Feature: Bot Access page shows verified Googlebot, Bingbot, Applebot, and DuckDuckBot hits against a rolling 30-day baseline and alerts if verified hits collapse.
Feature: Reverse-DNS bot verification distinguishes real search-engine bots from spoofed User-Agents on every log row.
Feature: Dual-request active probe fires every 12 hours to catch upstream WAF or CDN rules that block bots before rankings drop.
Feature: Royal Tools submenu lists free companion plugins with one-click install links.
Enhancement: Custom top header bar on every Royal AI Firewall admin page with View Docs and Support buttons.
Enhancement: Lightweight admin footer showing family links and current plugin version.
Enhancement: Dashboard now records real response body size in bytes for every AI bot hit.
Fix: Dashboard stat cards no longer render doubled percent signs.
1.0.4
Feature: Setup wizard now detects Bunny CDN, Fastly, KeyCDN, Sucuri, StackPath, and Akamai in addition to Cloudflare.
Feature: Dashboard hero now shows total hits, blocked, allowed, and distinct bots side by side instead of a single hits number.
Enhancement: Wizard step 3 rewritten to name whichever CDN is detected in front of your site.
Enhancement: Cloudflare-detected callout on the dashboard now sits above the stat row for clearer visual precedence.
Enhancement: Redundant Settings button removed from the dashboard toolbar.
Enhancement: Admin footer on plugin pages now credits Royal Plugins.
Enhancement: Plugin listing banner refreshed with evergreen copy.
1.0.3
Feature: Bot policy import/export as JSON from a new Backup and portability section on the Settings page.
Feature: Anonymous usage data toggle (opt-in, off by default) with full disclosure and privacy-policy integration.
Enhancement: Setup wizard compatibility catalog expanded to 23 recognized plugins.
Enhancement: Setup Wizard entry removed from the sidebar submenu (re-run it from Settings).
1.0.2
Enhancement: Bot fingerprint catalog refreshed to 68 recognized bots.
Enhancement: Setup wizard reads the catalog size dynamically instead of hardcoding a count.
Enhancement: User-Agent example in readme and support docs is now version-agnostic.
Fix: Anthropic legacy user agents softened to log-only to match vendor guidance.
Fix: Mistral entry now points at the vendor’s canonical robots documentation.
1.0.1
Enhancement: Setup wizard compatibility step now recognizes 19 popular security and caching plugins.
Enhancement: Compatibility step renders only plugins detected as active on your site.
Enhancement: Persistent note invites suggestions when a customer’s active plugin is not yet recognized.
