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Changelog

Unreleased

  • 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

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.