URL BOT
Product updates

A public record of what changed

Release notes for URL BOT product capabilities, reliability improvements, security work and developer tooling—summarized from changes verified in production.

Public by design, sanitized by design.

This record excludes credentials, origin details, customer data and anti-abuse scoring logic. It documents product outcomes without weakening the systems it describes.

Release history

The newest production changes appear first. Related stages are grouped when they delivered one coherent outcome.

Stage 39

Public changelog and release transparency

Opened a permanent, indexable record of URL BOT product development for customers, developers and external reviewers.

  • Added this public release history, a sitemap entry and a footer link across public pages.
  • Added a verifiable response marker so the running release can be distinguished from an older binary.
  • Linked the record to the live API documentation and public project documentation.
Stage 36

Responsive navigation architecture cleanup

Replaced a local breakpoint workaround with generated responsive utilities while preserving the mobile and desktop navigation behavior already in production.

  • A breakpoint regression was caught during verification, rolled back, corrected and re-verified before closure.
  • Navigation remained reachable across mobile, tablet and desktop widths.
  • The shared stylesheet and every affected public reference were reconciled as one release.
Stages 33A–33C & 35

Mobile navigation, overflow hardening and automated review rescans

Improved small-screen reachability across public, account and administrator surfaces, then added scheduled moderation-review rescans with a durable audit trail.

  • Added keyboard-aware mobile navigation with escape-to-close and focus restoration.
  • Contained wide tables inside scrollable regions instead of widening or clipping the page.
  • Added bounded, cleanly shutting-down review rescans distinguishable from operator-triggered scans.
Stage 34

Public contact workflow

Added a public contact page with authenticated SMTP delivery and protections appropriate for an unauthenticated form.

  • Added CSRF validation, a honeypot and Bot Shield protection on submissions.
  • Added the page to public navigation and the sitemap.
  • Verified the complete browser-to-mailbox delivery path.
Stages 29–32

API consistency, generated CSS and responsive density

Aligned API tag behavior, simplified the visual system and rebuilt shared styling from the project configuration before refining narrow-screen headers.

  • Empty tag collections now serialize consistently rather than appearing as null values.
  • Removed an unused theme system and rebuilt the stylesheet from generated utilities.
  • Improved logged-in and logged-out header behavior at responsive breakpoints.
Stages 27–28B & C1–C3

Plan capabilities, API documentation and moderation

Expanded the public and developer surfaces while adding link-state and review workflows for administrators.

  • Opened QR codes to the Free plan without weakening separate plan capabilities.
  • Added API tag updates, a plans endpoint and the public REST API reference.
  • Added active, disabled and flagged link states plus an administrator review queue and audit history.
Stages 24–26B

Production brand-system refresh

Updated the visual assets served by the application and consolidated brand marks across public, social and transactional-email surfaces.

  • Refreshed favicon, social preview and email assets.
  • Standardized horizontal and compact logo placements across public views.
  • Versioned shared asset references where browser and edge caches required it.
Stages 17A–23

Administration, transactional email and audit reliability

Moved administrator management into explicit database-backed workflows and completed the account-email lifecycle.

  • Added scoped administrator commands for account creation, password reset and email management.
  • Completed email verification and password-reset delivery through authenticated SMTP.
  • Expanded append-only audit coverage for key account and administrative actions.
Stages 1–16D

Protected redirects, API foundations and public-surface consolidation

Established the operational foundations for protected redirects, measurable traffic and a coherent public product surface.

  • Improved trusted-proxy handling and operator controls for Bot Shield.
  • Added API v1 rate limiting, keyset pagination and bulk link creation.
  • Added timestamped HMAC webhooks with retries, period comparison and Redis-backed analytics rollups.
  • Consolidated shared views and aligned public pages with the URL BOT visual system.

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