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5 - Windows version can be installed/started as a service.
6 - Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy.
7 - Integrated Fabian Keil's extensive patch. See:
8 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the
9 following new or significantly improved actions (among many
12 content-type-overwrite{}
13 crunch-client-header{string}
15 crunch-server-header{string}
16 fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}
20 handle-as-empty-document
21 hide-accept-language{}
22 hide-content-disposition{}
23 hide-if-modified-since
24 hide-referrer{conditional-block}
25 overwrite-last-modified{}
27 treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks
29 - Standard-compliant clients are prevented from displaying cached
30 copies of Privoxy's error messages after the cause of the problem
32 - Improved DNS error handling.
33 - Multiple filter files can now be specified in config.
34 - Added jpeg filtering to defend against MS jpeg vulnerability MS04-028
35 with the new inspect-jpegs action.
36 - Removed the "arbitrary" 1000 filter limit - addresses tracker #911950
37 - Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log
38 file. The race condition remains for non-pthread implementations.
39 Reference patch #1175720. Various other logging enhancements.
40 - A pile of assorted bug fixes, memory leaks, enhancements, etc.
41 - Moved Actions file reporting mechanism to SF tracker.
42 - Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and
43 forwarded-connect-retries.
44 - Trap unsupported FTP requests.
45 - Let text/xml be filtered.
46 - Numerous updates to default.action
47 - Increase the compiled in limit of trusted referrers from 64 to 512
48 (for trustfile users).
52 - Fixed yet another two memory leaks. Process growth seems stopped now.
53 - Further tightened security against malicious toggle-off links.
54 - Excluded text/plain MIME types from filtering. This fixes a
55 couple of client-crashing, download corruption and
56 Privoxy performance issues, whose root cause lies in
57 web servers labelling content of unknown type as text/plain.
58 - Assorted fixes for POSIX compliance, signal handling, graceful
59 termination, compiler warnings, OSX support, Win32 systray,
60 error logging, hostname wildcards, correct detection of NetBSD.
61 - Workarounds for client (iTunes etc) and server (PHP < 4.2.3) bugs
62 including the notorious "blank page" problem.
63 - Various filter improvements; most notably the unsolicited-popups
64 filter became less destructive
65 - Major revamp of the actions file
69 - Fixed two memory leaks, one serious
70 - Fixed bug in pcrs which could cause crashes with user-defined filters
71 - Fixed bug in domain name matching
72 - Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..)
73 - Added basic support for the OPTIONS and TRACE http methods
74 - Added workaround for Bug in Mac OSX that made Privoxy crash occasionally
75 - Refined the default action file through >400 items of user feedback
77 - Assorted refinements, optimizations and fixes in the js-annoyances,
78 img-reorder, banners-by-size, banners-by-link, webbugs, refresh-tags,
79 html-annoyances, content-cookies and fun filters
80 - Replaced filter "popups" by choice between two modes:
81 - "unsolicited-popups" tries to catch only the unsolicited ones
82 - "all-popups" tries to kill them all (as before)
83 - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas.
84 - New filter "jumping-windows" that prevents windows from resizing
86 - New filter "demoronizer" which fixes MS's abuse of std charsets
87 (common cases anyway).
88 - Replaced "nimda" with more general "ie-exploits" filter in which
89 all filters for exploits shall be collected
90 - Improved cookie logging
91 - Rewrote make install target. Added uninstall and install-strip
93 - Fixed a potential (application-level, NOT OS-level!) security
94 problem involving remote toggling and action file manipulation
95 by mailicious websites.
96 - Added ability to chroot (thanks to Sviatoslav Sviridov)
97 - Added more action aliases for prehistoric action names
98 - Add Slackware support to Makefile.
102 - Fixed Windows startmenu items, log window and tray icon menus.
103 - Added warning for bogus install target
104 - Added quicktime-kioskmode filter and improved frameset-borders
105 - Updated default.action based on latest feedback
106 - New PDF doc build process
107 - Add a user contrib module to cvs:
108 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ijbswa/contrib/
110 *** Version 2.9.18 ***
112 - Added workaround for IE bug that broke CGI interface
113 - Bugfix: String actions now reliably editable through CGI interface
114 - Three filters fixed (again!)
115 - Assorted small fixes and doc enhancements
117 *** Version 2.9.16 ***
119 - Major revamp of default.action to get rid of years of cruft.
120 - Same for default.filter
121 - Re-design and major improvements to the CGI editor interface.
122 - Address spurious 'out of memory' error due to incorrect file permissions.
123 - Impose buffer limits while reading client and server headers.
124 - Better memory and CPU optimization.
125 - Add Conectiva Linux package.
126 - user-manual directive added to config for help links from within CGI
128 - Multiple actions files can now be specified in config.
129 - Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and
130 user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
131 - The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes.
133 *** Version 2.9.14 Beta ***
135 - Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
136 - Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
137 - Fix build failure where certain features were disabled.
138 - 'blocked-compact' template is removed. Various CGI improvements,
139 including an adaptive 'blocked' template.
140 - Various tweaks for actions file to get ready for stable 3.0
141 - Included a 'Bookmarklet' and PHP scripts for reporting actions file
142 problems via web interface at privoxy.org. Accessed via internal CGIs.
143 - Include cgi-style.css for templates.
144 - #include mechansim for common text in templates
145 - Various other minor fixes.
147 *** Version 2.9.13 Beta ***
149 - *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
150 reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
151 - ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now
153 - http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/
154 - The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern'
155 (checkerboard) is now the default.
156 - RPM spec file make over.
159 *** Version 2.9.12 Beta ***
161 - **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from
162 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
164 - More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements.
165 - Win32 command line fix ups.
166 - re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a
167 per site basis. Some new goodies there too.
168 - +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile
169 for even more flexibility.
170 - Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which
171 displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo.
172 - PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images
173 if configured with --enable-no-gif.
174 - Clean up compiler warnings (mostly).
175 - Improved handling of failed DNS lookups & diagnostics for failed bind
177 - Made --no-daemon mode log to tty instead of logfile.
178 - Various spec file and init script cleanups and improvements (Redhat and
180 - CGI Editor works on OS/2 now.
181 - Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT.
182 - Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file.
183 - A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help,
184 --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces
185 the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges
186 to the specified user.
187 - Signal handling cleanups (*nix).
188 - CGI actions editor improvements and fixes.
189 - Error handling improvements, especially out of memory.
190 - Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos
191 (instead of 'blank').
192 - configure.in threading fixes for Solaris.
193 - Various other minor fixes.
196 *** Version 2.9.11 Beta Changes ***
198 - Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life
199 of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk).
200 - Checks for correct header length.
201 - Fix user:pass@host.domain.com auth bug.
202 - Better signal handling on *nix.
203 - Fix CFLAGS hard-coded in configure.in
204 - Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random
205 URLs to fail in some cases.
208 *** Version 2.9.11 Alpha Changes ***
210 - A web-based editor for the actions file is included (go to http://i.j.b/).
211 - Web-based toggle IJB on/off support.
212 - Cookie handling has changed - the new +no-cookies-keep feature is now the
214 - actionsfile is renamed to ijb.action.
215 - junkbstr.txt is now config.txt on Win32.
216 - Support for running IJB as a UNIX daemon process has improved.
217 - Unix daemon now returns error code on failed start.
218 - Timestamps in logfile and jarfile now.
219 - Fix for the Netscape bug reintroduced in 2.9.9.
220 - make should now abort if gmake (GNU make) not present.
221 - Many other minor bugfixes
222 - Start a ChangeLog :)
226 *** Version 2.9.3 pre-Alpha Changes ***
228 - Amiga support (completely untested by me - I don't have an Amiga)
229 - "tinygif 3" support (redirects blocked images to a specified URL, so
230 the browser doesn't have to load and cache many copies of the same
232 - one case where there were both local and global "referrer" variables
233 (yuck!) clarified by renaming the local one to "refer".
234 - Fixed some places where close() was used instead of close_socket().
235 Thanks to Jörg Strohmayer (joergs at users.sourceforge.net) for these.
236 - Temporary hack to get FORCE_LOAD to work with IE. I just lowercased the
237 FORCE_LOAD_PREFIX. Needs fixing properly.
238 - Most URLs hardcoded into Junkbuster were changed to go through a script
239 e.g. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?v=2.9.3&to=faq
240 The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL:
241 http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
243 http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/
244 ... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway.
245 TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's
246 copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page.
247 - PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option.
250 *** Version 2.9.2 pre-Alpha Changes ***
252 - Andreas applied the latest version of the FORCE patch.
255 *** Version 2.9.1 pre-Alpha Changes ***
257 - in parsers.c, fixed two #ifdef FORCE to #ifdef FORCE_LOAD
258 (BTW: I think FORCE is precise enough, since loading remote
259 data is the whole purpose of a proxy..)
260 - Set the FORCE_PREFIX (back) to 'IJB-FORCE-LOAD-'. While 'noijb.'
261 is more elegant and looks like a hostname in the URL, it doesn't
262 make clear to the inexperienced user that the proxy is bypassed. It
263 also has a higher name collision risk.
264 - Filled in the function header templates for my functions in
265 parsers.c (again). They obviously got lost in our current
267 - Cut the credit for the §-referrer-option from the config file,
268 that Stefan had placed there.
269 - Improved the re_filterfile
272 *** Version 2.9.0 pre-Alpha Changes ***
274 - Now use PCRE, not GNU REGEX. I have not yet had chance to check the
275 syntax of the block/image/cookie file to ensure that they match what
276 is expected - however they seem to work.
277 - Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also
278 use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for
279 the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from
280 "acconfig.h" and "configure.in". (Note that to install you do not
281 need autoconf or autoheader - just run "./configure".)
282 To see command-line options, run "./configure --help".
283 This is my first ever autoconf script, so it has some rough edges
284 (how PCRE is handled is the roughest).
285 - Error logging code replaced with new module errlog.c, based on the
286 one from JunkbusterMT (but with the threading code removed).
287 - Most of Rodney's 0.21 and 0.21A patches applied. (Marked *). I did not
288 apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional
289 popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code.
290 - ACL, Jar and trust files conditionally compiled.
291 - New source file headers.
292 - Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the
293 config files - I think that's worthwhile, but it's 1am and I want to
295 - RCS tags on .h files.
296 - RCS tags are const char[] rather than const char *. (Saves 4 bytes
298 - VC++ project files renamed to vc_junkbuster.*.
299 - show-proxy-args now shows status of all conditionals, not just REGEX
300 - Various functions moved around. Most notably all the system-specific
301 sockets code which was spread between jcc.c, bind.c, and connect.c,
302 has been moved to "jbsockets.c". The non-system-specific code from
303 connect.c and socks4.c has been movet to "gateway.c". Also, the
304 config file loader and the global variables it writes to have been
305 moved to "loadcfg.c". (Maybe this should go into loaders.c?)
306 And candidate for the "worst filename ever" award is "miscutil.c",
307 which contains, well, miscellaneous utility functions like zalloc.
308 (Suggestions for a better name for this file are welcome!)
309 - Loaders now use a common function to read a line and skip comments,
310 and this function also stores the proxy_args.
311 - Added ./junkbuster --help (Not for Win32 GUI)
312 - Added ./junkbuster --version (Not for Win32 GUI)
313 - Win32 resources are now all marked as "U.S. English", rather than
314 being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English".
315 - Version number changes to 2.9.0
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320 Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001 the SourceForge
321 Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
323 Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
324 by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
325 Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com
327 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
328 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
329 Public License as published by the Free Software
330 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
331 your option) any later version.
333 This program is distributed in the hope that it will
334 be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
335 implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
336 PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
337 License for more details.
339 The GNU General Public License should be included with
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342 or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59
343 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.