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We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEF version 1.6.0. This is a maintenance release coming in just after our feature 1.6.0 version with a bug fix and small perf improvements.
Here are the highlights:
(Tiny) performance increase by using better MYSQL count function
Category blog with added tag(s) selected do not make use of the tag(s)
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.
We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 4.9.0. This is a feature and maintenance release with many changes and improvements, plus several new full translations
Here are the highlights:
Added ability to create aliases: another type of redirect which is easier to create, faster to execute but limited in trigger conditions and target URLs
Added feature and alert to optionally block IA robots such as those from ChatGPT to crawl the website
Added full translation to Arabic, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish and Chinese
Added option to override Joomla full page cache plugin when applying redirects rules
When conservative or progressive caching is enabled in Joomla global configuration, 4SEO can now detect and use for social networks sharing the 'Intro' and 'Full' com_content articles images, as soon as the page is analyzed. Before, it would fall back to using the largest image on the page.
Now using official schema.org notation for dayOfWeek instead of community shortcuts
Now escaping title and meta description before output else invalid characters may break the page output
Added workaround for Joomla 4 issue adding layout=blog to pages, may result in incorrect canonical link
Now including site host hash and current version in subscribers update authorization request
Workaround for Joomla 4 turning spaces in images file names into %20 for local images when used as article images, breaking local image size detection
There should not be a custom field selector input field on the Default person tab of structured data settings
On frontend editing, IndexNow panel spills over footer
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.
We're pleased to announce the release of 4AI version 2.3.0. This is a feature and maintenance release of with the main addition of the GPT 4 model from OpenAI, which is now available to all.
Here are the highlights:
Added support for multiple OpenAI models, including GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 Turbo 16K context
Added user profile setting. May help getting responses better tailored to you, without having to add custom instructions on all requests
Prevent fatal javascript error in case where loading the tokenizer files are blocked by the website server setup. Can result in f0.count is not a function error, or similar
Now including site host hash and current version in subscribers update authorization request
4AI update site is removed from Joomla update sites list when updating to a new version
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.
We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEF version 1.6.0. This is a feature and maintenance release with the addition of multiple full translations, multiple changes and a couple of bug fixes.
Here are the highlights:
Added full translation into Arabic, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish and Chinese
Workaround for still building SEF URLs in cases where Joomla 4 router does not, because no menu item id can be found for the orginal, non-sef URL
Do not log <4SEF: no option value set in URI> errors to file, may lead to large log files on very busy sites
Apply All lowercase option to SEF URLs manually customized by users, to ensure consistency and avoid useless redirects
Now including site host hash and current version in subscribers update authorization request
Home page RSS feeds may trigger a 404
Disabling Customize all duplicates options has no visible effect
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.