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We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 5.2.0. This is a feature release with also a few bug fixes and several improvements.
Here are the highlights:
Sitemaps are now submitted to Google using the Search Console connection, if present. Manual submission also possible from within the Sitemaps page
Added support for upcoming `INP` Google Core Web Vitals metric to Performance measurement
Added content replacer rule option to prevent replacement to happen in title tags content (H1, H2, H3, etc)
Added new type of redirect rule, to redirect one or more non-SEF URLs to their SEF version
Redesigned Sitemaps page. When connected to Google Search console, now shows details of sitemaps registered with Google, including pages and images submitted
Added ability to extract images that are lazy-loaded with javascript, reading the image URL by default from the data-src attribute. Also added a filter to add more attributes as needed
Enforce links protection in replacer rules if replacement is set to Metadata
For all rules, if `When to run` URL starts with `/index.php?`, the `Disregard query string` is now automatically disabled
When analyzing external pages, do not send the 4SEO security key. If the other site also runs 4SEO, it will respond with a 404 even if the page actually works, because the security cron keys don't match
When rendering error page on Joomla 4 and 5, some events may not be triggered
Keywords list on Dashboard Google Search Console display is not keyboard-accessible
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 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.
We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEF version 2.1.0. This is a maintenance release with several improvements and bug fixes.
Here are the highlights:
Tags component was hardcoded to use Joomla SEF URL, now changed to allow 3rd-party to write their own.
Changed default time out for communication with server from 10 to 20 seconds
Language switcher uses same language code for all languages
Some "4SEF: no option value set in URI" errors are still logged, building up large log files
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 2.0.1. This is a maintenance release with a couple of small changes for Apple devices users.
Here are the highlights:
Disable frequency chart visualizer on Safari 15 and older, audio plays but not sound is heard
Default audio vizualizer is now Simple 3 lines animation instead of live frequency chart. All vizualisation options still available in the podcast settings
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.
