- Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.15 beta
+ Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.16 stable
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-Privoxy 3.0.15 beta is a bugfix-release for the previous betas
-which introduced IPv6 support, improved keep-alive support and
-a bunch of minor improvements.
+This is the first stable release since 3.0.12. It mainly contains
+bugfixes for the previous betas which introduced IPv6 support,
+improved keep-alive support and a bunch of minor improvements.
See http://www.privoxy.org/3.0.15/user-manual/whatsnew.html for details.
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ChangeLog for Privoxy
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+*** Version 3.0.16 stable ***
+
+- Added the config file option handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok to
+ work around Firefox bug #492459, which causes Firefox to hang
+ if JavaScripts are blocked in certain situations. The option is
+ enabled in the default config file.
+- Added the config file option default-server-timeout to control the
+ assumed default server timeout. Since Privoxy no longer returns
+ an error message for connection resets on reused client connections,
+ assuming larger server timeout values appears to actually work
+ pretty well as long as connections aren't shared.
+- Added optional support for FreeBSD's accf_http(9). Use the
+ configure option --enable-accept-filter to enable it.
+- Added fancier Privoxy icons for win32. Contributed by Jeff H.
+- In daemon mode, fd 0, 1 and 2 are bound to /dev/null.
+- Resolve localhost using whatever address family the operating
+ system feels like. Previous betas would try to use IPv4 as this
+ is what most users expect, but this didn't work reliably on
+ GNU/Linux systems.
+- In the action lists on CGI pages, actions and their parameters are
+ no longer separated with a space. The action file parser doesn't
+ actually allow this and will throw an invalid syntax error if actions
+ and parameters in the action files are separated. Not adding the
+ spaces means copy and pasting CGI output into the action files works.
+- The default keep-alive timeout has been reduced to 5 seconds to work
+ around hangs in clients that treat the proxy like any other host and
+ stop allowing any new connections if the "maximum number of
+ connections per host" is reached.
+- Several webbug URLs that look like they are leading to images are now
+ blocked as image instead of empty documents. Doing the latter causes
+ WebKit-based clients to show a "missing image" icon which may mess up
+ the layout.
+- The no-such-domain template is used for DNS resolution
+ problems with FEATURE_IPV6_SUPPORT enabled. Previously the
+ connect-failed template was used. Reported by 'zebul666'.
+- Accepts quoted expiration dates even though RFC 2109 10.1.2
+ doesn't seem to allow them. Reported anonymously.
+- Don't try to forget connections if connection sharing is disabled.
+ This wasn't a real problem but caused an unnecessary log message.
+- The still undocumented --enable-extended-host-patterns configure
+ option has a better description.
+- Fixed an error message that would claim a write to the server
+ failed when actually writing to the client failed.
+- Log the crunch reason before trying to write to the client.
+ The log is easier to read that way.
+- Several log messages about client connections also mention
+ the socket number.
+- handle-as-empty-document no longer depends on the image blocking
+ code being enabled.
+- Privoxy-Log-Parser is roughly 40% faster in highlighting mode.
+- uagen, a Firefox User-Agent generator for Privoxy and Mozilla
+ browsers has been imported and is available in the tarball's
+ tools directory.
+- The scripts in the tools directory treat unknown parameters
+ as fatal errors.
+
*** Version 3.0.15 beta ***
- In case of missing server data, no error message is send to the
- The configure script respects the $PATH variable when searching
for groups and id.
-*** Version 3.0.13 beta ***
+*** Version 3.0.13 beta ***
- Added IPv6 support. Thanks to Petr Pisar who not only provided
the initial patch but also helped a lot with the integration.
the still-open connection will be reused for the client's next
request to the same destination. Note that this only matters
if connection-sharing is enabled.
-- A TODO list has been added to the source tarballs to give potential
+- A TODO list has been added to the source tarball to give potential
volunteers a better idea of what the current goals are.
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tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user
networks.
-Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GPL2.
+Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.
Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI).
-Donations are welcome: http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
+
+Helping hands and donations are welcome:
+
+ * http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE
+
+ * http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows(95, 98, ME, 2000,
XP, Vista), Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and