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We're pleased to announce the release of sh404SEF version 4.15.0. This is a feature and maintenance release:.
Here are the highlights:
Insert Analytics snippet based on access levels in addition to user groups.
Added buttons to delete detailed recorded information about SEF URLs, aliases and shURLs
Automatically generated description is now compatible with Joomla caching.
OGP image detection now compatible with Joomla caching
When redirecting non-joomla, non-SEF URLs (ie magento, prestashop,...), query string is not appended anymore to the redirect target if it matches the redirect itself
Added ability to handle non-sef URLs with nested array variables up to 3 levels (up from 1)
When a page has restricted access, under some circumstances the URL to it can be deleted and/or multiple URLs can be recorded for it
Analytics snippet may not be displayed if configuration is saved with default value of 'Public' in 'Disable Analytics for groups setting
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.
Contact form can now perform an real redirect after form submission instead of displaying a 'Next' button
Page images are now required to be on the page itself, 1200px in width and 800,000 pixels minimum. Removed Fallback image feature
White list all amp-* elements to allow for more advanced custom usage of new AMP elements
Updated translations for German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Russian
Allow json+ld script in page body
Added support for srcset (responsive images) to route helper
Prevent fatal error when using J! 3.6.5 or earlier
Modules in AMP-specific positions may be incorrectly rendered if several modules have the exact same title but are published in different positions
Content plugins set to be disabled are also disabled on non-AMP pages
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 4.14.0. This is a feature and maintenance release:.
Here are the highlights:
Added rule-based URL blocking, comes with default common WordPress bots attacks rules. Fully customizable.
Added support for wildcards in aliases target for regular expressions aliases
Added widgetkit shortcodes removal from automatically generated descriptions.
Added preview link for Canonical type aliases in Aliases manager
Extended all URLs database columns to 2048 caracters
404 URLs may have an additional leading slash when recorded.
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 4.13.2. This is a maintenance release with just a bug fixes and minor changes.
Here are the highlights:
Can have 404 errors on some links on some components, if set to 'Use Joomla router', '301 redirect from Joomla SEF' is enabled and some combination of menu items configuration.
Canonical created from the URL manager since version 4.13 may not be taken into account in some cases.
Canonical URLs set to the same page are not inserted into the page.
Create longer description when automatically generating meta description, around 250 characters.
Do not remove initial slash when recording a 404, may hide some useful information
Remove {field} and {fieldgroup} tags from automatically generated meta description
Analytics IP exclusion now operates on servers behind proxies
When using Joomla router for an extension, remove any trailing slash on the path as can hit routing bugs in some extensions (DOCMan)
URL source recording now also records a new URL duplication rank
Limit alias index size on shURL database table, for systems which enforce index size limits
Added back using JRequest for extensions not compliant with Joomla API such as Mijoshop.
Added more sanitization to the '301 redirect from Joomla SEF' feature, to account for Joomla router parsing invalid URLs.
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.
