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6 - Fixed two memory leaks, one serious
7 - Fixed bug in pcrs which could cause crashes with user-defined filters
8 - Fixed bug in domain name matching
9 - Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..)
11 - Added basic support for the OPTIONS and TRACE http methods
12 - Added workaround for Bug in Mac OSX that made Privoxy crash occasionally
13 - Refined the default action file through >400 items of user feedback
15 - Assorted refinements, optimizations and fixes in the js-annoyances,
16 img-reorder, banners-by-size, banners-by-link, webbugs, refresh-tags,
17 html-annoyances, content-cookies and fun filters
18 - Replaced filter "popups" by choice between two modes:
19 - "unsolicited-popups" tries to catch only the unsolicited ones
20 - "all-popups" tries to kill them all (as before)
21 - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas.
22 - New filter "jumping-windows" that prevents windows from resizing
24 - New filter "demoronizer" which fixes MS's abuse of std charsets
25 (common cases anyway).
26 - Replaced "nimda" with more general "ie-exploits" filter in which
27 all filters for exploits shall be collected
28 - Improved cookie logging
29 - Rewrote make install target. Added uninstall and install-strip
31 - Fixed a potential (application-level, NOT OS-level!) security
32 problem involving remote toggling and action file manipulation
33 by mailicious websites.
34 - Added ability to chroot (thanks to Sviatoslav Sviridov)
35 - Added more action aliases for prehistoric action names
36 - Add Slackware support to Makefile.
40 - Fixed Windows startmenu items, log window and tray icon menus.
41 - Added warning for bogus install target
42 - Added quicktime-kioskmode filter and improved frameset-borders
43 - Updated default.action based on latest feedback
44 - New PDF doc build process
45 - Add a user contrib module to cvs:
46 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ijbswa/contrib/
48 *** Version 2.9.18 ***
50 - Added workaround for IE bug that broke CGI interface
51 - Bugfix: String actions now reliably editable through CGI interface
52 - Three filters fixed (again!)
53 - Assorted small fixes and doc enhancements
55 *** Version 2.9.16 ***
57 - Major revamp of default.action to get rid of years of cruft.
58 - Same for default.filter
59 - Re-design and major improvements to the CGI editor interface.
60 - Address spurious 'out of memory' error due to incorrect file permissions.
61 - Impose buffer limits while reading client and server headers.
62 - Better memory and CPU optimization.
63 - Add Conectiva Linux package.
64 - user-manual directive added to config for help links from within CGI
66 - Multiple actions files can now be specified in config.
67 - Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and
68 user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
69 - The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes.
71 *** Version 2.9.14 Beta ***
73 - Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
74 - Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
75 - Fix build failure where certain features were disabled.
76 - 'blocked-compact' template is removed. Various CGI improvements,
77 including an adaptive 'blocked' template.
78 - Various tweaks for actions file to get ready for stable 3.0
79 - Included a 'Bookmarklet' and PHP scripts for reporting actions file
80 problems via web interface at privoxy.org. Accessed via internal CGIs.
81 - Include cgi-style.css for templates.
82 - #include mechansim for common text in templates
83 - Various other minor fixes.
85 *** Version 2.9.13 Beta ***
87 - *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
88 reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
89 - ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now
91 - http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/
92 - The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern'
93 (checkerboard) is now the default.
94 - RPM spec file make over.
97 *** Version 2.9.12 Beta ***
99 - **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from
100 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
102 - More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements.
103 - Win32 command line fix ups.
104 - re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a
105 per site basis. Some new goodies there too.
106 - +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile
107 for even more flexibility.
108 - Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which
109 displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo.
110 - PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images
111 if configured with --enable-no-gif.
112 - Clean up compiler warnings (mostly).
113 - Improved handling of failed DNS lookups & diagnostics for failed bind
115 - Made --no-daemon mode log to tty instead of logfile.
116 - Various spec file and init script cleanups and improvements (Redhat and
118 - CGI Editor works on OS/2 now.
119 - Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT.
120 - Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file.
121 - A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help,
122 --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces
123 the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges
124 to the specified user.
125 - Signal handling cleanups (*nix).
126 - CGI actions editor improvements and fixes.
127 - Error handling improvements, especially out of memory.
128 - Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos
129 (instead of 'blank').
130 - configure.in threading fixes for Solaris.
131 - Various other minor fixes.
134 *** Version 2.9.11 Beta Changes ***
136 - Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life
137 of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk).
138 - Checks for correct header length.
139 - Fix user:pass@host.domain.com auth bug.
140 - Better signal handling on *nix.
141 - Fix CFLAGS hard-coded in configure.in
142 - Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random
143 URLs to fail in some cases.
146 *** Version 2.9.11 Alpha Changes ***
148 - A web-based editor for the actions file is included (go to http://i.j.b/).
149 - Web-based toggle IJB on/off support.
150 - Cookie handling has changed - the new +no-cookies-keep feature is now the
152 - actionsfile is renamed to ijb.action.
153 - junkbstr.txt is now config.txt on Win32.
154 - Support for running IJB as a UNIX daemon process has improved.
155 - Unix daemon now returns error code on failed start.
156 - Timestamps in logfile and jarfile now.
157 - Fix for the Netscape bug reintroduced in 2.9.9.
158 - make should now abort if gmake (GNU make) not present.
159 - Many other minor bugfixes
160 - Start a ChangeLog :)
164 *** Version 2.9.3 pre-Alpha Changes ***
166 - Amiga support (completely untested by me - I don't have an Amiga)
167 - "tinygif 3" support (redirects blocked images to a specified URL, so
168 the browser doesn't have to load and cache many copies of the same
170 - one case where there were both local and global "referrer" variables
171 (yuck!) clarified by renaming the local one to "refer".
172 - Fixed some places where close() was used instead of close_socket().
173 Thanks to Jörg Strohmayer (joergs at users.sourceforge.net) for these.
174 - Temporary hack to get FORCE_LOAD to work with IE. I just lowercased the
175 FORCE_LOAD_PREFIX. Needs fixing properly.
176 - Most URLs hardcoded into Junkbuster were changed to go through a script
177 e.g. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?v=2.9.3&to=faq
178 The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL:
179 http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
181 http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/
182 ... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway.
183 TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's
184 copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page.
185 - PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option.
188 *** Version 2.9.2 pre-Alpha Changes ***
190 - Andreas applied the latest version of the FORCE patch.
193 *** Version 2.9.1 pre-Alpha Changes ***
195 - in parsers.c, fixed two #ifdef FORCE to #ifdef FORCE_LOAD
196 (BTW: I think FORCE is precise enough, since loading remote
197 data is the whole purpose of a proxy..)
198 - Set the FORCE_PREFIX (back) to 'IJB-FORCE-LOAD-'. While 'noijb.'
199 is more elegant and looks like a hostname in the URL, it doesn't
200 make clear to the inexperienced user that the proxy is bypassed. It
201 also has a higher name collision risk.
202 - Filled in the function header templates for my functions in
203 parsers.c (again). They obviously got lost in our current
205 - Cut the credit for the §-referrer-option from the config file,
206 that Stefan had placed there.
207 - Improved the re_filterfile
210 *** Version 2.9.0 pre-Alpha Changes ***
212 - Now use PCRE, not GNU REGEX. I have not yet had chance to check the
213 syntax of the block/image/cookie file to ensure that they match what
214 is expected - however they seem to work.
215 - Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also
216 use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for
217 the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from
218 "acconfig.h" and "configure.in". (Note that to install you do not
219 need autoconf or autoheader - just run "./configure".)
220 To see command-line options, run "./configure --help".
221 This is my first ever autoconf script, so it has some rough edges
222 (how PCRE is handled is the roughest).
223 - Error logging code replaced with new module errlog.c, based on the
224 one from JunkbusterMT (but with the threading code removed).
225 - Most of Rodney's 0.21 and 0.21A patches applied. (Marked *). I did not
226 apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional
227 popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code.
228 - ACL, Jar and trust files conditionally compiled.
229 - New source file headers.
230 - Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the
231 config files - I think that's worthwhile, but it's 1am and I want to
233 - RCS tags on .h files.
234 - RCS tags are const char[] rather than const char *. (Saves 4 bytes
236 - VC++ project files renamed to vc_junkbuster.*.
237 - show-proxy-args now shows status of all conditionals, not just REGEX
238 - Various functions moved around. Most notably all the system-specific
239 sockets code which was spread between jcc.c, bind.c, and connect.c,
240 has been moved to "jbsockets.c". The non-system-specific code from
241 connect.c and socks4.c has been movet to "gateway.c". Also, the
242 config file loader and the global variables it writes to have been
243 moved to "loadcfg.c". (Maybe this should go into loaders.c?)
244 And candidate for the "worst filename ever" award is "miscutil.c",
245 which contains, well, miscellaneous utility functions like zalloc.
246 (Suggestions for a better name for this file are welcome!)
247 - Loaders now use a common function to read a line and skip comments,
248 and this function also stores the proxy_args.
249 - Added ./junkbuster --help (Not for Win32 GUI)
250 - Added ./junkbuster --version (Not for Win32 GUI)
251 - Win32 resources are now all marked as "U.S. English", rather than
252 being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English".
253 - Version number changes to 2.9.0
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258 Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001 the SourceForge
259 Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
261 Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
262 by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
263 Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com
265 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
266 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
267 Public License as published by the Free Software
268 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
269 your option) any later version.
271 This program is distributed in the hope that it will
272 be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
273 implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
274 PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
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