Tinyproxy

This release mostly fixes support for IPv6, and also some security bugs. Fixes to messages and similar things were also made.

This is the first stable release in the 1.8 branch, which is made available after many years of development in the 1.7.x development series. It contains several new features such as support for IPv6 and many new configuration options. Many bugs were fixed. All users of Tinyproxy 1.6.x are encouraged to update to the latest stable version. The 1.6 branch is now unsupported by the project, and no further 1.6.x releases will be made.

This is a maintenance release after nearly 4 years. It updates the build system, fixes several bugs, and adds an RPM spec file for Fedora. If you are using 1.6.3, upgrading to this release is encouraged.

This release fixes a problem with upstream proxy support.
All the fields in the child_config_s structure now use signed
integers since the servers_waiting variable is a signed
integer. This ensures all the comparisons are computed
correctly. The standard file descriptors (stdin, stdout, and
stderr) are closed when a production executable is compiled.
They are only left open when a debugging version of
tinyproxy is created. Some spelling mistakes were fixed.

This release adds reverse proxy support, which allows tinyproxy to be
used as the frontend of a hosting farm. It represents the opening of the
new development tree.