Changelog
What's new on Absolutool
This page lists the substantive additions, improvements and bug fixes the site has shipped since launch. Updates land on the live site whenever they're ready (Absolutool deploys on every commit), and the entries below are grouped by month for easier scanning. Each line carries a tag indicating the type of change: New for a tool or feature that didn't exist before, Improve for a meaningful upgrade to something that already existed, and Fix for a bug correction. Smaller routine work (typo fixes, copy edits, dependency bumps, infrastructure refactors) is not listed here; for the complete change history, the GitHub repository commit log is the canonical record.
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May 2026
- New Phase 2 language launch · Italian, Japanese, Indonesian and Vietnamese flipped live after every tool body reached 100% French parity. The site now serves 11 languages with full UI and tool content translated.
- Improve Five enrichment clusters, 41 tools deepened · image (8 tools), video (8), utility (7), CSS (6), and text/format (12) clusters were each rewritten to a 3,500+ word reference-quality tier across all 11 live languages. Approximately 20,000 hand-translated strings in total.
- Improve Seven category pages expanded · Color, PDF, CSS Generators, Calculator, Converter, Text and Image category landing pages each grew from around 500 prose words to between 1,700 and 2,100, with new explanatory sections on what each category is for and how the tools fit together.
- Improve Eight alternative pages expanded · /compare pages for iLoveIMG, iLovePDF, Smallpdf, CloudConvert, Convertio, Adobe Express, Zamzar and Kapwing each rewritten from around 500 words to 1,200 to 1,400, with sections on what each competitor does well, the privacy difference and how to migrate.
- Improve Japanese blog parity · all 53 English blog posts now have full-length Japanese translations averaging 1,448 words each, matching the EN gold standard.
- Improve Internal linking · every tool now has at least one inbound link from a sibling tool's Related Tools section. Orphan tools dropped from 57 to 0 across three batches.
- Improve Schema.org tweaks · every WebApplication schema now carries a featureList array and every FAQPage schema carries a dateModified field for freshness signal during the SEO recovery window.
- Improve Stylesheet purge · 22 unused CSS classes and three dead JavaScript helpers removed; five orphan media files deleted. Total stylesheet shrank by 184 lines, deploy by 720 KB of media.
- Improve 14 site-quality audit scripts · new scripts under scripts/check-* now audit internal linking, CSS forward + reverse usage, inline tool-link integrity, unused media, OG metadata, heading hierarchy, canonicals, duplicate content, JSON-LD validity, image attributes, tool catalogue consistency, ad-slot placement, and orphan i18n keys.
- Fix text-diff-merge tool gained missing ad-slot placeholders; flashlight and white-screen utilities added to the Accessibility Tools category index.
- Fix README and several i18n strings updated to the brand-consistent "240+" tool count after audits showed older 170+ and 160+ numbers had drifted out of sync.
April 2026
- New PDF tool body-content campaign · pdf-protect, pdf-sign, pdf-watermark, pdf-page-editor, pdf-redact, pdf-annotate, pdf-compare, pdf-extract-images, pdf-page-numbers and pdf-to-word each rewritten to multi-thousand-word reference depth, with full 19-language translations.
- New Body translations for 12 more tools · video-compressor, video-resizer, video-speed, video-to-audio, video-to-gif, screen-recorder, speech-to-text, base64-file, heic-to-jpg, jpg-to-png, svg-to-png and webp-to-jpg translated into 19 languages.
- Improve Translation builds set as the default and the language dropdown gated to live languages only, avoiding any partially-translated experience leaking to visitors.
- Improve SEO meta titles and descriptions trimmed to fit Google's snippet budgets across the tool catalogue.
- Fix /tools/all page now resolves correctly and shows the full tool count; stale counts and mismatched FAQ entries cleaned up.
- Fix json-formatter now clears stale output when validation fails; css-formatter no longer emits a double semicolon in multi-property mode; json-to-go respects camelCase word boundaries; two tools' unrendered build-hash markers fixed.
March 2026
- New 6 video tools · Video Trimmer, Video Compressor, Video Converter, Video Resizer, Video to Audio, Video to GIF. All powered by FFmpeg WASM, fully client-side.
- New Hex to RGB Converter · instant hex/RGB/HSL color conversion
- New .htaccess Generator · generate Apache rewrite rules, redirects, and security headers
- New Reading Time Estimator · calculate reading time for articles and blog posts
- New Flashlight · full-screen white light utility
- Improve Cross-browser compatibility · fixed 172 Firefox failures and 3 WebKit failures
- Improve Self-hosted FFmpeg WASM libraries for faster loading and no cross-origin issues
- Improve Auto-generated sitemap · all 240+ tools now always included
- Improve PWA manifest updated with PNG icons (192x192, 512x512)
- Improve Share buttons on every tool page
- Improve SRI hashes on all CDN-loaded static resources
- Fix Video-to-audio now shows clear error when video has no audio track
- Fix 401 test failures resolved (fillById helper, tab switching, selector fixes)
February 2026
- New Launched 160+ tools covering image, text, code, CSS, color, calculator, and developer utilities
- New Category pages for browsing tools by type
- New Saved Files workspace · personal file vault in the browser
- Improve CSS and JS minification (CSS 27KB → 20KB, JS 936KB → 546KB)
- Improve Service worker for offline capability
- Improve 5,000+ Playwright tests across 56 spec files
- Improve WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility compliance
- Improve Strong Content Security Policy headers