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4 *** Version 3.0.20 Beta ***
7 - Client sockets are now properly shutdown and drained before being
8 closed. This fixes page truncation issues with clients that aggressively
9 pipeline data on platforms that otherwise discard already written data.
10 The issue mainly affected Opera users and was initially reported
11 by Kevin in #3464439, szotsaki provided additional information to track
13 - Fix latency calculation for shared connections (disabled by default).
14 It was broken since their introduction in 2009. The calculated latency
15 for most connections would be 0 in which case the timeout detection
16 failed to account for the real latency.
17 - Reject URLs with invalid port. Previously they were parsed incorrectly and
18 characters between the port number and the first slash were silently
19 dropped as shown by curl test 187.
20 - The default-server-timeout and socket-timeout directives accept 0 as
22 - Fix a race condition on Windows that could cause Privoxy to become
23 unresponsive after toggling it on or off through the taskbar icon.
24 Reported by Tim H. in #3525694.
25 - Fix the compilation on Windows when configured without IPv6 support.
26 - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() in case of
27 socks5 connection failures with "debug 2" enabled.
28 - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() if a filter
29 contained nul bytes in the replacement text.
31 - General improvements:
32 - Significantly improved keep-alive support for both client and server
34 - New debug log level 65536 which logs all actions that were applied to
36 - New directive client-header-order to forward client headers in a
37 different order than the one in which they arrived.
38 - New directive tolerate-pipelining to allow client-side pipelining.
39 If enabled (3.0.20 beta enables it by default), Privoxy will keep
40 pipelined client requests around to deal with them once the current
41 request has been served.
42 - New --config-test option to let Privoxy exit after checking whether or not
43 the configuration seems valid. The limitations noted in TODO #22 and #23
44 still apply. Based on a patch by Ramkumar Chinchani.
45 - New limit-cookie-lifetime{} action to let cookies expire before the end
46 of the session. Suggested by Rick Sykes in #1049575.
47 - Increase the hard-coded maximum number of actions and filter files from
48 10 to 30 (each). It doesn't significantly affect Privoxy's memory usage
49 and recompiling wasn't an option for all Privoxy users that reached the
51 - Add support for chunk-encoded client request bodies. Previously
52 chunk-encoded request bodies weren't guaranteed to be forwarded correctly,
53 so this can also be considered a bug fix although chunk-encoded request
54 bodies aren't commonly used in the real world.
55 - Add support for Tor's optimistic-data SOCKS extension, which can reduce the
56 latency for requests on newly created connections. Currently only the
57 headers are sent optimistically and only if the client request has already
58 been read completely which rules out requests with large bodies.
59 - After preventing the client from pipelining, don't signal keep-alive
60 intentions. When looking at the response headers alone, it previously
61 wasn't obvious from the client's perspective that no additional responses
63 - Stop considering client sockets tainted after receving a request with body.
64 It hasn't been necessary for a while now and unnecessarily causes test
65 failures when using curl's test suite.
66 - Allow HTTP/1.0 clients to signal interest in keep-alive through the
67 Proxy-Connection header. While such client are rare in the real world, it
68 doesn't hurt and couple of curl tests rely on it.
69 - Only remove duplicated Content-Type headers when filters are enabled.
70 If they are not it doesn't cause ill effects and the user might not want it.
71 Downgrade the removal message to LOG_LEVEL_HEADER to clarify that it's not
72 an error in Privoxy and is unlikely to cause any problems in general.
73 Anonymously reported in #3599335.
74 - Set the socket option SO_LINGER for the client socket.
75 - Move several variable declarations to the beginning of their code block.
76 It's required when compiling with gcc 2.95 which is still used on some
77 platforms. Initial patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
78 - Optionally try to sanity-check strptime() results before trusting them.
79 Broken strptime() implementations have caused problems in the past and
80 the most recent offender seems to be FreeBSD's libc:
81 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=173421
82 - When filtering is enabled, let Range headers pass if the range starts at
83 the beginning. This should work around (or at least reduce ) the video
84 playback issues with various Apple clients as reported by Duc in #3426305.
85 - Do not confuse a client hanging up with a connection time out. If a client
86 closes its side of the connection without sending a request line, do not
87 send the CLIENT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_RESPONSE, but report the condition
89 - Allow closing curly braces as part of action values as long as they are
91 - On Windows, the logfile is now written before showing the GUI error
92 message which blocks until the user acknowledges it.
93 Reported by Adriaan in #3593603.
94 - Remove an unreasonable parameter limit in the CGI interface. The new
95 parameter limit depends on the memory available and is currently unlikely
96 to be reachable, due to other limits in both Privoxy and common clients.
97 Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
98 - Decrease the chances of parse failures after requests with unsupported
99 methods were sent to the CGI interface.
101 - Action file improvements:
102 - Remove the comment that indicated that updated default.action versions
103 are released on their own.
104 - Block 'optimize.indieclick.com/' and 'optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/'
105 - Unblock 'adjamblog.wordpress.com/' and 'adjamblog.files.wordpress.com/'.
106 Reported by Ryan Farmer in #3496116.
107 - Unblock '/.*Bugtracker'. Reported by pwhk in #3522341.
108 - Add test URLs for '.freebsd.org' and '.watson.org'.
109 - Unblock '.urbandictionary.com/popular'.
110 - Block '.adnxs.com/'.
111 - Block 'farm.plista.com/widgetdata.php'.
112 - Block 'rotation.linuxnewmedia.com/'.
113 - Block 'reklamy.sfd.pl/'. Reported by kacperdominik in #3399948.
114 - Block 'g.adspeed.net/'.
115 - Unblock 'websupport.wdc.com/'. Reported by Adam Piggot in #3577851.
116 - Block '/openx/www/delivery/'.
117 - Disable fast-redirects for '.googleapis.com/'.
118 - Block 'imp.double.net/'. Reported by David Bo in #3070411.
119 - Block 'gm-link.com/' whis is used for email tracking.
120 Reported by David Bo in #1812733.
121 - Verify that requests to "bwp." are blocked. URL taken from #1736879
122 submitted by Francois Marier.
123 - Block '/.*bannerid='. Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975779.
124 - Block 'cltomedia.info/delivery/' and '.adexprt.com/'.
125 Anonymously reported in #2965254.
126 - Block 'de17a.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3061472.
127 - Block 'oskar.tradera.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3060596.
128 - Block '/scripts/webtrends\.js'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002729.
129 - Block requests for 'pool.*.adhese.com/'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002716.
130 - Update path pattern for Coremetrics and add tests.
131 Pattern and URLs submitted by Adam Piggott #3168443.
132 - Enable +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} for 'tr.anp.se/'.
133 Reported by David Bo in #3268832.
134 - Unblock '.conrad.se/newsletter/banners/'. Reported by David Bo in #3413824.
135 - Block '.tynt.com/'. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421767.
136 - Unblock '.bbci.co.uk/radio/'. Reported by Adam Piggott in #3569603.
137 - Block requests to 'service.maxymiser.net/'.
138 Reported by johnd16 in #3118401 (with a previous URL).
139 - Disable fast-redirects for Google's "let's pretend your computer is
141 - Unblock '/.*download' to resolve actionsfile feedback #3498129.
142 Submitted by Steven Kolins (soundcloud.com not working).
143 - Unblock '.wlxrs.com/' which is required by hotmail.com.
144 Fixes #3413827 submitted by David Bo.
145 - Add two unblock patterns for popup radio and TV players.
146 Submitted by Adam Piggott in #3596089.
148 - Filter file improvements & bug fixes:
149 - Add a referer tagger.
150 - Reduce the likelihood that the google filter messes up HTML-generating
151 JavaScript. Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3520260.
153 - Documentation improvements:
154 - Revised all OS X sections due to new packaging module (OSXPackageBuilder).
155 - Update the list of supported operating systems to clarify that all Windows
156 versions after 95 are expected to work and note that the platform-specific
157 code for AmigaOS and QNX currently isn't maintained.
158 - Update 'Signals' section, the only explicitly handled signals are SIGINT,
160 - Add Haiku to the list of operating systems on which Privoxy is known to
162 - Add DragonFly to the list of BSDs on which Privoxy is known to run.
163 - Removed references to redhat-specific documentation set since it no longer
165 - Removed references to building PDFs since we no longer do so.
166 - Multiple listen-address directives are supported since 3.0.18, correct the
167 documentation to say so.
168 - Remove bogus section about long and short being preferable to int.
169 - Corrected some Internet JunkBuster references to Privoxy.
170 - Removed references to www.junkbusters.com since it is no longer
171 maintained. Reported by Angelina Matson.
172 - Various grammar and spelling corrections
173 - Add a client-header-tagger{} example for disabling filtering for range
175 - Correct a URL in the "Privoxy with Tor" FAQ.
176 - Spell 'refresh-tags' correctly. Reported by Don in #3571927.
177 - Sort manpage options alphabetically.
178 - Remove an incorrect sentence in the toggle section. The toggle state
179 doesn't affect whether or not the Windows version uses the tray icon.
180 Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3596395.
181 - Add new contributors since 3.0.19.
183 - Log message improvements:
184 - When stopping to watch a client socket due to pipelining, additionally log
186 - Log the client socket and its condition before closing it. This makes it
187 more obvious that the socket actually gets closed and should help when
188 diagnosing problems like #3464439.
189 - In case of SOCKS5 failures, do not explicitly log the server's response.
190 It hasn't helped so far and the response can already be logged by enabling
191 "debug 32768" anyway. This reverts v1.81 and the follow-up bug fix v1.84.
192 - Relocate the connection-accepted message from listen_loop() to serve().
193 This way it's printed by the thread that is actually serving the
194 connection which is nice when grepping for thread ids in log files.
197 - Remove compatibility layer for versions prior to 3.0 since it has been
198 obsolete for more than 10 years now.
199 - Remove the ijb_isupper() and ijb_tolower() macros from parsers.c since
200 they aren't used in this file.
201 - Removed the 'Functions declared include:' comment sections since they tend
202 to be incomplete, incorrect and out of date and the benefit seems
204 - Various comment grammar and comprehensibility improvements.
205 - Remove a pointless fflush() call in chat(). Flushing all streams pretty
206 much all the time for no obvious reason is ridiculous.
207 - Relocate ijb_isupper()'s definition to project.h and get the ijb_tolower()
208 definition from there, too.
209 - Relocate ijb_isdigit()'s definition to project.h.
210 - Rename ijb_foo macros to privoxy_foo.
211 - Add malloc_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where malloc()
212 failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
213 - Add strdup_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where strdup()
214 failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
215 - Replace strdup() calls with strdup_or_die() calls where it's safe and
217 - Fix white-space around parentheses.
218 - Add missing white-space behind if's and the following parentheses.
219 - Unwrap a memcpy() call in resolve_hostname_to_ip().
220 - Declare pcrs_get_delimiter()'s delimiters[] static const.
221 - Various optimisations to remove dead code and merge inefficient code
222 structures for improved clarity, performance or code compactness.
223 - Various data type corrections.
224 - Change visibility of several code segments when compiling without
225 FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE enabled for clarity.
226 - In pcrs_get_delimiter(), do not use delimiters ouside the ASCII range.
227 Fixes a clang complaint.
228 - Fix an error message in get_last_url() nobody is supposed to see.
229 Reported by Matthew Fischer in #3507301.
230 - Fix a typo in the no-zlib-support complaint. Patch submitted by Matthew
232 - Shorten ssplit()'s prototype by removing the last two arguments. We always
233 want to skip empty fields and ignore leading delimiters, so having
234 parameters for this only complicates the API.
235 - Use an enum for the type of the action value.
236 - Rename action_name's member takes_value to value_type as it isn't used as
238 - Turn family mismatches in match_sockaddr() into fatal errors.
239 - Let enlist_unique_header() verify that the caller didn't pass a header
240 containing either \r or \n.
241 - Change the hashes used in load_config() to unsigned int. That's what
242 hash_string() actually returns and using a potentiallly larger type
244 - Use privoxy_tolower() instead of vanilla tolower() with manual casting of
246 - Catch ssplit() failures in parse_cgi_parameters().
248 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
249 - Add an 'Overwrite condition' directive to skip any matching tests before
250 it. As it has a global scope, using it is more convenient than clowning
251 around with the Ignore directive.
252 - Log to STDOUT instead of STDERR.
253 - Include the Privoxy version in the output.
254 - Various grammar and spelling corrections in documentation and code.
255 - Additional tests for range requests with filtering enabled.
256 - Tests with mostly invalid range request.
257 - Add a couple of hide-if-modified-since{} tests with different date formats.
258 - Cleaned up the format of the regression-tests.action file to match the
259 format of default.action.
260 - Remove the "Copyright" line from print_version(). When using --help, every
261 line of screen space matters and thus shouldn't be wasted on things the
262 user doesn't care about.
264 - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
265 - Improve the --statistics performance by skipping sanity checks for input
266 that shouldn't affect the results anyway. Add a --strict-checks option
267 that enables some of the checks again, just in case anybody cares.
268 - The distribution of client requests per connection is included in the
270 - The --accept-unknown-messages option has been removed and the behavior
272 - Accept and (mostly) highlight new log messages introduced with
276 - Bump generated Firefox version to 17.
278 - GNUmakefile improvements:
279 - The dok-tidy target no longer taints documents with a tidy-mark
280 - Change RA_MODE from 0664 to 0644. Suggested by Markus Dittrich in
282 - Remove tidy's clean flag as it changes the scope of attributes.
283 Link-specific colors end up being applied to all text. Reported by Adam
285 - Leave it up to the user whether or not smart tags are inserted.
286 - Let w3m itself do the line wrapping for the config file. It works better
287 than fmt as it can honour pre tags causing less unintentional line breaks.
288 - Ditch a pointless '-r' passed to rm to delete files.
289 - Prevent completely empty lines in configure and try to unfold
290 unintentional line breaks.
291 - Let the config-file target optimistically update the original. Most of the
292 issues are fixed now and it makes diffing with git easier.
293 - Change WDUMP to generate ASCII. Add WDUMP_UTF8 to allow UTF-8 in the
294 AUTHORS file so the names are right.
295 - Stop pretending that lynx and links are supported for the documentation.
297 - configure improvements:
298 - On Haiku, do not pass -lpthread to the compiler. Haiku's pthreads
299 implementation is contained in its system library, libroot, so no
300 additional library needs to be searched. Patch submitted by Simon South in
302 - Additional Haiku-specific improvements. Disable checks intended for
303 multi-user systems as Haiku is presently single-user. Group Haiku-specific
304 settings in their own section, following the pattern for Solaris, OS/2 and
305 AmigaOS. Add additional library-related settings to remove the need for
306 providing configure with custom LDFLAGS. Submitted by Simon South in
308 - Several improvements for clarity, diffability and logic.
310 *** Version 3.0.19 Stable ***
313 - Prevent a segmentation fault when de-chunking buffered content.
314 It could be triggered by malicious web servers if Privoxy was
315 configured to filter the content and running on a platform
316 where SIZE_T_MAX isn't larger than UINT_MAX, which probably
317 includes most 32-bit systems. On those platforms, all Privoxy
318 versions before 3.0.19 appear to be affected.
319 To be on the safe side, this bug should be presumed to allow
320 code execution as proving that it doesn't seems unrealistic.
321 - Do not expect a response from the SOCKS4/4A server until it
322 got something to respond to. This regression was introduced
323 in 3.0.18 and prevented the SOCKS4/4A negotiation from working.
324 Reported by qqqqqw in #3459781.
326 - General improvements:
327 - Fix an off-by-one in an error message about connect failures.
328 - Use a GNUMakefile variable for the webserver root directory and
329 update the path. Sourceforge changed it which broke various
331 - Update the CODE_STATUS description.
333 *** Version 3.0.18 Stable ***
336 - If a generated redirect URL contains characters RFC 3986 doesn't
337 permit, they are (re)encoded. Not doing this makes Privoxy versions
338 from 3.0.5 to 3.0.17 susceptible to HTTP response splitting (CWE-113)
339 attacks if the +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action is used.
340 - Fix a logic bug that could cause Privoxy to reuse a server
341 socket after it got tainted by a server-header-tagger-induced
342 block that was triggered before the whole server response had
343 been read. If keep-alive was enabled and the request following
344 the blocked one was to the same host and using the same forwarding
345 settings, Privoxy would send it on the tainted server socket.
346 While the server would simply treat it as a pipelined request,
347 Privoxy would later on fail to properly parse the server's
348 response as it would try to parse the unread data from the
349 first response as server headers for the second one.
350 Regression introduced in 3.0.17.
351 - When implying keep-alive in client_connection(), remember that
352 the client didn't. Fixes a regression introduced in 3.0.13 that
353 would cause Privoxy to wait for additional client requests after
354 receiving a HTTP/1.1 request with "Connection: close" set
355 and connection sharing enabled.
356 With clients which terminates the client connection after detecting
357 that the whole body has been received it doesn't really matter,
358 but with clients that don't the connection would be kept open until
360 - Fix a subtle race condition between prepare_csp_for_next_request()
361 and sweep(). A thread preparing itself for the next client request
362 could briefly appear to be inactive.
363 If all other threads were already using more recent files,
364 the thread could get its files swept away under its feet.
365 So far this has only been reproduced while stress testing in
366 valgrind while touching action files in a loop. It's unlikely
367 to have caused any actual problems in the real world.
368 - Disable filters if SDCH compression is used unless filtering is forced.
369 If SDCH was combined with a supported compression algorithm, Privoxy
370 previously could try to decompress it and ditch the Content-Encoding
371 header even though the SDCH compression wasn't dealt with.
372 Reported by zebul666 in #3225863.
373 - Make a copy of the --user value and only mess with that when splitting
374 user and group. On some operating systems modifying the value directly
375 is reflected in the output of ps and friends and can be misleading.
376 Reported by zepard in #3292710.
377 - If forwarded-connect-retries is set, only retry if Privoxy is actually
378 forwarding the request. Previously direct connections would be retried
380 - Fixed a small memory leak when retrying connections with IPv6
382 - Remove an incorrect assertion in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list()
383 It could be triggered by a pcrs job with an invalid pcre
384 pattern (for example one that contains a lone quantifier).
385 - If the --user argument user[.group] contains a dot, always bail out
386 if no group has been specified. Previously the intended, but undocumented
387 (and apparently untested), behaviour was to try interpreting the whole
388 argument as user name, but the detection was flawed and checked for '0'
389 instead of '\0', thus merely preventing group names beginning with a zero.
390 - In html_code_map[], use a numeric character reference instead of '
391 which wasn't standardized before XHTML 1.0.
392 - Fix an invalid free when compiled with FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION
393 and shut down through http://config.privoxy.org/die
394 - In get_actions(), fix the "temporary" backwards compatibility hack
395 to accept block actions without reason.
396 It also covered other actions that should be rejected as invalid.
397 Reported by Billy Crook.
399 - General improvements:
400 - Privoxy can (re)compress buffered content before delivering
401 it to the client. Disabled by default as most users wouldn't
403 - The +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action checks URL
404 segments separately. If there are other parameters behind
405 the redirect URL, this makes it unnecessary to cut them off
406 by additionally using a +redirect{} pcrs command.
407 Initial patch submitted by Jamie Zawinski in #3429848.
408 - When loading action sections, verify that the referenced filters
409 exist. Currently missing filters only result in an error message,
410 but eventually the severity will be upgraded to fatal.
411 - Allow to bind to multiple separate addresses.
412 Patch set submitted by Petr Pisar in #3354485.
413 - Set socket_error to errno if connecting fails in rfc2553_connect_to().
414 Previously rejected direct connections could be incorrectly reported
415 as DNS issues if Privoxy was compiled with IPv6 support.
416 - Adjust url_code_map[] so spaces are replaced with %20 instead of '+'
417 While '+' can be used by client's submitting form data, this is not
418 actually what Privoxy is using the lookups for. This is more of a
419 cosmetic issue and doesn't fix any known problems.
420 - When compiled without FEATURE_FAST_REDIRECTS, do not silently
421 ignore +fast-redirect{} directives
422 - Added a workaround for GNU libc's strptime() reporting negative
423 year values when the parsed year is only specified with two digits.
424 On affected systems cookies with such a date would not be turned
425 into session cookies by the +session-cookies-only action.
426 Reported by Vaeinoe in #3403560
427 - Fixed bind failures with certain GNU libc versions if no non-loopback
428 IP address has been configured on the system. This is mainly an issue
429 if the system is using DHCP and Privoxy is started before the network
430 is completely configured.
431 Reported by Raphael Marichez in #3349356.
432 Additional insight from Petr Pisar.
433 - Privoxy log messages now use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
434 It's only slightly longer than the old format, but contains
435 the full date including the year and allows sorting by date
436 (when grepping in multiple log files) without hassle.
437 - In get_last_url(), do not bother trying to decode URLs that do
438 not contain at least one '%' sign. It reduces the log noise and
439 a number of unnecessary memory allocations.
440 - In case of SOCKS5 failures, dump the socks response in the log message.
441 - Simplify the signal setup in main().
442 - Streamline socks5_connect() slightly.
443 - In socks5_connect(), require a complete socks response from the server.
444 Previously Privoxy didn't care how much data the server response
445 contained as long as the first two bytes contained the expected
446 values. While at it, shrink the buffer size so Privoxy can't read
447 more than a whole socks response.
448 - In chat(), do not bother to generate a client request in case of
449 direct CONNECT requests. It will not be used anyway.
450 - Reduce server_last_modified()'s stack size.
451 - Shorten get_http_time() by using strftime().
452 - Constify the known_http_methods pointers in unknown_method().
453 - Constify the time_formats pointers in parse_header_time().
454 - Constify the formerly_valid_actions pointers in action_used_to_be_valid().
455 - Introduce a GNUMakefile MAN_PAGE variable that defaults to privoxy.1.
456 The Debian package uses section 8 for the man page and this
457 should simplify the patch.
458 - Deduplicate the INADDR_NONE definition for Solaris by moving it to jbsockets.h
459 - In block_url(), ditch the obsolete workaround for ancient Netscape versions
460 that supposedly couldn't properly deal with status code 403.
461 - Remove a useless NULL pointer check in load_trustfile().
462 - Remove two useless NULL pointer checks in load_one_re_filterfile().
463 - Change url_code_map[] from an array of pointers to an array of arrays
464 It removes an unnecessary layer of indirection and on 64bit system reduces
465 the size of the binary a bit.
466 - Fix various typos. Fixes taken from Debian's 29_typos.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
467 - Add a dok-tidy GNUMakefile target to clean up the messy HTML
468 generated by the other dok targets.
469 - GNUisms in the GNUMakefile have been removed.
470 - Change the HTTP version in static responses to 1.1
471 - Synced config.sub and config.guess with upstream
472 2011-11-11/386c7218162c145f5f9e1ff7f558a3fbb66c37c5.
473 - Add a dedicated function to parse the values of toggles. Reduces duplicated
474 code in load_config() and provides better error handling. Invalid or missing
475 toggle values are now a fatal error instead of being silently ignored.
476 - Terminate HTML lines in static error messages with \n instead of \r\n.
477 - Simplify cgi_error_unknown() a bit.
478 - In LogPutString(), don't bother looking at pszText when not
479 actually logging anything.
480 - Change ssplit()'s fourth parameter from int to size_t.
481 Fixes a clang complaint.
482 - Add a warning that the statistics currently can't be trusted.
483 Mention Privoxy-Log-Parser's --statistics option as
484 an alternative for the time being.
485 - In rfc2553_connect_to(), start setting cgi->error_message on error.
486 - Change the expected status code returned for http://p.p/die depending
487 on whether or not FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION is available.
488 - In cgi_die(), mark the client connection for closing.
489 If the client will fetch the style sheet through another connection
490 it gets the main thread out of the accept() state and should thus
491 trigger the actual shutdown.
492 - Add a proper CGI message for cgi_die().
493 - Don't enforce a logical line length limit in read_config_line().
494 - Slightly refactor server_last_modified() to remove useless gmtime*() calls.
495 - In get_content_type(), also recognize '.jpeg' as JPEG extension.
496 - Add '.png' to the list of recognized file extensions in get_content_type().
497 - In block_url(), consistently use the block reason "Request blocked by Privoxy"
498 In two places the reason was "Request for blocked URL" which hides the
499 fact that the request got blocked by Privoxy and isn't necessarily
500 correct as the block may be due to tags.
501 - In listen_loop(), reload the configuration files after accepting
502 a new connection instead of before.
503 Previously the first connection that arrived after a configuration
504 change would still be handled with the old configuration.
505 - In chat()'s receive-data loop, skip a client socket check if
506 the socket will be written to right away anyway. This can
507 increase the transfer speed for unfiltered content on fast
509 - The socket timeout is used for SOCKS negotiations as well which
510 previously couldn't timeout.
511 - Don't keep the client connection alive if any configuration file
512 changed since the time the connection came in. This is closer to
513 Privoxy's behaviour before keep-alive support for client connection
514 has been added and also less confusing in general.
515 - Treat all Content-Type header values containing the pattern
516 'script' as a sign of text. Reported by pribog in #3134970.
518 - Action file improvements:
519 - Moved the site-specific block pattern section below the one for the
520 generic patterns so for requests that are matched in both, the block
521 reason for the domain is shown which is usually more useful than showing
522 the one for the generic pattern.
523 - Remove -prevent-compression from the fragile alias. It's no longer
524 used anywhere by default and isn't known to break stuff anyway.
525 - Add a (disabled) section to block various Facebook tracking URLs.
526 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421764.
527 - Add a (disabled) section to rewrite and redirect click-tracking
528 URLs used on news.google.com.
529 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421755.
530 - Unblock linuxcounter.net/.
531 Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3422612.
532 - Block 'www91.intel.com/' which is used by Omniture.
533 Reported by Adam Piggott in #3167370.
534 - Disable the handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok option and mark it as deprecated.
535 Reminded by tceverling in #2790091.
536 - Add ".ivwbox.de/" to the "Cross-site user tracking" section.
537 Reported by Nettozahler in #3172525.
538 - Unblock and fast-redirect ".awin1.com/.*=http://".
539 Reported by Adam Piggott in #3170921.
540 - Block "b.collective-media.net/".
541 - Widen the Debian popcon exception to "qa.debian.org/popcon".
542 Seen in Debian's 05_default_action.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
543 - Block ".gemius.pl/" which only seems to be used for user tracking.
544 Reported by johnd16 in #3002731. Additional input from Lee and movax.
545 - Disable banners-by-size filters for '.thinkgeek.com/'.
546 The filter only seems to catch pictures of the inventory.
547 - Block requests for 'go.idmnet.bbelements.com/please/showit/'.
548 Reported by kacperdominik in #3372959.
549 - Unblock adainitiative.org/.
550 - Add a fast-redirects exception for '.googleusercontent.com/.*=cache'.
551 - Add a fast-redirects exception for webcache.googleusercontent.com/.
552 - Unblock http://adassier.wordpress.com/ and http://adassier.files.wordpress.com/.
554 - Filter file improvements:
555 - Let the yahoo filter hide '.ads'.
556 - Let the msn filter hide overlay ads for Facebook 'likes' in search
557 results and elements with the id 's_notf_div'. They only seem to be
558 used to advertise site 'enhancements'.
559 - Let the js-events filter additionally disarm setInterval().
560 Suggested by dg1727 in #3423775.
562 - Documentation improvements:
563 - Clarify the effect of compiling Privoxy with zlib support.
564 Suggested by dg1727 in #3423782.
565 - Point out that the SourceForge messaging system works like a black
566 hole and should thus not be used to contact individual developers.
567 - Mention some of the problems one can experience when not explicitly
568 configuring an IP addresses as listen address.
569 - Explicitly mention that hostnames can be used instead of IP addresses
570 for the listen-address, that only the first address returned will be
571 used and what happens if the address is invalid.
572 Requested by Calestyo in #3302213.
574 - Log message improvements:
575 - If only the server connection is kept alive, do not pretend to
576 wait for a new client request.
577 - Remove a superfluous log message in forget_connection().
578 - In chat(), properly report missing server responses as such
579 instead of calling them empty.
580 - In forwarded_connect(), fix a log message nobody should ever see.
581 - Fix a log message in socks5_connect(), a failed write operation
582 was logged as failed read operation.
583 - Let load_one_actions_file() properly complain about a missing
584 '{' at the beginning of the file.
585 Simply stating that a line is invalid isn't particularly helpful.
586 - Do not claim to listen on a socket until Privoxy actually does.
587 Patch submitted by Petr Pisar #3354485
588 - Prevent a duplicated LOG_LEVEL_CLF message when sending out
589 the "no-server-data" response.
590 - Also log the client socket when dropping a connection.
591 - Include the destination host in the 'Request ... marked for
592 blocking. limit-connect{...} doesn't allow CONNECT ...' message
593 Patch submitted by Saperski in #3296250.
594 - Prevent a duplicated log message if none of the resolved IP
595 addresses were reachable.
596 - In connect_to(), do not pretend to retry if forwarded-connect-retries
598 - When a specified user or group can't be found, put the name in
599 single-quotes when logging it.
600 - In rfc2553_connect_to(), explain getnameinfo() errors better.
601 - Remove a useless log message in chat().
602 - When retrying to connect, also log the maximum number of connection
604 - Rephrase a log message in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list().
605 Divide the error code and its meaning with a colon. Call the pcrs
606 job dynamic and not the filter. Filters may contain dynamic and
607 non-dynamic pcrs jobs at the same time. Only mention the name of
608 the filter or tagger, but don't claim it's a filter when it could
610 - In a fatal error message in load_one_actions_file(), cover both
611 URL and TAG patterns.
612 - In pcrs_strerror(), properly report unknown positive error code
613 values as such. Previously they were handled like 0 (no error).
614 - In compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list(), also log the actual error code as
615 pcrs_strerror() doesn't handle all errors reported by pcre.
616 - Don't bother trying to continue chatting if the client didn't ask for it.
617 Reduces log noise a bit.
618 - Make two fatal error message in load_one_actions_file() more descriptive.
619 - In cgi_send_user_manual(), log when rejecting a file name due to '/' or '..'.
620 - In load_file(), log a message if opening a file failed.
621 The CGI error message alone isn't too helpful.
622 - In connection_destination_matches(), improve two log messages
623 to help understand why the destinations don't match.
624 - Rephrase a log message in serve(). Client request arrival
625 should be differentiated from closed client connections now.
626 - In serve(), log if a client connection isn't reused due to a
627 configuration file change.
628 - Let mark_server_socket_tainted() always mark the server socket tainted,
629 just don't talk about it in cases where it has no effect. It doesn't change
630 Privoxy's behaviour, but makes understanding the log file easier.
633 - Added a --disable-ipv6-support switch for platforms where support
634 is detected but doesn't actually work.
635 - Do not check for the existence of strerror() and memmove() twice
636 - Remove a useless test for setpgrp(2). Privoxy doesn't need it and
637 it can cause problems when cross-compiling.
638 - Rename the --disable-acl-files switch to --disable-acl-support.
639 Since about 2001, ACL directives are specified in the standard
641 - Update the URL of the 'Removing outdated PCRE version after the
642 next stable release' posting. The old URL stopped working after
643 one of SF's recent site "optimizations". Reported by Han Liu.
645 - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
646 - Added --shuffle-tests option to increase the chances of detection race conditions.
647 - Added a --local-test-file option that allows to use Privoxy-Regression-Test without Privoxy.
648 - Added tests for missing socks4 and socks4a forwarders.
649 - The --privoxy-address option now works with IPv6 addresses containing brackets, too.
650 - Perform limited sanity checks for parameters that are supposed to have numerical values.
651 - Added a --sleep-time option to specify a number of seconds to
652 sleep between tests, defaults to 0.
653 - Disable the range-requests tagger for tests that break if it's enabled.
654 - Log messages use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
655 - Fix spelling in two error messages.
656 - In the --help output, include a list of supported tests and their default levels.
657 - Adjust the tests to properly deal with FEATURE_TOGGLE being disabled.
659 - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
660 - Perform limited sanity checks for command line parameters that
661 are supposed to have numerical values.
662 - Implement a --unbreak-lines-only option to try to revert MUA breakage.
663 - Accept and highlight: Added header: Content-Encoding: deflate
664 - Accept and highlight: Compressed content from 29258 to 8630 bytes.
665 - Accept and highlight: Client request arrived in time on socket 21.
666 - Highlight: Didn't receive data in time: a.fsdn.com:443
667 - Accept log messages with ISO 8601 time stamps, too.
670 - Bump generated Firefox version to 8.0.
671 - Only randomize the release date if the new --randomize-release-date
672 option is enabled. Firefox versions after 4 use a fixed date string
675 *** Version 3.0.17 Stable ***
677 - Fixed last-chunk-detection for responses where the body was small
678 enough to be read with the headers, causing Privoxy to wait for the
679 end of the content until the server closed the connection or the
680 request timed out. Reported by "Karsten" in #3028326.
681 - Responses with status code 204 weren't properly detected as body-less
682 like RFC2616 mandates. Like the previous bug, this caused Privoxy to
683 wait for the end of the content until the server closed the connection
684 or the request timed out. Fixes #3022042 and #3025553, reported by a
685 user with no visible name. Most likely also fixes a bunch of other
686 AJAX-related problem reports that got closed in the past due to
687 insufficient information and lack of feedback.
688 - Fixed an ACL bug that made it impossible to build a blacklist.
689 Usually the ACL directives are used in a whitelist, which worked
690 as expected, but blacklisting is still useful for public proxies
691 where one only needs to deny known abusers access.
692 - Added LOG_LEVEL_RECEIVED to log the not-yet-parsed data read from the
693 network. This should make debugging various parsing issues a lot easier.
694 - The IPv6 code is enabled by default on Windows versions that support it.
695 Patch submitted by oCameLo in #2942729.
696 - In mingw32 versions, the user.filter file is reachable through the
697 GUI, just like default.filter is. Feature request 3040263.
698 - Added the configure option --enable-large-file-support to set a few
699 defines that are required by platforms like GNU/Linux to support files
700 larger then 2GB. Mainly interesting for users without proper logfile
702 - Logging with "debug 16" no longer stops at the first nul byte which is
703 pretty useless. Non-printable characters are replaced with their hex value
704 so the result can't span multiple lines making parsing them harder then
706 - Privoxy logs when reading an action, filter or trust file.
707 - Fixed incorrect regression test markup which caused a test in
708 3.0.16 to fail while Privoxy itself was working correctly.
709 While Privoxy accepts hide-referer, too, the action name is actually
710 hide-referrer which is also the name used one the final results page,
711 where the test expected the alias.
713 - CGI interface improvements:
714 - In finish_http_response(), continue to add the 'Connection: close'
715 header if the client connection will not be kept alive.
716 Anonymously pointed out in #2987454.
717 - Apostrophes in block messages no longer cause parse errors
718 when the blocked page is viewed with JavaScript enabled.
719 Reported by dg1727 in #3062296.
720 - Fix a bunch of anchors that used underscores instead of dashes.
721 - Allow to keep the client connection alive after crunching the previous request.
722 Already opened server connections can be kept alive, too.
723 - In cgi_show_url_info(), don't forget to prefix URLs that only contain
724 http:// or https:// in the path. Fixes #2975765 reported by Adam Piggott.
725 - Show the 404 CGI page if cgi_send_user_manual() is called while
726 local user manual delivery is disabled.
728 - Action file improvements:
729 - Enable user.filter by default. Suggested by David White in #3001830.
730 - Block .sitestat.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002725.
731 - Block .atemda.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002723.
732 - Block js.adlink.net/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002720.
733 - Block .analytics.yahoo.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002713.
734 - Block sb.scorecardresearch.com, too. Reported by dg1727 in #2992652.
735 - Fix problems noticed on Yahoo mail and news pages.
736 - Remove the too broad yahoo section, only keeping the
737 fast-redirects exception as discussed on ijbswa-devel@.
738 - Don't block adesklets.sourceforge.net. Reported in #2974204.
739 - Block chartbeat ping tracking. Reported in #2975895.
740 - Tag CSS and image requests with cautious and medium settings, too.
741 - Don't handle view.atdmt.com as image. It's used for click-throughs
742 so users should be able to "go there anyway".
743 Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975927.
744 - Also let the refresh-tags filter remove invalid refresh tags where
745 the 'url=' part is missing. Anonymously reported in #2986382.
746 While at it, update the description to mention the fact that only
747 refresh tags with refresh times above 9 seconds are covered.
748 - javascript needs to be blocked with +handle-as-empty-document to
749 work around Firefox bug 492459. So move .js blockers from
750 +block{Might be a web-bug.} -handle-as-empty-document to
751 +block{Might be a web-bug.} +handle-as-empty-document.
752 - ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 - Block 160x578 Banners.
753 - Block another omniture tracking domain.
754 - Added a range-requests tagger.
755 - Added two sections to get Flickr's Ajax interface working with
756 default pre-settings. If you change the configuration to block
757 cookies by default, you'll need additional exceptions.
758 Reported by Mathias Homann in #3101419 and by Patrick on ijbswa-users@.
760 - Documentation improvements:
761 - Explicitly mention how to match all URLs.
762 - Consistently recommend socks5 in the Tor FAQ entry and mention
763 its advantage compared to socks4a. Reported by David in #2960129.
764 - Slightly improve the explanation of why filtering may appear
766 - Grammar fixes for the ACL section.
767 - Fixed a link to the 'intercepting' entry and add another one.
768 - Rename the 'Other' section to 'Mailing Lists' and reword it
769 to make it clear that nobody is forced to use the trackers
770 - Note that 'anonymously' posting on the trackers may not always
772 - Suggest to enable debug 32768 when suspecting parsing problems.
774 - Privoxy-Log-Parser improvements:
775 - Gather statistics for ressources, methods, and HTTP versions
777 - Also gather statistics for blocked and redirected requests.
778 - Provide the percentage of keep-alive offers the client accepted.
779 - Add a --url-statistics-threshold option.
780 - Add a --host-statistics-threshold option to also gather
781 statistics about how many request where made per host.
782 - Fix a bug in handle_loglevel_header() where a 'scan: ' got lost.
783 - Add a --shorten-thread-ids option to replace the thread id with
785 - Accept and ignore: Looks like we got the last chunk together
786 with the server headers. We better stop reading.
787 - Accept and ignore: Continue hack in da house.
788 - Accept and higlight: Rejecting connection from 10.0.0.2.
789 Maximum number of connections reached.
790 - Accept and highlight: Loading actions file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.action
791 - Accept and highlight: Loading filter file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.filter
792 - Accept and highlight: Killed all-caps Host header line: HOST: bestproxydb.com
793 - Accept and highlight: Reducing expected bytes to 0. Marking
794 the server socket tainted after throwing 4 bytes away.
795 - Accept: Merged multiple header lines to: 'X-FORWARDED-PROTO: http X-HOST: 127.0.0.1'
798 - Remove the next member from the client_state struct. Only the main
799 thread needs access to all client states so give it its own struct.
800 - Garbage-collect request_contains_null_bytes().
801 - Ditch redundant code in unload_configfile().
802 - Ditch LogGetURLUnderCursor() which doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
803 - In write_socket(), remove the write-only variable write_len in
804 an ifdef __OS2__ block. Spotted by cppcheck.
805 - In connect_to(), don't declare the variable 'flags' on OS/2 where
806 it isn't used. Spotted by cppcheck.
807 - Limit the scope of various variables. Spotted by cppcheck.
808 - In add_to_iob(), turn an interestingly looking for loop into a
810 - Code cleanup in preparation for external filters.
811 - In listen_loop(), mention the socket on which we accepted the
812 connection, not just the source IP address.
813 - In write_socket(), also log the socket we're writing to.
814 - In log_error(), assert that escaped characters get logged
815 completely or not at all.
816 - In log_error(), assert that ival and sval have reasonable values.
817 There's no reason not to abort() if they don't.
818 - Remove an incorrect cgi_error_unknown() call in a
819 cannot-happen-situation in send_crunch_response().
820 - Clean up white-space in http_response definition and
821 move the crunch_reason to the beginning.
822 - Turn http_response.reason into an enum and rename it
823 to http_response.crunch_reason.
824 - Silence a 'gcc (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2' warning on i686 GNU/Linux.
825 - Fix white-space in a log message in remove_chunked_transfer_coding().
826 While at it, add a note that the message doesn't seem to
827 be entirely correct and should be improved later on.
829 - GNUmakefile improvements:
830 - Use $(SSH) instead of ssh, so one only needs to specify a username once.
831 - Removed references to the action feedback thingy that hasn't been
833 - Consistently use shell.sourceforge.net instead of shell.sf.net so
834 one doesn't need to check server fingerprints twice.
835 - Removed GNUisms in the webserver and webactions targets so they
836 work with standard tar.
838 *** Version 3.0.16 Stable ***
840 - Added the config file option handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok to
841 work around Firefox bug #492459, which causes Firefox to hang
842 if JavaScripts are blocked in certain situations. The option is
843 enabled in the default config file.
844 - Added the config file option default-server-timeout to control the
845 assumed default server timeout. Since Privoxy no longer returns
846 an error message for connection resets on reused client connections,
847 assuming larger server timeout values appears to actually work
848 pretty well as long as connections aren't shared.
849 - Added optional support for FreeBSD's accf_http(9). Use the
850 configure option --enable-accept-filter to enable it.
851 - Added fancier Privoxy icons for win32. Contributed by Jeff H.
852 - In daemon mode, fd 0, 1 and 2 are bound to /dev/null.
853 - Resolve localhost using whatever address family the operating
854 system feels like. Previous betas would try to use IPv4 as this
855 is what most users expect, but this didn't work reliably on
857 - In the action lists on CGI pages, actions and their parameters are
858 no longer separated with a space. The action file parser doesn't
859 actually allow this and will throw an invalid syntax error if actions
860 and parameters in the action files are separated. Not adding the
861 spaces means copy and pasting CGI output into the action files works.
862 - The default keep-alive timeout has been reduced to 5 seconds to work
863 around hangs in clients that treat the proxy like any other host and
864 stop allowing any new connections if the "maximum number of
865 connections per host" is reached.
866 - Several webbug URLs that look like they are leading to images are now
867 blocked as image instead of empty documents. Doing the latter causes
868 WebKit-based clients to show a "missing image" icon which may mess up
870 - The no-such-domain template is used for DNS resolution
871 problems with FEATURE_IPV6_SUPPORT enabled. Previously the
872 connect-failed template was used. Reported by 'zebul666'.
873 - Accepts quoted expiration dates even though RFC 2109 10.1.2
874 doesn't seem to allow them. Reported anonymously.
875 - Don't try to forget connections if connection sharing is disabled.
876 This wasn't a real problem but caused an unnecessary log message.
877 - The still undocumented --enable-extended-host-patterns configure
878 option has a better description.
879 - Fixed an error message that would claim a write to the server
880 failed when actually writing to the client failed.
881 - Log the crunch reason before trying to write to the client.
882 The log is easier to read that way.
883 - Several log messages about client connections also mention
885 - handle-as-empty-document no longer depends on the image blocking
887 - Privoxy-Log-Parser is roughly 40% faster in highlighting mode.
888 - uagen, a Firefox User-Agent generator for Privoxy and Mozilla
889 browsers has been imported and is available in the tarball's
891 - The scripts in the tools directory treat unknown parameters
894 *** Version 3.0.15 Beta ***
896 - In case of missing server data, no error message is send to the
897 client if the request arrived on a reused connection. The client
898 is then supposed to silently retry the request without bothering
899 the user. This should significantly reduce the frequency of the
900 "No server or forwarder data received" error message many users
902 - More reliable detection of prematurely closed client sockets
903 with keep-alive enabled.
904 - FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE is decoupled from
905 FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING and now available on
907 - Improved handling of POST requests on reused connections.
908 Should fix problems with stalled connections after submitting
909 form data with some browser configurations.
910 - Fixed various latency calculation issues.
911 - Allows the client to pass NTLM authentication requests to a
912 forwarding proxy. This was already assumed and hinted to work
913 in 3.0.13 beta but actually didn't. Now it's confirmed to work
914 with IE, Firefox and Chrome.
915 Thanks to Francois Botha and Wan-Teh Chang
916 - Fixed a calculation problem if receiving the server headers
917 takes more than two reads, that could cause Privoxy to terminate
918 the connection prematurely. Reported by Oliver.
919 - Compiles again on platforms such as OpenBSD and systems
920 using earlier glibc version that don't support AI_ADDRCONFIG.
921 Anonymously submitted in #2872591.
922 - A bunch of MS VC project files and Suse and Redhat RPM spec
923 files have been removed as they were no longer maintained for
925 - Overly long action lines are properly rejected with a proper
926 error message. Previously they would be either rejected as
927 invalid or cause a core dump through abort().
928 - Already timed-out connections are no longer temporarily remembered.
929 They weren't reused anyway, but wasted a socket slot.
930 - len refers to the number of bytes actually read which might
931 differ from the ones received. Adjust log messages accordingly.
932 - The optional JavaScript on the CGI page uses encodeURIComponent()
933 instead of escape() which doesn't encode all characters that matter.
934 Anonymously reported in #2832722.
935 - Fix gcc45 warnings in decompress_iob().
936 - Various log message improvements.
937 - Privoxy-Regression-Test supports redirect tests.
938 - Privoxy-Log-Parser can gather some connection statistics.
940 *** Version 3.0.14 Beta ***
942 - The latency is taken into account when evaluating whether or not to
943 reuse a connection. This should significantly reduce the number of
944 connections problems several users reported.
945 - If the server doesn't specify how long the connection stays alive,
946 Privoxy errs on the safe side of caution and assumes it's only a second.
947 - The error pages for connection timeouts or missing server data use a
948 Last-Modified date in the past. Retry attempts are detected and Privoxy
949 removes the If-Modified-Since header to prevent the server from responding
950 with status code 304 in which case the client would reuse the error message.
951 - Setting keep-alive-timeout to 0 disables keep-alive support. Previously
952 Privoxy would claim to allow persistence but not reuse the connection.
953 - Pipelined requests are less likely to be mistaken for the request
954 body of the previous request. Note that Privoxy still has no real
955 pipeline support and will either serialize pipelined requests or
956 drop them in which case the client has to resent them.
957 - Fixed a crash on some Windows versions when header randomization
958 is enabled and the date couldn't be parsed.
959 - Privoxy's keep-alive timeout for the current connection is reduced
960 to the one specified in the client's Keep-Alive header.
961 - For HTTP/1.1 requests, Privoxy implies keep-alive support by not
962 setting any Connection header instead of using 'Connection: keep-alive'.
963 - If the socket isn't reusable, Privoxy doesn't temporarily waste
964 a socket slot to remember the connection.
965 - If keep-alive support is disabled but compiled in, the client's
966 Keep-Alive header is removed.
967 - Fixed a bug on mingw32 where downloading large files failed if
968 keep-alive support was enabled.
969 - Fixed a bug that (at least theoretically) could cause log
970 timestamps to be occasionally off by about a second.
971 - No Proxy-Connection header if added if there already is one.
972 - The configure script respects the $PATH variable when searching
975 *** Version 3.0.13 Beta ***
977 - Added IPv6 support. Thanks to Petr Pisar who not only provided
978 the initial patch but also helped a lot with the integration.
979 - Added client-side keep-alive support.
980 - The connection sharing code is only used if the connection-sharing
982 - The max-client-connections option has been added to restrict
983 the number of client connections below a value enforced by
984 the operating system.
985 - Fixed a regression reintroduced in 3.0.12 that could cause
986 crashes on mingw32 if header date randomization was enabled.
987 - Compressed content with extra fields couldn't be decompressed
988 and would get passed to the client unfiltered. This problem
989 has only be detected through statical analysis with clang as
990 nobody seems to be using extra fields anyway.
991 - If the server resets the Connection after sending only the headers
992 Privoxy forwards what it got to the client. Previously Privoxy
993 would deliver an error message instead.
994 - Error messages in case of connection timeouts use the right
996 - If spawning a child to handle a request fails, the client
997 gets an error message and Privoxy continues to listen for
998 new requests right away.
999 - The error messages in case of server-connection timeouts or
1000 prematurely closed server connections are now template-based.
1001 - If zlib support isn't compiled in, Privoxy no longer tries to
1002 filter compressed content unless explicitly asked to do so.
1003 - In case of connections that are denied based on ACL directives,
1004 the memory used for the client IP is no longer leaked.
1005 - Fixed another small memory leak if the client request times out
1006 while waiting for client headers other than the request line.
1007 - The client socket is kept open until the server socket has
1008 been marked as unused. This should increase the chances that
1009 the still-open connection will be reused for the client's next
1010 request to the same destination. Note that this only matters
1011 if connection-sharing is enabled.
1012 - A TODO list has been added to the source tarball to give potential
1013 volunteers a better idea of what the current goals are. Donations
1014 are still welcome too: http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
1016 *** Version 3.0.12 ***
1018 - The socket-timeout option now also works on platforms whose
1019 select() implementation modifies the timeout structure.
1020 Previously the timeout was triggered even if the connection
1021 didn't stall. Reported by cyberpatrol.
1022 - The Connection: keep-alive code properly deals with files
1023 larger than 2GB. Previously the connection was closed too
1025 - The content length for files above 2GB is logged correctly.
1026 - The user-manual directive on the show-status page links to
1027 the documentation location specified with the directive,
1028 not to the Privoxy website.
1029 - When running in daemon mode, Privoxy doesn't log anything
1030 to the console unless there are errors before the logfile
1032 - The show-status page prints warnings about invalid directives
1033 on the same line as the directives themselves.
1034 - Fixed several justified (but harmless) compiler warnings,
1035 mostly on 64 bit platforms.
1036 - The mingw32 version explicitly requests the default charset
1037 to prevent display problems with some fonts available on more
1038 recent Windows versions. Patch by Burberry.
1039 - The mingw32 version uses the Privoxy icon in the alt-tab
1040 windows. Patch by Burberry.
1041 - The timestamp and the thread id is omitted in the "Fatal error"
1042 message box on mingw32.
1043 - Fixed two related mingw32-only buffer overflows. Triggering
1044 them required control over the configuration file, therefore
1045 this isn't seen as a security issue.
1046 - In verbose mode, or if the new option --show-skipped-tests
1047 is used, Privoxy-Regression-Test logs skipped tests and the
1050 *** Version 3.0.11 ***
1052 - On most platforms, outgoing connections can be kept alive and
1053 reused if the server supports it. Whether or not this improves
1054 things depends on the connection.
1055 - When dropping privileges, membership in supplementary groups
1056 is given up as well. Not doing that can lead to Privoxy running
1057 with more rights than necessary and violates the principle of
1058 least privilege. Users of the --user option are advised to update.
1059 Thanks to Matthias Drochner for reporting the problem,
1060 providing the initial patch and testing the final version.
1061 - Passing invalid users or groups with the --user option
1062 didn't lead to program exit. Regression introduced in 3.0.7.
1063 - The match all section has been moved from default.action
1064 to a new file called match-all.action. As a result the
1065 default.action no longer needs to be touched by the user
1066 and can be safely overwritten by updates.
1067 - The standard.action file has been removed. Its content
1068 is now part of the default.action file.
1069 - In some situations the logged content length was slightly too low.
1070 - Crunched requests are logged with their own log level.
1071 If you used "debug 1" in the past, you'll probably want
1072 to additionally enable "debug 1024", otherwise only passed
1073 requests will be logged. If you only care about crunched
1074 requests, simply replace "debug 1" with "debug 1024".
1075 - The crunch reason has been moved to the beginning of the
1076 crunch message. For HTTP URLs, the protocol is logged as well.
1077 - Log messages are shortened by printing the thread id on its
1078 own (as opposed to putting it inside the string "Privoxy()").
1079 - The config option socket-timeout has been added to control
1080 the time Privoxy waits for data to arrive on a socket.
1081 - Support for remote toggling is controlled by the configure
1082 option --disable-toggle only. In previous versions it also
1083 depended on the action editor and thus configuring with the
1084 --disable-editor option would disable remote toggling support
1086 - Requests with invalid HTTP versions are rejected.
1087 - The template symbol @date@ can be used to include a date(1)-like
1088 time string. Initial patch submitted by Endre Szabo.
1089 - Responses from shoutcast servers are accepted again.
1090 Problem reported and fix suggested by Stefan.
1091 - The hide-forwarded-for-headers action has been replaced with
1092 the change-x-forwarded-for{} action which can also be used to
1093 add X-Forwarded-For headers. The latter functionality already
1094 existed in Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.7 but has been removed
1095 as it was often used unintentionally (by not using the
1096 hide-forwarded-for-headers action).
1097 - A "clear log" view option was added to the mingw32 version
1098 to clear out all of the lines in the Privoxy log window.
1099 Based on a patch submitted by T Ford.
1100 - The mingw32 version uses "critical sections" now, which prevents
1101 log message corruption under load. As a side effect, the
1102 "no thread-safe PRNG" warning could be removed as well.
1103 - The mingw32 version's task bar icon is crossed out and
1104 the color changed to gray if Privoxy is toggled off.
1106 *** Version 3.0.10 ***
1108 - Ordinary configuration file changes no longer cause program
1109 termination on OS/2 if the name of the logfile hasn't been
1110 changed as well. This regression probably crept in with the
1111 logging improvements in 3.0.7. Reported by Maynard.
1112 - The img-reorder filter is less likely to mess up JavaScript code in
1113 img tags. Problem and solution reported by Glenn Washburn in #2014552.
1114 - The source tar ball now includes Privoxy-Log-Parser,
1115 a syntax-highlighter for Privoxy logs. For fancy screenshots see:
1116 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy-log-parser/
1117 Documentation is available through perldoc(1).
1119 *** Version 3.0.9 Beta ***
1121 - Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by
1122 the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
1123 - The "blocked" CGI pages include a block reason that was
1124 provided as argument to the last-applying block action.
1125 - If enable-edit-actions is disabled (the default since 3.0.7 beta)
1126 the show-status page hides the edit buttons and explains why.
1127 Previously the user would get the "this feature has been disabled"
1128 message after using the edit button.
1129 - Forbidden CONNECT requests are treated like blocks by default.
1130 The now-pointless treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks action
1132 - Not enabling limit-connect now allows CONNECT requests to all ports.
1133 In previous versions it would only allow CONNECT requests to port 443.
1134 Use +limit-connect{443} if you think you need the old default behaviour.
1135 - The CGI editor gets turned off after three edit requests with invalid
1136 file modification timestamps. This makes life harder for attackers
1137 who can leverage browser bugs to send fake Referers and intend to
1138 brute-force edit URLs.
1139 - Action settings for multiple patterns in the same section are
1140 shared in memory. As a result these sections take up less space
1141 (and are loaded slightly faster). Problem reported by Franz Schwartau.
1142 - Linear white space in HTTP headers will be normalized to single
1143 spaces before parsing the header's content, headers split across
1144 multiple lines get merged first. This should prevent problems like:
1145 * letting the session-cookies-only action slip
1146 some Cookies through unmodified,
1147 * only suppressing the first line of a header,
1148 thus creating an invalid one, and
1149 * to incorrectly block headers with valid timestamps
1150 that weren't properly recognized.
1151 Headers that could trigger these problems are unlikely to appear
1152 in "normal" web traffic, but could be intentionally generated to
1153 fool some of Privoxy's header parsers.
1154 - Host information is gathered outside the main thread so it's less
1155 likely to delay other incoming connections if the host is misconfigured.
1156 - New config option "hostname" to use a hostname other than
1157 the one returned by the operating system. Useful to speed-up responses
1158 for CGI requests on misconfigured systems. Requested by Max Khon.
1159 - The CGI editor supports the "disable all filters of this type"
1160 directives "-client-header-filter", "-server-header-filter",
1161 "-client-header-tagger" and "-server-header-tagger".
1162 - Fixed false-positives with the link-by-url filter and URLs that
1163 contain the pattern "/jump/".
1164 - The less-download-windows filter no longer messes
1165 "Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash" headers up.
1166 - In the show-url-info page's "Final results" section active and
1167 inactive actions are listed separately. Patch provided by Lee.
1168 - The GNUmakefile supports the DESTDIR variable. Patch for
1169 the install target submitted by Radoslaw Zielinski.
1170 - Embedding the content of configuration files in the show-status
1171 page is significantly faster now. For a largish action file (1 MB)
1172 a speedup of about 2450 times has been measured. This is mostly
1173 interesting if you are using large action files or regularly use
1174 Privoxy-Regression-Test while running Privoxy through Valgrind,
1175 for stock configuration files it doesn't really matter.
1176 - If zlib support is unavailable and there are content
1177 filters active but the prevent-compression action is disabled,
1178 the show-url-info page includes a warning that compression
1179 might prevent filtering.
1180 - The show-url-info page provides an OpenSearch Description that
1181 allows to access the page through browser search plugins.
1182 - Custom client-header filters that rewrite the request line
1183 incorrectly no longer cause Privoxy to crash. Reported by din_a4.
1184 - The obsolete kill-popups action has been removed as the
1185 PCRS-based popup filters can do the same and are slightly
1187 - The inspect-jpegs action has been removed.
1188 - The send-wafer and send-vanilla-wafer actions have been removed.
1189 They weren't particular useful and their behaviour could be emulated
1190 with add-header anyway.
1191 - Privoxy-Regression-Test has been significantly improved.
1192 - Most sections in the default.action file contain tests for
1193 Privoxy-Regression-Test to verify that they are working as intended.
1194 - Parts of Privoxy have been refactored to increase maintainability.
1195 - Building with zlib (if available) is done by default.
1197 *** Version 3.0.8 ***
1199 - Fixed a small memory leak when listen-address only specifies the port.
1200 - The source tar balls now include Privoxy-Regression-Test which
1201 (upon other things) can be used to automatically detect some
1202 packaging problems. Packagers are welcome to give it a try.
1203 - Reverted a change in 3.0.7 that caused path patterns to be checked
1204 even if the host pattern match already failed. While this doesn't
1205 noticeable affect the performance, it makes it less likely to run
1206 out of stack space with overly-complex path patterns the user might
1208 - Updated the msn, yahoo and google filters to work as advertised again.
1209 - The warning message shown by the show-status CGI page is easier to
1210 understand. Previously it wasn't clear that the error message
1211 is shown below the invalid directive. (Reported by Lee)
1212 - When regenerating Content-Disposition headers the more common
1213 spelling is used for the name. Previously it was written without caps.
1214 - Less confusing log message if the content type isn't overwritten
1215 because force-text-type wasn't used but the old type doesn't look
1216 like content that would be filtered normally.
1217 - Better log messages if the user tries to execute filters that
1219 - Treat the non-standard Request-Range headers like standard range
1220 headers and suppress them if content filtering is enabled.
1221 - Prevent the log messages for CONNECT requests to unacceptable
1222 ports from printing the limit-connect argument as [null] if
1223 limit-connect hasn't been explicitly enabled.
1224 - Don't disable the mingw32 log window if the logfile directive
1225 isn't used. While it was an intentional change in 3.0.7 at least
1226 one user perceived it as a regression and the same effect can
1227 be achieved by disabling all debug directives.
1228 - Fixed two minor problems related to the win32 build process: a css
1229 file was not being in the installer and the trustfile comment in the
1230 config.txt referenced a nonexisting file
1231 - Minor documentation fixes.
1233 *** Version 3.0.7 Beta ***
1235 - Added zlib support to filter content with gzip and deflate
1236 encoding. (Patch provided by Wil Mahan)
1237 - Dedicated filters and actions are used for header filtering.
1238 "filter-client-headers" and "filter-client-headers" are no longer
1239 supported, use server-header-filter{} and client-header-filter{}
1241 - Tags can be used to change actions based on HTTP headers.
1242 - New server-header filter: less-download-windows.
1243 - New client-header taggers: css-requests, image-requests,
1244 client-ip-address, http-method, allow-post, complete-url,
1245 user-agent and privoxy-control.
1246 - New server-header taggers: content-type and privoxy-control.
1247 - The forward-override{} action allows to change the forwarding
1248 settings through the action files, for example based on client
1249 headers like the User-Agent, or the request origin.
1250 - Socks errors are no longer handled by the CGI page for
1251 DNS resolution failures.
1252 - CGI pages use favicons to signal whether they are error
1253 or control pages. This is useful if you rely heavily on
1255 - The show-url-info CGI page shows the forwarding settings.
1256 - "Crunch!" log messages (used when Privoxy answers requests
1257 by itself) now also contain the reason.
1258 - Allow to rewrite the request destination behind the client's back.
1259 - Fix socks requests on big-endian platforms. Patch provided by Song Weijia.
1260 - Fixes possible deadlocks and crashes on OpenBSD.
1261 Patch provided by Ralf Horstmann.
1262 - The CGI action editor allows to edit actionfiles with previously
1263 forbidden characters like dots.
1264 - New trust entries are saved with a comment that contains the
1265 trusted referring URL (Suggested by Daniel Griscom).
1266 - Filter descriptions are HTML encoded automatically.
1267 - New config option "split-large-forms" to work
1268 around a browser bug that caused IE6 and IE7 to ignore
1269 the Submit button on the edit-actions-for-url CGI page.
1270 - New config option "allow-cgi-request-crunching" to allow
1271 requests for Privoxy's CGI pages to be blocked, redirected
1272 or (un)trusted like ordinary requests.
1273 - Empty filter files no longer interrupt the filtering process
1274 prematurely and are correctly listed on the show-status CGI page.
1275 - New config option "accept-intercepted-requests" to combine
1276 Privoxy with any packet filter to build an intercepting proxy
1277 for HTTP/1.1 requests (and for HTTP/1.0 requests with Host header set).
1278 - fast-redirects{} catch redirects to https URLs as well.
1279 - redirect{s@foo@bar@} can be used to redirect to a rewritten
1280 version of the original URL.
1281 - Trap unsupported gopher proxy requests.
1282 - Fixed a bug in the User Manual delivery on Windows
1283 (mingw32 only). Images now show up correctly and HTML
1284 pages are no longer padded with garbage data.
1285 - Fixed several minor memory leaks, most of them discovered with Valgrind.
1286 - Only unlink the pidfile if it's actually used.
1287 - Retries after connection problems with forced requests
1288 aren't blocked again.
1289 - On Unix SIGABRT causes a core dump as expected and is no
1290 longer treated as normal shutdown signal.
1291 - The "access denied" CGI page is more descriptive and
1292 allows retries to circumvent the referrer check.
1293 - Updated PCRS to handle unexpected PCRE errors properly.
1294 Fixed crashes that could occur if Privoxy was build
1295 with external PCRE versions newer than Privoxy's internal
1296 one. (Reported by Chung-chieh Shan)
1297 - Fixed crashes with null bytes in PCRS replacement strings
1298 (Patch provided by Felix Gröbert).
1299 - Fixed crashes with header time randomization on mingw32.
1300 - The CGI style sheet is no longer delivered if the referring
1301 page isn't a Privoxy CGI page. This prevents a JavaScript-based
1302 Privoxy detection "attack". Note that detecting Privoxy is
1303 still possible through other ways and Privoxy was never intended
1304 to be invisible anyway.
1305 - Added support for AmigaOS 4, fixed build for AmigaOS 3.x.
1306 - The show-url-info CGI page displays a warning if Privoxy
1307 is currently toggled off.
1308 - The show-status CGI page suppresses the edit button
1309 for action files if Privoxy has no write access.
1310 - Most CGI error pages react properly to HEAD requests.
1311 - Requests with RFC 3253 HTTP methods (used by Subversion)
1312 are accepted. (Patch provided by Petr Kadlec)
1313 - New config option "templdir" to change the location
1314 of the CGI templates to make sure customized templates
1316 - Better handling of "HTTP/1.1 100 Continue" responses.
1317 - The background of the PNG pattern is transparent.
1318 - Fixed XML syntax errors caused by banners-by-size and banners-by-url.
1319 - Fixed crashes and possible action file corruptions
1320 when lines containing hashes are written through the CGI editor.
1321 - Supports dynamic filters which can contain variables.
1322 - Supports tags to change the actions based on client or server headers.
1323 - Incorrect actions are logged before program termination.
1324 - The "actionsfile" syntax in the configuration file is consistent
1325 with the rest of the configuration options and requires the
1326 whole file name. This is an incompatible change, if you use
1327 an old configuration file you might have to append ".action"
1328 to your "actionsfile" directives.
1329 - With the configuration file option "enforce-blocks" the
1330 "go there anyway" mechanism can be disabled without recompiling
1332 - More precise error messages in case of incorrect acl syntax.
1333 - Logs a warning if filtering is enabled but impossible due
1334 to lack of zlib support or use of the prevent-compression action.
1335 - Less noisy handling of Cookie:" and "Connection:" headers.
1336 - Improved error messages in case of connection problems.
1337 - Fix a command-line-parsing bug that was introduced before 3.0.5
1338 beta and caused Privoxy to treat the last argument as configuration
1339 file if no configuration file was specified.
1340 - Treat unknown command line options as fatal errors instead
1341 of silently ignoring them.
1342 - Use string functions with length checks more often.
1343 - Don't log CONNECT requests twice.
1344 - Allow to log the source address for ACL-related connection drops.
1345 - Don't ignore applying filters if the server didn't
1346 specify a Content-Type. Bug reported by Amuro Namie.
1347 - Rejected CONNECT requests are logged with log level info
1348 (enabled by default) and the reason for the block.
1349 - New command line option "--pre-chroot-nslookup hostname" to
1350 intialize the resolver library before chroot'ing. On some systems this
1351 reduces the number of files that must be copied into the chroot tree.
1352 (Patch provided by Stephen Gildea)
1353 - Fix a long-standing memory corruption bug that could cause
1354 Privoxy to overwrite a single byte in memory it didn't explicitly
1355 allocate (but that probably was allocated anyway due to bucket size).
1356 - Send template-based CGI pages as HTTP/1.1 unless the client
1358 - Let the first line in connection established responses
1359 end in \r\n as required by RFC1945. Reported by Bert van Leeuwen.
1360 - If no log file has been specified, disable logging instead of logging
1362 - Don't block stderr when in daemon mode.
1363 - Ignore missing zero-chunks when filtering chunk-encoded content.
1364 Earlier Privoxy versions would buffer and then forward the content
1365 unmodified which caused some browsers to simply show empty pages.
1366 - Fix double free in cgi_edit_actions_list(). Reported by Venustech AD-LAB.
1367 - The code to add X-Forwarded-For headers when the hide-forwarded-for-headers
1368 action isn't being used has been removed.
1369 - Fixed trustfile feature which previously didn't work without FEATURE_TOGGLE.
1371 - Minor code clean-ups, filter and action file updates.
1372 (Some of them reported by Davide Alberani, Markus Elfring,
1373 Stefan Huehner and Adam Piggott)
1375 *** Version 3.0.6 ***
1377 - New content filters: no-ping, google, msn, yahoo and blogspot.
1378 - New header filters: x-httpd-php-to-html, html-to-xml, xml-to-html
1379 and hide-tor-exit-notation.
1380 - The special header "X-Filter: No" now disables header filtering as well.
1381 - Improved the filters img-reorder, js-annoyances, webbugs,
1382 banners-by-size, banners-by-link and ie-exploits to make them
1383 less likely to break anything.
1384 - Removed outdated URL patterns in default.action and added new ones.
1385 - Added redirection from http://p.p/user-manual to http://p.p/user-manual/
1386 - Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent, hide-referrer
1387 and set-image-blocker.
1389 *** Version 3.0.5 Beta ***
1391 - Windows version can be installed/started as a service.
1392 - Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy.
1393 - Integrated Fabian Keil's extensive patch. See:
1394 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the
1395 following new or significantly improved actions (among many
1396 other improvements):
1398 content-type-overwrite{}
1399 crunch-client-header{string}
1400 crunch-if-none-match
1401 crunch-server-header{string}
1402 fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}
1403 filter-client-headers
1404 filter-server-headers
1406 handle-as-empty-document
1407 hide-accept-language{}
1408 hide-content-disposition{}
1409 hide-if-modified-since
1410 hide-referrer{conditional-block}
1411 overwrite-last-modified{}
1413 treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks
1415 - Standard-compliant clients are prevented from displaying cached
1416 copies of Privoxy's error messages after the cause of the problem
1418 - Improved DNS error handling.
1419 - Multiple filter files can now be specified in config.
1420 - Added jpeg filtering to defend against MS jpeg vulnerability MS04-028
1421 with the new inspect-jpegs action.
1422 - Removed the "arbitrary" 1000 filter limit - addresses tracker #911950
1423 - Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log
1424 file. The race condition remains for non-pthread implementations.
1425 Reference patch #1175720. Various other logging enhancements.
1426 - A pile of assorted bug fixes, memory leaks, enhancements, etc.
1427 - Moved Actions file reporting mechanism to SF tracker.
1428 - Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and
1429 forwarded-connect-retries.
1430 - Trap unsupported FTP requests.
1431 - Let text/xml be filtered.
1432 - Numerous updates to default.action
1433 - Increase the compiled in limit of trusted referrers from 64 to 512
1434 (for trustfile users).
1436 *** Version 3.0.3 ***
1438 - Fixed yet another two memory leaks. Process growth seems stopped now.
1439 - Further tightened security against malicious toggle-off links.
1440 - Excluded text/plain MIME types from filtering. This fixes a
1441 couple of client-crashing, download corruption and
1442 Privoxy performance issues, whose root cause lies in
1443 web servers labelling content of unknown type as text/plain.
1444 - Assorted fixes for POSIX compliance, signal handling, graceful
1445 termination, compiler warnings, OSX support, Win32 systray,
1446 error logging, hostname wildcards, correct detection of NetBSD.
1447 - Workarounds for client (iTunes etc) and server (PHP < 4.2.3) bugs
1448 including the notorious "blank page" problem.
1449 - Various filter improvements; most notably the unsolicited-popups
1450 filter became less destructive
1451 - Major revamp of the actions file
1453 *** Version 3.0.2 ***
1455 - Fixed two memory leaks, one serious
1456 - Fixed bug in pcrs which could cause crashes with user-defined filters
1457 - Fixed bug in domain name matching
1458 - Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..)
1459 - Added basic support for the OPTIONS and TRACE http methods
1460 - Added workaround for Bug in Mac OSX that made Privoxy crash occasionally
1461 - Refined the default action file through >400 items of user feedback
1463 - Assorted refinements, optimizations and fixes in the js-annoyances,
1464 img-reorder, banners-by-size, banners-by-link, webbugs, refresh-tags,
1465 html-annoyances, content-cookies and fun filters
1466 - Replaced filter "popups" by choice between two modes:
1467 - "unsolicited-popups" tries to catch only the unsolicited ones
1468 - "all-popups" tries to kill them all (as before)
1469 - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas.
1470 - New filter "jumping-windows" that prevents windows from resizing
1471 and moving themselves
1472 - New filter "demoronizer" which fixes MS's abuse of std charsets
1473 (common cases anyway).
1474 - Replaced "nimda" with more general "ie-exploits" filter in which
1475 all filters for exploits shall be collected
1476 - Improved cookie logging
1477 - Rewrote make install target. Added uninstall and install-strip
1479 - Fixed a potential (application-level, NOT OS-level!) security
1480 problem involving remote toggling and action file manipulation
1481 by mailicious websites.
1482 - Added ability to chroot (thanks to Sviatoslav Sviridov)
1483 - Added more action aliases for prehistoric action names
1484 - Add Slackware support to Makefile.
1488 - Fixed Windows startmenu items, log window and tray icon menus.
1489 - Added warning for bogus install target
1490 - Added quicktime-kioskmode filter and improved frameset-borders
1491 - Updated default.action based on latest feedback
1492 - New PDF doc build process
1493 - Add a user contrib module to cvs:
1494 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ijbswa/contrib/
1496 *** Version 2.9.18 ***
1498 - Added workaround for IE bug that broke CGI interface
1499 - Bugfix: String actions now reliably editable through CGI interface
1500 - Three filters fixed (again!)
1501 - Assorted small fixes and doc enhancements
1503 *** Version 2.9.16 ***
1505 - Major revamp of default.action to get rid of years of cruft.
1506 - Same for default.filter
1507 - Re-design and major improvements to the CGI editor interface.
1508 - Address spurious 'out of memory' error due to incorrect file permissions.
1509 - Impose buffer limits while reading client and server headers.
1510 - Better memory and CPU optimization.
1511 - Add Conectiva Linux package.
1512 - user-manual directive added to config for help links from within CGI
1514 - Multiple actions files can now be specified in config.
1515 - Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and
1516 user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
1517 - The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes.
1519 *** Version 2.9.14 Beta ***
1521 - Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
1522 - Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
1523 - Fix build failure where certain features were disabled.
1524 - 'blocked-compact' template is removed. Various CGI improvements,
1525 including an adaptive 'blocked' template.
1526 - Various tweaks for actions file to get ready for stable 3.0
1527 - Included a 'Bookmarklet' and PHP scripts for reporting actions file
1528 problems via web interface at privoxy.org. Accessed via internal CGIs.
1529 - Include cgi-style.css for templates.
1530 - #include mechansim for common text in templates
1531 - Various other minor fixes.
1533 *** Version 2.9.13 Beta ***
1535 - *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
1536 reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
1537 - ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now
1539 - http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/
1540 - The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern'
1541 (checkerboard) is now the default.
1542 - RPM spec file make over.
1545 *** Version 2.9.12 Beta ***
1547 - **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from
1548 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
1550 - More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements.
1551 - Win32 command line fix ups.
1552 - re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a
1553 per site basis. Some new goodies there too.
1554 - +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile
1555 for even more flexibility.
1556 - Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which
1557 displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo.
1558 - PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images
1559 if configured with --enable-no-gif.
1560 - Clean up compiler warnings (mostly).
1561 - Improved handling of failed DNS lookups & diagnostics for failed bind
1563 - Made --no-daemon mode log to tty instead of logfile.
1564 - Various spec file and init script cleanups and improvements (Redhat and
1566 - CGI Editor works on OS/2 now.
1567 - Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT.
1568 - Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file.
1569 - A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help,
1570 --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces
1571 the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges
1572 to the specified user.
1573 - Signal handling cleanups (*nix).
1574 - CGI actions editor improvements and fixes.
1575 - Error handling improvements, especially out of memory.
1576 - Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos
1577 (instead of 'blank').
1578 - configure.in threading fixes for Solaris.
1579 - Various other minor fixes.
1582 *** Version 2.9.11 Beta Changes ***
1584 - Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life
1585 of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk).
1586 - Checks for correct header length.
1587 - Fix user:pass@host.domain.com auth bug.
1588 - Better signal handling on *nix.
1589 - Fix CFLAGS hard-coded in configure.in
1590 - Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random
1591 URLs to fail in some cases.
1594 *** Version 2.9.11 Alpha Changes ***
1596 - A web-based editor for the actions file is included (go to http://i.j.b/).
1597 - Web-based toggle IJB on/off support.
1598 - Cookie handling has changed - the new +no-cookies-keep feature is now the
1600 - actionsfile is renamed to ijb.action.
1601 - junkbstr.txt is now config.txt on Win32.
1602 - Support for running IJB as a UNIX daemon process has improved.
1603 - Unix daemon now returns error code on failed start.
1604 - Timestamps in logfile and jarfile now.
1605 - Fix for the Netscape bug reintroduced in 2.9.9.
1606 - make should now abort if gmake (GNU make) not present.
1607 - Many other minor bugfixes
1608 - Start a ChangeLog :)
1612 *** Version 2.9.3 pre-Alpha Changes ***
1614 - Amiga support (completely untested by me - I don't have an Amiga)
1615 - "tinygif 3" support (redirects blocked images to a specified URL, so
1616 the browser doesn't have to load and cache many copies of the same
1618 - one case where there were both local and global "referrer" variables
1619 (yuck!) clarified by renaming the local one to "refer".
1620 - Fixed some places where close() was used instead of close_socket().
1621 Thanks to Jörg Strohmayer (joergs at users.sourceforge.net) for these.
1622 - Temporary hack to get FORCE_LOAD to work with IE. I just lowercased the
1623 FORCE_LOAD_PREFIX. Needs fixing properly.
1624 - Most URLs hardcoded into Junkbuster were changed to go through a script
1625 e.g. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?v=2.9.3&to=faq
1626 The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL:
1627 http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
1629 http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/
1630 ... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway.
1631 TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's
1632 copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page.
1633 - PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option.
1636 *** Version 2.9.2 pre-Alpha Changes ***
1638 - Andreas applied the latest version of the FORCE patch.
1641 *** Version 2.9.1 pre-Alpha Changes ***
1643 - in parsers.c, fixed two #ifdef FORCE to #ifdef FORCE_LOAD
1644 (BTW: I think FORCE is precise enough, since loading remote
1645 data is the whole purpose of a proxy..)
1646 - Set the FORCE_PREFIX (back) to 'IJB-FORCE-LOAD-'. While 'noijb.'
1647 is more elegant and looks like a hostname in the URL, it doesn't
1648 make clear to the inexperienced user that the proxy is bypassed. It
1649 also has a higher name collision risk.
1650 - Filled in the function header templates for my functions in
1651 parsers.c (again). They obviously got lost in our current
1653 - Cut the credit for the §-referrer-option from the config file,
1654 that Stefan had placed there.
1655 - Improved the re_filterfile
1658 *** Version 2.9.0 pre-Alpha Changes ***
1660 - Now use PCRE, not GNU REGEX. I have not yet had chance to check the
1661 syntax of the block/image/cookie file to ensure that they match what
1662 is expected - however they seem to work.
1663 - Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also
1664 use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for
1665 the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from
1666 "acconfig.h" and "configure.in". (Note that to install you do not
1667 need autoconf or autoheader - just run "./configure".)
1668 To see command-line options, run "./configure --help".
1669 This is my first ever autoconf script, so it has some rough edges
1670 (how PCRE is handled is the roughest).
1671 - Error logging code replaced with new module errlog.c, based on the
1672 one from JunkbusterMT (but with the threading code removed).
1673 - Most of Rodney's 0.21 and 0.21A patches applied. (Marked *). I did not
1674 apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional
1675 popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code.
1676 - ACL, Jar and trust files conditionally compiled.
1677 - New source file headers.
1678 - Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the
1679 config files - I think that's worthwhile, but it's 1am and I want to
1681 - RCS tags on .h files.
1682 - RCS tags are const char[] rather than const char *. (Saves 4 bytes
1684 - VC++ project files renamed to vc_junkbuster.*.
1685 - show-proxy-args now shows status of all conditionals, not just REGEX
1686 - Various functions moved around. Most notably all the system-specific
1687 sockets code which was spread between jcc.c, bind.c, and connect.c,
1688 has been moved to "jbsockets.c". The non-system-specific code from
1689 connect.c and socks4.c has been movet to "gateway.c". Also, the
1690 config file loader and the global variables it writes to have been
1691 moved to "loadcfg.c". (Maybe this should go into loaders.c?)
1692 And candidate for the "worst filename ever" award is "miscutil.c",
1693 which contains, well, miscellaneous utility functions like zalloc.
1694 (Suggestions for a better name for this file are welcome!)
1695 - Loaders now use a common function to read a line and skip comments,
1696 and this function also stores the proxy_args.
1697 - Added ./junkbuster --help (Not for Win32 GUI)
1698 - Added ./junkbuster --version (Not for Win32 GUI)
1699 - Win32 resources are now all marked as "U.S. English", rather than
1700 being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English".
1701 - Version number changes to 2.9.0
1704 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
1705 Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2010 the
1706 Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
1708 Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
1709 by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
1710 Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com/
1712 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
1713 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
1714 Public License as published by the Free Software
1715 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
1716 your option) any later version.
1718 This program is distributed in the hope that it will
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1720 implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
1721 PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
1722 License for more details.
1724 The GNU General Public License should be included with
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1727 or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59
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