[Privoxy-devel] Release date for Privoxy 4.2.0 stable

[Fabian Keil]

Fabian Keil via Privoxy-devel <privoxy-devel at lists.privoxy.org> wrote on 2026-05-19 at 16:49:38:

> Roland Rosenfeld <roland at spinnaker.de> wrote on 2026-05-17 at 09:15:26:

> > acl-multiple-ip-addresses-specified-without-destination was reduced to
> > two fails:
> > 
> > test 0004...[Request from client address from denied network range]
> >  
> > curl returned 52, when expecting 56
> >  4: exit FAILED
> > test 0005...[Request from client address from denied network range]
> >  
> > curl returned 52, when expecting 56
> >  5: exit FAILED
> > test 0006...[Request from client address from denied network range to destination that has an exception]
> > ---d---e--- OK (6   out of 6  , remaining: 00:00, took 0.059s, duration: 00:01)
> > TESTDONE: 6 tests were considered during 1 seconds.
> > TESTDONE: 4 tests out of 6 reported OK: 66%
> >  
> > FAIL 4: 'Request from client address from denied network range' HTTP, HTTP GET
> > FAIL 5: 'Request from client address from denied network range' HTTP, HTTP GET
> >  
> > TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 4 5
> > 
> > I didn't understand what's going wrong here, yet.
> 
> Are you maybe not testing with a curl binary based on curl-8_20_0,
> the current recommendation in tests/cts/README?
> 
> curl's exit code for the tested condition was recently changed
> upstream and I updated the expected return codes to keep the tests
> working with more recent curl versions.
> 
> For details see [0].

Never mind, I was able to reproduce the two test failures
on a GNU/Linux system and will look into it.

> > acl-permit-access-with-exceptions fails on only one test:
> > test 0004...[Request from client address from denied network range]
[...]
> > Okay, this test expects, that no server is listening on 127.0.0.1:80,
> > which isn't true on my development machine.  If I stop apache2, the
> > test succeeds :-)
> 
> Looks like the test is flawed. I will look into it.

The test should work more reliably now [0].

Fabian

[0]: <https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=commitdiff;h=669b9ffa988d8eb771dc46b9eb5c891795f8950b>
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