Sitebulb Release Rants
Transparent and sweary Release Notes for every Sitebulb update. Critically acclaimed by some people on Twitter. Written by CEO Patrick Hathaway.
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Transparent and sweary Release Notes for every Sitebulb update. Critically acclaimed by some people on Twitter. Written by CEO Patrick Hathaway.
Reader discretion is advised.
June 2026
Improvements to PDF export layout and chart data tables.
Changing the default data directory in Settings now correctly applies to new projects.
The "Hints by importance" and "Hints by type" charts in the Data Studio connector now show data correctly.
RSS feed URLs are now correctly classified as XML, so HTML-specific hints like "Title tag is missing" no longer fire against them.
All references to "Looker Studio" have been updated to "Data Studio" across the app and connector.
Bug Fixes
Connecting Google integrations on Cloud no longer returns an authentication redirect error.
S3 auto-export settings now validate write permissions when a crawl is paused, preventing crawls from getting stuck on resume.
Improvements
Other bug fixes and security updates.
May 2026
Improvements
HTML Template Analysis can now be enabled or disabled in audit settings.
Bug Fixes
Sitebulb now displays a warning when TLS 1.3 is disabled on the machine, helping identify SSL connection issues during crawls.
TLS 1.3 websites can now be crawled on macOS.
Pre-audit and Single Page Analysis error messages now clearly indicate when a target URL could not be reached.
The HTML parser no longer crashes when encountering certain unusual HTML structures on crawled pages.
Pages are no longer incorrectly flagged as JS redirects due to a malformed Accept-Language header.
The Structured Data report now loads faster, and pie charts render correctly on large crawls.
Image hint URL lists and counts now display correctly, including the "Images with missing alt text" hint.
GA4 integration no longer gets stuck on the loading screen for properties with metric restrictions.
Accessibility violation hints now correctly display violations in the live HTML view.
Content Search rules now return results correctly.
April 2026
The codebase has been upgraded to .NET 10