Announcing Privoxy 3.0.18 stable - Windows binaries
Lee <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:19:58 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.privoxy.devel,gmane.comp.web.privoxy.announce,gmane.comp.web.privoxy.user |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <CAD8GWssTwot4SvF5jhB6O8C-H6N+WMOnxL_r3bd4sFD7DmfbWw@mail.gmail.com> |
The Windows binaries for Privoxy 3.0.18 have been uploaded to SourceForge. For those that actually check signatures, my old key has expired & the new one used to sign the 3.0.18 Windows packages is -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) mQGiBE7JVpARBADuwrK71EUtEHTE3ieZFGAhf7eambV4j52zGiWW58Q6+77hlCc9 5zRSVoC/r+hwEZ6XodI6TVM3CaSibBmUfzXOwGF616WCsbp4jvEZ0ILWOAGSbSAW REXNx3c/DJfAywbpPzA0DpOcc4SanUEAwvj5Ar6zhrChsuAnTgGYNEf1ZwCgz+2n bvDvzuYux3NaoOxtoa+YPn8D/RsrSTS79BWHuaiQlm61Jy2X/NratLsHDDaVXIRi 7mSH/utZK/y0y8G4yHTwdiXw/a4f/lyKrXgDLe5nnRO7sXjIUGTBz0xuVtA8FwDr DOT1F5zz+1p5qmGPO/BxoI1TMB276PsD90dPo3ZZxzSHMV5jEUFpHmw9Bf3VeXND KOQYA/91mkt7pT/B7tePR4r3GbYdWHEfzYk00RcPQDkAZxZljjE9PV9L1At0N6Jg DI9/UmNYOMYk2cKa+AyIO9TJo9eRn02+zsXF/cnMQStsUxZLP5425wAjCj4oQYAo TSy+UVzR4jJC5Kt4LeGjuKPhZ79tkOPfb41J0bp9Cj3HDChOVrQITGVlIFJpYW6I ZgQTEQIAJgUCTslWkAIbAwUJAeEzgAYLCQgHAwIEFQIIAwQWAgMBAh4BAheAAAoJ EA+vJkIMM3rumo4Anjlt9uzlu/qTaKE1vrDmTQ74+pVzAKCmT07XJd9yqRqp5ecV r3OITPpa3LkCDQROyVaQEAgAtDWuOmdYBT9ZdaqoGSHW4nRVuMZND0pRT7R3xTMJ laCvzZHRft2CSwxjosX7Q4xhDdvOOIIR09Bz3VWh8LY6vK6+kyTHMOQuEp49XIiN GE18cNvfL5n4bo0NxtjxcHV+CdJiHq+usifGpZOnhAqGu9K2xPsvHopk33k18oCq 33XziTeQg14/bD3VRlDop6SD94MLIxv/cICwV0fJcfM/r5+SXxGYYxF5ibPQAzZm hmPIiPVc4HcnL+CDgkqm7KY9z0Tv+mbmU+hKOYsdbPu80caGo9OKSzuczjZNl4L5 9L+iqKAG0lnLeYBH8aCxp4kyWiJbJxPSgqe8v6fZsfx8vwAFEQgAowcNdrXM6Ipe 8u9FffJGGfmuAthcZDw//2gx0k86+Pxq6P4dQ4tTdl4vO41jYbKDnj4rohHClBT3 hlY14qfqyUQG4V2LAR0JPDXdA7Z20TZsikWLyvmPa2MV+7kXbyU2MZFQJbRys8Ad zsN+ZJ64CPBGRdZRNtFHGxYm/9IPWWvec3t3SJPsw8huLI7RFvZUVNQfqsSEyXK8 QTPS3RGFLuG+wcLLbyyhkEhaJ0RXI7DtCFtJoF3wvL93bfRDCSoLKXCg3R36l7Ct 2tUHAzRB8aR36Md6IUJsm+EZ5/8c7MaYfWxnpLBCa17EMR7r6OKNHZUUXx+X99pH sLtakAMVhohPBBgRAgAPBQJOyVaQAhsMBQkB4TOAAAoJEA+vJkIMM3ruPVwAoMpS oym5gG+D4RsdQA7zGgAO3xl2AJ4wFJFg+zMlTU4y4j7lLk/KW8lEpQ== =SdJM -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Lee On 11/20/11, Fabian Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.18 stable > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This is mainly a bug-fix release for the previously released > Privoxy 3.0.17. One of the fixes addresses a security issue. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > ChangeLog for Privoxy > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > *** Version 3.0.18 stable *** > > - Bug fixes: > - If a generated redirect URL contains characters RFC 3986 doesn't > permit, they are (re)encoded. Not doing this makes Privoxy versions > from 3.0.5 to 3.0.17 susceptible to HTTP response splitting (CWE-113) > attacks if the +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action is used. > - Fix a logic bug that could cause Privoxy to reuse a server > socket after it got tainted by a server-header-tagger-induced > block that was triggered before the whole server response had > been read. If keep-alive was enabled and the request following > the blocked one was to the same host and using the same forwarding > settings, Privoxy would send it on the tainted server socket. > While the server would simply treat it as a pipelined request, > Privoxy would later on fail to properly parse the server's > response as it would try to parse the unread data from the > first response as server headers for the second one. > Regression introduced in 3.0.17. > - When implying keep-alive in client_connection(), remember that > the client didn't. Fixes a regression introduced in 3.0.13 that > would cause Privoxy to wait for additional client requests after > receiving a HTTP/1.1 request with "Connection: close" set > and connection sharing enabled. > With clients which terminates the client connection after detecting > that the whole body has been received it doesn't really matter, > but with clients that don't the connection would be kept open until > it timed out. > - Fix a subtle race condition between prepare_csp_for_next_request() > and sweep(). A thread preparing itself for the next client request > could briefly appear to be inactive. > If all other threads were already using more recent files, > the thread could get its files swept away under its feet. > So far this has only been reproduced while stress testing in > valgrind while touching action files in a loop. It's unlikely > to have caused any actual problems in the real world. > - Disable filters if SDCH compression is used unless filtering is forced. > If SDCH was combined with a supported compression algorithm, Privoxy > previously could try to decompress it and ditch the Content-Encoding > header even though the SDCH compression wasn't dealt with. > Reported by zebul666 in #3225863. > - Make a copy of the --user value and only mess with that when splitting > user and group. On some operating systems modifying the value directly > is reflected in the output of ps and friends and can be misleading. > Reported by zepard in #3292710. > - If forwarded-connect-retries is set, only retry if Privoxy is actually > forwarding the request. Previously direct connections would be retried > as well. > - Fixed a small memory leak when retrying connections with IPv6 > support enabled. > - Remove an incorrect assertion in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list() > It could be triggered by a pcrs job with an invalid pcre > pattern (for example one that contains a lone quantifier). > - If the --user argument user[.group] contains a dot, always bail out > if no group has been specified. Previously the intended, but > undocumented > (and apparently untested), behaviour was to try interpreting the whole > argument as user name, but the detection was flawed and checked for '0' > instead of '\0', thus merely preventing group names beginning with a > zero. > - In html_code_map[], use a numeric character reference instead of ' > which wasn't standardized before XHTML 1.0. > - Fix an invalid free when compiled with FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION > and shut down through http://config.privoxy.org/die > - In get_actions(), fix the "temporary" backwards compatibility hack > to accept block actions without reason. > It also covered other actions that should be rejected as invalid. > Reported by Billy Crook. > > - General improvements: > - Privoxy can (re)compress buffered content before delivering > it to the client. Disabled by default as most users wouldn't > benefit from it. > - The +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action checks URL > segments separately. If there are other parameters behind > the redirect URL, this makes it unnecessary to cut them off > by additionally using a +redirect{} pcrs command. > Initial patch submitted by Jamie Zawinski in #3429848. > - When loading action sections, verify that the referenced filters > exist. Currently missing filters only result in an error message, > but eventually the severity will be upgraded to fatal. > - Allow to bind to multiple separate addresses. > Patch set submitted by Petr Pisar in #3354485. > - Set socket_error to errno if connecting fails in rfc2553_connect_to(). > Previously rejected direct connections could be incorrectly reported > as DNS issues if Privoxy was compiled with IPv6 support. > - Adjust url_code_map[] so spaces are replaced with %20 instead of '+' > While '+' can be used by client's submitting form data, this is not > actually what Privoxy is using the lookups for. This is more of a > cosmetic issue and doesn't fix any known problems. > - When compiled without FEATURE_FAST_REDIRECTS, do not silently > ignore +fast-redirect{} directives > - Added a workaround for GNU libc's strptime() reporting negative > year values when the parsed year is only specified with two digits. > On affected systems cookies with such a date would not be turned > into session cookies by the +session-cookies-only action. > Reported by Vaeinoe in #3403560 > - Fixed bind failures with certain GNU libc versions if no non-loopback > IP address has been configured on the system. This is mainly an issue > if the system is using DHCP and Privoxy is started before the network > is completely configured. > Reported by Raphael Marichez in #3349356. > Additional insight from Petr Pisar. > - Privoxy log messages now use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d. > It's only slightly longer than the old format, but contains > the full date including the year and allows sorting by date > (when grepping in multiple log files) without hassle. > - In get_last_url(), do not bother trying to decode URLs that do > not contain at least one '%' sign. It reduces the log noise and > a number of unnecessary memory allocations. > - In case of SOCKS5 failures, dump the socks response in the log message. > - Simplify the signal setup in main(). > - Streamline socks5_connect() slightly. > - In socks5_connect(), require a complete socks response from the server. > Previously Privoxy didn't care how much data the server response > contained as long as the first two bytes contained the expected > values. While at it, shrink the buffer size so Privoxy can't read > more than a whole socks response. > - In chat(), do not bother to generate a client request in case of > direct CONNECT requests. It will not be used anyway. > - Reduce server_last_modified()'s stack size. > - Shorten get_http_time() by using strftime(). > - Constify the known_http_methods pointers in unknown_method(). > - Constify the time_formats pointers in parse_header_time(). > - Constify the formerly_valid_actions pointers in > action_used_to_be_valid(). > - Introduce a GNUMakefile MAN_PAGE variable that defaults to privoxy.1. > The Debian package uses section 8 for the man page and this > should simplify the patch. > - Deduplicate the INADDR_NONE definition for Solaris by moving it to > jbsockets.h > - In block_url(), ditch the obsolete workaround for ancient Netscape > versions > that supposedly couldn't properly deal with status code 403. > - Remove a useless NULL pointer check in load_trustfile(). > - Remove two useless NULL pointer checks in load_one_re_filterfile(). > - Change url_code_map[] from an array of pointers to an array of arrays > It removes an unnecessary layer of indirection and on 64bit system > reduces > the size of the binary a bit. > - Fix various typos. Fixes taken from Debian's 29_typos.dpatch by Roland > Rosenfeld. > - Add a dok-tidy GNUMakefile target to clean up the messy HTML > generated by the other dok targets. > - GNUisms in the GNUMakefile have been removed. > - Change the HTTP version in static responses to 1.1 > - Synced config.sub and config.guess with upstream > 2011-11-11/386c7218162c145f5f9e1ff7f558a3fbb66c37c5. > - Add a dedicated function to parse the values of toggles. Reduces > duplicated > code in load_config() and provides better error handling. Invalid or > missing > toggle values are now a fatal error instead of being silently ignored. > - Terminate HTML lines in static error messages with \n instead of \r\n. > - Simplify cgi_error_unknown() a bit. > - In LogPutString(), don't bother looking at pszText when not > actually logging anything. > - Change ssplit()'s fourth parameter from int to size_t. > Fixes a clang complaint. > - Add a warning that the statistics currently can't be trusted. > Mention Privoxy-Log-Parser's --statistics option as > an alternative for the time being. > - In rfc2553_connect_to(), start setting cgi->error_message on error. > - Change the expected status code returned for http://p.p/die depending > on whether or not FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION is available. > - In cgi_die(), mark the client connection for closing. > If the client will fetch the style sheet through another connection > it gets the main thread out of the accept() state and should thus > trigger the actual shutdown. > - Add a proper CGI message for cgi_die(). > - Don't enforce a logical line length limit in read_config_line(). > - Slightly refactor server_last_modified() to remove useless gmtime*() > calls. > - In get_content_type(), also recognize '.jpeg' as JPEG extension. > - Add '.png' to the list of recognized file extensions in > get_content_type(). > - In block_url(), consistently use the block reason "Request blocked by > Privoxy" > In two places the reason was "Request for blocked URL" which hides the > fact that the request got blocked by Privoxy and isn't necessarily > correct as the block may be due to tags. > - In listen_loop(), reload the configuration files after accepting > a new connection instead of before. > Previously the first connection that arrived after a configuration > change would still be handled with the old configuration. > - In chat()'s receive-data loop, skip a client socket check if > the socket will be written to right away anyway. This can > increase the transfer speed for unfiltered content on fast > network connections. > - The socket timeout is used for SOCKS negotiations as well which > previously couldn't timeout. > - Don't keep the client connection alive if any configuration file > changed since the time the connection came in. This is closer to > Privoxy's behaviour before keep-alive support for client connection > has been added and also less confusing in general. > - Treat all Content-Type header values containing the pattern > 'script' as a sign of text. Reported by pribog in #3134970. > > - Action file improvements: > - Moved the site-specific block pattern section below the one for the > generic patterns so for requests that are matched in both, the block > reason for the domain is shown which is usually more useful than showing > the one for the generic pattern. > - Remove -prevent-compression from the fragile alias. It's no longer > used anywhere by default and isn't known to break stuff anyway. > - Add a (disabled) section to block various Facebook tracking URLs. > Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421764. > - Add a (disabled) section to rewrite and redirect click-tracking > URLs used on news.google.com. > Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421755. > - Unblock linuxcounter.net/. > Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3422612. > - Block 'www91.intel.com/' which is used by Omniture. > Reported by Adam Piggott in #3167370. > - Disable the handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok option and mark it as > deprecated. > Reminded by tceverling in #2790091. > - Add ".ivwbox.de/" to the "Cross-site user tracking" section. > Reported by Nettozahler in #3172525. > - Unblock and fast-redirect ".awin1.com/.*=http://". > Reported by Adam Piggott in #3170921. > - Block "b.collective-media.net/". > - Widen the Debian popcon exception to "qa.debian.org/popcon". > Seen in Debian's 05_default_action.dpatch by Roland Rosenfeld. > - Block ".gemius.pl/" which only seems to be used for user tracking. > Reported by johnd16 in #3002731. Additional input from Lee and movax. > - Disable banners-by-size filters for '.thinkgeek.com/'. > The filter only seems to catch pictures of the inventory. > - Block requests for 'go.idmnet.bbelements.com/please/showit/'. > Reported by kacperdominik in #3372959. > - Unblock adainitiative.org/. > - Add a fast-redirects exception for '.googleusercontent.com/.*=cache'. > - Add a fast-redirects exception for webcache.googleusercontent.com/. > - Unblock http://adassier.wordpress.com/ and > http://adassier.files.wordpress.com/. > > - Filter file improvements: > - Let the yahoo filter hide '.ads'. > - Let the msn filter hide overlay ads for Facebook 'likes' in search > results and elements with the id 's_notf_div'. They only seem to be > used to advertise site 'enhancements'. > - Let the js-events filter additionally disarm setInterval(). > Suggested by dg1727 in #3423775. > > - Documentation improvements: > - Clarify the effect of compiling Privoxy with zlib support. > Suggested by dg1727 in #3423782. > - Point out that the SourceForge messaging system works like a black > hole and should thus not be used to contact individual developers. > - Mention some of the problems one can experience when not explicitly > configuring an IP addresses as listen address. > - Explicitly mention that hostnames can be used instead of IP addresses > for the listen-address, that only the first address returned will be > used and what happens if the address is invalid. > Requested by Calestyo in #3302213. > > - Log message improvements: > - If only the server connection is kept alive, do not pretend to > wait for a new client request. > - Remove a superfluous log message in forget_connection(). > - In chat(), properly report missing server responses as such > instead of calling them empty. > - In forwarded_connect(), fix a log message nobody should ever see. > - Fix a log message in socks5_connect(), a failed write operation > was logged as failed read operation. > - Let load_one_actions_file() properly complain about a missing > '{' at the beginning of the file. > Simply stating that a line is invalid isn't particularly helpful. > - Do not claim to listen on a socket until Privoxy actually does. > Patch submitted by Petr Pisar #3354485 > - Prevent a duplicated LOG_LEVEL_CLF message when sending out > the "no-server-data" response. > - Also log the client socket when dropping a connection. > - Include the destination host in the 'Request ... marked for > blocking. limit-connect{...} doesn't allow CONNECT ...' message > Patch submitted by Saperski in #3296250. > - Prevent a duplicated log message if none of the resolved IP > addresses were reachable. > - In connect_to(), do not pretend to retry if forwarded-connect-retries > is zero or unset. > - When a specified user or group can't be found, put the name in > single-quotes when logging it. > - In rfc2553_connect_to(), explain getnameinfo() errors better. > - Remove a useless log message in chat(). > - When retrying to connect, also log the maximum number of connection > attempts. > - Rephrase a log message in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list(). > Divide the error code and its meaning with a colon. Call the pcrs > job dynamic and not the filter. Filters may contain dynamic and > non-dynamic pcrs jobs at the same time. Only mention the name of > the filter or tagger, but don't claim it's a filter when it could > be a tagger. > - In a fatal error message in load_one_actions_file(), cover both > URL and TAG patterns. > - In pcrs_strerror(), properly report unknown positive error code > values as such. Previously they were handled like 0 (no error). > - In compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list(), also log the actual error code as > pcrs_strerror() doesn't handle all errors reported by pcre. > - Don't bother trying to continue chatting if the client didn't ask for > it. > Reduces log noise a bit. > - Make two fatal error message in load_one_actions_file() more > descriptive. > - In cgi_send_user_manual(), log when rejecting a file name due to '/' or > '..'. > - In load_file(), log a message if opening a file failed. > The CGI error message alone isn't too helpful. > - In connection_destination_matches(), improve two log messages > to help understand why the destinations don't match. > - Rephrase a log message in serve(). Client request arrival > should be differentiated from closed client connections now. > - In serve(), log if a client connection isn't reused due to a > configuration file change. > - Let mark_server_socket_tainted() always mark the server socket tainted, > just don't talk about it in cases where it has no effect. It doesn't > change > Privoxy's behaviour, but makes understanding the log file easier. > > - configure: > - Added a --disable-ipv6-support switch for platforms where support > is detected but doesn't actually work. > - Do not check for the existence of strerror() and memmove() twice > - Remove a useless test for setpgrp(2). Privoxy doesn't need it and > it can cause problems when cross-compiling. > - Rename the --disable-acl-files switch to --disable-acl-support. > Since about 2001, ACL directives are specified in the standard > config file. > - Update the URL of the 'Removing outdated PCRE version after the > next stable release' posting. The old URL stopped working after > one of SF's recent site "optimizations". Reported by Han Liu. > > - Privoxy-Regression-Test: > - Added --shuffle-tests option to increase the chances of detection race > conditions. > - Added a --local-test-file option that allows to use > Privoxy-Regression-Test without Privoxy. > - Added tests for missing socks4 and socks4a forwarders. > - The --privoxy-address option now works with IPv6 addresses containing > brackets, too. > - Perform limited sanity checks for parameters that are supposed to have > numerical values. > - Added a --sleep-time option to specify a number of seconds to > sleep between tests, defaults to 0. > - Disable the range-requests tagger for tests that break if it's enabled. > - Log messages use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d. > - Fix spelling in two error messages. > - In the --help output, include a list of supported tests and their > default levels. > - Adjust the tests to properly deal with FEATURE_TOGGLE being disabled. > > - Privoxy-Log-Parser: > - Perform limited sanity checks for command line parameters that > are supposed to have numerical values. > - Implement a --unbreak-lines-only option to try to revert MUA breakage. > - Accept and highlight: Added header: Content-Encoding: deflate > - Accept and highlight: Compressed content from 29258 to 8630 bytes. > - Accept and highlight: Client request arrived in time on socket 21. > - Highlight: Didn't receive data in time: a.fsdn.com:443 > - Accept log messages with ISO 8601 time stamps, too. > > - uagen: > - Bump generated Firefox version to 8.0. > - Only randomize the release date if the new --randomize-release-date > option is enabled. Firefox versions after 4 use a fixed date string > without meaning. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. > > Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI). > > Helping hands and donations are welcome: > > * http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE > > * http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE > > At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows(95, 98, ME, 2000, > XP, Vista), GNU/Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and > others), Mac OSX, OS/2, AmigaOS, 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. > > * 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 <quote>web-bugs</quote> 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. > > > Download location: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118 > > Home Page: > http://www.privoxy.org/ > > > - Privoxy Developers <[email protected]> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d