[Privoxy-devel] Release date for Privoxy 4.2.0 stable

[Fabian Keil]

Roland Rosenfeld <roland at spinnaker.de> wrote on 2026-05-16 at 10:01:06:

> On Sat, 16 May 2026, Fabian Keil via Privoxy-devel wrote:
> 
> > > Unfortunately I noticed that some cts-based tests started
> > > to fail and didn't have time to properly look into this yet.
> > 
> > That should be sorted out.
> 
> I just tried out b7289bad0ddd1c90fba7c645746a8cfd2128300c and run into
> problems with the following tests:
> 
> acl-multiple-ip-addresses-specified-with-destination:
[...] 
> TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
[...]
> acl-multiple-ip-addresses-specified-without-destination:
[...]
> TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 2 3 4 5 6
[...]
> acl-permit-access-with-exceptions:
[...]
> TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 2 3 4 5 6
> 
> I'll have to dig deeper, I expect it to be a local issue.
> All other tests succeeded.

Thanks for checking. I admit that I did not actually test on GNU/Linux.

The tests that fail on your system have in common that they require
local IP addresses that aren't available on most systems by default
(for example 127.0.1.2 and 127.0.1.3).

There's a helper script that is supposed to check if an IP address
is available. If it isn't, the test is supposed to be skipped.

I suspect that this isn't working on your system and it's conceivable
that this is something Linux-specific and not limited to your local
system.

Do you get an error message if you run "./tests/cts/bind-to-address.pl 127.0.1.3"?

Is 127.0.1.3 available on your system and is curl allowed to use
the address when testing?

> > Therefore I propose that we do the release on the weekend
> > starting on 2026-05-30.
> 
> That's okay for me.

Great.
 
> > As usual, please let me know if you want to test and/or review
> > the security fixes before they are committed.
> 
> I'd like to prepare backports of them for Debian security to release
> them after 4.2 is published, so it would be nice to have them (if
> possible including the CVE numbers) ready early.

I should be able to send you the patches early next week after some
more local testing.

Fabian
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