Version 2.1.0

• PHP 8 support.
• New method AllowClient->isCovered().
• Method AllowClient->hasPath() is deprecated.

Version 2.0.2

Bug fixes:

• Don't throw errors when parsing an empty robots.txt file #5

Version 2.0.1

Bug fixes

• Rules didn't match when contained both wildcard(s) * and an end anchor $ #5
• Rules didn't always match when contained special characters like +()[]

Other improvements

• Normalize rules starting with an wildcard * to always have an prefixed slash /
• Added more test cases
• Minor code and test optimizations

Version 2.0.0

Version 2.0.0 stable is finally here, with lots of new abilities, features and improvements.

The essentials:

• All protocols now supported library-wide
• robots.txt rendering
• Import/Export rule sets as arrays
• Cache robots.txt files to MySQL (optional)
• Delay handling with precision using MySQL (optional)
• New directives:
  • Comment
  • NoIndex
  • Request-rate
  • Robot-version
  • Visit-time
• Some new abilities at directive level
• Lots of improvements under the hood

Version 1.x incompatible!

Version 2.0.0 rc 2

• Bug fix: DelayManager->debug() didn't return all entries
• Bug-fix: Wrong user-agent sometimes passed to the MySQL Delay handler
• No longer force checks the Comment directive for comments
• Refactored (internal) error handler
• Minor code optimizions
• More tests (code coverage at 97,3% 🎉 )

Version 2.0.0 rc 1

• Renamed $delayClient->getQueue() to checkQueue()
• Import class, for importing exported arrays
• Updated default byte-limit from 64 to 512 kilobytes
• Performance optimizions
• Fixed an bug causing the user-agent string parser to generate warnings
• Minor refactoring, with performance in mind
• Refactored documentation

Version 2.0.0 beta 2

Version 1.x incompatible.

Changelog since version 2.0-beta.1:

• PHP 7.1 compatible
• Added RenderClient class
• Minor speed improvements
• Updated vipnytt/useragentparser to v1.0
• Make sure some cURL options is not overwritten.
• The confusing isHostListed() func is removed.
• Refactored UriParser
• Refactored Clean-param directive classes
• Refactored Host directive classes
• HostClient getWithFallback renamed to getWithUriFallback
• SQL debug methods
• Documentation

Version 2.0.0 beta 1

Version 1.x incompatible.

Changelog since version 2.0-alpha:

• Support for the NoIndex directive
• cURL now replaces GuzzleHttp
• Cache and UriClient classes now supports all available protocols
• No longer lists empty user-agents.
• Directive aliases (for simple typos / errors).
• Retry after HTTP header support.
• Improved Status-code handler, no longer throws exceptions on strange codes.
• Improved multi-User-agent directive handler.
• Host directive now also supports URL redirect host as fallback
• Tons of code optimizions
• Refactoring
• Documentation

Version 2.0.0 alpha

Alpha release, use at your own risk!
Version 1.x incompatible.

Short version change-log (since version 1.0.1):

• More directives and specifications supported.
• Increased specification coverage (including bug-fixes and new handlers).
• Built-in caching system.
• Built-in delay handling system.
• Restructured for better maintainability and easier usage.
• More documentation.

See README for more information.

Version 1.0.1

• More accurate end anchor $ rule matching.