From: Fabian Keil <fk@fabiankeil.de>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:53:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update "What's new" section.
X-Git-Tag: v_3_0_11~225
X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/contact.html?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b7cfc9285d9e3f0e002a1275fdffb0ee67802d14;p=privoxy.git

Update "What's new" section.
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diff --git a/doc/source/user-manual.sgml b/doc/source/user-manual.sgml
index 677c4f3c..da22d3bf 100644
--- a/doc/source/user-manual.sgml
+++ b/doc/source/user-manual.sgml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
                 This file belongs into
                 ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/i/ij/ijbswa/htdocs/
 
- $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.88 2008/09/21 14:42:52 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.89 2008/09/21 15:38:56 fabiankeil Exp $
 
  Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
  See LICENSE.
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
  </subscript>
 </pubdate>
 
-<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.88 2008/09/21 14:42:52 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.89 2008/09/21 15:38:56 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
 
 <!--
 
@@ -436,196 +436,36 @@ How to install the binary packages depends on your operating system:
 <sect1 id="whatsnew">
 <title>What's New in this Release</title>
 <para>
- There are many improvements and new features since <application>Privoxy 3.0.8</application>, the last stable release:
+ There are only a few improvements and new features since
+ <application>Privoxy 3.0.10</application>, the last stable release:
 </para>
 
 <para>
  <itemizedlist>
   <listitem>
    <para>
-    Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by
-    the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
+    The mingw32 version uses mutex locks now which prevents
+    log message corruption under load. As a side effect,
+    the "no thread-safe PRNG" warning could be removed as well.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
-    The "blocked" CGI pages include a block reason that was
-    provided as argument to the last-applying block action.
+    Support for remote toggling is controlled by the configure
+    option --disable-toggle only. In previous versions it also
+    depended on the action editor and thus configuring with the
+    --disable-editor option would disable remote toggling support
+    as well.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
-    If enable-edit-actions is disabled (the default since 3.0.7 beta)
-    the show-status page hides the edit buttons and explains why.
-    Previously the user would get the "this feature has been disabled"
-    message after using the edit button.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    Forbidden CONNECT requests are treated like blocks by default.
-    The now-pointless treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks action
-    has been removed.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    Not enabling limit-connect now allows CONNECT requests to all ports.
-    In previous versions it would only allow CONNECT requests to port 443.
-    Use +limit-connect{443} if you think you need the old default behaviour.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    The CGI editor gets turned off after three edit requests with invalid
-    file modification timestamps. This makes life harder for attackers
-    who can leverage browser bugs to send fake Referers and intend to
-    brute-force edit URLs.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    Action settings for multiple patterns in the same section are
-    shared in memory. As a result these sections take up less space
-    (and are loaded slightly faster). Problem reported by Franz Schwartau.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    Linear white space in HTTP headers will be normalized to single
-    spaces before parsing the header's content, headers split across
-    multiple lines get merged first.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    Host information is gathered outside the main thread so it's less
-    likely to delay other incoming connections if the host is misconfigured.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    New config option "hostname" to use a hostname other than
-    the one returned by the operating system. Useful to speed-up responses
-    for CGI requests on misconfigured systems. Requested by Max Khon.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    The CGI editor supports the "disable all filters of this type"
-    directives "-client-header-filter", "-server-header-filter",
-    "-client-header-tagger" and "-server-header-tagger".
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    Fixed false-positives with the link-by-url filter and URLs that
-    contain the pattern "/jump/".
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    The less-download-windows filter no longer messes
-    "Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash" headers up.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    In the show-url-info page's "Final results" section active and
-    inactive actions are listed separately. Patch provided by Lee.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    The GNUmakefile supports the DESTDIR variable. Patch for
-    the install target submitted by Radoslaw Zielinski.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    Embedding the content of configuration files in the show-status
-    page is significantly faster now. For a largish action file (1 MB)
-    a speedup of about 2450 times has been measured. This is mostly
-    interesting if you are using large action files or regularly use
-    Privoxy-Regression-Test while running Privoxy through Valgrind,
-    for stock configuration files it doesn't really matter.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    If zlib support is unavailable and there are content
-    filters active but the prevent-compression action is disabled,
-    the show-url-info page includes a warning that compression
-    might prevent filtering.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    The show-url-info page provides an OpenSearch Description that
-    allows to access the page through browser search plugins.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    The obsolete kill-popups action has been removed as the
-    PCRS-based popup filters can do the same and are slightly
-    less unreliable.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    The inspect-jpegs action has been removed.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    The send-wafer and send-vanilla-wafer actions have been removed.
-    They weren't particular useful and their behaviour could be emulated
-    with add-header anyway.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    Privoxy-Regression-Test has been significantly improved.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    Most sections in the default.action file contain tests for
-    Privoxy-Regression-Test to verify that they are working as intended.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    Parts of Privoxy have been refactored to increase maintainability.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    Building with zlib (if available) is done by default.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    Ordinary configuration file changes no longer cause program
-    termination on OS/2 if the name of the logfile hasn't been
-    changed as well. This regression probably crept in with the
-    logging improvements in 3.0.7. Reported by Maynard.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    The img-reorder filter is less likely to mess up JavaScript code in
-    img tags. Problem and solution reported by Glenn Washburn in #2014552.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    The source tar ball now includes Privoxy-Log-Parser,
-    a syntax-highlighter for Privoxy logs. Documentation is available
-    through perldoc(1), for fancy screenshots see:
-    <ulink url="http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy-log-parser/"
-     >http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy-log-parser/</ulink>.
+    The hide-forwarded-for-headers action has been replaced with
+    the change-x-forwarded-for{} action which can also be used to
+    add X-Forwarded-For headers. The latter functionality already
+    existed in Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.7 but has been removed
+    as it was often used unintentionally (by not using the
+    hide-forwarded-for-headers action).
    </para>
   </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
@@ -8619,6 +8459,10 @@ In file: user.action <guibutton>[ View ]</guibutton> <guibutton>[ Edit ]</guibut
  USA
 
  $Log: user-manual.sgml,v $
+ Revision 2.89  2008/09/21 15:38:56  fabiankeil
+ Fix Portage tree sync instructions in Gentoo section.
+ Anonymously reported at ijbswa-developers@.
+
  Revision 2.88  2008/09/21 14:42:52  fabiankeil
  Add documentation for change-x-forwarded-for{},
  remove documentation for hide-forwarded-for-headers.