Each variation of Sphider has a variation in changes made. Updates to the multi-byte edition of Sphider appears by default. You may also view the Lite edition.

SphiderLite Change Log

SphiderLite 2.6.0, release date 20 December 2023
    Code deprecation fixes (RAP)
    Fix "index decimals" causes pages not to index (RAP)
    Fix search for decimals - previously rejected (RAP)
    Fix "Save settings" corrupting the settings (RAP)
    Add user choice of decimal separator character (RAP)
    Improve indexing numbers by stripping thousands separator (RAP)
    Added ability to read xml.gz sitemap files (RAP)
    Change column name in settings to avoid reserved MySQL word (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
        admin/configset.php
        admin/db_backup.php
        admin/install.php
        admin/spiderfuncs.php
        admin/version_update.php
        include/commonfuncs.php
        include/detectmobilebrowser.php
        include/searchfuncs.php
        include/searchfuncs.php
        settings/conf.php
        sql/tables.sql

SphiderLite 2.5.0, release date 15 October 2023
    Added indexing support for docx and odt files (RAP)
    Robots.txt strings now are case sensitive (RAP)
    Allow rule now considered when processing robots.txt (RAP)
    Integrate all common text files into Sphider (RAP)
    Allow page language to override default common text language (RAP)
    Added Japanese as a search language (RAP)
    Corrected commandline spider help instructions (RAP)
    Fix 'index to' level being empty (RAP)
    Introduce pause during indexing (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
        admin/admin.php
        admin/configset.php
        admin/db_backup.php
        admin/install.php
        admin/messages.php
        admin/spider.php
        admin/spiderfuncs.php
        admin/version_update.php
        include/commonfuncs.php
        settings/conf.php
        sql/tables.sql
        
    New directory:
        include/common
        
    New files:
        include/common/am_common.txt
        include/common/ar_common.txt
        include/common/bg_common.txt
        include/common/bn_common.txt
        include/common/ca_common.txt
        include/common/cs_common.txt
        include/common/da_common.txt
        include/common/de_common.txt
        include/common/el_common.txt
        include/common/en_common.txt
        include/common/es_common.txt
        include/common/et_common.txt
        include/common/fa_common.txt
        include/common/fi_common.txt
        include/common/fr_common.txt
        include/common/hi_common.txt
        include/common/hr_common.txt
        include/common/hu_common.txt
        include/common/it_common.txt
        include/common/ja_common.txt
        include/common/lv_common.txt
        include/common/nl_common.txt
        include/common/no_common.txt
        include/common/pl_common.txt
        include/common/pt_common.txt
        include/common/ro_common.txt
        include/common/ru_common.txt
        include/common/sk_common.txt
        include/common/sl_common.txt
        include/common/sq_common.txt
        include/common/sr_common.txt
        include/common/sv_common.txt
        include/common/sw_common.txt
        include/common/tr_common.txt
        include/common/zh-cn_common.txt
        include/common/zh-tw_common.txt
        languages/ja-language.php

    Deleted file:
        include/common.txt
        
SphiderLite 2.4.0, release date 4 September 2023
    Drop mb_string emulations, mb_string now required (RAP)
    Permanent fix for mt_rand() deprecation without user intervention (RAP)
    Updated jquery (RAP)
    Code cleanup to PSR-2 standards (RAP)
    Cleaned up standard search form when no categories present (RAP)
    Changed sitemap naming convention to match full version (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
        search.php
        admin/admin.php
        admin/auth.php
        admin/db_backup.php
        admin/install.php
        admin/spider.php
        admin/spiderfuncs.php
        admin/version_update.php
        common_template/header.php
        common_template/search_form.php
        include/categoryfuncs.php
        include/commonfuncs.php
        include/searchfuncs.php
        js_suggest/suggest.php
        sql/tables.sql
    
SphiderLite 2.3.1, release date 26 August 2023
    Fix the deprecation fix!!! (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
        admin/auth.php
        admin/db_backup.php
        admin/install.php
        admin/spider.php
        admin/version_update.php
        sql/tables.sql

SphiderLite 2.3.0, release date 22 August 2023
    Changed default User Agent string (RAP)
    PHP 8.3 deprecation fix (rand() deprecated) (RAP)
    Fix broken "Did you mean" (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
        admin/admin.php
        admin/auth.php
        admin/db_backup.php
        admin/install.php
        admin/spider.php
        admin/version_update.php
        include/commonfuncs.php
        include/searchfuncs.php
        sql/tables.sql
        
Sphiderlite 2.2.1, release date 17 July 2022
    Refined indexing filters (RAP)
    More changes due to code deprecation (RAP)
    Improved character set determination (RAP)
    Add file size to list of spidering logs (RAP)
    Add date, filesize to sitemap list (RAP)

    Changed files:
        admin/admin.php
        admin/db_backup.php
        admin/install.php
        admin/spider.php
        admin/spiderfuncs.php
        admin/version_update.php
        include/commonfuncs.php
        include/stem_class.php
        sql/tables.sql
        
SphiderLite 2.2.0, release date 1 July 2022
    Deprecated code updates (RAP)
    Fix fatal mysqli sql exception (RAP)
    Fix potential fatal mysqli error (RAP)
    Added code for a special hack, if needed (RAP)
    Fix issue with some unicode characters not indexing (RAP)
    Fix issue with phrase searching (RAP)
    Fix issue with description length (RAP)
    Force pdf-to-text output to be UTF-8 (RAP)
    Protect database by truncating insanely long urls (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
        search.php
        admin/admin.php
        admin/db_backup.php
        admin/db_main.php
        admin/install.php
        admin/spider.php
        admin/spiderfuncs.php
        admin/version_update.php
        common_template/search_form.php
        common_template/search_results.php
        include/categoryfuncs.php
        include/commonfuncs.php
        include/searchfuncs.php
        js_suggest/suggest.php
        sql/tables.sql
    
SphiderLite 2.1.0, release date 18 April 2022
    Removed interrupted re-index completion code (RAP)
    Improved sitemap indexing capabilities (RAP)
    Removed section of dead code (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
        admin/admin.php
        admin/db_backup.php
        admin/install.php
        admin/spider.php
        admin/spiderfuncs.php
        admin/version_update.php
        sql/tables.sql

Sphiderlite 2.0.2, release date 27 February 2022
    Updated jquery (RAP)
    Fixed bug in search form due to PHP 8 (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
        admin/db_backup.php
        admin/install.php
        admin/version_update.php
        common_template/header.php
        common_template/search_form.php
        sql/tables.sql
        
SphiderLite 2.0.1, release date 28 July 2021
    Minor spelling fix (RAP)
    Cosmetic changes (RAP)
    Path correction (RAP)
    Update several functions (RAP)
    Added Russian stemming (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
        admin/admin.php
        admin/db_backup.php
        admin/configset.php
        admin/install.php
        admin/version_update.php
        include/detectmobilebrowser.php
        include/stem_class.php
        sql/tables.sql
        
SphiderLite 2.0.0, release date 18 January 2021
    Added ability for interrupted re-index completion (RAP)
    Prevent warning on connection reset (RAP)
    Fixed index all function (RAP)
    Inmproved backup & restore (RAP)
    Updated/removed obsolete code (RAP)
    Corrected and updated language files (RAP)
    Code cleanup (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
        search.php
        install.txt
        admin/admin.php
        admin/db_backup.php
        admin/db_main.php
        admin/install.php
        admin/spider.php
        admin/spiderfuncs.php
	admin/version_update.php
	common_template/header.php
	common_template/search_results.php
	include/commonfuncs.php
	include/searchfuncs.php
	languages/am-language.php
	languages/ar-language.php
	languages/bg-language.php
	languages/cs-language.php
	languages/fa-language.php
	languages/hr-language.php
	languages/lv-language.php
	languages/pl-language.php
	languages/ru-language.php
	languages/sl-language.php
	languages/sr-language.php
	languages/zh_cn-language.php
	languages/zh_tw-language.php
	sql/tables.sql

    New files:
        settings/my.cnf
            
SphiderLite 1.3.2, (Unreleased, merged into 2.0.0)
        
Sphiderlite 1.3.1, release date 31 December 2020
    Fixed CRITICAL error when indexing an URL (RAP)
    Remove illegal characters from crawled text (RAP)
    Improved determination of character sets (RAP)
    Improved filtering for indexing keywords (RAP)
    Improved emoji removal (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
        admin/db_backup.php
        admin/install.php
        admin/spider.php
        admin/spiderfuncs.php
	admin/version_update.php
	sql/tables.sql
        
SphiderLite 1.3.0, release date 26 December 2020
    Found and fixed more PHP warnings (RAP)
    Fixed Sphider not acknowleging/reporting html codes (RAP)
    Fixed errors when robots.txt not found (RAP)
    Fixed bug leading to missing titles (RAP)

    Changed files:
        admin/spiderfuncs.php
        admin/db_backup.php
        admin/install.php
        admin/messages.php
	admin/spider.php
	admin/sphiderfuncs.php
	admin/version_update.php
	include/commonfuncs.php
	sql/tables.sql
       
SphiderLite 1.2.3, release date 20 December 2020
    Removed unnecessary code (RAP)
    Found and eliminated many PHP warnings (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
        admin/admin.php
        admin/configset.php
        admin/db_backup.php
        admin/install.php
        admin/messages.php
        admin/version_update.php
        sql/tables.sql
        
SphiderLite 1.2.2, release date 9 December 2020
    Fixed, search with no results returned previous search (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
        admin/db_backup.php
        admin/install.php
        admin/version_update.php
        include/searchfuncs.php
        sql/tables.sql
        
SphiderLite 1.2.1, release date 8 December 2020
    Found and corrected problem in unicode string function (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
        admin/db_backup.php
        admin/install.php
        admin/version_update.php
        include/commonfuncs.php
        sql/tables.sql
        
SphiderLite 1.2.0, release date 6 December 2020
    Split the search function to improve efficiency (RAP)

    Changed files:
      search.php
      admin/db_backup.php
      admin/install.php
      admin/version_update.php
      common_template/search_results.php
      include/searchfuncs.php
      sql/tables.sql
      
SphiderLite 1.1.5, release date 30 November 2020
    Removed deprecated code to avoid error in PHP 8 (RAP)
    Removed truncate tables function (RAP)
    Removed obsolete Optimize tables function (RAP)
    Fixed parsing issue with robots.txt files (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
      search.php
      admin/db_backup.php
      admin/db_main.php
      admin/install.php
      admin/spiderfuncs.php
      admin/version_update.php
      js_suggest/suggest.php
      sql/tables.sql
      
SphiderLite 1.1.4-MB, release date 7 November 2020
    Fix critical error in the truncate tables routine (RAP)

    Changed files:
      admin/db_backup.php
      admin/install.php
      admin/version_update.php
      sql/tables.sql

SphiderLite 1.1.3, release date 30 August 2020
    Thank you to doelf_07 who pointed out the need for most of
    these changes.
    
    Correct code to adjust for PHP changes affecting count() (RAP)
    Fix missing  tags in search results (RAP)
    Add missing variable definitions (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
      admin/db_backup.php
      admin/install.php
      admin/version_update.php
      common_tempplate/search_results.php
      include/commonfuncs.php
      include/searchfuncs.php
      sql/tables.sql
      
SphiderLite 1.1.2, release date 15 August 2020
    Updated deprecated code in stem_class.php (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
      admin/db_backup.php
      admin/install.php
      admin/version_update.php
      include/stem_class.php
      sql/tables.sql

SphiderLite 1.1.1, release date 18 July 2020
    jquery updated to 3.5.1 (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
      admin/db_backup.php
      admin/install.php
      admin/version_update.php
      common_template/header.php
      sql/tables.sql

SphiderLite 1.1.0, release date 7 December 2019
    Fixed issue with Sphider mangling relative path beginning with "./" (RAP)
    If the stemmer determines a word is not UTF-8, it converts it instead of
      throwing an exception (RAP)
    jquery updated to 3.4.1 (RAP)
    Added the ability to create a sitemap from the Options screen (RAP)
    
    Changed files:
      admin/admin.php
      admin/db_backup.php
      admin/install.php
      admin/spiderfuncs.php
      common_template/header.php
      include/stem_class.php
      sql/tables.sql

    New directory/files
      /admin/sitemaps
      /admin/version_update.php

SphiderLite 1.0.0, release date 7 November 2019
    Original release based upon Sphider 3.3.0-MB