Release date: February 15, 2021
New option:
- Index UNICODE symbols 🎄 as well as Emoji characters 😀 and make them searchable.
- To be activated in admin backend => Settings => Spider Settings
New option:
- Index only URLs with https scheme.
- To be activated in admin backend => Settings => Spider Settings
New option:
- Enable Debug mode for index procedure:
- Will present error messages for each detected link during indexation.
- To be activated in admin backend => Settings => General Settings
New feature:
- The scripts now are compatible with PHP 8
New feature:
- Indexation of .webp images.
New feature:
- In order to skip comparison of all evil UAs,
an additional white list holding brave UAs was added.
Redesigned sub menu 'Categories':
- New form to add top level categories as well as sub categories.
- Now also preventing duplicate category names.
New PDF converter:
- Now indexing text and images in not encoded PDFs. Realized as pure PHP script,
the new script does no longer require the definition to its individual path.
New spreadsheet converter scripts for .xls and .xlsx files.
New open document text converter script for .odt files.
New PowerPoint /Impress converter script for .pptx presentations.
New converter to extract .ZIP archives. Now also extracting files in archive sub-folder.
New converter to extract .RAR archives. Now also extracting files in archive sub-folder.
Improved indexation of product feed content.
Bug fixed in indexation of meta tag 'description'.
Bug fixed in sub menu ‘Import URL list’. Now preventing duplicate category names.
Some small bugs fixed.
Attention : In order to become compatible with PHP 8.x, nearly all scripts have been modified.
As also database has been altered, Spider plus needs to be installed completely new for full functionality of this release.
Please take special care of chapter 2 and 3 for the new installation instructions.