A1 Sitemap Generator News

A1 Sitemap Generator 12.0.0 update #3 :

• Improved handling of URLs using "data:" schemes.
• Improved handling of "srcset" attributes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 12.0.0 update #2 :

• Improved crawling/analyzing content of PDF files.

A1 Sitemap Generator 12.0.0 update #1 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 12.0.0 :

• Many fixes and improvements.
• Resume functionality improved to more optimally handle edge cases.
• Login functionality improved on MacOS.

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #18 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #17 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #16 :

• Various fixes and improvements. (Mostly Windows version specific.)

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #15 :

• Various fixes and improvements. (Mostly Windows version specific.)

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #14 :

• Various fixes and improvements for video sitemaps.
• WebView2 related fixes and improvements. (Windows version specific.)

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #13 :

• Various fixes and improvements. (Windows version specific.)

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #12 :

• Various fixes and improvements. (Windows version specific.)

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #11 :

• Various fixes and improvements. (Windows version specific.)

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #10 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #9 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #8 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #7 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #6 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #5 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #4 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #3 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #2 :

• Improved proxies support.
• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 update #1 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 11.0.0 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.5 update #7 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.5 update #6 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.5 update #5 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.5 update #4 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.5 update #3 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.5 update #2 :

• Various fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.5 update #1 :

• Various fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.5 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.4 update #25 to #26 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.4 update #24 :

• Fixed a bug introduced in update #23.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.4 update #23 :

• Video sitemaps improvement.
• Hreflang XML sitemaps improvement.
• Various small fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.4 update #19 to #22 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.4 update #1 to #18 :

• 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.
• Various video sitemap related improvements.
• Added support for "srcset" attribute.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.4 :

• Mac improvements.
• Various improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.3 :

• Rollup of various fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.2 update #4 :

• Various FTPS/FTPES improvements for when uploadng sitemaps.
• Various sitemap ping improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.2 update #3 :

• Various small fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.2 update #2 :

• Various fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.2 update #1 :

• Much faster import.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.2 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.1 update #1 :

• Improved video sitemaps support.
• Fixed a rare issue in resume crawl functionality.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.1 :

• Improved video sitemaps support.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.0 update #9 :

• Improved Javascript/JSON support.
• Improved video sitemaps support.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.0 update #8 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.0 update #7 :

• Improved command line interface (CLI) with more flexibility.
• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.0 update #6 :

• Expanded command line interface (CLI) with new parameters.
• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.0 update #5 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.0 update #4 :

• Fixed a save issue that could occur with external to internal URL redirects.
• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.0 update #3 :

• AJAX crawler improvements.
• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.0 update #2 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.0 update #1 :

• Added an option to disable following and handling any links found.
• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.1.0 :

• Improved Javascript/JSON support.
• Improved High DPI support on Windows.
• Fixed a project loading issue that could happen in very big projects.
• Fixed an UI bug introduced in a recent version concerning "easy mode" option.
• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.0.0 Update #4 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.0.0 Update #3 :

• Various fixes and improvements in crawler and user interface.

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.0.0 Update #2 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.0.0 update #1 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 10.0.0 :

• Added a new template variable for HTML sitemaps.
• Improvements in JSON handling/parsing.
• Split option "Apply webmaster and output filters" into two separate options.
• Various improvements and fixes in the user interface on Mac.
• Improved HREFLang checking.
• Improved HREFLang XML sitemaps.
• Many small improvements in user interface functionality.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.3 update #6 :

• Fixed bug related to the embedded browser that could causes crashes on Mac.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.3 update #5 :

• Fix that could cause a crawler freeze in extremely rare circumstances.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.3 update #4 :

• Various minor enhancements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.3 update #3 :

• Various minor enhancements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.3 update #2 :

• Rollup of various updates and fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.3 update #1 :

• Mac OS X: Earlier build required 10.14.x or newer - that has now been fixed.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.3 :

• Improved the automatic HREFLang sitemap builder to support more URL patterns.
• 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.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.2 update #3 :

• Improvements in hreflang support in XML sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.2 update #2 :

• Improvements in hreflang support in XML sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.2 update #1 :

• Various improvements in CSS and Javascript parsing.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.2 :

• Various improvements in Mac OS version.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.1 update #4 :

• Further work done on features related to update #3.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.1 update #3 :

• New crawler options making it very easy to "feed" URLs from sitemaps and RSS.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.1 update #2 :

• Improved handling of "oldschool" AJAX usage patterns in some corner cases.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.1 update #1 :

• Javascript parsing improvement.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.1 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.0 update #1 :

• Small fix for an extreme corner case.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.3.0 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.2.0 update #1 :

• Various small improvements and fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.2.0 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.1.0 update #1 :

• Various small improvements and fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.1.0 :

• Various improvements in crawler and UI functionality.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.0.0 update #6 :

• Some hreflang handling improvements.
• Some improvements with resume functionality.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.0.0 update #5 :

• Some hreflang handling improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.0.0 update #4 :

• Some hreflang handling improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.0.0 update #3 :

• Video sitemap improvements.
• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.0.0 update #2 :

• Various improvements and fixes.
• Improved AJAX support on Windows.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.0.0 update #1 :

• Various small improvements and fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 9.0.0 :

• Tons of fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.2.1 update #1 :

• Further improved support for generating GraphViz "DOT" sitemap files.

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.2.1 :

• Improvements and fixes regarding hreflang

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.2.0 :

• Many fixes and improvements.
• Video sitemap improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.1.0 update #3 :

• Fixes and improvements for both Windows and Mac versions.

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.1.0 update #2 :

• Small fix.

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.1.0 update #1 :

• Fixes and improvements for both Windows and Mac versions.

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.1.0 :

• Many further fixes and improvements upon the version 8.0.1 updates.
• Now possible to have crawl use Mac API for HTTP/HTTPS requests. [experimental]

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.0.1 update #6 (Windows only) :

• Improvements in dictionary and spell checking capabilities.

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.0.1 update #5 :

• On Windows you can now select visual program "skin" in "Help > Styles".

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.0.1 update #4 :

• Many improvements and fixes across both platforms.

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.0.1 update #3 :

• Added support for swfmill for better crawling of Flash websites.

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.0.1 update #2 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.0.1 update #1 :

• Various changes including smaller installation download.

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.0.1 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.0.0 update #4 :

• Many smaller fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.0.0 update #3 :

• Small fix for robots.txt handling of extended syntax.
• Improved support for buggy webservers.

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.0.0 update #2 :

• Fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.0.0 update #1 :

• Improved Javascript handling.

A1 Sitemap Generator 8.0.0 :

• 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.

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.7.0 update #6 :

• Various small fixes
• 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".

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.7.0 update #5 :

• Experimental Windows support for AJAX websites. In "Scan website" select: 1) In "Crawler engine": "HTTP using "WinInet/IE". 2) In "Crawler engine": Set "Simultaneous threads" to max two. 3) In "Crawler options" Uncheck "Cutout # in internal links".

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.7.0 update #4 :

• Improvements and fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.7.0 update #3 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.7.0 update #2 :

• Better import.
• Export now includes support for generating simple Excel .xls files.

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.7.0 update #1 :

• Better handling of binary file content inserted into HTML.
• Big fix concerning custom ports when using the WinInet HTTP solution.

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.7.0 :

• Support for some AMP tags.
• Fixed an issue with GZIP compression when using WinInet HTTP crawler engine.
• Fixed as issue with the embedded browser when running the program under WINE.
• Various other small improvements and fixes for Windows and Mac OS X versions.

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.6.0 :

• Fixes some rare but annoying problems.
• Fixed and improvements for Mac OS X.

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.5.0 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.2.0 update #July2016 :

• Major rollup of many updates.

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.2.0 update #1 :

• Various improvements and fixes.
• Many improvements when building video sitemaps.
• More agressive language detection of crawled pages.
• Added optional support for adding hreflang information to XML sitemaps.
• Fix for Mac OS X version where child windows would appear behind main window.

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.2.0 :

• Fix of write permissions related problem when generating files on Mac OS X.
• keyboard shortcuts on Mac OS X are now more "typical" for OS X users.
• Crawler now handles invalid MIME types better in some "tricky" situations.

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.1.0 :

• 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.

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.0.2 :

• General functionality improvements and fixes.
• Mac OS X specific polish and fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.0.1 update #1 :

• Small patch regarding editing template HTML sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.0.1 :

• Many small updates, fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 7.0.0 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 6.0.5 :

• Fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 6.0.4 :

• Many fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 6.0.3 :

• Miscellaneous small improvements and fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 6.0.2 update #1 :

• Fixed a problem that could cause exporting data to CSV to fail.

A1 Sitemap Generator 6.0.2 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 6.0.1 update #2 :

• Improved code that import URLs from many different text file formats.
• Some new crawling options requested by a user.

A1 Sitemap Generator 6.0.1 update #1 :

• Fixed a minor UI issue that could be confusing.

A1 Sitemap Generator 6.0.1 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 6.0.0 update #1 :

• Added an import button for adding a list of URLs to "start search paths".

A1 Sitemap Generator 6.0.0 :

• A bug fix for pages using a rarely encountered Asian character set.
• Fixed an issue when creating HTML sitemaps of pages on local disk.
• Many internal small code and user interface changes and fixes.
• Added an HTML sitemap option to mirror the "tree view" in "Analyze website".
• Various improvements related to HTML sitemaps.
• Improvements in spell checker functionality.
• Added ".html" as a data export option for many controls.
• Memory usage reduced when crawling large websites.

A1 Sitemap Generator 5.1.0 update #4 :

• Improved code when crawling certain (very) big Unicode pages.

A1 Sitemap Generator 5.1.0 update #3 :

• Fixed an annoying issue that could happen in the embedded IE control.

A1 Sitemap Generator 5.1.0 update #2 :

• Various small improvements and fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 5.1.0 update #1 :

• Various small improvements and fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 5.1.0 :

• Various small improvements and fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 5.0.7 :

• Some small fixes in the crawler engine.

A1 Sitemap Generator 5.0.6 update #1 :

• Small fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 5.0.6 :

• Fixed a few glitches.
• Added support for skinning on 64bit builds.
• Made an improvement in the crawler job queue system to minimize memory usage.
• The "Traditional Chinese" translation has been updated.

A1 Sitemap Generator 5.0.4 :

• Various improvements including how filters are handled.
• Fix for when showing HTML inside embedded IE 11 browser.
• Improved printing and reporting.
• Some fixes in crawler engine and its options in the user interface.

A1 Sitemap Generator 5.0.3 :

• 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.

A1 Sitemap Generator 5.0.2 update #2 :

• 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.
• Added a new option for sites with videos in "Scan website | Crawler options".

A1 Sitemap Generator 5.0.2 update #1 :

• Small fix for when users want to create sitemaps with URLs that redirect.

A1 Sitemap Generator 5.0.2 :

• Improvement for video sitemaps when using Vimeo.

A1 Sitemap Generator 5.0.1 :

• Large memory usage and speed improvements.
• Improved feedback during sitemap pinging.

A1 Sitemap Generator 5.0.0 :

• Added support for HTTP header link/rel canonical information.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.2.6 :

• A bug fix in crawler engine.
• Added additional scoring mechanism for picking correct video thumbnails. (Code proximity which is useful for pages with multiple videos and tumbnails.)

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.2.5 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.2.4 :

• Crawler fixes and enhancements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.2.3 :

• Further improvements in crawler engine.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.2.2 update #1 :

• Minor tweaks.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.2.2 :

• 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.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.2.1 :

• Various small improvements for when creating video sitemaps of websites.
• Various small fixes and improvements in the tools available.
• Fix relates to regular expressions library used.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.2.0 update #2 beta #1 :

• Experimental option for defining max byte size to be analyzed in pages.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.2.0 update #1 :

• Small fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.2.0 :

• Fix in PCRE regex (sometimes used for filters) for empty string matches.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.1.7 :

• 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.)

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.1.6 update #1 :

• Did so the HTTP "referer" header would be passed when viewing URLs with A1SG.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.1.6 :

• Fixed a "live filtering" issue which could happen when deleting items.
• Fixed a "live filtering" issue where an extra item could sometimes show.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.1.5 update #2 :

• Fixed an issue in the "SlickMap" templates for "visual sitemaps".

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.1.5 update #1 :

• Added some new template sitemap code places.
• Improved the 2 new "visual sitemap" templates.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.1.5 :

• Improved support for intranet SharePoint websites.
• Included 2 new "visual sitemap" templates.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.1.4 update #2 :

• Fixed a small issue when using *Recrawl* option.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.1.4 update #1 :

• Solved a problem caused by an issue in the used Regex PCRE wrapper/library.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.1.4 :

• Various small fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.1.3 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.1.2 :

• 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.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.1.1 update #1 :

• Improved support for Wistia and video sitemaps

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.1.1 :

• Small fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.1.0 update #2 :

• Improved configuration presets for image and video sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.1.0 update #1 :

• Small fix concerning how start search paths are sometimes automatically added based on other configuration settings.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.1.0 :

• 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.
• Various crawler engine improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.9 update #1 :

• Further improvements in AJAX handling and crawling.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.9 :

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

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.8 update #2 :

• Tweaked the image sitemap "rules" for when an image is considered "layout".

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.8 update #1 :

• Improved URL list text / CSV / XML file import.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.8 :

• Memory improvements.
• Various small improvements and fixes.
• Fixed bug in "quick filter" behavior.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.7 :

• New quick filter feature: Only search in URL response related columns.
• Made "quick filter" case insensitive.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.6 update #4 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.6 update #3 :

• Fixed a minor visual problem with some dropdowns on Windows 64bit systems.
• Some improvements in HTML/CSS template sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.6 update #2 :

• Some further video sitemap improvements and tinkering.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.6 update #1 :

• Added and improved support for more video tags in video sitemaps.
• Added support for more image/video related markup tags.
• Small memory optimization during website crawl.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.6 :

• Large update in how images/thumbs are associated to videos in video sitemaps.
• Added support for more image/video related markup tags.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.5 update #1 :

• Added new options in "Crawler options" with a new option for detecting duplicate URLs like "/example" and "/example/" including automatic handling.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.5 :

• Small bug fix in WinInet HTTP handler.
• Improved "View files" tab.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.4 update #1 :

• Added support for more image/video related markup tags.
• Set default in "Crawler engine | Default path type and handler" to WinInet.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.4 :

• Added a new option for Google video sitemaps that, if enabled, will allow A1SG to create its own thumbnail images (will need to be FTP uploaded later) if those found during website crawl are not suitable for use in video sitemaps. (This new option will be expanded on in later updates.)

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.3 update #3 :

• Small fix in the "tree view" listing found URLs after site scan has finished.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.3 update #2 :

• Memory usage improvements.
• Image sitemap improvements.
• Website scan progress now also shows "jobs waiting" and "jobs done" counts.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.3 update #1 :

• Video sitemap improvements.
• RSS feed sitemap file improvements.
• Various other improvemens.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.3 :

• Fixed a video sitemap issue introduced in version 4.0.2
• Improved support for more video hosting/players.
• Did so all generated .csv files correspond to the import/export CSV options. (So one can pick a format supported by e.g. Excel, Calc or a Database system.)
• Re-organized how sitemap file paths are setup. (More configuration possible.)

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.2 :

• Some video sitemap improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.1 :

• Various small crawler improvements.
• Added scan settings preset for mobile sitemap. Sets e.g crawler user agent.
• Improved creating standard, image, video etc. sitemaps using the same scan.

A1 Sitemap Generator 4.0.0 (8th of March 2012) :

• Installer now includes a 64bit A1 Sitemap Generator 4.x executable which is installed on Windows 64bit systems. (Increases website scan capacity!)
• Like earlier versions of A1 Sitemap Generator: On Windows 32bit systems, the 32bit version of the A1 Sitemap Generator 4.x executable is installed.
• A bunch of other small improvements included in this first 4.0 release.
• Future development will go into 4.x branch. Registered users of earlier versions are eligible to either free or discounted upgrades. More info: http://www.microsystools.com/products/sitemap-generator/upgrade.php

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.5.1 :

• Various improvements and fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.4.9 :

• Made available some quick-filter buttons to "exclude" and "limit-to" URLs.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.4.8 :

• Includes preset for XenForo forum system now.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.4.7 :

• Improvements in video sitemap and image sitemap generation code.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.4.6 :

• Fixed a problem I had introduced that would make certain automation commands ignored.
• Various improvements in handling Javascript.
• Fixed a problem with sorting certain website data columns.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.4.5 :

• Crawler engine improvements.
• Installation now also includes a Win98/NT4 compatible executable.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.4.4 :

• Crawler engine improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.4.2 and 3.4.3 :

• FTP Upload re-added. (Had a bug in release-build-script excluding FTP upload.)
• Pinging re-added. (Had a bug in release-build-script excluding FTP upload.)

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.4.1 :

• Small fix in video sitemaps builder.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.4.0 :

• Lots of small and moderate sitemap tool code improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.3.6 :

• Video sitemap improvements.
• Sitemap ping improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.3.5 :

• Wide range of sitemapper tool improvements and fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.3.4 :

• Various small improvements in sitemap generator tool.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.3.3 :

• Fixed various bugs.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.3.1 :

• Various small improvements in sitemapper program.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.3.0 :

• Various small improvements and fixes in sitemap generator.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.2.9 :

• Improved support for advanced and visual HTML/CSS sitemap templates.
• Improved support for video sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.2.8 :

• Added better support for HTML and visual sitemap templates.
• Added a new HTML/CSS "visual" sitemap template.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.2.7 :

• Fixed a minor CSS parsing issue in website crawler.
• Slightly changed how HTTP content response streams get handled.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.2.6 :

• Video sitemap improvements.
• HTML sitemap improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.2.5 :

• FTP improvements

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.2.4 :

• Video sitemap improvements.
• Various improvements allover in program.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.2.3 :

• Video sitemap improvements.
• Various improvements allover in program.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.2.2 :

• Lots of improvements to crawler including new options and features.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.2.1 :

• Added more command line parameters.
• various additions and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.2.0 :

• Improved support for video sitemaps

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.1.7 :

• Fixed various issues.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.1.6 :

• Fixed various issues.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.1.5 :

• Fixed an image sitemaps bug concerning images only linked and not used.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.1.4 :

• Faster project load.
• Faster website crawl stop.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.1.3 :

• A bug fix for loading/saving some data.
• Added specific support for video sitemaps for videos hosted on YouTube.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.1.2 :

• Various minor fixes in crawler.
• Added support for HTML sitemap template variables inside template elements.
• Improved importing capabilities of sitemap and text files containing URLs.
• Added "minimize" option for XML sitemaps to avoid superfluous space.
• Added some "platform" presets for the website crawls.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.1.1 :

• Improvements in support for video sitemaps. (Again again.)

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.1.0 :

• Fixed bug in WinInet HTTP engine crawler support.
• Various program and crawler engine fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.0.9 :

• Again improvements in support for video sitemaps.
• Image and video sitemap build speed improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.0.8 :

• Further improvements in support for video sitemaps.
• You can now ask edited titles to be "permanent" when using "recrawl".

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.0.7 :

• Some minor improvements and fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.0.6 :

• Improved detection of HTML5 and XML tags that designate "charset" values.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.0.5 :

• Aded an image sitemap option if A1 Sitemap Generator should auto generate image:title and image:caption even when no image attributes available.
• Improved crawling of video information in websites.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.0.4 :

• Improved support for video sitemaps using external hosting domains.
• Generally improved support for video sitemaps. Can handle more cases better.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.0.3 :

• Fixed an issue on handling a specifc kind of malformed HTML comment.
• Improved both "analysis" and "output filters "limit to". It now supports strings, paths and regex, i.e. now supports the same as "exclude filters".

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.0.2 :

• Various sitemap generator tool improvements and fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.0.1 :

• Enhanced image sitemaps to use "title" and "alt" attributes.
• Fixed issue where robots.txt looked wrong in A1SG. (Pure viewing issue!)
• Various updates.

A1 Sitemap Generator 3.0.0 :

• Program is now complete Unicode inside meaning it can handle websites mixing multiple languages of Eastern and Far Eastern origin in the same website.
• Lots of small fixes and improvements. (And more coming soon.)

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.3.9 :

• Again tweaked the code I introduced in 2.3.7.
• Improved the HTML sitemap templates save/load.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.3.8 :

• Fixed a bug in version 2.3.7 introduced code which purpose was to scan and "disable" invalid null bytes inside the response content stream. (Useful for some websites.)
• Updated to latest HTTP Indy library version which give some speed increase compared to the one used in version 2.3.7.
• Various small crawler speed improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.3.7 :

• Fixed issue with disabled configuration dropdowns with pre-configured values.
• Minor fixes and improvements.
• Enhanced HTML sitemap templates support. (Easier to add and select new ones.)

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.3.6 :

• Improved automatic root path alias algorithm.
• Improved website scan for video sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.3.5 :

• Fixed an issue when deleting URIs while in "flat" view mode.
• Fixed an issue when building HTML sitemaps. (Related to earlier changes.)
• Fixed export issue with cells containing quotes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.3.4 :

• Fixed an issue in the XML sitemap stylesheet file "a1sg.xsl".
• Fixed a bug in "time edit" controls that could happen with "zero" values.
• Fixed a rare error/crash issue on program closedown.
• Improved page crawl code a few places.
• Various minor user interface improvements, e.g. in "replace text" dialog.
• Added "importance" as a sort order for URLs when creating sitemaps.
• Added image sitemap option regarding if images are to be listed only once.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.3.3 :

• Improved "extended data" XML file storage. (Takes less space on disk now.)
• Various HTML sitemap (advanced usage) bug fixes and improvements.
• Small improvement in built-in translation tool.
• Fixed minor issue in crawler.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.3.2 :

• Fixed a bug when selecting a different language in "Lingua".
• Improved language files translation tool in "About" dialog.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.3.1 :

• Fixed a bug where paths could be shown incorrectly sometimes in scan results.
• Added a fallback solution where crawler tries to extract date information from URL paths.
• Added multi-select support so one could mass delete and edit data of found website URLs, e.g. importance values or similar.
• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.3.0 :

• Various bug fixes.
• Added some new columns in "Website data view", e.g. "Linked by".
• Made is easier to make groups of columns visible.
• Added filtering support of "Website data view".
• Made CSV export support all of above.
• All of above makes it easy to make CSV reports viewable in e.g. Excel.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.2.3 :

• Fixed an issue where HTML template footer code could be left out if specifying a higher "links per page" than total URLs/links available.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.2.2 :

• Fixed an issue where URL encoding also "cleaned" GET part of URLs. Examples: 1) "&&" became "&" 2) "?&" became "?".
• Fixed an issue with URLs using multiple anchor "#" and "?" characters.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.2.1 :

• Fixed bug in image sitemaps.
• Fixed bug with validators running in browser window.
• New and improved help.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.2.0 :

• Improved support for image sitemaps.
• Lots of small bug fixes and improvements.
• Speed and memory usage improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.1.5 :

• Fixed a bug in code handling form input radio elements.
• Added support for image XML sitemaps.
• Small fix in crawler in how some URLs get resolved.
• Various small fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.1.4 :

• Minor bug fix in crawler engine.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.1.3 :

• Various bug fixes.
• Can now extract some URLs from Flash if Adobe swf2html.exe is available.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.1.2 :

• Fixed a bug that could hinder parsing of HTML inside Javascript.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.1.1 :

• Various bug fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.1.0 :

• Now features an optional alternative HTTP engine using Windows API.
• Expanded resume functionality to include a "light" mode.
• Various bug fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.9 :

• Various fixes in sitemapper tool.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.8 :

• Added support for Google Base feeds. (Extension to RSS feed files) However, only the most common tags are supported at this point.
• Various improvements and bug fixes in sitemapper program.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.7 :

• Croatian translation by Sanjin Barac.
• Added support for ROR sitemaps. (Extension to RSS feed files)

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.6 :

• Various improvements and fixes in sitemap generator program.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.5 :

• Various fixes in sitemap generator tool.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.4 :

• Fixed issue introduced in 2.0.3 where HTML Parser would stop when encountering unexpected characters instead of simply continuing parsing HTML tags.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.3 :

• Support for the updated Google news sitemap protocol.
• Further improved support for Google video sitemaps.
• Fixed a few issues regarding HTML sitemaps.
• Various bug fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.2 :

• Improved support for video xml sitemaps / Google video sitemaps.
• Added support for code xml sitemaps / Google code sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.1 :

• Chinese translation by Xiong.
• Various small issues fixed.
• XML sitemaps can now include a custom XSL file.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.0 :

• Many improvements and feature enhancements.
• For information about free subscription upgrades vs discounted paid upgrades, click any of the "upgrade" links. There you can also find the latest sitemap generator 1.x.x version available for download.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.8 :

Various enhancements in program, website crawler and sitemap builder.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.7 :

• Added support for custom request headers during website crawl.
• Various enhancements, e.g. in website scanner.
• Serbian translation by Goran Nešic, http://www.readyonpcshop.com
• Dutch/Belgian translation by Dries Hauwaert, http://www.1001tips.be
• Improved sitemap generator project loading speed and memory usage.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.6 :

• Miscellaneous minor improvements in captions/descriptions and crawler engine.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.5 :

• Improvements in crawler engine.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.4 :

• Some speed improvements in certain cases.
• Improvements in registration process.
• Various improvements in crawler and program.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.3 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.2 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.1 :

• Various updates and fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.0 :

• Fixed an issue with missing URL percentage encoding of certain URL parts.
• Various improvements in program and sitemap crawler engine.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.9 :

• Fixed some errors in website crawling and sitemap building modules.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.8 :

• Fixed an error when building video sitemaps / build all.
• Fixed some issues with crawler and output filters.
• Added crawler and output depth filters.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.7 :

• Fixed a couple of issues in Javascript parser.
• Now optional whether crawler deletes URLs marked "nolist" (e.g. by "noindex"). This is useful when resuming prior website scans. Now, the sitemap builder has an option to remove such URLs.
• Fixed various FTP upload issues.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.6 :

• Fixed an issue with Google Video Sitemaps which also affected "build all".

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.5 :

• Added excellent support for Google Mobile Sitemaps - XML sitemap file kind.
• Added good support for Google News Sitemaps - XML sitemap file kind
• Added moderate support for Google Video Sitemaps - XML sitemap file kind.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.4 :

• Fixed a small issue when using multiple root directory aliases.
• Added MIME type website scan "output" filters in website crawl functionality.
• Added string/path/regex website scan "output" filters.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.3 :

• Made BOM (byte-order mark) optional for all sitemaps generated as UTF-8 files.
• Fixed a glitch where superfluous files would be generated for XML sitemaps.
• Directories with error reponse codes are no longer linked in HTML sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.2 :

• Program will now automatically correct scanned root directory if the entered is a pure domain URL that redirects.
• Added support for optional headers when exporting data into CSV files.
• Fixed a couple of website scan issues in crawler.
• Added MIME type crawler filters for website scan functionality.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.1 :

• Improvements in memory usage when loading projects with extended website data, and when building sitemaps for large websites.
• Added some new HTML sitemap generator options and tools.
• Improved handing of "web analytics" URLs in Javascript code.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.0 :

• Scanner can now extract meta tag information for "description".
• Crawler will now always store "robots" nofollow/noindex flags.
• When "description" meta data is available, it will be used when creating ASP.Net Web.Sitemap and RSS feed sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.9 :

• Fixed a potential issue that could happen when removing found URLs after scan.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.8 :

• Various improvements in help file.
• Better pause and resume scam functionality.
• Crawler now support robots.txt wildcards * in disallow.
• Minimized memory usage and optimized speed a few places.
• Saving projects will no longer cause memory usage to spike.
• Various bug fixes and improvements.
• Improved scanner for websites located on local Windows file paths.
• Ukranian translation by Anatoly Melnyk, http://prybyralnyk.com.ua

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.7 :

• Lots of improvements, speed optimizations, minor and critical bug fixes etc.
• New command line support for stopping scan after whatever number of seconds.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.6 (and 1.6.5) :

• Fixed an issue introduced in 1.6.4

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.4 :

• Lots of fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.3 :

• Russian translation by Dead J. Dona, http://deadjdona.co.ua
• Lots of various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.2 :

• Made it easier to see progress.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.1 :

• Fixed a bug that could occur when deleting items in "Analyze website".
• Solved an issue with webservers sometimes dropping connections when crawling.
• Various improvements and fixes in program functionality and user interface.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.0 :

• Made the "Lingua" menu more easy to under for first-time users.
• Fixed an issue that could occur on some non-English websites.
• Various small optimization and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.9 :

• Fixed an issue when creating HTML sitemaps spanning multiple pages.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.8 :

• Fixed a couple of minor issues, again related to 1.5.5.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.7 :

• Fixed a couple of issues in website crawler that was introduced in 1.5.5.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.6 :

• Fixed a minor bug in website crawler that was introduced in 1.5.5 during the major work on optimizing speed and memory usage.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.5 :

• Changed how extended data is handled. Besides fixing a bug that could cause freezes in rare circumstances, the overhead of collecting extended website data (links, linked-from, used-from, redirects etc.) has been heavily reduced.
• Overall speed and memory optimizations in website crawler.
• Various crawler bug fixes and user interface improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.4 :

• Fixed a bug that could occur when viewing external links.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.3 :

• Improved handling of timeouts and resume of website scans afterwards.
• Improved crawling of pages throwing error response codes.
• Various crawler engine enhancements.
• Various user interface improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.2 :

• Made options concerning session/user ID variables better and more logical.
• Fixed and improved various things in the builtin translation and tool.
• Fixed a bug concerning viewing data in "Directory summary" and related tabs.
• Fixed a bug introduced during 1.5.0 development that could sometimes occur during website crawling, in particular with websites not supporting HEAD requests.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.1 :

• Fixed a bug introduced during 1.5.0 engineering that could sometimes occur during website crawling, particular with very slow websites. (Timing issue with thread pool and cached data.)

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.0 :

• Heavy research into improving memory usage and speed during website scan. Both areas have been significantly improved and more will come in the future.
• General website crawling and program user interface improvements.
• Improved the help file.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.9 :

• Fixed an issue in website crawler with redirect requests starting with "//".
• Fixed various minor configuration and website crawler issues.
• Added multi-page (including continued multi-column) HTML sitemaps support. - NOTE: For saved projects, you need to update template code "footer" items. - NOTE: The option for max links per site map page is in "Template options".
• Added a create "robots.txt" that uses website crawlers filters and links to XML sitemap / sitemap index file.
• Improved FTP upload module with more options and feedback.
• Added new FTP upload and search engine sitemap ping command line functions.
• Added regular expressions support for website crawler "ignore" filters.
• Added crawler obey option for "a" links using "rel" attribute with "nofollow".

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.8 :

• Miscellaneous updates.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.7 :

• Fixed a critical issue introduced in 1.4.6 that could prevent startup on systems using Windows XP with classic themes. Thanks to those who reported it.
• Can now understand HTML "get" <form> and <input> <button> <select> <option>.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.6 :

• One can now define a sitemap output file path for each kind of sitemap type.
• Now possible to control which response codes are valid when creating sitemaps.
• Enhanced command line support with new commands such as "-buildrss" etc.
• Added a FTP "Upload all" function. "Upload now" uses last generated sitemap.
• CSS parser can now h andle "#import" statements.
• Fixed a minor issue with empty HTML comments.
• Fixed an issue with HTML tags having an attribute with no value not placed at the end. Example "noresize": <frame noresize src="example.html">

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.5 :

• Fixed an issue with root host paths such as www.ExAmPle.com (cased letters).
• Fixed an issue with paths containing "../" and "./".
• Fixed an issue with website login functionality.
• Improved memory usage a couple of places.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.4 :

• Made the HTML parser much faster.
• Added BOM checking (in addition to server response headers and the "charset" meta tag) to identify the character set used in HTML documents.
• Korean translation by Eunsook Kim, http://www.famun.com
• Fixed a bug concerning website crawler ignore filters.
• Fixed a bug concerning reading UTF8 translation files with a leading BOM.
• Fixed an issue in ASP.Net sitemaps (these can be used in ASP.Net controls)
• Fixed a bug related to LastMod in XML sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.3 :

• Added some support for website scan logging.
• Made some speed and memory optimizations in website crawler.
• Disabling case sensitive paths will no longer influence strings after "# ?".
• Domain names are now always lower cased.
• Fixed a deadlock/freeze bug in website crawler that could occur when using multiple root paths. (And another very rare case.)
• Fixed an issue in urlencode / urldecode (affecting certain characters).
• Polish translation by Witold, http://www.naszacena.pl
• Added "allow" crawler filters (can complement "ignore" and "output" filters)
• Added support for "resume" website scans.
• Website scanner now uses a load balancing thread pool.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.2 :

• Can now handle servers that throw 403 (forbidden) on HEAD requests.
• Fixed a bug that could happen for some types of HTTP redirects.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.1 :

• Portuguese translation by Claudio Souza, clsbrasil#hotmail.com
• Added support for also pinging Yahoo (and more) when a sitemap has changed.
• It is now possible to override and/or leave out LastMod tag in XML sitemaps.
• XML sitemaps can now optionally also contain XML necessary for validation.
• Fixed a bug in urlencode / urldecode handling.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.0 :

• Arabic translation by Amin Sidky, http://www.sawtelarab.com
• Added more crawler engine options, e.g. connection retries.
• Added better support for parsing Javascript and CSS.
• Added support for <area> tag.
• Improved HTTPS handling.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.9 :

• Can now handle translated right-to-left languages.
• Added some new crawler engine options, e.g. connection timeout.
• Added support for defining number of urls in each Google XML sitemap file.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.8 :

• Corrected a bug (introduced in 1.3.7) that could sometimes occur when saving.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.7 :

• Added support for "Last-Modified" meta tags.
• Fixed a bug with <base> tags.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.6 :

• Added basic support for following references in <form> tags.
• Added support for translation files to be UTF8 encoded.
• Fixed a bug concerning summary data related to folders that are not linked.
• Fixed a bug with <base> tags.
• Improved Javascript parsing.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.5 :

• Fixed a bug (introduced in 1.3.3) with HTML / template sitemap builder.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.4 :

• Fixed a bug (introduced in 1.3.3) concerning page importance scores.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.3 :

• Major update in how data from website scans are stored in memory.
• Fixed a bug concerning internal links redirecting to external pages.
• Various minor fixes with "auto adjust configuration" when building sitemaps.
• Did so program windows no longer "flashes" at program start and shutdown.
• Website scan progress now shows status of both "scanned" and "listed" files.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.2 :

• Export of "tree link views" now always includes all visible columns / fields.
• Can now import website data. E.g. text files with one url per line.
• Added "Refresh scan" functionality. This can be useful if you wish to update your sitemap without performing a complete rescan of your website.
• Now shows flags for different languages support in "Lingua" menu.
• Fixed bugs and enhanced functionality in the "About | Translation" editor.
• Made a new crawler configuration tab called "Data collection".
• Optimized memory usage with certain "Data collection" configurations.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.1 :

• Fixed a bug with <base> tag and links starting with "/".
• Spanish translation by Washington Chevez, uia1#hotmail.com
• French translation by Stéphane Matte, http://www.veri-sites.com

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.0 :

• Added a new option regarding default directory for user data.
• Added more directory and file name error checking when building sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.9 :

• Improved support for RSS sitemaps and ASP.net Web.sitemap navigation.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.8 [update] :

• Fixed a critical bug that could occur when saving. This bug became easier to spot because of a crawler engine speed enhancement in the previous release.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.8 :

• Enhanced crawler to better ignore and/or handle javascript code.
• Added an option more concerning extracting links from Javascript code.
• Added support for build all sitemap kinds with one click / command line.
• Added support for RSS sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.7 :

• Added an option for website crawler not to "collect" external links.
• Added website crawler support for HTML "base" tag.
• Various minor improvements in the website crawler.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.6 :

• Fixed a bug that would occur with some types of relative HTTP redirects.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.5 [update] :

• Fixed a website crawler issue related to HTML comments.
• Relative paths are also now accepted when setting website crawler option: "Limit final sitemap output to certain directories"

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.5 [update] :

• Fixed an issue (introduced in 1.2.4) in website crawler with paths such as: "http://www.example.com/?var-has-slashes=mydir/mypage.html"
• Made options relevant for "root headline" in "template sitemaps" more clear.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.5 :

• Fixed an issue in website crawler concerning handling of HTML entities.
• Added a template sitemap option regarding HTML entities.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.4 :

• Fixed an issue with some "Create sitemap" project settings not saved.
• Fixed an issue in website crawler concerning links starting with "?".
• Added proxy support (username / password support still experimental).
• Fixed "tip of the day" dialog.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.3 [update] :

• Small fixes related to the introduction of the 1.2.3 crawler engine update.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.3 :

• Overall improvements in speed and memory usage.
• Added a new crawler engine option concerning tracking of links and redirects to and from all pages. Disabling this option will improve speed in certain parts of crawler and lessen memory usage (a lot), useful for large websites.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.2 :

• Enabled exporting most of the visible data in user interface to .csv files.
• Fixed an issue in website crawler concerning links starting with "?".
• Improved the generic (HTML etc.) sitemap code template editor.
• Will now, if necessary, generate sitemap index files for Google XML sitemaps.
• Added Gzip (.gz) support for Google XML and text sitemaps.
• It is now possible to leave out Priority and ChangeFreq tags in XML sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.1 :

• Improved Javascript support.
• Fixed: I accidently switched captions for sitemap build modes in 1.2.0.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.0 :

• Fixed a minor bug with code template builder.
• Fixed a bug in website crawler.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.9 :

• Sitemap builder code template options have been improved.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.8 [update] :

• Corrected an issue with my build script for version 1.1.8. This issue caused an error message about spin edit controls missing a resource file (an image).

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.8 :

• Minor UI behavior adjustment and help file additions.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.7 :

• Added sitemap ping notification support.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.6 :

• Fixed an issue with crawler filters always being case sensitive.
• Did so "crawler filters" are checked before and now also after redirects.
• Did so "listed file extensions" comparison are done after redirects.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.5 :

• Fixed a bug with UNC paths.
• Fixed a small crawler bug with destination pages for redirects.
• Improved support for HTML entities.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.4 :

• Various improvements and fixes in website crawler (especially for large sites)
• Various minor improvements and fixes in HTML sitemap builder.
• Added ASP.Net sitemap builder.
• Fixed a bug with automating website crawl from command line.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.3 :

• Improved the translation window by adding a "synchronize" function.
• Crawler now supports login through HTML "post" forms.
• Program has been translated to German by Dieter Matissek! Thanks!
• Various minor improvements and fixes in website crawler and rest of program.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.2 :

• Improved the language translation functionality in the About window.
• Added support for <lastmod> in Goolge XML sitemaps.
• Added an option for normal sitemaps - decide link path used for "root header".

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.1 :

• Improved loading speed a lot, especially for large websites.
• Added "expand all" and "collapse all" functions for the "site / links views".

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.0 :

• Automatic "importance score" is now calculated on weighing all links (a link adds more "power" if it resides on a page with many incoming, but few outgoing links). After that it is converted to a logarithmic based 0-10 scale.
• The "importance score" is used for the <priority> field with Google sitemaps.
• You can now override the calculated "importance score" and "estimated change frequency" for a file / page. The latter is for Google sitemaps <ChangeFreq>.
• Added wordwrap and whitespace format to facilitate better source code viewing.
• Added more options for creating XML Google sitemaps.
• An intensive overhaul in user interface look and feel.
• Overhaul in speed and memory usage. Improvements include: * Crawler options for URL size limits and detecting "circular GET parameters". * Most website "string" data (urls etc.) is now compressed inside memory. * Avoids "memory usage" spikes when loading and saving. * Faster saving and loading in most cases. (and shows progress now.)
• Added some support for Asian MBCS (multi byte character set) encodings.
• Added support for "robots" meta tag (all,none,index,noindex,follow,nofollow),
• Added support for stripping out session ids in urls.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.0.0 (26th of January 2006) :

• Added optional "robots.txt" support in scanner.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.0.0 [release candidate #2] :

• Added support for scanning "https://" pages.
• Added some options for creating XML Google sitemaps.
• Automatic "priority" values are now better calculcated and "spread".

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.0.0 [release candidate #1] :

• Improvements and bug fixes.
• First publicly available release.

A1 Sitemap Generator 0.9.0 :

• Some features have been expanded while others have been cut.
• The features cut will be available later in a "website analytics" product.
• Help file has been written.

A1 Sitemap Generator 0.8.0 :

• Summary stats data for all directories. (pages located, not found etc.)
• Time stats for all pages.
• Size stats for all pages and files.
• All above are saved to XML documents which can be mined for data.
• Added "save" parameter into start-up commands (useful for batch automation).
• With HTML pages on the disk you can edit the code using "View source".
• Lexer has been improved to handle meta refreshes and simple Javascript links.
• Lots of changes, improvements and bug fixes.
• Defaults to auto open data / sitemap after website scan / sitemap generation.
• Improved sitemap builder. Added columns support. Default setup W3C validates.

A1 Sitemap Generator 0.7.5 :

• FTP uploader added.
• Lots of changes, improvements and bug fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 0.7.0 :

• Lots of changes, improvements and bug fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 0.6.1 :

• Tiny fix in installer.

A1 Sitemap Generator 0.6.0 :

• The first released beta edition (only very limited availability).