Release Notes for version 0.8.18.41731

Version 0.8.18 is a feature and stability release.

What follows is a fully detailed Release Notes; for an easier-to-read, non-exhaustive overview with pretty screenshots, please read: Visual SEO Studio 0.8.18 has arrived

New Features:

• Screenshot taker: now you can stop loading, reload, and optionally specify desired screen resolution.
• Crawl options: implemented "Ignore robots.txt Disallow directives", where one can specify an optional "Spider Trap" path to exclude.
• robots.txt syntax: support for Allow directives.
• robots.txt syntax: support for $ wildcard in Disallow directives.
• robots.txt syntax: support for * wildcard in Disallow directives.

Fixes:

• Screenshot taker, fixed all known issues causing real world crashes.
• Fixed real-world crash occurring when saving screenshot for some pages.
• Fixed real world crash. When loading a crawl session, apparently a progress bar received a change event before it had a window handle ready. An extremely rare event, only two users experienced it in two single instances.
• robots.txt syntax, querystring were not evaluated when matching Disallow directives.
• Localized texts installed for graph component for supported languages (Polish is missing, unfortunately).

Usability:

• Views, when clicking on a page node and Session side tab is selected, Page Properties side tab will be selected.
• Shot Taker, if the original URL fetched is redirected, the new URL is shown, in blue (but the saved image is associated to the original URL).

Various:

• robots.txt syntax - matched Googlebot behaviour (and specs) for case out of original specs: if the value in the directive is missing a leading slash, it is now interpreted as if there it was (e.g. fish/ is equivalent to /fish/)
• robots.txt syntax - matched Googlebot behaviour (and specs) for case out of original specs: when Disallow value is only * wildcard (supported from this release), it is considered equivalent to /*
• HTML/URI/GA Suggestions: now when a description doesn't fit the available space, it is shown truncated with an ellipses, and it's full content can be seen with a tooltip.
• Translations updated and fixed for all languages; UI controls resized to fit them where needed.
• Minor changes to main menu items (ellipses, all languages)