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29 <application>Privoxy 3.0.26</application> stable is a bug-fix release
30 for the previously released 3.0.25 beta which introduced client-specific
31 tags and included a couple of minor improvements.
41 Fixed crashes with "listen-addr :8118" (SF Bug #902).
42 The regression was introduced in 3.0.25 beta and reported
43 by Marvin Renich in Debian bug #834941.
55 Log when privoxy is toggled on or off via cgi interface.
60 Highlight the "Info: Now toggled " on/off log message
61 in the Windows log viewer.
66 Highlight the loading actions/filter file log message
67 in the Windows log viewer.
72 Mention client-specific tags on the toggle page as a
73 potentionally more appropriate alternative.
81 Documentation improvements:
85 Update download section on the homepage.
86 The downloads are available from the website now.
96 Remove obsolete reference to mailing lists hosted at SourceForge.
101 Update the "Before the Release" section of the developer manual.
109 Infrastructure improvements:
113 Add perl script to generate an RSS feed for the packages
114 Submitted by "Unknown".
122 Build system improvements:
126 strptime.h: fix a compiler warning about ambiguous else.
131 configure.in: Check for Docbook goo on the BSDs as well.
136 GNUMakefile.in: Let the dok-user target remove temporary files.
146 Changes between <application>Privoxy 3.0.25 beta</application>
147 and the previous release:
157 Always use the current toggle state for new requests.
158 Previously new requests on reused connections inherited
159 the toggle state from the previous request even though
160 the toggle state could have changed.
161 Reported by Robert Klemme.
166 Fixed two buffer-overflows in the (deprecated) static
167 pcre code. These bugs are not considered security issues
168 as the input is trusted.
169 Found with afl-fuzz and ASAN.
177 General improvements:
181 Added support for client-specific tags which allow Privoxy
182 admins to pre-define tags that are set for all requests from
183 clients that previously opted in through the CGI interface.
184 They are useful in multi-user setups where admins may
185 want to allow users to disable certain actions and filters
186 for themselves without affecting others.
187 In single-user setups they are useful to allow more fine-grained
188 toggling. For example to disable request blocking while still
189 crunching cookies, or to disable experimental filters only.
190 This is an experimental feature, the syntax and behaviour may
191 change in future versions.
192 Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
197 Dynamic filters and taggers now support a $listen-address variable
198 which contains the address the request came in on.
199 For external filters the variable is called $PRIVOXY_LISTEN_ADDRESS.
200 Original patch contributed by pursievro.
205 Add client-header-tagger 'listen-address'.
210 Include the listen-address in the log message when logging new requests.
211 Patch contributed by pursievro.
216 Turn invalid max-client-connections values into fatal errors.
221 The show-status page now shows whether or not dates before 1970
222 and after 2038 are expected to be handled properly.
223 This is mainly useful for Privoxy-Regression-Test but could
224 also come handy when dealing with time-related support requests.
229 On Mac OS X the thread id in log messages are more likely to
235 When complaining about missing filters, the filter type is logged
241 A couple of harmless coverity warnings were silenced
242 (CID #161202, CID #161203, CID #161211).
250 Action file improvements:
254 Filtering is disabled for Range requests to let download resumption
255 and Windows updates work with the default configuration.
260 Unblock ".ardmediathek.de/".
261 Reported by ThTomate in #932.
269 Documentation improvements:
273 Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits.
278 Remove obsolete FAQ entry about a bug in PHP 4.2.3.
283 Mention the new mailing lists were appropriate.
284 As the archives have not been migrated, continue to
285 mention the archives at SF in the contacting section
291 Note that the templates should be adjusted if Privoxy is
292 running as intercepting proxy without getting all requests.
297 A bunch of links were converted to https://.
302 Rephrase onion service paragraph to make it more obvious
303 that Tor is involved and that the whole website (and not
304 just the homepage) is available as onion service.
309 Streamline the "More information" section on the homepage further
310 by additionally ditching the link to the 'See also' section
311 of the user manual. The section contains mostly links that are
312 directly reachable from the homepage already and the rest is
313 not significant enough to get a link from the homepage.
318 Change the add-header{} example to set the DNT header
319 and use a complete section to make copy and pasting
321 Add a comment to make it obvious that adding the
322 header is not recommended for obvious reasons.
323 Using the DNT header as example was suggested by
329 Streamline the support-and-service template
330 Instead of linking to the various support trackers
331 (whose URLs hopefully change soon), link to the
332 contact section of the user manual to increase the
333 chances that users actually read it.
338 Add a FAQ entry for tainted sockets.
343 More sections in the documentation have stable URLs now.
348 FAQ: Explain why 'ping config.privoxy.org' is not expected
349 to reach a local Privoxy installation.
354 Note that donations done through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently
355 can't be checked automatically.
360 Updated section regarding starting Privoxy under OS X.
365 Use dedicated start instructions for FreeBSD and ElectroBSD.
370 Removed release instructions for AIX. They haven't been working
371 for years and unsurprisingly nobody seems to care.
376 Removed obsolete reference to the solaris-dist target.
381 Updated the release instructions for FreeBSD.
386 Removed unfinished release instructions for Amiga OS and HP-UX 11.
391 Added a pointer to the Cygwin Time Machine for getting the last release of
392 Cygwin version 1.5 to use for building Privoxy on Windows.
397 Various typos have been fixed.
405 Infrastructure improvements:
409 The website is no longer hosted at SourceForge and
410 can be reached through https now.
415 The mailing lists at SourceForge have been deprecated,
416 you can subscribe to the new ones at: https://lists.privoxy.org/
421 Migrating the remaining services from SourceForge is
422 work in progress (TODO list item #53).
430 Build system improvements:
434 Add configure argument to optimistically redefine FD_SETSIZE
435 with the intent to change the maximum number of client
436 connections Privoxy can handle. Only works with some libcs.
437 Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
442 Let the tarball-dist target skip files in ".git".
447 Let the tarball-dist target work in cwds other than current.
452 Make the 'clean' target faster when run from a git repository.
457 Include tools in the generic distribution.
462 Let the gen-dist target work in cwds other than current.
467 Sort find output that is used for distribution tarballs
468 to get reproducible results.
473 Don't add '-src' to the name of the tar ball generated by the
474 gen-dist target. The package isn't a source distribution but a
476 While at it, use a variable for the name to reduce the chances
477 that the various references get out of sync and fix the gen-upload
478 target which was looking in the wrong directory.
483 Add regression-tests.action to the files that are distributed.
488 The gen-dist target which was broken since 2002 (r1.92) has been fixed.
493 Remove genclspec.sh which has been obsolete since 2009.
498 Remove obsolete reference to Redhat spec file.
503 Remove the obsolete announce target which has been commented out years ago.
508 Let rsync skip files if the checksums match.
516 Privoxy-Regression-Test:
520 Add a "Default level offset" directive which can be used to
521 change the default level by a given value.
522 This directive affects all tests located after it until the end
523 of the file or a another "Default level offset" directive is reached.
524 The purpose of this directive is to make it more convenient to skip
525 similar tests in a given file without having to remove or disable
526 the tests completely.
531 Let test level 17 depend on FEATURE_64_BIT_TIME_T
532 instead of FEATURE_PTHREAD which has no direct connection
538 Fix indentation in perldoc examples.
543 Don't overlook directives in the first line of the action file.
553 Fix detection of the Privoxy version now that https://
554 is used for the website.