generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/release-history/
provider: Screaming Frog
providerId: screaming-frog
name: Screaming Frog SEO Spider Release History
description: >-
  Screaming Frog maintains a dated release history table for the SEO Spider going back to
  2011, listing every version with its release date and headline features. It is a
  product changelog for a desktop application — there is no API version log, because
  there is no API. Recent window captured below.

scheme: semver-like
scheme_note: >-
  MAJOR.MINOR only (24.0, 24.1, ...). MAJOR releases carry features; MINOR releases are
  almost always "Bug fixes." No PATCH component and no pre-release channel is published.
current_version: '24.3'
current_version_date: '2026-06-29'
cadence_note: >-
  Roughly one feature-bearing MAJOR release per year in recent years (21.0 Nov 2024,
  22.0 Jun 2025, 23.0 Oct 2025, 24.0 May 2026), with bug-fix MINORs in between.
format: html-table
machine_readable: false
machine_readable_note: No RSS, JSON or Atom feed is offered for the release history table.

entries:
  - version: '24.3'
    date: '2026-06-29'
    breaking: false
    highlights: [Bug fixes.]
  - version: '24.2'
    date: '2026-06-22'
    breaking: false
    highlights: [Bug fixes.]
  - version: '24.1'
    date: '2026-06-08'
    breaking: false
    highlights: [Bug fixes.]
    note: The MCP client extension (spider-mcp.mcpb) requires 24.1 or later.
  - version: '24.0'
    date: '2026-05-19'
    breaking: false
    additions:
      - Screaming Frog SEO Spider MCP
      - Auto Compare Crawls
      - View Crawl Changes in Email Notifications
      - Send Crawl Export Attachments by Email
      - Find Uncrawlable Links
      - Usage Stats
      - Arm64 Linux versions
    highlights:
      - First-party Model Context Protocol server built into the desktop app — the company's first agent surface.
      - Java upgraded to 25.
    announcement: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/blog/seo-spider-24/
  - version: '23.3'
    date: '2026-02-18'
    breaking: false
    highlights: [Bug fixes.]
  - version: '23.2'
    date: '2025-12-16'
    breaking: false
    highlights: [Bug fixes.]
  - version: '23.1'
    date: '2025-11-18'
    breaking: false
    highlights: [Bug fixes.]
  - version: '23.0'
    date: '2025-10-20'
    breaking: false
    additions:
      - Lighthouse & PSI Integration updated to Insight Audits
      - Ahrefs v3 API update
      - Auto-deleting crawls (crawl retention)
      - Semantic similarity embedding rules
      - Display all links in visualisations
      - Display links in semantic content cluster diagram
  - version: '22.2'
    date: '2025-07-02'
    breaking: false
    highlights: [Bug fixes.]
  - version: '22.1'
    date: '2025-06-18'
    breaking: false
    highlights: [Bug fixes.]
  - version: '22.0'
    date: '2025-06-10'
    breaking: false
    additions:
      - Semantic similarity analysis
      - Semantic content cluster visualisation
      - Semantic search
      - AI integration improvements
      - Advanced column configurator
      - Custom multi-export
      - Export to multiple tabs in single sheet/workbook
      - Download multiple XML sitemaps
      - Download from Google Sheets
      - APIs mode
  - version: '21.0'
    date: '2024-11-12'
    breaking: false
    additions:
      - Direct AI API integration (OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama)
      - Accessibility auditing
      - Email notifications
      - Custom search bulk upload

other_products:
  - name: Screaming Frog Log File Analyser
    changelog: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/log-file-analyser/release-history/
    current_version: '7.1'

maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com