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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.
We're pleased to announce the release of sh404SEF version 4.24.7. This is a maintenance release which only adds a notice to sh404SEF admin control panel in preparation for sh404SEF discontinuation happening on August 23, 2023.
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 4Podcast version 1.4.1. This is a maintenance release fixing a couple of bugs.
Here are the highlights:
Loading media file overlay spinner is not removed on Safari and Firefox on Apple devices, preventing use of the player
In some languages, Reset stats button may not work
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 4.8.1. This is a maintenance release to fix a single bug introduced in last version, 4.8.0.
Some redirects are not executed after adding view selection rules parameters in last release
Here are the highlights of 4SEO version 4.8.0:
Added a series of shortcodes about Joomla articles, such as article_title, article_category. Can be used with replacer or in metadata SEO rules for instance
Can now include or exclude component views on the When to run tab for any rule defined in 4SEO
Excluded URLs can now be specified on the When to run tab for any rule defined in 4SEO
Multiple input fields are now textareas (multiple rows) for easier entry of longer content
Added filter to customize automatically generated canonical links
Updated Google search results preview to current Google display
Added a filter to disable the 4SEO generator tag
Added option to disregard URL case when deciding if a rule (any type of rule) should run or not
Removed option: Collect incoming URLs
When importing redirects for a non-sef URL, from sh404SEF, default to taking query string in consideration so that they are not interpreted as non-sef to sef redirects
Added forseo_ogp_data and forseo_tcards_data filters to let user customize programmatically OpenGraph and Twitter Cards data before they are injected into the page
Reverted to prioritising canonical computed by 4SEO after full site analysis over dynamically computed one
Added notification on system configuration page if a function file is found
Rel canonical links have double & if canonical URL has a query strings with an & character
Under some circumstances, pages with a URL containing some non-ascii characters can be considered non-canonical
Twitter Cards meta tags are invalid, not using proper syntax
On sites installed in a subfolders, redirects rules using regular expressions go to a faulty URL target
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.