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6 - Privoxy is now able to run as intercepting proxy in combination
7 with any packet filter that does the port redirection.
11 - New content filters: no-ping, google, msn, yahoo and blogspot.
12 - New header filters: x-httpd-php-to-html, html-to-xml, xml-to-html
13 and hide-tor-exit-notation.
14 - The special header "X-Filter: No" now disables header filtering as well.
15 - Improved the filters img-reorder, js-annoyances, webbugs,
16 banners-by-size, banners-by-link and ie-exploits to make them
17 less likely to break anything.
18 - Removed outdated URL patterns in default.action and added new ones.
19 - Added redirection from http://p.p/user-manual to http://p.p/user-manual/
20 - Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent, hide-referrer
21 and set-image-blocker.
25 - Windows version can be installed/started as a service.
26 - Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy.
27 - Integrated Fabian Keil's extensive patch. See:
28 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the
29 following new or significantly improved actions (among many
32 content-type-overwrite{}
33 crunch-client-header{string}
35 crunch-server-header{string}
36 fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}
40 handle-as-empty-document
41 hide-accept-language{}
42 hide-content-disposition{}
43 hide-if-modified-since
44 hide-referrer{conditional-block}
45 overwrite-last-modified{}
47 treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks
49 - Standard-compliant clients are prevented from displaying cached
50 copies of Privoxy's error messages after the cause of the problem
52 - Improved DNS error handling.
53 - Multiple filter files can now be specified in config.
54 - Added jpeg filtering to defend against MS jpeg vulnerability MS04-028
55 with the new inspect-jpegs action.
56 - Removed the "arbitrary" 1000 filter limit - addresses tracker #911950
57 - Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log
58 file. The race condition remains for non-pthread implementations.
59 Reference patch #1175720. Various other logging enhancements.
60 - A pile of assorted bug fixes, memory leaks, enhancements, etc.
61 - Moved Actions file reporting mechanism to SF tracker.
62 - Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and
63 forwarded-connect-retries.
64 - Trap unsupported FTP requests.
65 - Let text/xml be filtered.
66 - Numerous updates to default.action
67 - Increase the compiled in limit of trusted referrers from 64 to 512
68 (for trustfile users).
72 - Fixed yet another two memory leaks. Process growth seems stopped now.
73 - Further tightened security against malicious toggle-off links.
74 - Excluded text/plain MIME types from filtering. This fixes a
75 couple of client-crashing, download corruption and
76 Privoxy performance issues, whose root cause lies in
77 web servers labelling content of unknown type as text/plain.
78 - Assorted fixes for POSIX compliance, signal handling, graceful
79 termination, compiler warnings, OSX support, Win32 systray,
80 error logging, hostname wildcards, correct detection of NetBSD.
81 - Workarounds for client (iTunes etc) and server (PHP < 4.2.3) bugs
82 including the notorious "blank page" problem.
83 - Various filter improvements; most notably the unsolicited-popups
84 filter became less destructive
85 - Major revamp of the actions file
89 - Fixed two memory leaks, one serious
90 - Fixed bug in pcrs which could cause crashes with user-defined filters
91 - Fixed bug in domain name matching
92 - Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..)
93 - Added basic support for the OPTIONS and TRACE http methods
94 - Added workaround for Bug in Mac OSX that made Privoxy crash occasionally
95 - Refined the default action file through >400 items of user feedback
97 - Assorted refinements, optimizations and fixes in the js-annoyances,
98 img-reorder, banners-by-size, banners-by-link, webbugs, refresh-tags,
99 html-annoyances, content-cookies and fun filters
100 - Replaced filter "popups" by choice between two modes:
101 - "unsolicited-popups" tries to catch only the unsolicited ones
102 - "all-popups" tries to kill them all (as before)
103 - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas.
104 - New filter "jumping-windows" that prevents windows from resizing
105 and moving themselves
106 - New filter "demoronizer" which fixes MS's abuse of std charsets
107 (common cases anyway).
108 - Replaced "nimda" with more general "ie-exploits" filter in which
109 all filters for exploits shall be collected
110 - Improved cookie logging
111 - Rewrote make install target. Added uninstall and install-strip
113 - Fixed a potential (application-level, NOT OS-level!) security
114 problem involving remote toggling and action file manipulation
115 by mailicious websites.
116 - Added ability to chroot (thanks to Sviatoslav Sviridov)
117 - Added more action aliases for prehistoric action names
118 - Add Slackware support to Makefile.
122 - Fixed Windows startmenu items, log window and tray icon menus.
123 - Added warning for bogus install target
124 - Added quicktime-kioskmode filter and improved frameset-borders
125 - Updated default.action based on latest feedback
126 - New PDF doc build process
127 - Add a user contrib module to cvs:
128 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ijbswa/contrib/
130 *** Version 2.9.18 ***
132 - Added workaround for IE bug that broke CGI interface
133 - Bugfix: String actions now reliably editable through CGI interface
134 - Three filters fixed (again!)
135 - Assorted small fixes and doc enhancements
137 *** Version 2.9.16 ***
139 - Major revamp of default.action to get rid of years of cruft.
140 - Same for default.filter
141 - Re-design and major improvements to the CGI editor interface.
142 - Address spurious 'out of memory' error due to incorrect file permissions.
143 - Impose buffer limits while reading client and server headers.
144 - Better memory and CPU optimization.
145 - Add Conectiva Linux package.
146 - user-manual directive added to config for help links from within CGI
148 - Multiple actions files can now be specified in config.
149 - Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and
150 user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
151 - The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes.
153 *** Version 2.9.14 Beta ***
155 - Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
156 - Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
157 - Fix build failure where certain features were disabled.
158 - 'blocked-compact' template is removed. Various CGI improvements,
159 including an adaptive 'blocked' template.
160 - Various tweaks for actions file to get ready for stable 3.0
161 - Included a 'Bookmarklet' and PHP scripts for reporting actions file
162 problems via web interface at privoxy.org. Accessed via internal CGIs.
163 - Include cgi-style.css for templates.
164 - #include mechansim for common text in templates
165 - Various other minor fixes.
167 *** Version 2.9.13 Beta ***
169 - *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
170 reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
171 - ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now
173 - http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/
174 - The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern'
175 (checkerboard) is now the default.
176 - RPM spec file make over.
179 *** Version 2.9.12 Beta ***
181 - **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from
182 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
184 - More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements.
185 - Win32 command line fix ups.
186 - re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a
187 per site basis. Some new goodies there too.
188 - +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile
189 for even more flexibility.
190 - Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which
191 displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo.
192 - PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images
193 if configured with --enable-no-gif.
194 - Clean up compiler warnings (mostly).
195 - Improved handling of failed DNS lookups & diagnostics for failed bind
197 - Made --no-daemon mode log to tty instead of logfile.
198 - Various spec file and init script cleanups and improvements (Redhat and
200 - CGI Editor works on OS/2 now.
201 - Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT.
202 - Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file.
203 - A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help,
204 --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces
205 the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges
206 to the specified user.
207 - Signal handling cleanups (*nix).
208 - CGI actions editor improvements and fixes.
209 - Error handling improvements, especially out of memory.
210 - Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos
211 (instead of 'blank').
212 - configure.in threading fixes for Solaris.
213 - Various other minor fixes.
216 *** Version 2.9.11 Beta Changes ***
218 - Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life
219 of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk).
220 - Checks for correct header length.
221 - Fix user:pass@host.domain.com auth bug.
222 - Better signal handling on *nix.
223 - Fix CFLAGS hard-coded in configure.in
224 - Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random
225 URLs to fail in some cases.
228 *** Version 2.9.11 Alpha Changes ***
230 - A web-based editor for the actions file is included (go to http://i.j.b/).
231 - Web-based toggle IJB on/off support.
232 - Cookie handling has changed - the new +no-cookies-keep feature is now the
234 - actionsfile is renamed to ijb.action.
235 - junkbstr.txt is now config.txt on Win32.
236 - Support for running IJB as a UNIX daemon process has improved.
237 - Unix daemon now returns error code on failed start.
238 - Timestamps in logfile and jarfile now.
239 - Fix for the Netscape bug reintroduced in 2.9.9.
240 - make should now abort if gmake (GNU make) not present.
241 - Many other minor bugfixes
242 - Start a ChangeLog :)
246 *** Version 2.9.3 pre-Alpha Changes ***
248 - Amiga support (completely untested by me - I don't have an Amiga)
249 - "tinygif 3" support (redirects blocked images to a specified URL, so
250 the browser doesn't have to load and cache many copies of the same
252 - one case where there were both local and global "referrer" variables
253 (yuck!) clarified by renaming the local one to "refer".
254 - Fixed some places where close() was used instead of close_socket().
255 Thanks to Jörg Strohmayer (joergs at users.sourceforge.net) for these.
256 - Temporary hack to get FORCE_LOAD to work with IE. I just lowercased the
257 FORCE_LOAD_PREFIX. Needs fixing properly.
258 - Most URLs hardcoded into Junkbuster were changed to go through a script
259 e.g. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?v=2.9.3&to=faq
260 The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL:
261 http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
263 http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/
264 ... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway.
265 TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's
266 copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page.
267 - PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option.
270 *** Version 2.9.2 pre-Alpha Changes ***
272 - Andreas applied the latest version of the FORCE patch.
275 *** Version 2.9.1 pre-Alpha Changes ***
277 - in parsers.c, fixed two #ifdef FORCE to #ifdef FORCE_LOAD
278 (BTW: I think FORCE is precise enough, since loading remote
279 data is the whole purpose of a proxy..)
280 - Set the FORCE_PREFIX (back) to 'IJB-FORCE-LOAD-'. While 'noijb.'
281 is more elegant and looks like a hostname in the URL, it doesn't
282 make clear to the inexperienced user that the proxy is bypassed. It
283 also has a higher name collision risk.
284 - Filled in the function header templates for my functions in
285 parsers.c (again). They obviously got lost in our current
287 - Cut the credit for the §-referrer-option from the config file,
288 that Stefan had placed there.
289 - Improved the re_filterfile
292 *** Version 2.9.0 pre-Alpha Changes ***
294 - Now use PCRE, not GNU REGEX. I have not yet had chance to check the
295 syntax of the block/image/cookie file to ensure that they match what
296 is expected - however they seem to work.
297 - Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also
298 use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for
299 the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from
300 "acconfig.h" and "configure.in". (Note that to install you do not
301 need autoconf or autoheader - just run "./configure".)
302 To see command-line options, run "./configure --help".
303 This is my first ever autoconf script, so it has some rough edges
304 (how PCRE is handled is the roughest).
305 - Error logging code replaced with new module errlog.c, based on the
306 one from JunkbusterMT (but with the threading code removed).
307 - Most of Rodney's 0.21 and 0.21A patches applied. (Marked *). I did not
308 apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional
309 popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code.
310 - ACL, Jar and trust files conditionally compiled.
311 - New source file headers.
312 - Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the
313 config files - I think that's worthwhile, but it's 1am and I want to
315 - RCS tags on .h files.
316 - RCS tags are const char[] rather than const char *. (Saves 4 bytes
318 - VC++ project files renamed to vc_junkbuster.*.
319 - show-proxy-args now shows status of all conditionals, not just REGEX
320 - Various functions moved around. Most notably all the system-specific
321 sockets code which was spread between jcc.c, bind.c, and connect.c,
322 has been moved to "jbsockets.c". The non-system-specific code from
323 connect.c and socks4.c has been movet to "gateway.c". Also, the
324 config file loader and the global variables it writes to have been
325 moved to "loadcfg.c". (Maybe this should go into loaders.c?)
326 And candidate for the "worst filename ever" award is "miscutil.c",
327 which contains, well, miscellaneous utility functions like zalloc.
328 (Suggestions for a better name for this file are welcome!)
329 - Loaders now use a common function to read a line and skip comments,
330 and this function also stores the proxy_args.
331 - Added ./junkbuster --help (Not for Win32 GUI)
332 - Added ./junkbuster --version (Not for Win32 GUI)
333 - Win32 resources are now all marked as "U.S. English", rather than
334 being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English".
335 - Version number changes to 2.9.0
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340 Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001 the SourceForge
341 Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
343 Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
344 by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
345 Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com
347 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
348 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
349 Public License as published by the Free Software
350 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
351 your option) any later version.
353 This program is distributed in the hope that it will
354 be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
355 implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
356 PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
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