[Privoxy-devel] Release date for Privoxy 4.2.0 stable

Ian Silvester iansilvester at fastmail.fm
Thu Apr 16 15:14:46 CEST 2026


Hi, yes, that timeline can work for me.

Ian

On Sat, 11 Apr 2026, at 09:12, Fabian Keil via Privoxy-devel wrote:
> Roland Rosenfeld <roland at spinnaker.de> wrote on 2026-04-11 at 13:12:26:
>
>> On Sat, 11 Apr 2026, Fabian Keil via Privoxy-devel wrote:
>> 
>> > I'd like to announce Privoxy 4.2.0 stable in the near future.
>> > 
>> > There are no pending security fixes so the most important
>> > change would probable be support for Elliptic-curve keys.
>> > 
>> > Would the weekend starting on 2026-05-01 work for everyone?
>> 
>> Sounds good to me.
>
> Great.
>
>> I just updated the debian directory and fixed a little bug in man
>> page, which broke rebuilding it before.
>
> Thanks.
>
> I ran into that bug today as well but apparently didn't
> push the fix in time.
>
>> But now it seems to be ready for release to me (except that I didn't
>> do much testing with it).
>
> I just pushed changes to add man pages for the Privoxy tools
> and move the Privoxy man page into a man directory. I suspect
> they may need additional updates for the debian directory.
>
> This adds a pod2man dependency which hopefully is acceptable
> for everyone. On ElectroBSD, pod2man comes with the perl package
> so it was already available.
>
> Fabian
>
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