0.9.6 (2015-06-07) * Reload config by sending SIGUSR1 on Unix system * Load blocked/direct/stat file from same directory as rc file by default * Allow user to specify blocked/direct/stat file path * Detect arm without vfp in install script. * Fix estimate timeout bug 0.9.5 (2015-05-12) * Support new encryption method "chacha20" and "salsa20" * Avoid biased parent proxy selection for hash load balacing * Fix AirDrop on OS X when using PAC * Fix failed start with corrupted stat file * Support changing the estimate timeout target 0.9.4 (2014-10-08) * Bug fix (#179): close stat file after load 0.9.3 (2014-09-21) * Support new encryption method "rc4-md5" 0.9.2 (2014-07-23) * Reduce the possibility of encountering too many open file error * New connection latency based load balancing * Fix auto load plist for OS X * Identify blocked site by HTTP error code 0.9.1 (2013-12-20) * Fix can't save site stat bug * Improve install and startup script 0.9 (2013-12-02) * New feature: two COW servers can be connected using encrypted connection, thus we have an encrypted HTTP proxy chain that can be used to bypass the firewall * Allow client to use HTTP basic authentication * Simplify configuration syntax * Better reuse for HTTP parent connections * Reduce direct/blocked delta * Generate new PAC every minute 0.8 (2013-08-10) * Share server connections between different clients * Add tunnelAllowedPort option to limit ports CONNECT method can connect to * Avoid timeout too soon for frequently visited direct sites * Fix reporting malformed requests in two cases when request has body: - Authenticate requests - Error occurred before request is sent * Support multi-lined headers * Change client connection timeout to 15s * Change as direct delta to 15 * Provide ARMv5 binary 0.7.6 (2013-07-28) * Fix bug for close connection response with no body * Fix response not keep alive by default * Always try parent proxy upon DNS/connection error * Do not take special handling on log with debug option * Add proxy status statistics in debug code 0.7.5 (2013-07-25) * Fix crash on IPv6 client authentication * Provide ARMv6 binary 0.7.4 (2013-07-15) * Fix adding extra connection header for client request with both "Proxy-Connection" and "Connection" headers * Ignore UTF-8 BOM in config file 0.7.3 (2013-07-10) * Handle 100-continue: do not forward expect header from client, ignore 100 continue response replied by some web servers * For windows: add cow-hide.exe to run cow.exe as background process, (provided by to xupefei) * Filter sites covered by user specified domains on load * Fix incorrectly changing header value to lower case: user name and password can now contain upper case letters 0.7.2 (2013-07-01) * Close idle server connections earlier: avoid opening too many sockets * Support authenticating multiple users (can limit port for each user) 0.7.1 (2013-06-08) * Fix parent proxy fallback bug 0.7 (2013-06-07) * Always use direct connection only for private IP addresses * Support multiple HTTP/SOCKS5 parent proxies * Support running multiple ssh server * Fix client request read timeout handling * Refactor parent proxy related code 0.6.3 (2013-05-27) * Support more shadowsocks encryption method * Fix several windows network error detection issues (dirty hack) 0.6.2 (2013-05-17) * Support multiple shadowsocks servers * Simple load balancing: backup or hash strategy * PAC fix: do not add domains with blocked host/sub domain * Remove some no longer working command line options 0.6.1 (2013-03-14) * Avoid using too much memory to hold http requests * Support http parent proxy basic authentication * For windows: add cow-taskbar.exe to hide cmd window to status area * Fix timeout error detection * Some bug fixes 0.6 (2013-03-03) * Allow user to specify proxy address in PAC * Performance optimization * More tolerant with HTTP servers and clients * Some bug fixes 0.5.1 (2013-02-10) * Handle blocked site that will return EOF * Small bug fixes 0.5 (2013-02-07) * Support parent HTTP proxy (such as goagent) * Work more automatically: because of this, updateBlocked, updateDirect, autoRetry options and chou file are removed * Record direct/blocked visit count to make blocked/direct site handling more reliable * Builtin common blocked/direct site list * Periodically estimate timeout value to avoid considering direct site as blocked with bad network connection * Support specifying host in blocked/direct file * User configurable timeout * Better windows support: connection reset, timeout and DNS error detection tested and works on XP * Support listening multiple addresses * Support IP based and user password authentication * Various bug fixes 0.3.5 (2012-12-23) * Performance improvement by better buffer usage * Allow specifying config file on command line * Better windows support: Config and domain list file on windows are put in the same directory as COW's binary. And they all have txt extension for easy editing * Bug fix: convert HTTP/1.0 response to HTTP/1.1 0.3.4 (2012-12-09) * Support shadowsocks * Reduce latency (maybe just a little, not measured) * Allow specifying ssh server port in config file * Bug fix: crash when handling flush error * Bug fix: correctly handle web servers which use closed connection to indicate end of response 0.3.3 (2012-12-05) * Keep HTTP CONNECT connection open. Avoid problems for Application which uses long connection. * Bug fix: crash when printing domain list inconsistency message.