Sphider
a PHP spider and search engine
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 2.2.1, 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