atauenis/webone v0.10.0

WebOne 0.10.0

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New stable release of WebOne, released 25.04.2020 after 31 commits and directly after 2 alpha versions.

Changes from previous stable version, 0.9.3:

• Now using .NET Core 3.1 instead of .NET Framework 4.6.
  This means that WebOne became a cross-platform application. Server PCs now can use any OS, including Windows 7/2008R2+ (32/64-bit), Linux (amd64) since 2016 and macOS 10.13+. However, proxy clients still can use all older systems. For them there is nothing changed.
• Added new syntax of traffic editing rules. Now all webone.conf's FixableURL, FixableType and ContentPatch sections are replaced with new Edit Sets ([Edit:url mask] sections). Old-style sections still work in WebOne 0.10 but using of them are not recommended.
• New-style edit sets can contain multiple detection and edit rules, making configuration file simplier to read and write.
• Added seamless image format converting.
• Fixed "Can't download source: The handshake failed due to an unexpected packet format" error (it doesn't appear in seamless mode).
• Default webone.conf now have ffmpeg converter been enabled by default.
• Default webone.conf now have been configured to use HTTPS with all servers which can use it instead of old HTTP. So WebOne is now more secure in open networks.
• TLS Certificate Errors are no longer ignoring by default. This behavior can be disabled via ValidateCertificates option in webone.conf.
• All headers sent to HTTPS servers are now containing https:// protocol in their bodies.
• Improved auto-detection of text encodings.
• WebOne 0.9.x was have support to auto-set "ANSI" (Windows) encoding for current locale. E.g. Win-1251 on Cyrillic systems, Win-1252 on Central-European and etc. Now it can auto-set "DOS", "MAC" and "EBCDIC" core page number if need.
• Added ability to return pages in transliterated view. For example, Russian (or Serbian, Ukrainian) users can browse sites on their native language on devices that cannot display anything other than English letters.
• Test (info) page is now available on http://%proxyhost%/ root too. Not only at http://%proxyhost%/!. Testing and configuring WebOne proxies is now easier.

Changes since version 0.10a2:

• Added new syntax of traffic editing rules. Now all webone.conf's FixableURL, FixableType and ContentPatch sections are replaced with new Edit Sets ([Edit:url mask] sections). Old-style sections still work in WebOne 0.10 but using of them are not recommended.
• Added seamless image format converting.
• Fixed "Can't download source: The handshake failed due to an unexpected packet format" error (it doesn't appear in seamless mode).
• Added ability to return pages in transliterated view. For example, Russian (or Serbian, Ukrainian) users can browse sites on their native language on devices that cannot display anything other than English letters.

Note: Experimental Linux packages are removed due to their difficulty in use.