Changelog

What we shipped, when we shipped it.

Every meaningful update to Smart SEO Audit since launch. New features, improvements and fixes — in plain English.

10 releases since May 2025 Latest: v3.0.0 · April 2026
v3.0.0
April 13, 2026
Major release

Interactive dashboards & stronger API

A big quality-of-life release focused on visibility and control — with an interactive live map of active audits, date-range filters across the whole app, and a meaningful expansion of what the API returns.

Added
  • Interactive live map showing audits happening across your account in real time
  • Date-range filters across every data view — audits, websites, notifications, reports
  • Full data in API responses for create and update requests — no more extra GET calls
  • Automatic health checks with notifications when a scheduled audit starts failing
Improved
  • Structured data support extended to audit categories and report pages
  • API documentation now includes full status response codes for every endpoint
  • Dynamic OG image generation for shared audit reports is faster and more reliable
  • Cleaner, better-organised statistics pages across the app
Fixed
  • API audits now properly return detailed errors when an audit fails
  • Archived audits: pagination and bulk deletion edge cases resolved
  • Filtering issues when audit URLs contain URL-encoded characters
  • SSL certificate processing failures on some URLs
Security
  • Stronger CSRF protection on login, registration, password reset and account activation flows
  • Hardened notification handler testing to prevent abuse
  • Safer team association tokens
v2.5.0
February 25, 2026
Minor release

Critical page size check & smarter favicons

A sharper audit engine: a new check for pages exceeding critical size limits, a faster favicon retrieval system, and search and filter support across every API endpoint.

Added
  • New audit check: critical page size warnings when HTML exceeds rendering-safe thresholds
  • Search and filter parameters on every API data-retrieval endpoint
  • One-click unsubscribe for email reports — required by modern email standards
  • Favicon Getter: faster, cached favicon retrieval for better performance
Improved
  • Notification handlers: email handlers now require confirmation when added (prevents abuse)
  • Memory usage reduced across long-running audit processes
  • Statistics cleanup jobs run significantly faster on large accounts
Security
  • Protection against long-password attacks during login
  • Safer SVG uploads with stricter validation
  • Session fixation attack mitigation
v2.0.0
January 22, 2026
Major release

Proxies, audit queue & five new checks

A foundational update that adds a proxy system for auditing geo-restricted or rate-limited sites, a background audit queue for bulk operations, and five new audit tests covering modern security and SEO signals.

Added
  • Proxies system — route audits through proxies for geo-specific or IP-restricted sites
  • Audit queue — bulk audits now process in the background without blocking your dashboard
  • New audit test: Content Security Policy (CSP) header verification
  • New audit test: SPF record verification
  • New audit test: Referrer Policy verification
  • New audit test: Meta refresh detection
  • New audit test: structured data validation
  • Audit alerts: get notified when a scheduled audit starts returning errors
  • Audit alerts: get notified when an audited URL starts redirecting elsewhere
  • Websites directory: publish your site to the public directory with DNS verification
Improved
  • AI audit results now stream in the background — the dashboard stays responsive while AI writes recommendations
  • AI insights are now generated in the user's selected language
  • Better detection of non-HTML pages submitted for auditing (returns a clear error)
Fixed
  • Bulk auditing with multiple distinct domains now processes all domains correctly
  • PDF export visual issues on certain audit reports
v1.8.0
December 21, 2025
Minor release

Modern WHOIS & faster dashboards

A polish release focused on speed and small quality-of-life wins across the auditing flow and the built-in WHOIS tool.

Added
  • Modern RDAP protocol for domain lookups — faster and more reliable than legacy WHOIS
  • Audit URL input auto-detects example.com patterns and prepends https:// for you
Improved
  • Noticeably faster dashboard and audit list page loads
  • Image upload and cropping works reliably with larger files
Fixed
  • Two-factor authentication could not be disabled in some cases
  • Horizontal scroll appearing on homepage when embedded content was present
  • Account renewal price rounding issue — now shows exact cost
v1.6.0
November 24, 2025
Minor release

Smarter currency handling & snappier dashboards

A performance-focused release: automatic currency detection for international users, and the kind of quiet infrastructure work that makes every page load feel faster.

Added
  • Automatic currency detection based on visitor country — pricing pages show the right currency on first visit
Improved
  • Dashboard and audit list page loads are significantly faster for accounts with thousands of audits
  • Background processing for activity logs and notifications runs faster and uses less memory
  • Consistent button and UI component styling across the app
Fixed
  • CSV export edge cases on audit data
  • Email broadcast delivery when using certain language filters
v1.5.0
October 22, 2025
Minor release

HTML plan descriptions & saved payment methods

Quality-of-life release: richer plan presentation, smarter upgrade flows, and clearer resource limits when a plan has been exceeded.

Improved
  • Plans page now shows the percentage saved when switching to annual billing
  • Resources that exceed plan limits are now read-only until the user deletes or upgrades
  • All API requests are noticeably faster
Fixed
  • Homepage blurring effect rendering correctly on Firefox and Safari
  • Theme preference not saving in some browsers
v1.3.0
August 30, 2025
Minor release

AI audit summaries are live 🎉

The biggest single feature since launch: AI-written audit summaries that prioritise fixes by impact and explain them in plain language, on every audit.

Added
  • AI audit summaries — every audit now includes AI-prioritised fix recommendations
Improved
  • Bulk delete and bulk export operations are dramatically faster
  • Create buttons on resource pages now link directly to plan upgrade if the limit is reached
  • CSS loading on the homepage optimised — faster first paint
Fixed
  • Bulk audit limits occasionally not applying correctly
  • Print-to-PDF button edge cases on long audit reports
v1.2.0
July 19, 2025
Minor release

Keyword stop words & UTF-8 support

Smarter keyword analysis, better handling of non-English sites, and a first pass of performance improvements across the audit engine.

Added
  • Stop words — specify keywords to ignore when audit analyses top terms on a page
  • Option to wait for a webhook response when sending notifications
Improved
  • Full UTF-8 character support across the audit engine — better results on non-Latin sites
  • Faster automatic cleanup of expired audit history
  • Database performance improvements on accounts with thousands of audits
Fixed
  • Whois tool occasionally failing on certain TLDs
  • Discord notification handler test not completing in some cases
  • Device detection inaccuracies on newer tablets
v1.1.0
June 11, 2025
Minor release

Google Chat, Open Graph checker & 5 new tools

First major content update after launch: two new notification channels, the Open Graph preview checker, and a batch of standalone SEO tools to complement the audit engine.

Added
  • Google Chat notification handler
  • Internal Notifications for team-wide alerts
  • Open Graph checker tool — preview how any URL appears when shared on social
  • Deprecated HTML tags checker
  • Image alt tags checker
  • NoIndex checker
  • Text-to-HTML ratio checker
  • Page size checker
  • TTFB (Time to First Byte) checker
  • Website text extractor
  • Google Safe Browsing audit check
  • Test notification handlers directly from their edit page
Improved
  • Homepage and marketing page load times reduced by ~40%
  • Email templates now use your brand colour and border radius automatically
  • Share buttons redesigned with native device share support
Fixed
  • Quarterly and bi-annual billing cycles not processing correctly in edge cases
  • Chart rendering issues in the dashboard statistics view
v1.0.0
May 20, 2025
Initial release

Hello, world 👋

The public launch of Smart SEO Audit — a focused, Swiss-hosted SEO audit platform built for teams that care about technical quality and data sovereignty.

What's in v1.0
  • 50+ SEO audit checks covering technical, on-page, content and media
  • Four audit modes: single URL, bulk, sitemap, and raw HTML
  • Scheduled rechecks — daily, weekly, or monthly
  • 13 notification channels including email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Microsoft Teams, SMS, and webhooks
  • Full audit history with side-by-side comparison
  • Public and password-protected shareable audit reports
  • Branded PDF exports
  • Custom domain support for white-labelled audit pages
  • REST API with full audit and website management endpoints
  • 32 bundled standalone SEO tools (DNS, SSL, HTTP/2, Brotli, redirects, and more)
  • Dark mode, multi-language support, and GDPR/FADP-compliant infrastructure
  • Swiss-hosted on ISO 27001–certified infrastructure — all data stays in Switzerland