ScientiaMobile WURFL PHP API Change Log

1.13.0.1 - April 11th, 2024

• Fixed
  • Classes that implement MongoDB Persistable now declare an array return type

1.13.0.0 - Feb 28th, 2024

• Added support for
  • New robots, spiders and crawlers
  • Emerging custom user-agents for Android, iOS and other platforms
• Expanded support for
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • User-Agent Client Hints
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • Digital assistant and connected speaker devices
  • Game Consoles
• Fixed behavior for
  • Spark Email Client (iOS/macOS) now defaults to a desktop detection

1.12.11.1 - Dec 6th, 2023

• Updated to be compatible with recent versions of PSR libraries

1.12.11.0 - Oct 23rd, 2023

• Added support for
  • new SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • new robots, spiders and crawlers
• Expanded support for
  • custom user-agents for Android, iOS and other platforms
  • User-Agent Client Hints
  • app detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • iOS and iPadOS versions and devices
  • Tizen based devices
• Fixed behavior for
  • Firefox on Android will now use "6.0" as the default/fallback OS version in cases where an Android version is absent

1.12.10.1 - Sept 1st, 2023

• Fixed "Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: count()" error for certain SmartTV requests

1.12.10.0 - June 27th, 2023

• Added support for
  • new robots, spiders and crawlers
  • new SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
• Expanded support for
  • custom user-agents for Android, iOS and other platforms
  • app detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • Chromium based browsers and web clients
• Fixed behavior for
  • User-Agents and HTTP Requests with invalid or missing Android versions will now return "6.0" as the default/fallback Android version. The previously returned version was "4.0".
• Note: We periodically update the definition of what we consider to be a smartphone. These changes affect the is_smartphone and form_factor capabilities. This version of the WURFL API makes the following change:
  • Minimum OS version requirements increased to iOS 12, Android 8.0

1.12.9.0 - March 14th, 2023

• Added support for
  • new robots, spiders and crawlers
  • custom user-agents for Android, iOS and other platforms
• Expanded support for
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • User-Agent Client Hints
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • iOS and iPadOS versions and devices
  • Android devices

1.12.8.0 - Nov 30th, 2022

• Added support for
  • new robots, spiders and crawlers
  • custom user-agents for Android, iOS and other platforms
• Expanded support for
  • Android devices
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • Chromium based browsers and web clients
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • iOS and iPadOS versions and devices
  • User-Agent Client Hints

1.12.7.0 - Sept 21th, 2022

• Potentially breaking change: move to Common Container Interface (PHP FIG PSR-11) from the deprecated container-interop interface
• Added support for
  • new robots, spiders and crawlers
  • new email clients
• Expanded support for
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • Digital assistant and connected speaker devices
  • Fire OS devices
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • Mobile and desktop applications
  • iOS and iPadOS versions and devices

1.12.6.0 - May 31, 2022

• Added support for
  • custom user-agents for Android, iOS and other platforms
  • new SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • device level detection for certain Roku UAs
• Expanded support for
  • User-Agent Client Hints
  • ChromeOS devices
  • is_smartphone and form_factor capabilities
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • Chromium based browsers and web clients
  • iOS and iPadOS versions and devices Note: We periodically update the definition of what we consider a Smartphone. These changes affect the is_smartphone and form_factor capabilities. This version of the WURFL API makes the following changes:
  • Horizontal Resolution requirements increased to 540 pixels
  • Minimum OS version requirements increased to iOS 9, Android 6.0
  • Removed RIM OS and Windows Phone OS from being considered as Smartphone OS'es
  • Added HarmonyOS

1.12.5.0 - March 1, 2022

• Dropped support for PHP 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3
• Added support for
  • new robots, spiders and crawlers
  • custom user-agents for Android, iOS and other platforms
• Added methods:
  • HttpRequest::isUaFrozen()
  • HttpRequest::headerQuality()
• Expanded support for
  • User-Agent Client Hints
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name Note: Support for User-Agent Client Hints is now turned on by default.

1.12.4.0 - November 24, 2021

• Added support for
  • new robots, spiders and crawlers
• Expanded support for
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • Custom user-agents for Android, iOS and other platforms
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • Certain Windows 11 User-Agents
  • iOS and iPadOS versions and devices
  • KaiOS based devices
  • Tizen based devices

1.12.3.3 - October 28, 2021

• Fixed behavior for
  • ExtraHeadersExperimental

1.12.3.1 - 1.12.3.2

• Bugfix releases for other WURFL API products

1.12.3.0 - September 29, 2021

• Added support for
  • new robots, spiders and crawlers
• Expanded support for
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • Certain User-Agents from the Roku OS platform
  • iOS and iPadOS versions and devices
• Fixed behavior for
  • Google Read Aloud Assistant: this service is a text to speech assistant and will no longer be categorized as a robot

1.12.2.0 - July 19, 2021

• Added support for
  • Chromium based browsers and web clients
• Expanded support for
  • Android devices
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • Certain non-standard app based user-agents
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • Custom user-agents for Android, iOS and other platforms

1.12.1.0 - May 24, 2021

• Added support for
  • new robots, spiders and crawlers
• Expanded support for
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices

1.12.0.0 - February 26, 2021

• Added support for
  • new robots, spiders and crawlers
  • Chromium based browsers and web clients
• Expanded support for
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • KaiOS based devices
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • game consoles
  • Firefox based browsers
• Fixed behavior for
  • User-Agents with invalid Android versions will now consistently return the default/fallback Android version (4.0)

1.11.10.0 - November 23, 2020

• Dropped support for PHP 5.6
• Dropped support for PHP 7.0
• Added support for
  • Chromium based browsers and web clients
• Expanded support for
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • iOS and macOS webviews and apps
  • iOS and iPadOS versions and devices
  • Android TV devices

1.11.9.0 - September 14, 2020

• Added support for

  • new robots, spiders and crawlers

• Expanded support for

  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • iOS and macOS webviews and apps
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name

1.11.8.0 - July 1, 2020

• Added support for
  • new robots, spiders and crawlers
• Expanded support for
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • Android devices
  • iOS versions and devices
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name

1.11.7.1 - May 4, 2020

• Expanded support for
  • iOS versions and devices

1.11.7.0 - April 30, 2020

• Added support for
  • new digital assistant and connected speaker devices
• Expanded support for
  • UC Browser User-Agents
  • iOS versions and devices
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • Chromium based browsers and web clients

1.11.6.0 - February 17, 2020

• Expanded support for
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • Web browsers
  • new iOS versions and devices
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
• Fixed behavior for
  • Android User-Agents

1.11.5.0 - December 4, 2019

• Added support for
  • new robots, spiders and crawlers
• Expanded support for
  • new iOS versions and devices
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • Chromium based browsers and web clients
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • Fire OS TV devices
• Fixed behavior for
  • UC Browser User-Agents
  • Samsung Browser: Both Dex and Samsung browsers will now return "Samsung Browser" for the advertised_browser_name virtual capability. This is because both browsers will send a similar HTTP request in desktop mode/requesting a desktop User-Agent.
  • Vivaldi: Vivaldi web browser will now return "Vivaldi" and not "Vivaldi browser" for the advertised_app_name virtual capability. This is to be consistent with the browser's branding.

1.11.4.0 - September 16, 2019

• Expanded support for
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • Chromium based browsers and web clients
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • KaiOS based devices
  • certain Xiaomi devices

1.11.3.0 - June 17, 2019

• Expanded support for
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • Chromium based browsers
  • Digital Assistant devices
  • new iOS versions and devices
• Fixed behavior for
  • UC Browser User-Agents
  • bot, spider and crawler detection

1.11.2.0 - April 17, 2019

• Added support for

  • new robots, spiders and crawlers

• Expanded support for

  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • Google Assistant based devices
  • Chromium based browsers

• Fixed behavior for

  • bot, spider and crawler detection

1.11.1.0 - February 11, 2019

• Added support for

  • new robots, spiders and crawlers
  • new Chromium and Gecko based browsers

• Expanded support for

  • App generated UAs on Android and iOS platforms
  • App detection via is_app and advertised_app_name
  • STBs and other OTT devices
  • SmartTVs, STBs and other OTT devices
  • Chromium based browsers
  • Google Assistant based devices

• Fixed behavior for

  • is_app and is_app_webview behavior under certain conditions where additional HTTP headers are available
  • Android model name extraction for certain User-Agents

• Deprecated methods

  • UserAgentUtils::getAndroidModel

1.11.0.0 - December 5, 2018

• Added support for
  • new Chromium based browsers
  • new virtual capability - pixel_density
• Expanded support for
  • app detection via is_app, is_app_webview and advertised_app_name
  • Xbox game consoles
  • web automation frameworks and libraries
  • Internet Explorer and Edge browsers
  • Yahoo Mail
  • robots, crawlers and spiders
  • new Apple devices
  • Gmail

1.10.0.0 - September 24, 2018

• Potentially breaking change: Please note that this version standardizes tvOS return values for advertised_device_os and advertised_browser capabilities and aligns them to Apple's branding practices. "TV OS" will henceforth be called "tvOS" and "TV OS App" will be renamed to "tvOS App"
• Added support for
  • new Chromium and Gecko based browsers
• Expanded support for
  • app detection via is_app, is_app_webview and advertised_app_name
  • KaiOS based devices
  • PlayStation devices
  • Apple TV devices

1.9.5.0 - July 23, 2018

• Dropped support for PHP 5.4

• Deprecated methods:

  • The optional parameter $override_sideloaded_browser in HttpRequest::__construct(array $request_headers, $override_sideloaded_browser_ua = true) has been deprecated and its TRUE logic will be the standard logic used. This API will emit E_USER_DEPRECATED if $override_sideloaded_browser is not set to TRUE. Implementations that use HttpRequest::__construct($request_headers) or HttpRequest::__construct($request_headers, true) are unaffected.
  • WURFLEngine::enableFastDesktopBrowserMatch
  • WURFLEngine::disableFastDesktopBrowserMatch
  • WURFLEngine::isFastDesktopBrowserMatchEnabled
  • AbstractDeviceMatcher::applyConclusiveMatch
  • AbstractDeviceMatcher::applyRecoveryMatch

• Aligned some return values for the advertised_device_os virtual capability to align with device_os static capability

  • "Bada" is now "Bada OS"
  • "Nokia Series 40" is now "S40 OS"
  • "Symbian" is now "Symbian OS"

• Added support for

  • Certain Android P user-agents
  • Certain TV OS User-Agent formats
  • Digital Assistants
  • New Opera browser versions
  • New Tizen versions
  • Upcoming Android and iOS versions
  • New tvOS versions

• Improved support for is_app capability for SmartTV devices

• Expanded app detection support via is_app and advertised_app_name

• Optimized model name extraction for certain Android apps that send irregular User-Agent structures

• Fixed an issue that caused certain Fire OS webview User-Agents to be misclassified within is_app and is_app_webview

• Removed --force flag for wurfl-updated command

• Fixed an issue that could cause a random AspectException during WURFL loading in daemon mode

1.9.4.0 - May 21, 2018

• Added support for

  • Upcoming iOS versions
  • MIUI Browser
  • Quark Browser
  • Avast Secure

• Improved support for

  • Apple iPad (6th gen)
  • Sony and Vizio Smart TVs
  • Roku devices
  • App name detection (advertised_app_name)
  • Microsoft Office
  • Yandex browser
  • Baidu Browser
  • Apple Core Media User-Agents
  • Facebook Messenger

• Removed deprecated methods:

  • AndroidMetadata::releaseMap
  • HttpRequest::getUserAgentProfile
  • VirtualCapabilityProvider::getObject
  • VirtualCapabilityProvider::getRequiredCapabilities

1.9.3.3 - April 23, 2018

• Added virtual capabilities:
  • generalized_browser_type
  • generalized_os_brand
• Improved detection of UCWebBrowser

Version 1.9.3.2 - April 9, 2018

• Fixed wurfl_capability_filter reload issues

Version 1.9.3.1 - April 4, 2018

• Fixed Roku regression

Version 1.9.3.0 - March 19, 2018

• Potentially breaking change: The definition of what we consider smartphones is changing with this release. Please read this article for more details on what is changing and why - https://www.scientiamobile.com/keeping-smartphones-smart

• Added support for

  • KaiOS
  • Tizen 4.0
  • Some Android media players

• Improved detection of

  • Robots and Crawlers
  • Mobile and desktop applications
  • Smart-TVs
  • SmartPhones
  • Game consoles

Version 1.9.2.0 - December 13, 2017

• Added support for

  • Upcoming iOS versions
  • Upcoming Tizen versions
  • Extracting model numbers for desktop devices under certain conditions

• Improved detection of

  • Opera Mobi and Tablet on Android
  • Requests from UCBrowser's U2 engine

Version 1.9.1.1 - November 27, 2017

• Improved engine loading

Version 1.9.1.0 - November 6, 2017

• Breaking: The default version of Android is now 4.0. Undetecteable/corrupted Android User-Agents will now return a more appropriate OS version.

• Added support for

  • Upcoming iOS versions
  • Upcoming Android versions
  • Edge browser on iOS and Android
  • Steam in-game requests
  • Firefox Focus
  • Yandex Desktop

• Improved detection of

  • Fire OS
  • iPhone hardware
  • Apps
  • Huawei devices
  • Firefox on Android User-Agents
  • Android and iOS UCbrowser User-Agents
  • Edge browser

• Added additional validation for advertised_device_os

• MongoDB: Fixed exception "document to insert contains invalid key" with mongodb driver > 1.2.6

Version 1.9.0.0

• Decommissioning of engine target options
• Improved detection of
  • Android
  • Bots
  • Apps
  • Amazon Silk Browser
  • CFNetwork User-Agents
• Added support for
  • Epiphany detection
  • iOS 11
  • Samsung Dex
  • Samsung Browser
  • Tizen 3.0
• Added stripping of non-printable characters from the User-Agent
• Deprecated methods:
  • WURFLEngine::enablePerformanceMode()
  • WURFLEngine::enableAccuracyMode()
  • WURFLEngine::isPerformanceModeEnabled()
  • AndroidMetadata::releaseMap()
  • VirtualCapabilityProvider::getObject()
• Fixed Opcache invalidate always increase wasted memory

Version 1.8.4.0

• Added detection of Nintendo Switch
• Added detection of Email client
• Improved detection of devices with encoded user agents
• Fixed Android 4.4/5.x mistakenly classified as apps
• Fixed advertised_os vcap detection for requests from Opera Mini browser
• Deprecated HttpRequest::getUserAgentProfile method

Version 1.8.3.0

• Added support for upcoming iOS and Android versions
• Updated support for Microsoft Edge browsers
• Improved detection of
  • some Nintendo devices running Access/Netfront browsers
  • macOS User-Agents
• Fixed compatibility for the Redis cache adapter with redis server v2.8.x

Version 1.8.2.1

• Fixed an error with wurfl-updater when snapshot is up-to-date

Version 1.8.2.0

• Added iOS 10.2 hardware IDs
• Added new virtual capability - advertised_app_name
• Improved detection of
  • MSIE browsers with alphanumeric versions
  • UAs originating from Google Search app on iOS
• Updated support for Microsoft Edge and Opera browsers
• Fixes in robot, Kindle and Windows Phone detection
• Added Redis storage and cache adapter
• Added APCu cache adapter
• Removed deprecated Metadata class properties
• Deprecated APC cache adapter in favor of APCu
• Deprecated class Constant in favor of Api

Version 1.8.1.0

• Added Android 7.1 devices
• Added iPhone 7 and 7 plus device
• Added support for Amazon mobile app
• Improved wurfl-updater script
  • added clear cache option
• Improved device lookup performance
• Review of patch file load process

Version 1.8.0.6

• Improved performance retrieving capabilities and virtual capabilities
  • Added an inline cache system to speedup fallback tree generation
  • Improved the virtual capability group initialization logic
• Improved the MongoDB adapter

Version 1.8.0.5

• Added warning about missing Snapshot URL
• Improved patch files validation
• Fixed capability to string conversion with boolean
• Fixed bug in MySQL cache adapter

Version 1.8.0.4

• Fixed a Repository exception with wurfl-updater
• Updated composer dev dependencies

Version 1.8.0.3

• Adds UPGRADE documentation
• Improved storage permission check
• Improved performance
• Minor fixes

Version 1.8.0.2

• Improved wurfl-updater script
• Minor fixes

Version 1.8.0.1

• Support for url-encoded UAs
• Better iPod Touch detection
• Better Facebook and Mobile App detection
• Added Chinese Android detection
• Added Android 7 detection
• Added iOS 10 detection

• Mandatory Capabilities are automatically loaded during engine load

• Dropped support for PHP 5.3

• Implemented standard interfaces:
  • PSR3 psr/log
  • PSR6 psr/cache
  • container-interop
• Added SQLite storage and cache adapter
• Added MySQL storage and cache adapter
• Added MongoDB storage and cache adapter
• Added WURFL updater

[2016.05.23] Version 1.7.1.2

• Fixed wurfl.xml extraction not multi instance safe
• Fixed cache interferes with is_app_webview and advertised vcap values
• Improved WURFL_FileUtils::getTempDir() to return a multi instance safe temporary dir
• Deprecated the WURFL_Request_UserAgentNormalizer_Interface

[2016.04.19] Version 1.7.1.1

• Improved performance detection
• Improved build lock implementation with multiple api's

[2016.04.13] Version 1.7.1.0

• Added detection of:
  • Palemoon Browser
  • Bravia SmartTV
  • iOS 10 and new iOS devices
  • Desktop App
• Fixed IIS detection issues
• Fixed controlcap mechanism
• Fixed APC and Memcache storage namespace conflict with multiple api's

[2015.03.29] Version 1.7.0.1

• Fixed PHP 5.3 compatibility

[2015.02.08] Version 1.7.0.0

• Added WURFL.XML deviceIds consistency check
• Improved detection of:
  • Apple devices
  • Edge browser
• Added new Virtual Capability: device_name

[2015.12.16] Version 1.6.4.2

• Added mandatory capabilities for advertised capabilities

[2015.12.09] Version 1.6.4.1

• Fixed is_phone virtual capability logic

[2015.12.04] Version 1.6.4.0

• Improved detection of:
  • Nokia devices
  • Android User-Agents (UAs) without model names
  • Certain feature phones running Opera Mini
  • SmartTVs
  • UAs from Android apps
  • Blackberry Playbook
  • Bot UAs
  • Firefox on iOS
• Improved internal UA matching methods

[2015.10.19] Version 1.6.3.0

• Improved detection of:
  • CFNetwork
  • Android webview
  • Google Web Preview and Google Image Proxy bots
  • New iPhone/iPad devices
  • Certain third party Android browsers

[2015.08.04] Version 1.6.2.0

• Improved detection in VC tool for:
  • MSIE 12/Edge
• Improved detection of:
  • Windows Phone
  • Bots
  • CFNetwork

[2015.07.01] Version 1.6.1.0

• Improved detection in VC tool for:
  • MSIE 12/Edge
  • Baidu browser
  • Apple
• Improved detection of:
  • Windows Phone
  • Kindle
  • SmartTV
  • Apple
  • CFNetwork
  • FirefoxOS
  • Opera

[2015.04.20] Version 1.6.0.1

• Fixed
  • Header sanitize error when Header value is an array (i.e. argv)

[2015.04.01] Version 1.6.0.0

• Added
  • Android 5.1 support
  • MSIE 12/Edge 12.0 support
  • Tizen 2.3 support
  • Trove Bot detection
  • Windows Phone 10 support
• Improved detection performance
• Improved detection of:
  • Android
  • CFNetwork
  • Chromium
  • Firefox OS
  • MSIE 12/Edge support
  • Opera
  • SmartBrowser
  • SmartTV
  • UCWebBrowser
  • Wii
• Added virtual capabilities:
  • is_phone
  • is_app_webview

[2014.12.02] Version 1.5.3.0

• Added Opera for Android UA support in VC tool
• Added iOS 8.1 WURFL hardware IDs
• LD Algorithm Enhancement
• Added UC browser on Windows Phone support

[2014.09.22] Version 1.5.2.1

• Improved form_factor capability
• Improved support for Apple devices

[2014.09.02] Version 1.5.2.0

• Improved detection of:
  • Android
  • Apple
  • Firefox OS
  • Internet Explorer
  • Opera
  • Smart TVs
  • Tizen
  • Ubuntu OS
  • Windows Phone
  • Windows RT
• Improved existing virtual capabilities
• Added virtual capabilities:
  • complete_device_name : The brand_name, model_name and marketing name (if applicable)
  • form_factor : Tablet, Smartphone, Feature Phone, Robot, Desktop, Smart-TV, Other Non-Mobile
• Added support for iOS 8
• Added the ability to detect sideloaded browser instead of the device with its stock browser

[2014.04.23] Version 1.5.1.1

• Improved accuracy of is_robot
• Bugfix: auto-reload is not thread safe when lockfile is on a filesystem without flock support

[2014.01.07] Version 1.5.1.0

• Added support in Virtual Capabilities for:
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Windows 8.1
  • OS extraction for Opera Mini User-Agents
• Improved detection of:
  • Android
  • Apple iOS
  • Xbox One
  • Pantech feature phones
• Added new matcher for Desktop Applications
• Optimized matcher order

[2013.10.09] Version 1.5.0.2

• Bugfix: using an old WURFL with MySQL persistence causes infinte loop

[2013.10.07] Version 1.5.0.1

• Bugfix: missing capabilities demo page

[2013.10.03] Version 1.5.0.0

• New Feature: Virtual Capabilities
• Improved normalization
• Improved detection of:
  • Android
  • Apple iOS
  • Windows Phone
  • Firefox Mobile
  • Firefox OS
  • SmartTVs
  • BlackBerry
  • Skyfire
  • Opera Mini
  • UCWEB
  • Robots
  • Native apps

[2013.01.11] Version 1.4.4.0

• Improved detection of Android 4.1+
• Improved detection of Windows RT
• Simplified detection of Firefox desktop
• Improved detection of Xbox console
• Improved detection of Opera Mobi and Opera Tablet

[2012.11.07] Version 1.4.3.0

• Improved detection of Kindle Fire
• Improved detection of Playstation Vita
• Improved detection of Windows Phone
• Improved detection of Windows RT
• Improved detection of Safari desktop browser
• Added Device-Stock-UA support
• Improved detection of Maemo devices
• Improved detection of SmartTVs
• Improved detection of XBOX 360
• Improved detection of Epiphany browser
• Updated WURFL database

[2012.09.04] Version 1.4.2.0

• Improved detection of Mobile Chrome
• Improved detection of Smart TVs
• Improved examples to allow auto-reloading if WURFL data changes
• Bugfix: Improperly normalized filenames on Windows may cause exceptions

[2012.07.30] Version 1.4.1.1

• Bugfix: Some desktop UAs with "toolbar" are detected as robots in HA mode

[2012.04.07] Version 1.4.1

• Bugfix: Invalid definition of WURFL_Storage::save()
• Bugfix: Chrome Beta on Android is not detected properly
• Bugfix: Invalid system temp dir returned from sys_get_temp_dir()

[2012.03.30] Version 1.4.0

• Complete overhaul of all User Agent Handlers
• Improved normalizers
• Added High-Performance vs. High-Accuracy mode
• Added Introspector utility for diagnostics
• Massive code and documentation cleanup
• Added "Secondary Caching" to persistence providers, so memcache and APC can be used to improve performance of lookups to the persistence provider
• Refactored examples for simplicity
• Changed recommended configuration from XML Config to InMemory config
• Removed the web patch, as it is now integrated with the main WURFL file

[2011.07.19] Version 1.3.1

• Enabled displaying errors in example script
• Updated default wurfl.xml
• Added manual lookup script
• Fixed bug with auto-loading WURFL failure on Solaris (EX flock on RO file failed)
• Improved detection of Tablet PC devices
• Improved detection of Android 2.3 - 3.0 devices

[2011.05.14] 1.3.0

• Documented all classes
• Improved Exceptions
• Bugfix: ArrayConfig can now use relative config file pathnames
• Updated unit tests and phing build file

[2010.10.05]

• Added Storage to replace (Persistence & Cache)
• Added NameSpace support for Memcache and Apc
• Added Normalizers for
  • Locale
  • SerialNumbers
  • Maemo
• Added Handler
  • MaemoHandler
• Added Support For Multiple Memcache backend

[2010.05.06]

• Replaced WURFLManagerProvider with WURFLManagerFactory
• Autoreloading Added

[2009.06.01]

• Configuration:
  • Changed the "persistance" to "persistence" (N.B a to e) in wurfl-config.xml
  • Added Possibilty to specify configuration from an array.(array-wurfl-config.php)
• Normalizers
  • Added
    • Android
    • Chrome
    • Opera
    • Safari
    • MSIE
• Handlers
  • Added
    • AndroidHandler
    • ChromeHandler
    • BotCrawlerTranscoderHandler
• Logger
  • Removed dependency from the PEAR Log
  • Added Custom Logger
• WURFLLoader
  • Added A WURFLReloader
• Created a new web_browsers_patch

[2010-06-16]

Added Caching expiration capability