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6 - On most platforms, outgoing connections can be kept alive and
7 reused if the server supports it. Whether or not this improves
8 things depends on the connection.
9 - When dropping privileges, membership in supplementary groups
10 is given up as well. Not doing that can lead to Privoxy running
11 with more rights than necessary and violates the principle of
12 least privilege. Users of the --user option are advised to update.
13 Thanks to Matthias Drochner for reporting the problem,
14 providing the initial patch and testing the final version.
15 - Passing invalid users or groups with the --user option
16 didn't lead to program exit. Regression introduced in 3.0.7.
17 - The match all section has been moved from default.action
18 to a new file called match-all.action. As a result the
19 default.action no longer needs to be touched by the user
20 and can be safely overwritten by updates.
21 - The standard.action file has been removed. Its content
22 is now part of the default.action file.
23 - In some situations the logged content length was
25 - Crunched requests are logged with their own log level.
26 If you used "debug 1" in the past, you'll probably want
27 to additionally enable "debug 1024", otherwise only passed
28 requests will be logged. If you only care about crunched
29 requests, simply replace "debug 1" with "debug 1024".
30 - The crunch reason has been moved to the beginning of the
31 crunch message. For HTTP URLs, the protocol is logged as well.
32 - Log messages are shortened by not printing the thread id
33 on its own (as opposed to putting it inside "Privoxy()".
34 - The config option socket-timeout has been added to control
35 the time Privoxy waits for data to arrive on a socket.
36 - A "clear log" view option was added to the mingw32 version
37 to clear out all of the lines in the Privoxy log window.
38 Based on a patch submitted by T Ford.
39 - The mingw32 version uses "critical sections" now which
40 prevents log message corruption under load. As a side effect,
41 the "no thread-safe PRNG" warning could be removed as well.
42 - The mingw32 version's task bar icon is changed if Privoxy
43 is toggled of. XXX: Describe how.
44 - Support for remote toggling is controlled by the configure
45 option --disable-toggle only. In previous versions it also
46 depended on the action editor and thus configuring with the
47 --disable-editor option would disable remote toggling support
49 - Requests with invalid HTTP versions are rejected.
50 - The template symbol @date@ can be used to include a date(1)-like
51 time string. Initial patch submitted by Endre Szabo.
52 - Responses from shoutcast servers are accepted again.
53 Problem reported and fix suggested by Stefan.
54 - The hide-forwarded-for-headers action has been replaced with
55 the change-x-forwarded-for{} action which can also be used to
56 add X-Forwarded-For headers. The latter functionality already
57 existed in Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.7 but has been removed
58 as it was often used unintentionally (by not using the
59 hide-forwarded-for-headers action).
61 *** Version 3.0.10 ***
63 - Ordinary configuration file changes no longer cause program
64 termination on OS/2 if the name of the logfile hasn't been
65 changed as well. This regression probably crept in with the
66 logging improvements in 3.0.7. Reported by Maynard.
67 - The img-reorder filter is less likely to mess up JavaScript code in
68 img tags. Problem and solution reported by Glenn Washburn in #2014552.
69 - The source tar ball now includes Privoxy-Log-Parser,
70 a syntax-highlighter for Privoxy logs. For fancy screenshots see:
71 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy-log-parser/
72 Documentation is available through perldoc(1).
74 *** Version 3.0.9 Beta ***
76 - Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by
77 the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
78 - The "blocked" CGI pages include a block reason that was
79 provided as argument to the last-applying block action.
80 - If enable-edit-actions is disabled (the default since 3.0.7 beta)
81 the show-status page hides the edit buttons and explains why.
82 Previously the user would get the "this feature has been disabled"
83 message after using the edit button.
84 - Forbidden CONNECT requests are treated like blocks by default.
85 The now-pointless treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks action
87 - Not enabling limit-connect now allows CONNECT requests to all ports.
88 In previous versions it would only allow CONNECT requests to port 443.
89 Use +limit-connect{443} if you think you need the old default behaviour.
90 - The CGI editor gets turned off after three edit requests with invalid
91 file modification timestamps. This makes life harder for attackers
92 who can leverage browser bugs to send fake Referers and intend to
93 brute-force edit URLs.
94 - Action settings for multiple patterns in the same section are
95 shared in memory. As a result these sections take up less space
96 (and are loaded slightly faster). Problem reported by Franz Schwartau.
97 - Linear white space in HTTP headers will be normalized to single
98 spaces before parsing the header's content, headers split across
99 multiple lines get merged first. This should prevent problems like:
100 * letting the session-cookies-only action slip
101 some Cookies through unmodified,
102 * only suppressing the first line of a header,
103 thus creating an invalid one, and
104 * to incorrectly block headers with valid timestamps
105 that weren't properly recognized.
106 Headers that could trigger these problems are unlikely to appear
107 in "normal" web traffic, but could be intentionally generated to
108 fool some of Privoxy's header parsers.
109 - Host information is gathered outside the main thread so it's less
110 likely to delay other incoming connections if the host is misconfigured.
111 - New config option "hostname" to use a hostname other than
112 the one returned by the operating system. Useful to speed-up responses
113 for CGI requests on misconfigured systems. Requested by Max Khon.
114 - The CGI editor supports the "disable all filters of this type"
115 directives "-client-header-filter", "-server-header-filter",
116 "-client-header-tagger" and "-server-header-tagger".
117 - Fixed false-positives with the link-by-url filter and URLs that
118 contain the pattern "/jump/".
119 - The less-download-windows filter no longer messes
120 "Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash" headers up.
121 - In the show-url-info page's "Final results" section active and
122 inactive actions are listed separately. Patch provided by Lee.
123 - The GNUmakefile supports the DESTDIR variable. Patch for
124 the install target submitted by Radoslaw Zielinski.
125 - Embedding the content of configuration files in the show-status
126 page is significantly faster now. For a largish action file (1 MB)
127 a speedup of about 2450 times has been measured. This is mostly
128 interesting if you are using large action files or regularly use
129 Privoxy-Regression-Test while running Privoxy through Valgrind,
130 for stock configuration files it doesn't really matter.
131 - If zlib support is unavailable and there are content
132 filters active but the prevent-compression action is disabled,
133 the show-url-info page includes a warning that compression
134 might prevent filtering.
135 - The show-url-info page provides an OpenSearch Description that
136 allows to access the page through browser search plugins.
137 - Custom client-header filters that rewrite the request line
138 incorrectly no longer cause Privoxy to crash. Reported by din_a4.
139 - The obsolete kill-popups action has been removed as the
140 PCRS-based popup filters can do the same and are slightly
142 - The inspect-jpegs action has been removed.
143 - The send-wafer and send-vanilla-wafer actions have been removed.
144 They weren't particular useful and their behaviour could be emulated
145 with add-header anyway.
146 - Privoxy-Regression-Test has been significantly improved.
147 - Most sections in the default.action file contain tests for
148 Privoxy-Regression-Test to verify that they are working as intended.
149 - Parts of Privoxy have been refactored to increase maintainability.
150 - Building with zlib (if available) is done by default.
152 *** Version 3.0.8 ***
154 - Fixed a small memory leak when listen-address only specifies the port.
155 - The source tar balls now include Privoxy-Regression-Test which
156 (upon other things) can be used to automatically detect some
157 packaging problems. Packagers are welcome to give it a try.
158 - Reverted a change in 3.0.7 that caused path patterns to be checked
159 even if the host pattern match already failed. While this doesn't
160 noticeable affect the performance, it makes it less likely to run
161 out of stack space with overly-complex path patterns the user might
163 - Updated the msn, yahoo and google filters to work as advertised again.
164 - The warning message shown by the show-status CGI page is easier to
165 understand. Previously it wasn't clear that the error message
166 is shown below the invalid directive. (Reported by Lee)
167 - When regenerating Content-Disposition headers the more common
168 spelling is used for the name. Previously it was written without caps.
169 - Less confusing log message if the content type isn't overwritten
170 because force-text-type wasn't used but the old type doesn't look
171 like content that would be filtered normally.
172 - Better log messages if the user tries to execute filters that
174 - Treat the non-standard Request-Range headers like standard range
175 headers and suppress them if content filtering is enabled.
176 - Prevent the log messages for CONNECT requests to unacceptable
177 ports from printing the limit-connect argument as [null] if
178 limit-connect hasn't been explicitly enabled.
179 - Don't disable the mingw32 log window if the logfile directive
180 isn't used. While it was an intentional change in 3.0.7 at least
181 one user perceived it as a regression and the same effect can
182 be achieved by disabling all debug directives.
183 - Fixed two minor problems related to the win32 build process: a css
184 file was not being in the installer and the trustfile comment in the
185 config.txt referenced a nonexisting file
186 - Minor documentation fixes.
188 *** Version 3.0.7 Beta ***
190 - Added zlib support to filter content with gzip and deflate
191 encoding. (Patch provided by Wil Mahan)
192 - Dedicated filters and actions are used for header filtering.
193 "filter-client-headers" and "filter-client-headers" are no longer
194 supported, use server-header-filter{} and client-header-filter{}
196 - Tags can be used to change actions based on HTTP headers.
197 - New server-header filter: less-download-windows.
198 - New client-header taggers: css-requests, image-requests,
199 client-ip-address, http-method, allow-post, complete-url,
200 user-agent and privoxy-control.
201 - New server-header taggers: content-type and privoxy-control.
202 - The forward-override{} action allows to change the forwarding
203 settings through the action files, for example based on client
204 headers like the User-Agent, or the request origin.
205 - Socks errors are no longer handled by the CGI page for
206 DNS resolution failures.
207 - CGI pages use favicons to signal whether they are error
208 or control pages. This is useful if you rely heavily on
210 - The show-url-info CGI page shows the forwarding settings.
211 - "Crunch!" log messages (used when Privoxy answers requests
212 by itself) now also contain the reason.
213 - Allow to rewrite the request destination behind the client's back.
214 - Fix socks requests on big-endian platforms. Patch provided by Song Weijia.
215 - Fixes possible deadlocks and crashes on OpenBSD.
216 Patch provided by Ralf Horstmann.
217 - The CGI action editor allows to edit actionfiles with previously
218 forbidden characters like dots.
219 - New trust entries are saved with a comment that contains the
220 trusted referring URL (Suggested by Daniel Griscom).
221 - Filter descriptions are HTML encoded automatically.
222 - New config option "split-large-forms" to work
223 around a browser bug that caused IE6 and IE7 to ignore
224 the Submit button on the edit-actions-for-url CGI page.
225 - New config option "allow-cgi-request-crunching" to allow
226 requests for Privoxy's CGI pages to be blocked, redirected
227 or (un)trusted like ordinary requests.
228 - Empty filter files no longer interrupt the filtering process
229 prematurely and are correctly listed on the show-status CGI page.
230 - New config option "accept-intercepted-requests" to combine
231 Privoxy with any packet filter to build an intercepting proxy
232 for HTTP/1.1 requests (and for HTTP/1.0 requests with Host header set).
233 - fast-redirects{} catch redirects to https URLs as well.
234 - redirect{s@foo@bar@} can be used to redirect to a rewritten
235 version of the original URL.
236 - Trap unsupported gopher proxy requests.
237 - Fixed a bug in the User Manual delivery on Windows
238 (mingw32 only). Images now show up correctly and HTML
239 pages are no longer padded with garbage data.
240 - Fixed several minor memory leaks, most of them discovered with Valgrind.
241 - Only unlink the pidfile if it's actually used.
242 - Retries after connection problems with forced requests
243 aren't blocked again.
244 - On Unix SIGABRT causes a core dump as expected and is no
245 longer treated as normal shutdown signal.
246 - The "access denied" CGI page is more descriptive and
247 allows retries to circumvent the referrer check.
248 - Updated PCRS to handle unexpected PCRE errors properly.
249 Fixed crashes that could occur if Privoxy was build
250 with external PCRE versions newer than Privoxy's internal
251 one. (Reported by Chung-chieh Shan)
252 - Fixed crashes with null bytes in PCRS replacement strings
253 (Patch provided by Felix Gröbert).
254 - Fixed crashes with header time randomization on mingw32.
255 - The CGI style sheet is no longer delivered if the referring
256 page isn't a Privoxy CGI page. This prevents a JavaScript-based
257 Privoxy detection "attack". Note that detecting Privoxy is
258 still possible through other ways and Privoxy was never intended
259 to be invisible anyway.
260 - Added support for AmigaOS 4, fixed build for AmigaOS 3.x.
261 - The show-url-info CGI page displays a warning if Privoxy
262 is currently toggled off.
263 - The show-status CGI page suppresses the edit button
264 for action files if Privoxy has no write access.
265 - Most CGI error pages react properly to HEAD requests.
266 - Requests with RFC 3253 HTTP methods (used by Subversion)
267 are accepted. (Patch provided by Petr Kadlec)
268 - New config option "templdir" to change the location
269 of the CGI templates to make sure customized templates
271 - Better handling of "HTTP/1.1 100 Continue" responses.
272 - The background of the PNG pattern is transparent.
273 - Fixed XML syntax errors caused by banners-by-size and banners-by-url.
274 - Fixed crashes and possible action file corruptions
275 when lines containing hashes are written through the CGI editor.
276 - Supports dynamic filters which can contain variables.
277 - Supports tags to change the actions based on client or server headers.
278 - Incorrect actions are logged before program termination.
279 - The "actionsfile" syntax in the configuration file is consistent
280 with the rest of the configuration options and requires the
281 whole file name. This is an incompatible change, if you use
282 an old configuration file you might have to append ".action"
283 to your "actionsfile" directives.
284 - With the configuration file option "enforce-blocks" the
285 "go there anyway" mechanism can be disabled without recompiling
287 - More precise error messages in case of incorrect acl syntax.
288 - Logs a warning if filtering is enabled but impossible due
289 to lack of zlib support or use of the prevent-compression action.
290 - Less noisy handling of Cookie:" and "Connection:" headers.
291 - Improved error messages in case of connection problems.
292 - Fix a command-line-parsing bug that was introduced before 3.0.5
293 beta and caused Privoxy to treat the last argument as configuration
294 file if no configuration file was specified.
295 - Treat unknown command line options as fatal errors instead
296 of silently ignoring them.
297 - Use string functions with length checks more often.
298 - Don't log CONNECT requests twice.
299 - Allow to log the source address for ACL-related connection drops.
300 - Don't ignore applying filters if the server didn't
301 specify a Content-Type. Bug reported by Amuro Namie.
302 - Rejected CONNECT requests are logged with log level info
303 (enabled by default) and the reason for the block.
304 - New command line option "--pre-chroot-nslookup hostname" to
305 intialize the resolver library before chroot'ing. On some systems this
306 reduces the number of files that must be copied into the chroot tree.
307 (Patch provided by Stephen Gildea)
308 - Fix a long-standing memory corruption bug that could cause
309 Privoxy to overwrite a single byte in memory it didn't explicitly
310 allocate (but that probably was allocated anyway due to bucket size).
311 - Send template-based CGI pages as HTTP/1.1 unless the client
313 - Let the first line in connection established responses
314 end in \r\n as required by RFC1945. Reported by Bert van Leeuwen.
315 - If no log file has been specified, disable logging instead of logging
317 - Don't block stderr when in daemon mode.
318 - Ignore missing zero-chunks when filtering chunk-encoded content.
319 Earlier Privoxy versions would buffer and then forward the content
320 unmodified which caused some browsers to simply show empty pages.
321 - Fix double free in cgi_edit_actions_list(). Reported by Venustech AD-LAB.
322 - The code to add X-Forwarded-For headers when the hide-forwarded-for-headers
323 action isn't being used has been removed.
324 - Fixed trustfile feature which previously didn't work without FEATURE_TOGGLE.
326 - Minor code clean-ups, filter and action file updates.
327 (Some of them reported by Davide Alberani, Markus Elfring,
328 Stefan Huehner and Adam Piggott)
330 *** Version 3.0.6 ***
332 - New content filters: no-ping, google, msn, yahoo and blogspot.
333 - New header filters: x-httpd-php-to-html, html-to-xml, xml-to-html
334 and hide-tor-exit-notation.
335 - The special header "X-Filter: No" now disables header filtering as well.
336 - Improved the filters img-reorder, js-annoyances, webbugs,
337 banners-by-size, banners-by-link and ie-exploits to make them
338 less likely to break anything.
339 - Removed outdated URL patterns in default.action and added new ones.
340 - Added redirection from http://p.p/user-manual to http://p.p/user-manual/
341 - Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent, hide-referrer
342 and set-image-blocker.
344 *** Version 3.0.5 Beta ***
346 - Windows version can be installed/started as a service.
347 - Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy.
348 - Integrated Fabian Keil's extensive patch. See:
349 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the
350 following new or significantly improved actions (among many
353 content-type-overwrite{}
354 crunch-client-header{string}
356 crunch-server-header{string}
357 fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}
358 filter-client-headers
359 filter-server-headers
361 handle-as-empty-document
362 hide-accept-language{}
363 hide-content-disposition{}
364 hide-if-modified-since
365 hide-referrer{conditional-block}
366 overwrite-last-modified{}
368 treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks
370 - Standard-compliant clients are prevented from displaying cached
371 copies of Privoxy's error messages after the cause of the problem
373 - Improved DNS error handling.
374 - Multiple filter files can now be specified in config.
375 - Added jpeg filtering to defend against MS jpeg vulnerability MS04-028
376 with the new inspect-jpegs action.
377 - Removed the "arbitrary" 1000 filter limit - addresses tracker #911950
378 - Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log
379 file. The race condition remains for non-pthread implementations.
380 Reference patch #1175720. Various other logging enhancements.
381 - A pile of assorted bug fixes, memory leaks, enhancements, etc.
382 - Moved Actions file reporting mechanism to SF tracker.
383 - Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and
384 forwarded-connect-retries.
385 - Trap unsupported FTP requests.
386 - Let text/xml be filtered.
387 - Numerous updates to default.action
388 - Increase the compiled in limit of trusted referrers from 64 to 512
389 (for trustfile users).
391 *** Version 3.0.3 ***
393 - Fixed yet another two memory leaks. Process growth seems stopped now.
394 - Further tightened security against malicious toggle-off links.
395 - Excluded text/plain MIME types from filtering. This fixes a
396 couple of client-crashing, download corruption and
397 Privoxy performance issues, whose root cause lies in
398 web servers labelling content of unknown type as text/plain.
399 - Assorted fixes for POSIX compliance, signal handling, graceful
400 termination, compiler warnings, OSX support, Win32 systray,
401 error logging, hostname wildcards, correct detection of NetBSD.
402 - Workarounds for client (iTunes etc) and server (PHP < 4.2.3) bugs
403 including the notorious "blank page" problem.
404 - Various filter improvements; most notably the unsolicited-popups
405 filter became less destructive
406 - Major revamp of the actions file
408 *** Version 3.0.2 ***
410 - Fixed two memory leaks, one serious
411 - Fixed bug in pcrs which could cause crashes with user-defined filters
412 - Fixed bug in domain name matching
413 - Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..)
414 - Added basic support for the OPTIONS and TRACE http methods
415 - Added workaround for Bug in Mac OSX that made Privoxy crash occasionally
416 - Refined the default action file through >400 items of user feedback
418 - Assorted refinements, optimizations and fixes in the js-annoyances,
419 img-reorder, banners-by-size, banners-by-link, webbugs, refresh-tags,
420 html-annoyances, content-cookies and fun filters
421 - Replaced filter "popups" by choice between two modes:
422 - "unsolicited-popups" tries to catch only the unsolicited ones
423 - "all-popups" tries to kill them all (as before)
424 - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas.
425 - New filter "jumping-windows" that prevents windows from resizing
426 and moving themselves
427 - New filter "demoronizer" which fixes MS's abuse of std charsets
428 (common cases anyway).
429 - Replaced "nimda" with more general "ie-exploits" filter in which
430 all filters for exploits shall be collected
431 - Improved cookie logging
432 - Rewrote make install target. Added uninstall and install-strip
434 - Fixed a potential (application-level, NOT OS-level!) security
435 problem involving remote toggling and action file manipulation
436 by mailicious websites.
437 - Added ability to chroot (thanks to Sviatoslav Sviridov)
438 - Added more action aliases for prehistoric action names
439 - Add Slackware support to Makefile.
443 - Fixed Windows startmenu items, log window and tray icon menus.
444 - Added warning for bogus install target
445 - Added quicktime-kioskmode filter and improved frameset-borders
446 - Updated default.action based on latest feedback
447 - New PDF doc build process
448 - Add a user contrib module to cvs:
449 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ijbswa/contrib/
451 *** Version 2.9.18 ***
453 - Added workaround for IE bug that broke CGI interface
454 - Bugfix: String actions now reliably editable through CGI interface
455 - Three filters fixed (again!)
456 - Assorted small fixes and doc enhancements
458 *** Version 2.9.16 ***
460 - Major revamp of default.action to get rid of years of cruft.
461 - Same for default.filter
462 - Re-design and major improvements to the CGI editor interface.
463 - Address spurious 'out of memory' error due to incorrect file permissions.
464 - Impose buffer limits while reading client and server headers.
465 - Better memory and CPU optimization.
466 - Add Conectiva Linux package.
467 - user-manual directive added to config for help links from within CGI
469 - Multiple actions files can now be specified in config.
470 - Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and
471 user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
472 - The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes.
474 *** Version 2.9.14 Beta ***
476 - Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
477 - Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
478 - Fix build failure where certain features were disabled.
479 - 'blocked-compact' template is removed. Various CGI improvements,
480 including an adaptive 'blocked' template.
481 - Various tweaks for actions file to get ready for stable 3.0
482 - Included a 'Bookmarklet' and PHP scripts for reporting actions file
483 problems via web interface at privoxy.org. Accessed via internal CGIs.
484 - Include cgi-style.css for templates.
485 - #include mechansim for common text in templates
486 - Various other minor fixes.
488 *** Version 2.9.13 Beta ***
490 - *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
491 reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
492 - ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now
494 - http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/
495 - The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern'
496 (checkerboard) is now the default.
497 - RPM spec file make over.
500 *** Version 2.9.12 Beta ***
502 - **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from
503 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
505 - More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements.
506 - Win32 command line fix ups.
507 - re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a
508 per site basis. Some new goodies there too.
509 - +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile
510 for even more flexibility.
511 - Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which
512 displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo.
513 - PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images
514 if configured with --enable-no-gif.
515 - Clean up compiler warnings (mostly).
516 - Improved handling of failed DNS lookups & diagnostics for failed bind
518 - Made --no-daemon mode log to tty instead of logfile.
519 - Various spec file and init script cleanups and improvements (Redhat and
521 - CGI Editor works on OS/2 now.
522 - Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT.
523 - Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file.
524 - A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help,
525 --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces
526 the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges
527 to the specified user.
528 - Signal handling cleanups (*nix).
529 - CGI actions editor improvements and fixes.
530 - Error handling improvements, especially out of memory.
531 - Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos
532 (instead of 'blank').
533 - configure.in threading fixes for Solaris.
534 - Various other minor fixes.
537 *** Version 2.9.11 Beta Changes ***
539 - Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life
540 of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk).
541 - Checks for correct header length.
542 - Fix user:pass@host.domain.com auth bug.
543 - Better signal handling on *nix.
544 - Fix CFLAGS hard-coded in configure.in
545 - Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random
546 URLs to fail in some cases.
549 *** Version 2.9.11 Alpha Changes ***
551 - A web-based editor for the actions file is included (go to http://i.j.b/).
552 - Web-based toggle IJB on/off support.
553 - Cookie handling has changed - the new +no-cookies-keep feature is now the
555 - actionsfile is renamed to ijb.action.
556 - junkbstr.txt is now config.txt on Win32.
557 - Support for running IJB as a UNIX daemon process has improved.
558 - Unix daemon now returns error code on failed start.
559 - Timestamps in logfile and jarfile now.
560 - Fix for the Netscape bug reintroduced in 2.9.9.
561 - make should now abort if gmake (GNU make) not present.
562 - Many other minor bugfixes
563 - Start a ChangeLog :)
567 *** Version 2.9.3 pre-Alpha Changes ***
569 - Amiga support (completely untested by me - I don't have an Amiga)
570 - "tinygif 3" support (redirects blocked images to a specified URL, so
571 the browser doesn't have to load and cache many copies of the same
573 - one case where there were both local and global "referrer" variables
574 (yuck!) clarified by renaming the local one to "refer".
575 - Fixed some places where close() was used instead of close_socket().
576 Thanks to Jörg Strohmayer (joergs at users.sourceforge.net) for these.
577 - Temporary hack to get FORCE_LOAD to work with IE. I just lowercased the
578 FORCE_LOAD_PREFIX. Needs fixing properly.
579 - Most URLs hardcoded into Junkbuster were changed to go through a script
580 e.g. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?v=2.9.3&to=faq
581 The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL:
582 http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
584 http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/
585 ... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway.
586 TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's
587 copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page.
588 - PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option.
591 *** Version 2.9.2 pre-Alpha Changes ***
593 - Andreas applied the latest version of the FORCE patch.
596 *** Version 2.9.1 pre-Alpha Changes ***
598 - in parsers.c, fixed two #ifdef FORCE to #ifdef FORCE_LOAD
599 (BTW: I think FORCE is precise enough, since loading remote
600 data is the whole purpose of a proxy..)
601 - Set the FORCE_PREFIX (back) to 'IJB-FORCE-LOAD-'. While 'noijb.'
602 is more elegant and looks like a hostname in the URL, it doesn't
603 make clear to the inexperienced user that the proxy is bypassed. It
604 also has a higher name collision risk.
605 - Filled in the function header templates for my functions in
606 parsers.c (again). They obviously got lost in our current
608 - Cut the credit for the §-referrer-option from the config file,
609 that Stefan had placed there.
610 - Improved the re_filterfile
613 *** Version 2.9.0 pre-Alpha Changes ***
615 - Now use PCRE, not GNU REGEX. I have not yet had chance to check the
616 syntax of the block/image/cookie file to ensure that they match what
617 is expected - however they seem to work.
618 - Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also
619 use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for
620 the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from
621 "acconfig.h" and "configure.in". (Note that to install you do not
622 need autoconf or autoheader - just run "./configure".)
623 To see command-line options, run "./configure --help".
624 This is my first ever autoconf script, so it has some rough edges
625 (how PCRE is handled is the roughest).
626 - Error logging code replaced with new module errlog.c, based on the
627 one from JunkbusterMT (but with the threading code removed).
628 - Most of Rodney's 0.21 and 0.21A patches applied. (Marked *). I did not
629 apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional
630 popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code.
631 - ACL, Jar and trust files conditionally compiled.
632 - New source file headers.
633 - Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the
634 config files - I think that's worthwhile, but it's 1am and I want to
636 - RCS tags on .h files.
637 - RCS tags are const char[] rather than const char *. (Saves 4 bytes
639 - VC++ project files renamed to vc_junkbuster.*.
640 - show-proxy-args now shows status of all conditionals, not just REGEX
641 - Various functions moved around. Most notably all the system-specific
642 sockets code which was spread between jcc.c, bind.c, and connect.c,
643 has been moved to "jbsockets.c". The non-system-specific code from
644 connect.c and socks4.c has been movet to "gateway.c". Also, the
645 config file loader and the global variables it writes to have been
646 moved to "loadcfg.c". (Maybe this should go into loaders.c?)
647 And candidate for the "worst filename ever" award is "miscutil.c",
648 which contains, well, miscellaneous utility functions like zalloc.
649 (Suggestions for a better name for this file are welcome!)
650 - Loaders now use a common function to read a line and skip comments,
651 and this function also stores the proxy_args.
652 - Added ./junkbuster --help (Not for Win32 GUI)
653 - Added ./junkbuster --version (Not for Win32 GUI)
654 - Win32 resources are now all marked as "U.S. English", rather than
655 being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English".
656 - Version number changes to 2.9.0
660 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
661 Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2008 the SourceForge
662 Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
664 Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
665 by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
666 Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com/
668 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
669 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
670 Public License as published by the Free Software
671 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
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674 This program is distributed in the hope that it will
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