Changelog

LANGSPECTOR CHANGELOG

See what changed in LangSpector.

Release notes for LangSpector Free and LangSpector Pro, including new features, audit improvements, compatibility fixes and licensing changes.

CURRENT RELEASES

Current public plugin versions

LANGSPECTOR FREE

Version 0.4.15

Core multilingual auditing for WordPress websites using Polylang.

LANGSPECTOR PRO

Version 0.4.7

Advanced multilingual checks, license management and protected updates.

LANGSPECTOR FREE

Free release history

Version 0.4.15
  • Treats www and non-www variants of the same hostname as the same internal domain during link audits.
Version 0.4.14
  • Added validated profiles for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Ancient Greek and Ligurian.
  • Added dense-script handling for Korean Hangul.
  • Completed the validated local language set at 73 profiles.
Versions 0.4.13 – 0.4.8

Expanded and refined the local language engine with validated profiles for many additional languages.

  • Added Indic, Asian, African, Eastern European and regional-language profiles.
  • Improved handling of Unicode scripts and combining marks.
  • Improved distinction between closely related languages.
  • Kept short-text detection intentionally conservative.
  • Used only language profiles that passed internal confusion tests.
Versions 0.4.7 – 0.4.4
  • Reduced false language mismatches in short SEO titles and ALT text.
  • Ignored bare domain names during language detection.
  • Introduced distinct report labels for SEO title and SEO description findings.
  • Replaced large raw n-gram profiles with compact, human-readable language profiles.
  • Improved handling of brand and product-style ALT text.
Versions 0.4.3 – 0.4.0
  • Introduced a deterministic local language-detection engine independent of site content.
  • Restricted language comparisons to languages actually configured in Polylang.
  • Improved relative internal-link resolution.
  • Kept only the latest completed audit automatically.
  • Classified broken Polylang relationships as Critical.
  • Added optional LangSpector data removal on uninstall.
  • Set WordPress 6.5 as the minimum supported version.
Versions 0.3.2 – 0.3.0
  • Removed content and report quotas from LangSpector Free.
  • Changed Free vs Pro separation to a feature-based model.
  • Prevented overlapping audits.
  • Improved scan finalisation and large-site performance.
  • Restored a reliable batch scanning process for eligible content.
  • Declared Polylang as a required plugin.
Versions 0.2.3 – 0.2.0
  • Introduced the Free core + Pro extension architecture.
  • Added contextual Pro upgrade links and buttons.
  • Improved edition identification throughout the interface.
  • Earlier Free scan limits introduced in 0.2.0 were subsequently removed in version 0.3.0.
Versions 0.1.6 – 0.1.0
  • Introduced Ignore and Reactivate behaviour.
  • Removed the temporary Verified workflow.
  • Improved multilingual health scoring.
  • Stopped treating intentionally missing translations as errors.
  • Improved exact translated URL resolution.
  • Added multilingual ALT consistency checks.
  • Initial LangSpector V1 architecture.

LANGSPECTOR PRO

Pro release history

Version 0.4.7
  • Limited offline Pro access to seven days after the last successful license verification.
  • Separated failed connection attempts from the last successful verification timestamp.
  • Enforced cached annual expiration dates even when the license server is temporarily unavailable.
Version 0.4.6
  • Improved the manual Check now confirmation by displaying the current license status.
Versions 0.4.5 – 0.4.3
  • Centralised site deactivation on the My installations page.
  • Added confirmed deactivation for the current installation.
  • Added the My installations interface inside WordPress.
  • Required the full license key before displaying or remotely managing installations.
  • Protected the current site from accidental remote removal.
  • Allowed local deactivation during temporary license-server outages.
Versions 0.4.2 – 0.4.0
  • Added separate test-environment activation quotas.
  • Improved Unicode handling for mixed-language checks.
  • Added exact SEO and ALT excerpts to language findings.
  • Separated SEO title and SEO description findings.
  • Bound cached license entitlement to the current normalized site URL.
  • Added detection of common staging, development and local environments.
  • Improved behaviour for expired, cancelled, refunded and revoked licenses.
  • Classified confident visible language mismatches as Warning and uncertain metadata findings as Review.
Versions 0.3.2 – 0.3.0
  • Aligned compatibility with the LangSpector Free 0.3.x branch.
  • Protected locally cached entitlement against simple database tampering.
  • Improved short SEO metadata and ALT language checks.
  • Improved attachment detection from image classes, attributes and media URLs.
  • Added a dedicated update URI and safer behaviour during temporary server outages.
Versions 0.2.0 – 0.1.0
  • Introduced Pro license activation, validation and deactivation.
  • Added protected license-bound update downloads.
  • Added regular license verification with temporary-outage protection.
  • Introduced the initial LangSpector Pro extension architecture.

UPDATES

Keep Free and Pro compatible.

LangSpector Pro depends on a compatible LangSpector Free version. When updates are available, keep both components up to date.

Eligible Pro releases are delivered through the protected LangSpector update system.

Need help after an update?

If you encounter unexpected behaviour after updating LangSpector, open a support ticket and include the Free and Pro versions installed on your site.


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