Changelog

The important changes in each release of Sitemap Builder. The newest release is first.

1.6.0 - 2026-10-16 Current version

Added

• A help page: https://www.sitemapbuilder.co.uk/help. It tells you what the tool does for you, how to load a sitemap, and what each view, tile, chart, and export shows. Example figures show each view.
• Links to the help page in the site header, in the footer, and below the sitemap form.
• The help page has tabs for its sections, and a second row of tabs for the views, the same as the tool. A link such as /help#treemap opens one section.
• Each page has a canonical link. SMB_SITE_URL in .env sets the site address; the default is https://www.sitemapbuilder.co.uk.

1.5.0 - 2026-09-28

Added

• Settings in a .env file. .env.example lists all keys: the proxy limits, the own hosts, and the analytics keys.
• Optional Google Analytics 4 and Matomo tracking. Each tracker is off until .env sets its keys. Both are cookieless by default.
• When a tracker is on, the tool records page views and events: the sitemap address that a user loads, the result of the run, the view tabs, the exports, the sitemap filter, and the dialog answers. The footer says which trackers are on.

Changed

• The HTML pages now send their own Content-Security-Policy, thus the policy can include the analytics origins when a tracker is on.

1.4.0 - 2026-09-20

Added

• You can type an address without https://. The tool adds it.
• You can type only a domain. The tool reads the Sitemap: lines in robots.txt. If there are none, it uses /sitemap.xml.
• Our server obeys robots.txt. If a rule denies a sitemap file, our server does not download it, and the tool asks you before your browser tries a direct download.
• A page for site owners about the SitemapBuilder user agent: https://www.sitemapbuilder.co.uk/bot

Changed

• The user agent of our server now has a link to the bot page.

1.3.0 - 2026-09-20

Added

• A list of the sitemap files above the views. Clear a check box to exclude a file from the diagrams, the table, the statistics, and the exports.
• A URL that occurs in more than one file stays in the views while one of its files is included.
• The footer shows the version number, with a link to that release in the changelog.
• The footer has a link to the source code on GitHub.

1.2.0 - 2026-09-20

Added

• A changelog page, with a link in the footer.

1.1.0 - 2026-09-20

Changed

• All addresses now redirect to https://www.sitemapbuilder.co.uk.
• The footer stays at the bottom of the page when the content is short.
• The downloader now permits sitemaps from other sites on our own server.

Fixed

• The SVG file of the tree view now contains the full tree. Before, the file showed only the part that was on the screen.
• SVG files are much smaller.

Security

• The downloader refuses host names that end with a dot.
• The downloader checks the address of each connection after the download.
• The downloader refuses gzip data that it cannot examine.

1.0.0 - 2026-09-20

Added

• Load a sitemap from a URL, from pasted XML, or from a file (.xml, .xml.gz, .txt).
• Sitemap index files: the app follows them to all sub-sitemaps.
• Five views: tree, treemap, sunburst, table, and statistics.
• Save the results as SVG, CSV, or JSON.
• Light and dark colour modes.
• A download service for sites that block direct browser access. It accepts only sitemap files.

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