LinkChecker Downloads

LinkChecker 8.1 is available for download for Windows systems, Unix systems and in source format.

The .asc are GPG signatures that you can use to verify the download. For example download the .asc file in the same directory as the .tar.xz file and run gpg --verify LinkChecker-8.1.tar.xz

The GPG key used to sign these packages is 32EC6F3E. It can be downloaded with gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 32EC6F3E.

Files

• LinkChecker-8.1.exe - The Windows installer. If you run Windows, use this. The installer is signed with a local certificate signature.
• LinkChecker-8.1-portable.zip - The portable Windows installer. Use this, if you want to run LinkChecker from a USB stick or external hard drive.
• LinkChecker-8.1.tar.xz - The source code. See doc/install.txt for compilation and installation instructions. Under Windows you can use 7-zip or Peazip to extract the file contents.

Changelog for this release

8.1 "Safety Not Guaranteed" (released 14.10.2012)

Features:
- checking: Allow specification of maximum checking time or maximum
  number of checked URLs.
- checking: Send a HTTP Do-Not-Track header.
- checking: Check URL length. Print error on URL longer than 2000 characters,
  warning for longer than 255 characters.
- checking: Warn about duplicate URL contents.
- logging: A new XML sitemap logger can be used that implements the protocol
  defined at http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php.

Changes:
- doc: Mention 7-zip and Peazip to extract the .tar.xz under Windows.
  Closes: SF bug #3564733
- logging: Print download and cache statistics in text output logger.
- logging: Print warning tag in text output logger. Makes warning filtering
  more easy.
- logging: Make the last modification time a separate field in logging
  output. See doc/upgrading.txt for compatibility changes.
- logging: All sitemap loggers log all valid URLs regardless of the
  --warnings or --complete options. This way the sitemaps can be
  logged to file without changing the output of URLs in other loggers.
- logging: Ignored warnings are now never logged, even when the URL
  has errors.
- checking: Improved robots.txt caching by using finer grained locking.
- checking: Limit number of concurrent connections to FTP and HTTP
  servers. This avoids spurious BadStatusLine errors.

Fixes:
- logging: Close logger properly on I/O errors.
  Closes: SF bug #3567476
- checking: Fix wrong method name when printing SSL certificate warnings.
- checking: Catch ValueError on invalid cookie expiration dates.
  Patch from Charles Jones.
  Closes: SF bug #3575556
- checking: Detect and handle remote filesystem errors when checking
  local file links.