SortSite Desktop version history
Our version numbers consists of 4 parts: Change.Release.Build.Patch
- Change only changes if compatibility is affected (e.g. when the file format changes)
- Release is the major version number - changes each maintenance release
- Build is the build number - changes every release and is different on Mac and Windows for the same release version
- Patch is always zero
6.54 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.54.2008.0
Platform: Windows
Date: October 18, 2024
New Features
- Added HTML code snippets to reports
- Improved text analysis
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome/Edge 130, FF 131, Safari 18, Opera 114
- Updated to September 2024 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to September 2024 CSS Validator
- Updates to ARIA 1.2 rules
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.54
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.53 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.53.996.0
Platform: Windows
Date: July 7, 2024
New Features
- Added support for :state() and :popover-open selectors
- Added support for CSS Text Module Level 4 properties
- Improved positioning of issues in source view
- Added crawl diagnostics to reports
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 127, Edge 127, Firefox 128, Opera 111
- Updated to May 2024 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to June 2024 CSS Validator
- Updated to March 2024 URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.53
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.52 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.52.986.0
Platform: Windows
Date: April 26, 2024
New Features
- Improved CSS calc() support
- Improved ARIA role calculation for table headers
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 124, Edge 124, Firefox 124, Opera 109
- Updated to March 2024 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to February 2024 URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.52
Fixes
- Fixed robots.txt processing of /core/*.css?
- Take account of CSS pseudo elements in contrast calculations
- Out of memory on large sites with many HTTP errors
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.51 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.51.980.0
Platform: Windows
Date: December 19, 2023
New Features
- Now checks iframe srcdoc contents
- Improved background image text contrast detection
- Improved CSS support
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 120, Edge 120, Firefox 120, Opera 105
- Updated to November 2023 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to September 2023 URL Standard
- Updated user agent stylesheet to match November 2023 HTML Living Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.51
Fixes
- Make DOM tree for unclosed formatting elements match browser DOM instead of W3 validator
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.50 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.50.968.0
Platform: Windows
Date: October 5, 2023
New Features
- Added support for WCAG 2.2
- Updated relative luminance per WCAG 2.1 Errata https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/errata/
- Detect text contrast against background images
- Updated report appearance
- Improved CSS support
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 118, Edge 118, Firefox 118, Opera 102 and Safari 17
- Updated to September 2023 HTML 5 Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.50
Fixes
- Ignore meta redirects inside noscript
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.49 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.49.962.0
Platform: Windows
Date: May 31, 2023
New Features
- Updated spelling dictionaries
- Added support for additional CSS properties and at-rules
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 114, Edge 114, Firefox 114, Opera 99
- Updated to May 2023 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to May 2023 CSS Validator
- Updated to May 2023 URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.49
Fixes
- Improved text classification of links in French, German, Italian and Spanish
- Fix parsing of vue.js colon prefixed attributes like :aria-expanded
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.48 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.48.956.0
Platform: Windows
Date: March 11, 2023
New Features
- Added color samples next to rgb() values in reports
- Further improvements to rule performance
- Improved accessible name calculation for SVG elements
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 111, Edge 111, Firefox 111, Opera 96
- Updated to March 2023 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to March 2023 CSS Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.48
Fixes
- Fixed CSS var() replacement at end of minimized blocks
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.47 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.47.952.0
Platform: Windows
Date: December 20, 2022
New Features
- Improved detection of event handlers
- Rules run 2x faster on large pages
- Further updates for ARIA 1.2
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 108, Edge 108, Firefox 108, Opera 93, Safari 16
- Updated to December 2022 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to December 2022 CSS Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.47
Fixes
- Fixed cascading HTML validation errors when sub-trees contain nested invalid elements
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.46 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.46.946.0
Platform: Windows
Date: September 13, 2022
New Features
- Handle CSS variable substitutions like rgba( var(--rgb) var(--alpha) )
- Handle CSS variable substitutions in shorthand properties
- Rules run around 10% faster on large pages
- CSS runs much faster on large pages
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 105, Edge 105, Firefox 104, Opera 90, Safari 15.6
- Updated screen reader compatibility checks to NVDA 2022, JAWS 2022, macOS 12.5 and iOS 15.6
- Updated to September 2022 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to September 2022 CSS Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.46
Fixes
- Fixed some minor high contrast and dark mode issues
- Fixed focus style match for body:focus-within button
- Fixed issue running second instance of app when Edge WebView2 104 is installed
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.45 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.45.942.0
Platform: Windows
Date: July 4, 2022
New Features
- IE11 browser compatibility checks turned off by default now that IE11 is end-of-life on Windows 10
- Screen reader compatibility checks for IE11 removed
- CSS validation support for :has() relative selectors, content-visibility: and @media horizontal-viewport-segments and @media vertical-viewport-segments
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 103, Edge 103, Firefox 101, Opera 88, Safari 15.4
- Updated to June 2022 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to June 2022 CSS Validator
- Updated to May 2022 URL Standard
- Updates for ARIA 1.2 Candidate Recommendation
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.45
Fixes
- Fixed leak with inherited CSS custom properties
- Fixed "This issue was found on another 1 pages" appearing unexpectedly in reports
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.44 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.44.938.0
Platform: Windows
Date: March 31, 2022
New Features
- Added CSS support for @layer rules
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 100, Edge 100, Firefox 99, Opera 85
- Updated to March 2022 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to March 2022 CSS Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.44
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
- Aligned robots.txt processing with Googlebot and latest IETF draft
6.43 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.43.934.0
Platform: Windows
Date: December 28, 2021
New Features
- Improved CSS support
:focus-within
,:focus-visible
,rex
,rcap
,rch
,ric
length units
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 96, Edge 96, Firefox 95, Opera 82
- Updated to December 2021 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to December 2021 CSS Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.43
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.42 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.42.924.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: October 30, 2021
New Features
- Improved CSS support including hwb(), lab() and lch() colors
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 95, Edge 95, Firefox 93, Opera 80, Safari 15
- Updated screen reader compatibility checks to NVDA 2021, JAWS 2021, macOS 11.5 and iOS 14.7
- Updated to October 2021 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to October 2021 CSS Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.42
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.41 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.41.914.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: July 30, 2021
New Features
- Improved CSS performance
- Updated spelling dictionaries
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 92, Edge 92, Opera 77 and Firefox 90
- Updated ARIA checks to ARIA in HTML Candidate Recommendation
- Updated to July 2021 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to June 2021 CSS Validator
- Updated to July 2021 URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.41
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.40 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.40.904.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: January 31, 2021
New Features
- User interface updated to match Mac version
- Improved app appearance on high DPI displays
- Improved appearance in Windows high contrast mode
- Added support for Chromium WebView2 (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/)
- Replaced RTF export with DOCX export
- Redesigned report inventory page
- Removed SWF support due to Flash reaching end-of-life on Dec 31, 2020
- Updated file format (SortSite 5 cannot read files saved by SortSite 6)
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 88, Edge 88, Opera 73 and Firefox 84
- Updated to January 2021 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to January 2021 CSS Validator
- Removed obsolete WCAG 1.0, Section 508 (2000) options
- Removed obsolete Privacy rules and BlackBerry compatibility checks
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.40
Fixes
- Improved accessible description calculation
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.39 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.39.884.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: November 6, 2020
New Features
- Added support for placeholder attribute in accessible name calculation
- Added MIME Type column to Issue Report Excel export
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Safari 14, Chrome 86, Edge 86, Firefox 82 and Opera 72
- Updated to October 2020 HTML 5 Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.39
Fixes
- Fixed out of memory issue affecting some sites
- Handle deprecated HTML5 encodings like Windows-1252
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.38 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.38.880.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: July 31, 2020
New Features
- Implemented presentational hint support for CSS
- Align user agent stylesheet with HTML Standard
- Align meta refresh parsing with HTML Standard
- Improved detection of links with duplicate labels
- Android compatibility reporting now uses Chromium web view version numbering
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 84, Edge 84 (Chromium), Firefox 78 and Opera 69
- Updated to July 2020 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to July 2020 CSS Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.38
Fixes
- Adding a link block for a single resource on a CDN sometimes blocked all resources on the CDN
- CSS class selector didn't always match class attribute with multiple similar names (
.daterange
didn't matchclass='daterange-suffix daterange'
) - Replaced
LibTidy
with custom pretty printer to fix mangled DOM HTML - Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.37 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.37.874.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: May 31, 2020
New Features
- Additional ACT Rules
- Link extraction from sitemap.xml
- Improved link extraction from DOM
- Implement ARIA presentational role conflict resolution
- Updated text classifier
- Updated spelling dictionaries
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 81, Edge 81 (Chromium), Firefox 76 and Opera 68
- Updated to May 2020 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to March 2020 CSS Validator
- Updated to April 2020 URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.37
Fixes
- Empty elements were sometimes dropped from the DOM view
- Wrong ID displayed for second ID error on page
- Wrong attribute value displayed for second attribute value error for same attribute on page
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.36 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.36.866.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: January 31, 2020
New Features
- Added support for ACT Rules
- Defaults to checking WCAG 2.1 instead of WCAG 2.0
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 79, Edge 79 (Chromium), Firefox 72 and Opera 66
- Updated screen reader compatibility checks to NVDA 2019, JAWS 2019, macOS 10.14 and iOS 12.4
- Updated to January 2020 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to January 2020 CSS Validator
- Updated to November 2019 URL Standard
- Updated SEO rules to Jan 2020 Google Webmaster Guidelines
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.36
Fixes
- Fixed
ExpectedResults
count in SortSite Developer - Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.35 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.35.860.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: October 31, 2019
New Features
- Improved CSS engine performance
- Added Media Queries 4 range syntax: @media screen and (10px < width < 1000px)
- Added alpha channel support to CSS contrast calculations
- Improved accessible name calculation
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 77, Firefox 69 and Safari 13
- Updated to October 2019 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to October 2019 CSS Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.35
Fixes
- Bring robots.txt processing into alignment with draft RFC
- Fixed missing data in CSV exports
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.34 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.34.854.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: July 29, 2019
New Features
- Improved CSS engine error handling
- Improved CSS engine @charset support
- Added CSS engine support for :any-link and :lang() selectors
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 75 and Firefox 68
- Updated to July 2019 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to July 2019 CSS validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.34
Fixes
- Exporting RTF report failed when broken links contained specific characters
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.33 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.33.842.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: April 30, 2019
New Features
- Improved CSS engine performance
Rule Changes
- Updated screen reader compatibility checks to NVDA 2018, JAWS 2018 and no longer checks WindowEyes (product discontinued)
- Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 74, Firefox 66 and Opera 60
- Updated to April 2019 HTML 5 Validator (W3 and WHATWG validators are now identical)
- Updated to April 2019 CSS validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.33
Fixes
- Scanning Flash SWF is disabled by default in preparation for Flash end of life in 2020
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.32 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.32.838.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: February 14, 2019
New Features
- Improved message formatting
- Improved CSS engine performance
- CSS media query support
- Updated scheduler in Pro edition with improved Windows 10 support
- Export form replay data from Developer edition
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 71, Firefox 64, Opera 57 and Edge 18
- Updated to January 2019 HTML 5 Validator (W3 and WHATWG validators are now identical)
- Updated to December 2018 CSS validator checks
- Updated to December 2018 URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.32
Fixes
- PDFs created by Chrome weren't being scanned
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.31 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.31.830.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: November 23, 2018
New Features
- Improved CSS engine implements full CSS cascade
- Improved DOM snapshots
- New accessibility rules for Word documents
- Defaults to checking latest version of Safari on macOS
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 70, Firefox 63, iOS 12, Opera 55 and Safari 12
- Updated to October 2018 HTML 5 validator checks
- Updated to October 2018 CSS validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.31
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.30 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.30.822.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: July 31, 2018
New Features
- Added support for WCAG 2.1
- Improved placeholder text detection
- Defaults to checking IE11 instead of IE9, IE10 and IE11
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 68, Edge 17, Firefox 61 and Opera 54
- Updated to July 2018 HTML 5 validator checks
- Updated to July 2018 CSS validator checks
- Updated to July 2018 URL Standard
- See https://www.powermapper.com/products/sortsite/rules/sortsite-5.30/
Fixes
- Server Busy dialog sometimes appeared on Windows 10 when basic authentication login window was shown
- Various stability fixes
5.29 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.29.818.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: May 14, 2018
New Features
- Better MIME sniffing when Content-Type header missing
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 66, Firefox 60 and Opera 51
- Updated to March 2018 HTML 5 validator checks
- Updated to March 2018 CSS validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.29
Fixes
- Handle invalid UTF-8 sequences in Chinese PDF documents
- Missed some text-node only DOM changes
- Various stability fixes
5.28 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.28.810.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: December 31, 2017
New Features
- Redesigned CSS parser with improved CSS level 3 support
- Better line numbering for inserted DOM fragments
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 63, Firefox 58, Opera 49 and Edge 16
- Updated to December 2017 HTML 5 validator checks
- Updated to December 2017 version of URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.28
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.27 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.27.804.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: October 3, 2017
New Features
- Enhancements to report appearance and improved issue details
- Improved scan performance
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 56, Chrome 61, Opera 47, Safari 11 and iOS 11
- Updated to September 2017 HTML 5 validator checks
- Updated to August 2017 version of URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.27
Fixes
- Improved display of URLs in Arabic and Hebrew
- Aligned robots.txt processing with Google's robots.txt specification
- Various stability fixes
5.26 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.26.790.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: July 31, 2017
New Features
- Detect animated PNGs and WebP images
- Various performance enhancements
Rule Changes
- Added screen reader compatibility checks
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Firefox 54, Chrome 59, Opera 45
- Updated to June 2017 version of URL Standard
- Updated to June 2017 HTML 5 validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.26
Fixes
- Better detection of duplicate pages
- Various stability fixes
5.25 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.25.784.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: April 28, 2017
New Features
- Added support for Section 508 Refresh
- Various performance enhancements
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 53, Chrome 58, Opera 44, Edge 15
- Updated to March 2017 version of URL Standard
- Updated to March 2017 HTML 5 validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.25
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.24 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.24.780.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: December 27, 2016
New Features
- Enhanced detection of accessibility problems in Word documents
- Various performance enhancements
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 51, Chrome 55, Opera 41
- Updated to October 2016 version of Techniques for WCAG 2.0
- Updated to December 2016 HTML 5 validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.24
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.23 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.23.772.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: October 2, 2016
New Features
- Export filename now based on site name
- Better Source View of minified files
- Additional CSS3 support
- Privacy rules disabled by default
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 49, Chrome 53, Opera 40, Safari 10 and Edge 14
- Updated to September 2016 HTML 5 validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.23
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
- Didn't reset all settings in Factory Reset
- Fixed layout problem with high resolution displays on Windows
5.22 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.22.764.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: July 5, 2016
New Features
- Changed default for Internet Explorer compatibility from IE 7.0 to IE 8.0
- Improved appearance of printed reports
- Reduced memory requirements on large sites
- Much faster scanning large PDFs
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 47, Chrome 51 and Opera 37
- Updated to June 2016 HTML 5 validator checks (VNU 16.6.29)
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.22
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.21 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.21.754.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: March 30, 2016
New Features
- Much faster starting app
- Support for WiX sites
- Support spellcheck HTML attribute
- Minor tweaks to report UI
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 46, Chrome 49 and Opera 36
- Updated to March 2016 HTML 5 validator checks (VNU 16.3.3)
- Updated to March 2016 version of Techniques for WCAG 2.0
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.21
Fixes
- Blocked links were ignored for 301 and 302 redirects
- Various stability fixes
5.20 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.20.748.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: January 28, 2016
New Features
- Parse external SVG images
- Minor tweaks to report UI
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 44, Chrome 47, Opera 34 and Edge 13
- Updated to January 2016 HTML 5 validator checks (VNU 16.1.1)
- Further implementation of Matterhorn Protocol
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.20
Fixes
- Stopped bogus DOM changes and CSS warnings appearing inside SVG element
- Was unable to scan pages that returned '201 Created' HTTP code instead of '200 OK'
- Display warning if user tries to check Welcome page of application
- Handle regex literal / division operator ambiguity in JavaScript parser
- Handle name spaced attributes in HTML 5
- Fix issue with CSS cascade in DOM
- Various stability fixes
5.10 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.10.736.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: October 2, 2015
New Features
- Updated spelling dictionaries for English and French
- Export and Import settings now include user agent
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 41, Chrome 45, Opera 32, Safari 9 and Edge
- Updated to September 2015 HTML 5 validator checks
- Initial implementation of Matterhorn Protocol
- More reporting of user impact for screen reader problems
- See full list of changed rules in 5.10
Fixes
- Problem extracting links from pages with invalid HEAD element
- Cancelling a scan on a large site could take a long time
- Fixed spell check issue inside NOFRAMES
- Didn't detect missing ALT for some types of PDF graphics
- Wasn't able to scan when starting from an Angular #routing URL
- Reduced memory consumption on sites with lots of W3 validation errors
5.9 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.9.726.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: June 30, 2015
New Features
- Updated benchmarks to latest data
- Converted exported HTML reports to HTML5
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 39, Chrome 43, Opera 30
- See full list of changed rules in 5.9
Fixes
- Better help if site is blocked due to robots.txt
- Removed bogus characters that appeared when Excel CSV reports opened in Excel for Mac
- Fixed problem with some JavaScript links being case folded
- Fixed hex entity handling in links
- HTML5: Fixed problem with validation on pages with deeply nested DIVs
- HTML5: The CS language code (Czech) was incorrectly reported as deprecated
- HTML5: Treat role attribute as space separated list of ARIA roles
- HTML5: Fix problem validating camel case SVG attributes like viewBox
5.8 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.8.718.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: March 30, 2015
New Features
- Added more information to the Issue Report and Link Report Excel exports
- Added more control over applying JavaScript DOM changes to Options window
- Removed obsolete Java applet and CGI scripts options (can be done via blocked links)
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 37, Chrome 41, Opera 28
- Updated to February 2015 version of Techniques for WCAG 2.0
- Updated to March 2015 HTML 5 validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in 5.8
Fixes
- Redirected pages display redirected URL instead of original URL
- Improvements handling AngularJS sites
- SVG elements incorrectly flagged as invalid in HTML5 doctype
5.7 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.7.704.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: December 30, 2014
New Features
- Various minor UI enhancements
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 35, Chrome 39, Opera 26 and Safari 8
- Updated to November 2014 HTML 5 validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in 5.7
Fixes
- Fixed issue extracting links from some invalid HTML files
- Treat `http://www.example.com` and `http://www.example.com:80` as same site, but `http://www.example.com:888` as different site
- Fixed problem scanning some PDFs
- Treat en-US and en-us as same language
5.6 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.6.690.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: September 17, 2014
New Features
- Added support for Angular.js routing and Backbone/Angular/Mustache templates
- Added picker for choosing browser version for compatibility rules
Rule Changes
- Updated to September 2014 version of Techniques and Failures for WCAG 2.0
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 32, Chrome 37, Opera 24 and iOS 8
- Updated to August 2014 HTML 5 validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in 5.6
Fixes
- Fixed problem checking corrupt PDFs
- Fixed problem checking deeply nested HTML5 files
5.5 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.5.678.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: May 22, 2014
New Features
- Added Factory Reset button to Options window
- Spell check meta descriptions and titles
- End of scan notification if app is in background
- Modernized default user agent string
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 29, Chrome 35 and Opera 21
- Updated to April 2014 HTML 5 validator checks
- Updated to April 2014 version of Techniques and Failures for WCAG 2.0
- See full list of changed rules in 5.5
5.4 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.4.668.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: February 14, 2014
New Features
- Added Open in New Window to right-click menu
- Added Check for Updates command to Help menu
Fixes
- Incorrect DOM changes applied inside TABLEs without TBODYs using XHTML 1.0 or 1.1 DOCTYPEs
- Stability improvements
Rule Changes
- Update compatibility checks to IE 11, Safari 7, Firefox 26, Chrome 31 and Opera 17
- Updated to December 2013 HTML 5 validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in 5.4
5.3 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.3.640.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: September 16, 2013
New Features
- Improved RTF export formatting in wider range of word processors
- Much faster scanning some sites that were very slow to scan in previous versions
Fixes
- Allow long user agent strings to be pasted into Options window
- Added support for PDF updates contained in XRefStms
- Treat robots.txt 401s and 403s the same as 404s
- Problem detecting broken links on sites that alias /page-name to /page-name/ and redirect from one to the other
- Fixed several problems scanning DOM
- Fixed crash scanning corrupt Excel and MP3 files
- Crash when printing empty map with no pages
Rule Changes
- Update compatibility checks to iOS 7, Firefox 24 and Chrome 29
- Updated to Sept 2013 HTML 5 validator checks
- Updated to Sept 2013 Techniques for WCAG2
- See full list of changed rules in 5.3
5.2 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.2.618.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: May 29, 2013
New Features
- Can now pause scans
- Exported HTML files are saved into a newly created sub-directory
Fixes
- Prevent PC going to sleep during a scan (unless battery low)
- Increased capacity of Additional Urls box in the New window
- Stats displayed in dashboard no longer affected by "pages shown for each issue" limit
- Improved stability in low memory conditions
Rule Changes
- Update compatibility checks to Firefox 21 and Chrome 27
- Updated to May 2013 HTML 5.0 validator checks
- Updated to April 2013 edition of Usability.gov guidelines
- Accessibility problems that only appear in specific browsers, now say which browsers are affected
- See full list of changed rules in 5.2
5.1 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.1.596.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: January 30, 2013
New Features
- Added "What was Tested" tab to report
- Updated search engine rules
- Updated HTML 5.0 validation to December 2012 Candidate Recommendation
- No longer scans for IE 6 problems by default (use Choose Rules to scan for IE 6 problems)
Fixes
- Links with query parameters sometimes not extracted correctly from PDF files
- Performance enhancements scanning large documents
- Fixed crash scanning corrupt PDFs and PowerPoint files
Rule Changes
- Update compatibility checks to Firefox 19 and Chrome 24
- Fixed various false positives and false negatives
- See full list of changed rules in 5.1
5.0 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.0.592.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: October 31, 2012
New Features
- Record and replay form actions (Pro version only)
- Detect changes made to pages by JavaScript
- Update compatibility checks to IE10, Firefox 16, Chrome 22, iOS 6, Safari 6, Opera 12
- Choose which browsers to test for browser compatibility
- HTML 5 validation
- Compliance tab is now labeled Privacy to reflect the issues it reports
- Performance improvements (2x faster scanning some sites)
- Removed "Link limit for running rules" setting (rules now run on pages with any number of links)
Fixes
- Fixed excessive memory use on some sites
- Embedded browser now renders in standards mode
Rule Changes
- Added rules to check HTML5 and ARIA
- Fixed various false positives and false negatives
- See full list of changed rules in 5.0
4.7 Maintenance Release
Version: 4.7.564.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: June 12, 2012
New Features
- Detect bogus rel=canonical links, which can cause massive loss of search traffic
- Excel exports include multiple line numbers, rather than just the first line number a problem occurred on
- Added Excel Inventory report export
- Added support for Chrome 20 and Firefox 14
Fixes
- The compatibility report summary counted disabled rules as failures
- Switching tabs in options window added duplicate items to user agent dropdown
- Fixed poor performance scanning PDFs with hundreds of pages
Rule Changes
- Don't warn about vendor specific tags now standardized in HTML5 draft
- Restrict deprecated rules to the HTML version they're deprecated in (some items deprecated in HTML4 are no longer deprecated in HTML5)
- Fixed various false positives and false negatives
- See full list of changed rules in 4.7
4.6 Maintenance Release
Version: 4.6.540.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: February 29, 2012
New Features
- Added View Source command to right click menu
- Updated W3 DTDs to match validator.w3.org (pulls in fix for USEMAP in XHTML 1.1 Second Edition)
- Added compatibility checks for Firefox 9,10,11 and Chrome 16,17 versions
- Added support for CSS3 properties that have reach candidate recommendation status
Fixes
- Don't detect broken anchors in non-standard CSS e.g. behavior:url(#default#SaveFavorite)
- Various false positives
- False negative: didn't detect empty headings
- False negative: <A ONCLICK> with no HREF cannot be operated from keyboard
- Changed accessibility rules in 4.6
4.5 Maintenance Release
Version: 4.5.522.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: November 14, 2011
New Features
- Added "Remove Word" command to spelling context menu
- Added support for iOS 5, plus recent Firefox and Chrome versions
- Replaced Rule Id column with guidelines column in Issue Report - Excel (Rule Id was an internal identifier)
Fixes
- Word RTF report displayed current date instead of date report exported
- 100% CPU processing HTML files containing very large base 64 XML data islands
- Markup like Emphasis was being reported as a spelling error
- Wrong line numbers sometimes reported for broken anchors
- Links with invalid URL schemes weren't reported as broken (e.g. "Hhttpp://example.com")
- Fixed problem where some URLs were displayed double encoded
- F1 key in New and About windows displayed an error message
- URLs typed into New window now added to recent URLs list
- Added timeouts to WHOIS lookups
- Fixed false positives
- Changed accessibility rules in 4.5
4.4 Maintenance Release
Version: 4.4.500.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: August 5, 2011
New Features
- Added "Copy Link Address" command to context menu
- Added BlackBerry, Firefox 5 and Chrome 12 to browser compatibility tests
- Added auto complete for forms
- Added "Ignore Capitalized" option to spell checker
Fixes
- Expand All button in reports was slow on large sites with lots of errors
- Handle pages that specify different charsets in HTTP headers and META tags
- Handle windows-1256 (Arabic) correctly in rules
- Greatly reduced memory consumption running rules on large pages
- Fixed false positives and false negatives
- Changed accessibility rules in 4.4
4.3 Maintenance Release
Version: 4.3.460.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: April 2, 2011
New Features
- Updated browser compatibility tests to IE9, Opera 11 and Chrome 10
- Allow custom user agent to be specified
- Additional iOS and Android compatibility rules
Fixes
- Trim whitespace from end of blocked links
- Handle UTF-8 byte order mark when HTML charset not specified
- Changed accessibility rules in 4.3
4.2 Maintenance Release
Version: 4.2.432.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: December 1, 2010
New Features
- Added compatibility rules for iPad / iPhone
- Added ability to check lists of pages (e.g. landing pages)
- Add ErrEmptyLink rule for detecting IMG SRC=""
- Now reports list of pages blocked by robots.txt
- Updated Google and Bing guidelines
Fixes
- Problem displaying Source View for local files using ISO-8859-1 characters which don't specify encoding
- Much faster switching between tabs on reports for very large sites
- Fixed various false positives
- Changed accessibility rules in 4.2
4.1 Maintenance Release
Version: 4.1.418.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: August 31, 2010
New Features
- Added support for Windows-1256 (Arabic) and Windows-1255, ISO-8859-8 (Hebrew) charsets
- Added list of HTTP headers to Source View page
- Moved Back to Report command to Back button dropdown
Fixes
- Crash on some PDFs encrypted using AES encryption
- Heap corruption on PDFs with long attribute values
- Stability improvements in low memory conditions
- Allow words with apostrophes (e.g. O'Connell) to be added to dictionary
- Changed accessibility rules in 4.1
4.0 Maintenance Release
Version: 4.0.394.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: June 2, 2010
New Features
- Added English and French spell checking
- Added accessibility and link checking inside PDF documents
- Added link checking inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents
- Allow #anchor links to be blocked
- Added Firefox 3.6 / Chrome 4.0 to compatibility report
- Added support for <LINK REL="canonical" HREF="..." >
- Added support for Lotus Domino
- Added required text rules (for checking analytics tags and disclaimers are present on every page)
- Added "Automatic Login" option
Fixes
- Scheduled site scans didn't pick up some site changes
- Intermittent I/O pending error message when doing two Save As commands in a row
- Fixed various false positives
- Validation errors no longer reported on linked pages when using Check Pages and Links
- Stability improvements
- Changed accessibility rules in 4.0
3.5 Maintenance Release
Version: 3.5.344.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: December 18, 2009
New Features
- New Check Folder command (replaces "Follow Upwards Links" options checkbox)
- User interface improvements including customizable toolbars
- Added Firefox 3.5 compatibility checks
- Added Bing search engine guidelines
- Support for Windows 7
Fixes
- Fixed several false positives
- View Source showing blank pages when HTML meta tag specified invalid charset
3.4 Maintenance Release
Version: 3.4.314.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: September 23, 2009
New Features
- Extract sitemap directive from robots.txt
- Allow user to specify reading age of site audience
- Add expand all option to report pages
- Split large report pages
- Initial support for HTML 5
Fixes
- HTML entity references for accented uppercase European characters converted the accented chars to lowercase
- Clarified WCAG vs WCAG2 priorities in reports
- Non-responsive for long period if cannot contact WHOIS server
- Fixed several false positives
- Guideline names missing in Word RTF report
- Clearer error message when entire site blocked by robots.txt
- Print command was disabled for View Source pages
3.3 Maintenance Release
Version: 3.3.298.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: June 1, 2009
New Features
- Certified for Windows Vista
- Restore session state on Vista if app running when Windows Update restarts system
- Only show report tabs for active rule categories
- Added SeoBlankTitle rule for titles containing only spaces
Fixes
- Improved site structuring
- Fixed various false positives
- Fixed a loop affecting sites with a broken 404 handler and having an image with an empty SRC attribute
- Handle accented characters in UTF-8 encoded web pages better
- SEO keywords occurring after a flash movie were ignored
- Double dot appearing in export file names
- View Source didn't display issues for empty pages with no source code
- Fixed memory leak loading saved reports
3.2 Maintenance Release
Version: 3.2.288.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: April 2, 2009
Fixes
- Excess use of disk space scanning large sites
- Handle CSS contextual selectors
- Can't display Choose Rules window after using angle brackets custom error strings
3.1 Maintenance Release
Version: 3.1.276.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: February 4, 2009
Features
- Accessibility compatibility summary
- Browser compatibility summary
- Browser compatibility rules for IE8 and Chrome
- Page Weight rules
Fixes
- Several false positives
- "Not enough system resources" message on some machines
- Crash on sites with malformed A tag on home page
- Increased upper limit for Max Issues Per Page edit box
3.0 Maintenance Release
Version: 3.0.264.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: December 15, 2008
Features
- WCAG2 accessibility guidelines
- Rule chooser dialog
- Import/export rule settings
Fixes
- Reduced memory consumption during scan
- Improved performance at end of scan
- Improved stability in low memory conditions
- Fixed hang affecting some sites
- Progress indicator appears if view source takes a while to display
- Faster saving reports
- Fixed false positives
2.8 Maintenance Release
Version: 2.8.252.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: October 22, 2008
Features
- Use site directory structure to guide map structure
Fixes
- Reduced memory consumption when drawing large reports
- Prevent saving a SortSite report over a PowerMapper site map
- Fixed a race condition when logging was turned off while writing to log
2.0 Maintenance Release
Version: 2.0.197.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: December 14, 2007
Features
- Added Section 508 accessibility guidelines
- Added "how to fix" help for issues
- Added inventory
- Added site map
- Added page readability statistics
- New installer gives better user experience on Vista
- Scorecard of individual standards compliance
- Basic RSS reader
Fixes
- Uses less memory drawing and exporting maps
- Extract links from FlashObject/SWFObject
1.0 Maintenance Release
Version: 1.0.170.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: February 20, 2007
Features
- Initial release for Windows
6.54 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.54.4008.0
Platform: macOS
Date: October 18, 2024
New Features
- Added HTML code snippets to reports
- Improved text analysis
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome/Edge 130, FF 131, Safari 18, Opera 114
- Updated to September 2024 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to September 2024 CSS Validator
- Updates to ARIA 1.2 rules
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.54
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.53 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.53.1996.0
Platform: macOS
Date: August 22, 2024
New Features
- Added support for :state() and :popover-open selectors
- Added support for CSS Text Module Level 4 properties
- Improved positioning of issues in source view
- Added crawl diagnostics to reports
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 127, Edge 127, Firefox 128, Opera 111
- Updated to May 2024 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to June 2024 CSS Validator
- Updated to March 2024 URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.53
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.52 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.52.1986.0
Platform: macOS
Date: June 11, 2024
New Features
- Improved CSS calc() support
- Improved ARIA role calculation for table headers
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 124, Edge 124, Firefox 124, Opera 109
- Updated to March 2024 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to February 2024 URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.52
Fixes
- Fixed robots.txt processing of /core/*.css?
- Take account of CSS pseudo elements in contrast calculations
- Out of memory on large sites with many HTTP errors
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.51 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.51.1980.0
Platform: macOS
Date: January 4, 2024
New Features
- Scan Options window updated to match Windows and Web editions
- Now checks iframe srcdoc contents
- Improved background image text contrast detection
- Improved CSS support
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 120, Edge 120, Firefox 120, Opera 105
- Updated to November 2023 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to September 2023 URL Standard
- Updated user agent stylesheet to match November 2023 HTML Living Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.51
Fixes
- Make DOM tree for unclosed formatting elements match browser DOM instead of W3 validator
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.50 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.50.1972.0
Platform: macOS
Date: October 17, 2023
New Features
- Added support for WCAG 2.2
- Updated relative luminance per WCAG 2.1 Errata https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/errata/
- Detect text contrast against background images
- Updated report appearance
- Improved CSS support
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 118, Edge 118, Firefox 118, Opera 102 and Safari 17
- Updated to September 2023 HTML 5 Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.50
Fixes
- Fix instability caused by faulty system library in macOS 14
- Ignore meta redirects inside noscript
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.49 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.49.1962.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: July 11, 2023
New Features
- Updated spelling dictionaries
- Added support for additional CSS properties and at-rules
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 114, Edge 114, Firefox 114, Opera 99
- Updated to May 2023 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to May 2023 CSS Validator
- Updated to May 2023 URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.49
Fixes
- Improved text classification of links in French, German, Italian and Spanish
- Fix parsing of vue.js colon prefixed attributes like :aria-expanded
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.48 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.48.1956.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: April 17, 2023
New Features
- Added color samples next to rgb() values in reports
- Further improvements to rule performance
- Improved accessible name calculation for SVG elements
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 111, Edge 111, Firefox 111, Opera 96
- Updated to March 2023 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to March 2023 CSS Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.48
Fixes
- Fixed CSS var() replacement at end of minimized blocks
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.47 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.47.1952.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: February 6, 2023
New Features
- Improved detection of event handlers
- Rules run 2x faster on large pages
- Further updates for ARIA 1.2
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 108, Edge 108, Firefox 108, Opera 93, Safari 16
- Updated to December 2022 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to December 2022 CSS Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.47
Fixes
- Fixed cascading HTML validation errors when sub-trees contain nested invalid elements
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.46 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.46.1942.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: October 11, 2022
New Features
- Handle CSS variable substitutions like rgba( var(--rgb) var(a--alpha) )
- Handle CSS variable substitutions in shorthand properties
- Rules run around 10% faster on large pages
- CSS runs much faster on large pages
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 105, Edge 105, Firefox 104, Opera 90, Safari 15.6
- Updated screen reader compatibility checks to NVDA 2022, JAWS 2022, macOS 12.5 and iOS 15.6
- Updated to September 2022 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to September 2022 CSS Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.46
Fixes
- Fixed some minor high contrast and dark mode issues
- Fixed focus style match for body:focus-within button
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.45 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.45.1940.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: July 20, 2022
New Features
- Reorganized Compatibility preference pane under Scan Options - Checkpoints
- IE11 browser compatibility checks turned off by default now that IE11 is end-of-life on Windows 10
- Screen reader compatibility checks for IE11 removed
- CSS validation support for :has() relative selectors, content-visibility: and @media horizontal-viewport-segments and @media vertical-viewport-segments
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 103, Edge 103, Firefox 101, Opera 88, Safari 15.4
- Updated to June 2022 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to June 2022 CSS Validator
- Updated to May 2022 URL Standard
- Updates for ARIA 1.2 Candidate Recommendation
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.45
Fixes
- Fixed leak with inherited CSS custom properties
- Fixed "This issue was found on another 1 pages" appearing unexpectedly in reports
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.44 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.44.1936.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: May 26, 2022
New Features
- Added CSS support for @layer rules
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 100, Edge 100, Firefox 99, Opera 85
- Updated to March 2022 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to March 2022 CSS Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.44
Fixes
- Aligned robots.txt processing with Googlebot and latest IETF draft
- Implemented support for checking sites with non-persistent authentication cookies
- Fixed issue with Scan Schedule window hanging when opened
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.43 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.43.1934.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: January 31, 2021
New Features
- Improved CSS support
:focus-within
,:focus-visible
,rex
,rcap
,rch
,ric
length units
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 96, Edge 96, Firefox 95, Opera 82
- Updated to December 2021 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to December 2021 CSS Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.43
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.42 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.42.1926.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: November 22, 2021
New Features
- Improved CSS support including hwb(), lab() and lch() colors
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 95, Edge 95, Firefox 93, Opera 80, Safari 15
- Updated screen reader compatibility checks to NVDA 2021, JAWS 2021, macOS 11.5 and iOS 14.7
- Updated to October 2021 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to October 2021 CSS Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.42
Fixes
- Print... and Find... didn't work on macOS 11/12
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.41 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.41.1914.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: September 16, 2021
New Features
- Improved CSS performance
- Updated spelling dictionaries
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 92, Edge 92, Opera 77 and Firefox 90
- Updated ARIA checks to ARIA in HTML Candidate Recommendation
- Updated to July 2021 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to June 2021 CSS Validator
- Updated to July 2021 URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.41
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.40 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.40.1908.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: June 30, 2021
New Features
- Replaced RTF export with DOCX export
- Redesigned report inventory page
- Removed SWF support due to Flash reaching end-of-life on Dec 31, 2020
- Updated file format (SortSite 5 cannot read files saved by SortSite 6)
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 88, Edge 88, Opera 73 and Firefox 84
- Updated to January 2021 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to January 2021 CSS Validator
- Removed obsolete WCAG 1.0, Section 508 (2000) options
- Removed obsolete Privacy rules and BlackBerry compatibility checks
- See full list of changed rules in engine 6.40
Fixes
- Improved accessible description calculation
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.39 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.39.1886.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: November 20, 2020
New Features
- Added support for placeholder attribute in accessible name calculation
- Added MIME Type column to Issue Report Excel export
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Safari 14, Chrome 86, Edge 86, Firefox 82 and Opera 72
- Updated to October 2020 HTML 5 Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.39
Fixes
- Fixed out of memory issue affecting some sites
- Handle deprecated HTML5 encodings like Windows-1252
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.38 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.38.1880.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: August 26, 2020
New Features
- Implemented presentational hint support for CSS
- Align user agent stylesheet with HTML Standard
- Align meta refresh parsing with HTML Standard
- Improved detection of links with duplicate labels
- Android compatibility reporting now uses Chromium web view version numbering
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 84, Edge 84 (Chromium), Firefox 78 and Opera 69
- Updated to July 2020 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to July 2020 CSS Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.38
Fixes
- Adding a link block for a single resource on a CDN sometimes blocked all resources on the CDN
- CSS class selector didn't always match class attribute with multiple similar names (
.daterange
didn't matchclass='daterange-suffix daterange'
) - Replaced
LibTidy
with custom pretty printer to fix mangled DOM HTML - Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.37 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.37.1874.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: June 27, 2020
New Features
- Additional ACT Rules
- Link extraction from sitemap.xml
- Improved link extraction from DOM
- Implement ARIA presentational role conflict resolution
- Updated text classifier
- Updated spelling dictionaries
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 81, Edge 81 (Chromium), Firefox 76 and Opera 68
- Updated to May 2020 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to March 2020 CSS Validator
- Updated to April 2020 URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.37
Fixes
- Empty elements were sometimes dropped from the DOM view
- Wrong ID displayed for second ID error on page
- Wrong attribute value displayed for second attribute value error for same attribute on page
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.36 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.36.1866.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: February 10, 2020
New Features
- Added support for ACT Rules
- Defaults to checking WCAG 2.1 instead of WCAG 2.0
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 79, Edge 79 (Chromium), Firefox 72 and Opera 66
- Updated screen reader compatibility checks to NVDA 2019, JAWS 2019, macOS 10.14 and iOS 12.4
- Updated to January 2020 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to January 2020 CSS Validator
- Updated to November 2019 URL Standard
- Updated SEO rules to Jan 2020 Google Webmaster Guidelines
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.36
Fixes
- Fixed
ExpectedResults
count in SortSite Developer - Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.35 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.35.1862.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: November 21, 2019
New Features
- Improved CSS engine performance
- Added Media Queries 4 range syntax: @media screen and (10px < width < 1000px)
- Added alpha channel support to CSS contrast calculations
- Improved accessible name calculation
- Legacy plugins are disabled (no longer supported by Safari/Chrome/Firefox)
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 77, Firefox 69 and Safari 13
- Updated to October 2019 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to October 2019 CSS Validator
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.35
Fixes
- Bring robots.txt processing into alignment with draft RFC
- Fixed missing data in CSV exports
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.34 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.34.1854.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: August 28, 2019
New Features
- Improved CSS engine error handling
- Improved CSS engine @charset support
- Added CSS engine support for :any-link and :lang() selectors
Rule Changes
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 75 and Firefox 68
- Updated to July 2019 HTML 5 Validator
- Updated to July 2019 CSS validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.34
Fixes
- Exporting RTF report failed when broken links contained specific characters
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.33 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.33.1838.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: June 11, 2019
New Features
- Improved CSS engine performance
Rule Changes
- Updated screen reader compatibility checks to NVDA 2018, JAWS 2018 and no longer checks WindowEyes (product discontinued)
- Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 74, Firefox 66 and Opera 60
- Updated to April 2019 HTML 5 Validator (W3 and WHATWG validators are now identical)
- Updated to April 2019 CSS validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.33
Fixes
- Scanning Flash SWF is disabled by default in preparation for Flash end of life in 2020
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.32 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.32.1836.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: March 18, 2019
New Features
- Improved message formatting
- Improved CSS engine performance
- CSS media query support
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 71, Firefox 64, Opera 57 and Edge 18
- Updated to January 2019 HTML 5 Validator (W3 and WHATWG validators are no identical)
- Updated to December 2018 CSS validator checks
- Updated to December 2018 URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.32
Fixes
- Fix redirects where Content-Type changed during redirect
- PDFs created by Chrome weren't being scanned
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.31 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.31.1826.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: November 22, 2018
New Features
- Added support for Dark Mode in macOS Mojave (version 10.14)
- Improved CSS engine implements full CSS cascade
- Improved DOM snapshots
- New Accessibility rules for Word documents
- Defaults to checking latest version of Safari on macOS
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 70, Firefox 63, iOS 12, Opera 55 and Safari 12
- Updated to October 2018 HTML 5 validator checks
- Updated to October 2018 CSS validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.31
Fixes
- Fixes for various crashes affecting macOS Mojave (version 10.14)
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.30 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.30.1808.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: August 6, 2018
New Features
- Added support for WCAG 2.1
- Improved placeholder text detection
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 68, Edge 17, Firefox 61 and Opera 54
- Updated to July 2018 HTML 5 validator checks
- Updated to July 2018 CSS validator checks
- Updated to July 2018 URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.30
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.29 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.29.1806.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: May 17, 2018
New Features
- Better MIME sniffing when Content-Type header missing
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 66, Firefox 60 and Opera 51
- Updated to March 2018 HTML 5 validator checks
- Updated to March 2018 CSS validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.29
Fixes
- Handle invalid UTF-8 sequences in Chinese PDF documents
- Missed some text-node only DOM changes
- Various stability fixes
5.28 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.28.1804.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: January 22, 2018
New Features
- Redesigned CSS parser with improved CSS level 3 support
- Better line numbering for inserted DOM fragments
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 63, Firefox 58, Opera 49 and Edge 16
- Updated to December 2017 HTML 5 validator checks
- Updated to December 2017 version of URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.28
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.27 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.27.1802.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: November 9, 2017
New Features
- Enhancements to report appearance and improved issue details
- Improved scan performance
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 56, Chrome 61, Opera 47, Safari 11 and iOS 11
- Updated to September 2017 HTML 5 validator checks
- Updated to August 2017 version of URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.27
Fixes
- Improved display of URLs in Arabic and Hebrew
- Aligned robots.txt processing with Google's robots.txt specification
- Better speech output in VoiceOver
- Various stability fixes
5.26 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.26.1794.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: August 2, 2017
New Features
- Various performance enhancements
- Detect animated PNGs and WebP images
Rule Changes
- Added screen reader compatibility checks
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 54, Chrome 59, Opera 45
- Updated to June 2017 HTML 5 validator checks
- Updated to June 2017 version of URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.26
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
- Better detection of duplicate pages
5.25 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.25.1790.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: May 18, 2017
New Features
- Added support for Section 508 Refresh
- Various performance enhancements
- Find command
- Redesigned welcome page
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 53, Chrome 58, Opera 44, Edge 15
- Updated to March 2017 HTML 5 validator checks
- Updated to March 2017 version of URL Standard
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.25
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.24 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.24.1780.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: January 27, 2017
New Features
- Enhanced detection of accessibility problems in Word documents
- Various performance enhancements
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 51, Chrome 55, Opera 41
- Updated to October 2016 version of Techniques for WCAG 2.0
- Updated to December 2016 HTML 5 validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.24
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.23 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.23.1772.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: October 25, 2016
New Features
- Additional CSS3 support
- Privacy rules disabled by default
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 49, Chrome 53, Opera 40, Safari 10 and Edge 14
- Updated to September 2016 HTML 5 validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.23
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
- Didn't reset all settings in Factory Reset
5.22 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.22.1766.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: July 14, 2016
New Features
- Changed default for Internet Explorer compatibility from IE 7.0 to IE 8.0
- Improved appearance of printed reports
- Much faster scanning large PDFs
- Reduced memory requirements on large sites
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 47, Chrome 51 and Opera 37
- Updated to June 2016 HTML 5 validator checks (VNU 16.6.29)
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.22
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.21 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.21.1756.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: April 8, 2016
New Features
- Form replayer
- Minor tweaks to report UI
- Allow scanning popup login pages
- Support Mac system proxy settings
- Support for WiX sites
- Support spellcheck HTML attribute
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 46, Chrome 49 and Opera 36
- Updated to March 2016 version of Techniques for WCAG 2.0
- Updated to March 2016 HTML 5 validator checks (VNU 16.3.3)
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.21
Fixes
- Blocked links were ignored for 301 and 302 redirects
- Various stability fixes
5.0 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.0.1750.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: January 28, 2016
New Features
- Parse external SVG images
- Minor tweaks to report UI
- Much faster starting
- Replaced Breakpad crash reporter with Crashpad
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 44, Chrome 47, Opera 34 and Edge 13
- Updated to January 2016 HTML 5 validator checks (VNU 16.1.1)
- Further implementation of Matterhorn Protocol
- See full list of changed rules in engine 5.20
Fixes
- Stopped bogus DOM changes and CSS warnings appearing inside SVG element
- Was unable to scan pages that returned '201 Created' HTTP code instead of '200 OK'
- Display warning if user tries to check Welcome page of application
- Handle regex literal / division operator ambiguity in JavaScript parser
- Handle name spaced attributes in HTML 5
- Fix issue with CSS cascade in DOM
- Fix mislabelled fields in Reports tab of Scan Options
- Various stability fixes
4.0 Maintenance Release
Version: 4.0.1740.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: November 17, 2015
New Features
- Updated spelling dictionaries for English and French
- Export and Import settings now include user agent
- Can scan sites using HTTP basic authentication
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 41, Chrome 45, Opera 32, Safari 9 and Edge
- Updated to September 2015 HTML 5 validator checks
- Initial implementation of Matterhorn Protocol
- More reporting of user impact for screen reader problems
- See full list of changed rules in scan engine 5.10
Fixes
- Problem extracting links from pages with invalid HEAD element
- Cancelling a scan on a large site could take a long time
- Fixed spell check issue inside NOFRAMES
- Didn't detect missing ALT for some types of PDF graphics
- Wasn't able to scan when starting from an Angular #routing URL
- Reduced memory consumption on sites with lots of W3 validation errors
- Fixed a crash on OS X 10.11
- Fixed a problem where report sometimes wasn't displayed
3.0 Maintenance Release
Version: 3.0.1730.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: July 28, 2015
New Features
- Added Export and Import Settings commands
- Added scheduler
- Updated benchmarks to latest data
- Converted exported HTML reports to HTML5
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 39, Chrome 43, Opera 30
- See full list of changed rules in scan engine 5.9
Fixes
- Better help if site is blocked due to robots.txt
- Removed bogus characters that appeared when Excel CSV reports opened in Excel for Mac
- Fixed problem with some JavaScript links being case folded
- Fixed hex entity handling in links
- HTML5: Fixed problem with validation on pages with deeply nested DIVs
- HTML5: The CS language code (Czech) was incorrectly reported as deprecated
- HTML5: Treat role attribute as space separated list of ARIA roles
- HTML5: Fix problem validating camel case SVG attributes like viewBox
2.0 Maintenance Release
Version: 2.0.1720.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: May 7, 2015
New Features
- Added more information to the Issue Report and Link Report Excel exports
- Added more control over applying JavaScript DOM changes to Options window
- Removed obsolete Java applet and CGI scripts options (can be done via blocked links)
- Added print command
Rule Changes
- Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 37, Chrome 41, Opera 28
- Updated to February 2015 version of Techniques for WCAG 2.0
- Updated to March 2015 HTML 5 validator checks
- See full list of changed rules in scan engine 5.8
Fixes
- Redirected pages display redirected URL instead of original URL
- Improvements handling AngularJS sites
- SVG elements incorrectly flagged as invalid in HTML5 doctype
- HTTP header names should be case-insensitive
1.0 Maintenance Release
Version: 1.0.1702.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: January 9, 2015
Features
- Initial release for Mac OS X, based on SortSite 5.7 for Windows