properly detected as body-less
1220 like RFC2616 mandates. Like the previous bug, this caused Privoxy to
1221 wait for the end of the content until the server closed the connection
1222 or the request timed out. Fixes #3022042 and #3025553, reported by a
1223 user with no visible name. Most likely also fixes a bunch of other
1224 AJAX-related problem reports that got closed in the past due to
1225 insufficient information and lack of feedback.
1226 - Fixed an ACL bug that made it impossible to build a blacklist.
1227 Usually the ACL directives are used in a whitelist, which worked
1228 as expected, but blacklisting is still useful for public proxies
1229 where one only needs to deny known abusers access.
1230 - Added LOG_LEVEL_RECEIVED to log the not-yet-parsed data read from the
1231 network. This should make debugging various parsing issues a lot easier.
1232 - The IPv6 code is enabled by default on Windows versions that support it.
1233 Patch submitted by oCameLo in #2942729.
1234 - In mingw32 versions, the user.filter file is reachable through the
1235 GUI, just like default.filter is. Feature request 3040263.
1236 - Added the configure option --enable-large-file-support to set a few
1237 defines that are required by platforms like GNU/Linux to support files
1238 larger then 2GB. Mainly interesting for users without proper logfile
1240 - Logging with "debug 16" no longer stops at the first nul byte which is
1241 pretty useless. Non-printable characters are replaced with their hex value
1242 so the result can't span multiple lines making parsing them harder then
1244 - Privoxy logs when reading an action, filter or trust file.
1245 - Fixed incorrect regression test markup which caused a test in
1246 3.0.16 to fail while Privoxy itself was working correctly.
1247 While Privoxy accepts hide-referer, too, the action name is actually
1248 hide-referrer which is also the name used one the final results page,
1249 where the test expected the alias.
1251 - CGI interface improvements:
1252 - In finish_http_response(), continue to add the 'Connection: close'
1253 header if the client connection will not be kept alive.
1254 Anonymously pointed out in #2987454.
1255 - Apostrophes in block messages no longer cause parse errors
1256 when the blocked page is viewed with JavaScript enabled.
1257 Reported by dg1727 in #3062296.
1258 - Fix a bunch of anchors that used underscores instead of dashes.
1259 - Allow to keep the client connection alive after crunching the previous request.
1260 Already opened server connections can be kept alive, too.
1261 - In cgi_show_url_info(), don't forget to prefix URLs that only contain
1262 http:// or https:// in the path. Fixes #2975765 reported by Adam Piggott.
1263 - Show the 404 CGI page if cgi_send_user_manual() is called while
1264 local user manual delivery is disabled.
1266 - Action file improvements:
1267 - Enable user.filter by default. Suggested by David White in #3001830.
1268 - Block .sitestat.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002725.
1269 - Block .atemda.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002723.
1270 - Block js.adlink.net/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002720.
1271 - Block .analytics.yahoo.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002713.
1272 - Block sb.scorecardresearch.com, too. Reported by dg1727 in #2992652.
1273 - Fix problems noticed on Yahoo mail and news pages.
1274 - Remove the too broad yahoo section, only keeping the
1275 fast-redirects exception as discussed on ijbswa-devel@.
1276 - Don't block adesklets.sourceforge.net. Reported in #2974204.
1277 - Block chartbeat ping tracking. Reported in #2975895.
1278 - Tag CSS and image requests with cautious and medium settings, too.
1279 - Don't handle view.atdmt.com as image. It's used for click-throughs
1280 so users should be able to "go there anyway".
1281 Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975927.
1282 - Also let the refresh-tags filter remove invalid refresh tags where
1283 the 'url=' part is missing. Anonymously reported in #2986382.
1284 While at it, update the description to mention the fact that only
1285 refresh tags with refresh times above 9 seconds are covered.
1286 - javascript needs to be blocked with +handle-as-empty-document to
1287 work around Firefox bug 492459. So move .js blockers from
1288 +block{Might be a web-bug.} -handle-as-empty-document to
1289 +block{Might be a web-bug.} +handle-as-empty-document.
1290 - ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 - Block 160x578 Banners.
1291 - Block another omniture tracking domain.
1292 - Added a range-requests tagger.
1293 - Added two sections to get Flickr's Ajax interface working with
1294 default pre-settings. If you change the configuration to block
1295 cookies by default, you'll need additional exceptions.
1296 Reported by Mathias Homann in #3101419 and by Patrick on ijbswa-users@.
1298 - Documentation improvements:
1299 - Explicitly mention how to match all URLs.
1300 - Consistently recommend socks5 in the Tor FAQ entry and mention
1301 its advantage compared to socks4a. Reported by David in #2960129.
1302 - Slightly improve the explanation of why filtering may appear
1304 - Grammar fixes for the ACL section.
1305 - Fixed a link to the 'intercepting' entry and add another one.
1306 - Rename the 'Other' section to 'Mailing Lists' and reword it
1307 to make it clear that nobody is forced to use the trackers
1308 - Note that 'anonymously' posting on the trackers may not always
1310 - Suggest to enable debug 32768 when suspecting parsing problems.
1312 - Privoxy-Log-Parser improvements:
1313 - Gather statistics for ressources, methods, and HTTP versions
1315 - Also gather statistics for blocked and redirected requests.
1316 - Provide the percentage of keep-alive offers the client accepted.
1317 - Add a --url-statistics-threshold option.
1318 - Add a --host-statistics-threshold option to also gather
1319 statistics about how many request where made per host.
1320 - Fix a bug in handle_loglevel_header() where a 'scan: ' got lost.
1321 - Add a --shorten-thread-ids option to replace the thread id with
1323 - Accept and ignore: Looks like we got the last chunk together
1324 with the server headers. We better stop reading.
1325 - Accept and ignore: Continue hack in da house.
1326 - Accept and higlight: Rejecting connection from 10.0.0.2.
1327 Maximum number of connections reached.
1328 - Accept and highlight: Loading actions file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.action
1329 - Accept and highlight: Loading filter file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.filter
1330 - Accept and highlight: Killed all-caps Host header line: HOST: bestproxydb.com
1331 - Accept and highlight: Reducing expected bytes to 0. Marking
1332 the server socket tainted after throwing 4 bytes away.
1333 - Accept: Merged multiple header lines to: 'X-FORWARDED-PROTO: http X-HOST: 127.0.0.1'
1336 - Remove the next member from the client_state struct. Only the main
1337 thread needs access to all client states so give it its own struct.
1338 - Garbage-collect request_contains_null_bytes().
1339 - Ditch redundant code in unload_configfile().
1340 - Ditch LogGetURLUnderCursor() which doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
1341 - In write_socket(), remove the write-only variable write_len in
1342 an ifdef __OS2__ block. Spotted by cppcheck.
1343 - In connect_to(), don't declare the variable 'flags' on OS/2 where
1344 it isn't used. Spotted by cppcheck.
1345 - Limit the scope of various variables. Spotted by cppcheck.
1346 - In add_to_iob(), turn an interestingly looking for loop into a
1348 - Code cleanup in preparation for external filters.
1349 - In listen_loop(), mention the socket on which we accepted the
1350 connection, not just the source IP address.
1351 - In write_socket(), also log the socket we're writing to.
1352 - In log_error(), assert that escaped characters get logged
1353 completely or not at all.
1354 - In log_error(), assert that ival and sval have reasonable values.
1355 There's no reason not to abort() if they don't.
1356 - Remove an incorrect cgi_error_unknown() call in a
1357 cannot-happen-situation in send_crunch_response().
1358 - Clean up white-space in http_response definition and
1359 move the crunch_reason to the beginning.
1360 - Turn http_response.reason into an enum and rename it
1361 to http_response.crunch_reason.
1362 - Silence a 'gcc (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2' warning on i686 GNU/Linux.
1363 - Fix white-space in a log message in remove_chunked_transfer_coding().
1364 While at it, add a note that the message doesn't seem to
1365 be entirely correct and should be improved later on.
1367 - GNUmakefile improvements:
1368 - Use $(SSH) instead of ssh, so one only needs to specify a username once.
1369 - Removed references to the action feedback thingy that hasn't been
1371 - Consistently use shell.sourceforge.net instead of shell.sf.net so
1372 one doesn't need to check server fingerprints twice.
1373 - Removed GNUisms in the webserver and webactions targets so they
1374 work with standard tar.
1376 *** Version 3.0.16 Stable ***
1378 - Added the config file option handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok to
1379 work around Firefox bug #492459, which causes Firefox to hang
1380 if JavaScripts are blocked in certain situations. The option is
1381 enabled in the default config file.
1382 - Added the config file option default-server-timeout to control the
1383 assumed default server timeout. Since Privoxy no longer returns
1384 an error message for connection resets on reused client connections,
1385 assuming larger server timeout values appears to actually work
1386 pretty well as long as connections aren't shared.
1387 - Added optional support for FreeBSD's accf_http(9). Use the
1388 configure option --enable-accept-filter to enable it.
1389 - Added fancier Privoxy icons for win32. Contributed by Jeff H.
1390 - In daemon mode, fd 0, 1 and 2 are bound to /dev/null.
1391 - Resolve localhost using whatever address family the operating
1392 system feels like. Previous betas would try to use IPv4 as this
1393 is what most users expect, but this didn't work reliably on
1395 - In the action lists on CGI pages, actions and their parameters are
1396 no longer separated with a space. The action file parser doesn't
1397 actually allow this and will throw an invalid syntax error if actions
1398 and parameters in the action files are separated. Not adding the
1399 spaces means copy and pasting CGI output into the action files works.
1400 - The default keep-alive timeout has been reduced to 5 seconds to work
1401 around hangs in clients that treat the proxy like any other host and
1402 stop allowing any new connections if the "maximum number of
1403 connections per host" is reached.
1404 - Several webbug URLs that look like they are leading to images are now
1405 blocked as image instead of empty documents. Doing the latter causes
1406 WebKit-based clients to show a "missing image" icon which may mess up
1408 - The no-such-domain template is used for DNS resolution
1409 problems with FEATURE_IPV6_SUPPORT enabled. Previously the
1410 connect-failed template was used. Reported by 'zebul666'.
1411 - Accepts quoted expiration dates even though RFC 2109 10.1.2
1412 doesn't seem to allow them. Reported anonymously.
1413 - Don't try to forget connections if connection sharing is disabled.
1414 This wasn't a real problem but caused an unnecessary log message.
1415 - The still undocumented --enable-extended-host-patterns configure
1416 option has a better description.
1417 - Fixed an error message that would claim a write to the server
1418 failed when actually writing to the client failed.
1419 - Log the crunch reason before trying to write to the client.
1420 The log is easier to read that way.
1421 - Several log messages about client connections also mention
1423 - handle-as-empty-document no longer depends on the image blocking
1425 - Privoxy-Log-Parser is roughly 40% faster in highlighting mode.
1426 - uagen, a Firefox User-Agent generator for Privoxy and Mozilla
1427 browsers has been imported and is available in the tarball's
1429 - The scripts in the tools directory treat unknown parameters
1432 *** Version 3.0.15 beta ***
1434 - In case of missing server data, no error message is send to the
1435 client if the request arrived on a reused connection. The client
1436 is then supposed to silently retry the request without bothering
1437 the user. This should significantly reduce the frequency of the
1438 "No server or forwarder data received" error message many users
1440 - More reliable detection of prematurely closed client sockets
1441 with keep-alive enabled.
1442 - FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE is decoupled from
1443 FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING and now available on
1445 - Improved handling of POST requests on reused connections.
1446 Should fix problems with stalled connections after submitting
1447 form data with some browser configurations.
1448 - Fixed various latency calculation issues.
1449 - Allows the client to pass NTLM authentication requests to a
1450 forwarding proxy. This was already assumed and hinted to work
1451 in 3.0.13 beta but actually didn't. Now it's confirmed to work
1452 with IE, Firefox and Chrome.
1453 Thanks to Francois Botha and Wan-Teh Chang
1454 - Fixed a calculation problem if receiving the server headers
1455 takes more than two reads, that could cause Privoxy to terminate
1456 the connection prematurely. Reported by Oliver.
1457 - Compiles again on platforms such as OpenBSD and systems
1458 using earlier glibc version that don't support AI_ADDRCONFIG.
1459 Anonymously submitted in #2872591.
1460 - A bunch of MS VC project files and Suse and Redhat RPM spec
1461 files have been removed as they were no longer maintained for
1463 - Overly long action lines are properly rejected with a proper
1464 error message. Previously they would be either rejected as
1465 invalid or cause a core dump through abort().
1466 - Already timed-out connections are no longer temporarily remembered.
1467 They weren't reused anyway, but wasted a socket slot.
1468 - len refers to the number of bytes actually read which might
1469 differ from the ones received. Adjust log messages accordingly.
1470 - The optional JavaScript on the CGI page uses encodeURIComponent()
1471 instead of escape() which doesn't encode all characters that matter.
1472 Anonymously reported in #2832722.
1473 - Fix gcc45 warnings in decompress_iob().
1474 - Various log message improvements.
1475 - Privoxy-Regression-Test supports redirect tests.
1476 - Privoxy-Log-Parser can gather some connection statistics.
1478 *** Version 3.0.14 beta ***
1480 - The latency is taken into account when evaluating whether or not to
1481 reuse a connection. This should significantly reduce the number of
1482 connections problems several users reported.
1483 - If the server doesn't specify how long the connection stays alive,
1484 Privoxy errs on the safe side of caution and assumes it's only a second.
1485 - The error pages for connection timeouts or missing server data use a
1486 Last-Modified date in the past. Retry attempts are detected and Privoxy
1487 removes the If-Modified-Since header to prevent the server from responding
1488 with status code 304 in which case the client would reuse the error message.
1489 - Setting keep-alive-timeout to 0 disables keep-alive support. Previously
1490 Privoxy would claim to allow persistence but not reuse the connection.
1491 - Pipelined requests are less likely to be mistaken for the request
1492 body of the previous request. Note that Privoxy still has no real
1493 pipeline support and will either serialize pipelined requests or
1494 drop them in which case the client has to resent them.
1495 - Fixed a crash on some Windows versions when header randomization
1496 is enabled and the date couldn't be parsed.
1497 - Privoxy's keep-alive timeout for the current connection is reduced
1498 to the one specified in the client's Keep-Alive header.
1499 - For HTTP/1.1 requests, Privoxy implies keep-alive support by not
1500 setting any Connection header instead of using 'Connection: keep-alive'.
1501 - If the socket isn't reusable, Privoxy doesn't temporarily waste
1502 a socket slot to remember the connection.
1503 - If keep-alive support is disabled but compiled in, the client's
1504 Keep-Alive header is removed.
1505 - Fixed a bug on mingw32 where downloading large files failed if
1506 keep-alive support was enabled.
1507 - Fixed a bug that (at least theoretically) could cause log
1508 timestamps to be occasionally off by about a second.
1509 - No Proxy-Connection header if added if there already is one.
1510 - The configure script respects the $PATH variable when searching
1513 *** Version 3.0.13 beta ***
1515 - Added IPv6 support. Thanks to Petr Pisar who not only provided
1516 the initial patch but also helped a lot with the integration.
1517 - Added client-side keep-alive support.
1518 - The connection sharing code is only used if the connection-sharing
1520 - The max-client-connections option has been added to restrict
1521 the number of client connections below a value enforced by
1522 the operating system.
1523 - Fixed a regression reintroduced in 3.0.12 that could cause
1524 crashes on mingw32 if header date randomization was enabled.
1525 - Compressed content with extra fields couldn't be decompressed
1526 and would get passed to the client unfiltered. This problem
1527 has only be detected through statical analysis with clang as
1528 nobody seems to be using extra fields anyway.
1529 - If the server resets the Connection after sending only the headers
1530 Privoxy forwards what it got to the client. Previously Privoxy
1531 would deliver an error message instead.
1532 - Error messages in case of connection timeouts use the right
1534 - If spawning a child to handle a request fails, the client
1535 gets an error message and Privoxy continues to listen for
1536 new requests right away.
1537 - The error messages in case of server-connection timeouts or
1538 prematurely closed server connections are now template-based.
1539 - If zlib support isn't compiled in, Privoxy no longer tries to
1540 filter compressed content unless explicitly asked to do so.
1541 - In case of connections that are denied based on ACL directives,
1542 the memory used for the client IP is no longer leaked.
1543 - Fixed another small memory leak if the client request times out
1544 while waiting for client headers other than the request line.
1545 - The client socket is kept open until the server socket has
1546 been marked as unused. This should increase the chances that
1547 the still-open connection will be reused for the client's next
1548 request to the same destination. Note that this only matters
1549 if connection-sharing is enabled.
1550 - A TODO list has been added to the source tarball to give potential
1551 volunteers a better idea of what the current goals are. Donations
1552 are still welcome too: http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
1554 *** Version 3.0.12 ***
1556 - The socket-timeout option now also works on platforms whose
1557 select() implementation modifies the timeout structure.
1558 Previously the timeout was triggered even if the connection
1559 didn't stall. Reported by cyberpatrol.
1560 - The Connection: keep-alive code properly deals with files
1561 larger than 2GB. Previously the connection was closed too
1563 - The content length for files above 2GB is logged correctly.
1564 - The user-manual directive on the show-status page links to
1565 the documentation location specified with the directive,
1566 not to the Privoxy website.
1567 - When running in daemon mode, Privoxy doesn't log anything
1568 to the console unless there are errors before the logfile
1570 - The show-status page prints warnings about invalid directives
1571 on the same line as the directives themselves.
1572 - Fixed several justified (but harmless) compiler warnings,
1573 mostly on 64 bit platforms.
1574 - The mingw32 version explicitly requests the default charset
1575 to prevent display problems with some fonts available on more
1576 recent Windows versions. Patch by Burberry.
1577 - The mingw32 version uses the Privoxy icon in the alt-tab
1578 windows. Patch by Burberry.
1579 - The timestamp and the thread id is omitted in the "Fatal error"
1580 message box on mingw32.
1581 - Fixed two related mingw32-only buffer overflows. Triggering
1582 them required control over the configuration file, therefore
1583 this isn't seen as a security issue.
1584 - In verbose mode, or if the new option --show-skipped-tests
1585 is used, Privoxy-Regression-Test logs skipped tests and the
1588 *** Version 3.0.11 ***
1590 - On most platforms, outgoing connections can be kept alive and
1591 reused if the server supports it. Whether or not this improves
1592 things depends on the connection.
1593 - When dropping privileges, membership in supplementary groups
1594 is given up as well. Not doing that can lead to Privoxy running
1595 with more rights than necessary and violates the principle of
1596 least privilege. Users of the --user option are advised to update.
1597 Thanks to Matthias Drochner for reporting the problem,
1598 providing the initial patch and testing the final version.
1599 - Passing invalid users or groups with the --user option
1600 didn't lead to program exit. Regression introduced in 3.0.7.
1601 - The match all section has been moved from default.action
1602 to a new file called match-all.action. As a result the
1603 default.action no longer needs to be touched by the user
1604 and can be safely overwritten by updates.
1605 - The standard.action file has been removed. Its content
1606 is now part of the default.action file.
1607 - In some situations the logged content length was slightly too low.
1608 - Crunched requests are logged with their own log level.
1609 If you used "debug 1" in the past, you'll probably want
1610 to additionally enable "debug 1024", otherwise only passed
1611 requests will be logged. If you only care about crunched
1612 requests, simply replace "debug 1" with "debug 1024".
1613 - The crunch reason has been moved to the beginning of the
1614 crunch message. For HTTP URLs, the protocol is logged as well.
1615 - Log messages are shortened by printing the thread id on its
1616 own (as opposed to putting it inside the string "Privoxy()").
1617 - The config option socket-timeout has been added to control
1618 the time Privoxy waits for data to arrive on a socket.
1619 - Support for remote toggling is controlled by the configure
1620 option --disable-toggle only. In previous versions it also
1621 depended on the action editor and thus configuring with the
1622 --disable-editor option would disable remote toggling support
1624 - Requests with invalid HTTP versions are rejected.
1625 - The template symbol @date@ can be used to include a date(1)-like
1626 time string. Initial patch submitted by Endre Szabo.
1627 - Responses from shoutcast servers are accepted again.
1628 Problem reported and fix suggested by Stefan.
1629 - The hide-forwarded-for-headers action has been replaced with
1630 the change-x-forwarded-for{} action which can also be used to
1631 add X-Forwarded-For headers. The latter functionality already
1632 existed in Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.7 but has been removed
1633 as it was often used unintentionally (by not using the
1634 hide-forwarded-for-headers action).
1635 - A "clear log" view option was added to the mingw32 version
1636 to clear out all of the lines in the Privoxy log window.
1637 Based on a patch submitted by T Ford.
1638 - The mingw32 version uses "critical sections" now, which prevents
1639 log message corruption under load. As a side effect, the
1640 "no thread-safe PRNG" warning could be removed as well.
1641 - The mingw32 version's task bar icon is crossed out and
1642 the color changed to gray if Privoxy is toggled off.
1644 *** Version 3.0.10 ***
1646 - Ordinary configuration file changes no longer cause program
1647 termination on OS/2 if the name of the logfile hasn't been
1648 changed as well. This regression probably crept in with the
1649 logging improvements in 3.0.7. Reported by Maynard.
1650 - The img-reorder filter is less likely to mess up JavaScript code in
1651 img tags. Problem and solution reported by Glenn Washburn in #2014552.
1652 - The source tar ball now includes Privoxy-Log-Parser,
1653 a syntax-highlighter for Privoxy logs. For fancy screenshots see:
1654 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy-log-parser/
1655 Documentation is available through perldoc(1).
1657 *** Version 3.0.9 beta ***
1659 - Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by
1660 the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
1661 - The "blocked" CGI pages include a block reason that was
1662 provided as argument to the last-applying block action.
1663 - If enable-edit-actions is disabled (the default since 3.0.7 beta)
1664 the show-status page hides the edit buttons and explains why.
1665 Previously the user would get the "this feature has been disabled"
1666 message after using the edit button.
1667 - Forbidden CONNECT requests are treated like blocks by default.
1668 The now-pointless treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks action
1670 - Not enabling limit-connect now allows CONNECT requests to all ports.
1671 In previous versions it would only allow CONNECT requests to port 443.
1672 Use +limit-connect{443} if you think you need the old default behaviour.
1673 - The CGI editor gets turned off after three edit requests with invalid
1674 file modification timestamps. This makes life harder for attackers
1675 who can leverage browser bugs to send fake Referers and intend to
1676 brute-force edit URLs.
1677 - Action settings for multiple patterns in the same section are
1678 shared in memory. As a result these sections take up less space
1679 (and are loaded slightly faster). Problem reported by Franz Schwartau.
1680 - Linear white space in HTTP headers will be normalized to single
1681 spaces before parsing the header's content, headers split across
1682 multiple lines get merged first. This should prevent problems like:
1683 * letting the session-cookies-only action slip
1684 some Cookies through unmodified,
1685 * only suppressing the first line of a header,
1686 thus creating an invalid one, and
1687 * to incorrectly block headers with valid timestamps
1688 that weren't properly recognized.
1689 Headers that could trigger these problems are unlikely to appear
1690 in "normal" web traffic, but could be intentionally generated to
1691 fool some of Privoxy's header parsers.
1692 - Host information is gathered outside the main thread so it's less
1693 likely to delay other incoming connections if the host is misconfigured.
1694 - New config option "hostname" to use a hostname other than
1695 the one returned by the operating system. Useful to speed-up responses
1696 for CGI requests on misconfigured systems. Requested by Max Khon.
1697 - The CGI editor supports the "disable all filters of this type"
1698 directives "-client-header-filter", "-server-header-filter",
1699 "-client-header-tagger" and "-server-header-tagger".
1700 - Fixed false-positives with the link-by-url filter and URLs that
1701 contain the pattern "/jump/".
1702 - The less-download-windows filter no longer messes
1703 "Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash" headers up.
1704 - In the show-url-info page's "Final results" section active and
1705 inactive actions are listed separately. Patch provided by Lee.
1706 - The GNUmakefile supports the DESTDIR variable. Patch for
1707 the install target submitted by Radoslaw Zielinski.
1708 - Embedding the content of configuration files in the show-status
1709 page is significantly faster now. For a largish action file (1 MB)
1710 a speedup of about 2450 times has been measured. This is mostly
1711 interesting if you are using large action files or regularly use
1712 Privoxy-Regression-Test while running Privoxy through Valgrind,
1713 for stock configuration files it doesn't really matter.
1714 - If zlib support is unavailable and there are content
1715 filters active but the prevent-compression action is disabled,
1716 the show-url-info page includes a warning that compression
1717 might prevent filtering.
1718 - The show-url-info page provides an OpenSearch Description that
1719 allows to access the page through browser search plugins.
1720 - Custom client-header filters that rewrite the request line
1721 incorrectly no longer cause Privoxy to crash. Reported by din_a4.
1722 - The obsolete kill-popups action has been removed as the
1723 PCRS-based popup filters can do the same and are slightly
1725 - The inspect-jpegs action has been removed.
1726 - The send-wafer and send-vanilla-wafer actions have been removed.
1727 They weren't particular useful and their behaviour could be emulated
1728 with add-header anyway.
1729 - Privoxy-Regression-Test has been significantly improved.
1730 - Most sections in the default.action file contain tests for
1731 Privoxy-Regression-Test to verify that they are working as intended.
1732 - Parts of Privoxy have been refactored to increase maintainability.
1733 - Building with zlib (if available) is done by default.
1735 *** Version 3.0.8 ***
1737 - Fixed a small memory leak when listen-address only specifies the port.
1738 - The source tar balls now include Privoxy-Regression-Test which
1739 (upon other things) can be used to automatically detect some
1740 packaging problems. Packagers are welcome to give it a try.
1741 - Reverted a change in 3.0.7 that caused path patterns to be checked
1742 even if the host pattern match already failed. While this doesn't
1743 noticeable affect the performance, it makes it less likely to run
1744 out of stack space with overly-complex path patterns the user might
1746 - Updated the msn, yahoo and google filters to work as advertised again.
1747 - The warning message shown by the show-status CGI page is easier to
1748 understand. Previously it wasn't clear that the error message
1749 is shown below the invalid directive. (Reported by Lee)
1750 - When regenerating Content-Disposition headers the more common
1751 spelling is used for the name. Previously it was written without caps.
1752 - Less confusing log message if the content type isn't overwritten
1753 because force-text-type wasn't used but the old type doesn't look
1754 like content that would be filtered normally.
1755 - Better log messages if the user tries to execute filters that
1757 - Treat the non-standard Request-Range headers like standard range
1758 headers and suppress them if content filtering is enabled.
1759 - Prevent the log messages for CONNECT requests to unacceptable
1760 ports from printing the limit-connect argument as [null] if
1761 limit-connect hasn't been explicitly enabled.
1762 - Don't disable the mingw32 log window if the logfile directive
1763 isn't used. While it was an intentional change in 3.0.7 at least
1764 one user perceived it as a regression and the same effect can
1765 be achieved by disabling all debug directives.
1766 - Fixed two minor problems related to the win32 build process: a css
1767 file was not being in the installer and the trustfile comment in the
1768 config.txt referenced a nonexisting file
1769 - Minor documentation fixes.
1771 *** Version 3.0.7 beta ***
1773 - Added zlib support to filter content with gzip and deflate
1774 encoding. (Patch provided by Wil Mahan)
1775 - Dedicated filters and actions are used for header filtering.
1776 "filter-client-headers" and "filter-client-headers" are no longer
1777 supported, use server-header-filter{} and client-header-filter{}
1779 - Tags can be used to change actions based on HTTP headers.
1780 - New server-header filter: less-download-windows.
1781 - New client-header taggers: css-requests, image-requests,
1782 client-ip-address, http-method, allow-post, complete-url,
1783 user-agent and privoxy-control.
1784 - New server-header taggers: content-type and privoxy-control.
1785 - The forward-override{} action allows to change the forwarding
1786 settings through the action files, for example based on client
1787 headers like the User-Agent, or the request origin.
1788 - Socks errors are no longer handled by the CGI page for
1789 DNS resolution failures.
1790 - CGI pages use favicons to signal whether they are error
1791 or control pages. This is useful if you rely heavily on
1793 - The show-url-info CGI page shows the forwarding settings.
1794 - "Crunch!" log messages (used when Privoxy answers requests
1795 by itself) now also contain the reason.
1796 - Allow to rewrite the request destination behind the client's back.
1797 - Fix socks requests on big-endian platforms. Patch provided by Song Weijia.
1798 - Fixes possible deadlocks and crashes on OpenBSD.
1799 Patch provided by Ralf Horstmann.
1800 - The CGI action editor allows to edit actionfiles with previously
1801 forbidden characters like dots.
1802 - New trust entries are saved with a comment that contains the
1803 trusted referring URL (Suggested by Daniel Griscom).
1804 - Filter descriptions are HTML encoded automatically.
1805 - New config option "split-large-forms" to work
1806 around a browser bug that caused IE6 and IE7 to ignore
1807 the Submit button on the edit-actions-for-url CGI page.
1808 - New config option "allow-cgi-request-crunching" to allow
1809 requests for Privoxy's CGI pages to be blocked, redirected
1810 or (un)trusted like ordinary requests.
1811 - Empty filter files no longer interrupt the filtering process
1812 prematurely and are correctly listed on the show-status CGI page.
1813 - New config option "accept-intercepted-requests" to combine
1814 Privoxy with any packet filter to build an intercepting proxy
1815 for HTTP/1.1 requests (and for HTTP/1.0 requests with Host header set).
1816 - fast-redirects{} catch redirects to https URLs as well.
1817 - redirect{s@foo@bar@} can be used to redirect to a rewritten
1818 version of the original URL.
1819 - Trap unsupported gopher proxy requests.
1820 - Fixed a bug in the User Manual delivery on Windows
1821 (mingw32 only). Images now show up correctly and HTML
1822 pages are no longer padded with garbage data.
1823 - Fixed several minor memory leaks, most of them discovered with Valgrind.
1824 - Only unlink the pidfile if it's actually used.
1825 - Retries after connection problems with forced requests
1826 aren't blocked again.
1827 - On Unix SIGABRT causes a core dump as expected and is no
1828 longer treated as normal shutdown signal.
1829 - The "access denied" CGI page is more descriptive and
1830 allows retries to circumvent the referrer check.
1831 - Updated PCRS to handle unexpected PCRE errors properly.
1832 Fixed crashes that could occur if Privoxy was build
1833 with external PCRE versions newer than Privoxy's internal
1834 one. (Reported by Chung-chieh Shan)
1835 - Fixed crashes with null bytes in PCRS replacement strings
1836 (Patch provided by Felix Gröbert).
1837 - Fixed crashes with header time randomization on mingw32.
1838 - The CGI style sheet is no longer delivered if the referring
1839 page isn't a Privoxy CGI page. This prevents a JavaScript-based
1840 Privoxy detection "attack". Note that detecting Privoxy is
1841 still possible through other ways and Privoxy was never intended
1842 to be invisible anyway.
1843 - Added support for AmigaOS 4, fixed build for AmigaOS 3.x.
1844 - The show-url-info CGI page displays a warning if Privoxy
1845 is currently toggled off.
1846 - The show-status CGI page suppresses the edit button
1847 for action files if Privoxy has no write access.
1848 - Most CGI error pages react properly to HEAD requests.
1849 - Requests with RFC 3253 HTTP methods (used by Subversion)
1850 are accepted. (Patch provided by Petr Kadlec)
1851 - New config option "templdir" to change the location
1852 of the CGI templates to make sure customized templates
1854 - Better handling of "HTTP/1.1 100 Continue" responses.
1855 - The background of the PNG pattern is transparent.
1856 - Fixed XML syntax errors caused by banners-by-size and banners-by-url.
1857 - Fixed crashes and possible action file corruptions
1858 when lines containing hashes are written through the CGI editor.
1859 - Supports dynamic filters which can contain variables.
1860 - Supports tags to change the actions based on client or server headers.
1861 - Incorrect actions are logged before program termination.
1862 - The "actionsfile" syntax in the configuration file is consistent
1863 with the rest of the configuration options and requires the
1864 whole file name. This is an incompatible change, if you use
1865 an old configuration file you might have to append ".action"
1866 to your "actionsfile" directives.
1867 - With the configuration file option "enforce-blocks" the
1868 "go there anyway" mechanism can be disabled without recompiling
1870 - More precise error messages in case of incorrect acl syntax.
1871 - Logs a warning if filtering is enabled but impossible due
1872 to lack of zlib support or use of the prevent-compression action.
1873 - Less noisy handling of Cookie:" and "Connection:" headers.
1874 - Improved error messages in case of connection problems.
1875 - Fix a command-line-parsing bug that was introduced before 3.0.5
1876 beta and caused Privoxy to treat the last argument as configuration
1877 file if no configuration file was specified.
1878 - Treat unknown command line options as fatal errors instead
1879 of silently ignoring them.
1880 - Use string functions with length checks more often.
1881 - Don't log CONNECT requests twice.
1882 - Allow to log the source address for ACL-related connection drops.
1883 - Don't ignore applying filters if the server didn't
1884 specify a Content-Type. Bug reported by Amuro Namie.
1885 - Rejected CONNECT requests are logged with log level info
1886 (enabled by default) and the reason for the block.
1887 - New command line option "--pre-chroot-nslookup hostname" to
1888 intialize the resolver library before chroot'ing. On some systems this
1889 reduces the number of files that must be copied into the chroot tree.
1890 (Patch provided by Stephen Gildea)
1891 - Fix a long-standing memory corruption bug that could cause
1892 Privoxy to overwrite a single byte in memory it didn't explicitly
1893 allocate (but that probably was allocated anyway due to bucket size).
1894 - Send template-based CGI pages as HTTP/1.1 unless the client
1896 - Let the first line in connection established responses
1897 end in \r\n as required by RFC1945. Reported by Bert van Leeuwen.
1898 - If no log file has been specified, disable logging instead of logging
1900 - Don't block stderr when in daemon mode.
1901 - Ignore missing zero-chunks when filtering chunk-encoded content.
1902 Earlier Privoxy versions would buffer and then forward the content
1903 unmodified which caused some browsers to simply show empty pages.
1904 - Fix double free in cgi_edit_actions_list(). Reported by Venustech AD-LAB.
1905 - The code to add X-Forwarded-For headers when the hide-forwarded-for-headers
1906 action isn't being used has been removed.
1907 - Fixed trustfile feature which previously didn't work without FEATURE_TOGGLE.
1909 - Minor code clean-ups, filter and action file updates.
1910 (Some of them reported by Davide Alberani, Markus Elfring,
1911 Stefan Huehner and Adam Piggott)
1913 *** Version 3.0.6 ***
1915 - New content filters: no-ping, google, msn, yahoo and blogspot.
1916 - New header filters: x-httpd-php-to-html, html-to-xml, xml-to-html
1917 and hide-tor-exit-notation.
1918 - The special header "X-Filter: No" now disables header filtering as well.
1919 - Improved the filters img-reorder, js-annoyances, webbugs,
1920 banners-by-size, banners-by-link and ie-exploits to make them
1921 less likely to break anything.
1922 - Removed outdated URL patterns in default.action and added new ones.
1923 - Added redirection from http://p.p/user-manual to http://p.p/user-manual/
1924 - Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent, hide-referrer
1925 and set-image-blocker.
1927 *** Version 3.0.5 beta ***
1929 - Windows version can be installed/started as a service.
1930 - Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy.
1931 - Integrated Fabian Keil's extensive patch. See:
1932 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the
1933 following new or significantly improved actions (among many
1934 other improvements):
1936 content-type-overwrite{}
1937 crunch-client-header{string}
1938 crunch-if-none-match
1939 crunch-server-header{string}
1940 fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}
1941 filter-client-headers
1942 filter-server-headers
1944 handle-as-empty-document
1945 hide-accept-language{}
1946 hide-content-disposition{}
1947 hide-if-modified-since
1948 hide-referrer{conditional-block}
1949 overwrite-last-modified{}
1951 treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks
1953 - Standard-compliant clients are prevented from displaying cached
1954 copies of Privoxy's error messages after the cause of the problem
1956 - Improved DNS error handling.
1957 - Multiple filter files can now be specified in config.
1958 - Added jpeg filtering to defend against MS jpeg vulnerability MS04-028
1959 with the new inspect-jpegs action.
1960 - Removed the "arbitrary" 1000 filter limit - addresses tracker #911950
1961 - Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log
1962 file. The race condition remains for non-pthread implementations.
1963 Reference patch #1175720. Various other logging enhancements.
1964 - A pile of assorted bug fixes, memory leaks, enhancements, etc.
1965 - Moved Actions file reporting mechanism to SF tracker.
1966 - Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and
1967 forwarded-connect-retries.
1968 - Trap unsupported FTP requests.
1969 - Let text/xml be filtered.
1970 - Numerous updates to default.action
1971 - Increase the compiled in limit of trusted referrers from 64 to 512
1972 (for trustfile users).
1974 *** Version 3.0.3 ***
1976 - Fixed yet another two memory leaks. Process growth seems stopped now.
1977 - Further tightened security against malicious toggle-off links.
1978 - Excluded text/plain MIME types from filtering. This fixes a
1979 couple of client-crashing, download corruption and
1980 Privoxy performance issues, whose root cause lies in
1981 web servers labelling content of unknown type as text/plain.
1982 - Assorted fixes for POSIX compliance, signal handling, graceful
1983 termination, compiler warnings, OSX support, Win32 systray,
1984 error logging, hostname wildcards, correct detection of NetBSD.
1985 - Workarounds for client (iTunes etc) and server (PHP < 4.2.3) bugs
1986 including the notorious "blank page" problem.
1987 - Various filter improvements; most notably the unsolicited-popups
1988 filter became less destructive
1989 - Major revamp of the actions file
1991 *** Version 3.0.2 ***
1993 - Fixed two memory leaks, one serious
1994 - Fixed bug in pcrs which could cause crashes with user-defined filters
1995 - Fixed bug in domain name matching
1996 - Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..)
1997 - Added basic support for the OPTIONS and TRACE http methods
1998 - Added workaround for Bug in Mac OSX that made Privoxy crash occasionally
1999 - Refined the default action file through >400 items of user feedback
2001 - Assorted refinements, optimizations and fixes in the js-annoyances,
2002 img-reorder, banners-by-size, banners-by-link, webbugs, refresh-tags,
2003 html-annoyances, content-cookies and fun filters
2004 - Replaced filter "popups" by choice between two modes:
2005 - "unsolicited-popups" tries to catch only the unsolicited ones
2006 - "all-popups" tries to kill them all (as before)
2007 - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas.
2008 - New filter "jumping-windows" that prevents windows from resizing
2009 and moving themselves
2010 - New filter "demoronizer" which fixes MS's abuse of std charsets
2011 (common cases anyway).
2012 - Replaced "nimda" with more general "ie-exploits" filter in which
2013 all filters for exploits shall be collected
2014 - Improved cookie logging
2015 - Rewrote make install target. Added uninstall and install-strip
2017 - Fixed a potential (application-level, NOT OS-level!) security
2018 problem involving remote toggling and action file manipulation
2019 by mailicious websites.
2020 - Added ability to chroot (thanks to Sviatoslav Sviridov)
2021 - Added more action aliases for prehistoric action names
2022 - Add Slackware support to Makefile.
2026 - Fixed Windows startmenu items, log window and tray icon menus.
2027 - Added warning for bogus install target
2028 - Added quicktime-kioskmode filter and improved frameset-borders
2029 - Updated default.action based on latest feedback
2030 - New PDF doc build process
2031 - Add a user contrib module to cvs:
2032 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ijbswa/contrib/
2034 *** Version 2.9.18 ***
2036 - Added workaround for IE bug that broke CGI interface
2037 - Bugfix: String actions now reliably editable through CGI interface
2038 - Three filters fixed (again!)
2039 - Assorted small fixes and doc enhancements
2041 *** Version 2.9.16 ***
2043 - Major revamp of default.action to get rid of years of cruft.
2044 - Same for default.filter
2045 - Re-design and major improvements to the CGI editor interface.
2046 - Address spurious 'out of memory' error due to incorrect file permissions.
2047 - Impose buffer limits while reading client and server headers.
2048 - Better memory and CPU optimization.
2049 - Add Conectiva Linux package.
2050 - user-manual directive added to config for help links from within CGI
2052 - Multiple actions files can now be specified in config.
2053 - Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and
2054 user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
2055 - The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes.
2057 *** Version 2.9.14 beta ***
2059 - Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
2060 - Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
2061 - Fix build failure where certain features were disabled.
2062 - 'blocked-compact' template is removed. Various CGI improvements,
2063 including an adaptive 'blocked' template.
2064 - Various tweaks for actions file to get ready for stable 3.0
2065 - Included a 'Bookmarklet' and PHP scripts for reporting actions file
2066 problems via web interface at privoxy.org. Accessed via internal CGIs.
2067 - Include cgi-style.css for templates.
2068 - #include mechansim for common text in templates
2069 - Various other minor fixes.
2071 *** Version 2.9.13 beta ***
2073 - *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
2074 reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
2075 - ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now
2077 - http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/
2078 - The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern'
2079 (checkerboard) is now the default.
2080 - RPM spec file make over.
2083 *** Version 2.9.12 beta ***
2085 - **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from
2086 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
2088 - More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements.
2089 - Win32 command line fix ups.
2090 - re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a
2091 per site basis. Some new goodies there too.
2092 - +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile
2093 for even more flexibility.
2094 - Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which
2095 displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo.
2096 - PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images
2097 if configured with --enable-no-gif.
2098 - Clean up compiler warnings (mostly).
2099 - Improved handling of failed DNS lookups & diagnostics for failed bind
2101 - Made --no-daemon mode log to tty instead of logfile.
2102 - Various spec file and init script cleanups and improvements (Redhat and
2104 - CGI Editor works on OS/2 now.
2105 - Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT.
2106 - Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file.
2107 - A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help,
2108 --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces
2109 the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges
2110 to the specified user.
2111 - Signal handling cleanups (*nix).
2112 - CGI actions editor improvements and fixes.
2113 - Error handling improvements, especially out of memory.
2114 - Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos
2115 (instead of 'blank').
2116 - configure.in threading fixes for Solaris.
2117 - Various other minor fixes.
2120 *** Version 2.9.11 beta Changes ***
2122 - Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life
2123 of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk).
2124 - Checks for correct header length.
2125 - Fix user:pass@host.domain.com auth bug.
2126 - Better signal handling on *nix.
2127 - Fix CFLAGS hard-coded in configure.in
2128 - Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random
2129 URLs to fail in some cases.
2132 *** Version 2.9.11 Alpha Changes ***
2134 - A web-based editor for the actions file is included (go to http://i.j.b/).
2135 - Web-based toggle IJB on/off support.
2136 - Cookie handling has changed - the new +no-cookies-keep feature is now the
2138 - actionsfile is renamed to ijb.action.
2139 - junkbstr.txt is now config.txt on Win32.
2140 - Support for running IJB as a UNIX daemon process has improved.
2141 - Unix daemon now returns error code on failed start.
2142 - Timestamps in logfile and jarfile now.
2143 - Fix for the Netscape bug reintroduced in 2.9.9.
2144 - make should now abort if gmake (GNU make) not present.
2145 - Many other minor bugfixes
2146 - Start a ChangeLog :)
2150 *** Version 2.9.3 pre-Alpha Changes ***
2152 - Amiga support (completely untested by me - I don't have an Amiga)
2153 - "tinygif 3" support (redirects blocked images to a specified URL, so
2154 the browser doesn't have to load and cache many copies of the same
2156 - one case where there were both local and global "referrer" variables
2157 (yuck!) clarified by renaming the local one to "refer".
2158 - Fixed some places where close() was used instead of close_socket().
2159 Thanks to Jörg Strohmayer (joergs at users.sourceforge.net) for these.
2160 - Temporary hack to get FORCE_LOAD to work with IE. I just lowercased the
2161 FORCE_LOAD_PREFIX. Needs fixing properly.
2162 - Most URLs hardcoded into Junkbuster were changed to go through a script
2163 e.g. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?v=2.9.3&to=faq
2164 The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL:
2165 http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
2167 http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/
2168 ... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway.
2169 TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's
2170 copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page.
2171 - PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option.
2174 *** Version 2.9.2 pre-Alpha Changes ***
2176 - Andreas applied the latest version of the FORCE patch.
2179 *** Version 2.9.1 pre-Alpha Changes ***
2181 - in parsers.c, fixed two #ifdef FORCE to #ifdef FORCE_LOAD
2182 (BTW: I think FORCE is precise enough, since loading remote
2183 data is the whole purpose of a proxy..)
2184 - Set the FORCE_PREFIX (back) to 'IJB-FORCE-LOAD-'. While 'noijb.'
2185 is more elegant and looks like a hostname in the URL, it doesn't
2186 make clear to the inexperienced user that the proxy is bypassed. It
2187 also has a higher name collision risk.
2188 - Filled in the function header templates for my functions in
2189 parsers.c (again). They obviously got lost in our current
2191 - Cut the credit for the §-referrer-option from the config file,
2192 that Stefan had placed there.
2193 - Improved the re_filterfile
2196 *** Version 2.9.0 pre-Alpha Changes ***
2198 - Now use PCRE, not GNU REGEX. I have not yet had chance to check the
2199 syntax of the block/image/cookie file to ensure that they match what
2200 is expected - however they seem to work.
2201 - Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also
2202 use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for
2203 the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from
2204 "acconfig.h" and "configure.in". (Note that to install you do not
2205 need autoconf or autoheader - just run "./configure".)
2206 To see command-line options, run "./configure --help".
2207 This is my first ever autoconf script, so it has some rough edges
2208 (how PCRE is handled is the roughest).
2209 - Error logging code replaced with new module errlog.c, based on the
2210 one from JunkbusterMT (but with the threading code removed).
2211 - Most of Rodney's 0.21 and 0.21A patches applied. (Marked *). I did not
2212 apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional
2213 popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code.
2214 - ACL, Jar and trust files conditionally compiled.
2215 - New source file headers.
2216 - Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the
2217 config files - I think that's worthwhile, but it's 1am and I want to
2219 - RCS tags on .h files.
2220 - RCS tags are const char[] rather than const char *. (Saves 4 bytes
2222 - VC++ project files renamed to vc_junkbuster.*.
2223 - show-proxy-args now shows status of all conditionals, not just REGEX
2224 - Various functions moved around. Most notably all the system-specific
2225 sockets code which was spread between jcc.c, bind.c, and connect.c,
2226 has been moved to "jbsockets.c". The non-system-specific code from
2227 connect.c and socks4.c has been movet to "gateway.c". Also, the
2228 config file loader and the global variables it writes to have been
2229 moved to "loadcfg.c". (Maybe this should go into loaders.c?)
2230 And candidate for the "worst filename ever" award is "miscutil.c",
2231 which contains, well, miscellaneous utility functions like zalloc.
2232 (Suggestions for a better name for this file are welcome!)
2233 - Loaders now use a common function to read a line and skip comments,
2234 and this function also stores the proxy_args.
2235 - Added ./junkbuster --help (Not for Win32 GUI)
2236 - Added ./junkbuster --version (Not for Win32 GUI)
2237 - Win32 resources are now all marked as "U.S. English", rather than
2238 being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English".
2239 - Version number changes to 2.9.0
2242 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
2243 Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2016 the
2244 Privoxy team. https://www.privoxy.org/
2246 Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
2247 by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
2248 Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com/
2250 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
2251 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
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2253 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
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2256 This program is distributed in the hope that it will
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