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We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 1.8.0. This is a feature and maintenance release with multiple improvements and fixes!
Here are the highlights:
Added option to auto-clear informational notifications after a delay. Off by default to maintain accessibility
Full translation to Russian by Алексей Хорошевский
Improved resilience to short internet connectivity loss during long running tasks such as site analysis. 4SEO will retry several times before stopping work.
Consider URLs with Unicode slugs and their URL encoded version as the same for crawling purpose
Added WhatsApp to list of domains to exclude from crawling
Do not store update key on Joomla 4 when in development mode
Ensure no-cache header is sent on 404 error page, some hosts may cache them
Possible PHP warning when rendering a 404 error page with similar pages suggestions
All broken links are incorrectly also shown as originating from the home page
Possible PHP warning when crawling content for some 3rd-party extension
Using the replacer to automatically link text to another page breaks if Whole words only option is selected
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 1.7.1. This is a maintenance release with multiple improvements and fixes!
Here are the highlights:
Ctrl+S shortcut to save a rule now does not trigger browser saving the entire page when data has not been modified
Browsers encode non-latin URLs, resulting in frontend meta data and OpenGraph tags editing pop-up window not displayed
Added nocache headers to sitemap files to bypass some hosting companies proxy caching
Added closing ; after injecting 4SEO admin config. Other extensions may otherwise conflict with it and prevent 4SEO language strings to be loaded
On error pages, do not use HTML classes starting with a number, they cannot be styled with CSS
Possible fatal error when recording fatal errors on the site
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 1.7.0. This is a feature and maintenance release with multiple improvements and fixes!
Here are the highlights:
Added configuration to exclude images from sitemap by domain name
Added structured data caching when Joomla own caching is enabled, else structured data may not be generated
Some faulty extensions can cause 4SEO error page to display as raw HTML code instead of a normal page. Added an attempt at a workaround
K2 uses 0000-00-00 00:00:00 for null data, can cause invalid structured data when an item has not been modified
Added sanity test for dates used in lastmod sitemap field
Removed unneeded Db query to read configuration sections that have not been configured yet
Moved sharing image selector at the top of page edit window, validator at the bottom
Enabled back pinging Bing with sitemaps, with an updated ping URL after they silently removed the previous one
Styled scrollbars for chromium-based browsers
Now auto-detecting Article structured data Headline field for non-Joomla content
Added clean-up of wrongly stored WAF rules that may have been added to the rules table incorrectly by early beta versions
Compatibility issue with YooTheme template on Joomla 4 can cause PHP warnings to be displayed
Place the rule after... field offers only up to 10 rules instead of the full list when modifying any sort of rule
Option to disable built-in structured data rules does not disable regular Joomla article ones
Protocol-relative images URLs on other domains are not properly made absolute when included 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.
We're pleased to announce the release of 4Video version 1.4.0. This is a feature release with improved structured data handling:
Here are the highlights:
Added video duration and clip endOffset structured data handling
Youtube suggests videos at end of play that are from other channels, should be only from the same channel
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.
