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A1 Website Search Engine Changelog

What's new in A1 Website Search Engine 11.0.0 Update 16

Jun 19, 2023
  • Various fixes and improvements. (Mostly Windows version specific.)

New in A1 Website Search Engine 11.0.0 Update 14 (Jan 19, 2023)

  • WebView2 related fixes and improvements. (Windows version specific.)

New in A1 Website Search Engine 11.0.0 Update 3 (Jun 4, 2022)

  • Various fixes and improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 11.0.0 (Feb 8, 2022)

  • Windows version now uses WebView2 by Microsoft (Chromium/Edge) when available.
  • Crawler speed optimizations.
  • Various fixes and improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.5 Update 7 (Aug 29, 2021)

  • Various fixes and improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.5 Update 5 (Aug 9, 2021)

  • Various fixes and improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.5 Update 3 (Jun 7, 2021)

  • Various fixes and improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.5 (Apr 19, 2021)

  • Various fixes and improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.4 Update 26 (Apr 9, 2021)

  • Added quick preset for downloading single pages.
  • Enhanced some "seed crawl from" tools.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.4 Update 24 (Mar 3, 2021)

  • Fixed a bug introduced in update #23.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.4 Update 23 (Mar 2, 2021)

  • Various small fixes and improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.4 Update 22 (Feb 17, 2021)

  • Small Windows specific fix in crawler for handling certificates with errors.
  • Website login improvements.
  • Mac improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.4 Update 18 (Nov 23, 2020)

  • Many miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
  • Some Mac specific fixes and improvements.
  • Added export to clipboard function in "File" menu.
  • Fixed an issue when scanning local disk paths.
  • Added support for "srcset" attribute.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.4 Update 17 (Nov 23, 2020)

  • Many miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
  • Some Mac specific fixes and improvements.
  • Added export to clipboard function in "File" menu.
  • Fixed an issue when scanning local disk paths.
  • Added support for "srcset" attribute.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.4 Update 14 (Sep 16, 2020)

  • Various fixes and improvements.
  • Fixed issue with scanning local disk paths.
  • Added export to clipboard function in "File" menu.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.4 Update 13 (Sep 11, 2020)

  • Added export to clipboard function in "File" menu.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.4 Update 11 (Aug 27, 2020)

  • Various fixes and improvements.
  • Fixed issue with scanning local disk paths.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.4 (Feb 2, 2020)

  • Mac improvements.
  • Various improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.3 (Jan 13, 2020)

  • Rollup of various fixes.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.2 Update 4 (Jan 13, 2020)

  • Various FTPS/FTPES improvements for when uploadng search engine files.
  • Various sitemap ping improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.2 Update 3 (Jan 13, 2020)

  • Various small fixes and improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.2 Update 2 (Jan 13, 2020)

  • Various fixes.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.2 Update 1 (Jan 13, 2020)

  • Much faster import.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.1 Update 1 (Jan 13, 2020)

  • Various minor improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.1 (Dec 4, 2019)

  • Fixed a rare issue in resume crawl functionality.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.0 Update 8 (Oct 23, 2019)

  • Various fixes and improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.0 Update 6 (Oct 17, 2019)

  • Expanded command line interface (CLI) with new parameters.
  • Various fixes and improvements.
  • Fixed a save issue that could occur with external to internal URL redirects.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.0 Update 3 (Oct 9, 2019)

  • AJAX crawler improvements.
  • Various fixes and improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.1.0 Update 1 (Oct 3, 2019)

  • Various fixes and improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.0.0 Update 4 (Sep 2, 2019)

  • Added Excel XML spreadsheet export.
  • Various fixes and improvements in crawler and user interface.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.0.0 Update 2 (Aug 19, 2019)

  • Added a "Regex test tool" in "General options and tools" tab for convenience.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.0.0 Update 1 (Aug 19, 2019)

  • Added doubleclick support on primary sizer/splitter to easily max left side.
  • Various small fixes and improvements in user interface functionality.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 10.0.0 (Jul 27, 2019)

  • Improvements in JSON handling/parsing.
  • Split option "Apply webmaster and output filters" into two separate options.
  • Many small improvements in user interface functionality.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 9.3.3 Update #4 (Mar 11, 2019)

  • Search index size optimization which helps in memory restricted environments.
  • Made the search code more flexible for different implementations in websites.
  • Fixed a subtle bug that could occur certain times when using "php_defer".

New in A1 Website Search Engine 9.3.3 Update #3 (Mar 11, 2019)

  • Fixed an issue that could happen when building the search engine files.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 9.3.3 Update 2 (Mar 4, 2019)

  • Rollup of various updates and fixes.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 9.3.3 (Feb 1, 2019)

  • Added AJAX support (HTML/content fetched after initial page load) on Mac OS.
  • Fixed a memory issue introduced earlier regarding AJAX crawling on Windows.
  • Some general improvements in handling partial URLs inside Javascript.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 9.3.2 (Dec 10, 2018)

  • Various improvements in Mac OS version.
  • Further work done on features related to version 9.3.1 update #3.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 9.3.1 (Oct 19, 2018)

  • Rollup of fixes and improvements for Windows and Mac versions.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 9.3.0 (Oct 8, 2018)

  • Rollup of fixes and improvements for Windows and Mac versions.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 9.3.0 (Oct 8, 2018)

  • Rollup of fixes and improvements for Windows and Mac versions.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 9.2.0 Update 1 (Sep 28, 2018)

  • Various small improvements and fixes

New in A1 Website Search Engine 9.2.0 (Sep 18, 2018)

  • Major updates for Mac including 64bit.
  • Various small improvements and fixes.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 9.1.0 (Aug 5, 2018)

  • Various improvements in crawler and UI functionality.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 9.0.0 Update #1 (Feb 12, 2018)

  • Small improvements in user interface.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 9.0.0 (Feb 8, 2018)

  • Tons of fixes and improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 8.1.0 Update #3 (Jul 25, 2017)

  • Fixes and improvements for both Windows and Mac versions.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 8.1.0 Update #1 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • Fixes and improvements for both Windows and Mac versions.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 8.0.1 Update #2 (Apr 18, 2017)

  • Various small fixes.
  • Various changes including smaller installation download.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 8.0.1 (Apr 11, 2017)

  • Rollup of multiple other updates and fixes.
  • SSL fix for some websites when using Indy HTTP crawler engine.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 8.0.0 Update #4 (Mar 7, 2017)

  • Many smaller fixes and improvements

New in A1 Website Search Engine 8.0.0 Update #2 (Mar 7, 2017)

  • Fixes and improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 8.0.0 Update #1 (Mar 7, 2017)

  • Improved Javascript handling

New in A1 Website Search Engine 8.0.0 (Dec 20, 2016)

  • Improved speed when using "HTTP using "WinInet/IE" (AJAX) as "Crawler engine" (Windows only at present)
  • Improvements in proxy handling.
  • Various improvements and bug fixes.
  • Default paths for various file kinds now more standard on Mac OS X / macOS.
  • Added support for "data-" HTML5 attributes. Before you start scan, be sure to enable options "search all link tag types" and "try search inside Javascript".

New in A1 Website Search Engine 7.7.0 Updated #4 (Nov 9, 2016)

  • Experimental Windows support for AJAX websites. In "Scan website" select:
  • In "Crawler engine": "HTTP using "WinInet/IE".
  • In "Crawler engine": Set "Simultaneous threads" to max two.
  • In "Crawler options" Uncheck "Cutout # in internal links".

New in A1 Website Search Engine 7.7.0 Updated #3 (Nov 9, 2016)

  • Improvements and fixes.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 7.7.0 Updated #2 (Nov 9, 2016)

  • Improved W3C HTML, W3C CSS, Tidy and CSE integration.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 7.7.0 Updated #1 (Nov 9, 2016)

  • Better import.
  • Export now includes support for generating simple Excel .xls files.
  • Better handling of binary file content inserted into HTML.
  • Big fix concerning custom ports when using the WinInet HTTP solution

New in A1 Website Search Engine 7.7.0 (Oct 19, 2016)

  • Better import.
  • Export now includes support for generating simple Excel .xls files.
  • Better handling of binary file content inserted into HTML.
  • Big fix concerning custom ports when using the WinInet HTTP solution.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 7.6.0 (Sep 26, 2016)

  • Fixes some rare but annoying problems.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 7.5.0 (Sep 22, 2016)

  • Rollup of many updates and improvements across Windows and Mac OSX platforms.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 7.1.0 (Mar 16, 2016)

  • Rollup of 7 updates to 7.0.2 (HTML forms, PDF support, crawler engine etc.)
  • Various Mac OS X specific fixes for better https and unicode support.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 7.0.0 (Nov 13, 2015)

  • Native support for Mac OS X (although still to be considered "beta")
  • Miscellaneous improvements and fixes.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 6.0.1 (Dec 16, 2014)

  • Fixed an issue in a routine extracting top keywords from a list of keywords.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 6.0.0 (Dec 2, 2014)

  • Improved deployment and memory usage of search engines for PHP websites.
  • A bug fix for pages using a rarely encountered Asian character set.
  • Many internal small code and user interface changes and fixes.
  • Memory usage reduced when crawling large websites.
  • Improvements in spell checker functionality.
  • Added ".html" as a data export option for many controls.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 5.1.0 (Apr 17, 2014)

  • Various small improvements and fixes.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 5.0.4 (Jan 9, 2014)

  • Various improvements including how filters are handled
  • Some fixes in crawler engine and its options in the user interface

New in A1 Website Search Engine 5.0.3 (Dec 5, 2013)

  • Analyze website: Added tool tips for cells not big enough to show all text.
  • Analyze website: Columns menu is now shown when right clicking column headers.
  • Improvements in UI speed when using thousands of "limit-to" site scan filters.
  • Large memory usage improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 5.0.1 (Dec 5, 2013)

  • Large memory usage and speed improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 5.0.0 (Oct 25, 2013)

  • Various fixes and improvements.
  • Version number took a small jump to align all "A1" tools version numbering.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.2.5 (Aug 22, 2013)

  • Various fixes and improvements

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.2.4 (Jun 18, 2013)

  • Crawler fixes and enhancements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.2.3 (May 13, 2013)

  • Further improvements in crawler engine.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.2.2 (May 13, 2013)

  • Fixed a (fairly recently introduced) bug that could cause the crawler to not properly crawl .css and .js URLs.
  • Improved support for crawling buggy 404 HTTP responses if configured so.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.2.1 (May 13, 2013)

  • Various small fixes and improvements in the tools available.
  • Fix relates to regular expressions library used.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.2.0 (May 13, 2013)

  • Added internal anchor backlink analysis into search engine / search results.
  • Fix related to keywords data for all pages in website.
  • Fix in PCRE regex (sometimes used for filters) for empty string matches.
  • Fixed a few issues in user interface.
  • Improved importing of files containing URLs.
  • Improved how imported "external" URLs were shown.
  • Did so the HTTP "referer" header would be passed when viewing URLs with A1WA
  • Had to adjust usage of PCRE regex engine on 64bit builds. (Earlier, regular expression could sometimes fail on 64bit builds.)

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.1.6 (Feb 14, 2013)

  • Fixed a "live filtering" issue which could happen when deleting items.
  • Fixed a "live filtering" issue where an extra item could sometimes show.
  • Improved support for intranet SharePoint websites.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.1.4 (Jan 4, 2013)

  • Various small fixes and improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.1.3 (Dec 17, 2012)

  • Fixed a critical bug in usage of the new PCRE/regex engine used some places.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.1.2 (Dec 6, 2012)

  • Various fixes for rare import and rare CSV export problems.
  • Did so the crawler fills in "referer" HTTP header.
  • Switched regex engine (used various places) to a PCRE/Perl compatible one.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.1.1 (Oct 30, 2012)

  • Small fixes and improvements.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.1.0 (Oct 5, 2012)

  • Improvements in handling of HTTP response "location" header containing non-percentage-encoded unicode characters in the "redirect-to" URL.
  • Added new option in user interface, so all found URLs can be viewed easily as both unicode characters and their corresponding URL percentage encoding.
  • Improvements in handling and crawling AJAX websites.
  • Small fix concerning how start search paths are sometimes automatically added based on other configuration settings.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.0.9 (Sep 10, 2012)

  • Improvements in AJAX handling in crawler engine.
  • Fixed an issue in the crawler engine that could occur under heavy load.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.0.8 (Aug 16, 2012)

  • Memory improvements.
  • Various small improvements and fixes.
  • Fixed bug in "quick filter" behavior.
  • Improved URL list text / CSV / XML file import.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.0.6 (Jul 10, 2012)

  • Added yet anoher scoring mechanism to tweak and improve search results.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.0.5 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • Small bug fix in WinInet HTTP handler.
  • Fixed/improved/added some search scoring calculations.
  • Improved "View files" tab.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.0.4 (May 21, 2012)

  • Split "Max simultaneous connections and threads" into two separate options. You can find the options in "Scan website | Crawler engine".

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.0.3 (Apr 30, 2012)

  • Added optional support for all server log based webstats solutions. It is done by making an additional HTTP request to a specific file. If you need to support non-server-log based statistics, just edit the file to log however you need.
  • Improved scoring of words with more spellings, e.g. "site map" and "sitemap". (Using both stemming and alternative spellings it can search pretty "wide".)
  • Improved on PHP/AJAX data transfer when using "next" and "previous" buttons.
  • Memory usage improvements.
  • Website scan progress now also shows "jobs waiting" and "jobs done" counts.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.0.2 (Apr 2, 2012)

  • Improved whole phrase match scoring. (Part of search score calculation.)

New in A1 Website Search Engine 4.0.0 (Mar 9, 2012)

  • Installer now includes a 64bit A1 Website Search Engine 4.x executable which is installed on Windows 64bit systems. (Increases website scan capacity!)
  • Like earlier versions of A1 Website Search Engine: On Windows 32bit systems, the 32bit version of the A1 Website Search Engine 4.x execuable is installed.
  • A bunch of other small improvements included in this first 4.0 release.
  • Added a new search engine mode: HTML/CSS/JS frontend using AJAX against a PHP file to retrieve the search results to show. (Good for larger websites.)

New in A1 Website Search Engine 3.4.6 (Jan 11, 2012)

  • Various improvements in handling Javascript.
  • Fixed a problem with sorting certain website data columns.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 3.4.5 (Dec 27, 2011)

  • Crawler engine improvements.
  • Javascript search engine improvements.
  • Added Javascript search engine options.
  • Installation now also includes a Win98/NT4 compatible executable.

New in A1 Website Search Engine 3.4.4 (Dec 16, 2011)

  • Crawler engine improvements.
  • Javascript search engine improvements.
  • Added Javascript search engine options.