[Privoxy-devel] Release date for Privoxy 4.2.0 stable

[Fabian Keil]

Roland Rosenfeld <roland at spinnaker.de> wrote on 2026-05-19 at 21:16:51:

> On Tue, 19 May 2026, Fabian Keil via Privoxy-devel wrote:
> 
> > > > 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
> 
> > > Are you maybe not testing with a curl binary based on curl-8_20_0,
> > > the current recommendation in tests/cts/README?
> 
> At least the test output says so:
> * curl 8.20.0-DEV (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 
> * libcurl/8.20.0-DEV OpenSSL/3.5.6 zlib/1.3.1 brotli/1.1.0 zstd/1.5.7 libidn2/2.3.8 libpsl/0.21.2 nghttp2/1.64.0 OpenLDAP/2.6.10
> * Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophers http https imap imaps ipfs ipns ldap ldaps mqtt mqtts pop3 pop3s rtsp smtp smtps telnet tftp ws wss
> * Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS brotli HSTS HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Largefile libz PSL SSL threadsafe TLS-SRP UnixSockets zstd
> * Disabled: win32-ca-searchpath, win32-ca-search-safe, override-dns, ssl-sessions
> 
> > Never mind, I was able to reproduce the two test failures
> > on a GNU/Linux system and will look into it.
> 
> Great to hear.

I've reported curl's platform-specific return code upstream yesterday [0]
and hope to get a response soonish. Hopefully upstream will agree that
the return code should not depend on the platform.
 
> > > > 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].
> 
> Yes, it now works with and without apache on localhost:80.

Thanks for the confirmation.

Fabian

[0]: <https://curl.se/mail/lib-2026-05/0013.html>
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