1 Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.9 Beta
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4 3.0.9 is a beta release which includes many enhancements but no major
5 new features. The most prominent improvements are SOCKS5 support and
6 zlib support for the default Privoxy builds.
8 See http://www.privoxy.org/3.0.9/user-manual/whatsnew.html for details.
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13 *** Version 3.0.9 Beta ***
15 - Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by
16 the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
17 - The "blocked" CGI pages include a block reason that was
18 provided as argument to the last-applying block action.
19 - If enable-edit-actions is disabled (the default since 3.0.7 beta)
20 the show-status page hides the edit buttons and explains why.
21 Previously the user would get the "this feature has been disabled"
22 message after using the edit button.
23 - Forbidden CONNECT requests are treated like blocks by default.
24 The now-pointless treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks action
26 - Not enabling limit-connect now allows CONNECT requests to all ports.
27 In previous versions it would only allow CONNECT requests to port 443.
28 Use +limit-connect{443} if you think you need the old default behaviour.
29 - The CGI editor gets turned off after three edit requests with invalid
30 file modification timestamps. This makes life harder for attackers
31 who can leverage browser bugs to send fake Referers and intend to
32 brute-force edit URLs.
33 - Action settings for multiple patterns in the same section are
34 shared in memory. As a result these sections take up less space
35 (and are loaded slightly faster). Problem reported by Franz Schwartau.
36 - Linear white space in HTTP headers will be normalized to single
37 spaces before parsing the header's content, headers split across
38 multiple lines get merged first. This should prevent problems like:
39 * letting the session-cookies-only action slip
40 some Cookies through unmodified,
41 * only suppressing the first line of a header,
42 thus creating an invalid one, and
43 * to incorrectly block headers with valid timestamps
44 that weren't properly recognized.
45 Headers that could trigger these problems are unlikely to appear
46 in "normal" web traffic, but could be intentionally generated to
47 fool some of Privoxy's header parsers.
48 - Host information is gathered outside the main thread so it's less
49 likely to delay other incoming connections if the host is misconfigured.
50 - New config option "hostname" to use a hostname other than
51 the one returned by the operating system. Useful to speed-up responses
52 for CGI requests on misconfigured systems. Requested by Max Khon.
53 - The CGI editor supports the "disable all filters of this type"
54 directives "-client-header-filter", "-server-header-filter",
55 "-client-header-tagger" and "-server-header-tagger".
56 - Fixed false-positives with the link-by-url filter and URLs that
57 contain the pattern "/jump/".
58 - The less-download-windows filter no longer messes
59 "Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash" headers up.
60 - In the show-url-info page's "Final results" section active and
61 inactive actions are listed separately. Patch provided by Lee.
62 - The GNUmakefile supports the DESTDIR variable. Patch for
63 the install target submitted by Radoslaw Zielinski.
64 - Embedding the content of configuration files in the show-status
65 page is significantly faster now. For a largish action file (1 MB)
66 a speedup of about 2450 times has been measured. This is mostly
67 interesting if you are using large action files or regularly use
68 Privoxy-Regression-Test while running Privoxy through Valgrind,
69 for stock configuration files it doesn't really matter.
70 - If zlib support is unavailable and there are content
71 filters active but the prevent-compression action is disabled,
72 the show-url-info page includes a warning that compression
73 might prevent filtering.
74 - The show-url-info page provides an OpenSearch Description that
75 allows to access the page through browser search plugins.
76 - The obsolete kill-popups action has been removed as the
77 PCRS-based popup filters can do the same and are slightly
79 - The inspect-jpegs action has been removed.
80 - The send-wafer and send-vanilla-wafer actions have been removed.
81 They weren't particular useful and their behaviour could be emulated
82 with add-header anyway.
83 - Privoxy-Regression-Test has been significantly improved.
84 - Most sections in the default.action file contain tests for
85 Privoxy-Regression-Test to verify that they are working as intended.
86 - Parts of Privoxy have been refactored to increase maintainability.
87 - Building with zlib (if available) is done by default.
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93 Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for
94 protecting privacy, modifying web page data, managing cookies,
95 controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other
96 obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible
97 configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs
98 and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems
99 and multi-user networks.
101 Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).
103 At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows(95, 98, ME, 2000,
104 XP, Vista), Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and
105 others), Mac OSX, OS/2, AmigaOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and
106 various other flavors of Unix.
108 In addition to the traditional features of ad and junk blocking, and cookie
109 management, Privoxy adds these features:
111 * Can be run as an "intercepting" proxy, which obviates the need to
112 configure browsers individually.
114 * Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both server and client
117 * Can be chained with other proxies.
119 * Integrated browser based configuration and control utility
120 at http://config.privoxy.org/ (shortcut: http://p.p/). Browser-based
121 tracing of rule and filter effects. Remote toggling.
123 * Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection).
125 * Multi-threaded (POSIX and native threads).
127 * User-customizable HTML templates for all proxy-generated pages (e.g.
130 * Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes.
132 * Improved signal handling, and a true daemon mode (Unix).
134 * Every feature now controllable on a per-site or per-location basis,
135 configuration more powerful and versatile over-all.
137 * Many smaller new features added, limitations and bugs removed.
140 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118
143 http://www.privoxy.org/
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