1 Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.11
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4 3.0.11 is a stable release which includes many enhancements but no major
5 new features. The most prominent new feature is support for "keep-alive"
6 connection. There are many small improvements.
8 See http://www.privoxy.org/3.0.11/user-manual/whatsnew.html for details.
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14 *** Version 3.0.11 ***
16 - On most platforms, outgoing connections can be kept alive and
17 reused if the server supports it. Whether or not this improves
18 things depends on the connection.
19 - When dropping privileges, membership in supplementary groups
20 is given up as well. Not doing that can lead to Privoxy running
21 with more rights than necessary and violates the principle of
22 least privilege. Users of the --user option are advised to update.
23 Thanks to Matthias Drochner for reporting the problem,
24 providing the initial patch and testing the final version.
25 - Passing invalid users or groups with the --user option
26 didn't lead to program exit. Regression introduced in 3.0.7.
27 - The match all section has been moved from default.action
28 to a new file called match-all.action. As a result the
29 default.action no longer needs to be touched by the user
30 and can be safely overwritten by updates.
31 - The standard.action file has been removed. Its content
32 is now part of the default.action file.
33 - In some situations the logged content length was slightly too low.
34 - Crunched requests are logged with their own log level.
35 If you used "debug 1" in the past, you'll probably want
36 to additionally enable "debug 1024", otherwise only passed
37 requests will be logged. If you only care about crunched
38 requests, simply replace "debug 1" with "debug 1024".
39 - The crunch reason has been moved to the beginning of the
40 crunch message. For HTTP URLs, the protocol is logged as well.
41 - Log messages are shortened by not printing the thread id
42 on its own (as opposed to putting it inside "Privoxy()".
43 - The config option socket-timeout has been added to control
44 the time Privoxy waits for data to arrive on a socket.
45 - Support for remote toggling is controlled by the configure
46 option --disable-toggle only. In previous versions it also
47 depended on the action editor and thus configuring with the
48 --disable-editor option would disable remote toggling support
50 - Requests with invalid HTTP versions are rejected.
51 - The template symbol @date@ can be used to include a date(1)-like
52 time string. Initial patch submitted by Endre Szabo.
53 - Responses from shoutcast servers are accepted again.
54 Problem reported and fix suggested by Stefan.
55 - The hide-forwarded-for-headers action has been replaced with
56 the change-x-forwarded-for{} action which can also be used to
57 add X-Forwarded-For headers. The latter functionality already
58 existed in Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.7 but has been removed
59 as it was often used unintentionally (by not using the
60 hide-forwarded-for-headers action).
61 - A "clear log" view option was added to the mingw32 version
62 to clear out all of the lines in the Privoxy log window.
63 Based on a patch submitted by T Ford.
64 - The mingw32 version uses "critical sections" now, which prevents
65 log message corruption under load. As a side effect, the
66 "no thread-safe PRNG" warning could be removed as well.
67 - The mingw32 version's task bar icon is crossed out and
68 the color changed to gray if Privoxy is toggled off.
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74 Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for
75 protecting privacy, modifying web page data, managing cookies,
76 controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other
77 obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible
78 configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs
79 and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems
80 and multi-user networks.
82 Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).
84 At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows(95, 98, ME, 2000,
85 XP, Vista), Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and
86 others), Mac OSX, OS/2, AmigaOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and
87 various other flavors of Unix.
89 In addition to the core features of ad blocking and cookie management, Privoxy provides many supplemental features, that give the end-user more control, more privacy and more freedom:
92 * Can keep outgoing connections alive and reuse them later on.
94 * Supports tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on client
97 * Can be run as an "intercepting" proxy, which obviates the need to
98 configure browsers individually.
100 * Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both server and
103 * Can be chained with other proxies.
105 * Integrated browser based configuration and control utility at
106 http://config.privoxy.org/ (shortcut: http://p.p/). Browser-based
107 tracing of rule and filter effects. Remote toggling.
109 * Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on size,
110 invisible "web-bugs", JavaScript and HTML annoyances, pop-up windows,
113 * Modularized configuration that allows for standard settings and user
114 settings to reside in separate files, so that installing updated actions
115 files won't overwrite individual user settings.
117 * Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the configuration
118 files, and a more sophisticated and flexible configuration syntax.
120 * Improved cookie management features (e.g. session based cookies).
124 * Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection).
126 * Multi-threaded (POSIX and native threads).
128 * User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages (e.g.
131 * Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes.
133 * Improved signal handling, and a true daemon mode (Unix).
135 * Every feature now controllable on a per-site or per-location basis,
136 configuration more powerful and versatile over-all.
140 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118
143 http://www.privoxy.org/
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