CHANGES.md

Release notes

Notable changes will be documented here

0.9.36

• upgraded dependencies
• Go v1.22

0.9.35

• upgraded dependencies
• link-checker-service
  • token validation via JWKS

0.9.34

• upgraded dependencies

0.9.33

• Go v1.21

0.9.32

• Go v1.20

0.9.31

• Go v1.19
• link-checker-service
  • tracking domain stats as blacklist input
  • domains of URLs are parsed and used in the domain blacklist without the port
• sample UI:
  • showing detailed domain stats

0.9.30

• link-checker-service
  • counting cache hits and misses

0.9.29

• link-checker-service
  • sanitizing log lines that include API user input

0.9.28

• link-checker-service
  • a simple /stats endpoint
• sample UI:
  • showing the /stats results

0.9.26

• Go v1.17
• Build & Release via GitHub Actions

0.9.25

• better docker image name

0.9.24

• publishing docker images
• link-checker-service
  • echoing the Go version

0.9.23

• upgraded the dependencies
• link-checker-service
  • default ristretto back to false
  • do not echo config file location implicitly
  • fixed golint warnings & go fmt

0.9.22

• link-checker-service:
  • a new optional memory-limited cache based on github.com/dgraph-io/ristretto
    • run the service with --cacheUseRistretto
    • see the options in .link-checker-service.toml

0.9.21

• link-checker-service:
  • tracing the elapsed time in total per URL and per URL checker plugin (elapsed_ms response fields)
  • tracing the error message from each URL checker plugin
• sample UI:
  • exporting the elapsed total time to CSV
  • exporting the URL checker plugin trace as a JSON blob to CSV

0.9.20

• link-checker-service:
  • a new URL checker plugin: urlcheck-pac, configured via pacScriptURL for more complex proxy scenarios
  • more reasons to retry a check with a different checker plugin added
  • checker plugins are now traced in the check_trace field of the URLStatusResponse

0.9.19

• link-checker-service:
  • JWT authentication
    • allow credentials in CORS
    • configurable LCS_USEJWTVALIDATION, LCS_DISABLEREQUESTLOGGING
    • logging the configuration before validating it
  • configurable sequence or URL checker plugins, e.g. with and without using a proxy
  • logging GOMAXPROCS on serve
  • the simplest health & liveness check + version endpoints are now unauthenticated and not rate-limited

0.9.18

• link-checker-service:
  • Simple authentication via JWT validation

0.9.17

• link-checker-service:
  • HTTP BadRequest on empty request
• sample UI:
  • abort button

0.9.16

• link-checker-service:
  • use the browser user agent in the last resort get request
  • cache failed DNS resolution to not block the other requests
  • total request timeout increased

0.9.15

• link-checker-service:
  • better feedback when reading in config files
  • fixed DNS resolution for URLs with an explicit port

0.9.14

• link-checker-service:
  • best effort remote address resolution
• sample UI:
  • show the remote address resolution in the results
  • added a remote_addr column to CSV export

0.9.13

• link-checker-service:
  • optional: resolve remote addresses
• sample UI:
  • disable the CSV download button on no check status
  • configurable service URL in the sample UI

0.9.12

• new release packaging

0.9.11

• link-checker-service:
  • serve -a <addr> allows customizing the bind address, e.g. localhost-only: 127.0.0.1:8080

0.9.10

• binaries: link-checker-service, sample UI, sample large list check
• link-checker-service:
  • configurability
  • response-specific caching of results
  • aborting processing on client disconnected
  • rate limiting per domain
  • concurrency limit
  • rate limiting per client
  • optional domain blacklisting using glob patterns
  • Docker deployment
  • URL de-duplication in the request, and duplication in the response
  • optional searching for patterns in HTTP response bodies
  • streaming responses as they arrive
• sample UI:
  • CSV export
  • synchronous and asynchronous requests
  • filtering by status
  • hiding successes