Releases

Added

• File-based debug logging with configurable levels
• Browser impersonation (IMPIT) for WAF bypass
• Footer with issue link and feedback command in CLI
• New audit rules: orphan pages, dead-end pages, and indexability checks
• Robots.txt parsing and schema utilities
• Resource checks and redirect tracking
• Configurable thresholds for orphan page detection
• Configurable anchor link handling in dead-end page detection

Changed

• Auto-update now shows notifications only instead of auto-installing
• Overhauled output formats for reports
• Overhauled scoring system with curve-based calculations and penalties
• Unified parsing architecture to eliminate duplicate HTML parsing
• Renamed "domain" to "category" across the codebase
• Improved CLI validation and reachability checks
• Enhanced pattern matching with exact segments and regex support

Fixed

• Audits now always create new crawls instead of resuming incomplete ones
• TLS client improvements for better compatibility
• Restored missing indexability rules
• Improved report command error messages
• Corrected indexability API usage
• Improved audit scoring and schema robustness

Added

• Live progress display with gradient banner during audits
• Broken external link detection
• HTTP and client-side redirect following on seed URL
• Random browser user-agent rotation for more reliable crawling
• Page URLs shown for each issue in reports with grouped broken links
• Enhanced HTML report branding and page visibility indicators

Performance

• Breadth-first crawling with intelligent prefix-based throttling
• Eliminated redundant DOM parsing - significant speed improvement
• Optimized database queries to remove N+1 query patterns

Changed

• Rules can now be marked as disabled in schema instead of using --all flag

Fixed

• HTML report generation dependencies

Installation

curl -fsSL https://squirrelscan.com/install.sh | bash

Or download the binary for your platform below.