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Robots-Validate-v0.3.4-TRIAL
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Changes for version v0.3.4 - 2026-08-25 (TRIAL RELEASE)

  • Enhancements
    • Added the cache_failure option to invalidate.
    • This changes the behaviour of caching before v0.3.0.
    • Added more bots: Cotoyogi, MJ12Bot and SofyaBot.
  • Documentation
    • Added missing items to Changes for v0.3.0.
    • Updated KNOWN ISSUES.

Changes for version v0.3.3 - 2026-08-24 (TRIAL RELEASE)

  • Enhancements
    • Updated robot rules.
    • Added devel/rebuild-robots-config utility to rebuild the robot rules.
    • Switched the configuration parser to use TOML::Tiny by default, but TOML::XS if it is available.
  • Documentation
    • Improved documentation.
  • Tests
    • Added a missing prerequsite.
    • Improved tests.

Changes for version v0.3.2 - 2026-08-23 (TRIAL RELEASE)

  • Security
    • Added missing initial dot to the domain suffixes for petalbot and visionheight, which allowed an imposter domain such as fakepetalsearch.com.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed IPv6 DNS validation.
  • Documentation
    • Removed duplicate CONTRIBUTOR.
    • Documented why the initial dot for the domain suffix is important.
    • Improved the SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS section.
    • Updated automation policy to be "human supervised".
    • Added link to TOML specification in SEE ALSO.

Changes for version v0.3.1 - 2026-08-23 (TRIAL RELEASE)

  • Documentation
    • Fixed error in Changes.

Changes for version v0.3.0 - 2026-08-23 (TRIAL RELEASE)

  • Incompatible Changes
    • This is a complete rewrite, and the interface is not compatible.
    • Bumped minimum Perl version to v5.24;
  • Enhancements
    • This uses the Aho-Corasick algorithm to match multiple user-agent strings efficiently.
    • The robot rules are in a configuration file, allowing the user to easily update their own rules.
    • The robot rules have been expanded and updated.
    • Support for caching the results has been added, GH#3.
  • Tests
    • Updated the tests to use Test2.
  • Documentation
    • Updated the author email address.
    • Updated the copyright year.
    • Added a security policy.
  • Toolchain
    • Use SigStore instead of Module::Signature to sign releases.
    • Added Automation Policy and DOAP metadata.

Documentation

README.md
SECURITY.md
rebuild-robots-config

Modules

Robots::Validate
Validate that IP addresses are associated with known robots

Other files