changelog

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kses ChangeLog
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* 0.2.1

0.2.1 was released on the 29th of September 2003.
It has the following changes:


- There is now an additional version of kses, using the object-oriented
  paradigm. Thanks a lot to Richard R. Vasquez, Jr., who created it! Anyone
  who wants to make functional programming, logical programming or spaghetti
  programming versions of kses as well (or any other programming paradigm that
  you like), go ahead! All the people who like old procedural programming for
  web applications shouldn't despair, though, as both versions will be
  maintained with each release.

- kses now has some new attribute value checks: minlen, minval and valueless.
  See docs/attribute-value-checks for an explanation.

- For some reason, the Opera developers decided to make chr(173) a whitespace
  character in URL protocols, both when it occurs raw and in an entity. kses
  now handles this.

- The URL protocol whitelisting system now decodes entities before removing
  NULLs and whitespaces.


* 0.2.0

0.2.0 was released on the 25th of July 2003.
It has the following changes:


- kses now supports checking of attribute values, and not just element names
  and attribute names. The attribute value checks that exist so far are
  'maxlen' (checks how long attribute values are, to avoid Buffer Overflows)
  and 'maxval' (checks how big an integer value is, to avoid Denial of Service
  attacks).

  Buffer Overflows could both be a problem for WWW clients and different
  servers on the Internet that an HTML document links to. One example is
  <frame src="ftp://ftp.v1ct1m.com/AAAAAA..thousands_of_A's...">.

  Denial of Service attacks can take the form of too big sizes of iframes or
  other things. One example is <iframe src="http://some.web.server/"
  width="20000" height="2000">, which makes some client machines completely
  overloaded.

- kses' old feature of removing "javascript:" from attribute values has been
  improved. It now has a whole system for white listing of URL protocols, so
  you can specify that it's acceptable with http:, https:, ftp: and gopher:,
  but no other protocols in attribute values. The system tries pretty hard to
  do the right thing with whitespace, upper/lower case, HTML entities
  ("jav&#97;script:") and repeated entries ("javascript:javascript:alert(57)").

- kses now supports both HTML and XHTML code, by allowing " /" at the end of
  tags.

- kses now removes Netscape 4's JavaScript entities, having the form
  "&{alert(57)};". They don't even seem to work on all versions of Netscape 4,
  but for completeness' sake it seemed like a good feature to add.

- A bug with NULLs in javascript: URLs was fixed.
  (Reported by Simon Cornelius P. Umacob - thanks!)

- As a nice side effect of the white listing of URL protocols, kses now also
  normalizes all HTML entities in documents. It will change HTML code with bad
  entities to the right form, for example "AT&T" will be converted to
  "AT&amp;T" and "<a href='lyrics.php?band=ladytron&lyrics=playgirl'>" will be
  converted to "<a href='lyrics.php?band=ladytron&amp;lyrics=playgirl'>".
  "&#000058;" will be converted to "&#58;", "&#XYZZY;" will be converted to
  "&amp;#XYZZY;", "&auml!;" will be converted to "&amp;auml!;" and so on.

  As shown above, it will process HTML entities that it doesn't understand.
  It will also deal with too big numbers in numeric HTML entities, which is
  helpful as many browsers seem to wrap them around at 2 ** 32, so the
  characters 58, 58 + (2 ** 32), 58 + (2 ** 64) etcetera are all colons to the
  web browser.

- You can now use upper case letters in your $allowed_html array, in element
  names, attribute names and attribute value check names. Version 0.1.0
  required everything in that array to be in lower case, but that's not
  necessary any more. You can also use upper case letters in
  $allowed_protocols.

- The "Really malformed thing" bug from the TODO file was fixed.
  It used to convert this string:
  x > 5 <a href="blah">
  to:
  x &gt; 5 &lt;a href=&quot;blah&quot;&gt;
  and now it converts it to:
  x &gt; 5 <a href="blah">

- The "Weird malformed thing" bug from the TODO file was fixed.
  It used to convert this string:
  <a href="5 href=6>
  to:
  <a href="6">
  because of the way kses restarts after a parse error in kses_hair(). Now it
  converts it to:
  <a>

- A problem with slashes in HTML tags was fixed.

- examples/filter.php used to use $SCRIPT_NAME, which doesn't work on
  Windows.
  (Reported by Simon Cornelius P. Umacob - thanks!)

- kses now allows dashes in attribute names, for things like
  <meta http-equiv=..>.


* 0.1.0, first public version

0.1.0 was released on the 9th of June 2003.
It was announced on three security related mailing lists on Friday the 13th
of June (nothing bad happened to it though).