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  2. ChangeLog for Privoxy
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  4. *** Version 3.0.29 stable ***
  5. - Security/Reliability:
  6. - Fixed memory leaks when a response is buffered and the buffer
  7. limit is reached or Privoxy is running out of memory.
  8. Commits bbd53f1010b and 4490d451f9b. OVE-20201118-0001.
  9. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  10. - Fixed a memory leak in the show-status CGI handler when
  11. no action files are configured. Commit c62254a686.
  12. OVE-20201118-0002.
  13. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  14. - Fixed a memory leak in the show-status CGI handler when
  15. no filter files are configured. Commit 1b1370f7a8a.
  16. OVE-20201118-0003.
  17. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  18. - Fixes a memory leak when client tags are active.
  19. Commit 245e1cf32. OVE-20201118-0004.
  20. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  21. - Fixed a memory leak if multiple filters are executed
  22. and the last one is skipped due to a pcre error.
  23. Commit 5cfb7bc8fe. OVE-20201118-0005.
  24. - Prevent an unlikely dereference of a NULL-pointer that
  25. could result in a crash if accept-intercepted-requests
  26. was enabled, Privoxy failed to get the request destination
  27. from the Host header and a memory allocation failed.
  28. Commit 7530132349. CID 267165. OVE-20201118-0006.
  29. - Fixed memory leaks in the client-tags CGI handler when
  30. client tags are configured and memory allocations fail.
  31. Commit cf5640eb2a. CID 267168. OVE-20201118-0007.
  32. - Fixed memory leaks in the show-status CGI handler when memory
  33. allocations fail. Commit 064eac5fd0 and commit fdee85c0bf3.
  34. CID 305233. OVE-20201118-0008.
  35. - General improvements:
  36. - Added experimental https inspection support which allows to filter
  37. https traffic. To enable it, install MbedTLS and configure with
  38. --with-mbedtls, or install OpenSSL or LibreSSL and configure
  39. with --with-openssl.
  40. Afterwards configure the directives in section 7 of the
  41. config file and enable the +https-inspection action.
  42. Initial MbedTLS-based code contributed by Vaclav Svec,
  43. initial OpenSSL support contributed by Maxim Antonov.
  44. With help from Nedzad Hrnjica and Ho+ Ho+ Ho+.
  45. Integration and improvements sponsored by Robert Klemme.
  46. - pcrs: Request JIT compilation if it's supported and
  47. the filter isn't dynamic. This can speed up filtering.
  48. - Added support for Brotli decompression.
  49. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  50. - Added FEATURE_EXTENDED_STATISTICS to gather statistics for
  51. block reasons and filter executions. To enable it, configure
  52. with --enable-extended-statistics and visit
  53. http://config.privoxy.org/show-status.
  54. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  55. - Use the IP_FREEBIND socket option, if defined. This allows
  56. Privoxy to bind to not-yet assigned IP addresses which is
  57. useful in failover environments.
  58. Patch by Sam Varshavchik.
  59. - Allow to use extended host patterns and vanilla host patterns
  60. at the same time by prefixing extended host patterns with
  61. "PCRE-HOST-PATTERN:". To enable this, configure with
  62. --enable-pcre-host-patterns.
  63. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  64. - Added "Cross-origin resource sharing" (CORS) support.
  65. This allows to access Privoxy's CGI interface via JavaScript from
  66. another domain (white-listed with the new cors-allowed-origin directive).
  67. Based on a patch by Nedzad Hrnjica.
  68. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme.
  69. - Add SOCKS5 username/password support.
  70. Based on a patch by Sam, improved by Ivan Romanov.
  71. Closes Patch#141 and solves TODO#105.
  72. - Bump the maximum number of action and filter files
  73. to 100 each.
  74. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  75. - Fixed handling of filters with "split-large-forms 1"
  76. when using the CGI editor.
  77. Reported by withoutname in #921.
  78. - Better detect a mismatch of connection details when
  79. figuring out whether or not a connection can be reused.
  80. - Don't send a "Connection failure" message instead of the
  81. "DNS failure" message.
  82. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  83. - Let LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST log all requests. Previously unencrypted
  84. requests were only logged with LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST when they weren't
  85. crunched (in which case they were logged with LOG_LEVEL_CRUNCH).
  86. This was documented behaviour, but logging all requests seems more useful.
  87. - Fixed locking around localtime() and gmtime().
  88. - Removed OS/2 support. We haven't provided OS/2 packages in years,
  89. it complicated the code and it depended on a fallback snprintf()
  90. implementation which is GPLv2 only.
  91. - Remove the fallback snprintf() implementation
  92. Now that OS/2 support is gone we no longer need it.
  93. - Fixed a bunch of format specifiers log messages.
  94. - Added a missing apostrophe in the 'More Privoxy' menu.
  95. - Explicitly prevent use of FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING
  96. without FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE. It makes no sense
  97. and does not compile anyway.
  98. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  99. - Fix build without FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE.
  100. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  101. - Downgrade the 'Graceful termination requested' message
  102. to LOG_LEVEL_INFO as it isn't an error.
  103. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  104. - decompress_iob(): Downgrade the no-content message to LOG_LEVEL_RE_FILTER
  105. While at it, fix a typo in a comment.
  106. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  107. - Fixed a couple of cppcheck warnings.
  108. - Rename LOG_LEVEL_GPC to LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST.
  109. Only the shadow knows what "GPC" is supposed to stand for.
  110. - Remove SourceForge references in copyright headers.
  111. - Upgrade a bunch of links to the homepage to https://.
  112. - Add 'no-brotli-accepted' filter which prevents the
  113. use of Brotli compression.
  114. - Changed license for pcrs to GPLv2+ after getting the
  115. permission from Andreas. This allows to redistribute
  116. Privoxy under the GPLv3 which is required when linking
  117. to future mbedTLS versions which are expected to be
  118. licensed under the Apache 2.0 license only.
  119. - Updated a bunch of tests that have to expect status code 403
  120. now after r1.168/070e904afa5.
  121. - Lowercase the host name in the request line.
  122. - Only set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH if it's not already set so
  123. distributions can overwrite it through the environment.
  124. - Documentation changes:
  125. - Explain that Privoxy has to be distributed under the
  126. GPLv3 (or later) when linked with an MbedTLS version
  127. that is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
  128. - Import the GNU GPLv3 and include it the user manual.
  129. - Clarify FEATURE_FORCE_LOAD's description. It allows to bypass
  130. blocking not filtering and only does it if blocks aren't enforced.
  131. Reported by: Robert Klemme
  132. - FAQ: Remove Zwiebelfreunde e.V. from the list of fiduciary sponsors
  133. As of 2021 they no longer handle donations for foreign organisations
  134. due to lack of resources.
  135. - FAQ: Remove an obsolete comment with a link to the long-gone PDF manual.
  136. - FAQ: Add a link to the TODO list.
  137. - FAQ: Change the sponsor amounts to USD slightly rounding the
  138. converted amounts up to get simple numbers.
  139. Receiving USD is apparently easier for SPI and SPI is
  140. preferred by sponsors as they can send invoices.
  141. - Advertise the client-tags CGI page in the user manual.
  142. - Stop advertising the show-version CGI page which no longer exists.
  143. - Add yet another reason why +prevent-compression may cause problems.
  144. - Don't claim that contributors need ssh. It's only needed for committers.
  145. - Replace obsolete CVS instructions with Git instructions.
  146. - Remove an obsolete comment
  147. - Config file changes:
  148. - Change the suggested default-server-timeout to 5 to match the
  149. suggested keep-alive-timeout. Otherwise using the defaults would
  150. result in Privoxy reducing the default-server-timeout and logging
  151. an error message.
  152. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  153. - Update the 'debug 1' description.
  154. - Add a missing 'client-specific-tag' directive.
  155. - Comment out trusted-cgi-referer pointing to example.org.
  156. - Action file improvements:
  157. - Block requests to /(.*/)?piwik\.php
  158. - Block requests to .connectaserver.de/
  159. - Block requests to pixel.inforsea.com/
  160. - Block requests to t.vi-serve.com/
  161. - Block requests to .ioam.de/
  162. - Block requests to t.9gag.com/img.gif
  163. - Block requests to .pixel.parsely.com/ as image
  164. - Block requests to pixel.wp.com/
  165. - Disable fast-redirects for .librarything.com/
  166. - Disable fast-redirects for issue.freebsdfoundation.org/
  167. - Disable fast-redirects for .twitter.com/.*origin=http
  168. - Unblock belco24.de/
  169. - Add fast-redirects exception for .wikipedia.org/
  170. - Add fast-redirects exception for oss-fuzz.com/
  171. - Disable fast-redirects for .consensu.org/delivery/pixel\.php
  172. and block the requests as image instead
  173. - Unblock .adbinstaller.com/
  174. Reported by lvm in #942.
  175. - Unblock .adbshell.com
  176. Reported by lvm in #942.
  177. - Unblock .tagesschau.de/
  178. - Disable fast-redirects for collector.githubapp.com/
  179. and block requests to it as image instead
  180. - Unblock 'ada*.'
  181. - Add fast-redirects{} exception for sourcepoint.vice.com/
  182. - Unblock adaway.org/
  183. Reported by DRS David Soft in AF#945.
  184. - Change two block reasons that previously were the same.
  185. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  186. - Added a +delay-response{} test.
  187. - Updated the location of the development version
  188. of default.action.master.
  189. - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
  190. - Added a --keep-date option to keep the date in highlighted messages.
  191. - Highlight new log messages.
  192. - Make gather_loglevel_clf_stats() more tolerant. While at it,
  193. count all CLF messages as requests, even if the request is invalid.
  194. - Only show HTTP version distribution if at least one version has been detected.
  195. - Only show crunch statistics if crunches were detected.
  196. - Warn if the request counts differ.
  197. - Generate statistics if the log only contains LOG_LEVEL_CLF messages
  198. so it can be used with vanilla webserver logs.
  199. Previously Privoxy-specific "Request:" messages were required.
  200. - Align the client-HTTP-version distribution like other distributions
  201. - Bump version to 0.9.1
  202. - Include status code distribution in the stats.
  203. - Let the statistics include the size of the content Privoxy
  204. transferred excluding HTTP headers.
  205. - Get with the program and expect all requests to be logged with LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST.
  206. It's no longer necessary to count both LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST and
  207. LOG_LEVEL_CRUNCH messages to get the total number of requests.
  208. - Leverage the LOG_LEVEL_CLF message to gather statistics that where
  209. previously taken from LOG_LEVEL_HEADER lines. This results in less
  210. confusing results if https inspection is enabled in which case there
  211. are two LOG_LEVEL_HEADER lines with request lines.
  212. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  213. - Properly highlight the filter results message. Previously a brace got lost.
  214. - Prefer the number of CLF lines to get the total number of requests
  215. as it works with older Privoxy versions as well.
  216. - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
  217. - Turn curl's globbing mode off so we can allow more characters in URLs.
  218. - Allow '[' and ']' in URLs.
  219. - Include the action file when complaining about missing Sticky Actions.
  220. - Fix a sentence in the documentation.
  221. - Bump version to 0.7.1
  222. - url-pattern-translator:
  223. - Detect a couple of pattern prefixes case-insensitively.
  224. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  225. - Skip CLIENT-TAG patterns.
  226. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  227. - Skip patterns that have already been converted.
  228. It should now be safe to "convert" a file multiple times.
  229. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  230. - Add the new 'PCRE-HOST-PATTERN:' prefix.
  231. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  232. *** Version 3.0.28 stable ***
  233. - Bug fixes for regressions in 3.0.27:
  234. - Fixed misplaced parentheses.
  235. Reported by David Binderman.
  236. - Changed two regression tests to depend on config directive
  237. enable-remote-toggle instead of FEATURE_TOGGLE.
  238. *** Version 3.0.27 stable ***
  239. - General improvements:
  240. - Add a receive-buffer-size directive which can be used to
  241. set the size of the previously statically allocated buffer
  242. in handle_established_connection().
  243. Increasing the buffer size increases Privoxy's memory usage but
  244. can lower the number of context switches and thereby reduce the
  245. CPU usage and potentially increase the throughput.
  246. This is mostly relevant for fast network connections and
  247. large downloads that don't require filtering.
  248. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  249. - Add a listen-backlog directive which specifies the backlog
  250. value passed to listen().
  251. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  252. - Add an enable-accept-filter directive which allows to
  253. toggle accept filter support at run time when compiled
  254. with FEATURE_ACCEPT_FILTER support.
  255. It makes testing more convenient and now that it's
  256. optional we can emit an error message if enabling
  257. the accept filter fails.
  258. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  259. - Add a delay-response{} action.
  260. This is useful to tar pit JavaScript requests that
  261. are endlessly retried in case of blocks. It can also
  262. be used to simulate a slow Internet connection.
  263. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  264. - Add a 'trusted-cgi-referrer' directive.
  265. It allows to configure another page or site that can be used
  266. to reach sensitive CGI resources.
  267. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  268. - Add a --fuzz mode which exposes Privoxy internals to input
  269. from files or stdout.
  270. Mainly tested with American Fuzzy Lop. For details see:
  271. https://www.fabiankeil.de/talks/fuzzing-on-freebsd/
  272. This work was partially funded with donations and done
  273. as part of the Privoxy month in 2015.
  274. - Consistently use the U(ngreedy) flag in the 'img-reorder' filter.
  275. - listen_loop(): Reuse a single thread attribute object
  276. The object doesn't change and creating a new one for
  277. every thread is a waste of (CPU) time.
  278. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  279. - Free csp resources in the thread that belongs to the csp instead
  280. of the main thread which has enough on its plate already.
  281. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  282. - Improve 'socket timeout reached' message.
  283. Log the timeout that was triggered and downgrade the
  284. log level to LOG_LEVEL_CONNECT to reduce the log noise
  285. with common debug settings.
  286. The timeout isn't necessary the result of an error and
  287. usually merely indicates that Privoxy's socket timeout
  288. is lower than the relevant timeouts used by client and
  289. server.
  290. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  291. - Explicitly taint the server socket in case of CONNECT requests.
  292. This doesn't fix any known problems, but makes
  293. some log messages less confusing.
  294. - Let write_pid_file() terminate if the pid file can't be opened.
  295. Logging the issue at info level is unlikely to help.
  296. - log_error(): Reduce the mutex-protected area by not using a
  297. heap-allocated buffer that is shared between all threads.
  298. This increases performance and reduces the latency with
  299. verbose debug settings and multiple concurrent connections.
  300. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  301. - Let zalloc() use calloc() if it's available.
  302. In some situations using calloc() can be faster than
  303. malloc() + memset() and it should never be slower.
  304. In the real world the impact of this change is not
  305. expected to be noticeable.
  306. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  307. - Never use select() when poll() is available.
  308. On most platforms select() is limited by FD_SETSIZE while
  309. poll() is not. This was a scaling issue for multi-user setups.
  310. Using poll() has no downside other than the usual risk
  311. that code modifications may introduce new bugs that have
  312. yet to be found and fixed.
  313. At least in theory this commit could also reduce the latency
  314. when there are lots of connections and select() would use
  315. "bit fields in arrays of integers" to store file descriptors.
  316. Another side effect is that Privoxy no longer has to stop
  317. monitoring the client sockets when pipelined requests are
  318. waiting but can't be read yet.
  319. This code keeps the select()-based code behind ifdefs for
  320. now but hopefully it can be removed soonish to make the
  321. code more readable.
  322. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  323. - Add a 'reproducible-tarball-dist' target.
  324. It's currently separate from the "tarball-dist" target
  325. because it requires a tar implementation with mtree spec
  326. support.
  327. It's far from being perfect and does not enforce a
  328. reproducible mode, but it's better than nothing.
  329. - Use arc4random() if it's available.
  330. While Privoxy doesn't need high quality pseudo-random numbers
  331. there's no reason not to use them when we can and this silences
  332. a warning emitted by code checkers that can't tell whether or not
  333. the quality matters.
  334. - Show the FEATURE_EXTERNAL_FILTERS status on the status page.
  335. Better late than never. Previously a couple of tests weren't
  336. executed as Privoxy-Regression-Test couldn't detect that the
  337. FEATURE_EXTERNAL_FILTERS dependency was satisfied.
  338. - Ditch FEATURE_IMAGE_DETECT_MSIE.
  339. It's an obsolete workaround we inherited from Junkbuster
  340. and was already disabled by default.
  341. Users that feel the urge to work around issues with
  342. image requests coming from an Internet Explorer version
  343. from more than 15 years ago can still do this using tags.
  344. - Consistently use strdup_or_die() instead of strdup() in
  345. cases where allocation failures aren't expected.
  346. Using strdup_or_die() allows to remove a couple of explicit
  347. error checks which slightly reduces the size of the binary.
  348. - Insert a refresh tag into the /client-tags CGI page when
  349. serving it while a client-specific tag is temporarily enabled.
  350. This makes it less likely that the user ends up
  351. looking at tag state that is out of date.
  352. - Use absolute URLs in the client-tag forms.
  353. It's more consistent with the rest of the CGI page
  354. URLs and makes it more convenient to copy the forms
  355. to external pages.
  356. - cgi_error_disabled(): Use status code 403 and an appropriate response line
  357. - Use a dedicated CGI handler to deal with tag-toggle requests
  358. As a result the /client-tags page is now safe to reach without
  359. trusted Referer header which makes bookmarking or linking to
  360. it more convenient.
  361. Finally, refreshing the /client-tags page to show the
  362. current state can no longer unintentionally repeat the
  363. previous toggle request.
  364. - Don't add a "Connection" header for CONNECT requests.
  365. Explicitly sending "Connection: close" is not necessary and
  366. apparently it causes problems with some forwarding proxies
  367. that will close the connection prematurely.
  368. Reported by Marc Thomas.
  369. - Fix compiler warnings.
  370. - Bug fixes:
  371. - rfc2553_connect_to(): Properly detect and log when poll()
  372. reached the time out. Previously this was logged as:
  373. Could not connect to [...]: No error: 0.
  374. which isn't very helpful.
  375. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  376. - add_tag_for_client(): Set time_to_live properly.
  377. Previously the time_to_live was always set for the first tag.
  378. Attempts to temporarily enable a tag would result in enabling
  379. it permanently unless no tag was enabled already.
  380. - Revert r1.165 which didn't perform as advertised.
  381. While the idea was to use "https:// when creating links
  382. for the user manual on the website", the actual effect
  383. was to use "https://" when Privoxy was supposed to serve
  384. the user manual itself.
  385. Reported by Yossi Zahn on Privoxy-devel@.
  386. - socks5_connect(): Fail in case of unsupported address types.
  387. Previously they would not be detected right away and
  388. Privoxy would fail later on with an error message that
  389. didn't make it obvious that the problem was socks-related.
  390. So far, no such problems have actually been reported.
  391. - socks5_connect(): Properly deal with socks replies that
  392. contain IPv6 addresses.
  393. Previously parts of the reply were left unread and
  394. later on treated as invalid HTTP response data.
  395. Fixes #904 reported by Danny Goossen who also provided
  396. the initial version of this patch.
  397. - Action file improvements:
  398. - Unblock 'msdn.microsoft.com/'.
  399. It (presumably) isn't used to serve the kind of ads Privoxy should
  400. block by default but happens to serve lots of pages with URLs that
  401. are likely to result in false positives.
  402. Reported by bugreporter1694 in AF#939.
  403. - Disable gif deanimation for requests tagged with CSS-REQUEST.
  404. The action will ignore content that isn't considered text
  405. anyway and explicitly disabling it makes this more obvious
  406. if "action" debugging (debug 65536) is enabled while
  407. "gif deanimation" debugging (debug 256) isn't.
  408. - Explicitly disable HTML filters for requests with CSS-REQUEST tag.
  409. The filters are unlikely to break CSS files but executing
  410. them without (intentionally) getting any hits is a waste of
  411. cpu time and makes the log more noisy when running with
  412. "debug 64".
  413. - Unblock 'adventofcode.com/'.
  414. Reported by Clint Adams in Debian bug #848211.
  415. Fixes Roland's AF#937.
  416. - Unblock 'adlibris.com'.
  417. Reported by Wyrex in #935
  418. - Unblock .golang.org/
  419. - Add fast-redirects exception for '.youtube.com/.*origin=http'
  420. - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
  421. - Don't gather host and resource statistics if they aren't requested.
  422. While the performance impact seems negligible this significantly
  423. reduces the memory usage if there are lots of requests.
  424. - Bump version as the behaviour (slightly) changed.
  425. - Count connection failures as well in statistics mode.
  426. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  427. - Count connection timeouts as well in statistics mode.
  428. Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
  429. - Fix an 'uninitialized value' warning when generating
  430. statistics for a log file without response headers.
  431. While privoxy-log-parser was supposed to detect this already,
  432. the check was flawed and the message the user didn't see was
  433. somewhat confusing anyway.
  434. Now the message is less confusing, more helpful and actually printed.
  435. Reported by: Robert Klemme
  436. - Documentation improvements:
  437. - Refer to the git sources instead of CVS.
  438. - Use GNU/Linux when referring to the OS instead of the kernel.
  439. - Add FAQ entry for what to do if editing the config file is access denied.
  440. - Add brief HTTP/2 FAQ.
  441. - Add a small fuzzing section to the developer documentation.
  442. - Add a client-header-tagger{client-ip-address} example.
  443. - Stop suggesting that Privoxy is an anonymizing proxy.
  444. The term could lead to Privoxy users overestimating
  445. what it can do on its own (without Tor).
  446. - Make it more obvious that SPI accepts Paypal, too.
  447. Currently most donations are made through the Paypal account
  448. managed by Zwiebelfreunde e.V. and a more even distribution
  449. would be useful.
  450. - Suggest to log applying actions as well when reproducing problems.
  451. - Explicitly mention that Privoxy binaries are built by individuals
  452. on their own systems. Buyer beware!
  453. - Mention the release feed on the homepage.
  454. - Remove a mysterious comment with a GNU FDL link as it isn't
  455. useful and could confuse license scanners.
  456. In May 2002 it was briefly claimed that "this document" was covered
  457. by the GNU FDL. The commit message (r1.5) doesn't explain the motivation
  458. or whether all copyright holders were actually asked and agreed to the
  459. declared license change.
  460. It's thus hard to tell whether or not the license change was legit,
  461. but luckily two days later the "doc license" was "put" "back to GPL"
  462. anyway (r1.6).
  463. At the same time the offending comment with a link to the FDL
  464. (not the GPL) was added for no obvious reason.
  465. Now it's gone again.
  466. - Regression tests:
  467. - Bump for-privoxy-version to 3.0.27 as we now rely on untrusted
  468. CGI request being rejected with status code 403 (instead of 200).
  469. - Update test for /send-stylesheet and add another one
  470. - Templates:
  471. - Consistently use https:// when linking to the Privoxy website.
  472. - Remove SourceForge references in Copyright header.
  473. - Remove a couple of SourceForge references in a comment.
  474. While at it, fix the grammar.
  475. - Move the site-specific documentation block before the generic one.
  476. While most Privoxy installations don't have a site-specific
  477. documentation block, in cases were it exists it's likely to
  478. be more relevant than the generic one.
  479. Showing it first makes it less likely that users stop reading
  480. before they reach it, especially on pages that don't fit on
  481. the screen.
  482. - Build system improvements:
  483. - Prefer openjade to jade. On some systems Jade produces
  484. HTML with unescaped ampersands in URLs.
  485. - Prefer OpenSP to SP to be consistent.
  486. - Have Docbook generated HTML files be straight ASCII.
  487. Dealing with a mixture of ISO-8859 and UTF-8 files is problematic.
  488. - Echo the filename to stderr for 'make dok-tidy'.
  489. Make it a bit easier to find errors in docbook generated HTML.
  490. - Warn when still using select().
  491. - Warn when compiling without calloc().
  492. - Make it more obvious that the --with-fdsetsize configure switch
  493. is pointless if poll() is available.
  494. - Remove support for AmigaOS.
  495. - Update windows build system to use supported software.
  496. The cygwin gcc -mno-cygwin option is no longer supported, so
  497. convert the windows build system to use the cygwin cross-compiler
  498. to build "native" code.
  499. - Add --enable-static-linking option for configure
  500. does the same thing as LDFLAGS=-static; ./configure
  501. but nicer than mixing evars and configure options.
  502. *** Version 3.0.26 stable ***
  503. - Bug fixes:
  504. - Fixed crashes with "listen-addr :8118" (SF Bug #902).
  505. The regression was introduced in 3.0.25 beta and reported
  506. by Marvin Renich in Debian bug #834941.
  507. - General improvements:
  508. - Log when privoxy is toggled on or off via cgi interface.
  509. - Highlight the "Info: Now toggled " on/off log message
  510. in the Windows log viewer.
  511. - Highlight the loading actions/filter file log message
  512. in the Windows log viewer.
  513. - Mention client-specific tags on the toggle page as a
  514. potentionally more appropriate alternative.
  515. - Documentation improvements:
  516. - Update download section on the homepage.
  517. The downloads are available from the website now.
  518. - Add sponsor FAQ.
  519. - Remove obsolete reference to mailing lists hosted at SourceForge.
  520. - Update the "Before the Release" section of the developer manual.
  521. - Infrastructure improvements:
  522. - Add perl script to generate an RSS feed for the packages
  523. Submitted by "Unknown".
  524. - Build system improvements:
  525. - strptime.h: fix a compiler warning about ambiguous else.
  526. - configure.in: Check for Docbook goo on the BSDs as well.
  527. - GNUMakefile.in: Let the dok-user target remove temporary files.
  528. *** Version 3.0.25 beta ***
  529. - Bug fixes:
  530. - Always use the current toggle state for new requests.
  531. Previously new requests on reused connections inherited
  532. the toggle state from the previous request even though
  533. the toggle state could have changed.
  534. Reported by Robert Klemme.
  535. - Fixed two buffer-overflows in the (deprecated) static
  536. pcre code. These bugs are not considered security issues
  537. as the input is trusted.
  538. Found with afl-fuzz and ASAN.
  539. - General improvements:
  540. - Added support for client-specific tags which allow Privoxy
  541. admins to pre-define tags that are set for all requests from
  542. clients that previously opted in through the CGI interface.
  543. They are useful in multi-user setups where admins may
  544. want to allow users to disable certain actions and filters
  545. for themselves without affecting others.
  546. In single-user setups they are useful to allow more fine-grained
  547. toggling. For example to disable request blocking while still
  548. crunching cookies, or to disable experimental filters only.
  549. This is an experimental feature, the syntax and behaviour may
  550. change in future versions.
  551. Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
  552. - Dynamic filters and taggers now support a $listen-address variable
  553. which contains the address the request came in on.
  554. For external filters the variable is called $PRIVOXY_LISTEN_ADDRESS.
  555. Original patch contributed by pursievro.
  556. - Add client-header-tagger 'listen-address'.
  557. - Include the listen-address in the log message when logging new requests.
  558. Patch contributed by pursievro.
  559. - Turn invalid max-client-connections values into fatal errors.
  560. - The show-status page now shows whether or not dates before 1970
  561. and after 2038 are expected to be handled properly.
  562. This is mainly useful for Privoxy-Regression-Test but could
  563. also come handy when dealing with time-related support requests.
  564. - On Mac OS X the thread id in log messages are more likely to
  565. be unique now.
  566. - When complaining about missing filters, the filter type is logged
  567. as well.
  568. - A couple of harmless coverity warnings were silenced
  569. (CID #161202, CID #161203, CID #161211).
  570. - Action file improvements:
  571. - Filtering is disabled for Range requests to let download resumption
  572. and Windows updates work with the default configuration.
  573. - Unblock ".ardmediathek.de/".
  574. Reported by ThTomate in #932.
  575. - Documentation improvements:
  576. - Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits.
  577. - Remove obsolete FAQ entry about a bug in PHP 4.2.3.
  578. - Mention the new mailing lists were appropriate.
  579. As the archives have not been migrated, continue to
  580. mention the archives at SF in the contacting section
  581. for now.
  582. - Note that the templates should be adjusted if Privoxy is
  583. running as intercepting proxy without getting all requests.
  584. - A bunch of links were converted to https://.
  585. - Rephrase onion service paragraph to make it more obvious
  586. that Tor is involved and that the whole website (and not
  587. just the homepage) is available as onion service.
  588. - Streamline the "More information" section on the homepage further
  589. by additionally ditching the link to the 'See also' section
  590. of the user manual. The section contains mostly links that are
  591. directly reachable from the homepage already and the rest is
  592. not significant enough to get a link from the homepage.
  593. - Change the add-header{} example to set the DNT header
  594. and use a complete section to make copy and pasting
  595. more convenient.
  596. Add a comment to make it obvious that adding the
  597. header is not recommended for obvious reasons.
  598. Using the DNT header as example was suggested by
  599. Leo Wzukw.
  600. - Streamline the support-and-service template
  601. Instead of linking to the various support trackers
  602. (whose URLs hopefully change soon), link to the
  603. contact section of the user manual to increase the
  604. chances that users actually read it.
  605. - Add a FAQ entry for tainted sockets.
  606. - More sections in the documentation have stable URLs now.
  607. - FAQ: Explain why 'ping config.privoxy.org' is not expected
  608. to reach a local Privoxy installation.
  609. - Note that donations done through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently
  610. can't be checked automatically.
  611. - Updated section regarding starting Privoxy under OS X.
  612. - Use dedicated start instructions for FreeBSD and ElectroBSD.
  613. - Removed release instructions for AIX. They haven't been working
  614. for years and unsurprisingly nobody seems to care.
  615. - Removed obsolete reference to the solaris-dist target.
  616. - Updated the release instructions for FreeBSD.
  617. - Removed unfinished release instructions for Amiga OS and HP-UX 11.
  618. - Added a pointer to the Cygwin Time Machine for getting the last release of
  619. Cygwin version 1.5 to use for building Privoxy on Windows.
  620. - Various typos have been fixed.
  621. - Infrastructure improvements:
  622. - The website is no longer hosted at SourceForge and
  623. can be reached through https now.
  624. - The mailing lists at SourceForge have been deprecated,
  625. you can subscribe to the new ones at: https://lists.privoxy.org/
  626. - Migrating the remaining services from SourceForge is
  627. work in progress (TODO list item #53).
  628. - Build system improvements:
  629. - Add configure argument to optimistically redefine FD_SETSIZE
  630. with the intent to change the maximum number of client
  631. connections Privoxy can handle. Only works with some libcs.
  632. Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
  633. - Let the tarball-dist target skip files in ".git".
  634. - Let the tarball-dist target work in cwds other than current.
  635. - Make the 'clean' target faster when run from a git repository.
  636. - Include tools in the generic distribution.
  637. - Let the gen-dist target work in cwds other than current.
  638. - Sort find output that is used for distribution tarballs
  639. to get reproducible results.
  640. - Don't add '-src' to the name of the tar ball generated by the
  641. gen-dist target. The package isn't a source distribution but a
  642. binary package.
  643. While at it, use a variable for the name to reduce the chances
  644. that the various references get out of sync and fix the gen-upload
  645. target which was looking in the wrong directory.
  646. - Add regression-tests.action to the files that are distributed.
  647. - The gen-dist target which was broken since 2002 (r1.92) has been fixed.
  648. - Remove genclspec.sh which has been obsolete since 2009.
  649. - Remove obsolete reference to Redhat spec file.
  650. - Remove the obsolete announce target which has been commented out years ago.
  651. - Let rsync skip files if the checksums match.
  652. - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
  653. - Add a "Default level offset" directive which can be used to
  654. change the default level by a given value.
  655. This directive affects all tests located after it until the end
  656. of the file or a another "Default level offset" directive is reached.
  657. The purpose of this directive is to make it more convenient to skip
  658. similar tests in a given file without having to remove or disable
  659. the tests completely.
  660. - Let test level 17 depend on FEATURE_64_BIT_TIME_T
  661. instead of FEATURE_PTHREAD which has no direct connection
  662. to the time_t size.
  663. - Fix indentation in perldoc examples.
  664. - Don't overlook directives in the first line of the action file.
  665. - Bump version to 0.7.
  666. - Fix detection of the Privoxy version now that https://
  667. is used for the website.
  668. *** Version 3.0.24 stable ***
  669. - Security fixes (denial of service):
  670. - Prevent invalid reads in case of corrupt chunk-encoded content.
  671. CVE-2016-1982. Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
  672. - Remove empty Host headers in client requests.
  673. Previously they would result in invalid reads. CVE-2016-1983.
  674. Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
  675. - Bug fixes:
  676. - When using socks5t, send the request body optimistically as well.
  677. Previously the request body wasn't guaranteed to be sent at all
  678. and the error message incorrectly blamed the server.
  679. Fixes #1686 reported by Peter Müller and G4JC.
  680. - Fixed buffer scaling in execute_external_filter() that could lead
  681. to crashes. Submitted by Yang Xia in #892.
  682. - Fixed crashes when executing external filters on platforms like
  683. Mac OS X. Reported by Jonathan McKenzie on ijbswa-users@.
  684. - Properly parse ACL directives with ports when compiled with HAVE_RFC2553.
  685. Previously the port wasn't removed from the host and in case of
  686. 'permit-access 127.0.0.1 example.org:80' Privoxy would try (and fail)
  687. to resolve "example.org:80" instead of example.org.
  688. Reported by Pak Chan on ijbswa-users@.
  689. - Check requests more carefully before serving them forcefully
  690. when blocks aren't enforced. Privoxy always adds the force token
  691. at the beginning of the path, but would previously accept it anywhere
  692. in the request line. This could result in requests being served that
  693. should be blocked. For example in case of pages that were loaded with
  694. force and contained JavaScript to create additionally requests that
  695. embed the origin URL (thus inheriting the force prefix).
  696. The bug is not considered a security issue and the fix does not make
  697. it harder for remote sites to intentionally circumvent blocks if
  698. Privoxy isn't configured to enforce them.
  699. Fixes #1695 reported by Korda.
  700. - Normalize the request line in intercepted requests to make rewriting
  701. the destination more convenient. Previously rewrites for intercepted
  702. requests were expected to fail unless $hostport was being used, but
  703. they failed "the wrong way" and would result in an out-of-memory
  704. message (vanilla host patterns) or a crash (extended host patterns).
  705. Reported by "Guybrush Threepwood" in #1694.
  706. - Enable socket lingering for the correct socket.
  707. Previously it was repeatedly enabled for the listen socket
  708. instead of for the accepted socket. The bug was found by
  709. code inspection and did not cause any (reported) issues.
  710. - Detect and reject parameters for parameter-less actions.
  711. Previously they were silently ignored.
  712. - Fixed invalid reads in internal and outdated pcre code.
  713. Found with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
  714. - Prevent invalid read when loading invalid action files.
  715. Found with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.
  716. - Windows build: Use the correct function to close the event handle.
  717. It's unclear if this bug had a negative impact on Privoxy's behaviour.
  718. Reported by Jarry Xu in #891.
  719. - In case of invalid forward-socks5(t) directives, use the
  720. correct directive name in the error messages. Previously they
  721. referred to forward-socks4t failures.
  722. Reported by Joel Verhagen in #889.
  723. - General improvements:
  724. - Set NO_DELAY flag for the accepting socket. This significantly reduces
  725. the latency if the operating system is not configured to set the flag
  726. by default. Reported by Johan Sintorn in #894.
  727. - Allow to build with mingw x86_64. Submitted by Rustam Abdullaev in #135.
  728. - Introduce the new forwarding type 'forward-webserver'.
  729. Currently it is only supported by the forward-override{} action and
  730. there's no config directive with the same name. The forwarding type
  731. is similar to 'forward', but the request line only contains the path
  732. instead of the complete URL.
  733. - The CGI editor no longer treats 'standard.action' special.
  734. Nowadays the official "standards" are part of default.action
  735. and there's no obvious reason to disallow editing them through
  736. the cgi editor anyway (if the user decided that the lack of
  737. authentication isn't an issue in her environment).
  738. - Improved error messages when rejecting intercepted requests
  739. with unknown destination.
  740. - A couple of log messages now include the number of active threads.
  741. - Removed non-standard Proxy-Agent headers in HTTP snipplets
  742. to make testing more convenient.
  743. - Include the error code for pcre errors Privoxy does not recognize.
  744. - Config directives with numerical arguments are checked more carefully.
  745. - Privoxy's malloc() wrapper has been changed to prevent zero-size
  746. allocations which should only occur as the result of bugs.
  747. - Various cosmetic changes.
  748. - Action file improvements:
  749. - Unblock ".deutschlandradiokultur.de/".
  750. Reported by u302320 in #924.
  751. - Add two fast-redirect exceptions for "yandex.ru".
  752. - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for ".plasmaservice.de/".
  753. - Unblock "klikki.fi/adv/".
  754. - Block requests for "resources.infolinks.com/".
  755. Reported by "Black Rider" on ijbswa-users@.
  756. - Block a bunch of criteo domains.
  757. Reported by Black Rider.
  758. - Block "abs.proxistore.com/abe/".
  759. Reported by Black Rider.
  760. - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for ".black-mosquito.org/".
  761. - Disable fast-redirects for "disqus.com/".
  762. - Documentation improvements:
  763. - FAQ: Explicitly point fingers at ASUS as an example of a
  764. company that has been reported to force malware based on
  765. Privoxy upon its customers.
  766. - Correctly document the action type for a bunch of "multi-value"
  767. actions that were incorrectly documented to be "parameterized".
  768. Reported by Gregory Seidman on ijbswa-users@.
  769. - Fixed the documented type of the forward-override{} action
  770. which is obviously 'parameterized'.
  771. - Website improvements:
  772. - Users who don't trust binaries served by SourceForge
  773. can get them from a mirror. Migrating away from SourceForge
  774. is planned for 2016 (TODO list item #53).
  775. - The website is now available as onion service
  776. (http://jvauzb4sb3bwlsnc.onion/).
  777. *** Version 3.0.23 stable ***
  778. - Bug fixes:
  779. - Fixed a DoS issue in case of client requests with incorrect
  780. chunk-encoded body. When compiled with assertions enabled
  781. (the default) they could previously cause Privoxy to abort().
  782. Reported by Matthew Daley. CVE-2015-1380.
  783. - Fixed multiple segmentation faults and memory leaks in the
  784. pcrs code. This fix also increases the chances that an invalid
  785. pcrs command is rejected as such. Previously some invalid commands
  786. would be loaded without error. Note that Privoxy's pcrs sources
  787. (action and filter files) are considered trustworthy input and
  788. should not be writable by untrusted third-parties. CVE-2015-1381.
  789. - Fixed an 'invalid read' bug which could at least theoretically
  790. cause Privoxy to crash. So far, no crashes have been observed.
  791. CVE-2015-1382.
  792. - Compiles with --disable-force again. Reported by Kai Raven.
  793. - Client requests with body that can't be delivered no longer
  794. cause pipelined requests behind them to be rejected as invalid.
  795. Reported by Basil Hussain.
  796. - General improvements:
  797. - If a pcrs command is rejected as invalid, Privoxy now logs
  798. the cause of the problem as text. Previously the pcrs error
  799. code was logged.
  800. - The tests are less likely to cause false positives.
  801. - Action file improvements:
  802. - '.sify.com/' is no longer blocked. Apparently it is not actually
  803. a pure tracking site (anymore?). Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
  804. - Unblock banners on .amnesty.de/ which aren't ads.
  805. - Documentation improvements:
  806. - The 'Would you like to donate?' section now also contains
  807. a "Paypal" address.
  808. - The list of supported operating systems has been updated.
  809. - The existence of the SF support and feature trackers has been
  810. deemphasized because they have been broken for months.
  811. Most of the time the mailing lists still work.
  812. - The claim that default.action updates are sometimes released
  813. on their own has been removed. It hasn't happened in years.
  814. - Explicitly mention that Tor's port may deviate from the default
  815. when using a bundle. Requested by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
  816. *** Version 3.0.22 stable ***
  817. - Bug fixes:
  818. - Fixed a memory leak when rejecting client connections due to
  819. the socket limit being reached (CID 66382). This affected
  820. Privoxy 3.0.21 when compiled with IPv6 support (on most
  821. platforms this is the default). CVE-2015-1030.
  822. - Fixed an immediate-use-after-free bug (CID 66394) and two
  823. additional unconfirmed use-after-free complaints made by
  824. Coverity scan (CID 66391, CID 66376). CVE-2015-1031.
  825. - Actually show the FORCE_PREFIX value on the show-status page.
  826. - Properly deal with Keep-Alive headers with timeout= parameters
  827. If the timeout still can't be parsed, use the configured
  828. timeout instead of preventing the client from keeping the
  829. connection alive. Fixes #3615312/#870 reported by Bernard Guillot.
  830. - Not using any filter files no longer results in warning messages
  831. unless an action file is referencing header taggers or filters.
  832. Reported by Stefan Kurtz in #3614835.
  833. - Fixed a bug that prevented Privoxy from reusing some reusable
  834. connections. Two bit masks with different purpose unintentionally
  835. shared the same bit.
  836. - A couple of additional bugs were discovered by Coverity Scan.
  837. The fixes that are not expected to affect users are not explicitly
  838. mentioned here, for details please have a look at the CVS logs.
  839. - General improvements:
  840. - Introduced negative tag patterns NO-REQUEST-TAG and NO-RESPONSE-TAG.
  841. They apply if no matching tag is found after parsing client or
  842. server headers.
  843. - Add support for external filters which allow to process the
  844. response body with a script or program written in any language
  845. the platform supports. External filters are enabled with
  846. +external-filter{} after they have been defined in one of the
  847. filter files with a header line starting with "EXTERNAL-FILTER:".
  848. External filter support is experimental, not compiled by default
  849. and known not to work on all platforms.
  850. - Add support for the 'PATCH' method as defined in RFC5789.
  851. - Reject requests with unsupported Expect header values.
  852. Fixes a couple of Co-Advisor tests.
  853. - Normalize the HTTP-version in forwarded requests and responses.
  854. This is an explicit RFC 2616 MUST and RFC 7230 mandates that
  855. intermediaries send their own HTTP-version in forwarded
  856. messages.
  857. - Server 'Keep-Alive' headers are no longer forwarded. From a user's
  858. point of view it doesn't really matter, but RFC 2616 (obsolete)
  859. mandates that the header is removed and this fixes a Co-Advisor
  860. complaint.
  861. - Change declared template file encoding to UTF-8. The templates
  862. already used a subset of UTF-8 anyway and changing the declaration
  863. allows to properly display UTF-8 characters used in the action files.
  864. This change may require existing action files with ISO-8859-1
  865. characters that aren't valid UTF-8 to be converted to UTF-8.
  866. Requested by Sam Chen in #582.
  867. - Do not pass rejected keep-alive timeouts to the server. It might
  868. not have caused any problems (we know of), but doing the right
  869. thing shouldn't hurt either.
  870. - Let log_error() use its own buffer size #define to make changing
  871. the log buffer size slightly less inconvenient.
  872. - Turned single-threaded into a "proper" toggle directive with arguments.
  873. - CGI templates no longer enforce new windows for some links.
  874. - Remove an undocumented workaround ('HOST' header removal) for
  875. an Apple iTunes bug that according to #729900 got fixed in 2003.
  876. - Action file improvements:
  877. - The pattern 'promotions.' is no longer being blocked.
  878. Reported by rakista in #3608540.
  879. - Disable fast-redirects for .microsofttranslator.com/.
  880. - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for .dgb-tagungszentren.de/.
  881. - Add adn.speedtest.net as a site-specific unblocker.
  882. Support request #3612908.
  883. - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for creativecommons.org/.
  884. - Block requests to data.gosquared.com/. Reported by cbug in #3613653.
  885. - Unblock .conrad./newsletter/. Reported by David Bo in #3614238.
  886. - Unblock .bundestag.de/.
  887. - Unblock .rote-hilfe.de/.
  888. - Disable fast-redirects for .facebook.com/plugins/like.php.
  889. - Unblock Stackexchange popup URLs that aren't used to serve ads.
  890. Reported by David Wagner in #3615179.
  891. - Disable fast-redirects for creativecommons.org/.
  892. - Unblock .stopwatchingus.info/.
  893. - Block requests for .adcash.com/script/.
  894. Reported by Tyrexionibus in #3615289.
  895. - Disable HTML filters if the response was tagged as JavaScript.
  896. Filtering JavaScript code with filters intended to deal with HTML
  897. is usually a waste of time and, more importantly, may break stuff.
  898. - Use a custom redirect{} for .washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs\.php\?src=
  899. Previously enabling the 'Advanced' settings (or manually enabling
  900. +fast-redirects{}) prevented some images from being loaded properly.
  901. - Unblock "adina*." Fixes #919 reported by Morton A. Goldberg.
  902. - Block '/.*DigiAd'.
  903. - Unblock 'adele*.'. Reported by Adele Lime in #1663.
  904. - Disable banners-by-size for kggp.de/.
  905. - Filter file improvements & bug fixes:
  906. - Decrease the chances that js-annoyances creates invalid JavaScript.
  907. Submitted by John McGowan on ijbswa-users@.
  908. - Let the msn filter hide 'related' ads again.
  909. - Remove a stray '1' in the 'html-annoyances' filter.
  910. - Prevent img-reorder from messing up img tags with empty src
  911. attributes. Fixes #880 reported by Duncan.
  912. - Documentation improvements:
  913. - Updated the 'Would you like to donate?' section.
  914. - Note that invalid forward-override{} parameter syntax isn't
  915. detected until the parameter is used.
  916. - Add another +redirect{} example: a shortcut for illumos bugs.
  917. - Make it more obvious that many operating systems support log
  918. rotation out of the box.
  919. - Fixed dead links. Reported by Mark Nelson in #3614557.
  920. - Rephrased the 'Why is the configuration so complicated?' answer
  921. to be slightly less condescending. Anonymously suggested in #3615122.
  922. - Be more explicit about accept-intercepted-requests's lack of MITM support.
  923. - Make 'demoronizer' FAQ entries more generic.
  924. - Add an example hostname to the --pre-chroot-nslookup description.
  925. - Add an example for a host pattern that matches an IP address.
  926. - Rename the 'domain pattern' to 'host pattern' as it may
  927. contain IP addresses as well.
  928. - Recommend forward-socks5t when using Tor. It seems to work fine and
  929. modifying the Tor configuration to profit from it hasn't been necessary
  930. for a while now.
  931. - Add another redirect{} example to stress that redirect loops can
  932. and should be avoided.
  933. - The usual spelling and grammar fixes. Parts of them were
  934. reported by Reuben Thomas in #3615276.
  935. - Mention the PCRS option letters T and D in the filter section.
  936. - Clarify that handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok is still useful
  937. and will not be removed without replacement.
  938. - Note that security issues shouldn't be reported using the bug tracker.
  939. - Clarify what Privoxy does if both +block{} and +redirect{} apply.
  940. - Removed the obsolete bookmarklets section.
  941. - Build system improvements:
  942. - Let --with-group properly deal with secondary groups.
  943. Patch submitted by Anatoly Arzhnikov in #3615187.
  944. - Fix web-actions target.
  945. - Add a web-faq target that only updates the FAQ on the webserver.
  946. - Remove already-commented-out non-portable DOSFILTER alternatives.
  947. - Remove the obsolete targets dok-put and dok-get.
  948. - Add a sf-shell target.
  949. *** Version 3.0.21 stable ***
  950. - Bug fixes:
  951. - On POSIX-like platforms, network sockets with file descriptor
  952. values above FD_SETSIZE are properly rejected. Previously they
  953. could cause memory corruption in configurations that allowed
  954. the limit to be reached.
  955. - Proxy authentication headers are removed unless the new directive
  956. enable-proxy-authentication-forwarding is used. Forwarding the
  957. headers potentially allows malicious sites to trick the user
  958. into providing them with login information.
  959. Reported by Chris John Riley.
  960. - Compiles on OS/2 again now that unistd.h is only included
  961. on platforms that have it.
  962. - General improvements:
  963. - The show-status page shows the FEATURE_STRPTIME_SANITY_CHECKS status.
  964. - A couple of assert()s that could theoretically dereference
  965. NULL pointers in debug builds have been relocated.
  966. - Added an LSB info block to the generic start script.
  967. Based on a patch from Natxo Asenjo.
  968. - The max-client-connections default has been changed to 128
  969. which should be more than enough for most setups.
  970. - Action file improvements:
  971. - Block rover.ebay./ar.*\&adtype= instead of "/.*\&adtype=" which
  972. caused too man false positives.
  973. Reported by u302320 in #360284, additional feedback from Adam Piggott.
  974. - Unblock '.advrider.com/' and '/.*ADVrider'.
  975. Anonymously reported in #3603636.
  976. - Stop blocking '/js/slider\.js'.
  977. Reported by Adam Piggott in #3606635 and _lvm in #2791160.
  978. - Filter file improvements:
  979. - Added an iframes filter.
  980. - Documentation improvements:
  981. - The whole GPLv2 text is included in the user manual now,
  982. so Privoxy can serve it itself and the user can read it
  983. without having to wade through GPLv3 ads first.
  984. - Properly numbered and underlined a couple of section titles
  985. in the config that where previously overlooked due to a flaw
  986. in the conversion script. Reported by Ralf Jungblut.
  987. - Improved the support instruction to hopefully make it harder to
  988. unintentionally provide insufficient information when requesting
  989. support. Previously it wasn't obvious that the information we need
  990. in bug reports is usually also required in support requests.
  991. - Removed documentation about packages that haven't been provided
  992. in years.
  993. - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
  994. - Only log the test number when not running in verbose mode
  995. The position of the test is rarely relevant and it previously
  996. wasn't exactly obvious which one of the numbers was useful to
  997. repeat the test with --test-number.
  998. - GNUmakefile improvements:
  999. - Factor generate-config-file out of config-file to make testing
  1000. more convenient.
  1001. - The clean target now also takes care of patch leftovers.
  1002. *** Version 3.0.20 beta ***
  1003. - Bug fixes:
  1004. - Client sockets are now properly shutdown and drained before being
  1005. closed. This fixes page truncation issues with clients that aggressively
  1006. pipeline data on platforms that otherwise discard already written data.
  1007. The issue mainly affected Opera users and was initially reported
  1008. by Kevin in #3464439, szotsaki provided additional information to track
  1009. down the cause.
  1010. - Fix latency calculation for shared connections (disabled by default).
  1011. It was broken since their introduction in 2009. The calculated latency
  1012. for most connections would be 0 in which case the timeout detection
  1013. failed to account for the real latency.
  1014. - Reject URLs with invalid port. Previously they were parsed incorrectly and
  1015. characters between the port number and the first slash were silently
  1016. dropped as shown by curl test 187.
  1017. - The default-server-timeout and socket-timeout directives accept 0 as
  1018. valid value.
  1019. - Fix a race condition on Windows that could cause Privoxy to become
  1020. unresponsive after toggling it on or off through the taskbar icon.
  1021. Reported by Tim H. in #3525694.
  1022. - Fix the compilation on Windows when configured without IPv6 support.
  1023. - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() in case of
  1024. socks5 connection failures with "debug 2" enabled.
  1025. - Fix an assertion that could cause debug builds to abort() if a filter
  1026. contained nul bytes in the replacement text.
  1027. - General improvements:
  1028. - Significantly improved keep-alive support for both client and server
  1029. connections.
  1030. - New debug log level 65536 which logs all actions that were applied to
  1031. the request.
  1032. - New directive client-header-order to forward client headers in a
  1033. different order than the one in which they arrived.
  1034. - New directive tolerate-pipelining to allow client-side pipelining.
  1035. If enabled (3.0.20 beta enables it by default), Privoxy will keep
  1036. pipelined client requests around to deal with them once the current
  1037. request has been served.
  1038. - New --config-test option to let Privoxy exit after checking whether or not
  1039. the configuration seems valid. The limitations noted in TODO #22 and #23
  1040. still apply. Based on a patch by Ramkumar Chinchani.
  1041. - New limit-cookie-lifetime{} action to let cookies expire before the end
  1042. of the session. Suggested by Rick Sykes in #1049575.
  1043. - Increase the hard-coded maximum number of actions and filter files from
  1044. 10 to 30 (each). It doesn't significantly affect Privoxy's memory usage
  1045. and recompiling wasn't an option for all Privoxy users that reached the
  1046. limit.
  1047. - Add support for chunk-encoded client request bodies. Previously
  1048. chunk-encoded request bodies weren't guaranteed to be forwarded correctly,
  1049. so this can also be considered a bug fix although chunk-encoded request
  1050. bodies aren't commonly used in the real world.
  1051. - Add support for Tor's optimistic-data SOCKS extension, which can reduce the
  1052. latency for requests on newly created connections. Currently only the
  1053. headers are sent optimistically and only if the client request has already
  1054. been read completely which rules out requests with large bodies.
  1055. - After preventing the client from pipelining, don't signal keep-alive
  1056. intentions. When looking at the response headers alone, it previously
  1057. wasn't obvious from the client's perspective that no additional responses
  1058. should be expected.
  1059. - Stop considering client sockets tainted after receiving a request with body.
  1060. It hasn't been necessary for a while now and unnecessarily causes test
  1061. failures when using curl's test suite.
  1062. - Allow HTTP/1.0 clients to signal interest in keep-alive through the
  1063. Proxy-Connection header. While such client are rare in the real world, it
  1064. doesn't hurt and couple of curl tests rely on it.
  1065. - Only remove duplicated Content-Type headers when filters are enabled.
  1066. If they are not it doesn't cause ill effects and the user might not want it.
  1067. Downgrade the removal message to LOG_LEVEL_HEADER to clarify that it's not
  1068. an error in Privoxy and is unlikely to cause any problems in general.
  1069. Anonymously reported in #3599335.
  1070. - Set the socket option SO_LINGER for the client socket.
  1071. - Move several variable declarations to the beginning of their code block.
  1072. It's required when compiling with gcc 2.95 which is still used on some
  1073. platforms. Initial patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
  1074. - Optionally try to sanity-check strptime() results before trusting them.
  1075. Broken strptime() implementations have caused problems in the past and
  1076. the most recent offender seems to be FreeBSD's libc (standards/173421).
  1077. - When filtering is enabled, let Range headers pass if the range starts at
  1078. the beginning. This should work around (or at least reduce) the video
  1079. playback issues with various Apple clients as reported by Duc in #3426305.
  1080. - Do not confuse a client hanging up with a connection time out. If a client
  1081. closes its side of the connection without sending a request line, do not
  1082. send the CLIENT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_RESPONSE, but report the condition
  1083. properly.
  1084. - Allow closing curly braces as part of action values as long as they are
  1085. escaped.
  1086. - On Windows, the logfile is now written before showing the GUI error
  1087. message which blocks until the user acknowledges it.
  1088. Reported by Adriaan in #3593603.
  1089. - Remove an unreasonable parameter limit in the CGI interface. The new
  1090. parameter limit depends on the memory available and is currently unlikely
  1091. to be reachable, due to other limits in both Privoxy and common clients.
  1092. Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
  1093. - Decrease the chances of parse failures after requests with unsupported
  1094. methods were sent to the CGI interface.
  1095. - Action file improvements:
  1096. - Remove the comment that indicated that updated default.action versions
  1097. are released on their own.
  1098. - Block 'optimize.indieclick.com/' and 'optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/'
  1099. - Unblock 'adjamblog.wordpress.com/' and 'adjamblog.files.wordpress.com/'.
  1100. Reported by Ryan Farmer in #3496116.
  1101. - Unblock '/.*Bugtracker'. Reported by pwhk in #3522341.
  1102. - Add test URLs for '.freebsd.org' and '.watson.org'.
  1103. - Unblock '.urbandictionary.com/popular'.
  1104. - Block '.adnxs.com/'.
  1105. - Block 'farm.plista.com/widgetdata.php'.
  1106. - Block 'rotation.linuxnewmedia.com/'.
  1107. - Block 'reklamy.sfd.pl/'. Reported by kacperdominik in #3399948.
  1108. - Block 'g.adspeed.net/'.
  1109. - Unblock 'websupport.wdc.com/'. Reported by Adam Piggot in #3577851.
  1110. - Block '/openx/www/delivery/'.
  1111. - Disable fast-redirects for '.googleapis.com/'.
  1112. - Block 'imp.double.net/'. Reported by David Bo in #3070411.
  1113. - Block 'gm-link.com/' which is used for email tracking.
  1114. Reported by David Bo in #1812733.
  1115. - Verify that requests to "bwp." are blocked. URL taken from #1736879
  1116. submitted by Francois Marier.
  1117. - Block '/.*bannerid='. Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975779.
  1118. - Block 'cltomedia.info/delivery/' and '.adexprt.com/'.
  1119. Anonymously reported in #2965254.
  1120. - Block 'de17a.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3061472.
  1121. - Block 'oskar.tradera.com/'. Reported by David Bo in #3060596.
  1122. - Block '/scripts/webtrends\.js'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002729.
  1123. - Block requests for 'pool.*.adhese.com/'. Reported by johnd16 in #3002716.
  1124. - Update path pattern for Coremetrics and add tests.
  1125. Pattern and URLs submitted by Adam Piggott #3168443.
  1126. - Enable +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} for 'tr.anp.se/'.
  1127. Reported by David Bo in #3268832.
  1128. - Unblock '.conrad.se/newsletter/banners/'. Reported by David Bo in #3413824.
  1129. - Block '.tynt.com/'. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421767.
  1130. - Unblock '.bbci.co.uk/radio/'. Reported by Adam Piggott in #3569603.
  1131. - Block requests to 'service.maxymiser.net/'.
  1132. Reported by johnd16 in #3118401 (with a previous URL).
  1133. - Disable fast-redirects for Google's "let's pretend your computer is
  1134. infected" page.
  1135. - Unblock '/.*download' to resolve actionsfile feedback #3498129.
  1136. Submitted by Steven Kolins (soundcloud.com not working).
  1137. - Unblock '.wlxrs.com/' which is required by hotmail.com.
  1138. Fixes #3413827 submitted by David Bo.
  1139. - Add two unblock patterns for popup radio and TV players.
  1140. Submitted by Adam Piggott in #3596089.
  1141. - Filter file improvements & bug fixes:
  1142. - Add a referer tagger.
  1143. - Reduce the likelihood that the google filter messes up HTML-generating
  1144. JavaScript. Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3520260.
  1145. - Documentation improvements:
  1146. - Revised all OS X sections due to new packaging module (OSXPackageBuilder).
  1147. - Update the list of supported operating systems to clarify that all Windows
  1148. versions after 95 are expected to work and note that the platform-specific
  1149. code for AmigaOS and QNX currently isn't maintained.
  1150. - Update 'Signals' section, the only explicitly handled signals are SIGINT,
  1151. SIGTERM and SIGHUP.
  1152. - Add Haiku to the list of operating systems on which Privoxy is known to
  1153. run.
  1154. - Add DragonFly to the list of BSDs on which Privoxy is known to run.
  1155. - Removed references to redhat-specific documentation set since it no longer
  1156. exists.
  1157. - Removed references to building PDFs since we no longer do so.
  1158. - Multiple listen-address directives are supported since 3.0.18, correct the
  1159. documentation to say so.
  1160. - Remove bogus section about long and short being preferable to int.
  1161. - Corrected some Internet JunkBuster references to Privoxy.
  1162. - Removed references to www.junkbusters.com since it is no longer
  1163. maintained. Reported by Angelina Matson.
  1164. - Various grammar and spelling corrections
  1165. - Add a client-header-tagger{} example for disabling filtering for range
  1166. requests.
  1167. - Correct a URL in the "Privoxy with Tor" FAQ.
  1168. - Spell 'refresh-tags' correctly. Reported by Don in #3571927.
  1169. - Sort manpage options alphabetically.
  1170. - Remove an incorrect sentence in the toggle section. The toggle state
  1171. doesn't affect whether or not the Windows version uses the tray icon.
  1172. Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3596395.
  1173. - Add new contributors since 3.0.19.
  1174. - Log message improvements:
  1175. - When stopping to watch a client socket due to pipelining, additionally log
  1176. the socket number.
  1177. - Log the client socket and its condition before closing it. This makes it
  1178. more obvious that the socket actually gets closed and should help when
  1179. diagnosing problems like #3464439.
  1180. - In case of SOCKS5 failures, do not explicitly log the server's response.
  1181. It hasn't helped so far and the response can already be logged by enabling
  1182. "debug 32768" anyway. This reverts v1.81 and the follow-up bug fix v1.84.
  1183. - Relocate the connection-accepted message from listen_loop() to serve().
  1184. This way it's printed by the thread that is actually serving the
  1185. connection which is nice when grepping for thread ids in log files.
  1186. - Code cleanups:
  1187. - Remove compatibility layer for versions prior to 3.0 since it has been
  1188. obsolete for more than 10 years now.
  1189. - Remove the ijb_isupper() and ijb_tolower() macros from parsers.c since
  1190. they aren't used in this file.
  1191. - Removed the 'Functions declared include:' comment sections since they tend
  1192. to be incomplete, incorrect and out of date and the benefit seems
  1193. questionable.
  1194. - Various comment grammar and comprehensibility improvements.
  1195. - Remove a pointless fflush() call in chat(). Flushing all streams pretty
  1196. much all the time for no obvious reason is ridiculous.
  1197. - Relocate ijb_isupper()'s definition to project.h and get the ijb_tolower()
  1198. definition from there, too.
  1199. - Relocate ijb_isdigit()'s definition to project.h.
  1200. - Rename ijb_foo macros to privoxy_foo.
  1201. - Add malloc_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where malloc()
  1202. failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
  1203. - Add strdup_or_die() which will allow to simplify code paths where strdup()
  1204. failures don't need to be handled gracefully.
  1205. - Replace strdup() calls with strdup_or_die() calls where it's safe and
  1206. simplifies the code.
  1207. - Fix white-space around parentheses.
  1208. - Add missing white-space behind if's and the following parentheses.
  1209. - Unwrap a memcpy() call in resolve_hostname_to_ip().
  1210. - Declare pcrs_get_delimiter()'s delimiters[] static const.
  1211. - Various optimisations to remove dead code and merge inefficient code
  1212. structures for improved clarity, performance or code compactness.
  1213. - Various data type corrections.
  1214. - Change visibility of several code segments when compiling without
  1215. FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE enabled for clarity.
  1216. - In pcrs_get_delimiter(), do not use delimiters outside the ASCII range.
  1217. Fixes a clang complaint.
  1218. - Fix an error message in get_last_url() nobody is supposed to see.
  1219. Reported by Matthew Fischer in #3507301.
  1220. - Fix a typo in the no-zlib-support complaint. Patch submitted by Matthew
  1221. Fischer in #3507304.
  1222. - Shorten ssplit()'s prototype by removing the last two arguments. We always
  1223. want to skip empty fields and ignore leading delimiters, so having
  1224. parameters for this only complicates the API.
  1225. - Use an enum for the type of the action value.
  1226. - Rename action_name's member takes_value to value_type as it isn't used as
  1227. boolean.
  1228. - Turn family mismatches in match_sockaddr() into fatal errors.
  1229. - Let enlist_unique_header() verify that the caller didn't pass a header
  1230. containing either \r or \n.
  1231. - Change the hashes used in load_config() to unsigned int. That's what
  1232. hash_string() actually returns and using a potentially larger type
  1233. is at best useless.
  1234. - Use privoxy_tolower() instead of vanilla tolower() with manual casting of
  1235. the argument.
  1236. - Catch ssplit() failures in parse_cgi_parameters().
  1237. - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
  1238. - Add an 'Overwrite condition' directive to skip any matching tests before
  1239. it. As it has a global scope, using it is more convenient than clowning
  1240. around with the Ignore directive.
  1241. - Log to STDOUT instead of STDERR.
  1242. - Include the Privoxy version in the output.
  1243. - Various grammar and spelling corrections in documentation and code.
  1244. - Additional tests for range requests with filtering enabled.
  1245. - Tests with mostly invalid range request.
  1246. - Add a couple of hide-if-modified-since{} tests with different date formats.
  1247. - Cleaned up the format of the regression-tests.action file to match the
  1248. format of default.action.
  1249. - Remove the "Copyright" line from print_version(). When using --help, every
  1250. line of screen space matters and thus shouldn't be wasted on things the
  1251. user doesn't care about.
  1252. - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
  1253. - Improve the --statistics performance by skipping sanity checks for input
  1254. that shouldn't affect the results anyway. Add a --strict-checks option
  1255. that enables some of the checks again, just in case anybody cares.
  1256. - The distribution of client requests per connection is included in
  1257. the --statistic output.
  1258. - The --accept-unknown-messages option has been removed and the behavior
  1259. is now the default.
  1260. - Accept and (mostly) highlight new log messages introduced with
  1261. Privoxy 3.0.20.
  1262. - uagen:
  1263. - Bump generated Firefox version to 17.
  1264. - GNUmakefile improvements:
  1265. - The dok-tidy target no longer taints documents with a tidy-mark
  1266. - Change RA_MODE from 0664 to 0644. Suggested by Markus Dittrich in
  1267. #3505445.
  1268. - Remove tidy's clean flag as it changes the scope of attributes.
  1269. Link-specific colors end up being applied to all text. Reported by Adam
  1270. Piggott in #3569551.
  1271. - Leave it up to the user whether or not smart tags are inserted.
  1272. - Let w3m itself do the line wrapping for the config file. It works better
  1273. than fmt as it can honour pre tags causing less unintentional line breaks.
  1274. - Ditch a pointless '-r' passed to rm to delete files.
  1275. - The config-file target now requires less manual intervention and updates
  1276. the original config.
  1277. - Change WDUMP to generate ASCII. Add WDUMP_UTF8 to allow UTF-8 in the
  1278. AUTHORS file so the names are right.
  1279. - Stop pretending that lynx and links are supported for the documentation.
  1280. - configure improvements:
  1281. - On Haiku, do not pass -lpthread to the compiler. Haiku's pthreads
  1282. implementation is contained in its system library, libroot, so no
  1283. additional library needs to be searched.
  1284. Patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
  1285. - Additional Haiku-specific improvements. Disable checks intended for
  1286. multi-user systems as Haiku is presently single-user. Group Haiku-specific
  1287. settings in their own section, following the pattern for Solaris, OS/2 and
  1288. AmigaOS. Add additional library-related settings to remove the need for
  1289. providing configure with custom LDFLAGS.
  1290. Submitted by Simon South in #3574538.
  1291. *** Version 3.0.19 Stable ***
  1292. - Bug fixes:
  1293. - Prevent a segmentation fault when de-chunking buffered content.
  1294. It could be triggered by malicious web servers if Privoxy was
  1295. configured to filter the content and running on a platform
  1296. where SIZE_T_MAX isn't larger than UINT_MAX, which probably
  1297. includes most 32-bit systems. On those platforms, all Privoxy
  1298. versions before 3.0.19 appear to be affected.
  1299. To be on the safe side, this bug should be presumed to allow
  1300. code execution as proving that it doesn't seems unrealistic.
  1301. - Do not expect a response from the SOCKS4/4A server until it
  1302. got something to respond to. This regression was introduced
  1303. in 3.0.18 and prevented the SOCKS4/4A negotiation from working.
  1304. Reported by qqqqqw in #3459781.
  1305. - General improvements:
  1306. - Fix an off-by-one in an error message about connect failures.
  1307. - Use a GNUMakefile variable for the webserver root directory and
  1308. update the path. Sourceforge changed it which broke various
  1309. web-related targets.
  1310. - Update the CODE_STATUS description.
  1311. *** Version 3.0.18 Stable ***
  1312. - Bug fixes:
  1313. - If a generated redirect URL contains characters RFC 3986 doesn't
  1314. permit, they are (re)encoded. Not doing this makes Privoxy versions
  1315. from 3.0.5 to 3.0.17 susceptible to HTTP response splitting (CWE-113)
  1316. attacks if the +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action is used.
  1317. - Fix a logic bug that could cause Privoxy to reuse a server
  1318. socket after it got tainted by a server-header-tagger-induced
  1319. block that was triggered before the whole server response had
  1320. been read. If keep-alive was enabled and the request following
  1321. the blocked one was to the same host and using the same forwarding
  1322. settings, Privoxy would send it on the tainted server socket.
  1323. While the server would simply treat it as a pipelined request,
  1324. Privoxy would later on fail to properly parse the server's
  1325. response as it would try to parse the unread data from the
  1326. first response as server headers for the second one.
  1327. Regression introduced in 3.0.17.
  1328. - When implying keep-alive in client_connection(), remember that
  1329. the client didn't. Fixes a regression introduced in 3.0.13 that
  1330. would cause Privoxy to wait for additional client requests after
  1331. receiving a HTTP/1.1 request with "Connection: close" set
  1332. and connection sharing enabled.
  1333. With clients which terminates the client connection after detecting
  1334. that the whole body has been received it doesn't really matter,
  1335. but with clients that don't the connection would be kept open until
  1336. it timed out.
  1337. - Fix a subtle race condition between prepare_csp_for_next_request()
  1338. and sweep(). A thread preparing itself for the next client request
  1339. could briefly appear to be inactive.
  1340. If all other threads were already using more recent files,
  1341. the thread could get its files swept away under its feet.
  1342. So far this has only been reproduced while stress testing in
  1343. valgrind while touching action files in a loop. It's unlikely
  1344. to have caused any actual problems in the real world.
  1345. - Disable filters if SDCH compression is used unless filtering is forced.
  1346. If SDCH was combined with a supported compression algorithm, Privoxy
  1347. previously could try to decompress it and ditch the Content-Encoding
  1348. header even though the SDCH compression wasn't dealt with.
  1349. Reported by zebul666 in #3225863.
  1350. - Make a copy of the --user value and only mess with that when splitting
  1351. user and group. On some operating systems modifying the value directly
  1352. is reflected in the output of ps and friends and can be misleading.
  1353. Reported by zepard in #3292710.
  1354. - If forwarded-connect-retries is set, only retry if Privoxy is actually
  1355. forwarding the request. Previously direct connections would be retried
  1356. as well.
  1357. - Fixed a small memory leak when retrying connections with IPv6
  1358. support enabled.
  1359. - Remove an incorrect assertion in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list()
  1360. It could be triggered by a pcrs job with an invalid pcre
  1361. pattern (for example one that contains a lone quantifier).
  1362. - If the --user argument user[.group] contains a dot, always bail out
  1363. if no group has been specified. Previously the intended, but undocumented
  1364. (and apparently untested), behaviour was to try interpreting the whole
  1365. argument as user name, but the detection was flawed and checked for '0'
  1366. instead of '\0', thus merely preventing group names beginning with a zero.
  1367. - In html_code_map[], use a numeric character reference instead of '
  1368. which wasn't standardized before XHTML 1.0.
  1369. - Fix an invalid free when compiled with FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION
  1370. and shut down through http://config.privoxy.org/die
  1371. - In get_actions(), fix the "temporary" backwards compatibility hack
  1372. to accept block actions without reason.
  1373. It also covered other actions that should be rejected as invalid.
  1374. Reported by Billy Crook.
  1375. - General improvements:
  1376. - Privoxy can (re)compress buffered content before delivering
  1377. it to the client. Disabled by default as most users wouldn't
  1378. benefit from it.
  1379. - The +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action checks URL
  1380. segments separately. If there are other parameters behind
  1381. the redirect URL, this makes it unnecessary to cut them off
  1382. by additionally using a +redirect{} pcrs command.
  1383. Initial patch submitted by Jamie Zawinski in #3429848.
  1384. - When loading action sections, verify that the referenced filters
  1385. exist. Currently missing filters only result in an error message,
  1386. but eventually the severity will be upgraded to fatal.
  1387. - Allow to bind to multiple separate addresses.
  1388. Patch set submitted by Petr Pisar in #3354485.
  1389. - Set socket_error to errno if connecting fails in rfc2553_connect_to().
  1390. Previously rejected direct connections could be incorrectly reported
  1391. as DNS issues if Privoxy was compiled with IPv6 support.
  1392. - Adjust url_code_map[] so spaces are replaced with %20 instead of '+'
  1393. While '+' can be used by client's submitting form data, this is not
  1394. actually what Privoxy is using the lookups for. This is more of a
  1395. cosmetic issue and doesn't fix any known problems.
  1396. - When compiled without FEATURE_FAST_REDIRECTS, do not silently
  1397. ignore +fast-redirect{} directives
  1398. - Added a workaround for GNU libc's strptime() reporting negative
  1399. year values when the parsed year is only specified with two digits.
  1400. On affected systems cookies with such a date would not be turned
  1401. into session cookies by the +session-cookies-only action.
  1402. Reported by Vaeinoe in #3403560
  1403. - Fixed bind failures with certain GNU libc versions if no non-loopback
  1404. IP address has been configured on the system. This is mainly an issue
  1405. if the system is using DHCP and Privoxy is started before the network
  1406. is completely configured.
  1407. Reported by Raphael Marichez in #3349356.
  1408. Additional insight from Petr Pisar.
  1409. - Privoxy log messages now use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
  1410. It's only slightly longer than the old format, but contains
  1411. the full date including the year and allows sorting by date
  1412. (when grepping in multiple log files) without hassle.
  1413. - In get_last_url(), do not bother trying to decode URLs that do
  1414. not contain at least one '%' sign. It reduces the log noise and
  1415. a number of unnecessary memory allocations.
  1416. - In case of SOCKS5 failures, dump the socks response in the log message.
  1417. - Simplify the signal setup in main().
  1418. - Streamline socks5_connect() slightly.
  1419. - In socks5_connect(), require a complete socks response from the server.
  1420. Previously Privoxy didn't care how much data the server response
  1421. contained as long as the first two bytes contained the expected
  1422. values. While at it, shrink the buffer size so Privoxy can't read
  1423. more than a whole socks response.
  1424. - In chat(), do not bother to generate a client request in case of
  1425. direct CONNECT requests. It will not be used anyway.
  1426. - Reduce server_last_modified()'s stack size.
  1427. - Shorten get_http_time() by using strftime().
  1428. - Constify the known_http_methods pointers in unknown_method().
  1429. - Constify the time_formats pointers in parse_header_time().
  1430. - Constify the formerly_valid_actions pointers in action_used_to_be_valid().
  1431. - Introduce a GNUMakefile MAN_PAGE variable that defaults to privoxy.1.
  1432. The Debian package uses section 8 for the man page and this
  1433. should simplify the patch.
  1434. - Deduplicate the INADDR_NONE definition for Solaris by moving it to jbsockets.h
  1435. - In block_url(), ditch the obsolete workaround for ancient Netscape versions
  1436. that supposedly couldn't properly deal with status code 403.
  1437. - Remove a useless NULL pointer check in load_trustfile().
  1438. - Remove two useless NULL pointer checks in load_one_re_filterfile().
  1439. - Change url_code_map[] from an array of pointers to an array of arrays
  1440. It removes an unnecessary layer of indirection and on 64bit system reduces
  1441. the size of the binary a bit.
  1442. - Fix various typos. Fixes taken from Debian's 29_typos.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
  1443. - Add a dok-tidy GNUMakefile target to clean up the messy HTML
  1444. generated by the other dok targets.
  1445. - GNUisms in the GNUMakefile have been removed.
  1446. - Change the HTTP version in static responses to 1.1
  1447. - Synced config.sub and config.guess with upstream
  1448. 2011-11-11/386c7218162c145f5f9e1ff7f558a3fbb66c37c5.
  1449. - Add a dedicated function to parse the values of toggles. Reduces duplicated
  1450. code in load_config() and provides better error handling. Invalid or missing
  1451. toggle values are now a fatal error instead of being silently ignored.
  1452. - Terminate HTML lines in static error messages with \n instead of \r\n.
  1453. - Simplify cgi_error_unknown() a bit.
  1454. - In LogPutString(), don't bother looking at pszText when not
  1455. actually logging anything.
  1456. - Change ssplit()'s fourth parameter from int to size_t.
  1457. Fixes a clang complaint.
  1458. - Add a warning that the statistics currently can't be trusted.
  1459. Mention Privoxy-Log-Parser's --statistics option as
  1460. an alternative for the time being.
  1461. - In rfc2553_connect_to(), start setting cgi->error_message on error.
  1462. - Change the expected status code returned for http://p.p/die depending
  1463. on whether or not FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION is available.
  1464. - In cgi_die(), mark the client connection for closing.
  1465. If the client will fetch the style sheet through another connection
  1466. it gets the main thread out of the accept() state and should thus
  1467. trigger the actual shutdown.
  1468. - Add a proper CGI message for cgi_die().
  1469. - Don't enforce a logical line length limit in read_config_line().
  1470. - Slightly refactor server_last_modified() to remove useless gmtime*() calls.
  1471. - In get_content_type(), also recognize '.jpeg' as JPEG extension.
  1472. - Add '.png' to the list of recognized file extensions in get_content_type().
  1473. - In block_url(), consistently use the block reason "Request blocked by Privoxy"
  1474. In two places the reason was "Request for blocked URL" which hides the
  1475. fact that the request got blocked by Privoxy and isn't necessarily
  1476. correct as the block may be due to tags.
  1477. - In listen_loop(), reload the configuration files after accepting
  1478. a new connection instead of before.
  1479. Previously the first connection that arrived after a configuration
  1480. change would still be handled with the old configuration.
  1481. - In chat()'s receive-data loop, skip a client socket check if
  1482. the socket will be written to right away anyway. This can
  1483. increase the transfer speed for unfiltered content on fast
  1484. network connections.
  1485. - The socket timeout is used for SOCKS negotiations as well which
  1486. previously couldn't timeout.
  1487. - Don't keep the client connection alive if any configuration file
  1488. changed since the time the connection came in. This is closer to
  1489. Privoxy's behaviour before keep-alive support for client connection
  1490. has been added and also less confusing in general.
  1491. - Treat all Content-Type header values containing the pattern
  1492. 'script' as a sign of text. Reported by pribog in #3134970.
  1493. - Action file improvements:
  1494. - Moved the site-specific block pattern section below the one for the
  1495. generic patterns so for requests that are matched in both, the block
  1496. reason for the domain is shown which is usually more useful than showing
  1497. the one for the generic pattern.
  1498. - Remove -prevent-compression from the fragile alias. It's no longer
  1499. used anywhere by default and isn't known to break stuff anyway.
  1500. - Add a (disabled) section to block various Facebook tracking URLs.
  1501. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421764.
  1502. - Add a (disabled) section to rewrite and redirect click-tracking
  1503. URLs used on news.google.com.
  1504. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421755.
  1505. - Unblock linuxcounter.net/.
  1506. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3422612.
  1507. - Block 'www91.intel.com/' which is used by Omniture.
  1508. Reported by Adam Piggott in #3167370.
  1509. - Disable the handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok option and mark it as deprecated.
  1510. Reminded by tceverling in #2790091.
  1511. - Add ".ivwbox.de/" to the "Cross-site user tracking" section.
  1512. Reported by Nettozahler in #3172525.
  1513. - Unblock and fast-redirect ".awin1.com/.*=http://".
  1514. Reported by Adam Piggott in #3170921.
  1515. - Block "b.collective-media.net/".
  1516. - Widen the Debian popcon exception to "qa.debian.org/popcon".
  1517. Seen in Debian's 05_default_action.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld.
  1518. - Block ".gemius.pl/" which only seems to be used for user tracking.
  1519. Reported by johnd16 in #3002731. Additional input from Lee and movax.
  1520. - Disable banners-by-size filters for '.thinkgeek.com/'.
  1521. The filter only seems to catch pictures of the inventory.
  1522. - Block requests for 'go.idmnet.bbelements.com/please/showit/'.
  1523. Reported by kacperdominik in #3372959.
  1524. - Unblock adainitiative.org/.
  1525. - Add a fast-redirects exception for '.googleusercontent.com/.*=cache'.
  1526. - Add a fast-redirects exception for webcache.googleusercontent.com/.
  1527. - Unblock http://adassier.wordpress.com/ and http://adassier.files.wordpress.com/.
  1528. - Filter file improvements:
  1529. - Let the yahoo filter hide '.ads'.
  1530. - Let the msn filter hide overlay ads for Facebook 'likes' in search
  1531. results and elements with the id 's_notf_div'. They only seem to be
  1532. used to advertise site 'enhancements'.
  1533. - Let the js-events filter additionally disarm setInterval().
  1534. Suggested by dg1727 in #3423775.
  1535. - Documentation improvements:
  1536. - Clarify the effect of compiling Privoxy with zlib support.
  1537. Suggested by dg1727 in #3423782.
  1538. - Point out that the SourceForge messaging system works like a black
  1539. hole and should thus not be used to contact individual developers.
  1540. - Mention some of the problems one can experience when not explicitly
  1541. configuring an IP addresses as listen address.
  1542. - Explicitly mention that hostnames can be used instead of IP addresses
  1543. for the listen-address, that only the first address returned will be
  1544. used and what happens if the address is invalid.
  1545. Requested by Calestyo in #3302213.
  1546. - Log message improvements:
  1547. - If only the server connection is kept alive, do not pretend to
  1548. wait for a new client request.
  1549. - Remove a superfluous log message in forget_connection().
  1550. - In chat(), properly report missing server responses as such
  1551. instead of calling them empty.
  1552. - In forwarded_connect(), fix a log message nobody should ever see.
  1553. - Fix a log message in socks5_connect(), a failed write operation
  1554. was logged as failed read operation.
  1555. - Let load_one_actions_file() properly complain about a missing
  1556. '{' at the beginning of the file.
  1557. Simply stating that a line is invalid isn't particularly helpful.
  1558. - Do not claim to listen on a socket until Privoxy actually does.
  1559. Patch submitted by Petr Pisar #3354485
  1560. - Prevent a duplicated LOG_LEVEL_CLF message when sending out
  1561. the "no-server-data" response.
  1562. - Also log the client socket when dropping a connection.
  1563. - Include the destination host in the 'Request ... marked for
  1564. blocking. limit-connect{...} doesn't allow CONNECT ...' message
  1565. Patch submitted by Saperski in #3296250.
  1566. - Prevent a duplicated log message if none of the resolved IP
  1567. addresses were reachable.
  1568. - In connect_to(), do not pretend to retry if forwarded-connect-retries
  1569. is zero or unset.
  1570. - When a specified user or group can't be found, put the name in
  1571. single-quotes when logging it.
  1572. - In rfc2553_connect_to(), explain getnameinfo() errors better.
  1573. - Remove a useless log message in chat().
  1574. - When retrying to connect, also log the maximum number of connection
  1575. attempts.
  1576. - Rephrase a log message in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list().
  1577. Divide the error code and its meaning with a colon. Call the pcrs
  1578. job dynamic and not the filter. Filters may contain dynamic and
  1579. non-dynamic pcrs jobs at the same time. Only mention the name of
  1580. the filter or tagger, but don't claim it's a filter when it could
  1581. be a tagger.
  1582. - In a fatal error message in load_one_actions_file(), cover both
  1583. URL and TAG patterns.
  1584. - In pcrs_strerror(), properly report unknown positive error code
  1585. values as such. Previously they were handled like 0 (no error).
  1586. - In compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list(), also log the actual error code as
  1587. pcrs_strerror() doesn't handle all errors reported by pcre.
  1588. - Don't bother trying to continue chatting if the client didn't ask for it.
  1589. Reduces log noise a bit.
  1590. - Make two fatal error message in load_one_actions_file() more descriptive.
  1591. - In cgi_send_user_manual(), log when rejecting a file name due to '/' or '..'.
  1592. - In load_file(), log a message if opening a file failed.
  1593. The CGI error message alone isn't too helpful.
  1594. - In connection_destination_matches(), improve two log messages
  1595. to help understand why the destinations don't match.
  1596. - Rephrase a log message in serve(). Client request arrival
  1597. should be differentiated from closed client connections now.
  1598. - In serve(), log if a client connection isn't reused due to a
  1599. configuration file change.
  1600. - Let mark_server_socket_tainted() always mark the server socket tainted,
  1601. just don't talk about it in cases where it has no effect. It doesn't change
  1602. Privoxy's behaviour, but makes understanding the log file easier.
  1603. - configure:
  1604. - Added a --disable-ipv6-support switch for platforms where support
  1605. is detected but doesn't actually work.
  1606. - Do not check for the existence of strerror() and memmove() twice
  1607. - Remove a useless test for setpgrp(2). Privoxy doesn't need it and
  1608. it can cause problems when cross-compiling.
  1609. - Rename the --disable-acl-files switch to --disable-acl-support.
  1610. Since about 2001, ACL directives are specified in the standard
  1611. config file.
  1612. - Update the URL of the 'Removing outdated PCRE version after the
  1613. next stable release' posting. The old URL stopped working after
  1614. one of SF's recent site "optimizations". Reported by Han Liu.
  1615. - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
  1616. - Added --shuffle-tests option to increase the chances of detection race conditions.
  1617. - Added a --local-test-file option that allows to use Privoxy-Regression-Test without Privoxy.
  1618. - Added tests for missing socks4 and socks4a forwarders.
  1619. - The --privoxy-address option now works with IPv6 addresses containing brackets, too.
  1620. - Perform limited sanity checks for parameters that are supposed to have numerical values.
  1621. - Added a --sleep-time option to specify a number of seconds to
  1622. sleep between tests, defaults to 0.
  1623. - Disable the range-requests tagger for tests that break if it's enabled.
  1624. - Log messages use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.
  1625. - Fix spelling in two error messages.
  1626. - In the --help output, include a list of supported tests and their default levels.
  1627. - Adjust the tests to properly deal with FEATURE_TOGGLE being disabled.
  1628. - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
  1629. - Perform limited sanity checks for command line parameters that
  1630. are supposed to have numerical values.
  1631. - Implement a --unbreak-lines-only option to try to revert MUA breakage.
  1632. - Accept and highlight: Added header: Content-Encoding: deflate
  1633. - Accept and highlight: Compressed content from 29258 to 8630 bytes.
  1634. - Accept and highlight: Client request arrived in time on socket 21.
  1635. - Highlight: Didn't receive data in time: a.fsdn.com:443
  1636. - Accept log messages with ISO 8601 time stamps, too.
  1637. - uagen:
  1638. - Bump generated Firefox version to 8.0.
  1639. - Only randomize the release date if the new --randomize-release-date
  1640. option is enabled. Firefox versions after 4 use a fixed date string
  1641. without meaning.
  1642. *** Version 3.0.17 Stable ***
  1643. - Fixed last-chunk-detection for responses where the body was small
  1644. enough to be read with the headers, causing Privoxy to wait for the
  1645. end of the content until the server closed the connection or the
  1646. request timed out. Reported by "Karsten" in #3028326.
  1647. - Responses with status code 204 weren't properly detected as body-less
  1648. like RFC2616 mandates. Like the previous bug, this caused Privoxy to
  1649. wait for the end of the content until the server closed the connection
  1650. or the request timed out. Fixes #3022042 and #3025553, reported by a
  1651. user with no visible name. Most likely also fixes a bunch of other
  1652. AJAX-related problem reports that got closed in the past due to
  1653. insufficient information and lack of feedback.
  1654. - Fixed an ACL bug that made it impossible to build a blacklist.
  1655. Usually the ACL directives are used in a whitelist, which worked
  1656. as expected, but blacklisting is still useful for public proxies
  1657. where one only needs to deny known abusers access.
  1658. - Added LOG_LEVEL_RECEIVED to log the not-yet-parsed data read from the
  1659. network. This should make debugging various parsing issues a lot easier.
  1660. - The IPv6 code is enabled by default on Windows versions that support it.
  1661. Patch submitted by oCameLo in #2942729.
  1662. - In mingw32 versions, the user.filter file is reachable through the
  1663. GUI, just like default.filter is. Feature request 3040263.
  1664. - Added the configure option --enable-large-file-support to set a few
  1665. defines that are required by platforms like GNU/Linux to support files
  1666. larger then 2GB. Mainly interesting for users without proper logfile
  1667. management.
  1668. - Logging with "debug 16" no longer stops at the first nul byte which is
  1669. pretty useless. Non-printable characters are replaced with their hex value
  1670. so the result can't span multiple lines making parsing them harder then
  1671. necessary.
  1672. - Privoxy logs when reading an action, filter or trust file.
  1673. - Fixed incorrect regression test markup which caused a test in
  1674. 3.0.16 to fail while Privoxy itself was working correctly.
  1675. While Privoxy accepts hide-referer, too, the action name is actually
  1676. hide-referrer which is also the name used one the final results page,
  1677. where the test expected the alias.
  1678. - CGI interface improvements:
  1679. - In finish_http_response(), continue to add the 'Connection: close'
  1680. header if the client connection will not be kept alive.
  1681. Anonymously pointed out in #2987454.
  1682. - Apostrophes in block messages no longer cause parse errors
  1683. when the blocked page is viewed with JavaScript enabled.
  1684. Reported by dg1727 in #3062296.
  1685. - Fix a bunch of anchors that used underscores instead of dashes.
  1686. - Allow to keep the client connection alive after crunching the previous request.
  1687. Already opened server connections can be kept alive, too.
  1688. - In cgi_show_url_info(), don't forget to prefix URLs that only contain
  1689. http:// or https:// in the path. Fixes #2975765 reported by Adam Piggott.
  1690. - Show the 404 CGI page if cgi_send_user_manual() is called while
  1691. local user manual delivery is disabled.
  1692. - Action file improvements:
  1693. - Enable user.filter by default. Suggested by David White in #3001830.
  1694. - Block .sitestat.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002725.
  1695. - Block .atemda.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002723.
  1696. - Block js.adlink.net/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002720.
  1697. - Block .analytics.yahoo.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002713.
  1698. - Block sb.scorecardresearch.com, too. Reported by dg1727 in #2992652.
  1699. - Fix problems noticed on Yahoo mail and news pages.
  1700. - Remove the too broad yahoo section, only keeping the
  1701. fast-redirects exception as discussed on ijbswa-devel@.
  1702. - Don't block adesklets.sourceforge.net. Reported in #2974204.
  1703. - Block chartbeat ping tracking. Reported in #2975895.
  1704. - Tag CSS and image requests with cautious and medium settings, too.
  1705. - Don't handle view.atdmt.com as image. It's used for click-throughs
  1706. so users should be able to "go there anyway".
  1707. Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975927.
  1708. - Also let the refresh-tags filter remove invalid refresh tags where
  1709. the 'url=' part is missing. Anonymously reported in #2986382.
  1710. While at it, update the description to mention the fact that only
  1711. refresh tags with refresh times above 9 seconds are covered.
  1712. - javascript needs to be blocked with +handle-as-empty-document to
  1713. work around Firefox bug 492459. So move .js blockers from
  1714. +block{Might be a web-bug.} -handle-as-empty-document to
  1715. +block{Might be a web-bug.} +handle-as-empty-document.
  1716. - ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 - Block 160x578 Banners.
  1717. - Block another omniture tracking domain.
  1718. - Added a range-requests tagger.
  1719. - Added two sections to get Flickr's Ajax interface working with
  1720. default pre-settings. If you change the configuration to block
  1721. cookies by default, you'll need additional exceptions.
  1722. Reported by Mathias Homann in #3101419 and by Patrick on ijbswa-users@.
  1723. - Documentation improvements:
  1724. - Explicitly mention how to match all URLs.
  1725. - Consistently recommend socks5 in the Tor FAQ entry and mention
  1726. its advantage compared to socks4a. Reported by David in #2960129.
  1727. - Slightly improve the explanation of why filtering may appear
  1728. slower than it is.
  1729. - Grammar fixes for the ACL section.
  1730. - Fixed a link to the 'intercepting' entry and add another one.
  1731. - Rename the 'Other' section to 'Mailing Lists' and reword it
  1732. to make it clear that nobody is forced to use the trackers
  1733. - Note that 'anonymously' posting on the trackers may not always
  1734. be possible.
  1735. - Suggest to enable debug 32768 when suspecting parsing problems.
  1736. - Privoxy-Log-Parser improvements:
  1737. - Gather statistics for ressources, methods, and HTTP versions
  1738. used by the client.
  1739. - Also gather statistics for blocked and redirected requests.
  1740. - Provide the percentage of keep-alive offers the client accepted.
  1741. - Add a --url-statistics-threshold option.
  1742. - Add a --host-statistics-threshold option to also gather
  1743. statistics about how many request where made per host.
  1744. - Fix a bug in handle_loglevel_header() where a 'scan: ' got lost.
  1745. - Add a --shorten-thread-ids option to replace the thread id with
  1746. a decimal number.
  1747. - Accept and ignore: Looks like we got the last chunk together
  1748. with the server headers. We better stop reading.
  1749. - Accept and ignore: Continue hack in da house.
  1750. - Accept and higlight: Rejecting connection from 10.0.0.2.
  1751. Maximum number of connections reached.
  1752. - Accept and highlight: Loading actions file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.action
  1753. - Accept and highlight: Loading filter file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.filter
  1754. - Accept and highlight: Killed all-caps Host header line: HOST: bestproxydb.com
  1755. - Accept and highlight: Reducing expected bytes to 0. Marking
  1756. the server socket tainted after throwing 4 bytes away.
  1757. - Accept: Merged multiple header lines to: 'X-FORWARDED-PROTO: http X-HOST: 127.0.0.1'
  1758. - Code cleanups:
  1759. - Remove the next member from the client_state struct. Only the main
  1760. thread needs access to all client states so give it its own struct.
  1761. - Garbage-collect request_contains_null_bytes().
  1762. - Ditch redundant code in unload_configfile().
  1763. - Ditch LogGetURLUnderCursor() which doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
  1764. - In write_socket(), remove the write-only variable write_len in
  1765. an ifdef __OS2__ block. Spotted by cppcheck.
  1766. - In connect_to(), don't declare the variable 'flags' on OS/2 where
  1767. it isn't used. Spotted by cppcheck.
  1768. - Limit the scope of various variables. Spotted by cppcheck.
  1769. - In add_to_iob(), turn an interestingly looking for loop into a
  1770. boring while loop.
  1771. - Code cleanup in preparation for external filters.
  1772. - In listen_loop(), mention the socket on which we accepted the
  1773. connection, not just the source IP address.
  1774. - In write_socket(), also log the socket we're writing to.
  1775. - In log_error(), assert that escaped characters get logged
  1776. completely or not at all.
  1777. - In log_error(), assert that ival and sval have reasonable values.
  1778. There's no reason not to abort() if they don't.
  1779. - Remove an incorrect cgi_error_unknown() call in a
  1780. cannot-happen-situation in send_crunch_response().
  1781. - Clean up white-space in http_response definition and
  1782. move the crunch_reason to the beginning.
  1783. - Turn http_response.reason into an enum and rename it
  1784. to http_response.crunch_reason.
  1785. - Silence a 'gcc (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2' warning on i686 GNU/Linux.
  1786. - Fix white-space in a log message in remove_chunked_transfer_coding().
  1787. While at it, add a note that the message doesn't seem to
  1788. be entirely correct and should be improved later on.
  1789. - GNUmakefile improvements:
  1790. - Use $(SSH) instead of ssh, so one only needs to specify a username once.
  1791. - Removed references to the action feedback thingy that hasn't been
  1792. working for years.
  1793. - Consistently use shell.sourceforge.net instead of shell.sf.net so
  1794. one doesn't need to check server fingerprints twice.
  1795. - Removed GNUisms in the webserver and webactions targets so they
  1796. work with standard tar.
  1797. *** Version 3.0.16 Stable ***
  1798. - Added the config file option handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok to
  1799. work around Firefox bug #492459, which causes Firefox to hang
  1800. if JavaScripts are blocked in certain situations. The option is
  1801. enabled in the default config file.
  1802. - Added the config file option default-server-timeout to control the
  1803. assumed default server timeout. Since Privoxy no longer returns
  1804. an error message for connection resets on reused client connections,
  1805. assuming larger server timeout values appears to actually work
  1806. pretty well as long as connections aren't shared.
  1807. - Added optional support for FreeBSD's accf_http(9). Use the
  1808. configure option --enable-accept-filter to enable it.
  1809. - Added fancier Privoxy icons for win32. Contributed by Jeff H.
  1810. - In daemon mode, fd 0, 1 and 2 are bound to /dev/null.
  1811. - Resolve localhost using whatever address family the operating
  1812. system feels like. Previous betas would try to use IPv4 as this
  1813. is what most users expect, but this didn't work reliably on
  1814. GNU/Linux systems.
  1815. - In the action lists on CGI pages, actions and their parameters are
  1816. no longer separated with a space. The action file parser doesn't
  1817. actually allow this and will throw an invalid syntax error if actions
  1818. and parameters in the action files are separated. Not adding the
  1819. spaces means copy and pasting CGI output into the action files works.
  1820. - The default keep-alive timeout has been reduced to 5 seconds to work
  1821. around hangs in clients that treat the proxy like any other host and
  1822. stop allowing any new connections if the "maximum number of
  1823. connections per host" is reached.
  1824. - Several webbug URLs that look like they are leading to images are now
  1825. blocked as image instead of empty documents. Doing the latter causes
  1826. WebKit-based clients to show a "missing image" icon which may mess up
  1827. the layout.
  1828. - The no-such-domain template is used for DNS resolution
  1829. problems with FEATURE_IPV6_SUPPORT enabled. Previously the
  1830. connect-failed template was used. Reported by 'zebul666'.
  1831. - Accepts quoted expiration dates even though RFC 2109 10.1.2
  1832. doesn't seem to allow them. Reported anonymously.
  1833. - Don't try to forget connections if connection sharing is disabled.
  1834. This wasn't a real problem but caused an unnecessary log message.
  1835. - The still undocumented --enable-extended-host-patterns configure
  1836. option has a better description.
  1837. - Fixed an error message that would claim a write to the server
  1838. failed when actually writing to the client failed.
  1839. - Log the crunch reason before trying to write to the client.
  1840. The log is easier to read that way.
  1841. - Several log messages about client connections also mention
  1842. the socket number.
  1843. - handle-as-empty-document no longer depends on the image blocking
  1844. code being enabled.
  1845. - Privoxy-Log-Parser is roughly 40% faster in highlighting mode.
  1846. - uagen, a Firefox User-Agent generator for Privoxy and Mozilla
  1847. browsers has been imported and is available in the tarball's
  1848. tools directory.
  1849. - The scripts in the tools directory treat unknown parameters
  1850. as fatal errors.
  1851. *** Version 3.0.15 beta ***
  1852. - In case of missing server data, no error message is send to the
  1853. client if the request arrived on a reused connection. The client
  1854. is then supposed to silently retry the request without bothering
  1855. the user. This should significantly reduce the frequency of the
  1856. "No server or forwarder data received" error message many users
  1857. reported.
  1858. - More reliable detection of prematurely closed client sockets
  1859. with keep-alive enabled.
  1860. - FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE is decoupled from
  1861. FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING and now available on
  1862. all platforms.
  1863. - Improved handling of POST requests on reused connections.
  1864. Should fix problems with stalled connections after submitting
  1865. form data with some browser configurations.
  1866. - Fixed various latency calculation issues.
  1867. - Allows the client to pass NTLM authentication requests to a
  1868. forwarding proxy. This was already assumed and hinted to work
  1869. in 3.0.13 beta but actually didn't. Now it's confirmed to work
  1870. with IE, Firefox and Chrome.
  1871. Thanks to Francois Botha and Wan-Teh Chang
  1872. - Fixed a calculation problem if receiving the server headers
  1873. takes more than two reads, that could cause Privoxy to terminate
  1874. the connection prematurely. Reported by Oliver.
  1875. - Compiles again on platforms such as OpenBSD and systems
  1876. using earlier glibc version that don't support AI_ADDRCONFIG.
  1877. Anonymously submitted in #2872591.
  1878. - A bunch of MS VC project files and Suse and Redhat RPM spec
  1879. files have been removed as they were no longer maintained for
  1880. quite some time.
  1881. - Overly long action lines are properly rejected with a proper
  1882. error message. Previously they would be either rejected as
  1883. invalid or cause a core dump through abort().
  1884. - Already timed-out connections are no longer temporarily remembered.
  1885. They weren't reused anyway, but wasted a socket slot.
  1886. - len refers to the number of bytes actually read which might
  1887. differ from the ones received. Adjust log messages accordingly.
  1888. - The optional JavaScript on the CGI page uses encodeURIComponent()
  1889. instead of escape() which doesn't encode all characters that matter.
  1890. Anonymously reported in #2832722.
  1891. - Fix gcc45 warnings in decompress_iob().
  1892. - Various log message improvements.
  1893. - Privoxy-Regression-Test supports redirect tests.
  1894. - Privoxy-Log-Parser can gather some connection statistics.
  1895. *** Version 3.0.14 beta ***
  1896. - The latency is taken into account when evaluating whether or not to
  1897. reuse a connection. This should significantly reduce the number of
  1898. connections problems several users reported.
  1899. - If the server doesn't specify how long the connection stays alive,
  1900. Privoxy errs on the safe side of caution and assumes it's only a second.
  1901. - The error pages for connection timeouts or missing server data use a
  1902. Last-Modified date in the past. Retry attempts are detected and Privoxy
  1903. removes the If-Modified-Since header to prevent the server from responding
  1904. with status code 304 in which case the client would reuse the error message.
  1905. - Setting keep-alive-timeout to 0 disables keep-alive support. Previously
  1906. Privoxy would claim to allow persistence but not reuse the connection.
  1907. - Pipelined requests are less likely to be mistaken for the request
  1908. body of the previous request. Note that Privoxy still has no real
  1909. pipeline support and will either serialize pipelined requests or
  1910. drop them in which case the client has to resent them.
  1911. - Fixed a crash on some Windows versions when header randomization
  1912. is enabled and the date couldn't be parsed.
  1913. - Privoxy's keep-alive timeout for the current connection is reduced
  1914. to the one specified in the client's Keep-Alive header.
  1915. - For HTTP/1.1 requests, Privoxy implies keep-alive support by not
  1916. setting any Connection header instead of using 'Connection: keep-alive'.
  1917. - If the socket isn't reusable, Privoxy doesn't temporarily waste
  1918. a socket slot to remember the connection.
  1919. - If keep-alive support is disabled but compiled in, the client's
  1920. Keep-Alive header is removed.
  1921. - Fixed a bug on mingw32 where downloading large files failed if
  1922. keep-alive support was enabled.
  1923. - Fixed a bug that (at least theoretically) could cause log
  1924. timestamps to be occasionally off by about a second.
  1925. - No Proxy-Connection header if added if there already is one.
  1926. - The configure script respects the $PATH variable when searching
  1927. for groups and id.
  1928. *** Version 3.0.13 beta ***
  1929. - Added IPv6 support. Thanks to Petr Pisar who not only provided
  1930. the initial patch but also helped a lot with the integration.
  1931. - Added client-side keep-alive support.
  1932. - The connection sharing code is only used if the connection-sharing
  1933. option is enabled.
  1934. - The max-client-connections option has been added to restrict
  1935. the number of client connections below a value enforced by
  1936. the operating system.
  1937. - Fixed a regression reintroduced in 3.0.12 that could cause
  1938. crashes on mingw32 if header date randomization was enabled.
  1939. - Compressed content with extra fields couldn't be decompressed
  1940. and would get passed to the client unfiltered. This problem
  1941. has only be detected through statical analysis with clang as
  1942. nobody seems to be using extra fields anyway.
  1943. - If the server resets the Connection after sending only the headers
  1944. Privoxy forwards what it got to the client. Previously Privoxy
  1945. would deliver an error message instead.
  1946. - Error messages in case of connection timeouts use the right
  1947. HTTP status code.
  1948. - If spawning a child to handle a request fails, the client
  1949. gets an error message and Privoxy continues to listen for
  1950. new requests right away.
  1951. - The error messages in case of server-connection timeouts or
  1952. prematurely closed server connections are now template-based.
  1953. - If zlib support isn't compiled in, Privoxy no longer tries to
  1954. filter compressed content unless explicitly asked to do so.
  1955. - In case of connections that are denied based on ACL directives,
  1956. the memory used for the client IP is no longer leaked.
  1957. - Fixed another small memory leak if the client request times out
  1958. while waiting for client headers other than the request line.
  1959. - The client socket is kept open until the server socket has
  1960. been marked as unused. This should increase the chances that
  1961. the still-open connection will be reused for the client's next
  1962. request to the same destination. Note that this only matters
  1963. if connection-sharing is enabled.
  1964. - A TODO list has been added to the source tarball to give potential
  1965. volunteers a better idea of what the current goals are. Donations
  1966. are still welcome too: https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
  1967. *** Version 3.0.12 ***
  1968. - The socket-timeout option now also works on platforms whose
  1969. select() implementation modifies the timeout structure.
  1970. Previously the timeout was triggered even if the connection
  1971. didn't stall. Reported by cyberpatrol.
  1972. - The Connection: keep-alive code properly deals with files
  1973. larger than 2GB. Previously the connection was closed too
  1974. early.
  1975. - The content length for files above 2GB is logged correctly.
  1976. - The user-manual directive on the show-status page links to
  1977. the documentation location specified with the directive,
  1978. not to the Privoxy website.
  1979. - When running in daemon mode, Privoxy doesn't log anything
  1980. to the console unless there are errors before the logfile
  1981. has been opened.
  1982. - The show-status page prints warnings about invalid directives
  1983. on the same line as the directives themselves.
  1984. - Fixed several justified (but harmless) compiler warnings,
  1985. mostly on 64 bit platforms.
  1986. - The mingw32 version explicitly requests the default charset
  1987. to prevent display problems with some fonts available on more
  1988. recent Windows versions. Patch by Burberry.
  1989. - The mingw32 version uses the Privoxy icon in the alt-tab
  1990. windows. Patch by Burberry.
  1991. - The timestamp and the thread id is omitted in the "Fatal error"
  1992. message box on mingw32.
  1993. - Fixed two related mingw32-only buffer overflows. Triggering
  1994. them required control over the configuration file, therefore
  1995. this isn't seen as a security issue.
  1996. - In verbose mode, or if the new option --show-skipped-tests
  1997. is used, Privoxy-Regression-Test logs skipped tests and the
  1998. skip reason.
  1999. *** Version 3.0.11 ***
  2000. - On most platforms, outgoing connections can be kept alive and
  2001. reused if the server supports it. Whether or not this improves
  2002. things depends on the connection.
  2003. - When dropping privileges, membership in supplementary groups
  2004. is given up as well. Not doing that can lead to Privoxy running
  2005. with more rights than necessary and violates the principle of
  2006. least privilege. Users of the --user option are advised to update.
  2007. Thanks to Matthias Drochner for reporting the problem,
  2008. providing the initial patch and testing the final version.
  2009. - Passing invalid users or groups with the --user option
  2010. didn't lead to program exit. Regression introduced in 3.0.7.
  2011. - The match all section has been moved from default.action
  2012. to a new file called match-all.action. As a result the
  2013. default.action no longer needs to be touched by the user
  2014. and can be safely overwritten by updates.
  2015. - The standard.action file has been removed. Its content
  2016. is now part of the default.action file.
  2017. - In some situations the logged content length was slightly too low.
  2018. - Crunched requests are logged with their own log level.
  2019. If you used "debug 1" in the past, you'll probably want
  2020. to additionally enable "debug 1024", otherwise only passed
  2021. requests will be logged. If you only care about crunched
  2022. requests, simply replace "debug 1" with "debug 1024".
  2023. - The crunch reason has been moved to the beginning of the
  2024. crunch message. For HTTP URLs, the protocol is logged as well.
  2025. - Log messages are shortened by printing the thread id on its
  2026. own (as opposed to putting it inside the string "Privoxy()").
  2027. - The config option socket-timeout has been added to control
  2028. the time Privoxy waits for data to arrive on a socket.
  2029. - Support for remote toggling is controlled by the configure
  2030. option --disable-toggle only. In previous versions it also
  2031. depended on the action editor and thus configuring with the
  2032. --disable-editor option would disable remote toggling support
  2033. as well.
  2034. - Requests with invalid HTTP versions are rejected.
  2035. - The template symbol @date@ can be used to include a date(1)-like
  2036. time string. Initial patch submitted by Endre Szabo.
  2037. - Responses from shoutcast servers are accepted again.
  2038. Problem reported and fix suggested by Stefan.
  2039. - The hide-forwarded-for-headers action has been replaced with
  2040. the change-x-forwarded-for{} action which can also be used to
  2041. add X-Forwarded-For headers. The latter functionality already
  2042. existed in Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.7 but has been removed
  2043. as it was often used unintentionally (by not using the
  2044. hide-forwarded-for-headers action).
  2045. - A "clear log" view option was added to the mingw32 version
  2046. to clear out all of the lines in the Privoxy log window.
  2047. Based on a patch submitted by T Ford.
  2048. - The mingw32 version uses "critical sections" now, which prevents
  2049. log message corruption under load. As a side effect, the
  2050. "no thread-safe PRNG" warning could be removed as well.
  2051. - The mingw32 version's task bar icon is crossed out and
  2052. the color changed to gray if Privoxy is toggled off.
  2053. *** Version 3.0.10 ***
  2054. - Ordinary configuration file changes no longer cause program
  2055. termination on OS/2 if the name of the logfile hasn't been
  2056. changed as well. This regression probably crept in with the
  2057. logging improvements in 3.0.7. Reported by Maynard.
  2058. - The img-reorder filter is less likely to mess up JavaScript code in
  2059. img tags. Problem and solution reported by Glenn Washburn in #2014552.
  2060. - The source tar ball now includes Privoxy-Log-Parser,
  2061. a syntax-highlighter for Privoxy logs. For fancy screenshots see:
  2062. http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy-log-parser/
  2063. Documentation is available through perldoc(1).
  2064. *** Version 3.0.9 beta ***
  2065. - Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by
  2066. the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
  2067. - The "blocked" CGI pages include a block reason that was
  2068. provided as argument to the last-applying block action.
  2069. - If enable-edit-actions is disabled (the default since 3.0.7 beta)
  2070. the show-status page hides the edit buttons and explains why.
  2071. Previously the user would get the "this feature has been disabled"
  2072. message after using the edit button.
  2073. - Forbidden CONNECT requests are treated like blocks by default.
  2074. The now-pointless treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks action
  2075. has been removed.
  2076. - Not enabling limit-connect now allows CONNECT requests to all ports.
  2077. In previous versions it would only allow CONNECT requests to port 443.
  2078. Use +limit-connect{443} if you think you need the old default behaviour.
  2079. - The CGI editor gets turned off after three edit requests with invalid
  2080. file modification timestamps. This makes life harder for attackers
  2081. who can leverage browser bugs to send fake Referers and intend to
  2082. brute-force edit URLs.
  2083. - Action settings for multiple patterns in the same section are
  2084. shared in memory. As a result these sections take up less space
  2085. (and are loaded slightly faster). Problem reported by Franz Schwartau.
  2086. - Linear white space in HTTP headers will be normalized to single
  2087. spaces before parsing the header's content, headers split across
  2088. multiple lines get merged first. This should prevent problems like:
  2089. * letting the session-cookies-only action slip
  2090. some Cookies through unmodified,
  2091. * only suppressing the first line of a header,
  2092. thus creating an invalid one, and
  2093. * to incorrectly block headers with valid timestamps
  2094. that weren't properly recognized.
  2095. Headers that could trigger these problems are unlikely to appear
  2096. in "normal" web traffic, but could be intentionally generated to
  2097. fool some of Privoxy's header parsers.
  2098. - Host information is gathered outside the main thread so it's less
  2099. likely to delay other incoming connections if the host is misconfigured.
  2100. - New config option "hostname" to use a hostname other than
  2101. the one returned by the operating system. Useful to speed-up responses
  2102. for CGI requests on misconfigured systems. Requested by Max Khon.
  2103. - The CGI editor supports the "disable all filters of this type"
  2104. directives "-client-header-filter", "-server-header-filter",
  2105. "-client-header-tagger" and "-server-header-tagger".
  2106. - Fixed false-positives with the link-by-url filter and URLs that
  2107. contain the pattern "/jump/".
  2108. - The less-download-windows filter no longer messes
  2109. "Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash" headers up.
  2110. - In the show-url-info page's "Final results" section active and
  2111. inactive actions are listed separately. Patch provided by Lee.
  2112. - The GNUmakefile supports the DESTDIR variable. Patch for
  2113. the install target submitted by Radoslaw Zielinski.
  2114. - Embedding the content of configuration files in the show-status
  2115. page is significantly faster now. For a largish action file (1 MB)
  2116. a speedup of about 2450 times has been measured. This is mostly
  2117. interesting if you are using large action files or regularly use
  2118. Privoxy-Regression-Test while running Privoxy through Valgrind,
  2119. for stock configuration files it doesn't really matter.
  2120. - If zlib support is unavailable and there are content
  2121. filters active but the prevent-compression action is disabled,
  2122. the show-url-info page includes a warning that compression
  2123. might prevent filtering.
  2124. - The show-url-info page provides an OpenSearch Description that
  2125. allows to access the page through browser search plugins.
  2126. - Custom client-header filters that rewrite the request line
  2127. incorrectly no longer cause Privoxy to crash. Reported by din_a4.
  2128. - The obsolete kill-popups action has been removed as the
  2129. PCRS-based popup filters can do the same and are slightly
  2130. less unreliable.
  2131. - The inspect-jpegs action has been removed.
  2132. - The send-wafer and send-vanilla-wafer actions have been removed.
  2133. They weren't particular useful and their behaviour could be emulated
  2134. with add-header anyway.
  2135. - Privoxy-Regression-Test has been significantly improved.
  2136. - Most sections in the default.action file contain tests for
  2137. Privoxy-Regression-Test to verify that they are working as intended.
  2138. - Parts of Privoxy have been refactored to increase maintainability.
  2139. - Building with zlib (if available) is done by default.
  2140. *** Version 3.0.8 ***
  2141. - Fixed a small memory leak when listen-address only specifies the port.
  2142. - The source tar balls now include Privoxy-Regression-Test which
  2143. (upon other things) can be used to automatically detect some
  2144. packaging problems. Packagers are welcome to give it a try.
  2145. - Reverted a change in 3.0.7 that caused path patterns to be checked
  2146. even if the host pattern match already failed. While this doesn't
  2147. noticeable affect the performance, it makes it less likely to run
  2148. out of stack space with overly-complex path patterns the user might
  2149. have added.
  2150. - Updated the msn, yahoo and google filters to work as advertised again.
  2151. - The warning message shown by the show-status CGI page is easier to
  2152. understand. Previously it wasn't clear that the error message
  2153. is shown below the invalid directive. (Reported by Lee)
  2154. - When regenerating Content-Disposition headers the more common
  2155. spelling is used for the name. Previously it was written without caps.
  2156. - Less confusing log message if the content type isn't overwritten
  2157. because force-text-type wasn't used but the old type doesn't look
  2158. like content that would be filtered normally.
  2159. - Better log messages if the user tries to execute filters that
  2160. don't exist.
  2161. - Treat the non-standard Request-Range headers like standard range
  2162. headers and suppress them if content filtering is enabled.
  2163. - Prevent the log messages for CONNECT requests to unacceptable
  2164. ports from printing the limit-connect argument as [null] if
  2165. limit-connect hasn't been explicitly enabled.
  2166. - Don't disable the mingw32 log window if the logfile directive
  2167. isn't used. While it was an intentional change in 3.0.7 at least
  2168. one user perceived it as a regression and the same effect can
  2169. be achieved by disabling all debug directives.
  2170. - Fixed two minor problems related to the win32 build process: a css
  2171. file was not being in the installer and the trustfile comment in the
  2172. config.txt referenced a nonexisting file
  2173. - Minor documentation fixes.
  2174. *** Version 3.0.7 beta ***
  2175. - Added zlib support to filter content with gzip and deflate
  2176. encoding. (Patch provided by Wil Mahan)
  2177. - Dedicated filters and actions are used for header filtering.
  2178. "filter-client-headers" and "filter-client-headers" are no longer
  2179. supported, use server-header-filter{} and client-header-filter{}
  2180. instead.
  2181. - Tags can be used to change actions based on HTTP headers.
  2182. - New server-header filter: less-download-windows.
  2183. - New client-header taggers: css-requests, image-requests,
  2184. client-ip-address, http-method, allow-post, complete-url,
  2185. user-agent and privoxy-control.
  2186. - New server-header taggers: content-type and privoxy-control.
  2187. - The forward-override{} action allows to change the forwarding
  2188. settings through the action files, for example based on client
  2189. headers like the User-Agent, or the request origin.
  2190. - Socks errors are no longer handled by the CGI page for
  2191. DNS resolution failures.
  2192. - CGI pages use favicons to signal whether they are error
  2193. or control pages. This is useful if you rely heavily on
  2194. browser tabs.
  2195. - The show-url-info CGI page shows the forwarding settings.
  2196. - "Crunch!" log messages (used when Privoxy answers requests
  2197. by itself) now also contain the reason.
  2198. - Allow to rewrite the request destination behind the client's back.
  2199. - Fix socks requests on big-endian platforms. Patch provided by Song Weijia.
  2200. - Fixes possible deadlocks and crashes on OpenBSD.
  2201. Patch provided by Ralf Horstmann.
  2202. - The CGI action editor allows to edit actionfiles with previously
  2203. forbidden characters like dots.
  2204. - New trust entries are saved with a comment that contains the
  2205. trusted referring URL (Suggested by Daniel Griscom).
  2206. - Filter descriptions are HTML encoded automatically.
  2207. - New config option "split-large-forms" to work
  2208. around a browser bug that caused IE6 and IE7 to ignore
  2209. the Submit button on the edit-actions-for-url CGI page.
  2210. - New config option "allow-cgi-request-crunching" to allow
  2211. requests for Privoxy's CGI pages to be blocked, redirected
  2212. or (un)trusted like ordinary requests.
  2213. - Empty filter files no longer interrupt the filtering process
  2214. prematurely and are correctly listed on the show-status CGI page.
  2215. - New config option "accept-intercepted-requests" to combine
  2216. Privoxy with any packet filter to build an intercepting proxy
  2217. for HTTP/1.1 requests (and for HTTP/1.0 requests with Host header set).
  2218. - fast-redirects{} catch redirects to https URLs as well.
  2219. - redirect{s@foo@bar@} can be used to redirect to a rewritten
  2220. version of the original URL.
  2221. - Trap unsupported gopher proxy requests.
  2222. - Fixed a bug in the User Manual delivery on Windows
  2223. (mingw32 only). Images now show up correctly and HTML
  2224. pages are no longer padded with garbage data.
  2225. - Fixed several minor memory leaks, most of them discovered with Valgrind.
  2226. - Only unlink the pidfile if it's actually used.
  2227. - Retries after connection problems with forced requests
  2228. aren't blocked again.
  2229. - On Unix SIGABRT causes a core dump as expected and is no
  2230. longer treated as normal shutdown signal.
  2231. - The "access denied" CGI page is more descriptive and
  2232. allows retries to circumvent the referrer check.
  2233. - Updated PCRS to handle unexpected PCRE errors properly.
  2234. Fixed crashes that could occur if Privoxy was build
  2235. with external PCRE versions newer than Privoxy's internal
  2236. one. (Reported by Chung-chieh Shan)
  2237. - Fixed crashes with null bytes in PCRS replacement strings
  2238. (Patch provided by Felix Gröbert).
  2239. - Fixed crashes with header time randomization on mingw32.
  2240. - The CGI style sheet is no longer delivered if the referring
  2241. page isn't a Privoxy CGI page. This prevents a JavaScript-based
  2242. Privoxy detection "attack". Note that detecting Privoxy is
  2243. still possible through other ways and Privoxy was never intended
  2244. to be invisible anyway.
  2245. - Added support for AmigaOS 4, fixed build for AmigaOS 3.x.
  2246. - The show-url-info CGI page displays a warning if Privoxy
  2247. is currently toggled off.
  2248. - The show-status CGI page suppresses the edit button
  2249. for action files if Privoxy has no write access.
  2250. - Most CGI error pages react properly to HEAD requests.
  2251. - Requests with RFC 3253 HTTP methods (used by Subversion)
  2252. are accepted. (Patch provided by Petr Kadlec)
  2253. - New config option "templdir" to change the location
  2254. of the CGI templates to make sure customized templates
  2255. aren't "updated".
  2256. - Better handling of "HTTP/1.1 100 Continue" responses.
  2257. - The background of the PNG pattern is transparent.
  2258. - Fixed XML syntax errors caused by banners-by-size and banners-by-url.
  2259. - Fixed crashes and possible action file corruptions
  2260. when lines containing hashes are written through the CGI editor.
  2261. - Supports dynamic filters which can contain variables.
  2262. - Supports tags to change the actions based on client or server headers.
  2263. - Incorrect actions are logged before program termination.
  2264. - The "actionsfile" syntax in the configuration file is consistent
  2265. with the rest of the configuration options and requires the
  2266. whole file name. This is an incompatible change, if you use
  2267. an old configuration file you might have to append ".action"
  2268. to your "actionsfile" directives.
  2269. - With the configuration file option "enforce-blocks" the
  2270. "go there anyway" mechanism can be disabled without recompiling
  2271. Privoxy.
  2272. - More precise error messages in case of incorrect acl syntax.
  2273. - Logs a warning if filtering is enabled but impossible due
  2274. to lack of zlib support or use of the prevent-compression action.
  2275. - Less noisy handling of Cookie:" and "Connection:" headers.
  2276. - Improved error messages in case of connection problems.
  2277. - Fix a command-line-parsing bug that was introduced before 3.0.5
  2278. beta and caused Privoxy to treat the last argument as configuration
  2279. file if no configuration file was specified.
  2280. - Treat unknown command line options as fatal errors instead
  2281. of silently ignoring them.
  2282. - Use string functions with length checks more often.
  2283. - Don't log CONNECT requests twice.
  2284. - Allow to log the source address for ACL-related connection drops.
  2285. - Don't ignore applying filters if the server didn't
  2286. specify a Content-Type. Bug reported by Amuro Namie.
  2287. - Rejected CONNECT requests are logged with log level info
  2288. (enabled by default) and the reason for the block.
  2289. - New command line option "--pre-chroot-nslookup hostname" to
  2290. intialize the resolver library before chroot'ing. On some systems this
  2291. reduces the number of files that must be copied into the chroot tree.
  2292. (Patch provided by Stephen Gildea)
  2293. - Fix a long-standing memory corruption bug that could cause
  2294. Privoxy to overwrite a single byte in memory it didn't explicitly
  2295. allocate (but that probably was allocated anyway due to bucket size).
  2296. - Send template-based CGI pages as HTTP/1.1 unless the client
  2297. asked for HTTP/1.0.
  2298. - Let the first line in connection established responses
  2299. end in \r\n as required by RFC1945. Reported by Bert van Leeuwen.
  2300. - If no log file has been specified, disable logging instead of logging
  2301. to stderr.
  2302. - Don't block stderr when in daemon mode.
  2303. - Ignore missing zero-chunks when filtering chunk-encoded content.
  2304. Earlier Privoxy versions would buffer and then forward the content
  2305. unmodified which caused some browsers to simply show empty pages.
  2306. - Fix double free in cgi_edit_actions_list(). Reported by Venustech AD-LAB.
  2307. - The code to add X-Forwarded-For headers when the hide-forwarded-for-headers
  2308. action isn't being used has been removed.
  2309. - Fixed trustfile feature which previously didn't work without FEATURE_TOGGLE.
  2310. Reported by Lee.
  2311. - Minor code clean-ups, filter and action file updates.
  2312. (Some of them reported by Davide Alberani, Markus Elfring,
  2313. Stefan Huehner and Adam Piggott)
  2314. *** Version 3.0.6 ***
  2315. - New content filters: no-ping, google, msn, yahoo and blogspot.
  2316. - New header filters: x-httpd-php-to-html, html-to-xml, xml-to-html
  2317. and hide-tor-exit-notation.
  2318. - The special header "X-Filter: No" now disables header filtering as well.
  2319. - Improved the filters img-reorder, js-annoyances, webbugs,
  2320. banners-by-size, banners-by-link and ie-exploits to make them
  2321. less likely to break anything.
  2322. - Removed outdated URL patterns in default.action and added new ones.
  2323. - Added redirection from http://p.p/user-manual to http://p.p/user-manual/
  2324. - Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent, hide-referrer
  2325. and set-image-blocker.
  2326. *** Version 3.0.5 beta ***
  2327. - Windows version can be installed/started as a service.
  2328. - Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy.
  2329. - Integrated Fabian Keil's extensive patch. See:
  2330. http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the
  2331. following new or significantly improved actions (among many
  2332. other improvements):
  2333. content-type-overwrite{}
  2334. crunch-client-header{string}
  2335. crunch-if-none-match
  2336. crunch-server-header{string}
  2337. fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}
  2338. filter-client-headers
  2339. filter-server-headers
  2340. force-text-mode
  2341. handle-as-empty-document
  2342. hide-accept-language{}
  2343. hide-content-disposition{}
  2344. hide-if-modified-since
  2345. hide-referrer{conditional-block}
  2346. overwrite-last-modified{}
  2347. redirect{URL}
  2348. treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks
  2349. - Standard-compliant clients are prevented from displaying cached
  2350. copies of Privoxy's error messages after the cause of the problem
  2351. has gone.
  2352. - Improved DNS error handling.
  2353. - Multiple filter files can now be specified in config.
  2354. - Added jpeg filtering to defend against MS jpeg vulnerability MS04-028
  2355. with the new inspect-jpegs action.
  2356. - Removed the "arbitrary" 1000 filter limit - addresses tracker #911950
  2357. - Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log
  2358. file. The race condition remains for non-pthread implementations.
  2359. Reference patch #1175720. Various other logging enhancements.
  2360. - A pile of assorted bug fixes, memory leaks, enhancements, etc.
  2361. - Moved Actions file reporting mechanism to SF tracker.
  2362. - Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and
  2363. forwarded-connect-retries.
  2364. - Trap unsupported FTP requests.
  2365. - Let text/xml be filtered.
  2366. - Numerous updates to default.action
  2367. - Increase the compiled in limit of trusted referrers from 64 to 512
  2368. (for trustfile users).
  2369. *** Version 3.0.3 ***
  2370. - Fixed yet another two memory leaks. Process growth seems stopped now.
  2371. - Further tightened security against malicious toggle-off links.
  2372. - Excluded text/plain MIME types from filtering. This fixes a
  2373. couple of client-crashing, download corruption and
  2374. Privoxy performance issues, whose root cause lies in
  2375. web servers labelling content of unknown type as text/plain.
  2376. - Assorted fixes for POSIX compliance, signal handling, graceful
  2377. termination, compiler warnings, OSX support, Win32 systray,
  2378. error logging, hostname wildcards, correct detection of NetBSD.
  2379. - Workarounds for client (iTunes etc) and server (PHP < 4.2.3) bugs
  2380. including the notorious "blank page" problem.
  2381. - Various filter improvements; most notably the unsolicited-popups
  2382. filter became less destructive
  2383. - Major revamp of the actions file
  2384. *** Version 3.0.2 ***
  2385. - Fixed two memory leaks, one serious
  2386. - Fixed bug in pcrs which could cause crashes with user-defined filters
  2387. - Fixed bug in domain name matching
  2388. - Assorted small fixes (Win32 menu, CGI URL editor, ..)
  2389. - Added basic support for the OPTIONS and TRACE http methods
  2390. - Added workaround for Bug in Mac OSX that made Privoxy crash occasionally
  2391. - Refined the default action file through >400 items of user feedback
  2392. - Filter changes:
  2393. - Assorted refinements, optimizations and fixes in the js-annoyances,
  2394. img-reorder, banners-by-size, banners-by-link, webbugs, refresh-tags,
  2395. html-annoyances, content-cookies and fun filters
  2396. - Replaced filter "popups" by choice between two modes:
  2397. - "unsolicited-popups" tries to catch only the unsolicited ones
  2398. - "all-popups" tries to kill them all (as before)
  2399. - New filter "tiny-textforms" Help those tiny or hard-wrap textareas.
  2400. - New filter "jumping-windows" that prevents windows from resizing
  2401. and moving themselves
  2402. - New filter "demoronizer" which fixes MS's abuse of std charsets
  2403. (common cases anyway).
  2404. - Replaced "nimda" with more general "ie-exploits" filter in which
  2405. all filters for exploits shall be collected
  2406. - Improved cookie logging
  2407. - Rewrote make install target. Added uninstall and install-strip
  2408. targets.
  2409. - Fixed a potential (application-level, NOT OS-level!) security
  2410. problem involving remote toggling and action file manipulation
  2411. by mailicious websites.
  2412. - Added ability to chroot (thanks to Sviatoslav Sviridov)
  2413. - Added more action aliases for prehistoric action names
  2414. - Add Slackware support to Makefile.
  2415. *** Version 3.0 ***
  2416. - Fixed Windows startmenu items, log window and tray icon menus.
  2417. - Added warning for bogus install target
  2418. - Added quicktime-kioskmode filter and improved frameset-borders
  2419. - Updated default.action based on latest feedback
  2420. - New PDF doc build process
  2421. - Add a user contrib module to cvs:
  2422. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ijbswa/contrib/
  2423. *** Version 2.9.18 ***
  2424. - Added workaround for IE bug that broke CGI interface
  2425. - Bugfix: String actions now reliably editable through CGI interface
  2426. - Three filters fixed (again!)
  2427. - Assorted small fixes and doc enhancements
  2428. *** Version 2.9.16 ***
  2429. - Major revamp of default.action to get rid of years of cruft.
  2430. - Same for default.filter
  2431. - Re-design and major improvements to the CGI editor interface.
  2432. - Address spurious 'out of memory' error due to incorrect file permissions.
  2433. - Impose buffer limits while reading client and server headers.
  2434. - Better memory and CPU optimization.
  2435. - Add Conectiva Linux package.
  2436. - user-manual directive added to config for help links from within CGI
  2437. editor.
  2438. - Multiple actions files can now be specified in config.
  2439. - Actions files are changed to: default.action, standard.action, and
  2440. user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
  2441. - The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes.
  2442. *** Version 2.9.14 beta ***
  2443. - Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
  2444. - Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
  2445. - Fix build failure where certain features were disabled.
  2446. - 'blocked-compact' template is removed. Various CGI improvements,
  2447. including an adaptive 'blocked' template.
  2448. - Various tweaks for actions file to get ready for stable 3.0
  2449. - Included a 'Bookmarklet' and PHP scripts for reporting actions file
  2450. problems via web interface at privoxy.org. Accessed via internal CGIs.
  2451. - Include cgi-style.css for templates.
  2452. - #include mechansim for common text in templates
  2453. - Various other minor fixes.
  2454. *** Version 2.9.13 beta ***
  2455. - *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
  2456. reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
  2457. - ijb.action is now default.action. re_filterfile is now
  2458. default.filter.
  2459. - http://i.j.b/ is now http://p.p/
  2460. - The 'logo' option for replacing ad iamges is removed now. 'Pattern'
  2461. (checkerboard) is now the default.
  2462. - RPM spec file make over.
  2463. *** Version 2.9.12 beta ***
  2464. - **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from
  2465. 8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
  2466. is.)
  2467. - More CGI actions editor fixes and improvements.
  2468. - Win32 command line fix ups.
  2469. - re_filterfile now has modular sections that can be activated on a
  2470. per site basis. Some new goodies there too.
  2471. - +filter now takes arguments to match FILTER sections in re_filterfile
  2472. for even more flexibility.
  2473. - Added a new image blocker option: +image-blocker{pattern}, which
  2474. displays a checkerboard patthern and scales better than the logo.
  2475. - PNG images will be used in place of GIF for JB built-in images
  2476. if configured with --enable-no-gif.
  2477. - Clean up compiler warnings (mostly).
  2478. - Improved handling of failed DNS lookups & diagnostics for failed bind
  2479. to listen socket
  2480. - Made --no-daemon mode log to tty instead of logfile.
  2481. - Various spec file and init script cleanups and improvements (Redhat and
  2482. SuSE).
  2483. - CGI Editor works on OS/2 now.
  2484. - Fix restart failure where sockets were in TIME_WAIT.
  2485. - Fixes for actions cgi editor, make sure we have right file.
  2486. - A --pidfile command line option now, in addition to --help,
  2487. --version, --no-daemon, --user and configfile. --no-daemon replaces
  2488. the former -d option and _DEBUG define. --user will drop privileges
  2489. to the specified user.
  2490. - Signal handling cleanups (*nix).
  2491. - CGI actions editor improvements and fixes.
  2492. - Error handling improvements, especially out of memory.
  2493. - Default re_filterfile fix that caused spurious IJB logos
  2494. (instead of 'blank').
  2495. - configure.in threading fixes for Solaris.
  2496. - Various other minor fixes.
  2497. *** Version 2.9.11 beta Changes ***
  2498. - Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life
  2499. of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk).
  2500. - Checks for correct header length.
  2501. - Fix user:pass@host.domain.com auth bug.
  2502. - Better signal handling on *nix.
  2503. - Fix CFLAGS hard-coded in configure.in
  2504. - Fix threading bug re: gethostbyname() that caused random
  2505. URLs to fail in some cases.
  2506. *** Version 2.9.11 Alpha Changes ***
  2507. - A web-based editor for the actions file is included (go to http://i.j.b/).
  2508. - Web-based toggle IJB on/off support.
  2509. - Cookie handling has changed - the new +no-cookies-keep feature is now the
  2510. default.
  2511. - actionsfile is renamed to ijb.action.
  2512. - junkbstr.txt is now config.txt on Win32.
  2513. - Support for running IJB as a UNIX daemon process has improved.
  2514. - Unix daemon now returns error code on failed start.
  2515. - Timestamps in logfile and jarfile now.
  2516. - Fix for the Netscape bug reintroduced in 2.9.9.
  2517. - make should now abort if gmake (GNU make) not present.
  2518. - Many other minor bugfixes
  2519. - Start a ChangeLog :)
  2520. *** Version 2.9.3 pre-Alpha Changes ***
  2521. - Amiga support (completely untested by me - I don't have an Amiga)
  2522. - "tinygif 3" support (redirects blocked images to a specified URL, so
  2523. the browser doesn't have to load and cache many copies of the same
  2524. image).
  2525. - one case where there were both local and global "referrer" variables
  2526. (yuck!) clarified by renaming the local one to "refer".
  2527. - Fixed some places where close() was used instead of close_socket().
  2528. Thanks to Jörg Strohmayer (joergs at users.sourceforge.net) for these.
  2529. - Temporary hack to get FORCE_LOAD to work with IE. I just lowercased the
  2530. FORCE_LOAD_PREFIX. Needs fixing properly.
  2531. - Most URLs hardcoded into Junkbuster were changed to go through a script
  2532. e.g. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?v=2.9.3&to=faq
  2533. The only other URLs left are the GNU GPL:
  2534. http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
  2535. and the home page:
  2536. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/
  2537. ... and various URLs which will be intercepted by Junkbuster anyway.
  2538. TODO: Still need to do something with the URLs in Junkbuster Corp's
  2539. copyright/trademark notice on the bottom of the show-proxy-args page.
  2540. - PCRE or GNU Regex is now a #define option.
  2541. *** Version 2.9.2 pre-Alpha Changes ***
  2542. - Andreas applied the latest version of the FORCE patch.
  2543. *** Version 2.9.1 pre-Alpha Changes ***
  2544. - in parsers.c, fixed two #ifdef FORCE to #ifdef FORCE_LOAD
  2545. (BTW: I think FORCE is precise enough, since loading remote
  2546. data is the whole purpose of a proxy..)
  2547. - Set the FORCE_PREFIX (back) to 'IJB-FORCE-LOAD-'. While 'noijb.'
  2548. is more elegant and looks like a hostname in the URL, it doesn't
  2549. make clear to the inexperienced user that the proxy is bypassed. It
  2550. also has a higher name collision risk.
  2551. - Filled in the function header templates for my functions in
  2552. parsers.c (again). They obviously got lost in our current
  2553. patch war ;-)
  2554. - Cut the credit for the §-referrer-option from the config file,
  2555. that Stefan had placed there.
  2556. - Improved the re_filterfile
  2557. *** Version 2.9.0 pre-Alpha Changes ***
  2558. - Now use PCRE, not GNU REGEX. I have not yet had chance to check the
  2559. syntax of the block/image/cookie file to ensure that they match what
  2560. is expected - however they seem to work.
  2561. - Replaced "configure" script with one generated by "autoconf". Also
  2562. use a header "config.h" (was ijbconfig.h in my previous release) for
  2563. the #defines. "config.h" is now generated with "autoheader" from
  2564. "acconfig.h" and "configure.in". (Note that to install you do not
  2565. need autoconf or autoheader - just run "./configure".)
  2566. To see command-line options, run "./configure --help".
  2567. This is my first ever autoconf script, so it has some rough edges
  2568. (how PCRE is handled is the roughest).
  2569. - Error logging code replaced with new module errlog.c, based on the
  2570. one from JunkbusterMT (but with the threading code removed).
  2571. - Most of Rodney's 0.21 and 0.21A patches applied. (Marked *). I did not
  2572. apply all of these, since I had already independently done conditional
  2573. popup file, conditional image file, and integration of popup code.
  2574. - ACL, Jar and trust files conditionally compiled.
  2575. - New source file headers.
  2576. - Various cosmetic changes. (But I have not consistently ordered the
  2577. config files - I think that's worthwhile, but it's 1am and I want to
  2578. get this released!)
  2579. - RCS tags on .h files.
  2580. - RCS tags are const char[] rather than const char *. (Saves 4 bytes
  2581. per tag ;-)
  2582. - VC++ project files renamed to vc_junkbuster.*.
  2583. - show-proxy-args now shows status of all conditionals, not just REGEX
  2584. - Various functions moved around. Most notably all the system-specific
  2585. sockets code which was spread between jcc.c, bind.c, and connect.c,
  2586. has been moved to "jbsockets.c". The non-system-specific code from
  2587. connect.c and socks4.c has been movet to "gateway.c". Also, the
  2588. config file loader and the global variables it writes to have been
  2589. moved to "loadcfg.c". (Maybe this should go into loaders.c?)
  2590. And candidate for the "worst filename ever" award is "miscutil.c",
  2591. which contains, well, miscellaneous utility functions like zalloc.
  2592. (Suggestions for a better name for this file are welcome!)
  2593. - Loaders now use a common function to read a line and skip comments,
  2594. and this function also stores the proxy_args.
  2595. - Added ./junkbuster --help (Not for Win32 GUI)
  2596. - Added ./junkbuster --version (Not for Win32 GUI)
  2597. - Win32 resources are now all marked as "U.S. English", rather than
  2598. being a mix of "U.S. English", "U.K. English" and "Irish English".
  2599. - Version number changes to 2.9.0
  2600. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  2601. Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2020 the
  2602. Privoxy team. https://www.privoxy.org/
  2603. Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
  2604. by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
  2605. Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com/
  2606. This program is free software; you can redistribute it
  2607. and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
  2608. Public License as published by the Free Software
  2609. Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
  2610. your option) any later version.
  2611. This program is distributed in the hope that it will
  2612. be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
  2613. implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
  2614. PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
  2615. License for more details.
  2616. The GNU General Public License should be included with
  2617. this file. If not, you can view it at
  2618. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
  2619. or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59
  2620. Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.