Release History
For the SEO Spider
SEO Spider Release History
| Date | Version | Features |
| 12th March 2024 | 19.8 | Bug fixes. |
| 11th March 2024 | 19.7 | Bug fixes. |
| 20th February 2024 | 19.6 | Bug fixes. |
| 12th February 2024 | 19.5 | Bug fixes. |
| 7th November 2023 | 19.4 | Bug fixes. |
| 31st October 2023 | 19.3 | Bug fixes. |
| 31st August 2023 | 19.2 | Bug fixes. |
| 27th July 2023 | 19.1 | Bug fixes. |
| 17th July 2023 | 19.0 | Updated Design, Unified Config, Segments, Visual Custom Extraction, 3D Visualisations, New Filters & Issues. |
| 26th April 2023 | 18.5 | Bug fixes. |
| 16th March 2023 | 18.4 | Bug fixes. |
| 8th March 2023 | 18.3 | Bug fixes. |
| 13th Febuary 2023 | 18.2 | Bug fixes. |
| 14th December 2022 | 18.1 | Bug fixes. |
| 5th December 2022 | 18.0 | GA4 Integration, Parse PDFs, Validation Tab, In-App Updates, Authentication for Scheduling / CLI, New Filters & Issues, Flesch Readability Scores and more. |
| 12th September 2022 | 17.2 | Bug fixes. |
| 23rd August 2022 | 17.1 | Bug fixes. |
| 17th August 2022 | 17.0 | Issues Tab, Links Tab, New Limits, ‘Multiple Properties’ Config For URL Inspection API, Apple Silicon Version & RPM for Fedora and Detachable Tabs. |
| 2nd March 2022 | 16.7 | Bug fixes. |
| 3rd February 2022 | 16.6 | URL Inspection API Integration, Apache log4j patch (2.17.1), & bug fixes. |
| 21st December 2021 | 16.5 | Apache log4j patch (2.17) & bug fixes. |
| 14th December 2021 | 16.4 | Apache log4j patch (2.15) & bug fixes. |
| 4th November 2021 | 16.3 | Bug fixes. |
| 18th October 2021 | 16.2 | Bug fixes. |
| 27th September 2021 | 16.1 | Bug fixes. |
| 22nd September 2021 | 16.0 | Improved JavaScript Crawling, Automated Crawl Reports For Data Studio, Advanced Search & Filtering and Translated UI |
| 18th May 2021 | 15.2 | Bug fixes. |
| 14th April 2021 | 15.1 | Bug fixes. |
| 12th April 2021 | 15.0 | Crawl Comparison, Site Structure Comparison, Change Detection and URL Mapping For Staging / Different URL Structure Comparison. |
| 17th March 2021 | 14.3 | Bug fixes. |
| 16th February 2021 | 14.2 | Core Web Vitals Assessment, Broken Bookmarks (or ‘Jump Links’) and bug fixes. |
| 7th December 2020 | 14.1 | Bug fixes. |
| 23rd November 2020 | 14.0 | Dark Mode, Google Sheets Export, HTTP Headers, Cookies, Aggregated Site Structure and New Configuration Options. |
| 4th August 2020 | 13.2 | Bug fixes. |
| 15th July 2020 | 13.1 | Bug fixes. |
| 1st July 2020 | 13.0 | Near Duplicate Content, Spelling & Grammar, Improved Link Data – Link Position, Path Type & Target, Security Checks and Improved UX Bits. |
| 3rd February 2020 | 12.6 | Keywords, traffic and value data, which is now available courtesy of the Ahrefs API. |
| 28th January 2020 | 12.5 | Bug fixes. |
| 18th December 2019 | 12.4 | Bug fixes. |
| 28th November 2019 | 12.3 | Bug fixes. |
| 1st November 2019 | 12.2 | Bug fixes. |
| 25th October 2019 | 12.1 | Bug fixes. |
| 22nd October 2019 | 12.0 | PageSpeed Insights, Database Storage Crawl Auto Saving & Rapid Opening, Configurable Tabs, Configurable Page Elements, Configurable Link Elements For Focused Auditing In List Mode, More Extractors, Custom Search Improvements and Redirect Chain Report Improvements. |
| 30th May 2019 | 11.3 | Bug fixes. |
| 9th April 2019 | 11.2 | Bug fixes. |
| 13th March 2019 | 11.1 | Bug fixes. |
| 5th March 2019 | 11.0 | Structured Data & Validation, Multi-Select Details & Bulk Exporting, Tree-View Export, Visualisations Improvements, Smart Drag & Drop and Configure Internal CDNs. |
| 7th November 2018 | 10.4 | Bug fixes. |
| 24th October 2018 | 10.3 | Bug fixes. |
| 3rd October 2018 | 10.2 | Bug fixes. |
| 21st September 2018 | 10.1 | Bug fixes. |
| 19th September 2018 | 10.0 | Scheduling, Command Line Interface, Indexability & Indexability Status, XML Sitemap Crawl Integration, Internal Link Score, Post Crawl Analysis, Visualisations , AMP Crawling & Validation, Canonicals & Pagination Tabs & Filters and Improved Redirect & Canonical Chain Reports. |
| 6th June 2018 | 9.4 | Bug fixes. |
| 29th May 2018 | 9.3 | Bug fixes. |
| 27th Mar 2018 | 9.2 | Bug fixes. |
| 8th Mar 2018 | 9.1 | Bug fixes. |
| 26th Feb 2018 | 9.0 | Database Storage Mode (Scale), In-App Memory Allocation, Store & View HTML & Rendered HTML, Custom HTTP Headers, XML Sitemap Improvements, Granular Search Functionality, Updated SERP Snippet Emulator and Post Crawl API Requests. |
| 8th Nov 2017 | 8.3 | Bug fixes. |
| 18th Oct 2017 | 8.2 | Bug fixes. |
| 27th Jul 2017 | 8.1 | Bug fixes. |
| 16th Jul 2017 | 8.0 | Updated UI, External Link Metrics, Custom Configuration Profiles, JavaScript Redirects, HSTS Support, Hreflang Auditing In XML Sitemaps and Fetch & Render Screenshots Exporting |
| 30th Jan 2017 | 7.2 | Prevent Printing/Playing of Audio in Javascript rendering mode, Bug Fixes. |
| 15th Dec 2016 | 7.1 | Bug Fixes |
| 12th Dec 2016 | 7.0 | ‘Fetch & Render’ (Rendered Screen Shots), Blocked Resources, Custom robots.txt, hreflang Attributes, rel=”next” and rel=”prev” Errors, Maintain List Order Export, Web Forms Authentication (Crawl Behind A Login). |
| 16th Aug 2016 | 6.2 | Bug Fixes |
| 3rd Aug 2016 | 6.1 | Bug Fixes |
| 21st Jul 2016 | 6.0 | Rendered Crawling (JavaScript), Configurable Columns & Ordering, XML Sitemap & Sitemap Index Crawling, Improved Custom Extraction – Multiple Values & Functions, rel=“next” and rel=“prev” Elements Now Crawled, Updated SERP Snippet Emulator. |
| 22nd Oct 2015 | 5.1 | Bug Fixes |
| 4th Sep 2015 | 5.0 | Google Search Analytics Integration, View & Audit URLs Blocked By Robots.txt, GA & GSC Not Matched Report, Configurable Accept-Language Header |
| 16th Jul 2015 | 4.1 | GA Not Matched Report, Bug Fixes. |
| 7th Jul 2015 | 4.0 | Google Analytics Integration, Custom Extraction. |
| 23rd Mar 2015 | 3.3 | Bug Fixes |
| 4th Mar 2015 | 3.2 | Bug Fixes |
| 24th Feb 2015 | 3.1 | Bug Fixes |
| 11th Feb 2015 | 3.0 | Tree View, Insecure Content Report, Image Sitemaps & Updated XML Sitemap Features, Paste URLs In List Mode, Improved Bulk Exporting, Windows Look & Feel. |
| 29th Jul 2014 | 2.55 | Command Line Option To Start Crawls |
| 1st Jul 2014 | 2.5 | Graph View, Verified publisher for the Windows platform. |
| 15th May 2014 | 2.4 | SERP Snippets Now Editable, SERP Mode For Uploading Page Titles & Descriptions, Crawl Overview Right Hand Window Pane, Ajax Crawling #!, Canonical Errors Report. |
| 14th Mar 2014 | 2.3 | Pixel Width Calculated For Page Titles & Meta Descriptions, SERP Snippet Tool, Configurable Preferences, Canonicals Are Now Crawled, More In-Depth Crawl Limits, Microsoft Excel Support. |
| 3rd Dec 2013 | 2.22 | Mac version now from Identified developer, row numbers. |
| 20th Oct 2013 | 2.21 | Individual cell selection, bug fixes. |
| 15th Jul 2013 | 2.2 | Redirect Chains Report, Crawl Path Report, Respect noindex & Canonical, rel=”next” and rel=”prev”, Custom Filters Now Regex, Crawl Overview Report |
| 30th Jan 2013 | 2.1 | Save Default Configuration, Response Time, Filter Totals, Bulk Export Out Links, Accept Cookies, 5XX Response Retries, Request Authentication, Response Timeout. |
| 27th Jun 2012 | 2.0 | Word count, URL rewriting, Auto check for updates, Remove URLs, Advanced exports, Crawling outside of sub folders / domains. |
| 21st Feb 2012 | 1.9 | Ubuntu Version, Include follow true/false at link level in our bulk link exports, Crawls .swf links, Export all alt text via the bulk export. |
| 31st Oct 2011 | 1.8 | Crawl Speed Control, XML Sitemaps, Regex support for Exclude, Bulk Export Missing Alt Text URI, List Mode Accepts XML Sitemap Files. |
| 15th Aug 2011 | 1.7 | Include, User Agent Configuration, X-Robots-Tag & Canonical HTTP Header support, Re-Spider URLs. |
| 13th Jun 2011 | 1.6 | Faster crawling at scale, Save/Open projects, Bulk Export Of Links, UI Search Function. |
| 1st Mar 2011 | 1.4 | Mac Version, Non standard port number crawling, Character encoding, html content detection. |
| 7th Feb 2011 | 1.3 | Right click options, Base tag |
| 15th Jan 2011 | 1.2 | List Mode, Custom Search |
| 6th Dec 2010 | 1.1 | Proxy Support, Crawl Depth Configuration |
| 23rd Nov 2010 | 1.0 | First release, Windows only. |
