simple_sitemap 4.1.1

IndexNow support added

After Microsoft decided to silently kill the sitemap ping API and instead use the new indexNow protocol, I figured the search engines submodule should support it.

4.1.x adds support for IndexNow, converts the existing Bing search engine entity to use it and adds new entities (Yandex and IndexNow).

If you had the simple_sitemap_engines submodule submit the default XML sitemap to Bing, the update hooks will make sure to enable submitting the corresponding entities to IndexNow on every entity form save (don't worry, given the right permission, this can be overridden before submitting the form).

You will have to generate a new verification key on your production sites - just head to the status page (admin/reports/status), or directly to admin/config/search/simplesitemap/engines/settings for guidance.

For more information on this release as well as on IndexNow, see this post.

Changes since 4.0.x

Bug fixes

#3259127: Can't generate Sitemap with PostgreSQL
#3256622: Catch thrown exception when creating variant with period symbol

New features

#3256453: Add IndexNow capability to search engine integration

Notable changes since 3.x

4.x is a major rewrite of the module. It makes greater use of Drupal's entity API dropping some of its very specific chaining API. See #3219383: Roadmap for 4.x.

I encourage everyone to use this over 3.x. If you rely on the deprecated 3.x API, you may need to adjust a couple of method calls. See readme for basic API usage instructions and check out code documentation. New features are only coming to 4.x.

#3256453: Add IndexNow capability to search engine integration
#3219389: Allow creating sitemap types via UI
#3245449: Simplify & clean up API
#3219385: Convert sitemap variants to proper configuration entities
#3219386: Convert sitemap types to proper configuration entities
#3220168: Improve decoupling of storage
#3219388: Decoupling of custom link & entity URL generating functionality
#3027987: Throw and Catch exceptions in API

Upgrade path

Upgrade path from 3.x and 2.x for regular users is available.

If you have extended this module by using its API, you will most probably have to adapt that functionality to the new (cleaner) API. If you are using 3rd party contributed simple_sitemap submodules, you may find they are not ported to 4.x yet and will stop working. In this case, please open up issues in the respective queues.

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