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>               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/
>
>  - Privoxy Developers <privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org>

               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


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About Privoxy:
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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/

  - Privoxy Developers <privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org>

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