🚀 Version 12.0.0

Product Update #12

📅 Released: January 15, 2025 👤 Maintainer: Core Engineering 🏷️ Major Release

Introducing edge-first sitemap generation, AI-powered priority scoring, and real-time Search Console webhooks. Update #12 is our most performance-focused release yet.

⚡ Edge-First Rendering

Generate and serve sitemaps directly from Cloudflare Workers or Vercel Edge Functions. Zero cold starts, sub-50ms TTFB globally.

🤖 AI Priority Scoring

New machine learning model automatically assigns `` and `` values based on historical crawl data and content velocity.

🔗 Live Search Console Sync

Bi-directional webhook integration with Google Search Console. Get instant alerts for coverage drops, indexing delays, and validation fixes.

📋 Detailed Changelog

Feature

Edge Sitemap Generation Pipeline

Added first-class support for Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy, and Vercel Edge Runtime. Sitemaps are now compiled serverlessly with zero infrastructure overhead.

Feature

AI-Powered Metadata Assignment

New `priority_mode: 'ai'` config option analyzes crawl history, engagement metrics, and content updates to automatically score URLs.

Performance

Streamed XML Generation

Memory usage reduced by 72% via chunked streaming. Supports 10M+ URL catalogs without OOM crashes.

Fix

Fixed hreflang circular reference bug

Resolved an issue where self-referential hreflang tags caused infinite loops during validation. Added cycle detection algorithm.

Performance

Webhook Retry Logic Overhaul

Implemented exponential backoff with jitter for Search Console and Bing submissions. Success rate improved from 94% to 99.8%.

Feature

Edge Sitemap Generation Pipeline

Added first-class support for Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy, and Vercel Edge Runtime.

Feature

AI-Powered Metadata Assignment

New `priority_mode: 'ai'` config option analyzes crawl history and content velocity.

Performance

Streamed XML Generation

Memory usage reduced by 72% via chunked streaming.

Performance

Webhook Retry Logic Overhaul

Exponential backoff with jitter. Success rate improved to 99.8%.

Fix

Fixed hreflang circular reference bug

Resolved self-referential hreflang loops. Added cycle detection.

Quick Integration Example

JavaScript / TypeScript
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import { SitemapClient } from '@sitemap/sdk';

const client = new SitemapClient({
  apiKey: process.env.SITEMAP_API_KEY,
  edgeRuntime: 'cloudflare',
  priorityMode: 'ai' // Auto-scores URLs using ML model});

await client.generate({
  source: 'https://myapp.com/api/pages',
  stream: true,
  validate: true
});

Ready to upgrade to v12?

Follow our migration guide to enable edge rendering and AI priority scoring in under 5 minutes.