| Date | Version | Status | Release history |
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| 14 Mar 2022 | 10.4.15 | Minor Update | Change to the robots.txt policy, disallow overrides allow
Adds number of bad links (if any) to scanning progress bar
Many other small fixes |
| 17 Feb 2022 | 10.4.14 | Major Update | Better when starting with a list of links
Fixes the Locate function
Many other small fixes and enhancements |
| 13 Dec 2021 | 10.4.9 | Major Update | Fixes a couple of problems when using whitelist rules
Enhances 'starting url = list of links' functionality
Improvements to parsing image srcsets |
| 05 Nov 2021 | 10.4.7 | Major Update | Couple of fixes to blacklisting of directories when using orphan check / ftp. |
| 27 Oct 2021 | 10.4.6 | Major Update | Adds option to generate and submit Bing Webmaster XML batch files.
When Page analysis is selected from the Tools menu, it's pre-filled with the starting url of the current selected website |
| 14 Oct 2021 | 10.4.5 | Major Update | improvement to .docx parser
‘handle cookies’ setting is now on by default
For each request, the request header field Cache-Control is now set to no-cache (rather than max-age=0) which may be the better way to force a fresh version of the page
licence key wasn't being shown in the About box |
| 17 Sep 2021 | 10.4.4 | Major Update | Fixes bug that could cause inconsistent results if a scan run multiple times without quitting the app or switching website configs
Ignores itms: and itms-apps: links
Other small fixes |
| 03 Sep 2021 | 10.3.15 | Major Update | Adds Headings table to SEO results
Adds ability to see context for warnings
Many small fixes and ehancements |
| 18 Jul 2021 | 10.3.15 | Major Update | Fixes possible false positive for the warning "...contains an = in an unquoted value..."
Adds warning where more than one meta description is found in the head. |
| 24 Jun 2021 | 10.3.13 | Major Update | Collection of urls within meta tags was not being controlled by the correct checkbox
Fixes a bug which caused issues with reporting of certain meta tag urls |
| 25 Jun 2021 | 10.3.12 | Major Update | Very small improvement to robots.txt pattern matching
The general release is now a UB build and runs natively (faster, more efficiently) on Apple Silicon Macs. |
| 27 May 2021 | 10.3.11 | Major Update | Fix/improvement to orphan check - if a password is not required for sftp remote directory listing, for example if shell is configured to use ssh keys, the remote check will no longer stop if no password is provided, but continue and not expect or send a password. |
| 20 May 2021 | 10.3.10 | Major Update | search box above Link results > flat view and 'by status' views now searches link text as well as urls
adds 'port' field to orphan check ftp panel
other improvements to orphan check functionality |
| 07 May 2021 | 10.3.8 | Major Update | Shows 'are you sure' alert for the breadcrumb 'scan again' button. It's easy to hit this when wanting to do something else such as go back to check settings.
Once the user is familiar with what the re-scan does, the warning can be switched off in Preferences
Minor cosmetic improvements |
| 29 Apr 2021 | 10.3.7 | Major Update | Fixes false positives reported where an srcset has a hanging comma (failed by the w3c validator as "empty image-candidate string").
The above situation is now reported in the warnings table
Adds 'Copy Word' into Spelling table's context menu |
| 09 Mar 2021 | 10.3.6 | Major Update | Full report shows number of bad link instances as well as unique urls.
Some improvements to the thumbnail functionality (may fix an apparent hang under certain circs)
Improvements relating to images:
Improvements to checking list of links / local files:
Improvements to authentication |
| 09 Mar 2021 | 10.3.2 | Major Update | Correctly clears warnings and spelling tables when switching sites
fixes unlikely problem where spurious characters could appear in a link url causing bad link to be reported
Important fix relating to urls in image maps possibly not being included in sitemap. |
| 05 Mar 2021 | 10.3.1 | Major Update | Fix and enhancement to existing option 'trust invalid server certificate' (internal domain / subdomains only).
Adds option to override 'down but not up' rule, which usually limits Scrutiny to the 'directory' that you start in. |
| 22 Feb 2021 | 10.3.0 | Major Update | Improves handling of linked files without file extension
Recognises html 'type' attribute, takes priority over server response content-type
Blacklist / whitelist rules are now printed at the top of the exported summary report
Fixes problem with 'flag blacklisted' option. |
| 04 Feb 2021 | 10.2.0 | Major Update | Adds options in Warnings table context menu to "Hide warnings like this" either temporarily or until next scan.
Improves parsing of robots.txt
Adds warning: 'link url has mismatched or missing end quotes'
Many other fixes and enhancements |
| 14 Dec 2020 | 10.0.3 | Major Update | v10:
HTML validation (not as comprehensive as the w3c validator. Concentrates on well-formedness and issues which may have consequences rather than the petty stuff.)
Can generate a separate Image sitemap as distinct from the regular xml sitemap which may optionally contain images. |
| 15 Dec 2020 | 9.14.3 | Minor Update | General improvements and updates:
Finds image urls in certain lazyload systems
reports but doesn't check certain special urls |
| 08 Dec 2020 | 9.14.2 | Minor Update | Improvements to warnings functionality.
Improves wording and info within warnings table.
Warns about certain specific elements that shouldn't be within link (iframe, form, embed, source etc)
Fixes a duplication issue
Improvements to spell checking functionality. |
| 04 Dec 2020 | 9.14.1 | Minor Update | Updates the selectable user-agent strings and adds more
Fixes problem where spell-checker incorrectly attempts to spell-check certain binary files
Small fix for new warnings functionality, was causing some warnings not to be listed |
| 29 Nov 2020 | 9.14.0 | Minor Update | Adds a 'Warnings' table.
Adds 'Scan again' to breadcrumb widget as a shortcut to re-scan the current site.
Improvements in the saving/reloading of data, should be a tiny bit faster
Fixes an unlikely 'mixed content' false positive |
| 16 Nov 2020 | 9.13.3 | Minor Update | Now recognises and warns about unterminated or nested link tags, which are illegal in html. Previously if this problem existed on a page, it could cause some spurious minor symptoms
Updates the Paddle licensing framework to the latest version which is Big Sur and M1 compatible |
| 27 Oct 2020 | 9.13.2 | Minor Update | Fixes relating to csv export and double-quotes in data. Previously handled by replacing with single-quotes. Adds a preference for how this is handled. |
| 20 Oct 2020 | 9.13.1 | Major Update | Links results, filter button, the option "http: links" is now correctly shown or hidden, and works.
Results selection - sitemap - the availability message was showing an incorrect string and was confusing.
When using search box or filter button above the link results, operation is a little quicker |
| 08 Oct 2020 | 9.13.0 | Major Update | Adds 'warnings' column to links views
Adds 'broken anchor links' choice to links filter button
Some fixes and improvements to warnings and anchor link functionality |
| 04 Sep 2020 | 9.10.0 | Major Update | finds and processes image urls within inline styles
Improvements to engine
Correctly ignores sms: links
may fix caching issues on Catalina upwards
able to send form data with initial request
authentication login window now correctly uses same user-agent string set in preferences |
| 20 Aug 2020 | 9.9.0 | Major Update | Adds support for checking for links within Word (.docx) documents
Adds support for checking for links within local documents
Now automatically ignores the wordpress rest api files which return an unauthorised status when tested
Adds support for some other Latin and non-Latin character encodings |
| 09 Jul 2020 | 9.8.3 | Major Update | Some improvements around starting your scan with a list of links. In particular, automatically differentiating between txt and csv file types (this fixes a bug where a url containing a comma within a txt file would be incorrectly split). |
| 02 Jul 2020 | 9.8.2 | Major Update | Fixes a couple of situations that could result in incorrectly-constructed link urls and therefore false positives.
Better handling of escaped forward slashes in urls. |
| 22 Jun 2020 | 9.8.1 | Major Update | Very small but important fix to prevent some false positives arising from SVG masks in style sheets |
| 18 Jun 2020 | 9.8.0 | Major Update | A number of fixes and enhancements related to the padlock in browser address bars.
The insecure content report will now include:
- insecure urls found in certain meta tags, such as open graph or Twitter cards
- insecure images, whether hosted externally or not
- insecure form action urls |
| 28 May 2020 | 9.7.1 | Major Update | Fixes Metadata, Headings etc not being visible in Robotize in dark mode.
Fixes 'Insecure content' option in SEO filter
Adds the insecure pages / mixed content csv to the list of CSV files exported with the full report |
| 25 May 2020 | 9.7.0 | Major Update | Adds 'Manage custom dictionary' button above spell-check table. This tool provides an easy way to see your list of 'learned' words (to check that you haven't 'learned' any misspelled words)and 'unlearn' any that you learned by mistake |
| 21 May 2020 | 9.6.9 | Major Update | Fixes spurious javascript being incorrectly reported as a link in certain situations
Fixes relative links being constructed incorrectly where anchor link feature was switched on and page being parsed is a directory url
In the warnings tab of the link inspector, if there was a warning about a redi |
| 03 May 2020 | 9.6.3 | Major Update | Small improvements to the 'web access' for the full report.
Fixes problem with the 'send email' finish action
Eliminates some spurious 'bad links' by correctly ignoring <link rel = dns-prefetch / preconnect |
| 15 Apr 2020 | 9.6.2 | Major Update | Fixes bug which could prevent the xml sitemap save dialog from appearing for new users |
| 01 Apr 2020 | 9.6.1 | Major Update | Improvements to exporting functionality
efficiencies (memory / speed) which will benefit users with larger sites
the odd bug fix which will cure a possible hang when exporting, particularly the 'images without alt text' table. |
| 27 Mar 2020 | 9.6.0 | Major Update | Improves the sitemap visualisation functionality:
redesigned 'bubble tree' theme
nodes and connections can be shaded or coloured according to 'link juice'
many other small improvements |
| 10 Mar 2020 | 9.5.7 | Major Update | Adds support for link rel = sponsored and rel = ugc
Improvements to the styling of the summary reports (html / pdf)
'include web access' feature (for reports) now documented and supported
other small fixes |
| 20 Feb 2020 | 9.5.1 | Major Update | Adds ability to test anchors
Improvements to Warnings functionality and adds 'warnings' filter
Adds option for all-links.csv (optionally saved automatically at the end of the scan) to be based on the links flat view rather than the collapsed 'by link' view.
Many other fixes and enhancements |
| 01 Jan 2020 | 9.4.0 | Major Update | Updates the page rendering functionality, should make this option more efficient and reliable.
Improves the exported 'insecure content' report - is now 'flattened' to make it easier to use. |
| 27 Nov 2019 | 9.3.4 | Major Update | Many fixes and enhancements |
Distribution permissions: The trial version of Scrutiny can be freely distributed over the internet in an unchanged form
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