Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 5.1.0. This is a maintenance release with a few bug fixes and several improvements.

Here are the highlights:

• Default value for Disregard case when creating any type of rule is now Yes
• Accept more than one URL in sitemaps for the same content id. Allows use manual override to include several pages for the same canonical content
• Do not URL-encode URL reserved characters when adding them to sitemaps, as they are sometimes used as is in URLs
• Now defaulting to not checking Joomla com_redirect before triggering a 404 on Joomla 3, as this prevents error pages to operate. Can use corresponding filter to enable back if needed.
• Aliases now also operates in Debug mode or if the site is offline.
• Background cron trigger pixel image URL changed to avoid collisions with actual words that may trigger security systems
• Better cleanup of com_tags non-sef URLs when creating a page content id for canonical identification
• "Others" status selector does not work on Recorded Errors page
• Aliases and redirects are not executed on Joomla 5 when they concern non-existing URLs
• 4SEO does not allow selecting Structured data images when location of the images media folder has been changed from the default

Please see this page for a full changelog. This release is immediately available both from the download area and using the one-click Joomla! updater of your web site.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 5.0.0. This is a feature release that includes Joomla 5 compatibility.

Here are the highlights:

• Minor tweaks for Joomla 5 compatibility
• Added CCBot to "Exclude common AI bots" and prevent the CommonCrawl crawler to use your site data to train their model
• Added Google-Extended to "Exclude common AI bots", to prevent Google Bard and VertexAI bots to use your site data to train their model
• Added ability to add translation for new languages, or override existing translations, by dropping a json file in a subdirectory of /libraries/weeblr
• If Joomla Debug system is enabled, 4SEO won't display user-configured error pages anymore
• Accomodate pages where some custom javascript code has been added that includes invalid html tags in text strings, thus breaking cron or performance measurements pixels injection
• When customizing a URL in 4SEF, if the custom URL is an existing one, the metadata in 4SEO was lost
• Possible fatal error when using a custom field to configure a structured data date (publication, modification, etc) and a custom date format is in use through modifying DATE_FORMAT_LC* Joomla language strings
• Multipages articles are not properly canonicalized, based on whether the Show All option is enabled or not
• Inserting a local image into an error page through the editor does not show either in the admin or on the frontend
• Canonical pages that have been excluded from sitemap by a rule or otherwise can sometimes be put back in the sitemap

Please see this page for a full changelog. This release is immediately available both from the download area and using the one-click Joomla! updater of your web site.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 4.9.2. This is a maintenance release with one single bug fix.

Here are the highlights:

• Recently added new languages translation files are not packaged with the extension

Please see this page for a full changelog. This release is immediately available both from the download area and using the one-click Joomla! updater of your web site.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 4.9.1. This is a maintenance release with multiple changes and improvements and a couple of bug fixes.

Here are the highlights:

• Added caption to per page title and meta description fields, to clarify their use
• Added option to configure the desired approximate length of auto-generated meta description
• Added option to list only non-canonical pages, in addition to existing 'Only canonical' option
• (Tiny) performance increase by using better MYSQL count function
• Added tmpl=form to the list of automatically excluded URLs
• Do not convert single quotes when output in title, meta description and OpenGraph and Twitter Cards meta
• Aliases are not properly executed on multilingual sites, except on default language
• Possible deprecation warning when outputting TwitterCards tags if Twitter account is not filled in

Please see this page for a full changelog. This release is immediately available both from the download area and using the one-click Joomla! updater of your web site.

Best regards

Weeblr.com