[Privoxy-devel] Release date for Privoxy 4.1.0 stable

[Fabian Keil]

Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote on 2025-12-07 at 15:20:37:

> On Sat, Dec 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM Fabian Keil via Privoxy-devel wrote:
> >
> > Lee  wrote on 2025-12-06 at 10:54:37:
> >
> > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 6:35 AM Fabian Keil via Privoxy-devel

> > > It would be nice if someone with a Windows 11 machine would build
> > > Privoxy for Windows.
> >
> > In my opinion it would be even nicer if someone would cross-build
> > Privoxy for Windows on a free operating system in a reproducible
> > fashion.
> 
> If someone else was doing the cross-build, maybe..
> You'd still need someone with a windows 11 machine to test the new
> build of privoxy.  Which isn't all that bad, but whoever is doing the
> cross-build would also have to cross-build all the libraries - which
> is a pain.  For whatever reason the brotli 1.2.0 library now requires
> 'cmake  -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=off' and I'm not at all clear about the
> zstd documentation talking about "by default the dynamic library is
> multithreaded and static library is single-threaded."  Is that going
> to be a problem for privoxy?  I dunno, but at least privoxy hasn't
> blown up yet.

My understanding is that a zstd library that has been built with
multi-threading support can be used to compress in parallel using
multiple threads.

As Privoxy currently only uses zstd for decompression it shouldn't
make a difference.

BTW, I intend to tag Privoxy 4.1.0 tomorrow, slightly behind schedule.

Fabian
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