[privoxy-announce] Privoxy 3.0.6 is Released

[Privoxy <ha...@us...>]

                 Announcing Privoxy v.3.0.6
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3.0.6 is a stable release which includes many significant enhancements
and new features, including a number of new actions, multiple filter
file capability, full windows service functionality, as well as
numerous bugs done away with. See
http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/whatsnew.html for details.

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ChangeLog:
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- New content filters: no-ping, google, msn, yahoo and blogspot.
- New header filters:  x-httpd-php-to-html, html-to-xml, xml-to-html
                       and hide-tor-exit-notation.
- The special header "X-Filter: No" now disables header filtering as
  well.
- Improved the filters img-reorder, js-annoyances, webbugs,
  banners-by-size, banners-by-link and ie-exploits to make them
  less likely to break anything.
- Removed outdated URL patterns in default.action and added new ones. 
- Added redirection from http://p.p/user-manual to
  http://p.p/user-manual/
- Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent,
  hide-referrer
  and set-image-blocker.
     
*** Version 3.0.5 Beta ***

- Windows version can be installed/started as a service.
- Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy.
- Integrated Fabian Keil's extensive patch.  See:
  http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy/. Includes the 
  following new or significantly improved actions (among many 
  other improvements):

     content-type-overwrite{}
     crunch-client-header{string}
     crunch-if-none-match
     crunch-server-header{string}
     fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}
     filter-client-headers
     filter-server-headers
     force-text-mode
     handle-as-empty-document
     hide-accept-language{}
     hide-content-disposition{}
     hide-if-modified-since
     hide-referrer{conditional-block}
     overwrite-last-modified{}
     redirect{URL}
     treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks

- Standard-compliant clients are prevented from displaying cached
  copies of Privoxy's error messages after the cause of the problem
  has gone.
- Improved DNS error handling.
- Multiple filter files can now be specified in config.
- Added jpeg filtering to defend against MS jpeg vulnerability
  MS04-028
  with the new inspect-jpegs action.
- Removed the "arbitrary" 1000 filter limit - addresses tracker
  #911950
- Thanks to Jindrich Makovicka for a race condition fix for the log 
  file.  The race condition remains for non-pthread implementations.
  Reference patch #1175720. Various other logging enhancements.
- A pile of assorted bug fixes, memory leaks, enhancements, etc.
- Moved Actions file reporting mechanism to SF tracker.
- Two new options for config: enable-remote-http-toggle and 
  forwarded-connect-retries.
- Trap unsupported FTP requests.
- Let text/xml be filtered.
- Numerous updates to default.action
- Increase the compiled in limit of trusted referrers from 64 to 512 
  (for trustfile users).

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About Privoxy:
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Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for
protecting privacy, modifying web page data, managing cookies,
controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other
obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible
configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs
and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems
and multi-user networks.

   
Download location: 
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118
 
Home Page: 
   http://www.privoxy.org/



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