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XML Sitemap Generator for Google · Version history

XML Sitemap Generator for Google changelog and version history

Latest version
4.1.25
Sep 18, 2026 (1 month ago)
Releases
37
since 2014
In the last year
4
about one every 89 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.0 or later

Releases each year

  • 20149 releases
  • 20171 release
  • 20181 release
  • 20201 release
  • 20211 release
  • 20226 releases
  • 20239 releases
  • 20244 releases
  • 20252 releases
  • 20263 releases

20263 releases

  1. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.25Latest

    • Fixed “XML parsing error: XML or text declaration not at the beginning of the entity” on sitemap.xml. If a theme or another plugin printed anything before the sitemap started — a blank line after a closing PHP tag, a UTF-8 BOM, a debug notice — it landed in front of the XML declaration and the whol…
    • Fixed the plugin overwriting robots.txt rules added by WordPress and other plugins. The robots.txt filter replaced the whole file body, so WooCommerce’s Disallow lines (wc-logs, woocommerce_uploads, add-to-cart) and any custom rules were silently dropped, and sites with “Discourage search engines”…
    • Fixed “Links per sitemap file” refusing any value below 1000. The field advertised a minimum of 1000, and a separate repair that ran on every admin page load reset anything smaller, so a value you saved appeared not to stick. The minimum is now 100, that repair is gone, and the range is enforced in…
    • Fixed a future date appearing as for categories, tags, product terms and custom post type archives. The dates were read from the site-local database columns while WordPress runs PHP in UTC, so on any timezone ahead of UTC every entry was dated hours into the future — and the most recently updated c…
    • Fixed the “Join the Beta Program” and “Enable Auto-Updates” banner buttons rendering with unreadable link-coloured, underlined text on WordPress 7.0 and later. Core 7.0 started colouring every link inside an admin notice, and its rule outranked the plugin’s button styles.
    • Compatibility: marked as tested with WordPress 7.1.

  2. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.24

    • Security: mitigated CVE-2026-42945 (NGINX Rift, CVSS 9.2) in the dashboard’s suggested Nginx rewrite rules. The rules now use named PCRE captures (?<slug>…) instead of unnamed $1/$2, which avoids the heap-overflow trigger in ngx_http_rewrite_module. If you previously copied the Nginx rules from Set…
    • Compatibility: marked as tested with WordPress 7.0.

  3. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.23

    • Improved security further for unauthenticated users from modifying plugin settings by enforcing proper permission and security‑token checks. CVE-2025-64632

20252 releases

  1. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.22

    • Fixed preventing unauthenticated users from modifying plugin settings by enforcing proper permission and security‑token checks.

  2. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.21

    • Fixed a regression with saving post/page exclusions.
    • Fixed an issue with post/tag priority settings.

20244 releases

  1. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.20

    • Fixed empty ping error
    • Fixed response code issue with index sitemap
    • Fixed interoperability with existing robots.txt file
    • Fixed URL for guest authors
    • Fixed uninstalled plugin error
    • Fixed sitemap indexation
    • Fixed “Trying to access array offset on value of type bool…” warning
    • Fixed setting of custom taxonomy change frequency and priority
    • Fixed missing custom taxonomies issue
    • Fixed issue with hierarchical taxonomies
    • Fixed missing categories issue
    • Fixed sort order of URLs (changed from descending to ascending)
    • Improved WooCommerce support (added products sitemap)
    • Improved multisite support
    • Improved SEO plugin interoperability
    • Improved Nginx configuration
    • Improved sitemap generation performance for large sites
    • Added filter support for behavior/settings customization
    • Added latest Microsoft Bing API Key to settings page

  2. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.19

    • Fixed “Links per page” bug causing sitemaps to not include all posts depending on the setting. Following Search Engine guidance is minimum links per sitemap is 1,000 pages.
    • Fixed Google Search Console errors including “Fetch error” and “noindex” header
    • Fixed the issue with “null” sitemaps
    • Fixed sitemap generation for tags, categories, etc for large sites
    • Improved performance by optimizing queries
    • Improved IndexNow implementation
    • Added WordPress’ sitemap to the list of detected sitemaps for deactivation

  3. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.18

    • Resolved functionality regressions since v4.1.13
    • Improved IndexNow Protocol implementation
    • Improved WooCommerce support
    • Improved WPML support
    • Fixed sitemap 404 issues (for Single and Multisite modes)
    • Fixed auto update rewrite rule
    • Fixed rewrite issues during plugin upgrade
    • Fixed invalid XML syntax (cause of parsing issues in Google Search Console)

  4. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.17

    • Fixed sitemap URL issue in robots.txt etc
    • Improved LastMod syntax for better support for indexation by Google
    • Improved Network mode support
    • Improved localization plugin support
    • Improved custom taxonomy support
    • Added IndexNow Protocol support for Microsoft Bing. Deprecated Sitemap Ping Protocol
    • Added JetPack sitemap generator conflict detection

20239 releases

  1. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.16

    • Fixed a syntax error causing fatal errors for some users.

  2. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.15

    • Improved security by adding capability check via the current_user_can() calls
    • Changed the text domain from “sitemap” to “google-sitemap-generator”

  3. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.14

    • Improved security with authentication and plugin management anchors
    • Fixed an error in sitemap file name conventions
    • Fixed an issue with disabling conflicting sitemap generators
    • Added last modified date to category sitemaps
    • Added min and max option for number of posts per sitemap
    • Added support for local links in sitemap for different languages

  4. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.13

    • Fixed warning error displayed when Yoast SEO is not installed/active

  5. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.12

    • Improved various UI elements and notifications
    • Fixed browser console errors
    • Fixed null value in set_time_limit

  6. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.11

    • Fixed version compatibility thresholds
    • Improved user interface

  7. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.10

    • Added support for automatic updates

  8. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.9

    • Improved beta program notifications and workflow to comply with guidelines
    • Improved various UI elements

  9. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.8

    • Added Beta testing program
    • Added check for disabled PHP functions
    • Fixed handling of taxonomies containing hyphens

20226 releases

  1. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.7

    • Fixed custom taxonomy unit generation issue
    • Fixed plugin deactivation notice

  2. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.6

    • Fixed mishandling of empty categories
    • Fixed _url undefined notice error
    • Fixed error when build_taxonomies throws a fatal error when accessing sub-sitemap without pagination
    • Improved handling of line breaks e.g. showing tag without escaping HTML
    • Improved handling of the Google TID field optional to ping Google
    • Improved documentation, given some renaming of the methods
    • Added support for paginated sitemap posts, pages, and product links
    • Added conditional statements to prevent rewrite rules from being checked every time the sitemap loads

  3. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.5

    • Fixed code regressions moving from git to svn (preventing recent fixes from being available)

  4. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.4

    • Fixed the issue of PHP warnings
    • Fixed links per page issue
    • Improved WordPress 6.0 compatibility

  5. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.3

    • Added backward compatibility settings
    • Changed Google Tracking ID field to optional
    • Fixed PHP warnings

  6. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.2

    • Fixed security issue related to Cross-Site Scripting attacks on debug page
    • Fixed HTTP error while generating sitemap (because of conflict of www and now www site)
    • Fixed handling WordPress core sitemap entry from robots.txt
    • Added option to flush database rewrite on plugin deactivation
    • Added option to split the custom categories into multiple sitemaps by custom taxonomy
    • Added option to omit the posts specified as disallow in robots.txt
    • Added option to set links per page for tags and categories
    • Added option to set a custom filename for the sitemap
    • Added option to list custom post in the archive sitemap

20211 release

  1. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.1

    • fix security issue related to Cross-Site Scripting attacks on debug page
    • fix HTTP error while generating sitemap (because of conflict of www and now www site)
    • fix handles the removal of WordPress native sitemap entry from robots.txt
    • added option for flush database rewrite on deactivate plugin
    • added options for split the custom categories into multiple sitemap by custom taxonomy
    • added options to omit the posts which added in robots.txt to disallow
    • added option to set links per page for tags and categories
    • added option for provide the custom name for the sitemap.xml file
    • added option for custom post type’s list into the archive sitemap
    • added support of manage priorities and frequencies for products category

20201 release

  1. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.0

20181 release

  1. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.0.9

20171 release

  1. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.0.8

20149 releases

  1. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.0.7.1

  2. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.0.7

  3. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.0.6

  4. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.0.5

  5. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.0.4

  6. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.0.3

  7. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.0.2

  8. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.0.1

  9. XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.0

Questions about XML Sitemap Generator for Google’s releases

What is the latest version of XML Sitemap Generator for Google?

4.1.25, released on Sep 18, 2026 (1 month ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.0 or later.

How often is XML Sitemap Generator for Google updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 89 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from March 2014.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in XML Sitemap Generator for Google’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.