[Privoxy-users] Announcing Privoxy 3.0.29 stable
Haroon
haroon at shawwal.duckdns.org
Sat Dec 19 14:07:50 UTC 2020
Has anyone been able to build on Debian Wheezy? I get this error while
compiling:
Enabling connection-sharing support.
./configure: 4586: ./configure: Syntax error: word unexpected
(expecting ")")
On Nov 29, 2020, at 5:38 PM, Fabian Keil wrote:
> Announcing Privoxy 3.0.29 stable
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Privoxy 3.0.29 stable fixes a couple of memory leaks and introduces
> https inspection which allows to filter encrypted requests and
> responses.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> ChangeLog for Privoxy 3.0.29
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> - Security/Reliability:
> - Fixed memory leaks when a response is buffered and the buffer
> limit is reached or Privoxy is running out of memory.
> Commits bbd53f1010b and 4490d451f9b. OVE-20201118-0001.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Fixed a memory leak in the show-status CGI handler when
> no action files are configured. Commit c62254a686.
> OVE-20201118-0002.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Fixed a memory leak in the show-status CGI handler when
> no filter files are configured. Commit 1b1370f7a8a.
> OVE-20201118-0003.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Fixes a memory leak when client tags are active.
> Commit 245e1cf32. OVE-20201118-0004.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Fixed a memory leak if multiple filters are executed
> and the last one is skipped due to a pcre error.
> Commit 5cfb7bc8fe. OVE-20201118-0005.
> - Prevent an unlikely dereference of a NULL-pointer that
> could result in a crash if accept-intercepted-requests
> was enabled, Privoxy failed to get the request destination
> from the Host header and a memory allocation failed.
> Commit 7530132349. CID 267165. OVE-20201118-0006.
> - Fixed memory leaks in the client-tags CGI handler when
> client tags are configured and memory allocations fail.
> Commit cf5640eb2a. CID 267168. OVE-20201118-0007.
> - Fixed memory leaks in the show-status CGI handler when memory
> allocations fail. Commit 064eac5fd0 and commit fdee85c0bf3.
> CID 305233. OVE-20201118-0008.
>
> - General improvements:
> - Added experimental https inspection support which allows to filter
> https traffic. To enable it, install MbedTLS and configure with
> --with-mbedtls, or install OpenSSL or LibreSSL and configure
> with --with-openssl.
> Afterwards configure the directives in section 7 of the
> config file and enable the +https-inspection action.
> Initial MbedTLS-based code contributed by Vaclav Svec,
> initial OpenSSL support contributed by Maxim Antonov.
> With help from Nedzad Hrnjica and Ho+ Ho+ Ho+.
> Integration and improvements sponsored by Robert Klemme.
> - pcrs: Request JIT compilation if it's supported and
> the filter isn't dynamic. This can speed up filtering.
> - Added support for Brotli decompression.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Added FEATURE_EXTENDED_STATISTICS to gather statistics for
> block reasons and filter executions. To enable it, configure
> with --enable-extended-statistics and visit
> http://config.privoxy.org/show-status.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Use the IP_FREEBIND socket option, if defined. This allows
> Privoxy to bind to not-yet assigned IP addresses which is
> useful in failover environments.
> Patch by Sam Varshavchik.
> - Allow to use extended host patterns and vanilla host patterns
> at the same time by prefixing extended host patterns with
> "PCRE-HOST-PATTERN:". To enable this, configure with
> --enable-pcre-host-patterns.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Added "Cross-origin resource sharing" (CORS) support.
> This allows to access Privoxy's CGI interface via JavaScript from
> another domain (white-listed with the new cors-allowed-origin
> directive).
> Based on a patch by Nedzad Hrnjica.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme.
> - Add SOCKS5 username/password support.
> Based on a patch by Sam, improved by Ivan Romanov.
> Closes Patch#141 and solves TODO#105.
> - Bump the maximum number of action and filter files
> to 100 each.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Fixed handling of filters with "split-large-forms 1"
> when using the CGI editor.
> Reported by withoutname in #921.
> - Better detect a mismatch of connection details when
> figuring out whether or not a connection can be reused.
> - Don't send a "Connection failure" message instead of the
> "DNS failure" message.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Let LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST log all requests. Previously unencrypted
> requests were only logged with LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST when they weren't
> crunched (in which case they were logged with LOG_LEVEL_CRUNCH).
> This was documented behaviour, but logging all requests seems
> more useful.
> - Fixed locking around localtime() and gmtime().
> - Removed OS/2 support. We haven't provided OS/2 packages in years,
> it complicated the code and it depended on a fallback snprintf()
> implementation which is GPLv2 only.
> - Remove the fallback snprintf() implementation
> Now that OS/2 support is gone we no longer need it.
> - Fixed a bunch of format specifiers log messages.
> - Added a missing apostrophe in the 'More Privoxy' menu.
> - Explicitly prevent use of FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING
> without FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE. It makes no sense
> and does not compile anyway.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Fix build without FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Downgrade the 'Graceful termination requested' message
> to LOG_LEVEL_INFO as it isn't an error.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - decompress_iob(): Downgrade the no-content message to
> LOG_LEVEL_RE_FILTER
> While at it, fix a typo in a comment.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Fixed a couple of cppcheck warnings.
> - Rename LOG_LEVEL_GPC to LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST.
> Only the shadow knows what "GPC" is supposed to stand for.
> - Remove SourceForge references in copyright headers.
> - Upgrade a bunch of links to the homepage to https://.
> - Add 'no-brotli-accepted' filter which prevents the
> use of Brotli compression.
> - Changed license for pcrs to GPLv2+ after getting the
> permission from Andreas. This allows to redistribute
> Privoxy under the GPLv3 which is required when linking
> to future mbedTLS versions which are expected to be
> licensed under the Apache 2.0 license only.
> - Updated a bunch of tests that have to expect status code 403
> now after r1.168/070e904afa5.
> - Lowercase the host name in the request line.
> - Only set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH if it's not already set so
> distributions can overwrite it through the environment.
>
> - Documentation changes:
> - Explain that Privoxy has to be distributed under the
> GPLv3 (or later) when linked with an MbedTLS version
> that is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
> - Import the GNU GPLv3 and include it the user manual.
> - Clarify FEATURE_FORCE_LOAD's description. It allows to bypass
> blocking not filtering and only does it if blocks aren't enforced.
> Reported by: Robert Klemme
> - FAQ: Remove Zwiebelfreunde e.V. from the list of fiduciary sponsors
> As of 2021 they no longer handle donations for foreign
> organisations
> due to lack of resources.
> - FAQ: Remove an obsolete comment with a link to the long-gone PDF
> manual.
> - FAQ: Add a link to the TODO list.
> - FAQ: Change the sponsor amounts to USD slightly rounding the
> converted amounts up to get simple numbers.
> Receiving USD is apparently easier for SPI and SPI is
> preferred by sponsors as they can send invoices.
> - Advertise the client-tags CGI page in the user manual.
> - Stop advertising the show-version CGI page which no longer exists.
> - Add yet another reason why +prevent-compression may cause problems.
> - Don't claim that contributors need ssh. It's only needed for
> committers.
> - Replace obsolete CVS instructions with Git instructions.
> - Remove an obsolete comment
>
> - Config file changes:
> - Change the suggested default-server-timeout to 5 to match the
> suggested keep-alive-timeout. Otherwise using the defaults would
> result in Privoxy reducing the default-server-timeout and logging
> an error message.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Update the 'debug 1' description.
> - Add a missing 'client-specific-tag' directive.
> - Comment out trusted-cgi-referer pointing to example.org.
>
> - Action file improvements:
> - Block requests to /(.*/)?piwik\.php
> - Block requests to .connectaserver.de/
> - Block requests to pixel.inforsea.com/
> - Block requests to t.vi-serve.com/
> - Block requests to .ioam.de/
> - Block requests to t.9gag.com/img.gif
> - Block requests to .pixel.parsely.com/ as image
> - Block requests to pixel.wp.com/
> - Disable fast-redirects for .librarything.com/
> - Disable fast-redirects for issue.freebsdfoundation.org/
> - Disable fast-redirects for .twitter.com/.*origin=http
> - Unblock belco24.de/
> - Add fast-redirects exception for .wikipedia.org/
> - Add fast-redirects exception for oss-fuzz.com/
> - Disable fast-redirects for .consensu.org/delivery/pixel\.php
> and block the requests as image instead
> - Unblock .adbinstaller.com/
> Reported by lvm in #942.
> - Unblock .adbshell.com
> Reported by lvm in #942.
> - Unblock .tagesschau.de/
> - Disable fast-redirects for collector.githubapp.com/
> and block requests to it as image instead
> - Unblock 'ada*.'
> - Add fast-redirects{} exception for sourcepoint.vice.com/
> - Unblock adaway.org/
> Reported by DRS David Soft in AF#945.
> - Change two block reasons that previously were the same.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Added a +delay-response{} test.
> - Updated the location of the development version
> of default.action.master.
>
> - Privoxy-Log-Parser:
> - Added a --keep-date option to keep the date in highlighted
> messages.
> - Highlight new log messages.
> - Make gather_loglevel_clf_stats() more tolerant. While at it,
> count all CLF messages as requests, even if the request is invalid.
> - Only show HTTP version distribution if at least one version has
> been detected.
> - Only show crunch statistics if crunches were detected.
> - Warn if the request counts differ.
> - Generate statistics if the log only contains LOG_LEVEL_CLF messages
> so it can be used with vanilla webserver logs.
> Previously Privoxy-specific "Request:" messages were required.
> - Align the client-HTTP-version distribution like other distributions
> - Bump version to 0.9.1
> - Include status code distribution in the stats.
> - Let the statistics include the size of the content Privoxy
> transferred excluding HTTP headers.
> - Get with the program and expect all requests to be logged with
> LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST.
> It's no longer necessary to count both LOG_LEVEL_REQUEST and
> LOG_LEVEL_CRUNCH messages to get the total number of requests.
> - Leverage the LOG_LEVEL_CLF message to gather statistics that where
> previously taken from LOG_LEVEL_HEADER lines. This results in less
> confusing results if https inspection is enabled in which case
> there
> are two LOG_LEVEL_HEADER lines with request lines.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Properly highlight the filter results message. Previously a brace
> got lost.
> - Prefer the number of CLF lines to get the total number of requests
> as it works with older Privoxy versions as well.
>
> - Privoxy-Regression-Test:
> - Turn curl's globbing mode off so we can allow more characters in
> URLs.
> - Allow '[' and ']' in URLs.
> - Include the action file when complaining about missing Sticky
> Actions.
> - Fix a sentence in the documentation.
> - Bump version to 0.7.1
>
> - url-pattern-translator:
> - Detect a couple of pattern prefixes case-insensitively.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Skip CLIENT-TAG patterns.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Skip patterns that have already been converted.
> It should now be safe to "convert" a file multiple times.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
> - Add the new 'PCRE-HOST-PATTERN:' prefix.
> Sponsored by: Robert Klemme
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> About Privoxy:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering
> capabilities for
> enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers,
> controlling
> access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy
> has a
> flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual
> needs and
> tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user
> networks.
>
> Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.
>
> Our TODO list is rather long. Helping hands and donations are welcome:
>
> * https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE
>
> * https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
>
> At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows 95 and later versions
> (98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 etc.), GNU/Linux (RedHat, SuSE,
> Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware and others), Mac OS X (10.4 and
> upwards on PPC and Intel processors), Haiku, DragonFly, ElectroBSD,
> FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and various other flavors of Unix.
>
> In addition to the core features of ad blocking and cookie management,
> Privoxy provides many supplemental features, that give the end-user
> more control, more privacy and more freedom:
>
> * Supports "Connection: keep-alive". Outgoing connections can be
> kept
> alive independently from the client. Currently not available on
> all
> platforms.
>
> * Supports IPv6, provided the operating system does so too,
> and the configure script detects it.
>
> * Supports tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on
> client
> and server headers.
>
> * Supports https inspection which allows to filter https requests.
>
> * Can be run as an "intercepting" proxy, which obviates the need to
> configure browsers individually.
>
> * Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both server and
> client headers.
>
> * Can be chained with other proxies.
>
> * Integrated browser based configuration and control utility at
> http://config.privoxy.org/ (shortcut: http://p.p/). Browser-based
> tracing of rule and filter effects. Remote toggling.
>
> * Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on
> size,
> invisible "web-bugs" and HTML annoyances, etc.)
>
> * Modularized configuration that allows for standard settings and
> user
> settings to reside in separate files, so that installing updated
> actions
> files won't overwrite individual user settings.
>
> * Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the
> configuration
> files, and a more sophisticated and flexible configuration syntax.
>
> * GIF de-animation.
>
> * Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection).
>
> * User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages
> (e.g.
> "blocked" page).
>
> * Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes.
>
> * Most features are controllable on a per-site or per-location
> basis.
>
>
> Home Page:
> https://www.privoxy.org/
>
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