New RealURL was just sent to TER. This is version 1.5.0. It includes three new features:

  • A checkbox to exclude page from the URL. The checkbox is available in page properties. Excluding many pages is supported. Thus if you have a path like example.com/page-1/page-2/page-3/, you now can get example.com/page-3/ by checking a box on "Page 1" and "Page 2".
  • Paths with language variables now can be converted to domains. For example, if you had www.example.com/es/page/, now it can become www.example.es/page/ without third-party tricks or mod_rewrite rules. Credit for the patch goes to Oliver Hader.
  • RealURL now can determine rootpage_id more reliable than before.

Bug fixes include:

  • "Speaking path segment" now can be localized. This allows also RealURL paths for languages like Arabic or Chinese
  • Shortcuts will not produce paths to the destination page (avoids duplicate content)
  • Clarified Backend form for redirects
  • noMatch=bypass prevented decoding fileName on the root level (fixed)
  • ® and ™ in the address are now correctly recognized
  • deleted language overlays are no longer seached for localized pages

Lots of bug fixes are closed as duplicates or "unable to reproduce". It is possible that some of them were fixed as a part of other bug fixes.