Release notes

What's new in Calm Toad.

The latest improvements and fixes, as they ship.

2026-11-13

v0.4.0

Replace the Internal tab's yes/no indexability answer with an evidence-backed assessment: Fetch failed, HTTP error, Redirect, Noindex, Review canonical, Canonical elsewhere, Not assessed, or No block found.
Show every applicable robots meta and X-Robots-Tag declaration, including repeated and agent-scoped rules, in the page details drawer.
Show every HTML canonical declaration with its resolved target and whether that target was fetched or left unchecked. Missing, self, repeated, malformed, and conflicting canonicals stay distinct.
Report a body-read failure or a body truncated at the crawl size limit as an incomplete assessment instead of a clean result.
Treat a successful non-HTML response as informational Not assessed context rather than an issue, so it stays out of Issues only and sitemap issue counts while its explanation remains visible.
Keep applicable noindex and nofollow restrictions found beyond the retained evidence cap, and state when raw evidence was truncated.
Add REASONS and EVIDENCE columns to the Internal CSV export, and use the same assessment for Issues only, sorting, and checked sitemap URLs.

Full changelog: https://github.com/abrudtkuhl/calmtoad/compare/v0.3.0...v0.4.0

2026-11-13

Read a site's sitemaps during a crawl and audit the URLs they list. The new Sitemaps tab has URLs and Files views, says when a URL was blocked, skipped, or left by the page limit, and exports the active view to CSV.
Discover sitemaps from robots.txt declarations, falling back to /sitemap.xml and then /sitemap_index.xml, and read XML urlset/index files including gzip with bounded document, entry, depth, and redirect limits.

Full changelog: https://github.com/abrudtkuhl/calmtoad/compare/v0.2.0...v0.3.0

2026-11-11

Export the active results tab to CSV, keeping its current columns, sort order, and issue filter.
Update Calm Toad from inside the app: it checks when it opens and every 24 hours, verifies each download against a signed manifest, and installs the new version after you confirm a restart.
Existing installations need one manual download of this version to enable future in-app updates.

Full changelog: https://github.com/abrudtkuhl/calmtoad/compare/v0.1.1...v0.2.0

2026-11-11

Full Changelog: https://github.com/abrudtkuhl/calmtoad/compare/v0.1.0...v0.1.1

2026-11-09

Initial desktop SEO crawler for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Inspect page titles, meta descriptions, H1 headings, response codes, canonicals, images, and internal links.
Crawl a single host with configurable page and depth limits, streamed results, and a Stop control.
Read robots.txt and honor X-Robots-Tag: noindex directives.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/abrudtkuhl/calmtoad/commits/v0.1.0