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6 - The socket-timeout option now also works on platforms whose
7 select() implementation modifies the timeout structure.
8 Previously the timeout was triggered even if the connection
9 didn't stall. Reported by cyberpatrol.
10 - The Connection: keep-alive code properly deals with files
11 larger than 2GB. Previously the connection was closed too
13 - The content length for files above 2GB is logged correctly.
14 - The user-manual directive on the show-status page links to
15 the documentation location specified with the directive,
16 not to the Privoxy website.
17 - When running in daemon mode, Privoxy doesn't log anything
18 to the console unless there are errors before the logfile
20 - The show-status page prints warnings about invalid directives
21 on the same line as the directives themselves.
22 - Fixed several justified (but harmless) compiler warnings,
23 mostly on 64 bit platforms.
24 - The mingw32 version explicitly requests the default charset
25 to prevent display problems with some fonts available on more
26 recent Windows versions. Patch by Burberry.
27 - The mingw32 version uses the Privoxy icon in the alt-tab
28 windows. Patch by Burberry.
29 - The timestamp and the thread id is omitted in the "Fatal error"
30 message box on mingw32.
31 - Fixed two related mingw32-only buffer overflows. Triggering
32 them required control over the configuration file, therefore
33 this isn't seen as a security issue.
34 - In verbose mode, or if the new option --show-skipped-tests
35 is used, Privoxy-Regression-Test logs skipped tests and the
38 *** Version 3.0.11 ***
40 - On most platforms, outgoing connections can be kept alive and
41 reused if the server supports it. Whether or not this improves
42 things depends on the connection.
43 - When dropping privileges, membership in supplementary groups
44 is given up as well. Not doing that can lead to Privoxy running
45 with more rights than necessary and violates the principle of
46 least privilege. Users of the --user option are advised to update.
47 Thanks to Matthias Drochner for reporting the problem,
48 providing the initial patch and testing the final version.
49 - Passing invalid users or groups with the --user option
50 didn't lead to program exit. Regression introduced in 3.0.7.
51 - The match all section has been moved from default.action
52 to a new file called match-all.action. As a result the
53 default.action no longer needs to be touched by the user
54 and can be safely overwritten by updates.
55 - The standard.action file has been removed. Its content
56 is now part of the default.action file.
57 - In some situations the logged content length was slightly too low.
58 - Crunched requests are logged with their own log level.
59 If you used "debug 1" in the past, you'll probably want
60 to additionally enable "debug 1024", otherwise only passed
61 requests will be logged. If you only care about crunched
62 requests, simply replace "debug 1" with "debug 1024".
63 - The crunch reason has been moved to the beginning of the
64 crunch message. For HTTP URLs, the protocol is logged as well.
65 - Log messages are shortened by printing the thread id on its
66 own (as opposed to putting it inside the string "Privoxy()").
67 - The config option socket-timeout has been added to control
68 the time Privoxy waits for data to arrive on a socket.
69 - Support for remote toggling is controlled by the configure
70 option --disable-toggle only. In previous versions it also
71 depended on the action editor and thus configuring with the
72 --disable-editor option would disable remote toggling support
74 - Requests with invalid HTTP versions are rejected.
75 - The template symbol @date@ can be used to include a date(1)-like
76 time string. Initial patch submitted by Endre Szabo.
77 - Responses from shoutcast servers are accepted again.
78 Problem reported and fix suggested by Stefan.
79 - The hide-forwarded-for-headers action has been replaced with
80 the change-x-forwarded-for{} action which can also be used to
81 add X-Forwarded-For headers. The latter functionality already
82 existed in Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.7 but has been removed
83 as it was often used unintentionally (by not using the
84 hide-forwarded-for-headers action).
85 - A "clear log" view option was added to the mingw32 version
86 to clear out all of the lines in the Privoxy log window.
87 Based on a patch submitted by T Ford.
88 - The mingw32 version uses "critical sections" now, which prevents
89 log message corruption under load. As a side effect, the
90 "no thread-safe PRNG" warning could be removed as well.
91 - The mingw32 version's task bar icon is crossed out and
92 the color changed to gray if Privoxy is toggled off.
94 *** Version 3.0.10 ***
96 - Ordinary configuration file changes no longer cause program
97 termination on OS/2 if the name of the logfile hasn't been
98 changed as well. This regression probably crept in with the
99 logging improvements in 3.0.7. Reported by Maynard.
100 - The img-reorder filter is less likely to mess up JavaScript code in
101 img tags. Problem and solution reported by Glenn Washburn in #2014552.
102 - The source tar ball now includes Privoxy-Log-Parser,
103 a syntax-highlighter for Privoxy logs. For fancy screenshots see:
104 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy-log-parser/
105 Documentation is available through perldoc(1).
107 *** Version 3.0.9 Beta ***
109 - Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by
110 the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
111 - The "blocked" CGI pages include a block reason that was
112 provided as argument to the last-applying block action.
113 - If enable-edit-actions is disabled (the default since 3.0.7 beta)
114 the show-status page hides the edit buttons and explains why.
115 Previously the user would get the "this feature has been disabled"
116 message after using the edit button.
117 - Forbidden CONNECT requests are treated like blocks by default.
118 The now-pointless treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks action
120 - Not enabling limit-connect now allows CONNECT requests to all ports.
121 In previous versions it would only allow CONNECT requests to port 443.
122 Use +limit-connect{443} if you think you need the old default behaviour.
123 - The CGI editor gets turned off after three edit requests with invalid
124 file modification timestamps. This makes life harder for attackers
125 who can leverage browser bugs to send fake Referers and intend to
126 brute-force edit URLs.
127 - Action settings for multiple patterns in the same section are
128 shared in memory. As a result these sections take up less space
129 (and are loaded slightly faster). Problem reported by Franz Schwartau.
130 - Linear white space in HTTP headers will be normalized to single
131 spaces before parsing the header's content, headers split across
132 multiple lines get merged first. This should prevent problems like:
133 * letting the session-cookies-only action slip
134 some Cookies through unmodified,
135 * only suppressing the first line of a header,
136 thus creating an invalid one, and
137 * to incorrectly block headers with valid timestamps
138 that weren't properly recognized.
139 Headers that could trigger these problems are unlikely to appear
140 in "normal" web traffic, but could be intentionally generated to
141 fool some of Privoxy's header parsers.
142 - Host information is gathered outside the main thread so it's less
143 likely to delay other incoming connections if the host is misconfigured.
144 - New config option "hostname" to use a hostname other than
145 the one returned by the operating system. Useful to speed-up responses
146 for CGI requests on misconfigured systems. Requested by Max Khon.
147 - The CGI editor supports the "disable all filters of this type"
148 directives "-client-header-filter", "-server-header-filter",
149 "-client-header-tagger" and "-server-header-tagger".
150 - Fixed false-positives with the link-by-url filter and URLs that
151 contain the pattern "/jump/".
152 - The less-download-windows filter no longer messes
153 "Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash" headers up.
154 - In the show-url-info page's "Final results" section active and
155 inactive actions are listed separately. Patch provided by Lee.
156 - The GNUmakefile supports the DESTDIR variable. Patch for
157 the install target submitted by Radoslaw Zielinski.
158 - Embedding the content of configuration files in the show-status
159 page is significantly faster now. For a largish action file (1 MB)
160 a speedup of about 2450 times has been measured. This is mostly
161 interesting if you are using large action files or regularly use
162 Privoxy-Regression-Test while running Privoxy through Valgrind,
163 for stock configuration files it doesn't really matter.
164 - If zlib support is unavailable and there are content
165 filters active but the prevent-compression action is disabled,
166 the show-url-info page includes a warning that compression
167 might prevent filtering.
168 - The show-url-info page provides an OpenSearch Description that
169 allows to access the page through browser search plugins.
170 - Custom client-header filters that rewrite the request line
171 incorrectly no longer cause Privoxy to crash. Reported by din_a4.
172 - The obsolete kill-popups action has been removed as the
173 PCRS-based popup filters can do the same and are slightly
175 - The inspect-jpegs action has been removed.
176 - The send-wafer and send-vanilla-wafer actions have been removed.
177 They weren't particular useful and their behaviour could be emulated
178 with add-header anyway.
179 - Privoxy-Regression-Test has been significantly improved.
180 - Most sections in the default.action file contain tests for
181 Privoxy-Regression-Test to verify that they are working as intended.
182 - Parts of Privoxy have been refactored to increase maintainability.
183 - Building with zlib (if available) is done by default.
185 *** Version 3.0.8 ***
187 - Fixed a small memory leak when listen-address only specifies the port.
188 - The source tar balls now include Privoxy-Regression-Test which
189 (upon other things) can be used to automatically detect some
190 packaging problems. Packagers are welcome to give it a try.
191 - Reverted a change in 3.0.7 that caused path patterns to be checked
192 even if the host pattern match already failed. While this doesn't
193 noticeable affect the performance, it makes it less likely to run
194 out of stack space with overly-complex path patterns the user might
196 - Updated the msn, yahoo and google filters to work as advertised again.
197 - The warning message shown by the show-status CGI page is easier to
198 understand. Previously it wasn't clear that the error message
199 is shown below the invalid directive. (Reported by Lee)
200 - When regenerating Content-Disposition headers the more common
201 spelling is used for the name. Previously it was written without caps.
202 - Less confusing log message if the content type isn't overwritten
203 because force-text-type wasn't used but the old type doesn't look
204 like content that would be filtered normally.
205 - Better log messages if the user tries to execute filters that
207 - Treat the non-standard Request-Range headers like standard range
208 headers and suppress them if content filtering is enabled.
209 - Prevent the log messages for CONNECT requests to unacceptable
210 ports from printing the limit-connect argument as [null] if
211 limit-connect hasn't been explicitly enabled.
212 - Don't disable the mingw32 log window if the logfile directive
213 isn't used. While it was an intentional change in 3.0.7 at least
214 one user perceived it as a regression and the same effect can
215 be achieved by disabling all debug directives.
216 - Fixed two minor problems related to the win32 build process: a css
217 file was not being in the installer and the trustfile comment in the
218 config.txt referenced a nonexisting file
219 - Minor documentation fixes.
221 *** Version 3.0.7 Beta ***
223 - Added zlib support to filter content with gzip and deflate
224 encoding. (Patch provided by Wil Mahan)
225 - Dedicated filters and actions are used for header filtering.
226 "filter-client-headers" and "filter-client-headers" are no longer
227 supported, use server-header-filter{} and client-header-filter{}
229 - Tags can be used to change actions based on HTTP headers.
230 - New server-header filter: less-download-windows.
231 - New client-header taggers: css-requests, image-requests,
232 client-ip-address, http-method, allow-post, complete-url,
233 user-agent and privoxy-control.
234 - New server-header taggers: content-type and privoxy-control.
235 - The forward-override{} action allows to change the forwarding
236 settings through the action files, for example based on client
237 headers like the User-Agent, or the request origin.
238 - Socks errors are no longer handled by the CGI page for
239 DNS resolution failures.
240 - CGI pages use favicons to signal whether they are error
241 or control pages. This is useful if you rely heavily on
243 - The show-url-info CGI page shows the forwarding settings.
244 - "Crunch!" log messages (used when Privoxy answers requests
245 by itself) now also contain the reason.
246 - Allow to rewrite the request destination behind the client's back.
247 - Fix socks requests on big-endian platforms. Patch provided by Song Weijia.
248 - Fixes possible deadlocks and crashes on OpenBSD.
249 Patch provided by Ralf Horstmann.
250 - The CGI action editor allows to edit actionfiles with previously
251 forbidden characters like dots.
252 - New trust entries are saved with a comment that contains the
253 trusted referring URL (Suggested by Daniel Griscom).
254 - Filter descriptions are HTML encoded automatically.
255 - New config option "split-large-forms" to work
256 around a browser bug that caused IE6 and IE7 to ignore
257 the Submit button on the edit-actions-for-url CGI page.
258 - New config option "allow-cgi-request-crunching" to allow
259 requests for Privoxy's CGI pages to be blocked, redirected
260 or (un)trusted like ordinary requests.
261 - Empty filter files no longer interrupt the filtering process
262 prematurely and are correctly listed on the show-status CGI page.
263 - New config option "accept-intercepted-requests" to combine
264 Privoxy with any packet filter to build an intercepting proxy
265 for HTTP/1.1 requests (and for HTTP/1.0 requests with Host header set).
266 - fast-redirects{} catch redirects to https URLs as well.
267 - redirect{s@foo@bar@} can be used to redirect to a rewritten
268 version of the original URL.
269 - Trap unsupported gopher proxy requests.
270 - Fixed a bug in the User Manual delivery on Windows
271 (mingw32 only). Images now show up correctly and HTML
272 pages are no longer padded with garbage data.
273 - Fixed several minor memory leaks, most of them discovered with Valgrind.
274 - Only unlink the pidfile if it's actually used.
275 - Retries after connection problems with forced requests
276 aren't blocked again.
277 - On Unix SIGABRT causes a core dump as expected and is no
278 longer treated as normal shutdown signal.
279 - The "access denied" CGI page is more descriptive and
280 allows retries to circumvent the referrer check.
281 - Updated PCRS to handle unexpected PCRE errors properly.
282 Fixed crashes that could occur if Privoxy was build
283 with external PCRE versions newer than Privoxy's internal
284 one. (Reported by Chung-chieh Shan)
285 - Fixed crashes with null bytes in PCRS replacement strings
286 (Patch provided by Felix Gröbert).
287 - Fixed crashes with header time randomization on mingw32.
288 - The CGI style sheet is no longer delivered if the referring
289 page isn't a Privoxy CGI page. This prevents a JavaScript-based
290 Privoxy detection "attack". Note that detecting Privoxy is
291 still possible through other ways and Privoxy was never intended
292 to be invisible anyway.
293 - Added support for AmigaOS 4, fixed build for AmigaOS 3.x.
294 - The show-url-info CGI page displays a warning if Privoxy
295 is currently toggled off.
296 - The show-status CGI page suppresses the edit button
297 for action files if Privoxy has no write access.
298 - Most CGI error pages react properly to HEAD requests.
299 - Requests with RFC 3253 HTTP methods (used by Subversion)
300 are accepted. (Patch provided by Petr Kadlec)
301 - New config option "templdir" to change the location
302 of the CGI templates to make sure customized templates
304 - Better handling of "HTTP/1.1 100 Continue" responses.
305 - The background of the PNG pattern is transparent.
306 - Fixed XML syntax errors caused by banners-by-size and banners-by-url.
307 - Fixed crashes and possible action file corruptions
308 when lines containing hashes are written through the CGI editor.
309 - Supports dynamic filters which can contain variables.
310 - Supports tags to change the actions based on client or server headers.
311 - Incorrect actions are logged before program termination.
312 - The "actionsfile" syntax in the configuration file is consistent
313 with the rest of the configuration options and requires the
314 whole file name. This is an incompatible change, if you use
315 an old configuration file you might have to append ".action"
316 to your "actionsfile" directives.
317 - With the configuration file option "enforce-blocks" the
318 "go there anyway" mechanism can be disabled without recompiling
320 - More precise error messages in case of incorrect acl syntax.
321 - Logs a warning if filtering is enabled but impossible due
322 to lack of zlib support or use of the prevent-compression action.
323 - Less noisy handling of Cookie:" and "Connection:" headers.
324 - Improved error messages in case of connection problems.
325 - Fix a command-line-parsing bug that was introduced before 3.0.5
326 beta and caused Privoxy to treat the last argument as configuration
327 file if no configuration file was specified.
328 - Treat unknown command line options as fatal errors instead
329 of silently ignoring them.
330 - Use string functions with length checks more often.
331 - Don't log CONNECT requests twice.
332 - Allow to log the source address for ACL-related connection drops.
333 - Don't ignore applying filters if the server didn't
334 specify a Content-Type. Bug reported by Amuro Namie.
335 - Rejected CONNECT requests are logged with log level info
336 (enabled by default) and the reason for the block.
337 - New command line option "--pre-chroot-nslookup hostname" to
338 intialize the resolver library before chroot'ing. On some systems this
339 reduces the number of files that must be copied into the chroot tree.
340 (Patch provided by Stephen Gildea)
341 - Fix a long-standing memory corruption bug that could cause
342 Privoxy to overwrite a single byte in memory it didn't explicitly
343 allocate (but that probably was allocated anyway due to bucket size).
344 - Send template-based CGI pages as HTTP/1.1 unless the client
346 - Let the first line in connection established responses
347 end in \r\n as required by RFC1945. Reported by Bert van Leeuwen.
348 - If no log file has been specified, disable logging instead of logging
350 - Don't block stderr when in daemon mode.
351 - Ignore missing zero-chunks when filtering chunk-encoded content.
352 Earlier Privoxy versions would buffer and then forward the content
353 unmodified which caused some browsers to simply show empty pages.
354 - Fix double free in cgi_edit_actions_list(). Reported by Venustech AD-LAB.
355 - The code to add X-Forwarded-For headers when the hide-forwarded-for-headers
356 action isn't being used has been removed.
357 - Fixed trustfile feature which previously didn't work without FEATURE_TOGGLE.
359 - Minor code clean-ups, filter and action file updates.
360 (Some of them reported by Davide Alberani, Markus Elfring,
361 Stefan Huehner and Adam Piggott)
363 *** Version 3.0.6 ***
365 - New content filters: no-ping, google, msn, yahoo and blogspot.
366 - New header filters: x-httpd-php-to-html, html-to-xml, xml-to-html
367 and hide-tor-exit-notation.
368 - The special header "X-Filter: No" now disables header filtering as well.
369 - Improved the filters img-reorder, js-annoyances, webbugs,
370 banners-by-size, banners-by-link and ie-exploits to make them
371 less likely to break anything.
372 - Removed outdated URL patterns in default.action and added new ones.
373 - Added redirection from http://p.p/user-manual to http://p.p/user-manual/
374 - Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent, hide-referrer
375 and set-image-blocker.
377 *** Version 3.0.5 Beta ***
379 - Windows version can be installed/started as a service.
380 - Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy.
381 - Integrated Fabian Keil's extensive patch. See:
382 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the
383 following new or significantly improved actions (among many
386 content-type-overwrite{}
387 crunch-client-header{string}
389 crunch-server-header{string}
390 fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}
391 filter-client-headers
392 filter-server-headers
394 handle-as-empty-document
395 hide-accept-language{}
396 hide-content-disposition{}
397 hide-if-modified-since
398 hide-referrer{conditional-block}
399 overwrite-last-modified{}
401 treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks
403 - Standard-compliant clients are prevented from displaying cached
404 copies of Privoxy's error messages after the cause of the problem
406 - Improved DNS error handling.
407 - Multiple filter files can now be specified in config.
408 - Added jpeg filtering to defend against MS jpeg vulnerability MS04-028
409 with the new inspect-jpegs action.
410 - Removed the "arbitrary" 1000 filter limit - addresses tracker #911950
411 - Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log
412 file. The race condition remains for non-pthread implementations.
413 Reference patch #1175720. Various other logging enhancements.
414 - A pile of assorted bug fixes, memory leaks, enhancements, etc.
415 - Moved Actions file reporting mechanism to SF tracker.
416 - Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and
417 forwarded-connect-retries.
418 - Trap unsupported FTP requests.
419 - Let text/xml be filtered.
420 - Numerous updates to default.action
421 - Increase the compiled in limit of trusted referrers from 64 to 512
422 (for trustfile users).
424 *** Version 3.0.3 ***
426 - Fixed yet another two memory leaks. Process growth seems stopped now.
427 - Further tightened security against malicious toggle-off links.
428 - Excluded text/plain MIME types from filtering. This fixes a
429 couple of client-crashing, download corruption and
430 Privoxy performance issues, whose root cause lies in
431 web servers labelling content of unknown type as text/plain.
432 - Assorted fixes for POSIX compliance, signal handling, graceful
433 termination, compiler warnings, OSX support, Win32 systray,
434 error logging, hostname wildcards, correct detection of NetBSD.
435 - Workarounds for client (iTunes etc) and server (PHP < 4.2.3) bugs
436 including the notorious "blank page" problem.
437 - Various filter improvements; most notably the unsolicited-popups
438 filter became less destructive
439 - Major revamp of the actions file
441 *** Version 3.0.2 ***
443 - Fixed two memory leaks, one serious
444 - Fixed bug in pcrs which could cause crashes with user-defined filters
445 - Fixed bug in domain name matching
446 - Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..)
447 - Added basic support for the OPTIONS and TRACE http methods
448 - Added workaround for Bug in Mac OSX that made Privoxy crash occasionally
449 - Refined the default action file through >400 items of user feedback
451 - Assorted refinements, optimizations and fixes in the js-annoyances,
452 img-reorder, banners-by-size, banners-by-link, webbugs, refresh-tags,
453 html-annoyances, content-cookies and fun filters
454 - Replaced filter "popups" by choice between two modes:
455 - "unsolicited-popups" tries to catch only the unsolicited ones
456 - "all-popups" tries to kill them all (as before)
457 - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas.
458 - New filter "jumping-windows" that prevents windows from resizing
459 and moving themselves
460 - New filter "demoronizer" which fixes MS's abuse of std charsets
461 (common cases anyway).
462 - Replaced "nimda" with more general "ie-exploits" filter in which
463 all filters for exploits shall be collected
464 - Improved cookie logging
465 - Rewrote make install target. Added uninstall and install-strip
467 - Fixed a potential (application-level, NOT OS-level!) security
468 problem involving remote toggling and action file manipulation
469 by mailicious websites.
470 - Added ability to chroot (thanks to Sviatoslav Sviridov)
471 - Added more action aliases for prehistoric action names
472 - Add Slackware support to Makefile.
476 - Fixed Windows startmenu items, log window and tray icon menus.
477 - Added warning for bogus install target
478 - Added quicktime-kioskmode filter and improved frameset-borders
479 - Updated default.action based on latest feedback
480 - New PDF doc build process
481 - Add a user contrib module to cvs:
482 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ijbswa/contrib/
484 *** Version 2.9.18 ***
486 - Added workaround for IE bug that broke CGI interface
487 - Bugfix: String actions now reliably editable through CGI interface
488 - Three filters fixed (again!)
489 - Assorted small fixes and doc enhancements
491 *** Version 2.9.16 ***
493 - Major revamp of default.action to get rid of years of cruft.
494 - Same for default.filter
495 - Re-design and major improvements to the CGI editor interface.
496 - Address spurious 'out of memory' error due to incorrect file permissions.
497 - Impose buffer limits while reading client and server headers.
498 - Better memory and CPU optimization.
499 - Add Conectiva Linux package.
500 - user-manual directive added to config for help links from within CGI
502 - Multiple actions files can now be specified in config.
503 - Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and
504 user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
505 - The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes.
507 *** Version 2.9.14 Beta ***
509 - Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
510 - Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
511 - Fix build failure where certain features were disabled.
512 - 'blocked-compact' template is removed. Various CGI improvements,
513 including an adaptive 'blocked' template.
514 - Various tweaks for actions file to get ready for stable 3.0
515 - Included a 'Bookmarklet' and PHP scripts for reporting actions file
516 problems via web interface at privoxy.org. Accessed via internal CGIs.
517 - Include cgi-style.css for templates.
518 - #include mechansim for common text in templates
519 - Various other minor fixes.
521 *** Version 2.9.13 Beta ***
523 - *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
524 reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
525 - ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now
527 - http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/
528 - The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern'
529 (checkerboard) is now the default.
530 - RPM spec file make over.
533 *** Version 2.9.12 Beta ***
535 - **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from
536 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
538 - More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements.
539 - Win32 command line fix ups.
540 - re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a
541 per site basis. Some new goodies there too.
542 - +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile
543 for even more flexibility.
544 - Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which
545 displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo.
546 - PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images
547 if configured with --enable-no-gif.
548 - Clean up compiler warnings (mostly).
549 - Improved handling of failed DNS lookups & diagnostics for failed bind
551 - Made --no-daemon mode log to tty instead of logfile.
552 - Various spec file and init script cleanups and improvements (Redhat and
554 - CGI Editor works on OS/2 now.
555 - Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT.
556 - Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file.
557 - A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help,
558 --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces
559 the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges
560 to the specified user.
561 - Signal handling cleanups (*nix).
562 - CGI actions editor improvements and fixes.
563 - Error handling improvements, especially out of memory.
564 - Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos
565 (instead of 'blank').
566 - configure.in threading fixes for Solaris.
567 - Various other minor fixes.
570 *** Version 2.9.11 Beta Changes ***
572 - Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life
573 of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk).
574 - Checks for correct header length.
575 - Fix user:pass@host.domain.com auth bug.
576 - Better signal handling on *nix.
577 - Fix CFLAGS hard-coded in configure.in
578 - Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random
579 URLs to fail in some cases.
582 *** Version 2.9.11 Alpha Changes ***
584 - A web-based editor for the actions file is included (go to http://i.j.b/).
585 - Web-based toggle IJB on/off support.
586 - Cookie handling has changed - the new +no-cookies-keep feature is now the
588 - actionsfile is renamed to ijb.action.
589 - junkbstr.txt is now config.txt on Win32.
590 - Support for running IJB as a UNIX daemon process has improved.
591 - Unix daemon now returns error code on failed start.
592 - Timestamps in logfile and jarfile now.
593 - Fix for the Netscape bug reintroduced in 2.9.9.
594 - make should now abort if gmake (GNU make) not present.
595 - Many other minor bugfixes
596 - Start a ChangeLog :)
600 *** Version 2.9.3 pre-Alpha Changes ***
602 - Amiga support (completely untested by me - I don't have an Amiga)
603 - "tinygif 3" support (redirects blocked images to a specified URL, so
604 the browser doesn't have to load and cache many copies of the same
606 - one case where there were both local and global "referrer" variables
607 (yuck!) clarified by renaming the local one to "refer".
608 - Fixed some places where close() was used instead of close_socket().
609 Thanks to Jörg Strohmayer (joergs at users.sourceforge.net) for these.
610 - Temporary hack to get FORCE_LOAD to work with IE. I just lowercased the
611 FORCE_LOAD_PREFIX. Needs fixing properly.
612 - Most URLs hardcoded into Junkbuster were changed to go through a script
613 e.g. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?v=2.9.3&to=faq
614 The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL:
615 http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
617 http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/
618 ... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway.
619 TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's
620 copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page.
621 - PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option.
624 *** Version 2.9.2 pre-Alpha Changes ***
626 - Andreas applied the latest version of the FORCE patch.
629 *** Version 2.9.1 pre-Alpha Changes ***
631 - in parsers.c, fixed two #ifdef FORCE to #ifdef FORCE_LOAD
632 (BTW: I think FORCE is precise enough, since loading remote
633 data is the whole purpose of a proxy..)
634 - Set the FORCE_PREFIX (back) to 'IJB-FORCE-LOAD-'. While 'noijb.'
635 is more elegant and looks like a hostname in the URL, it doesn't
636 make clear to the inexperienced user that the proxy is bypassed. It
637 also has a higher name collision risk.
638 - Filled in the function header templates for my functions in
639 parsers.c (again). They obviously got lost in our current
641 - Cut the credit for the §-referrer-option from the config file,
642 that Stefan had placed there.
643 - Improved the re_filterfile
646 *** Version 2.9.0 pre-Alpha Changes ***
648 - Now use PCRE, not GNU REGEX. I have not yet had chance to check the
649 syntax of the block/image/cookie file to ensure that they match what
650 is expected - however they seem to work.
651 - Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also
652 use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for
653 the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from
654 "acconfig.h" and "configure.in". (Note that to install you do not
655 need autoconf or autoheader - just run "./configure".)
656 To see command-line options, run "./configure --help".
657 This is my first ever autoconf script, so it has some rough edges
658 (how PCRE is handled is the roughest).
659 - Error logging code replaced with new module errlog.c, based on the
660 one from JunkbusterMT (but with the threading code removed).
661 - Most of Rodney's 0.21 and 0.21A patches applied. (Marked *). I did not
662 apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional
663 popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code.
664 - ACL, Jar and trust files conditionally compiled.
665 - New source file headers.
666 - Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the
667 config files - I think that's worthwhile, but it's 1am and I want to
669 - RCS tags on .h files.
670 - RCS tags are const char[] rather than const char *. (Saves 4 bytes
672 - VC++ project files renamed to vc_junkbuster.*.
673 - show-proxy-args now shows status of all conditionals, not just REGEX
674 - Various functions moved around. Most notably all the system-specific
675 sockets code which was spread between jcc.c, bind.c, and connect.c,
676 has been moved to "jbsockets.c". The non-system-specific code from
677 connect.c and socks4.c has been movet to "gateway.c". Also, the
678 config file loader and the global variables it writes to have been
679 moved to "loadcfg.c". (Maybe this should go into loaders.c?)
680 And candidate for the "worst filename ever" award is "miscutil.c",
681 which contains, well, miscellaneous utility functions like zalloc.
682 (Suggestions for a better name for this file are welcome!)
683 - Loaders now use a common function to read a line and skip comments,
684 and this function also stores the proxy_args.
685 - Added ./junkbuster --help (Not for Win32 GUI)
686 - Added ./junkbuster --version (Not for Win32 GUI)
687 - Win32 resources are now all marked as "U.S. English", rather than
688 being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English".
689 - Version number changes to 2.9.0
693 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
694 Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2008 the SourceForge
695 Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
697 Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
698 by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
699 Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com/
701 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
702 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
703 Public License as published by the Free Software
704 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
705 your option) any later version.
707 This program is distributed in the hope that it will
708 be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
709 implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
710 PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
711 License for more details.
713 The GNU General Public License should be included with
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716 or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59
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