What's new in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 5.0.2.9545
Mar 15, 2016
- Added new option to ignore specific CSS classes when crawling
- Fixed log entry for Crawl Finished time
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 5.0.1.8635 (Oct 7, 2015)
- TLS 1.1 and 1.2 are now supported if .NET 4.5 (or later) is installed on your PC
- Crawler now auto-detects when Windows-1252 codepage is mislabeled as ISO-8859-1
- Minor internal tweaks for Windows 10
- Updated the YouTube video checker
- Soft 404 detection is now case insensitive
- JavaScript errors can now be hidden on the Login Wizard
- Added an error message to the Scheduler Log when no output file is specified
- Added the ability to change the default sitemap settings
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 5.0.0 (Jul 30, 2015)
- Brand new Windows 10 look and feel
- .NET 4.0 is now required (.NET 2.0 no longer supported)
- The date the sitemap was created is now included as an XML comment at the top of the sitemap
- Added a new “#Date#” placeholder field in the HTML sitemap template
- Updated the YouTube integration feature to use the latest YouTube API
- “hreflang” and alternate views are now detected and included in XML sitemaps
- Updated internal components to latest versions
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 4.1.2 (Oct 23, 2014)
- Updated video detection logic for sites using Schema.org embedding
- Sitemap Creator is now compatible with sites that do not use SSLv3
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 4.1.1 (Oct 23, 2014)
- Fixed blank XSLT upload issue
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 4.1.0 (Oct 23, 2014)
- Added "Any" option to image detection settings
- Added new Priority Rule wildcard, "!*" now matches any character except "/"
- Added detection for HTML5 videos
- Added right-click shortcut to copy sitemap results in CSV format
- Updated Sitemap Creator so that it can work in a FIPS compliant environment
- Added "#Project#" to HTML templates
- Added the ability to upload an XSLT file along with the XML sitemap
- Updated scheduler logic so that sitemap isn't updated if no pages are crawled (this prevents uploading an empty sitemap if there was some sort of major crawling error)
- Renamed "Advanced Project Settings" to "Advanced Options", and changed "Default Project Settings" to "Project Defaults"
- Updated 3rd party components
- Sitemap Creator will now work in a FIPS compliant environment
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 4.0.13 (Oct 23, 2014)
- Updated Sitemap Creator's internal 3rd party components
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 4.0.12 (Dec 6, 2013)
- Fixed an issue that could prevent video results from loading correctly from saved projects
- Fixed sitemap generation if no file extension is provided
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 4.0.11 (Dec 6, 2013)
- Improved YouTube video detection (for videos using "LightBox" style embedding)
- Improved image detection (for images using "LightBox" style embedding)
- Changed YouTube API integration
- Sitemap Creator now automatically pops up the "New Project" window at first run
- Improved HTML parsing for malformed pages
- The "Log" tab now shows the number of log entries
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 4.0.9 (Jun 13, 2013)
- Improved cookie handling in crawler
- Fixed various project management bugs
- Fixed minor issue that could occur if a link used capitalized "HTTP://" protocol prefix
- Various internal crawler improvements
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 4.0.8 (Jun 13, 2013)
- Improved detection of embedded videos using the Schema.org protocol
- Changes Sitemap Creator so that .NET 4.0 is the preferred framework if multiple version of .NET are installed
- Fixed a bug that could prevent deleting some projects
- Added thousand seperators to result tab counts
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 4.0.7 (May 1, 2013)
- Updated internal FTP component to fix SFTP compatibility issues with some servers
- Enhanced image detection so that images from "Simple Image Gallery Pro" are automatically detected
- Extract Video Data enable/disable setting is now saved correctly
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 4.0.6 (May 1, 2013)
- Updated scheduler logging to provide more detailed information (project name is now included)
- Time format now uses timezone offset (instead of UTC time)
- Fixed a localization issue with the video "rating" in video sitemaps
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 4.0.5 (Mar 7, 2013)
- Added the option to disabled cookies in the crawler (under Advanced Crawler Settings)
- Added the option to include the time in the Last Modified field
- Enhanced the video sitemap feature to detect Windows Media Player embedded videos
- Added the ability to extract the video title and/or description from the embedded video parameters if available
- Sitemap Creator can now use .NET 4.0 or .NET 3.5
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 4.0.4 (Mar 7, 2013)
- Improved Vimeo integration so that non-public video meta data can be collected
- CSV export now uses UTF-8 encoding
- Added Rating to the video sitemap results (if available)
- Video parser now looks for the duration of a directly embedded video in the "dur" or "duration" parameters
- Added "Copy" option to the result context menus
- Enhanced image parser to search for lightbox/lytebox images
- Multiple domains can be included in a sitemap if fully qualified Additional Root URLs are used (remember to add all your sites to Google Webmaster Tools)
- Fixed a bug in the Sitemap Import feature that could cause an Unexpected Error if sitemap contained duplicates
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 4.0.3 (Mar 7, 2013)
- Internal changes to reduce the amount of temporary disk space required when crawling
- Fixed an issue that could cause the wrong image URL to appear in image sitemaps
- Fixed an issue with the scheduler that would prevent the default settings from loading correctly
- Changed the default settings so that "Obey No Follow" is the default behavior
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 4.0.2 (Nov 29, 2012)
- Added new setting to allow a change to the log verbosity
- Changed the trial limitations so that Video, Image and Mobile sitemaps can be generated
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 4.0.1 (Nov 29, 2012)
- Fixed an issues in the Projects list that could cause two projects to appear selected
- Fixed an issue that could cause Sitemap Creator to fail to start on non-English versions of Windows
- Improved video detection for some types of embedded videos
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 4.0.0 (Nov 29, 2012)
- Sitemap Creator now requires .NET 3.5 and is compatible with Windows 8
- Added Video Sitemap support (auto detects embedded videos for YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, etc.)
- Added "Pause" capability with automatic Pause/Resume on Windows suspend/hibernate
- New Sitemap Creator application icon
- Projects can now be organized into folders
- Project file location is now user configurable (can be stored on a network share)
- Our crawler now supports parsing URLs from PDFs and XML documents so more of your site can be found automatically
- The "Sitemap" and "Sitemap & FTP" buttons have been combined into one
- Default Project Settings now apply to existing projects (when the project settings are unchanged from the defaults)
- Image discovery is improved
- Windows 8 "Metro" UI Theme
- Plus many more internal changes and improvements...
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.2.4 (Mar 6, 2012)
- Added "Accept-Language" header to HTTP requests
- Fixed a minor bug in JavaScript parser
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.2.3 (Mar 6, 2012)
- Fixed a bug that could cause an unhandled exception to occur when access in the scheduler on Windows Vista/7
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.2.2 (Mar 6, 2012)
- Fixed a regression bug in the task scheduler/command line interface
- Fixed an unhandled error in the Task Scheduler (affected some Vista/Win7 PCs)
- Removed Yahoo's ping URL from the list of default Ping URLs (Yahoo is phasing this out as part of their search merger with Bing)
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.2.1 (Mar 6, 2012)
- Fixed a bug that would prevent Sitemap Creator from crawling on some Windows XP systems
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.2.0 (Mar 6, 2012)
- Added "Soft 404" detection
- Crawler enhancements for improved website compatibility
- Added option to Image Info context menu to allow excluding image from sitemap
- Added option to obey no-index meta tags
- Added support for internationalized domain names (IDNA encoding)
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.1.8 (Jan 13, 2011)
- Fixed CSV sitemap import
- Fixed various issues related to cookies when crawling
- Windows Program Compatibility Assistant no longer appears on Windows 7
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.1.7 (Jan 13, 2011)
- Updated installer package
- HTML "Base" tag is now used when parsing image URLs
- Fixed bug that would cause no ping URLs to be shown for new users
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.1.6 (Dec 13, 2010)
- Updated cookie handler for improved site compatibility
- Improved handling of HTML base tag
- Fixed errors while pinging on some systems
- Fixed errors while important projects on some systems
- Fixed handling of IE conditional comments (only affects some sites)
- Fixed handing of invalid character encoding value in Content-Type
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.1.5 (Nov 10, 2010)
- Various enhancements to Image Sitemaps
- Improved website compatibility
- Added option to use HTTP 1.0
- Added option to obey "nofollow" meta tag
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.1.4 (Oct 20, 2010)
- Minor internal changes to reduce installer file size
- Fixed minor issues with project export/import that could cause unexpected errors
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.1.3 (Sep 7, 2010)
- Added option to use HTTP 1.0
- Added option to obey robots "nofollow" meta tag
- Fixed issue that could cause unexpected error to occur during crawl when creating image sitemaps
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.1.2 (Sep 7, 2010)
- Fixed issue that caused "Root URL" option not to work correctly in Priority Rules
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.1.1 (Aug 24, 2010)
- Fixed "No Priority Rules" text appearing even when Priority Rules are present
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.1.0 (Aug 24, 2010)
- New multi-threaded crawler for significantly faster crawls
- Support for Google Mobile sitemaps
- Support for Google Image sitemaps (with automatic image data extraction)
- Added options to enable/disable HTTP keep-alive
- Added options to enable/disable HTTP compression
- Improved project Export/Import (results and data are now included)
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.0.5 (Apr 29, 2010)
- Fixed "OK" button not working on Advanced Project Settings window
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.0.4 (Apr 19, 2010)
- Added Automatic Sitemap Priority
- New crawler options
- Added FTP upload status to email alerts
- New Windows 7 look and feel
- New scheduler interface
- Much more
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.0.2 (Apr 7, 2010)
- Fixed condition where scheduled tasks could load incorrect settings
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.0.1 (Mar 17, 2010)
- Enhanced Scheduler so tasks can be scheduled to run when user is not logged on
- File change history is only saved if crawl completes successfully. If crawl is aborted, history is not saved.
- Excluded pages now works correctly when non standard port is used.
- Changed Additional Root URL behaviour, pages under Additional Root URL paths are now treated as internal.
- Updated installer to automatically launch Sitemap Creator after installation
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 3.0.0 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Added Automatic Sitemap Priority
- Renamed "Site Sections" to "Priority Rules"
- Added FTP "Browse" to select upload folder
- New crawler options
- Added Updated Pages and crawler log
- Added FTP upload status to email alerts
- Added "Import Sitemap" option for modifying Priority and Update Frequency values of existing sitemaps
- Sitemap Creator now saves sitemap information with project
- New Windows 7 look and feel
- Added ability Import/Export project files to/from other Inspyder applications
- New easier scheduler interface, allows editing of scheduled tasks and uses wizard interface
- Scheduling tasks no longer requires windows password
- New report engine no longer requires GAC registration
- Now runs as 64-bit processes on 64-bit versions of Windows
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 2.0.12 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Canonical URL detection is now case insensitive (was causing problems if casing did not match link)
- Fixed "Create Site Section" shortcut that was effected by some Root URLs
- If all content included in Sitemap, email notification now correctly shows all URLs that have been updated (not just HTML content)
- Fixed Sitemap Creator application name not appeared correctly in some 3rd party firewall applications
- Fixed trailing slash duplicate URL problem
- Fixed Ask.com ping timeout issue
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 2.0.11 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Added Microsoft's Bing search engine to Sitemap Ping URL list
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 2.0.10 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Added ability to exclude HTML and Style from duplicate content detection (and Last Updated calculation)
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 2.0.9 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Fixed minor URL decoding problem
- Minor updates to default HTML sitemap templates
- Fixed an issue that would keep some URLs from appearing in the HTML sitemap
- HTML sitemap grouping is no longer case sensitive
- Added support for Canonical URLs as defined by Google
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 2.0.8 (Feb 17, 2010)
- HTML sitemaps are now encoded in UTF-8
- Fixed compatibility issue with servers using Content-Location header
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 2.0.7 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Fixed a bug in the trial that could cause sitemaps to contain less than the 25 page maximum
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 2.0.6 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Fixed Site Sections not applied correctly if site uses mix of HTTP and HTTPS
- Updated crawler to include additional HTML attributes
- Now impossible to create project with invalid characters in name
- Fixed several minor problems caused by localized versions of Windows
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 2.0.5 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Updated schema location information so sitemaps pass 3rd party validators (does not affect Google compatibility)
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 2.0.4 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Fixed a minor bug that could occur on some systems when saving sitemap files
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 2.0.3 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Fixed performance issue when running as scheduled task
- Minor change to installer for improved compatibility
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 2.0.2 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Fixed a minor UI bug that caused spacing to the left of the Sitemap Result items
- Fixed a minor bug that could cause HTML sitemaps not to work correctly
- Fixed a minor bug in crawler that could stop crawl if an invalid relative path occurred during an HTTP redirect
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 2.0.1 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Fixed unexpected exception that could occur on some PCs while crawling
- Redirect destination URLs are now included in sitemap (rather than the actual redirect)
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 2.0.0 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Major Update: Sitemap Creator now requires .NET 2.0 or later
- Significantly reduced memory utilization for large sites
- Improved email notification, now page that have changed are marked as Added, Removed or Updated
- FTPS and SSH (via SFTP) file transfers are now supported
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 1.2.5 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Added ability to include Meta Description text from crawled pages in HTML sitemaps
- Fixed an HTML entity decoding bug when 2 digit hex values are used
- Fixed parsing of URLs beginning with "//"
- Added basic support for crawling JavaScript
- Fixed GUI problem for Windows users using non-standard DPI screen values
- Fixed scheduler ignoring page limit value
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 1.2.4 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Added Use SSL option to SMTP settings
- Added 'Include All Content Types' option so that non-HTML/PDF content can be included in the sitemap (disabled by default)
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 1.2.3 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Fixed a minor bug that could stop Sitemap Creator for crawling some sites with PDF documents
- Added "Domain Alias" feature to Advanced Project Settings
- Improved crawler so that certain types of invalid links are now corrected and crawled on the fly
- Fixed a minor bug in the crawler that could cause a single page to be skipped
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 1.2.2 (Feb 17, 2010)
- 'Ping' button now becomes active after 'Export'
- Fixed a problem exporting sitemap index file if path name contained a '.'
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 1.2.1 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Fixed broken context menu on Sitemap Info tab
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 1.2.0 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Changed "Additional Root URLs" to use Relative URL style
- Removed "Options", moved all global settings into projects and created Master Project to control default values
- Added user adjustable User-Agent string
- Changed text on 'Notify Search Engines' button to 'Ping Search Engines'
- Added HTML Sitemap capability
- Fixed a bug in "Duplicate Content Detection" when checking PDF documents
- Changed "Export Sitemap" to "Create Sitemap" in UI
- Improved crawler speed and reduced memory usage
- Added ability to import exclusion list from robots.txt
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 1.1.4 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Added Moreover.com to the sitemap ping/notify list
- Added support for sitemap index files
- Crawler no longer follows HTML Form 'Action' attributes implicitly (caused problems with some websites).
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 1.1.3 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Fixed bug that could cause Sitemap Creator to freeze when exporting on some PCs
- Updated application icon
- Updated crawler: CSS @import "filename.css" syntax now followed correctly
- Various minor improvements
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 1.1.2 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Fixed minor internationalization issue with output format
- Added Ask.com search engine ping URL
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 1.1.1 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Fixed a minor bug that caused the 'Detect Duplicate Content' option to not save correctly
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 1.1.0 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Replaced 'Text' output format with CSV (Comma Separated Values)
- Added 'Gzip' export option (gzips XML output format)
- Added referrer information to the log
- Added Email Notification
- Added parameter removal capability (for removing session IDs, etc.)
- Added automatic detection (and removal) of duplicate content (such as www.example.com and www.example.com/index.html)
- Various minor improvements
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 1.0.5 (Feb 17, 2010)
- The characters ".", "-" and "_" are now allowed in project names
- Content between tags is not included when determining if a page has changed
- Improved speed when applying Site Section rules to results
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 1.0.4 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Added crawler count information to UI
- Export settings are now saved per project
- Crawler log now shows total elapsed time and referrer information
- Added user adjustable crawler delay (to slow crawler) and timeout period
- Various UI improvements
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 1.0.3 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Fixed error when renaming project before crawling
- Fixed occasional error when accessing help
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 1.0.2 (Feb 17, 2010)
- URLs with spaces (and other special characters) are now properly URL encoded in XML sitemap output
New in Inspyder Sitemap Creator 1.0.1 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Fixed results not updating after modifying Site Sections
- Fixed results not sorting when column header clicked