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Fixes in 0.5.3g
! Previous fixes were not backported completely from 0.6
! Fixed ident string should not be freed for openlog() to prevent garbage in
  syslog().

Fixes in 0.5.3f
! Fixed SOCKSv4 for parent proxy

Fixes in 0.5.3e
! Fixed POST request problem with NTLM authentication

Fixes in 0.5.3d
! Fixed endless loop on 'udppm -s'

Fixes in 0.5.3c
! Fixed aborted download on some requests

Fixes in 0.5.3b
! Fixed double 3xx reply on USER command in ftppr.

Fixes in 0.5.3a
! 64-bit pointer arythnmetics problem fix applied to ntlm.c
  (requested by Mike Frysinger)

0.5.3 is bugfix release for 0.5.2:
Fixes backported from 0.6 as 0.5.3:
!! Fixed: NTLM authentication doesn't work for NT-encoded passwords and may
  cause account blocking (reported by boris16 at tut.by)
! Fixed: offer NTLM authentication before basic
! Fixed: buffered input may double some data on empty reads
+ FTP diagnostics improved for FTP login problems
! SOCKS BIND/UDPASSOC problems fixed (based on Artem Rebrov's patch)
! Fixed: endless loop on configuration parsing if ACL weekdays are given as
  a comma delimited list (reported by Andrey S. Alexeenko).



 Known bugs:

  Non-reproduced problem reported with poll() implemenration for some 2.4
  Linux kernel, may be hardware dependant. As a result 3proxy goes to a loop
  with 100% CPU utilization soon after start. Compile 3proxy without
  -DWITH_POLL in Makefile(s) if you observe this behaviour.

  report to 3proxy@security.nnov.ru



14/10/2006 3[APA3A]tiny proxy 0.5.2
New features since 0.4 are marked with !.

 Features:
  1. General
	+ HTTP/1.1 Proxy with keep-alive client and server support,
          transparent proxy support.
	! Anonymous and random client emulation HTTP proxy mode
	+ FTP over HTTP support.
	+ DNS caching with built-in resolver
	+ HTTPS (CONNECT) proxy
	+ SOCKSv4/4.5 Proxy
	+ SOCKSv5 Proxy
	! UDP and bind support for SOCKSv5 (fully compatible with
	  SocksCAP/FreeCAP for UDP)
	+ Transparent SOCKS->HTTP redirection
	! Transparent SOCKS->FTP redirection
	! Transparent SOCKS->POP3 redirection
	+ POP3 Proxy
	! FTP proxy
	! DNS proxy
	+ TCP port mapper
	+ UDP port mapper
	+ Threaded application (no child process).
	! Web administration and statistics
  2. Proxy chaining
	+ Parent proxy support for any type of incoming connection
	+ Username/password authentication for parent proxy(s).
	+ HTTPS/SOCKS4/SOCKS5 and redirection parent support
	+ Random parent selection
	+ Chain building (multihop proxing)
  3. Logging
	+ turnable log format compatible with any log parser
	+ stdout logging
	+ file logging
	+ syslog logging (Unix)
	+ ODBC logging (Windows and Unix)
	+ log file rotation (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly)
	+ automatic log file comperssion with external archiver (for files)
	+ automatic removal of older log files
	! Character filtering for log files
	! different log files for different servces are supported
  4. Access control
	+ ACL-driven (user/source/destination/protocol/weekday/daytime or
	combined) bandwith limitation for incoming and (!)outgoing trafic.
	+ ACL-driven (user/source/destination/protocol/weekday/daytime or
	combined) traffic limitation per day, week or month
	+ User authorization by NetBIOS messanger name
	+ Access control by username, source IP, destination IP, destination
	port and destination action (POST, PUT, GET, etc), weekday and daytime.
	+ Access control by username/password for SOCKSv5 and HTTP/HTTPS/FTP
	+ Cleartext or encrypted (crypt/MD5 or NT) passwords.
	+ Connection redirection
	+ Access control by requested action (CONNECT/BIND, 
	  HTTP GET/POST/PUT/HEAD/OTHER).
	! NTLM authentication for HTTP proxy access
	! All access controle entries now support weekday and daytime
	limitations.
  5. Configuration
	+ support for configuration files
	+ support for includes in configuration files
	+ interface binding
	+ running as daemon process
	+ utility for automated networks list building
	! configuration reload on any file change
     Unix
	+ support for chroot
	+ support for setgid
	+ support for setuid
	! support for signals
     Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3
	+ support --install as service
	+ support --remove as service
	+ support for service START, STOP, PAUSE and CONTINUE commands (on
	PAUSE no new connection accepted, but active connections still in
	progress, on CONTINUE configuration is reloaded)
     Windows 95/98/ME
	! support --install as service
	! support --remove as service
  6. Compilation
	+ MSVC (msvcrt.dll)
	+ Intel Windows Compiler (msvcrt.dll)
	+ Windows/gcc (msvcrt.dll)
	+ Cygwin/gcc (cygwin.dll)
	+ Unix/gcc
	+ Unix/ccc
	! Solaris


 Planned for future (0.6) release:
   - External modules API
   - Addon URL, antiviral, HTTP cache filters modules, authentication
     modules for different protocols (RADIUS, PAM, integrated system, etc).

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