DevArt Sitemaps v1.0.1 – Production Stability & Google Search Console Compatibility

DevArt Sitemaps v1.0.1

This maintenance release improves Google Search Console compatibility and finalizes the production architecture used by DevArt Sitemaps without changing existing sitemap generation, providers, scheduling, or archive functionality.

Improvements

Root Sitemap

• Root sitemap.xml now publishes only final sitemap files.
• Internal provider sitemap indexes are no longer exposed from the root sitemap.
• Improved compatibility with Google Search Console recommendations.

Nested Sitemap Protection

• Added validation to prevent nested sitemap indexes from being included in the root sitemap.
• Any sitemap index detected during root sitemap generation is automatically skipped.
• Warning entries are written to the log when such files are detected.

Robots.txt

• Updated DevArt Sitemaps robots.txt block to publish:
  • Main Sitemap
  • Google News Sitemap

Dashboard

• Dashboard now displays direct links to:
  • Main Sitemap
  • Google News Sitemap
• Updated Cloudflare recommendation to use:
  • URI Path contains sitemaps

Stability

• No changes to scheduler.
• No changes to archive generation.
• No changes to sitemap providers.
• No changes to sitemap generation architecture.
• Fully backward compatible with existing DevArt Sitemaps installations.

This release focuses exclusively on production stability and Google Search Console compatibility.

DevArt Sitemaps v1.0.0 – First Stable Release

DevArt Sitemaps v1.0.0

First stable public release of DevArt Sitemaps for Joomla 6.

Highlights

• High-performance static XML sitemap engine
• Native Joomla 6 architecture
• Google News sitemap support
• Recent content sitemap generation
• Long-term archive sitemap generation
• Monthly archive splitting for very large websites
• Native DevArt provider support
  • Joomla Articles
  • DevArt Business
  • DevArt Events
  • DevArt Video
• Separate sitemap indexes per provider
• Automatic sitemap index generation
• Production-ready archive engine
• Build progress and activity logging
• Dashboard with system health information
• Joomla Scheduled Tasks integration
• Safe stop, continue and rebuild operations
• Automatic provider isolation
• Cloudflare-friendly static sitemap generation
• Optimized for large Joomla websites and news portals
• Full Joomla 6 routing support
• Modern PHP 8.2+ codebase
• JED-ready package
• GPL v3

Performance

DevArt Sitemaps generates static XML files instead of building sitemaps dynamically on every request, significantly reducing database load and improving scalability for high-traffic Joomla websites.

Requirements

• Joomla 6.1+
• PHP 8.2+