Changelog

Release history

All notable changes to Auto Internal Linker. Versioning follows semantic versioning principles.

v1.4.0 LATEST March 2026

Commercial release

  • Licence key system via Lemon Squeezy
  • Settings → AIL License admin page
  • Background licence validation via daily cron
  • Admin notice when licence inactive or expired
v1.3.1 PATCH March 2026

Bug fix release

  • [Fix] Fixed: HTML entities (e.g. ’) corrupted by regex — text nodes now decoded before matching
  • Original encoding preserved when no match found
v1.3.0 MINOR December 2024

Anchor control

  • Min/Max anchor words setting — filter phrases by word count at index build time
  • Skip headings option — prevents link injection inside h1–h6
  • Status panel shows anchor range and skip-headings status
v1.2.0 MINOR November 2024

Smart + AI modes

  • Smart Mode — colon-split title parsing for high-quality anchor extraction
  • Claude AI Mode — Anthropic API integration for semantic keyword extraction
  • Searchable keyword preview in status panel
  • Keyword breakdown stats: 1w / 2w / 3w counts
v1.1.0 MINOR October 2024

Renamed + fixes

  • Renamed to Auto Internal Linker — works on any niche
  • [Fix] Fixed partial word matches — regex changed from \b to explicit lookbehind/lookahead
  • Min words between links setting
  • Skip first N paragraphs setting
  • Expanded default blacklist
v1.0.0 MAJOR September 2024

Initial release

  • Basic keyword index from post titles
  • Admin UI with blacklist, max links, rebuild button
  • Zero database writes architecture