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.