# [E2Guardian](http://e2guardian.org)

This is the stable v5.5 version - v5.5.8r

Development of v5.5 is now frozen - just bug-fixes will be applied in v5.5 branch.

Note: Some configuration files in this version are not fully backward compatible
with v5.4 configuration files.

Please read notes/NEWIN_v5 before installing.

If upgrading from an earlier version please read notes/Upgrading_to_V5.4

**For copyright go to: http://e2guardian.org**

e2guardian is a content filtering proxy that can work in 
explicit and transparent proxy mode or as a ICAP server mode.
More information can be found in the "notes" subdirectory of the distribution, 
and the comments in the configuration and list files themselves.

Read the INSTALL for installation instructions.

## Contributing

Github: https://github.com/e2guardian

*	Bugfixes primarily occurs in the version branch 

## Bugs and Feature Requests

Github: https://github.com/e2guardian/e2guardian/issues

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## Community

*	 Join the [Community
    Forum](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/e2guardian).

## Wiki

*	Helpful information can be found in the [Wiki](https://github.com/e2guardian/e2guardian/wiki).

## Packages/Docker

Packages for Debian/Ubuntu: https://e2guardian.numsys.eu

Official Images on Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/fredbcode/e2guardian

Container image for Squid proxy server, Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/fredbcode/squid (no support here !)

## License

Copyright 2022, [Frederic Bourgeois](http://numsys.eu), [E2BN Protex](http://protex.e2bn.org) Ltd and others.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders
of this work, give permission to link the code of its release of e2guardian
with the OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL" library (or with modified versions of
it that use the same license as the "OpenSSL" library), and distribute the
linked executables.  You must obey the GNU General Public License in all
respects for all of the code used other than "OpenSSL".  If you modify this
file, you may extend this exception to your version of the file, but you are
not obligated to do so.  If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception
statement from your version.
