Sphider-plus    version 4.2026c  -  The PHP Search Engine

Version: 4.2026b

Release date: February 22, 2026

- In front of the last version the following modifications have been added:

- Now indexing also URLs containing non ASCII coded characters like:

   https://www.pathworkinjapan.com/イベント紹介

   https://www.aljazeera.net/news/2026/2/14/مؤتمر-ميونخ-في-يومه-الثاني-مواقف

   (Please understand these as examples, not as an opinion.)

- Default User Agent defined to:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36)

- New option in admin settings:

Prevent indexation of .js files. Usually not containing text to be searched for.

- Updated black_bots and black IPs scripts.

 

- Involved folders and files that have been modified / added for this release:

.../admin/configset.php

.../admin/index_media.php

.../admin/messages.php

.../admin/spider.php

.../admin/spiderfuncs.php

 

.../include/common/black_bots.txt

.../include/common/black_ips_priv.txt