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43 <a name="WHATSNEW">3. What's New in this Release</a>
46 <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.25</span> beta introduces
47 client-specific tags and includes a couple of minor improvements. It
48 will be followed by a stable release in the near future.
60 Always use the current toggle state for new requests.
61 Previously new requests on reused connections inherited the
62 toggle state from the previous request even though the toggle
63 state could have changed. Reported by Robert Klemme.
68 Fixed two buffer-overflows in the (deprecated) static pcre
69 code. These bugs are not considered security issues as the
70 input is trusted. Found with afl-fuzz and ASAN.
82 Added support for client-specific tags which allow Privoxy
83 admins to pre-define tags that are set for all requests from
84 clients that previously opted in through the CGI interface.
85 They are useful in multi-user setups where admins may want to
86 allow users to disable certain actions and filters for
87 themselves without affecting others. In single-user setups
88 they are useful to allow more fine-grained toggling. For
89 example to disable request blocking while still crunching
90 cookies, or to disable experimental filters only. This is an
91 experimental feature, the syntax and behaviour may change in
92 future versions. Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
97 Dynamic filters and taggers now support a $listen-address
98 variable which contains the address the request came in on.
99 For external filters the variable is called
100 $PRIVOXY_LISTEN_ADDRESS. Original patch contributed by
106 Add client-header-tagger 'listen-address'.
111 Include the listen-address in the log message when logging
112 new requests. Patch contributed by pursievro.
117 Turn invalid max-client-connections values into fatal errors.
122 The show-status page now shows whether or not dates before
123 1970 and after 2038 are expected to be handled properly. This
124 is mainly useful for Privoxy-Regression-Test but could also
125 come handy when dealing with time-related support requests.
130 On Mac OS X the thread id in log messages are more likely to
136 When complaining about missing filters, the filter type is
142 A couple of harmless coverity warnings were silenced (CID
143 #161202, CID #161203, CID #161211).
150 Action file improvements:
155 Filtering is disabled for Range requests to let download
156 resumption and Windows updates work with the default
162 Unblock ".ardmediathek.de/". Reported by ThTomate in #932.
169 Documentation improvements:
174 Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits.
179 Remove obsolete FAQ entry about a bug in PHP 4.2.3.
184 Mention the new mailing lists were appropriate. As the
185 archives have not been migrated, continue to mention the
186 archives at SF in the contacting section for now.
191 Note that the templates should be adjusted if Privoxy is
192 running as intercepting proxy without getting all requests.
197 A bunch of links were converted to https://.
202 Rephrase onion service paragraph to make it more obvious that
203 Tor is involved and that the whole website (and not just the
204 homepage) is available as onion service.
209 Streamline the "More information" section on the homepage
210 further by additionally ditching the link to the 'See also'
211 section of the user manual. The section contains mostly links
212 that are directly reachable from the homepage already and the
213 rest is not significant enough to get a link from the
219 Change the add-header{} example to set the DNT header and use
220 a complete section to make copy and pasting more convenient.
221 Add a comment to make it obvious that adding the header is
222 not recommended for obvious reasons. Using the DNT header as
223 example was suggested by Leo Wzukw.
228 Streamline the support-and-service template Instead of
229 linking to the various support trackers (whose URLs hopefully
230 change soon), link to the contact section of the user manual
231 to increase the chances that users actually read it.
236 Add a FAQ entry for tainted sockets.
241 More sections in the documentation have stable URLs now.
246 FAQ: Explain why 'ping config.privoxy.org' is not expected to
247 reach a local Privoxy installation.
252 Note that donations done through Zwiebelfreunde e.V.
253 currently can't be checked automatically.
258 Updated section regarding starting Privoxy under OS X.
263 Use dedicated start instructions for FreeBSD and ElectroBSD.
268 Removed release instructions for AIX. They haven't been
269 working for years and unsurprisingly nobody seems to care.
274 Removed obsolete reference to the solaris-dist target.
279 Updated the release instructions for FreeBSD.
284 Removed unfinished release instructions for Amiga OS and
290 Added a pointer to the Cygwin Time Machine for getting the
291 last release of Cygwin version 1.5 to use for building
297 Various typos have been fixed.
304 Infrastructure improvements:
309 The website is no longer hosted at SourceForge and can be
310 reached through https now.
315 The mailing lists at SourceForge have been deprecated, you
316 can subscribe to the new ones at: https://lists.privoxy.org/
321 Migrating the remaining services from SourceForge is work in
322 progress (TODO list item #53).
329 Build system improvements:
334 Add configure argument to optimistically redefine FD_SETSIZE
335 with the intent to change the maximum number of client
336 connections Privoxy can handle. Only works with some libcs.
337 Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
342 Let the tarball-dist target skip files in ".git".
347 Let the tarball-dist target work in cwds other than current.
352 Make the 'clean' target faster when run from a git
358 Include tools in the generic distribution.
363 Let the gen-dist target work in cwds other than current.
368 Sort find output that is used for distribution tarballs to
369 get reproducible results.
374 Don't add '-src' to the name of the tar ball generated by the
375 gen-dist target. The package isn't a source distribution but
376 a binary package. While at it, use a variable for the name to
377 reduce the chances that the various references get out of
378 sync and fix the gen-upload target which was looking in the
384 Add regression-tests.action to the files that are
390 The gen-dist target which was broken since 2002 (r1.92) has
396 Remove genclspec.sh which has been obsolete since 2009.
401 Remove obsolete reference to Redhat spec file.
406 Remove the obsolete announce target which has been commented
412 Let rsync skip files if the checksums match.
419 Privoxy-Regression-Test:
424 Add a "Default level offset" directive which can be used to
425 change the default level by a given value. This directive
426 affects all tests located after it until the end of the file
427 or a another "Default level offset" directive is reached. The
428 purpose of this directive is to make it more convenient to
429 skip similar tests in a given file without having to remove
430 or disable the tests completely.
435 Let test level 17 depend on FEATURE_64_BIT_TIME_T instead of
436 FEATURE_PTHREAD which has no direct connection to the time_t
442 Fix indentation in perldoc examples.
447 Don't overlook directives in the first line of the action
458 Fix detection of the Privoxy version now that https:// is
459 used for the website.
468 <a name="UPGRADERSNOTE">3.1. Note to Upgraders</a>
471 A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier
472 versions of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>:
479 The recommended way to upgrade <span class=
480 "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is to backup your old
481 configuration files, install the new ones, verify that <span
482 class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is working correctly and
483 finally merge back your changes using <span class=
484 "APPLICATION">diff</span> and maybe <span class=
485 "APPLICATION">patch</span>.
488 There are a number of new features in each <span class=
489 "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> release and most of them have to
490 be explicitly enabled in the configuration files. Old
491 configuration files obviously don't do that and due to syntax
492 changes using old configuration files with a new <span class=
493 "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> isn't always possible anyway.
498 Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely,
499 including configuration files, therefore you should really save
500 any important configuration files!
505 On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing
506 configuration files, thinking you will want to do that
512 In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now.
513 You can change that in the <a href="config.html#DEBUG">debug
514 section</a> of the configuration file. You may also want to
515 enable more verbose logging until you verified that the new
516 <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version is working as
522 Three other config file settings are now off by default: <a
524 "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">enable-remote-toggle</a>, <a
526 "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE">enable-remote-http-toggle</a>,
528 "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</a>. If
529 you use or want these, you will need to explicitly enable them,
530 and be aware of the security issues involved.
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