Muffin NEWS - user-visible changes

Changes since 0.9.2:

* Automatically uncompress gzip encoded content so it can be filtered.
  This can be disabled with muffin.dontUncompress=true.

* Support for HTTP PUT.

* Support for remote configuration files.  Almost any place you can
  specify a filename you can now also use a URL.  This can be
  used for remote NoThanks killfiles, autoconfig, *.conf files, etc.

* Disable/Enable logging from the Options window.

* Added log file rotation configured using muffin.maxLogFileSize and
  muffin.maxLogFileHistory which by default are 1MB and 10.

* Automatically set user directory depending on the operating system.
  Windows will use user.dir and all others will use user.home.

* Support for executable muffin.jar.

Changes since 0.9.1:

* Fix for URLs with user@host: from Kai Engert.

* Added NoThanks killfile commands: script and header.
  script can be used to perform regexp-based pattern substitution
  on javascript code.  header can be used to perform regexp-based
  pattern substitution on HTTP headers.  See NoThanks.txt for more
  details.

* Added muffin.dontLogFilters property to disable filter logs
  in the muffin log file.

* Better Kaffe support.

* Fixed Decaf vs. slashdot bad html bug reported by Vladimir Klebanov.

Changes since 0.9:

* NoThanks frame resizes better.

* Added NoThanks killfile "options" command with support for reg-case and 
  reg-icase to turn on and off regular expression case sensitivity.
  See NoThanks.txt for more details.

* Added back Suspend/Resume of proxy service; now accessible via the
  File menu.

Changes since 0.8.1:

* New version of ImageKill filter from Heinrich Opgenoorth.

* New Translate filter from Mike Baroukh.  Translate can be
  used to implement a reverse proxy; similar to the apache
  ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse directives.

* Include dnsjava library which can be used by Muffin for
  all DNS lookups.  Nameservers are configured in the Options
  window and/or the muffin.nameservers property.

* All muffin.* preferences are now stored in ~/Muffin/muffin.props.
  muffin.* preferences found in other files will be ignored.
  Users upgrading from previous versions may want to move all
  muffin.* previous from default.conf to muffin.props to preserve
  previous settings.  Also note that the muffin.enabledFilters
  property has been renamed to FilterManager.enabledFilters.

* Support for reusable threads. 

* Added Edit menu and include Disable Filtering in File menu.

* upgraded to dnsjava-1.0.2 and gnu.regexp-1.0.8.

* Fixed -dir command line option.

Changes since 0.8:

* Upgraded to GNU regexp 1.0.7.

Changes since 0.7:

* New filter ImageKill written by Heinrich Opgenoorth.  This filter
  can block images based on their width/height ratio.

* Mac install instructions from Dave Caplinger.

* Fixed AnimationKiller bug which made netscape do bad things, like
  crash.

* Uses GNU regexp 1.0.6.

* Browser KeepAlive support is now optional.  Turning off KeepAlive
  should make Muffin appear to be faster.

* Double clicking in the Muffin progress bar display will toggle
  a normal and mini display mode -- good for saving desktop space.

* New filter NoCode written by Neil Hodgson.  This filter
  can remove Java, JavaScript, VBScript, and other languages
  such as Python and Perl.  Encoded scripts can also be removed.

* Muffin now logs all accesses in ~/Muffin/muffin.log.  This file
  uses the common log format along with some extra stuff to display
  filter results.

* Removed the Logger filter.

* Fixed the Muffin POST bug!  Thanks Jonathan Davis.

* Added --bindaddress command line option from Jonathan Davis.

* Only do DNS lookups when necessary and instead display IP addresses.
  This fixes problems with Muffin hanging doing DNS lookups.

Changes since 0.6:

* DocumentInfo can be located top/bottom, aligned left/right, and
  has a preferences window.  Custom HTML can be include before and
  after the info.

* Remote admin (http://muffinhost:51966/) now can access all muffin
  configurations.

* Muffin can now proxy SSL (https) and connect to another SSL proxy.

* Filter help text available in filter windows and remote admin.

* Fixed HTML parsing bug which converted ALT="" to ALT.

* HTTP/1.1 persistent server connections, pipelining, and "chunked"
  Transfer-Encoding support.

* Some support for HTTP/0.9.

* Better handling of <script> tags.

* New filter EmptyFont.

* Configurable foreground and background colors.

* New HttpFilter interface.  This allows a filter to act like an
  HTTP server.  These filters can generate HTTP replies as well
  as content and can intercept any HTTP request.

* New filter History.  Currently maintains a persistent history of all
  HTTP requests.  This history can be displayed with:
      http://org.doit.muffin.filter.History/
  This filter is functional but incomplete.

* Remote admin basic authentication support.

* Improved (faster) regular expression support using gnu.regexp.

* Improved option parsing support using gnu.getopt.

* Referer.allowSameDomain option.

* HostnameExpander prefix and suffix options.

* tagattr replace command supports $0..$9 substitution.

* New filter Rewrite which rewrites URLs using regular expressions.

Changes since 0.5:

* New filters: HostnameExpander and ForwardedFor.

* Proxy Keep-Alive support.

* View menu.

* Connections view.

* Content filters use ObjectStreams.  HTML and other content
  filtering should be much faster.

* Multiple configurations.  Rename your old "preferences" file
  to "default.conf", the name of the default configuration.

* Automatic configuration switching based on URL patterns.
  Setup with the "autoconfig" file which contains regex and
  config name pairs.  When a match isn't found the default
  config will be used.

* -conf command-line option to select a different default config.

* Configuration window for configuring configurations.  Autoconfig
  file can also be modified here.  Press the "Example" button for
  a real life autoconfig example.

* NoThanks `tagattr' command.  See doc/filters/NoThanks.txt.

* Threads frame.

* Regular expression tester frame.

* NoThanks killfiles can include other killfiles using `#include filename'.

* Killfile is now editable in the NoThanks preferences window.

* API: added Request.getClient method.

* RFC: Fixed "unknown response from server" netscape error dialogs caused
  by non-compliant http servers.

* API: RedirectFilter interface for handling HTTP redirects in filters.

Changes since 0.4:

* New filters: Decaf, DocumentInfo, NoThanks, Secretary, Glossary,
  Preview, and Painter.

* Muffin classes and images can be contained in a single jar file.

* More source documentation.

* New source directory structure.

* GNU autoconf for Unix systems.

* Pass thru mechanism to disable all filtering.  Press the Muffin
  icon to toggle pass thru.

* Remote administration.  Connect directly to Muffin using
  `http://muffinHost:muffinPort'.  Access is restricted
  using muffin.adminAllow and muffin.adminDeny.

* Preferences stored in user.home `Muffin' directory.  Also
  includes -dir option to specify alternate directory.

* Improved HTML parsing.

* Filter documentation in doc/filter directory.

* Display more information in the progress bars.

* Added --with-tya configure option.

Changes since 0.3:

* New Filter API.

* Content filtering via the ContentFilter interface.

* A real proxy server is not required.  In fact, Muffin can
  actually use another Muffin as a proxy.

* A window system is no longer required.

* Muffin and filter options can be saved across sessions.

* See muffin.html.HtmlTokenizer and the Test filter for
  work done so far on HTML filtering.

* New web site http://muffin.doit.org/

$Id: NEWS,v 1.17 2000/03/27 04:40:38 boyns Exp $