Change log

On this page you will find a list of new features and fixes for each version.

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3.0.4

Since version 3 intially launched a number of updates and improvements have been made.

• Updates to the home screen
• Improved error report
• Right click contenxt menu for easier navigation to your website

3.0.0

Version 3 is a complete rewrite in partnership with Xml Sitemap Generator .org

There are many changes and improvements notably :

• Updated user interface
• Improved spidering engine
• Multi threading to improve performance.
• Improved configuration options
• New database engine
• We no longer support spidering local files.
• Various bugs and fixes

2.6.2

• Fix : Tools menu Sitemap Settings behaviour does not show current sitemap
• Fix : Memory performance for local files improved
• Fix : Error reporting not listing errors when spidering live website
• Fix : Filters not saving / applying

2.6.1

• New : Beta - Error reporting
• Fix : Option to enable case sensitive urls
• Fix : Colour coding of error for website folder / file
• Fix : Option to enable case sensitive urls
• Fix : Various old help urls

2.6

• New : Beta - Error reporting
• Fix : Beta - Improved indexing for better memory usage with large sitemaps.

2.5.6

• New : Follow and index image maps (in spider mode)
• New : Right click Explorer file menu within G-Mapper when indexiing local sites
• New : User-Agent header added ("G-Mapper - http://www.g-mapper.co.uk") for easier log filtering
• New : Setup wizard default values consolidated to single tab
• Fix : Folders/file names greater than 255 excluded to prevent error
• Fix : Added missing "weekly" update frequency

2.5.5

• New : Batch editing for images
• New : Geo Location column for images
• New : Folder filter now includes current folder and sub folders in search results
• Fix : File editing column order

2.5.4 (patch)

• Fix : Install .Net dependency problem
• Fix : Loading hardware details on some computers causes crash when loading
• Fix : Crashes when saving sitemap with large number of files
• Fix : Relative image urls not calculated correctly

2.5.4

• New : Upgraded to Microsoft.Net 4.0 to fix a number of install and compatibility issues
• Fix : Improved protocol checking to ignore invalid / inappropriate URLs

2.5.3 (Beta)

Please note : If you are upgrading to this version you should double check your sitemap settings before reindexing.

• New : Follow query strings
• New : Exclude query string parameters such as session IDs
• New : Set output file locations to any virtual path
• Fix : Sitemap images not outputting

2.5.2

• New : All meta fields up to 255 characters
• Fix : Meta fields over 255 truncated to prevent crashing
• Fix : Closing error window hangs G-Mapper
• Fix : Crashing after indexing
• Fix : Javascript links cause an indexing error

2.5.1

• New : GZip support for Sitemap.org protocol map
• New : Additional default export path
• New : Automatic export to website root optional
• New : Google sitemap renamed Sitemap.org Protocol
• Fix : Validation in sitemap configuration
• Fix : UrlEncode of forward slashes
• Fix : Crashing on webpage server error (?)

2.3, 2.4 and 2.5

Versions 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 have been rolled up into one release.

• New : Spider files and live websites (beta)
• New : Google images sitemap support (beta)
• New : Enhanced image filtering and editing (beta)
• New : Improved tabbed configuration pages and editor screen
• New : Colour coding of newly added and removed files
• New : Minimum resolution of 1024 x 768
• New : All columns sortable
• New : Improved FTP configuration screen
• New : Improved upload and indexing screen
• New : Check for updates optional
• Fix : Disabled row resizing
• Fix : Folder dropdown made wider
• Fix : Xsl save / load issue
• Fix : FTP functionality
• Fix : FTP settings

Version 2.2.3

• Fix : x64 compatability issue with Microsoft Jet OLEDB 4.0

Version 2.2.2

• New : Increased number of characters for regular expression filters
• New : Manual override automatically enabled when user edits sitemap data

Version 2.2.1

• Fix : xmlns changed to http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
• Fix : Missing RDF filename causes error when reindexing / exporting sitemaps

Version 2.2

• New : Exclude files and folders using regular expressions.
• New : Support for ROR RDF sitemaps.
• New : Google sitemaps upgraded from 0.84 to 0.9
• Fix : XML formatting

Version 2.1

• Fix : Files with same name not indexed
• New : improved reindexing speed

Version 2.0

Version 2.0 is the most significant release of G-Mapper in terms of changes and enhancements.

• New : Vastly improved user interface
• New : Enhanced manual map editing including dates and meta data
• New : Podcasting support
• New : Improved sitemap filter / search
• New : Enhanced batch update
• New : Improved online help
• New : Top 20 updated files RSS feed
• New : XSL Style sheet support
• New : Upgraded to VB.net 2.0 and Microsoft Data Access Blocks.
• New : Improved installation and update process.
• Fixed : Modified date autoupdate.
• Fixed : Data type mismatch error

Version 2.0 also includes fixes to issues identified in the beta testing.

• Fix : Unable to locate database.
• Fix : Upload all maps error.

Version 1.35

• New : Application Icon thanks to Jason Jaeger
• Fix : Int32 to int16 conversion errors caused by very large sites.
• Fix : Sitemap file access denied issue.
• Fix : Future file date issue.
• Fix : Meta tag parser improved.
• Fix : Batch update changes not showing until reload.
• Fix : Improved indexing performance.
• Fix : Add map error due to long map names.

Version 1.31 changes

• Fix : Sitemap reindex / export null date

Version 1.3 changes

• New : Full support for Yahoo sitemaps.
• New : Atom 1.0 sitemaps (suitable for Yahoo).
• New : RSS sitemaps (suitable for Yahoo).
• New : Reindex all sitemaps.
• New : Upload all sitemaps.
• Fix : Indexing misses some files.
• Fix : Changing url details updates multiple maps.
• Fix : Config wizard gives incorrect error message.
• Fix : Config wizard does not show include modified.

Version 1.2 changes

• New : Map setup wizard.
• New : Basic support for Yahoo sitemaps.
• New : Batch update file exclude checkbox.
• New : FTP upload of maps.
• New : Set output filenames for map.
• Fix : Exporting excluded files.
• Fix : Batch update for multiple sites with same folder name.
• Fix : Null exclude checkboxes
• Fix : File date validation

Version 1.1 changes

• Fix : Load exception caused by date locality issue.
• Fix : Load exception caused by Internet Explorer version issue.

Version 1.0 changes

• New : Added exclude checkbox to allow files to be excluded from a map.
• Fix : Exception when indexing new files where access is denied .

Beta version

• Various bug fixes and changes