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5 - Windows version can be installed/started as a service.
6 - Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy.
7 - Integrated Fabian Keil's extensive patch. See:
8 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the
9 following new or significantly improved actions (among many
12 content-type-overwrite{}
13 crunch-client-header{string}
15 crunch-server-header{string}
16 fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}
20 handle-as-empty-document
21 hide-accept-language{}
22 hide-content-disposition{}
23 hide-if-modified-since
24 hide-referrer{conditional-block}
25 overwrite-last-modified{}
27 treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks
29 - Standard-compliant clients are prevented from displaying cached
30 copies of Privoxy's error messages after the cause of the problem
32 - Improved DNS error handling.
33 - Multiple filter files can now be specified in config.
34 - Added jpeg filtering to defend against MS jpeg vulnerability MS04-028
35 with the new inspect-jpegs action.
36 - Removed the "arbitrary" 1000 filter limit - addresses tracker #911950
37 - Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log
38 file. The race condition remains for non-pthread implementations.
39 Reference patch #1175720. Various other logging enhancements.
40 - A pile of assorted bug fixes, memory leaks, enhancements, etc.
41 - Moved Actions file reporting mechanism to SF tracker.
42 - Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and
43 forwarded-connect-retries.
44 - Trap unsupported FTP requests.
48 - Fixed yet another two memory leaks. Process growth seems stopped now.
49 - Further tightened security against malicious toggle-off links.
50 - Excluded text/plain MIME types from filtering. This fixes a
51 couple of client-crashing, download corruption and
52 Privoxy performance issues, whose root cause lies in
53 web servers labelling content of unknown type as text/plain.
54 - Assorted fixes for POSIX compliance, signal handling, graceful
55 termination, compiler warnings, OSX support, Win32 systray,
56 error logging, hostname wildcards, correct detection of NetBSD.
57 - Workarounds for client (iTunes etc) and server (PHP < 4.2.3) bugs
58 including the notorious "blank page" problem.
59 - Various filter improvements; most notably the unsolicited-popups
60 filter became less destructive
61 - Major revamp of the actions file
65 - Fixed two memory leaks, one serious
66 - Fixed bug in pcrs which could cause crashes with user-defined filters
67 - Fixed bug in domain name matching
68 - Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..)
69 - Added basic support for the OPTIONS and TRACE http methods
70 - Added workaround for Bug in Mac OSX that made Privoxy crash occasionally
71 - Refined the default action file through >400 items of user feedback
73 - Assorted refinements, optimizations and fixes in the js-annoyances,
74 img-reorder, banners-by-size, banners-by-link, webbugs, refresh-tags,
75 html-annoyances, content-cookies and fun filters
76 - Replaced filter "popups" by choice between two modes:
77 - "unsolicited-popups" tries to catch only the unsolicited ones
78 - "all-popups" tries to kill them all (as before)
79 - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas.
80 - New filter "jumping-windows" that prevents windows from resizing
82 - New filter "demoronizer" which fixes MS's abuse of std charsets
83 (common cases anyway).
84 - Replaced "nimda" with more general "ie-exploits" filter in which
85 all filters for exploits shall be collected
86 - Improved cookie logging
87 - Rewrote make install target. Added uninstall and install-strip
89 - Fixed a potential (application-level, NOT OS-level!) security
90 problem involving remote toggling and action file manipulation
91 by mailicious websites.
92 - Added ability to chroot (thanks to Sviatoslav Sviridov)
93 - Added more action aliases for prehistoric action names
94 - Add Slackware support to Makefile.
98 - Fixed Windows startmenu items, log window and tray icon menus.
99 - Added warning for bogus install target
100 - Added quicktime-kioskmode filter and improved frameset-borders
101 - Updated default.action based on latest feedback
102 - New PDF doc build process
103 - Add a user contrib module to cvs:
104 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ijbswa/contrib/
106 *** Version 2.9.18 ***
108 - Added workaround for IE bug that broke CGI interface
109 - Bugfix: String actions now reliably editable through CGI interface
110 - Three filters fixed (again!)
111 - Assorted small fixes and doc enhancements
113 *** Version 2.9.16 ***
115 - Major revamp of default.action to get rid of years of cruft.
116 - Same for default.filter
117 - Re-design and major improvements to the CGI editor interface.
118 - Address spurious 'out of memory' error due to incorrect file permissions.
119 - Impose buffer limits while reading client and server headers.
120 - Better memory and CPU optimization.
121 - Add Conectiva Linux package.
122 - user-manual directive added to config for help links from within CGI
124 - Multiple actions files can now be specified in config.
125 - Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and
126 user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
127 - The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes.
129 *** Version 2.9.14 Beta ***
131 - Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
132 - Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
133 - Fix build failure where certain features were disabled.
134 - 'blocked-compact' template is removed. Various CGI improvements,
135 including an adaptive 'blocked' template.
136 - Various tweaks for actions file to get ready for stable 3.0
137 - Included a 'Bookmarklet' and PHP scripts for reporting actions file
138 problems via web interface at privoxy.org. Accessed via internal CGIs.
139 - Include cgi-style.css for templates.
140 - #include mechansim for common text in templates
141 - Various other minor fixes.
143 *** Version 2.9.13 Beta ***
145 - *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
146 reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
147 - ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now
149 - http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/
150 - The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern'
151 (checkerboard) is now the default.
152 - RPM spec file make over.
155 *** Version 2.9.12 Beta ***
157 - **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from
158 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
160 - More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements.
161 - Win32 command line fix ups.
162 - re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a
163 per site basis. Some new goodies there too.
164 - +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile
165 for even more flexibility.
166 - Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which
167 displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo.
168 - PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images
169 if configured with --enable-no-gif.
170 - Clean up compiler warnings (mostly).
171 - Improved handling of failed DNS lookups & diagnostics for failed bind
173 - Made --no-daemon mode log to tty instead of logfile.
174 - Various spec file and init script cleanups and improvements (Redhat and
176 - CGI Editor works on OS/2 now.
177 - Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT.
178 - Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file.
179 - A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help,
180 --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces
181 the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges
182 to the specified user.
183 - Signal handling cleanups (*nix).
184 - CGI actions editor improvements and fixes.
185 - Error handling improvements, especially out of memory.
186 - Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos
187 (instead of 'blank').
188 - configure.in threading fixes for Solaris.
189 - Various other minor fixes.
192 *** Version 2.9.11 Beta Changes ***
194 - Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life
195 of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk).
196 - Checks for correct header length.
197 - Fix user:pass@host.domain.com auth bug.
198 - Better signal handling on *nix.
199 - Fix CFLAGS hard-coded in configure.in
200 - Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random
201 URLs to fail in some cases.
204 *** Version 2.9.11 Alpha Changes ***
206 - A web-based editor for the actions file is included (go to http://i.j.b/).
207 - Web-based toggle IJB on/off support.
208 - Cookie handling has changed - the new +no-cookies-keep feature is now the
210 - actionsfile is renamed to ijb.action.
211 - junkbstr.txt is now config.txt on Win32.
212 - Support for running IJB as a UNIX daemon process has improved.
213 - Unix daemon now returns error code on failed start.
214 - Timestamps in logfile and jarfile now.
215 - Fix for the Netscape bug reintroduced in 2.9.9.
216 - make should now abort if gmake (GNU make) not present.
217 - Many other minor bugfixes
218 - Start a ChangeLog :)
222 *** Version 2.9.3 pre-Alpha Changes ***
224 - Amiga support (completely untested by me - I don't have an Amiga)
225 - "tinygif 3" support (redirects blocked images to a specified URL, so
226 the browser doesn't have to load and cache many copies of the same
228 - one case where there were both local and global "referrer" variables
229 (yuck!) clarified by renaming the local one to "refer".
230 - Fixed some places where close() was used instead of close_socket().
231 Thanks to Jörg Strohmayer (joergs at users.sourceforge.net) for these.
232 - Temporary hack to get FORCE_LOAD to work with IE. I just lowercased the
233 FORCE_LOAD_PREFIX. Needs fixing properly.
234 - Most URLs hardcoded into Junkbuster were changed to go through a script
235 e.g. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?v=2.9.3&to=faq
236 The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL:
237 http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
239 http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/
240 ... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway.
241 TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's
242 copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page.
243 - PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option.
246 *** Version 2.9.2 pre-Alpha Changes ***
248 - Andreas applied the latest version of the FORCE patch.
251 *** Version 2.9.1 pre-Alpha Changes ***
253 - in parsers.c, fixed two #ifdef FORCE to #ifdef FORCE_LOAD
254 (BTW: I think FORCE is precise enough, since loading remote
255 data is the whole purpose of a proxy..)
256 - Set the FORCE_PREFIX (back) to 'IJB-FORCE-LOAD-'. While 'noijb.'
257 is more elegant and looks like a hostname in the URL, it doesn't
258 make clear to the inexperienced user that the proxy is bypassed. It
259 also has a higher name collision risk.
260 - Filled in the function header templates for my functions in
261 parsers.c (again). They obviously got lost in our current
263 - Cut the credit for the §-referrer-option from the config file,
264 that Stefan had placed there.
265 - Improved the re_filterfile
268 *** Version 2.9.0 pre-Alpha Changes ***
270 - Now use PCRE, not GNU REGEX. I have not yet had chance to check the
271 syntax of the block/image/cookie file to ensure that they match what
272 is expected - however they seem to work.
273 - Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also
274 use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for
275 the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from
276 "acconfig.h" and "configure.in". (Note that to install you do not
277 need autoconf or autoheader - just run "./configure".)
278 To see command-line options, run "./configure --help".
279 This is my first ever autoconf script, so it has some rough edges
280 (how PCRE is handled is the roughest).
281 - Error logging code replaced with new module errlog.c, based on the
282 one from JunkbusterMT (but with the threading code removed).
283 - Most of Rodney's 0.21 and 0.21A patches applied. (Marked *). I did not
284 apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional
285 popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code.
286 - ACL, Jar and trust files conditionally compiled.
287 - New source file headers.
288 - Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the
289 config files - I think that's worthwhile, but it's 1am and I want to
291 - RCS tags on .h files.
292 - RCS tags are const char[] rather than const char *. (Saves 4 bytes
294 - VC++ project files renamed to vc_junkbuster.*.
295 - show-proxy-args now shows status of all conditionals, not just REGEX
296 - Various functions moved around. Most notably all the system-specific
297 sockets code which was spread between jcc.c, bind.c, and connect.c,
298 has been moved to "jbsockets.c". The non-system-specific code from
299 connect.c and socks4.c has been movet to "gateway.c". Also, the
300 config file loader and the global variables it writes to have been
301 moved to "loadcfg.c". (Maybe this should go into loaders.c?)
302 And candidate for the "worst filename ever" award is "miscutil.c",
303 which contains, well, miscellaneous utility functions like zalloc.
304 (Suggestions for a better name for this file are welcome!)
305 - Loaders now use a common function to read a line and skip comments,
306 and this function also stores the proxy_args.
307 - Added ./junkbuster --help (Not for Win32 GUI)
308 - Added ./junkbuster --version (Not for Win32 GUI)
309 - Win32 resources are now all marked as "U.S. English", rather than
310 being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English".
311 - Version number changes to 2.9.0
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316 Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001 the SourceForge
317 Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
319 Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
320 by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
321 Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com
323 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
324 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
325 Public License as published by the Free Software
326 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
327 your option) any later version.
329 This program is distributed in the hope that it will
330 be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
331 implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
332 PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
333 License for more details.
335 The GNU General Public License should be included with
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337 http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
338 or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59
339 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.