ARTIO JoomSEF Changelog
version 3.2.10
by
ARTIO s.r.o.
last updated on 18th March 2009
Changelog
v3.2.10
18th March 2009
New - Added option for specifying main site language on base domain
Fix - Joomla native SEO routing problems
Fix - POST variables overwriting problem
Fix - backlink plugin problem
Fix - Page separator in page title removal problem
v3.2.9
18th February 2009
New - Added parameters to set custom site name for each extension
New - Added Apply button to configuration and extension parameters pages
Update - Improved filtering of invalid URLs stored in database
Update - Improved links to homepage recognition
Fix - Fixed Breezing forms and JoomFish compatibility
v3.2.8
18th February 2009
Fix - Fixed IIS compatibility
v3.2.7
16th February 2009
Fix - Fixed compatibility problems with Breezing forms
v3.2.6
9th February 2009
New - Added support for meta tags and page title creation in VirtueMart extension
v3.2.5
8th February 2009
Fix - Fixed compatibility with some PHP4 version broken in 3.2.2
Fix - Fixed links to RSS generation
v3.2.4
4th February 2009
Update - Improved variables filtering options
Fix - Fixed links to RSS not working with some configurations
Fix - Fixed extension version comparison on Upgrade page
Fix - Fixed storing of invalid 404 links
v3.2.3
17th January 2009
New - Added possibility of base href definition
New - Added configuration options for search extension v2.0.3
Update - Improved JoomFish compatibility (please, also check for JoomFish 2.0.1 patch at JoomFish site)
Update - Prevention of creation of invalid SEO links on redirection from non-SEF URLs
Update - Default index file set to empty string (nicer URLs)
Update - Checking id variable validity in content extenstion
Update - Code optimization
Fix - Added stronger cache file integrity checking (no more parse errors)
Fix - Fixed non-SEF to SEF redirect when variables were sent using POST method
Fix - Fixed JoomFish default language
v3.2.2
6th January 2009
New Feature - Added subdomains for different languages support
New Feature - Variables validity check (URLs with invalid option, id, task or view won't be stored)
New Feature - Added option to select file locking mechanism for cache saving
Update - Extensions parameters rewritten (custom nonSEF variables option in each extension)
Update - Improved homepage links recognition
Fix - Proper error page is now shown when database error encountered
v3.2.1
15th September 2008
New Feature - Added option to set if default index file should be appended to sections and categories links
New Feature - Added option to determine new visitor's language according to his browser settings
New Feature - JoomSEF now creates the <base> tag similarly to Joomla's core SEO
New Feature - Added option to create 301 Redirect directly from 404 URL
Fix - Content extension uses pagetext for page numbers now
Fix - Fixed HTML entities in URL variables (fixes duplicate URLs for VM when diacritics used)
Fix - Fixed non-SEF to SEF URLs redirection
v3.2.0
5th August 2008
New Feature - Added option to select custom ItemID for Default 404 Page
New Feature - Added option to set server's QUERY_STRING (fixes VM 1.1.2 redirection problem)
New Feature - Added Compatibility mode option to Content extension parameters
Fix - Notices not shown anymore when new component installed
Update - Improved Import/Export functionality (better control over URLs to export)
Update - Improved duplicities avoiding in Wrapper extension
Update - Added option to parse standard Joomla SEO links
v3.1.2
7th July 2008
Improved compatibility with PHP4 running as CGI (fixes some warnings and fatal errors)
Improved handling of spaces in URLs ("+" can be used as replacement character now)
Fixed usage of title alias for menu items
v3.1.1
27th June 2008
Fixed some bugs causing fatal errors under certain circumstances
Fixed search in VirtueMart
Improved compatibility with legacy components when using JoomFish
Improved performance with JoomFish by decreasing number of DB queries
Improved URLs to menu items to limit duplicities
Improved trailing slash toleration
Added option to generate numbers for Google News in articles to Content extension parameters
v3.1.0
30th May 2008
The 3.1.x version branch is meant for Joomla 1.5 in Native mode. It is not compatible with Joomla 1.0.x.
Extensions have been rewritten, every extension needs to be of version 2.0.0 or higher in order to work correctly.
Many minor fixes and improvements have been made
v3.0.0
1st February 2008
The 3.x version branch is meant for Joomla 1.5 in Legacy mode. It is no longer compatible with Joomla 1.0.x.
v2.2.6
15th January 2008
Fix - v2.2.5 bug fix - patch for pagination bug e.g. with VirtueMart
v2.2.5
27th December 2007
Fix - automatically clean cache on URL purge
Fix - SOBI2 warning messages (code update)
Fix - JoomFish causing duplicates with extra parameters
Fix - removing parts of SEO URL if it matches suffix
Fix - content pagination improvements
Fix - content Itemid estimation improved - prevents duplicates better
New extension - JEvents
v2.2.4
28th November 2007
Fix - incorrect long URL truncation fix
Fix - wrapper extension default configuration updated to prevent unexpected behaviour problems
v2.2.3
20th November 2007
Fix - metadata wrongly shown in administration after save if using UTF-8
v2.2.2
24th October 2007
IMPORTANT Fix - possible security breach prevention
Fix - caching problems leading to file corruption and site stops working
Fix - 301 redirection problems
Fix - includes metabot 1.6.0 that fixes the problem of duplicite page titles including page and site name when they are same (e.g. on homepage)
v2.2.1
9th October 2007
Fix - Fixes problems with automatic update from JoomSEF 1.x versions.
v2.2.0
3rd October 2007
New feature - possibility to stop generating further URLs
New feature - possibility to exclude first part of URL for any component (e.g. /shop in VirtueMart)
New feature - easier access to editing homepage metadata
New extension - Zoom Media Gallery
New extension - RSGallery2
New extension - Portfolio
New extension - Seyret Video Directories
Fix - fixed problems with some 3rd party sef_ext files
Update - new configuration options added to VirtueMart extension
Update - free version will allow direct upgrade to ad-free version
v2.1.1
29th August 2007
New feature - JoomFish support for extension texts (you can now change texts like "viewlink", "search" etc. in URLs)
Improved 301 redirection - server doesn't get stuck with index2.php URLs
Fixed Custom Titles functionality
Fixed meta title tag in MetaBot
Improved export and import of custom redirects
Improved upgrade script and fixed problem with directory permissions
Updated Mosets Tree extension
v2.1.0
29th July 2007
New feature - 301 redirection functionality
Bug fix - mambot PHP4 compatibility problems
v2.0.2
25th July 2007
Bug fix - trailing slash toleration not working correctly
Bug fix - "save as custom redirect" not pre-checked on URL customization
v2.0.1
24th July 2007
Bug fix - unistalling plug-in extensions does not remove DB information correctly
Bug fix - mambot does not rewrite meta data
v2.0.0
11th July 2007
Improved searching for 3rd party sef_ext extensions
Added parameters to individual extensions
Added possibility to set your own extension title
Added option to ignore multiple Itemids pointing to same page
Added option to set your own Itemid to use with each extension
Added Cache for mostly visited URLs
Added Patch system through mambot functionality
Rewritten the way how extensions are called
v1.5.1
16th May 2007
New metabot features - define how should your page title be composed and how to you meta tags
Optimized URLs for com_search
Optimized URLs for com_contact
Optimized URLs for com_registration
SEF form components for com_search and com_contact may be disabled
Fixed problem with image not showing on 404 page
Fixed problem when frontpage is not detected if not first item in mainmenu
Fixed issues caused by upper/lowercase URLs difference where SEO should be off
v1.5.0
25th April 2007
Added option to accept URLs both with/without trailing slash
Added option not to store 404 page hits records to decrease number of SQL queries
Fixed some duplicate URLs issues (especially with VirtueMart)
v1.4.3
23rd April 2007
Fixes further 3rd party extension problems and improves compatibility
v1.4.2
16th April 2007
Fixed upgrade error in PHP4 and added upgrade error messages on write permission problems
Added polish language file, upgraded german language file
Fixed weblinks notice outputs
v1.4.1
12th April 2007
Fixed XHTML compliance issues with some URIs
Basic SEF support for archive items added
Fixed problem with duplicating URLs in specific cases
v1.4.0
11th January 2007
Option to exclude often varying variables from stored URLs to reduce the DB size
Significant support improvement of OpenSEF and SEF Advance compatible extensions
Added option to ignore link sources to reduce # of link to 1 target
Please note that switching this feature on may affect Joomla functionality
Added option to reappend source information as anchor
Please note that switching this off when previous in on may affect Joomla functionality
Fixed pagination problems when not possible to reach first page
Other small fixes
v1.3.3
11th January 2007
Higher user comfort (edited URLs are automatically saved as "custom")
Protecting from unwanted URL list deletion on configuration change
v1.3.2
10th January 2007
Revised, retested and updated IIS support
Fixed problems when switching between http and https (VirtueMart checkout problem)
Documentation updates
Several other small bugs fixes
v1.3.1
5th December 2006
Upgrade module bugfix
Other small bug fixes
v1.3.0
28th November 2006
Added upgrade capability
Added AlphaContent support
Added Mosets Tree support
Added VirtueMart component support (payed)
Added SMF Bridge v1.1 RC3 component support (payed)
Added URL filters in admin section
Added title, description and keywords metatags for individual URLs
Fixed lower-case URL problem with components excluded from JoomSEF processing
Duplicate home URL fix
Other small bug fixes
v1.2.5
18th September 2006
Significantly updated JoomFish support
Added possibility to add language to URL as path or suffix
Added possibility to translate URLs using JoomFish
Removed duplicities in URLs (Google indexing optimizaiton)
Enabled defining of own non-ascii characters rewrite rules
Fixed number of minor bugs
v1.2.4
31st August 2006
Documentation update.
Prevented loadClass error problem with older Joomla! versions.
v1.2.3
29th August 2006
Compatibility fix with URLs using numeric entities (e.g. generated by JCE WYSIWG editor).
v1.2.2
28th August 2006
Security fixes to match Joomla 1.0.11 requirements and minor bugs coorections.
v1.2b
15th August 2006
Fixed pagination problems.
Integrated JoomFish and DocMan support.
Ported from original version.