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<sect1 id="whatsnew">
<title>What's New in this Release</title>
<para>
- <application>Privoxy 3.0.19</application> is a stable release.
- The changes since 3.0.18 stable are:
+ <application>Privoxy 3.0.20</application> is a beta release.
+ The changes since 3.0.19 stable are:
</para>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Prevent a segmentation fault when de-chunking buffered content.
- It could be triggered by malicious web servers if Privoxy was
- configured to filter the content and running on a platform
- where SIZE_T_MAX isn't larger than UINT_MAX, which probably
- includes most 32-bit systems. On those platforms, all Privoxy
- versions before 3.0.19 appear to be affected.
- To be on the safe side, this bug should be presumed to allow
- code execution as proving that it doesn't seems unrealistic.
+ Client sockets are now properly shutdown and drained before being
+ closed. This fixes page truncation issues with clients that aggressively
+ pipeline data on platforms that otherwise discard already written data.
+ The issue mainly affected Opera users and was initially reported
+ by Kevin in #3464439, szotsaki provided additional information to track
+ down the cause.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Do not expect a response from the SOCKS4/4A server until it
- got something to respond to. This regression was introduced
- in 3.0.18 and prevented the SOCKS4/4A negotiation from working.
- Reported by qqqqqw in #3459781.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- General improvements:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Fix an off-by-one in an error message about connect failures.
+ Fix latency calculation for shared connections (disabled by default).
+ It was broken since their introduction in 2009. The calculated latency
+ for most connections would be 0 in which case the timeout detection
+ failed to account for the real latency.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Use a GNUMakefile variable for the webserver root directory and
- update the path. Sourceforge changed it which broke various
- web-related targets.
+ Reject URLs with invalid port. Previously they were parsed incorrectly and
+ characters between the port number and the first slash were silently
+ dropped as shown by curl test 187.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Update the CODE_STATUS description.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-</para>
-
-<para>
- The following changes were made between 3.0.17 and 3.0.18:
-</para>
-
-<para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Bug fixes:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If a generated redirect URL contains characters RFC 3986 doesn't
- permit, they are (re)encoded. Not doing this makes Privoxy versions
- from 3.0.5 to 3.0.17 susceptible to HTTP response splitting (CWE-113)
- attacks if the +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action is used.
+ The default-server-timeout and socket-timeout directives accept 0 as
+ valid value.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix a logic bug that could cause Privoxy to reuse a server
- socket after it got tainted by a server-header-tagger-induced
- block that was triggered before the whole server response had
- been read. If keep-alive was enabled and the request following
- the blocked one was to the same host and using the same forwarding
- settings, Privoxy would send it on the tainted server socket.
- While the server would simply treat it as a pipelined request,
- Privoxy would later on fail to properly parse the server's
- response as it would try to parse the unread data from the
- first response as server headers for the second one.
- Regression introduced in 3.0.17.
+ Fix a race condition on Windows that could cause Privoxy to become
+ unresponsive after toggling it on or off through the taskbar icon.
+ Reported by Tim H. in #3525694.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- When implying keep-alive in client_connection(), remember that
- the client didn't. Fixes a regression introduced in 3.0.13 that
- would cause Privoxy to wait for additional client requests after
- receiving a HTTP/1.1 request with "Connection: close" set
- and connection sharing enabled.
- With clients which terminates the client connection after detecting
- that the whole body has been received it doesn't really matter,
- but with clients that don't the connection would be kept open until
- it timed out.
+ Fix the compilation on Windows when configured without IPv6 support.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix a subtle race condition between prepare_csp_for_next_request()
- and sweep(). A thread preparing itself for the next client request
- could briefly appear to be inactive.
- If all other threads were already using more recent files,
- the thread could get its files swept away under its feet.
- So far this has only been reproduced while stress testing in
- valgrind while touching action files in a loop. It's unlikely
- to have caused any actual problems in the real world.
+ Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() in case of
+ socks5 connection failures with "debug 2" enabled.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Disable filters if SDCH compression is used unless filtering is forced.
- If SDCH was combined with a supported compression algorithm, Privoxy
- previously could try to decompress it and ditch the Content-Encoding
- header even though the SDCH compression wasn't dealt with.
- Reported by zebul666 in #3225863.
+ Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() if a filter
+ contained nul bytes in the replacement text.
</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Make a copy of the --user value and only mess with that when splitting
- user and group. On some operating systems modifying the value directly
- is reflected in the output of ps and friends and can be misleading.
- Reported by zepard in #3292710.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If forwarded-connect-retries is set, only retry if Privoxy is actually
- forwarding the request. Previously direct connections would be retried
- as well.
- </para>
- </listitem>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ General improvements:
+ <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fixed a small memory leak when retrying connections with IPv6
- support enabled.
+ Significantly improved keep-alive support for both client and server
+ connections.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove an incorrect assertion in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list()
- It could be triggered by a pcrs job with an invalid pcre
- pattern (for example one that contains a lone quantifier).
+ New debug log level 65536 which logs all actions that were applied to
+ the request.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- If the --user argument user[.group] contains a dot, always bail out
- if no group has been specified. Previously the intended, but undocumented
- (and apparently untested), behaviour was to try interpreting the whole
- argument as user name, but the detection was flawed and checked for '0'
- instead of '\0', thus merely preventing group names beginning with a zero.
+ New directive client-header-order to forward client headers in a
+ different order than the one in which they arrived.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In html_code_map[], use a numeric character reference instead of '
- which wasn't standardized before XHTML 1.0.
+ New directive tolerate-pipelining to allow client-side pipelining.
+ If enabled (3.0.20 beta enables it by default), Privoxy will keep
+ pipelined client requests around to deal with them once the current
+ request has been served.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix an invalid free when compiled with FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION
- and shut down through http://config.privoxy.org/die
+ New --config-test option to let Privoxy exit after checking whether or not
+ the configuration seems valid. The limitations noted in TODO #22 and #23
+ still apply. Based on a patch by Ramkumar Chinchani.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In get_actions(), fix the "temporary" backwards compatibility hack
- to accept block actions without reason.
- It also covered other actions that should be rejected as invalid.
- Reported by Billy Crook.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- General improvements:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Privoxy can (re)compress buffered content before delivering
- it to the client. Disabled by default as most users wouldn't
- benefit from it.
+ New limit-cookie-lifetime{} action to let cookies expire before the end
+ of the session. Suggested by Rick Sykes in #1049575.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- The +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action checks URL
- segments separately. If there are other parameters behind
- the redirect URL, this makes it unnecessary to cut them off
- by additionally using a +redirect{} pcrs command.
- Initial patch submitted by Jamie Zawinski in #3429848.
+ Increase the hard-coded maximum number of actions and filter files from
+ 10 to 30 (each). It doesn't significantly affect Privoxy's memory usage
+ and recompiling wasn't an option for all Privoxy users that reached the
+ limit.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- When loading action sections, verify that the referenced filters
- exist. Currently missing filters only result in an error message,
- but eventually the severity will be upgraded to fatal.
+ Add support for chunk-encoded client request bodies. Previously
+ chunk-encoded request bodies weren't guaranteed to be forwarded correctly,
+ so this can also be considered a bug fix although chunk-encoded request
+ bodies aren't commonly used in the real world.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow to bind to multiple separate addresses.
- Patch set submitted by Petr Pisar in #3354485.
+ Add support for Tor's optimistic-data SOCKS extension, which can reduce the
+ latency for requests on newly created connections. Currently only the
+ headers are sent optimistically and only if the client request has already
+ been read completely which rules out requests with large bodies.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Set socket_error to errno if connecting fails in rfc2553_connect_to().
- Previously rejected direct connections could be incorrectly reported
- as DNS issues if Privoxy was compiled with IPv6 support.
+ After preventing the client from pipelining, don't signal keep-alive
+ intentions. When looking at the response headers alone, it previously
+ wasn't obvious from the client's perspective that no additional responses
+ should be expected.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Adjust url_code_map[] so spaces are replaced with %20 instead of '+'
- While '+' can be used by client's submitting form data, this is not
- actually what Privoxy is using the lookups for. This is more of a
- cosmetic issue and doesn't fix any known problems.
+ Stop considering client sockets tainted after receving a request with body.
+ It hasn't been necessary for a while now and unnecessarily causes test
+ failures when using curl's test suite.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- When compiled without FEATURE_FAST_REDIRECTS, do not silently
- ignore +fast-redirect{} directives
+ Allow HTTP/1.0 clients to signal interest in keep-alive through the
+ Proxy-Connection header. While such client are rare in the real world, it
+ doesn't hurt and couple of curl tests rely on it.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Added a workaround for GNU libc's strptime() reporting negative
- year values when the parsed year is only specified with two digits.
- On affected systems cookies with such a date would not be turned
- into session cookies by the +session-cookies-only action.
- Reported by Vaeinoe in #3403560
+ Only remove duplicated Content-Type headers when filters are enabled.
+ If they are not it doesn't cause ill effects and the user might not want it.
+ Downgrade the removal message to LOG_LEVEL_HEADER to clarify that it's not
+ an error in Privoxy and is unlikely to cause any problems in general.
+ Anonymously reported in #3599335.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fixed bind failures with certain GNU libc versions if no non-loopback
- IP address has been configured on the system. This is mainly an issue
- if the system is using DHCP and Privoxy is started before the network
- is completely configured.
- Reported by Raphael Marichez in #3349356.
- Additional insight from Petr Pisar.
+ Set the socket option SO_LINGER for the client socket.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Privoxy log messages now use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
- It's only slightly longer than the old format, but contains
- the full date including the year and allows sorting by date
- (when grepping in multiple log files) without hassle.
+ Move several variable declarations to the beginning of their code block.
+ It's required when compiling with gcc 2.95 which is still used on some
+ platforms. Initial patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In get_last_url(), do not bother trying to decode URLs that do
- not contain at least one '%' sign. It reduces the log noise and
- a number of unnecessary memory allocations.
+ Optionally try to sanity-check strptime() results before trusting them.
+ Broken strptime() implementations have caused problems in the past and
+ the most recent offender seems to be FreeBSD's libc (standards/173421).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In case of SOCKS5 failures, dump the socks response in the log message.
+ When filtering is enabled, let Range headers pass if the range starts at
+ the beginning. This should work around (or at least reduce ) the video
+ playback issues with various Apple clients as reported by Duc in #3426305.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Simplify the signal setup in main().
+ Do not confuse a client hanging up with a connection time out. If a client
+ closes its side of the connection without sending a request line, do not
+ send the CLIENT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_RESPONSE, but report the condition
+ properly.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Streamline socks5_connect() slightly.
+ Allow closing curly braces as part of action values as long as they are
+ escaped.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In socks5_connect(), require a complete socks response from the server.
- Previously Privoxy didn't care how much data the server response
- contained as long as the first two bytes contained the expected
- values. While at it, shrink the buffer size so Privoxy can't read
- more than a whole socks response.
+ On Windows, the logfile is now written before showing the GUI error
+ message which blocks until the user acknowledges it.
+ Reported by Adriaan in #3593603.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In chat(), do not bother to generate a client request in case of
- direct CONNECT requests. It will not be used anyway.
+ Remove an unreasonable parameter limit in the CGI interface. The new
+ parameter limit depends on the memory available and is currently unlikely
+ to be reachable, due to other limits in both Privoxy and common clients.
+ Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Reduce server_last_modified()'s stack size.
+ Decrease the chances of parse failures after requests with unsupported
+ methods were sent to the CGI interface.
</para>
- </listitem>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Action file improvements:
+ <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Shorten get_http_time() by using strftime().
+ Remove the comment that indicated that updated default.action versions
+ are released on their own.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Constify the known_http_methods pointers in unknown_method().
+ Block 'optimize.indieclick.com/' and 'optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/'
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Constify the time_formats pointers in parse_header_time().
+ Unblock 'adjamblog.wordpress.com/' and 'adjamblog.files.wordpress.com/'.
+ Reported by Ryan Farmer in #3496116.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Constify the formerly_valid_actions pointers in action_used_to_be_valid().
+ Unblock '/.*Bugtracker'. Reported by pwhk in #3522341.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Introduce a GNUMakefile MAN_PAGE variable that defaults to privoxy.1.
- The Debian package uses section 8 for the man page and this
- should simplify the patch.
+ Add test URLs for '.freebsd.org' and '.watson.org'.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Deduplicate the INADDR_NONE definition for Solaris by moving it to jbsockets.h
+ Unblock '.urbandictionary.com/popular'.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In block_url(), ditch the obsolete workaround for ancient Netscape versions
- that supposedly couldn't properly deal with status code 403.
+ Block '.adnxs.com/'.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove a useless NULL pointer check in load_trustfile().
+ Block 'farm.plista.com/widgetdata.php'.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove two useless NULL pointer checks in load_one_re_filterfile().
+ Block 'rotation.linuxnewmedia.com/'.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Change url_code_map[] from an array of pointers to an array of arrays
- It removes an unnecessary layer of indirection and on 64bit system reduces
- the size of the binary a bit.
+ Block 'reklamy.sfd.pl/'. Reported by kacperdominik in #3399948.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix various typos. Fixes taken from Debian's 29_typos.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
+ Block 'g.adspeed.net/'.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a dok-tidy GNUMakefile target to clean up the messy HTML
- generated by the other dok targets.
+ Unblock 'websupport.wdc.com/'. Reported by Adam Piggot in #3577851.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- GNUisms in the GNUMakefile have been removed.
+ Block '/openx/www/delivery/'.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Change the HTTP version in static responses to 1.1
+ Disable fast-redirects for '.googleapis.com/'.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Synced config.sub and config.guess with upstream
- 2011-11-11/386c7218162c145f5f9e1ff7f558a3fbb66c37c5.
+ Block 'imp.double.net/'. Reported by David Bo in #3070411.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a dedicated function to parse the values of toggles. Reduces duplicated
- code in load_config() and provides better error handling. Invalid or missing
- toggle values are now a fatal error instead of being silently ignored.
+ Block 'gm-link.com/' whis is used for email tracking.
+ Reported by David Bo in #1812733.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Terminate HTML lines in static error messages with \n instead of \r\n.
+ Verify that requests to "bwp." are blocked. URL taken from #1736879
+ submitted by Francois Marier.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Simplify cgi_error_unknown() a bit.
+ Block '/.*bannerid='. Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975779.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In LogPutString(), don't bother looking at pszText when not
- actually logging anything.
+ Block 'cltomedia.info/delivery/' and '.adexprt.com/'.
+ Anonymously reported in #2965254.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Change ssplit()'s fourth parameter from int to size_t.
- Fixes a clang complaint.
+ Block 'de17a.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3061472.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a warning that the statistics currently can't be trusted.
- Mention Privoxy-Log-Parser's --statistics option as
- an alternative for the time being.
+ Block 'oskar.tradera.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3060596.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In rfc2553_connect_to(), start setting cgi->error_message on error.
+ Block '/scripts/webtrends\.js'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002729.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Change the expected status code returned for http://p.p/die depending
- on whether or not FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION is available.
+ Block requests for 'pool.*.adhese.com/'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002716.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In cgi_die(), mark the client connection for closing.
- If the client will fetch the style sheet through another connection
- it gets the main thread out of the accept() state and should thus
- trigger the actual shutdown.
+ Update path pattern for Coremetrics and add tests.
+ Pattern and URLs submitted by Adam Piggott #3168443.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a proper CGI message for cgi_die().
+ Enable +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} for 'tr.anp.se/'.
+ Reported by David Bo in #3268832.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Don't enforce a logical line length limit in read_config_line().
+ Unblock '.conrad.se/newsletter/banners/'. Reported by David Bo in #3413824.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Slightly refactor server_last_modified() to remove useless gmtime*() calls.
+ Block '.tynt.com/'. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421767.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In get_content_type(), also recognize '.jpeg' as JPEG extension.
+ Unblock '.bbci.co.uk/radio/'. Reported by Adam Piggott in #3569603.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add '.png' to the list of recognized file extensions in get_content_type().
+ Block requests to 'service.maxymiser.net/'.
+ Reported by johnd16 in #3118401 (with a previous URL).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In block_url(), consistently use the block reason "Request blocked by Privoxy"
- In two places the reason was "Request for blocked URL" which hides the
- fact that the request got blocked by Privoxy and isn't necessarily
- correct as the block may be due to tags.
+ Disable fast-redirects for Google's "let's pretend your computer is
+ infected" page.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In listen_loop(), reload the configuration files after accepting
- a new connection instead of before.
- Previously the first connection that arrived after a configuration
- change would still be handled with the old configuration.
+ Unblock '/.*download' to resolve actionsfile feedback #3498129.
+ Submitted by Steven Kolins (soundcloud.com not working).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In chat()'s receive-data loop, skip a client socket check if
- the socket will be written to right away anyway. This can
- increase the transfer speed for unfiltered content on fast
- network connections.
+ Unblock '.wlxrs.com/' which is required by hotmail.com.
+ Fixes #3413827 submitted by David Bo.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- The socket timeout is used for SOCKS negotiations as well which
- previously couldn't timeout.
+ Add two unblock patterns for popup radio and TV players.
+ Submitted by Adam Piggott in #3596089.
</para>
- </listitem>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Filter file improvements & bug fixes:
+ <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Don't keep the client connection alive if any configuration file
- changed since the time the connection came in. This is closer to
- Privoxy's behaviour before keep-alive support for client connection
- has been added and also less confusing in general.
+ Add a referer tagger.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Treat all Content-Type header values containing the pattern
- 'script' as a sign of text. Reported by pribog in #3134970.
+ Reduce the likelihood that the google filter messes up HTML-generating
+ JavaScript. Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3520260.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Action file improvements:
+ Documentation improvements:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Moved the site-specific block pattern section below the one for the
- generic patterns so for requests that are matched in both, the block
- reason for the domain is shown which is usually more useful than showing
- the one for the generic pattern.
+ Revised all OS X sections due to new packaging module (OSXPackageBuilder).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove -prevent-compression from the fragile alias. It's no longer
- used anywhere by default and isn't known to break stuff anyway.
+ Update the list of supported operating systems to clarify that all Windows
+ versions after 95 are expected to work and note that the platform-specific
+ code for AmigaOS and QNX currently isn't maintained.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a (disabled) section to block various Facebook tracking URLs.
- Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421764.
+ Update 'Signals' section, the only explicitly handled signals are SIGINT,
+ SIGTERM and SIGHUP.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a (disabled) section to rewrite and redirect click-tracking
- URLs used on news.google.com.
- Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421755.
+ Add Haiku to the list of operating systems on which Privoxy is known to
+ run.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Unblock linuxcounter.net/.
- Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3422612.
+ Add DragonFly to the list of BSDs on which Privoxy is known to run.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Block 'www91.intel.com/' which is used by Omniture.
- Reported by Adam Piggott in #3167370.
+ Removed references to redhat-specific documentation set since it no longer
+ exists.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Disable the handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok option and mark it as deprecated.
- Reminded by tceverling in #2790091.
+ Removed references to building PDFs since we no longer do so.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add ".ivwbox.de/" to the "Cross-site user tracking" section.
- Reported by Nettozahler in #3172525.
+ Multiple listen-address directives are supported since 3.0.18, correct the
+ documentation to say so.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Unblock and fast-redirect ".awin1.com/.*=http://".
- Reported by Adam Piggott in #3170921.
+ Remove bogus section about long and short being preferable to int.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Block "b.collective-media.net/".
+ Corrected some Internet JunkBuster references to Privoxy.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Widen the Debian popcon exception to "qa.debian.org/popcon".
- Seen in Debian's 05_default_action.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
+ Removed references to www.junkbusters.com since it is no longer
+ maintained. Reported by Angelina Matson.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Block ".gemius.pl/" which only seems to be used for user tracking.
- Reported by johnd16 in #3002731. Additional input from Lee and movax.
+ Various grammar and spelling corrections
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Disable banners-by-size filters for '.thinkgeek.com/'.
- The filter only seems to catch pictures of the inventory.
+ Add a client-header-tagger{} example for disabling filtering for range
+ requests.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Block requests for 'go.idmnet.bbelements.com/please/showit/'.
- Reported by kacperdominik in #3372959.
+ Correct a URL in the "Privoxy with Tor" FAQ.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Unblock adainitiative.org/.
+ Spell 'refresh-tags' correctly. Reported by Don in #3571927.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a fast-redirects exception for '.googleusercontent.com/.*=cache'.
+ Sort manpage options alphabetically.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a fast-redirects exception for webcache.googleusercontent.com/.
+ Remove an incorrect sentence in the toggle section. The toggle state
+ doesn't affect whether or not the Windows version uses the tray icon.
+ Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3596395.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Unblock http://adassier.wordpress.com/ and http://adassier.files.wordpress.com/.
+ Add new contributors since 3.0.19.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Filter file improvements:
+ Log message improvements:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Let the yahoo filter hide '.ads'.
+ When stopping to watch a client socket due to pipelining, additionally log
+ the socket number.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Log the client socket and its condition before closing it. This makes it
+ more obvious that the socket actually gets closed and should help when
+ diagnosing problems like #3464439.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Let the msn filter hide overlay ads for Facebook 'likes' in search
- results and elements with the id 's_notf_div'. They only seem to be
- used to advertise site 'enhancements'.
+ In case of SOCKS5 failures, do not explicitly log the server's response.
+ It hasn't helped so far and the response can already be logged by enabling
+ "debug 32768" anyway. This reverts v1.81 and the follow-up bug fix v1.84.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Let the js-events filter additionally disarm setInterval().
- Suggested by dg1727 in #3423775.
+ Relocate the connection-accepted message from listen_loop() to serve().
+ This way it's printed by the thread that is actually serving the
+ connection which is nice when grepping for thread ids in log files.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Documentation improvements:
+ Code cleanups:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Clarify the effect of compiling Privoxy with zlib support.
- Suggested by dg1727 in #3423782.
+ Remove compatibility layer for versions prior to 3.0 since it has been
+ obsolete for more than 10 years now.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Point out that the SourceForge messaging system works like a black
- hole and should thus not be used to contact individual developers.
+ Remove the ijb_isupper() and ijb_tolower() macros from parsers.c since
+ they aren't used in this file.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Mention some of the problems one can experience when not explicitly
- configuring an IP addresses as listen address.
+ Removed the 'Functions declared include:' comment sections since they tend
+ to be incomplete, incorrect and out of date and the benefit seems
+ questionable.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Explicitly mention that hostnames can be used instead of IP addresses
- for the listen-address, that only the first address returned will be
- used and what happens if the address is invalid.
- Requested by Calestyo in #3302213.
+ Various comment grammar and comprehensibility improvements.
</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Log message improvements:
- <itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- If only the server connection is kept alive, do not pretend to
- wait for a new client request.
+ Remove a pointless fflush() call in chat(). Flushing all streams pretty
+ much all the time for no obvious reason is ridiculous.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove a superfluous log message in forget_connection().
+ Relocate ijb_isupper()'s definition to project.h and get the ijb_tolower()
+ definition from there, too.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In chat(), properly report missing server responses as such
- instead of calling them empty.
+ Relocate ijb_isdigit()'s definition to project.h.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In forwarded_connect(), fix a log message nobody should ever see.
+ Rename ijb_foo macros to privoxy_foo.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix a log message in socks5_connect(), a failed write operation
- was logged as failed read operation.
+ Add malloc_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where malloc()
+ failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Let load_one_actions_file() properly complain about a missing
- '{' at the beginning of the file.
- Simply stating that a line is invalid isn't particularly helpful.
+ Add strdup_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where strdup()
+ failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Do not claim to listen on a socket until Privoxy actually does.
- Patch submitted by Petr Pisar #3354485
+ Replace strdup() calls with strdup_or_die() calls where it's safe and
+ simplifies the code.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Prevent a duplicated LOG_LEVEL_CLF message when sending out
- the "no-server-data" response.
+ Fix white-space around parentheses.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Also log the client socket when dropping a connection.
+ Add missing white-space behind if's and the following parentheses.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Include the destination host in the 'Request ... marked for
- blocking. limit-connect{...} doesn't allow CONNECT ...' message
- Patch submitted by Saperski in #3296250.
+ Unwrap a memcpy() call in resolve_hostname_to_ip().
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Prevent a duplicated log message if none of the resolved IP
- addresses were reachable.
+ Declare pcrs_get_delimiter()'s delimiters[] static const.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In connect_to(), do not pretend to retry if forwarded-connect-retries
- is zero or unset.
+ Various optimisations to remove dead code and merge inefficient code
+ structures for improved clarity, performance or code compactness.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- When a specified user or group can't be found, put the name in
- single-quotes when logging it.
+ Various data type corrections.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In rfc2553_connect_to(), explain getnameinfo() errors better.
+ Change visibility of several code segments when compiling without
+ FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE enabled for clarity.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove a useless log message in chat().
+ In pcrs_get_delimiter(), do not use delimiters ouside the ASCII range.
+ Fixes a clang complaint.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- When retrying to connect, also log the maximum number of connection
- attempts.
+ Fix an error message in get_last_url() nobody is supposed to see.
+ Reported by Matthew Fischer in #3507301.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Rephrase a log message in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list().
- Divide the error code and its meaning with a colon. Call the pcrs
- job dynamic and not the filter. Filters may contain dynamic and
- non-dynamic pcrs jobs at the same time. Only mention the name of
- the filter or tagger, but don't claim it's a filter when it could
- be a tagger.
+ Fix a typo in the no-zlib-support complaint. Patch submitted by Matthew
+ Fischer in #3507304.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In a fatal error message in load_one_actions_file(), cover both
- URL and TAG patterns.
+ Shorten ssplit()'s prototype by removing the last two arguments. We always
+ want to skip empty fields and ignore leading delimiters, so having
+ parameters for this only complicates the API.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In pcrs_strerror(), properly report unknown positive error code
- values as such. Previously they were handled like 0 (no error).
+ Use an enum for the type of the action value.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list(), also log the actual error code as
- pcrs_strerror() doesn't handle all errors reported by pcre.
+ Rename action_name's member takes_value to value_type as it isn't used as
+ boolean.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Don't bother trying to continue chatting if the client didn't ask for it.
- Reduces log noise a bit.
+ Turn family mismatches in match_sockaddr() into fatal errors.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Make two fatal error message in load_one_actions_file() more descriptive.
+ Let enlist_unique_header() verify that the caller didn't pass a header
+ containing either \r or \n.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In cgi_send_user_manual(), log when rejecting a file name due to '/' or '..'.
+ Change the hashes used in load_config() to unsigned int. That's what
+ hash_string() actually returns and using a potentiallly larger type
+ is at best useless.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In load_file(), log a message if opening a file failed.
- The CGI error message alone isn't too helpful.
+ Use privoxy_tolower() instead of vanilla tolower() with manual casting of
+ the argument.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In connection_destination_matches(), improve two log messages
- to help understand why the destinations don't match.
+ Catch ssplit() failures in parse_cgi_parameters().
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Privoxy-Regression-Test:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add an 'Overwrite condition' directive to skip any matching tests before
+ it. As it has a global scope, using it is more convenient than clowning
+ around with the Ignore directive.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Rephrase a log message in serve(). Client request arrival
- should be differentiated from closed client connections now.
+ Log to STDOUT instead of STDERR.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In serve(), log if a client connection isn't reused due to a
- configuration file change.
+ Include the Privoxy version in the output.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Let mark_server_socket_tainted() always mark the server socket tainted,
- just don't talk about it in cases where it has no effect. It doesn't change
- Privoxy's behaviour, but makes understanding the log file easier.
+ Various grammar and spelling corrections in documentation and code.
</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- configure:
- <itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Added a --disable-ipv6-support switch for platforms where support
- is detected but doesn't actually work.
+ Additional tests for range requests with filtering enabled.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Do not check for the existence of strerror() and memmove() twice
+ Tests with mostly invalid range request.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove a useless test for setpgrp(2). Privoxy doesn't need it and
- it can cause problems when cross-compiling.
+ Add a couple of hide-if-modified-since{} tests with different date formats.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Rename the --disable-acl-files switch to --disable-acl-support.
- Since about 2001, ACL directives are specified in the standard
- config file.
+ Cleaned up the format of the regression-tests.action file to match the
+ format of default.action.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Update the URL of the 'Removing outdated PCRE version after the
- next stable release' posting. The old URL stopped working after
- one of SF's recent site "optimizations". Reported by Han Liu.
+ Remove the "Copyright" line from print_version(). When using --help, every
+ line of screen space matters and thus shouldn't be wasted on things the
+ user doesn't care about.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Privoxy-Regression-Test:
+ Privoxy-Log-Parser:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Added --shuffle-tests option to increase the chances of detection race conditions.
+ Improve the --statistics performance by skipping sanity checks for input
+ that shouldn't affect the results anyway. Add a --strict-checks option
+ that enables some of the checks again, just in case anybody cares.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Added a --local-test-file option that allows to use Privoxy-Regression-Test without Privoxy.
+ The distribution of client requests per connection is included in
+ the --statistic output.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Added tests for missing socks4 and socks4a forwarders.
+ The --accept-unknown-messages option has been removed and the behavior
+ is now the default.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- The --privoxy-address option now works with IPv6 addresses containing brackets, too.
+ Accept and (mostly) highlight new log messages introduced with
+ Privoxy 3.0.20.
</para>
- </listitem>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ uagen:
+ <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Perform limited sanity checks for parameters that are supposed to have numerical values.
+ Bump generated Firefox version to 17.
</para>
- </listitem>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ GNUmakefile improvements:
+ <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Added a --sleep-time option to specify a number of seconds to
- sleep between tests, defaults to 0.
+ The dok-tidy target no longer taints documents with a tidy-mark
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Disable the range-requests tagger for tests that break if it's enabled.
+ Change RA_MODE from 0664 to 0644. Suggested by Markus Dittrich in
+ #3505445.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Log messages use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
+ Remove tidy's clean flag as it changes the scope of attributes.
+ Link-specific colors end up being applied to all text. Reported by Adam
+ Piggott in #3569551.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix spelling in two error messages.
+ Leave it up to the user whether or not smart tags are inserted.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In the --help output, include a list of supported tests and their default levels.
+ Let w3m itself do the line wrapping for the config file. It works better
+ than fmt as it can honour pre tags causing less unintentional line breaks.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Adjust the tests to properly deal with FEATURE_TOGGLE being disabled.
+ Ditch a pointless '-r' passed to rm to delete files.
</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Privoxy-Log-Parser:
- <itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Perform limited sanity checks for command line parameters that
- are supposed to have numerical values.
+ The config-file target now requires less manual intervention and updates
+ the original config.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Implement a --unbreak-lines-only option to try to revert MUA breakage.
+ Change WDUMP to generate ASCII. Add WDUMP_UTF8 to allow UTF-8 in the
+ AUTHORS file so the names are right.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Accept and highlight: Added header: Content-Encoding: deflate
+ Stop pretending that lynx and links are supported for the documentation.
</para>
- </listitem>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ configure improvements:
+ <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Accept and highlight: Compressed content from 29258 to 8630 bytes.
+ On Haiku, do not pass -lpthread to the compiler. Haiku's pthreads
+ implementation is contained in its system library, libroot, so no
+ additional library needs to be searched.
+ Patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Accept and highlight: Client request arrived in time on socket 21.
+ Additional Haiku-specific improvements. Disable checks intended for
+ multi-user systems as Haiku is presently single-user. Group Haiku-specific
+ settings in their own section, following the pattern for Solaris, OS/2 and
+ AmigaOS. Add additional library-related settings to remove the need for
+ providing configure with custom LDFLAGS.
+ Submitted by Simon South in #3574538.
+ *** Version 3.0.19 Stable ***
</para>
- </listitem>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Bug fixes:
+ <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Highlight: Didn't receive data in time: a.fsdn.com:443
+ Prevent a segmentation fault when de-chunking buffered content.
+ It could be triggered by malicious web servers if Privoxy was
+ configured to filter the content and running on a platform
+ where SIZE_T_MAX isn't larger than UINT_MAX, which probably
+ includes most 32-bit systems. On those platforms, all Privoxy
+ versions before 3.0.19 appear to be affected.
+ To be on the safe side, this bug should be presumed to allow
+ code execution as proving that it doesn't seems unrealistic.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Accept log messages with ISO 8601 time stamps, too.
+ Do not expect a response from the SOCKS4/4A server until it
+ got something to respond to. This regression was introduced
+ in 3.0.18 and prevented the SOCKS4/4A negotiation from working.
+ Reported by qqqqqw in #3459781.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- uagen:
+ General improvements:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Bump generated Firefox version to 8.0.
+ Fix an off-by-one in an error message about connect failures.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Use a GNUMakefile variable for the webserver root directory and
+ update the path. Sourceforge changed it which broke various
+ web-related targets.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Only randomize the release date if the new --randomize-release-date
- option is enabled. Firefox versions after 4 use a fixed date string
- without meaning.
+ Update the CODE_STATUS description.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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