CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

6.1.0

• Add more bots (mostly related to AI crawlers)
• Add AppSignal bot
• Add Checkly bot
• Detect Chrome when requesting desktop site.

6.0.0

• Add Browser::Base#chromium_based?.
• Change how browser detection works to avoid re-instantiating classes.
• Bump up minimum required ruby version to 3.2.0.

5.3.1

• Remove Stripe webhooks from bot list.

5.3.0

• Bump up minimum required ruby version to 2.5.0. We're now relying on String#match?, which was introduced by ruby-2.4, but given that ruby's stable version is >= 2.5, seems reasonable.

5.2.0

• Add KaiOS detection.
• Replace String#=~ with String#match? and other optimizations.

5.1.0

• Add Samsung device detection.
• Delay parsing Accept-Language until Browser::Base#accept_language is called for the first time.
• Bump up default size limit for Accept-Language and User-Agent to 2048 bytes.

5.0.0

• Rename Browser::Platform#other? to Browser::Platform#unknown?.
• Unknown platforms now return :unknown_platform as the id.
• Unknown devices now return :unknown_device as the id.
• Unknown browsers now return :unknown_browser as the id.
• All the changes above affect how browser.meta is composed.
• Add method Browser::Base#unknown?.
• Fix issue with Browser::Base#safari? matching full version.
• Add Maxthon detection.
• Add Google Search App detection.
• Add Huawei Browser detection.
• Fix Duck Duck Go browser that was being recognized as a bot.
• Add Miui Browser detection.
• Add Browser::Base#qq?.
• Fix QQ detection.
• Fix Alipay detection.
• Add Sougou Browser detection.
• User agent has a size limit of 512 bytes. This can be customized through Browser.user_agent_size_limit.
• Accept-Language has a size limit of 256 bytes. This can be customized through Browser.accept_language_size_limit.

4.2.0

• Fix Chrome Lighthouse detection.
• Add Skype to bot list.

4.1.0

• Add Samsung browser.
• Add Google Image Proxy to the bot list.
• Add The Knowledge AI bot to the bot list.
• Add Go HttpClient to the bot list.
• Fix Microsoft Edge detection on Android and iOS.
• Fix MicroMessenger detection on Android

4.0.0

• Add Chrome Lighthouse to bot list.
• Add SeobilityBot to the bot list.
• Detect Mac-based platforms differently, depending on the version; "Mac OS X" will be returned for versions prior to 10.12, and "macOS" for newer versions.
• Remove Browser.modern_rules and Browser::Base#modern?.
• Add DuckDuckGo browser.

3.0.3

• Deprecate Browser.modern_rules and Browser::Base#modern?. Theses methods will be removed on the next major released, or by June 1st 2020.

3.0.2

• Remove .bundle directory from package.

3.0.1

• Fix issue with MS Edge detection as a modern browser.

3.0.0

• Add ArchiveTeam's ArchiveBot to the bot list.
• Fix QQ Browser detection.
• Update modern rules.
• You can now define new bot matchers by adding a callable object to Browser::Bot.matchers.
• Fix browser.yandex? and browser.sputnik?.
• [BREAKING CHANGE] Removed methods to enable the bot's empty user agent detection (Browser::Bot.detect_empty_ua! and Browser::Bot.detect_empty_ua?).
• [BREAKING CHANGE] Bot detection is now more aggressive by default. It matches empty user agents, anything that matches crawl|fetch|search|monitoring|spider|bot, and anything listed under https://github.com/fnando/browser/blob/master/bots.yml.
• Add Jaunt to the bot list.

2.7.1

• Handle Snapchat user agents that have a space or an empty string instead of a slash before the version.
• Fix iOS 10+ version detection.
• Add fallback versions for instagram and snapchat to avoid NoMethodErrors on unexpected user agents.

2.7.0

• Add more Slack bots.
• Handle instagram user agents that have a slash instead of a space.
• Add Browser::Bot.why?(ua) to help debugging why a user agent is considered bot.
• Promote Snapchat to a browser (it was detected as a bot previously).
• Detect Edge based on Chrome correctly.
• Improve Yandex detection.
• Add Sputnik (https://browser.sputnik.ru)
• Detect Android devices.
• Add ScoutURLMonitor to the bot list.

2.6.1

• Also include controller extensions to ActionController::Base.

2.6.0

• Add GarlikCrawler, ImplisenseBot and WikiDo bots.
• Add Mastodon URL expander bot.
• Add eZ Publish Link Validator, GermCrawler, Pu_iN Crawler, ZoomBot, and ZoominfoBot bots.
• Add Datanyze bot.
• Add support for Instagram in-app browser.
• Add Updown.io monitor bot.
• Add Snapshat detection.
• Add Instagram detection.
• Add Nintendo Switch detection.
• Add WooRank bot.
• Add Trendsmap bot.
• Add Go 1.1 package http bot.
• Add MauiBot.
• Add SiteCheck-sitecrawl bot.
• Add PR-CY.RU bot.
• Add AdsTxtCrawler bot.
• Add HTTrack bot.
• Add Google Shopping bot.
• Add DataFeedWatch bot.
• Add Zabbix bot.
• Add TangibleeBot.
• Add Jooble bot.
• Add Fyre bot.
• Drop Rails 4 official support.
• Fix accept-language sorting (If HTTP-header has value en,fr—without qualities—the first language should be en instead of fr).
• Ignore malformed strings when comparing versions.
• Fix Facebook detection on newer apps.
• Change precedence for bot detection when common libs are used.
• Add Yandex's search browser to the exception list.

v2.5.3

• Add Google Site Verification to the bot list.
• Handle invalid quality values that look like numbers.
• Add Barkrowler bot.
• Add AlwaysOnline bot: CloudFlare.
• Add News aggregator crawler: AndersPink, BuzzBot.
• Add Domain crawler: CipaCrawler.
• Add Job bot: JobSeeker's.
• Add Apparel crawler: TeeRaid.
• Add Search engine crawler: SemanticBot, Mappy.
• Add Copyright crawler: Copypants' BotPants.
• Add SEO bots: SEOdiver, SeoAudit, WebCeo.
• Add Woriobot from Zite.
• Add BUbiNG bot.
• Add Paessler bot.

v2.5.2

• Add COMODO SSL Checker bot.
• Add Swiftype bot.
• Add WhatsApp detection.

v2.5.1

• Add Android Oreo detection.

v2.5.0

• Add support for QQ Browser Mac & Mac Lite.
• Add support for Electron Framework.
• Add support for Facebook in-app browser.
• Add support for Otter Browser.
• Add Android webview detection.

v2.4.0

• Add Google Drive API, Proximic Spider, NewRelic pinger and SocialRank bots.
• Add Pinboard in-app browser to the bot exception list.
• All browser detection methods can now compare versions.
• All platform detection methods can now compare versions (except #linux? and #firefox_os?).
• Add browser/aliases, so you can have methods on the base object (e.g. browser.mobile?). See README for instructions.
• Remove official support for Rails 3 and Ruby 2.1.

v2.3.0

• Add AWS ELB bot.
• Add CommonCrawl and Yahoo Ad Monitoring bots.
• Add Google Stackdriver Uptime Check bot.
• Add Microsoft Bing bots (adldxbot, bingpreview, and msnbot-media).
• Add Stripe and Netcraft bots.
• Add support for loading browser without extending Rails' helpers.
• Add Watchsumo bot.
• Match Alipay.

v2.2.0

• Browser::Platform#windows? can now compare versions.
• Browser::Platform#mac? can now compare versions.
• Detect QQ Browser.
• Fix issue with Mac user agents that didn't include the version.

v2.1.0

• Add PrivacyAwareBot, ltx71, Squider and Traackr to bots.
• Match Google Structured Data alternative bot.
• Match MicroMessenger (WeChat).
• Match Weibo.
• Detect Windows & Mac OS versions.

v2.0.3

• Fix issue with version detection when no actual version is provided (i.e. the user agent doesn't have any version information).

v2.0.2

• Fix issue when user agent is set to nil.
• Fix issue with user agent without version information.

v2.0.1

• Fix Rails integration.

v2.0.0

• Browser#platform now returns instance of Browser::Platform, instead of a String. It contains information about the platform (software).
• Browser#device was added. It returns information about the device (hardware).
• Browser#accept_language now returns a list of Browser::AcceptLanguage objects.
• Browser#bot now returns a Browser::Bot instance.
• Safari running as web app mode is not recognized as Safari anymore.
• ruby-2.3+ will always activate frozen strings.
• List of all commits since last release.