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4 *** Version 3.0.12 (UNRELEASED) ***
6 - The socket-timeout option now also works on platforms whose
7 select() implementation modifies the timeout structure.
8 Previously the timeout was triggered even if the connection
9 didn't stall. Reported by cyberpatrol.
10 - The Connection: keep-alive code properly deals with files
11 larger than 2GB. Previously the connection was closed too
13 - The content length for files above 2GB is logged correctly.
14 - The user-manual directive on the show-status page links to
15 the documentation location specified with the directive,
16 not to the Privoxy website.
17 - The show-status page prints warnings about invalid directives
18 on the same line as the directives themselves.
19 - Fixed several justified (but harmless) compiler warnings,
20 mostly on 64 bit platforms.
21 - The mingw32 version explicitly requests the default charset
22 to prevent display problems with some fonts available on more
23 recent Windows versions. Patch by Burberry.
24 - The mingw32 version uses the Privoxy icon in the alt-tab
25 windows. Patch by Burberry.
26 - The timestamp and the thread id is omitted in the "Fatal error"
27 message box on mingw32.
28 - Fixed two related mingw32-only buffer overflows. Triggering
29 them required control over the configuration file, therefore
30 this isn't seen as a security issue.
31 - In verbose mode, or if the new option --show-skipped-tests
32 is used, Privoxy-Regression-Test logs skipped tests and the
35 *** Version 3.0.11 ***
37 - On most platforms, outgoing connections can be kept alive and
38 reused if the server supports it. Whether or not this improves
39 things depends on the connection.
40 - When dropping privileges, membership in supplementary groups
41 is given up as well. Not doing that can lead to Privoxy running
42 with more rights than necessary and violates the principle of
43 least privilege. Users of the --user option are advised to update.
44 Thanks to Matthias Drochner for reporting the problem,
45 providing the initial patch and testing the final version.
46 - Passing invalid users or groups with the --user option
47 didn't lead to program exit. Regression introduced in 3.0.7.
48 - The match all section has been moved from default.action
49 to a new file called match-all.action. As a result the
50 default.action no longer needs to be touched by the user
51 and can be safely overwritten by updates.
52 - The standard.action file has been removed. Its content
53 is now part of the default.action file.
54 - In some situations the logged content length was slightly too low.
55 - Crunched requests are logged with their own log level.
56 If you used "debug 1" in the past, you'll probably want
57 to additionally enable "debug 1024", otherwise only passed
58 requests will be logged. If you only care about crunched
59 requests, simply replace "debug 1" with "debug 1024".
60 - The crunch reason has been moved to the beginning of the
61 crunch message. For HTTP URLs, the protocol is logged as well.
62 - Log messages are shortened by printing the thread id on its
63 own (as opposed to putting it inside the string "Privoxy()").
64 - The config option socket-timeout has been added to control
65 the time Privoxy waits for data to arrive on a socket.
66 - Support for remote toggling is controlled by the configure
67 option --disable-toggle only. In previous versions it also
68 depended on the action editor and thus configuring with the
69 --disable-editor option would disable remote toggling support
71 - Requests with invalid HTTP versions are rejected.
72 - The template symbol @date@ can be used to include a date(1)-like
73 time string. Initial patch submitted by Endre Szabo.
74 - Responses from shoutcast servers are accepted again.
75 Problem reported and fix suggested by Stefan.
76 - The hide-forwarded-for-headers action has been replaced with
77 the change-x-forwarded-for{} action which can also be used to
78 add X-Forwarded-For headers. The latter functionality already
79 existed in Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.7 but has been removed
80 as it was often used unintentionally (by not using the
81 hide-forwarded-for-headers action).
82 - A "clear log" view option was added to the mingw32 version
83 to clear out all of the lines in the Privoxy log window.
84 Based on a patch submitted by T Ford.
85 - The mingw32 version uses "critical sections" now, which prevents
86 log message corruption under load. As a side effect, the
87 "no thread-safe PRNG" warning could be removed as well.
88 - The mingw32 version's task bar icon is crossed out and
89 the color changed to gray if Privoxy is toggled off.
91 *** Version 3.0.10 ***
93 - Ordinary configuration file changes no longer cause program
94 termination on OS/2 if the name of the logfile hasn't been
95 changed as well. This regression probably crept in with the
96 logging improvements in 3.0.7. Reported by Maynard.
97 - The img-reorder filter is less likely to mess up JavaScript code in
98 img tags. Problem and solution reported by Glenn Washburn in #2014552.
99 - The source tar ball now includes Privoxy-Log-Parser,
100 a syntax-highlighter for Privoxy logs. For fancy screenshots see:
101 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy-log-parser/
102 Documentation is available through perldoc(1).
104 *** Version 3.0.9 Beta ***
106 - Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by
107 the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
108 - The "blocked" CGI pages include a block reason that was
109 provided as argument to the last-applying block action.
110 - If enable-edit-actions is disabled (the default since 3.0.7 beta)
111 the show-status page hides the edit buttons and explains why.
112 Previously the user would get the "this feature has been disabled"
113 message after using the edit button.
114 - Forbidden CONNECT requests are treated like blocks by default.
115 The now-pointless treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks action
117 - Not enabling limit-connect now allows CONNECT requests to all ports.
118 In previous versions it would only allow CONNECT requests to port 443.
119 Use +limit-connect{443} if you think you need the old default behaviour.
120 - The CGI editor gets turned off after three edit requests with invalid
121 file modification timestamps. This makes life harder for attackers
122 who can leverage browser bugs to send fake Referers and intend to
123 brute-force edit URLs.
124 - Action settings for multiple patterns in the same section are
125 shared in memory. As a result these sections take up less space
126 (and are loaded slightly faster). Problem reported by Franz Schwartau.
127 - Linear white space in HTTP headers will be normalized to single
128 spaces before parsing the header's content, headers split across
129 multiple lines get merged first. This should prevent problems like:
130 * letting the session-cookies-only action slip
131 some Cookies through unmodified,
132 * only suppressing the first line of a header,
133 thus creating an invalid one, and
134 * to incorrectly block headers with valid timestamps
135 that weren't properly recognized.
136 Headers that could trigger these problems are unlikely to appear
137 in "normal" web traffic, but could be intentionally generated to
138 fool some of Privoxy's header parsers.
139 - Host information is gathered outside the main thread so it's less
140 likely to delay other incoming connections if the host is misconfigured.
141 - New config option "hostname" to use a hostname other than
142 the one returned by the operating system. Useful to speed-up responses
143 for CGI requests on misconfigured systems. Requested by Max Khon.
144 - The CGI editor supports the "disable all filters of this type"
145 directives "-client-header-filter", "-server-header-filter",
146 "-client-header-tagger" and "-server-header-tagger".
147 - Fixed false-positives with the link-by-url filter and URLs that
148 contain the pattern "/jump/".
149 - The less-download-windows filter no longer messes
150 "Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash" headers up.
151 - In the show-url-info page's "Final results" section active and
152 inactive actions are listed separately. Patch provided by Lee.
153 - The GNUmakefile supports the DESTDIR variable. Patch for
154 the install target submitted by Radoslaw Zielinski.
155 - Embedding the content of configuration files in the show-status
156 page is significantly faster now. For a largish action file (1 MB)
157 a speedup of about 2450 times has been measured. This is mostly
158 interesting if you are using large action files or regularly use
159 Privoxy-Regression-Test while running Privoxy through Valgrind,
160 for stock configuration files it doesn't really matter.
161 - If zlib support is unavailable and there are content
162 filters active but the prevent-compression action is disabled,
163 the show-url-info page includes a warning that compression
164 might prevent filtering.
165 - The show-url-info page provides an OpenSearch Description that
166 allows to access the page through browser search plugins.
167 - Custom client-header filters that rewrite the request line
168 incorrectly no longer cause Privoxy to crash. Reported by din_a4.
169 - The obsolete kill-popups action has been removed as the
170 PCRS-based popup filters can do the same and are slightly
172 - The inspect-jpegs action has been removed.
173 - The send-wafer and send-vanilla-wafer actions have been removed.
174 They weren't particular useful and their behaviour could be emulated
175 with add-header anyway.
176 - Privoxy-Regression-Test has been significantly improved.
177 - Most sections in the default.action file contain tests for
178 Privoxy-Regression-Test to verify that they are working as intended.
179 - Parts of Privoxy have been refactored to increase maintainability.
180 - Building with zlib (if available) is done by default.
182 *** Version 3.0.8 ***
184 - Fixed a small memory leak when listen-address only specifies the port.
185 - The source tar balls now include Privoxy-Regression-Test which
186 (upon other things) can be used to automatically detect some
187 packaging problems. Packagers are welcome to give it a try.
188 - Reverted a change in 3.0.7 that caused path patterns to be checked
189 even if the host pattern match already failed. While this doesn't
190 noticeable affect the performance, it makes it less likely to run
191 out of stack space with overly-complex path patterns the user might
193 - Updated the msn, yahoo and google filters to work as advertised again.
194 - The warning message shown by the show-status CGI page is easier to
195 understand. Previously it wasn't clear that the error message
196 is shown below the invalid directive. (Reported by Lee)
197 - When regenerating Content-Disposition headers the more common
198 spelling is used for the name. Previously it was written without caps.
199 - Less confusing log message if the content type isn't overwritten
200 because force-text-type wasn't used but the old type doesn't look
201 like content that would be filtered normally.
202 - Better log messages if the user tries to execute filters that
204 - Treat the non-standard Request-Range headers like standard range
205 headers and suppress them if content filtering is enabled.
206 - Prevent the log messages for CONNECT requests to unacceptable
207 ports from printing the limit-connect argument as [null] if
208 limit-connect hasn't been explicitly enabled.
209 - Don't disable the mingw32 log window if the logfile directive
210 isn't used. While it was an intentional change in 3.0.7 at least
211 one user perceived it as a regression and the same effect can
212 be achieved by disabling all debug directives.
213 - Fixed two minor problems related to the win32 build process: a css
214 file was not being in the installer and the trustfile comment in the
215 config.txt referenced a nonexisting file
216 - Minor documentation fixes.
218 *** Version 3.0.7 Beta ***
220 - Added zlib support to filter content with gzip and deflate
221 encoding. (Patch provided by Wil Mahan)
222 - Dedicated filters and actions are used for header filtering.
223 "filter-client-headers" and "filter-client-headers" are no longer
224 supported, use server-header-filter{} and client-header-filter{}
226 - Tags can be used to change actions based on HTTP headers.
227 - New server-header filter: less-download-windows.
228 - New client-header taggers: css-requests, image-requests,
229 client-ip-address, http-method, allow-post, complete-url,
230 user-agent and privoxy-control.
231 - New server-header taggers: content-type and privoxy-control.
232 - The forward-override{} action allows to change the forwarding
233 settings through the action files, for example based on client
234 headers like the User-Agent, or the request origin.
235 - Socks errors are no longer handled by the CGI page for
236 DNS resolution failures.
237 - CGI pages use favicons to signal whether they are error
238 or control pages. This is useful if you rely heavily on
240 - The show-url-info CGI page shows the forwarding settings.
241 - "Crunch!" log messages (used when Privoxy answers requests
242 by itself) now also contain the reason.
243 - Allow to rewrite the request destination behind the client's back.
244 - Fix socks requests on big-endian platforms. Patch provided by Song Weijia.
245 - Fixes possible deadlocks and crashes on OpenBSD.
246 Patch provided by Ralf Horstmann.
247 - The CGI action editor allows to edit actionfiles with previously
248 forbidden characters like dots.
249 - New trust entries are saved with a comment that contains the
250 trusted referring URL (Suggested by Daniel Griscom).
251 - Filter descriptions are HTML encoded automatically.
252 - New config option "split-large-forms" to work
253 around a browser bug that caused IE6 and IE7 to ignore
254 the Submit button on the edit-actions-for-url CGI page.
255 - New config option "allow-cgi-request-crunching" to allow
256 requests for Privoxy's CGI pages to be blocked, redirected
257 or (un)trusted like ordinary requests.
258 - Empty filter files no longer interrupt the filtering process
259 prematurely and are correctly listed on the show-status CGI page.
260 - New config option "accept-intercepted-requests" to combine
261 Privoxy with any packet filter to build an intercepting proxy
262 for HTTP/1.1 requests (and for HTTP/1.0 requests with Host header set).
263 - fast-redirects{} catch redirects to https URLs as well.
264 - redirect{s@foo@bar@} can be used to redirect to a rewritten
265 version of the original URL.
266 - Trap unsupported gopher proxy requests.
267 - Fixed a bug in the User Manual delivery on Windows
268 (mingw32 only). Images now show up correctly and HTML
269 pages are no longer padded with garbage data.
270 - Fixed several minor memory leaks, most of them discovered with Valgrind.
271 - Only unlink the pidfile if it's actually used.
272 - Retries after connection problems with forced requests
273 aren't blocked again.
274 - On Unix SIGABRT causes a core dump as expected and is no
275 longer treated as normal shutdown signal.
276 - The "access denied" CGI page is more descriptive and
277 allows retries to circumvent the referrer check.
278 - Updated PCRS to handle unexpected PCRE errors properly.
279 Fixed crashes that could occur if Privoxy was build
280 with external PCRE versions newer than Privoxy's internal
281 one. (Reported by Chung-chieh Shan)
282 - Fixed crashes with null bytes in PCRS replacement strings
283 (Patch provided by Felix Gröbert).
284 - Fixed crashes with header time randomization on mingw32.
285 - The CGI style sheet is no longer delivered if the referring
286 page isn't a Privoxy CGI page. This prevents a JavaScript-based
287 Privoxy detection "attack". Note that detecting Privoxy is
288 still possible through other ways and Privoxy was never intended
289 to be invisible anyway.
290 - Added support for AmigaOS 4, fixed build for AmigaOS 3.x.
291 - The show-url-info CGI page displays a warning if Privoxy
292 is currently toggled off.
293 - The show-status CGI page suppresses the edit button
294 for action files if Privoxy has no write access.
295 - Most CGI error pages react properly to HEAD requests.
296 - Requests with RFC 3253 HTTP methods (used by Subversion)
297 are accepted. (Patch provided by Petr Kadlec)
298 - New config option "templdir" to change the location
299 of the CGI templates to make sure customized templates
301 - Better handling of "HTTP/1.1 100 Continue" responses.
302 - The background of the PNG pattern is transparent.
303 - Fixed XML syntax errors caused by banners-by-size and banners-by-url.
304 - Fixed crashes and possible action file corruptions
305 when lines containing hashes are written through the CGI editor.
306 - Supports dynamic filters which can contain variables.
307 - Supports tags to change the actions based on client or server headers.
308 - Incorrect actions are logged before program termination.
309 - The "actionsfile" syntax in the configuration file is consistent
310 with the rest of the configuration options and requires the
311 whole file name. This is an incompatible change, if you use
312 an old configuration file you might have to append ".action"
313 to your "actionsfile" directives.
314 - With the configuration file option "enforce-blocks" the
315 "go there anyway" mechanism can be disabled without recompiling
317 - More precise error messages in case of incorrect acl syntax.
318 - Logs a warning if filtering is enabled but impossible due
319 to lack of zlib support or use of the prevent-compression action.
320 - Less noisy handling of Cookie:" and "Connection:" headers.
321 - Improved error messages in case of connection problems.
322 - Fix a command-line-parsing bug that was introduced before 3.0.5
323 beta and caused Privoxy to treat the last argument as configuration
324 file if no configuration file was specified.
325 - Treat unknown command line options as fatal errors instead
326 of silently ignoring them.
327 - Use string functions with length checks more often.
328 - Don't log CONNECT requests twice.
329 - Allow to log the source address for ACL-related connection drops.
330 - Don't ignore applying filters if the server didn't
331 specify a Content-Type. Bug reported by Amuro Namie.
332 - Rejected CONNECT requests are logged with log level info
333 (enabled by default) and the reason for the block.
334 - New command line option "--pre-chroot-nslookup hostname" to
335 intialize the resolver library before chroot'ing. On some systems this
336 reduces the number of files that must be copied into the chroot tree.
337 (Patch provided by Stephen Gildea)
338 - Fix a long-standing memory corruption bug that could cause
339 Privoxy to overwrite a single byte in memory it didn't explicitly
340 allocate (but that probably was allocated anyway due to bucket size).
341 - Send template-based CGI pages as HTTP/1.1 unless the client
343 - Let the first line in connection established responses
344 end in \r\n as required by RFC1945. Reported by Bert van Leeuwen.
345 - If no log file has been specified, disable logging instead of logging
347 - Don't block stderr when in daemon mode.
348 - Ignore missing zero-chunks when filtering chunk-encoded content.
349 Earlier Privoxy versions would buffer and then forward the content
350 unmodified which caused some browsers to simply show empty pages.
351 - Fix double free in cgi_edit_actions_list(). Reported by Venustech AD-LAB.
352 - The code to add X-Forwarded-For headers when the hide-forwarded-for-headers
353 action isn't being used has been removed.
354 - Fixed trustfile feature which previously didn't work without FEATURE_TOGGLE.
356 - Minor code clean-ups, filter and action file updates.
357 (Some of them reported by Davide Alberani, Markus Elfring,
358 Stefan Huehner and Adam Piggott)
360 *** Version 3.0.6 ***
362 - New content filters: no-ping, google, msn, yahoo and blogspot.
363 - New header filters: x-httpd-php-to-html, html-to-xml, xml-to-html
364 and hide-tor-exit-notation.
365 - The special header "X-Filter: No" now disables header filtering as well.
366 - Improved the filters img-reorder, js-annoyances, webbugs,
367 banners-by-size, banners-by-link and ie-exploits to make them
368 less likely to break anything.
369 - Removed outdated URL patterns in default.action and added new ones.
370 - Added redirection from http://p.p/user-manual to http://p.p/user-manual/
371 - Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent, hide-referrer
372 and set-image-blocker.
374 *** Version 3.0.5 Beta ***
376 - Windows version can be installed/started as a service.
377 - Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy.
378 - Integrated Fabian Keil's extensive patch. See:
379 http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the
380 following new or significantly improved actions (among many
383 content-type-overwrite{}
384 crunch-client-header{string}
386 crunch-server-header{string}
387 fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}
388 filter-client-headers
389 filter-server-headers
391 handle-as-empty-document
392 hide-accept-language{}
393 hide-content-disposition{}
394 hide-if-modified-since
395 hide-referrer{conditional-block}
396 overwrite-last-modified{}
398 treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks
400 - Standard-compliant clients are prevented from displaying cached
401 copies of Privoxy's error messages after the cause of the problem
403 - Improved DNS error handling.
404 - Multiple filter files can now be specified in config.
405 - Added jpeg filtering to defend against MS jpeg vulnerability MS04-028
406 with the new inspect-jpegs action.
407 - Removed the "arbitrary" 1000 filter limit - addresses tracker #911950
408 - Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log
409 file. The race condition remains for non-pthread implementations.
410 Reference patch #1175720. Various other logging enhancements.
411 - A pile of assorted bug fixes, memory leaks, enhancements, etc.
412 - Moved Actions file reporting mechanism to SF tracker.
413 - Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and
414 forwarded-connect-retries.
415 - Trap unsupported FTP requests.
416 - Let text/xml be filtered.
417 - Numerous updates to default.action
418 - Increase the compiled in limit of trusted referrers from 64 to 512
419 (for trustfile users).
421 *** Version 3.0.3 ***
423 - Fixed yet another two memory leaks. Process growth seems stopped now.
424 - Further tightened security against malicious toggle-off links.
425 - Excluded text/plain MIME types from filtering. This fixes a
426 couple of client-crashing, download corruption and
427 Privoxy performance issues, whose root cause lies in
428 web servers labelling content of unknown type as text/plain.
429 - Assorted fixes for POSIX compliance, signal handling, graceful
430 termination, compiler warnings, OSX support, Win32 systray,
431 error logging, hostname wildcards, correct detection of NetBSD.
432 - Workarounds for client (iTunes etc) and server (PHP < 4.2.3) bugs
433 including the notorious "blank page" problem.
434 - Various filter improvements; most notably the unsolicited-popups
435 filter became less destructive
436 - Major revamp of the actions file
438 *** Version 3.0.2 ***
440 - Fixed two memory leaks, one serious
441 - Fixed bug in pcrs which could cause crashes with user-defined filters
442 - Fixed bug in domain name matching
443 - Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..)
444 - Added basic support for the OPTIONS and TRACE http methods
445 - Added workaround for Bug in Mac OSX that made Privoxy crash occasionally
446 - Refined the default action file through >400 items of user feedback
448 - Assorted refinements, optimizations and fixes in the js-annoyances,
449 img-reorder, banners-by-size, banners-by-link, webbugs, refresh-tags,
450 html-annoyances, content-cookies and fun filters
451 - Replaced filter "popups" by choice between two modes:
452 - "unsolicited-popups" tries to catch only the unsolicited ones
453 - "all-popups" tries to kill them all (as before)
454 - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas.
455 - New filter "jumping-windows" that prevents windows from resizing
456 and moving themselves
457 - New filter "demoronizer" which fixes MS's abuse of std charsets
458 (common cases anyway).
459 - Replaced "nimda" with more general "ie-exploits" filter in which
460 all filters for exploits shall be collected
461 - Improved cookie logging
462 - Rewrote make install target. Added uninstall and install-strip
464 - Fixed a potential (application-level, NOT OS-level!) security
465 problem involving remote toggling and action file manipulation
466 by mailicious websites.
467 - Added ability to chroot (thanks to Sviatoslav Sviridov)
468 - Added more action aliases for prehistoric action names
469 - Add Slackware support to Makefile.
473 - Fixed Windows startmenu items, log window and tray icon menus.
474 - Added warning for bogus install target
475 - Added quicktime-kioskmode filter and improved frameset-borders
476 - Updated default.action based on latest feedback
477 - New PDF doc build process
478 - Add a user contrib module to cvs:
479 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ijbswa/contrib/
481 *** Version 2.9.18 ***
483 - Added workaround for IE bug that broke CGI interface
484 - Bugfix: String actions now reliably editable through CGI interface
485 - Three filters fixed (again!)
486 - Assorted small fixes and doc enhancements
488 *** Version 2.9.16 ***
490 - Major revamp of default.action to get rid of years of cruft.
491 - Same for default.filter
492 - Re-design and major improvements to the CGI editor interface.
493 - Address spurious 'out of memory' error due to incorrect file permissions.
494 - Impose buffer limits while reading client and server headers.
495 - Better memory and CPU optimization.
496 - Add Conectiva Linux package.
497 - user-manual directive added to config for help links from within CGI
499 - Multiple actions files can now be specified in config.
500 - Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and
501 user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
502 - The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes.
504 *** Version 2.9.14 Beta ***
506 - Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
507 - Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
508 - Fix build failure where certain features were disabled.
509 - 'blocked-compact' template is removed. Various CGI improvements,
510 including an adaptive 'blocked' template.
511 - Various tweaks for actions file to get ready for stable 3.0
512 - Included a 'Bookmarklet' and PHP scripts for reporting actions file
513 problems via web interface at privoxy.org. Accessed via internal CGIs.
514 - Include cgi-style.css for templates.
515 - #include mechansim for common text in templates
516 - Various other minor fixes.
518 *** Version 2.9.13 Beta ***
520 - *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
521 reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
522 - ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now
524 - http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/
525 - The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern'
526 (checkerboard) is now the default.
527 - RPM spec file make over.
530 *** Version 2.9.12 Beta ***
532 - **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from
533 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
535 - More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements.
536 - Win32 command line fix ups.
537 - re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a
538 per site basis. Some new goodies there too.
539 - +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile
540 for even more flexibility.
541 - Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which
542 displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo.
543 - PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images
544 if configured with --enable-no-gif.
545 - Clean up compiler warnings (mostly).
546 - Improved handling of failed DNS lookups & diagnostics for failed bind
548 - Made --no-daemon mode log to tty instead of logfile.
549 - Various spec file and init script cleanups and improvements (Redhat and
551 - CGI Editor works on OS/2 now.
552 - Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT.
553 - Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file.
554 - A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help,
555 --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces
556 the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges
557 to the specified user.
558 - Signal handling cleanups (*nix).
559 - CGI actions editor improvements and fixes.
560 - Error handling improvements, especially out of memory.
561 - Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos
562 (instead of 'blank').
563 - configure.in threading fixes for Solaris.
564 - Various other minor fixes.
567 *** Version 2.9.11 Beta Changes ***
569 - Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life
570 of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk).
571 - Checks for correct header length.
572 - Fix user:pass@host.domain.com auth bug.
573 - Better signal handling on *nix.
574 - Fix CFLAGS hard-coded in configure.in
575 - Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random
576 URLs to fail in some cases.
579 *** Version 2.9.11 Alpha Changes ***
581 - A web-based editor for the actions file is included (go to http://i.j.b/).
582 - Web-based toggle IJB on/off support.
583 - Cookie handling has changed - the new +no-cookies-keep feature is now the
585 - actionsfile is renamed to ijb.action.
586 - junkbstr.txt is now config.txt on Win32.
587 - Support for running IJB as a UNIX daemon process has improved.
588 - Unix daemon now returns error code on failed start.
589 - Timestamps in logfile and jarfile now.
590 - Fix for the Netscape bug reintroduced in 2.9.9.
591 - make should now abort if gmake (GNU make) not present.
592 - Many other minor bugfixes
593 - Start a ChangeLog :)
597 *** Version 2.9.3 pre-Alpha Changes ***
599 - Amiga support (completely untested by me - I don't have an Amiga)
600 - "tinygif 3" support (redirects blocked images to a specified URL, so
601 the browser doesn't have to load and cache many copies of the same
603 - one case where there were both local and global "referrer" variables
604 (yuck!) clarified by renaming the local one to "refer".
605 - Fixed some places where close() was used instead of close_socket().
606 Thanks to Jörg Strohmayer (joergs at users.sourceforge.net) for these.
607 - Temporary hack to get FORCE_LOAD to work with IE. I just lowercased the
608 FORCE_LOAD_PREFIX. Needs fixing properly.
609 - Most URLs hardcoded into Junkbuster were changed to go through a script
610 e.g. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?v=2.9.3&to=faq
611 The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL:
612 http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
614 http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/
615 ... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway.
616 TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's
617 copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page.
618 - PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option.
621 *** Version 2.9.2 pre-Alpha Changes ***
623 - Andreas applied the latest version of the FORCE patch.
626 *** Version 2.9.1 pre-Alpha Changes ***
628 - in parsers.c, fixed two #ifdef FORCE to #ifdef FORCE_LOAD
629 (BTW: I think FORCE is precise enough, since loading remote
630 data is the whole purpose of a proxy..)
631 - Set the FORCE_PREFIX (back) to 'IJB-FORCE-LOAD-'. While 'noijb.'
632 is more elegant and looks like a hostname in the URL, it doesn't
633 make clear to the inexperienced user that the proxy is bypassed. It
634 also has a higher name collision risk.
635 - Filled in the function header templates for my functions in
636 parsers.c (again). They obviously got lost in our current
638 - Cut the credit for the §-referrer-option from the config file,
639 that Stefan had placed there.
640 - Improved the re_filterfile
643 *** Version 2.9.0 pre-Alpha Changes ***
645 - Now use PCRE, not GNU REGEX. I have not yet had chance to check the
646 syntax of the block/image/cookie file to ensure that they match what
647 is expected - however they seem to work.
648 - Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also
649 use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for
650 the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from
651 "acconfig.h" and "configure.in". (Note that to install you do not
652 need autoconf or autoheader - just run "./configure".)
653 To see command-line options, run "./configure --help".
654 This is my first ever autoconf script, so it has some rough edges
655 (how PCRE is handled is the roughest).
656 - Error logging code replaced with new module errlog.c, based on the
657 one from JunkbusterMT (but with the threading code removed).
658 - Most of Rodney's 0.21 and 0.21A patches applied. (Marked *). I did not
659 apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional
660 popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code.
661 - ACL, Jar and trust files conditionally compiled.
662 - New source file headers.
663 - Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the
664 config files - I think that's worthwhile, but it's 1am and I want to
666 - RCS tags on .h files.
667 - RCS tags are const char[] rather than const char *. (Saves 4 bytes
669 - VC++ project files renamed to vc_junkbuster.*.
670 - show-proxy-args now shows status of all conditionals, not just REGEX
671 - Various functions moved around. Most notably all the system-specific
672 sockets code which was spread between jcc.c, bind.c, and connect.c,
673 has been moved to "jbsockets.c". The non-system-specific code from
674 connect.c and socks4.c has been movet to "gateway.c". Also, the
675 config file loader and the global variables it writes to have been
676 moved to "loadcfg.c". (Maybe this should go into loaders.c?)
677 And candidate for the "worst filename ever" award is "miscutil.c",
678 which contains, well, miscellaneous utility functions like zalloc.
679 (Suggestions for a better name for this file are welcome!)
680 - Loaders now use a common function to read a line and skip comments,
681 and this function also stores the proxy_args.
682 - Added ./junkbuster --help (Not for Win32 GUI)
683 - Added ./junkbuster --version (Not for Win32 GUI)
684 - Win32 resources are now all marked as "U.S. English", rather than
685 being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English".
686 - Version number changes to 2.9.0
690 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
691 Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2008 the SourceForge
692 Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
694 Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
695 by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
696 Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com/
698 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
699 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
700 Public License as published by the Free Software
701 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
702 your option) any later version.
704 This program is distributed in the hope that it will
705 be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
706 implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
707 PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
708 License for more details.
710 The GNU General Public License should be included with
711 this file. If not, you can view it at
712 http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
713 or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59
714 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.