Crawler-Commons Change Log

Current Development 1.3 (2022-07-19)
- [Sitemaps] Disable support for DTDs in XML sitemaps and feeds by default (Kenneth Wong) #371
- Migrate Continuous Integration from Travis to GitHub Actions (Valery Yatsynovich) #333
- Upgrade dependencies (dependabot, Richard Zowalla) #334, #339, #345, #346, #347, #350, #354, #361, #369
- Upgrade Maven plugins (dependabot, Richard Zowalla, sebastian-nagel) #328, #329, #330, #331, #335, #336, #337, #338, #340, #341, #343, #356, #363. #364, #366, #373, #374
- Update pom.xml to address Maven warnings and deprecations (sebastian-nagel, Richard Zowalla, Avi Hayun) #342
- Enable Dependabot (Valery Yatsynovich) #327
- Removes test dependency towards mockito-core (Richard Zowalla) #367
- Drops provided dependency towards servlet-api (Richard Zowalla) #368

Release 1.2 (2021-10-06)
- [Sitemaps] Avoid calling java.net.URL::equals in equals method of sitemaps and extensions (sebastian-nagel) #322
- [URLs] Provide a builder class to configure the URL normalizer (aecio) #321, #324
- [URLs] Make normalization of IDNs configurable (to ASCII or Unicode) via builder (aecio, sebastian-nagel) #324
- [Sitemaps] Fix XXE vulnerability in Sitemap parser (kovyrin) #323
- [URLs] Sorting the Query Parameters (aecio) #246, #309
- [URLs] Allows to (optionally) remove common irrelevant query parameters (aecio) #309
- [Sitemaps] Allow to normalize URLs in sitemaps (murderinc, sebastian-nagel) #305
- Normalize CHANGES.txt (Avi Hayun) #270
- Readme.MD Overhaul of TOC, Installation, License (Avi Hayun) #311
- [URLs] Normalize URL without a scheme (Avi Hayun, sebastian-nagel) #271
- [Domains] EffectiveTldFinder: upgrade public suffix list / Download latest effective_tld_names.dat during Maven build (Richard Zowalla) #295, #302
- [URLs] decode percent-encoded host names (sebastian-nagel) #303
- [Sitemaps] Document options *strict* and *allowPartial* in SiteMapParser constructors (sebastian-nagel) #267
- [Robots.txt] Maximum values (crawl-delay and warnings): document and make visible (sebastian-nagel, Avi Hayun) #276
- [Sitemaps] Replace priority "NaN" by default value (sebastian-nagel) #296
- [Sitemaps] Adding duration to the map generated by VideoAttributes.asMap (evanhalley) #300

Release 1.1 (2020-06-29)
- [Sitemaps] Sitemaps to implement Serializable (cdalexndr, sebastian-nagel) #244
- [Sitemaps] Allow to deduplicate sitemap links in sitemap indexes (sebastian-nagel) #262
- [Robots.txt] Upgrade the toString() method of the Base/Simple RobotRules (Avi Hayun) #264
- Upgrade GitIgnore (Avi Hayun) #260
- [Robots.txt] Deduplicate sitemap links (sebastian-nagel) #261
- [Domains] EffectiveTldFinder to log loading of public suffix list (sebastian-nagel) #284
- [Sitemaps] SiteMapParser getPublicationDate in VideoAttributes may throw NPE (panthony, sebastian-nagel) #283
- [Robots.txt] SimpleRobotRulesParser: Trim log messages (jnioche, sebastian-nagel) #281
- [Robots.txt] SimpleRobotRulesParser: counter _numWarnings not thread-safe (sebastian-nagel, kkrugler) #278
- ParameterizedTest not executed by mvn builds (sebastian-nagel) #273
- [URLs] Empty path before query to be normalized to `/` (Avi Hayun, sebastian-nagel) #247
- [Domains] EffectiveTldFinder to validate returned domain names for length restrictions (sebastian-nagel, Avi Hayun) #251
- Upgrade unit tests to use JUnit v5.x and parameterized tests (Avi Hayun) #249, #253, #255
- [Robots.txt] Robots parser to always handle absolute sitemap URL even without valid base URL (pr3mar, kkrugler, sebastian-nagel) #240
- [Sitemaps] Adding asMap to ExtensionMetadata Interface (evanhalley)  #288
- [Sitemaps] NewsAttribute.equals() compares the instance variable PublicationDate with itself (evanhalley) #289

Release 1.0 (2019-03-19)
- [Sitemaps] Unit tests depend on system timezone (kkrugler, sebastian-nagel) #238
- [Domains] EffectiveTldFinder: upgrade public suffix list (sebastian-nagel) #219
- [Sitemaps] Detection and parsing of XML sitemaps fails with whitespace before XML declaration (sebastian-nagel, jnioche) #144
- [Sitemaps] XMLHandler needs to append text in characters() vs. immediately processing (kkrugler, sebastian-nagel) #226
- [Sitemaps] XMLIndexHandler needs to accumulate the lastmod date string before parsing (kkrugler, sebastian-nagel) #225
- [Domains] EffectiveTldFinder throws IllegalArgumentException on IDN domain names containing prohibited characters (sebastian-nagel) #231
- [Sitemaps] Trim Unicode whitespace around URLs (sebastian-nagel, kkrugler) #224
- [Sitemaps] Sitemap index: stop URL at closing </loc> (sebastian-nagel, kkrugler) #213
- [Sitemaps] Allow empty price in video sitemaps (sebastian-nagel) #221
- [Sitemaps] In case of the use of a different locale, price tag can be formatted with ',' instead of '.' leading to a NPE (goldenlink) #220
- [Sitemaps] Add support for sitemap extensions (tuxnco, sebastian-nagel) #35, #36, #149, #162
- [Sitemaps] Use the Java 8 date and time API (java.time.*) to parse dates in sitemaps (sebastian-nagel) #217
- [Robots.txt] Fix for handling URLs with query parameters but no path (kkrugler) #215

Release 0.10 (2018-06-05)
- Add JAX-B dependencies to POM (jnioche) #207
- [Sitemaps] Add method to parse and iterate sitemap SiteMapParser#walkSiteMap(URL,Consumer) (Luc Boruta) #190
- [Sitemaps] Sitemap file location to ignore query part of URL (sebastian-nagel) #202
- [Sitemaps] Link extraction from RSS feeds fails on XML entities (sebastian-nagel) #204
- [Sitemaps] Resolve relative links in RSS feeds (sebastian-nagel) #203
- [Sitemaps] Extract links from <guid> elements (sebastian-nagel) #201
- [Sitemaps] Limit on "bad url" log messages (sebastian-nagel) #145
- [Domains] EffectiveTldFinder to parse Internationalized Domain Names (sebastian-nagel) #179
- [Domains] Add main() to EffectiveTldFinder (sebastian-nagel) #187
- [Domains] Handle new suffixes in PaidLevelDomain (kkrugler) #183
- Remove Tika dependency (kkrugler) #199
- [Sitemaps] Improve MIME detection for sitemaps (sebastian-nagel) #200
- [Robots.txt] Make RobotRules accessible (aecio via kkrugler) #134
- [Robots.txt] SimpleRobotRulesParser: Expose MAX_WARNINGS and MAX_CRAWL_DELAY (aecio via kkrugler) #194
- [Robots.txt] Added main to SimpleRobotRulesParser for testing (sebastian-nagel) #193
- [Sitemaps] Allow for legacy URIs when checking sitemap namespaces (sebastian-nagel) #211

Release 0.9 (2017-10-27)
- [Sitemaps] Removed DOM-based sitemap parser (jnioche) #177
- [Domains] Incorrect domains returned by EffectiveTldFinder (sebastian-nagel) #172
- [Sitemaps] Add namespace aware DOM/SAX parsing for XML Sitemaps (Marko Milicevic, jnioche, sebastian-nagel) #176
- Upgraded Tika 1.16 (jnioche) #175
- [Sitemaps] Sitemap SAX parsing mangles target URLs (jnioche, sebastian-nagel) #169
- [Sitemaps] RSS parser ignores pubDate of link (MichealKum via kkrugler) #166

Release 0.8 (2017-06-09)
- Upgraded Tika 1.15 (jnioche) #163
- [Sitemaps] Disable XML resolvers (sebastian-nagel) #151
- Update forbiddenapis to v2.3 (jnioche) #99
- [Sitemaps] gzipped text files fail to parse (sebastian-nagel) #143
- [Sitemaps] Optionally use SAX parser (matt-deboer, jnioche, sebastian-nagel) #116
- [Sitemaps] Properly log XML parsing errors (sebastian-nagel) #146
- Use StandardCharsets where applicable (sebastian-nagel) #141
- [Sitemaps] Increase sitemap size limit to 50MB (Avi Hayun) #132
- Remove dependencies to system-specific locale (sebastian-nagel) #137
- [URLs] BasicURLNormalizer: NPE for URLs without authority (sebastian-nagel) #136
- [URLs] BasicURLNormalizer to strip empty port (sebastian-nagel) #133
- Remove deprecated HTTP fetcher (kkrugler) #96

Release 0.7 (2016-11-24)
- Upgrade to JDK 1.8 (lewismc) #126
- [Sitemaps] SitemapParser methods now protected (michaellavelle) #124
- [Sitemaps] Faster parsing of dates (jnioche) #117
- Upgraded Tika 1.13 (jnioche) #113
- Fix license headers (jnioche) #108
- Rename package crawlercommons.url (jnioche) #107
- [Sitemaps] Sitemap url is not extracted if user agent matches earlier in file (srwilson, kkrugler) #112
- Deprecate HTTP fetcher support (kkrugler) #92
- [URLs] Added URLFilter interface + BasicURLNormalizer (jnioche) #106
- [Domains] Updated tld names from publicsuffix.org (jnioche) #100
- Upgraded http-client to version 4.5.1 (aecio via kkrugler) #84
- Upgraded Tika 1.10 (jnioche) #89
- [Sitemaps] Upgrade Valid / Legal / Strict SitemapUrls (Avi Hayun) #82
- [Sitemaps] Upgrade Valid / Legal / Strict SitemapUrls (Avi Hayun) #60
- Simplify pom file (jnioche, lewismc) #77
- Upgrade javac.src.version and javac.target.version to 1.7 or 1.8 (lewismc) #93
- [Sitemaps] Not able to detect RSS feeds (yogendrasoni via kkrugler) #87
- [Robots.txt] Added javadoc comments to the SimpleRobotRulesParser class (MichaelRoeder, kkrugler) #95

Release 0.6 (2015-05-27)
- Issue 75: [Sitemaps] more robust parsing of XML elements (jnioche, kkrugler)
- Issue 76: maven-java-formatter-plugin (jnioche)
- Issue 73: Switch groupID in pom from com.google.code.crawler-commons to crawler-commons (jnioche)
- Issue 71: Upgrade to Tika 1.8 (jnioche)
- Issue 68: [Robots.txt] Path matching should be case-sensitive (kkrugler)
- Issue 67: [Sitemaps] Parsing of lastMod date should use time portion (kkrugler)
- Issue 59: [Robots.txt] Let SimpleRobotRules and its members implements the Serializable interface  (kkrugler)
- Issue 65: [Sitemaps] Make SiteMapTool simpler by removing the Recursive flag (Avi Hayun)
- Issue 64: Upgraded to Tika 1.7 (jnioche)
- Issue 32: [Robots.txt] Resolve relative URL for sitemaps (jnioche)
- Issue 62: [Sitemaps] Add new parseSiteMap method (jnioche)
- Issue 57: [Sitemaps] SiteMap should contain a list of SitemapUrls instead of a table of them (Avi Hayun)
- Issue 51: Upgrade httpclient to the latest version (Avi Hayun)
- Issue 61: [Sitemaps] Sitemap Parser changes the processed flag unnecessarily (Avi Hayun)
- Issue 56: [Sitemaps] SiteMap.setBaseUrl(...) causes the domain name to be lowered case which shouldn't happen (Avi Hayun)
- Issue 50: Add Fetch Report to FetchedResult (lewismc, avraham2)
- Issue 55: [Sitemaps] SitemapUrl "setPriority(String str)" should check for proper value (Avi Hayun)

Release 0.5 (2014-10-15)
- Issue 53: Spaces in a comma separated list of names in a User-agent: line cause rules to be applicable to all agents (kkrugler)
- Issue 45: [Sitemaps] Upgrade code after release of Tika v1.6 (Avi Hayun)
- Issue 48: Upgraded to Tika 1.6 (jnioche)
- Issue 47: [Sitemaps] SiteMapParser Tika detection doesn't work well on some cases (Avi Hayun)
- Issue 40: [Sitemaps] Add Tika MediaType Support (Avi Hayun)
- Issue 39: [Sitemaps] Add the Parser a convenience method with only a URL argument (Avi Hayun via lewismc)
- Issue 42: [Sitemaps] Add more JUnit tests (Avi Hayun via lewismc)
- Issue 37: Upgrade the Slf4j logging Library to v1.7.7 (Avi Hayun via kkrugler)
- Issue 41: Upgrade to JUnit v4 conventions in SiteMapParser (Avi Hayun via lewismc)
- Issue 34: Upgrade the Slf4j logging in SiteMaps (Avi Hayun via lewismc)

Release 0.4 (2014-04-11)
- Issue 13: Fix deprecation in Crawler Commons Code (lewismc via kkrugler)
- Issue 8 : Upgrade of httpclient to v4.2.6 (Fuad Efendi, lewismc via kkrugler)
- Issue 18: Support matching against query parameters in robots.txt rules (alparslanavci, kkrugler)
- Issue 21: Follow Google example of giving Allow directives higher match weight than Disallow directives (y.vladimirov, via kkrugler)
- Issue 22: Use longest-match-wins approach to matching URLs in robots.txt (kkrugler)
- Issue 17: Support Googlebot-compatible regular expressions in URL specifications (alparslanavci. kkrugler)
- Issue 31: Missing top level domains (jnioche, kkrugler)
- Issue 23: Trivial improvements to UserAgent (lewismc)
- Issue 30: SitemapIndex should allow to skip sitemaps (Sebastian Nagel, kkrugler)
- cleanup of ANT build remnants [lib and lib-ext] (jnioche)

Release 0.3 (2013-10-11)
- Upgraded to Tika 1.4 (jnioche)
- [SiteMap] added utility class for testing sitemaps (jnioche)
- Issue 16: remove ant scripts and configuration (lewismc)
- Issue 27: [SiteMap] Unnecessary String concatenations when logging + in SiteMapURL.toString() (jnioche)
- Issue 26: [SiteMap] Set correct default priority for URL in a sitemap file (jnioche)
- Issue 25: [Robots.txt] Robots parser should not lowercase sitemap URLs (jnioche)
- Issue 29: [SiteMap] try urls when <loc> element is missing (jnioche)

Release 0.2 (2013-02-02)
- Move to pure Maven for CC build lifecycle (lewismc)
- Move Javadoc out of core code (lewismc)
- Substantiate Javadoc (lewismc)
- Review default.properties (lewismc)
- add HTTP status code & reason to FetchedResult (Fuad Efendi via kkrugler)
- support for multiple user agent names (Tejas Patil via kkrugler)
- added javadoc generation, publish in /doc/javadoc (kkrugler)
- switch to using eclipse-formatter.properties (kkrugler)
- support robots.txt files that have UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE BOMs (kkrugler)
- support for user agent names that contain spaces (kkrugler)
- fixed handling of BOM in sitemaps (Vivek Magotra via kkrugler)
- refactoring of SiteMap objects (Hannes Schwarz via jnioche)
- added simple support for the file: protocol (kkrugler)
- cleaned up packaging and added "install" target (kkrugler)

Release 0.1
- parsing robots.txt
- parsing sitemaps
- URL analyzer which returns Top Level Domains
- a simple HttpFetcher