What's new in LinkChecker 7.5:

February 14th, 2012

· Support for loading and saving of project files has been added to the GUI.
· Some bugs have been fixed.

What's new in LinkChecker 7.4:

January 8th, 2012

· HTML5 link elements and attributes are now checked.
· Saving of result files in the GUI has been fixed.

What's new in LinkChecker 7.3:

December 26th, 2011

· The GUI option dialog has been redesigned and allows configuration of ignore URL patterns.
· Parsing of Safari Bookmark files has been added.
· Bugs were fixed for Unicode hostname parsing, GUI result file saving, and the command line script return code.

What's new in LinkChecker 7.1:

August 9th, 2011

· Bugs were fixed for HTML parsing, HTTP authentication and cookie handling.
· A new option allows setting of the HTTP User-Agent string.

What's new in LinkChecker 7.0:

May 30th, 2011

· The GUI now displays status info in the main window instead of a modal dialog.
· The last 10 checked URLs are now remembered.
· Several checking bugs have been fixed.

What's new in LinkChecker 6.6:

March 28th, 2011

· The user and system configuration file are now imported by the GUI.
· Saving results in the GUI is now possible again.

What's new in LinkChecker 6.5:

March 13th, 2011

Fixes:
· checking: Fix typo calling get_temp_file() function.
· checking: Prevent false positives when detecting the MIME type of certain archive files.
· checking: Correct conversion between file URLs and encoded filenames. Fixes false errors when handling files with Unicode encodings.
· checking: Work around a Python 2.7 regression in parsing certain URLs with paths starting with a digit.
· cmdline: Fix filename completion if path starts with ~
· cgi: Prevent encoding errors printing to sys.stdout using an encoding wrapper.

Changes:
· checking: Use HTTP GET requests to work around buggy IIS servers sending false positive status codes for HEAD requests.
· checking: Strip leading and trailing whitespace from URLs and print a warning instead of having errors. Also all embedded whitespace is stripped from URLs given at the commandline or the GUI. Closes: SF bug #3196918

Features:
· configuration: Support reading GNOME and KDE proxy settings.

What's new in LinkChecker 6.3:

February 8th, 2011

· The installation instructions have been fixed.
· A default encoding error policy is now always used when writing to stdout.
· Error messages from Geoip are prevented by using the correct API function when no city database is installed.

What's new in LinkChecker 6.1:

December 27th, 2010

· The GUI interface can automatically find the user's Firefox bookmark file.
· Several checking bugs have also been fixed.

What's new in LinkChecker 5.4:

October 26th, 2010

· The GUI now reads its default options from the configuration file, and can display URL source code in a text window.
· A login URL including authentication information can be configured to log into sites requiring authentication.

What's new in LinkChecker 5.3:

September 30th, 2010

· Checking of HTTP URLs depending on robots.txt authorization as been improved.
· Warnings about obfuscated IP addresses and zero-sized content pages have been added.
· The UTF-8 filename encoding capability of FTP servers is now detected and supported.
· Bugs with unusual FTP ports and HTTP proxies have been fixed, and the right-click context menu of the GUI works again.

What's new in LinkChecker 5.2:

March 8th, 2010

· recursive and multithreaded checking
· output in colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, XML or a sitemap graph in different formats
· HTTP/1.1, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Telnet and local file links support
· restrict link checking with regular expression filters for URLs
· proxy support
· username/password authorization for HTTP, FTP and Telnet
· honors robots.txt exclusion protocol
· Cookie support
· HTML and CSS syntax check
· Antivirus check
· a command line interface
· a (Fast)CGI web interface (requires HTTP server)

What's new in LinkChecker 5.0:

January 26th, 2009

· A new GUI client for checking has been added and invalid handling of persistent connections has been fixed. Python >= 2.5 is now required for LinkChecker.