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We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 4.3.0. This is a maintenance release with some changes and bug fixes:
Here are the highlights:
Added a language filter on the Pages page
Rewrote rules management system, no more limits in the global number of rules
Better display of admin page if an error occurs (system plugin is disabled for instance)
Added a warning when trying to connect to the Google Search Console not using the website configured main address (typically, www vs non-www mismatch)
Rules drag-n-drop re-ordering may not be available when going from a page with one row to another with multiple rows. Conversely, a fatal error may happen when trying to move a row when that row is the only one on a page
Some Google Search Console data is not retrieved when using a Domain type search console property
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 1.2.4 - Beta. This is a pre-version, test-only of the final upcoming release of 4SEF!
IMPORTANT: 4SEF is still in beta testing phase. This means it's in the final stages of testing and should be used only with caution as some bugs may happen when used in the real world. Beta testing is meant to identify these issues that cannot be discovered during develoment and internal testing.
We recommend using it on test copies of your website only. If you decide to test on your real website, make sure you have a backup on hand so that you can restore things to their previous state in case something goes wrong.
Here are the highlights:
Better display of admin page if an error occurs (system plugin is disabled for instance)
Added workaround for cases Joomla router does not remove non-sef variables from URI object, and they were re-appended to SEF URL (eg: /my-article?view=article&id=12&catid=34)
Under some circumstances, on Joomla 4, home page links may not be recognized as such
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 4.2.1. This is a maintenance release with some changes and bug fixes:
Here are the highlights:
Added a filter to pass additional options to the HTTP client used when communicating with Google Search Console. May help for websites which servers are blocked by Google
Inject site name in home page structured data and OpenGraph records. Site name is now used more often by Google in search results, this will help Google get the name right
On sites which started using 4SEO early on, the fake Facebook application id automatically added to OpenGraph may be missing. Not having an app_id is normal but the Facebook debugger has a bug (!) and it shows the lack of app_id as an error - which it is not
Images with encoded spaces in their path (%20) are properly processed but incorrectly added to sitemap, resulting in a broken link
Images with very long URLs may be truncated when inserted in the sitemap
style and script tags are not removed from content when automatically building a meta description
Leading zeros must be preserved in postal codes when generating Structured data
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 4.24.6. This is a maintenance release with a bug fix and the addition of deprecation warnings!
Important: this version does NOT support PHP 5.6.0 anymore, as announced before. Minimal PHP version is now PHP 7.1.0. This is not enforced yet, but will be soon.
Important: sh404SEF now requires Joomla 3.9.0 or more recent. It won't install or update on older Joomla versions.
Here are the highlights:
Undefined constant fatal error on PHP 8 under some circumstances
Style and script html tags may not be removed when building automatic meta description
Possible PHP warnings Array to String conversion when non-sef urls with multiple arrays are used
Possible PHP warnings when using simple encoding on some component
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.
