What's new in Web Link Validator 5.9 Build 590
Apr 20, 2015
- Added ability to view HTTP headers and page source (Edit -> Inspect Link)
- Added the View Log button (Profile -> Auto: 'View Log')
- WLVAutoLog.txt is created when the program is started in the Auto mode:
- C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\REL Software\Web Link Validator\WLVAutoLog.txt
- A few minor bugs fixed
New in Web Link Validator 5.8 Build 580 (May 1, 2014)
- Added new reports: 'All links', 'List of all links'
- Action -> Report: Website maintenance)
- Added ability to generate a report in CSV format (.CSV)
- Action -> Report: Format)
- Added support for SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)
- Added support for sending email with TLS/SSL encryption
- Added new check for the HTML Syntax report (Profile -> HTML Syntax)
- " tag with blank SRC attribute"
- Added support for compressed PDF files
- Added support for Microsoft PowerPoint files (.PPT, .PPS, .PPTX, .PPTM, .PPSX, .PPSM)
- Added searching links in .DOCX and .DOCM files
- Added searching links in .XLSX, .XLSM and .XLSB files
- Added support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE)
- Syntax: [RE] regex
- Improved PDF and XLS file parsing
- Improved HTML parsing: tag added (Profile -> HTML Analysis)
- Fixed issue with numeric character references in HTML element attributes
- Some minor bugs fixed
New in Web Link Validator 5.7 Build 570 (Oct 12, 2012)
- Added support of HTML5 tags and attributes
- Added support of compression schemas: gzip, deflate
- Added the 'Google Sitemap' window
- File -> Export -> Google Sitemap)
- Added the new commands: '/sitemap', '-smfolder=', '-smurl='
- Multiple sitemap files are now supported, with a sitemap index file serving as an entry point (a sitemap file may not list more than 50,000 URLs)
- Sitemap.xml can be now compressed using gzip
- Improved HTML parsing: new tags added (Profile -> HTML Analysis)
- Speeded up the 'Pages with spelling errors' and 'Directory Tree' filters
- Verification engine improvements
- Some bugs fixed
New in Web Link Validator 5.5 Build 550 (Nov 1, 2010)
- New interface in the Report window
- Added the Redirect Status field to link properties
- Added new reports: 'Pages with missing titles', 'Small pages', 'Deep pages', 'Duplicate titles', 'List of processed pages', 'Link tree' and 'Site map'
- Added new filters: 'Pages with bad bookmarks', 'Pages with missing titles' and 'Content type'
- Added sub-filters for 'Redirected links': '301 Moved permanently', '302 Found', '3xx Other codes', 'Internal redirect' and 'External redirect'
- Added generating Excel reports with clickable links
- (Action -> Profile -> Report -> Limits)
- Added excluding specific bookmarks
- (Action -> Advanced -> Bookmarks)
- Adobe Flash (.SWF) and Microsoft Silverlight (.XAP) files now count when calculating page download size
- Added copying multiple selected links to clipboard in the Website Verification mode
- Added sorting data in the reports by URL
- Authentication data in profile is now encrypted
- Improved active filter indicator for the the Website Verification mode
- Improved importing links in the Link List mode
- Fixed the bug of treating bookmarks to PDF documents as bad bookmarks on page
- Fixed the bug with Page Rules that caused modifying a page rule other than the one that was edited
New in Web Link Validator 5.1 Build 511 (May 28, 2009)
- Added ability to create reports in the Microsoft Excel format (.XLS)
- (Action -> Report -> Format)
- Verification engine improvements
- Improved parsing of RTSP links
- Updated interface languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Improved HTML parsing
- Some bugs fixed
New in Web Link Validator 5.0 Build 500 (Jan 22, 2008)
- Brand new database and data processing algorithms:
- 1) Validates websites with up to 1,000,000 links
- 2) GUI operating speed improved 100-1000 times
- 3) Generates reports 50-1000 times faster
- 4) The same amount of RAM now holds 4 times more links
- 5) Validates large websites 3-5 times faster
- 6) Profiles with large numbers of links are now loaded 10 to 100 times faster
- 7) Profiles now take 2 times less disk space
- Added searching links in XLS and RSS files
- Improved extension recognition for the File Extension report
- Added excluding links with specific errors from report
- (Action -> Profile -> Report -> Exclude)
- Maximum number of simultaneous connections raised to 50
- Added e-mail customization options: subject and message text
- (Action -> Profile -> Auto -> E-mail Customization)
- Added automatic modification of links before the validation
- (Action -> Profile -> Replace Links)
- Added the "Maximum number of pages shown per link in the report" option
- (Action -> Profile -> Limits)
- 'Bookmarks' tab renamed to 'Bad Bookmarks'
- Improved PDF file parsing
New in Web Link Validator 4.7 (Jun 28, 2006)
- Added the Ignored Words list, Added logging events when the program is running in the Auto mode, Improved data processing algorithm, Faster processing of large sites, some bugs fixed.