+ <application>Privoxy 3.0.15 beta</application> is a bug-fix release
+ for the previous beta. The changes since 3.0.14 are:
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ In case of missing server data, no error message is send to the
+ client if the request arrived on a reused connection. The client
+ is then supposed to silently retry the request without bothering
+ the user. This should significantly reduce the frequency of the
+ "No server or forwarder data received" error message many users
+ reported.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ More reliable detection of prematurely closed client sockets
+ with keep-alive enabled.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE is decoupled from
+ FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING and now available on
+ all platforms.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improved handling of POST requests on reused connections.
+ Should fix problems with stalled connections after submitting
+ form data with some browser configurations.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fixed various latency calculation issues.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allows the client to pass NTLM authentication requests to a
+ forwarding proxy. This was already assumed and hinted to work
+ in 3.0.13 beta but actually didn't. Now it's confirmed to work
+ with IE, Firefox and Chrome.
+ Thanks to Francois Botha and Wan-Teh Chang
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fixed a calculation problem if receiving the server headers
+ takes more than two reads, that could cause Privoxy to terminate
+ the connection prematurely. Reported by Oliver.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Compiles again on platforms such as OpenBSD and systems
+ using earlier glibc version that don't support AI_ADDRCONFIG.
+ Anonymously submitted in #2872591.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ A bunch of MS VC project files and Suse and Redhat RPM spec
+ files have been removed as they were no longer maintained for
+ quite some time.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Overly long action lines are properly rejected with a proper
+ error message. Previously they would be either rejected as
+ invalid or cause a core dump through abort().
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Already timed-out connections are no longer temporarily remembered.
+ They weren't reused anyway, but wasted a socket slot.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ len refers to the number of bytes actually read which might
+ differ from the ones received. Adjust log messages accordingly.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The optional JavaScript on the CGI page uses encodeURIComponent()
+ instead of escape() which doesn't encode all characters that matter.
+ Anonymously reported in #2832722.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix gcc45 warnings in decompress_iob().
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Various log message improvements.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Privoxy-Regression-Test supports redirect tests.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Privoxy-Log-Parser can gather some connection statistics.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ If you missed the previous two beta versions, you may also be
+ interested in the additional changes since since 3.0.12, the
+ last stable release: