December 2025 Changelog
December 2025 finished the year with a large stability pass around Google Maps, browser profiles, proxies, rate limiting, article preview tools, and the bridge into January 2026. It also introduced the post uploader task thread count that appears again in the January changelog.
The month is best read as the cleanup before SCM moved into the more structured 2026 Page Pipeline and SEO Workspace work. Browser tasks became cleaner, Google Maps collection became more selective, and task data handling became safer.
Who this update helps
- Users scraping Google Maps at volume.
- Users relying on proxies and Chrome browser tasks.
- Users previewing spun articles and testing maps or PAA workflows.
- Users posting content through uploader tasks.
Google Maps became cleaner and more selective
December tightened maps scraping so local data collection wastes less time and handles more page states.
- SCM checks for Google Maps consent screens.
- Google Maps can skip places that already have a website.
- Google Maps collection received additional reliability fixes.
- Test controls for Google Maps became editable again in the affected preview tools.
Browser and proxy handling improved
Several fixes reduced leftover browser files and made proxy configuration safer.
- Chrome browser tasks now use incognito profiles to avoid creating many puppet-profile folders in temp.
- Proxy parsing and loading for Chrome browser was fixed.
- Browser-based tasks received cleaner recovery paths.
Rate limiting and queues got safer
December cleaned up queue state so old items do not pollute current runs.
- Rate limiter Discord queue values older than five minutes are discarded.
- Task and queue cleanup became safer before the January rate limiter work.
- Post uploader gained task thread count control.
Article preview and input controls recovered
Several editing controls became usable again in preview and testing windows.
- Article preview export-spun input boxes are editable again.
- Test Google Maps and PAA buttons no longer block input editing in the affected window.
- Keyword content URI parsing was fixed.
Related SCM guides and product history
Full developer changelog
The summary above is written for users. The original 78-item developer changelog is preserved below for exact release detail.
January 1, 2026
- feat: Post uploader task thread count
- fix: getKeywordContent URI malformed error
December 28, 2025
- fix: Check for gmaps consent screens
December 25, 2025
- fix: chrome browser creating lots of puppet-profile folders in OS temp. Now using incognito instead.
- feat: gmaps, skip place with website
- fix: ratelimiter discord any values in queue that are older than 5 mins
December 24, 2025
- fix: Input box in article preview export spun and test gmaps and paa buttons not editable
- fix: Fixed parsing and loading of proxies for chrome browser
- fix: chrome installer 5 sec wait after unpack to give time for files to unlock
- fix: proxy parsing handle http:// in front of proxy string
- fix: Broken proxy loading code for gmaps, ddg and dynamic site scraper
- feat: Add link to accounts page in help section
- fix: Support forum and home page auto open in your browser now
December 23, 2025
- fix: SCM would create 2 orphan windows that wouldn't close when the App exited.
- fix: static scraper, allow early abort.
- feat: Keep track of all open browser windows and force close them on App exit
- other: Debug mode will show gmaps browsers for testing
- fix: Extra args to avoid detection as bot browser
- fix: gmaps, check that browser restart is ok before trying to use it. Also check URL before trying it in browser.
December 22, 2025
- fix: Article filenames not logging properly. Correctly increase %number% for prompt sets.
- feat: article creator, filename string can have folders in it ie 333/%keyword% %number% = folder 333 > article 1 etc
- feat: Post uploader will find all txt files in subfolders as well (recursive)
- feat: Folder browser 'open' will go to folder currently selected
- feat: article creator, ai prompt sets
December 21, 2025
- fix: duckduckgo invalid arg
December 20, 2025
- feat: gmaps, write result of each place immediately to file instead of waiting until the end.
- fix: gmaps places with no reviews correctly adds missing stars columns
- fix: gmaps wait for reviews to load up to 5secs when trying to find them
- fix: Align macro button in filename in ai prompt set
- feat: gmaps add abort handling while looking for reviews
- fix: Gmaps screenshot error
- fix: Gmaps correctly detect direct urls so we don't open browsers if not needed
- fix: Gmaps direct locations not working
- fix: Aborting job, if you edit it and save, abort gets ignored
December 19, 2025
- fix: Gmaps, lower impact calls to chrome browser to avoid it locking
- fix: gmaps, contact search ignore fb and insta pages
- fix: Google maps scraper stuck after place warning
- fix: F5 app reload working again
- feat: article creator ask ai button uses its own ai service dropdown
- feat: You can change the AI model of chat window
- style: Title caps for headers and tabs
- feat: Print context size in tokens
- fix: API logins in model will use full width
- fix: retry on place warnings respect search engine retry wait time
- feat: Duckduckgo, google maps and dynamic site using new external chrome browser method.
- fix: dont throw error Type Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'question')
- fix: Less verbose error messages in log,
December 18, 2025
- feat: Google maps expand log message to each thread
- fix: Force close orphan browser windows when scraping and terminate workers
- feat: Add exa.ai to search engine options
December 17, 2025
- feat: Added gemini 1 – 2, alt account logins
- fix: Correctly keep all html entities decoded
- feat: show a count of new changes since last viewing change log
- fix: Double decode html entities to fix encoding showing
- fix: Migrate back to node workers, see if that fixes tasks not starting on OSX etc
December 12, 2025
- fix: Google maps, sheets export not working
December 11, 2025
- fix: If invalid spintax is found when spinning, instead of error, ignore it and check next one
- fix: Potential fix for malformed uri error.
- fix: Unable to select google search
December 10, 2025
- fix: Error if ui scale factor is not a number
December 9, 2025
- fix: content filter box ai generate button not going into loading status
- fix: content filter table didn't take up full heigh
- fix: search result limit slider fit on small screen width
- feat: On small screen width, task action buttons convert to hamburger
- feat: Content filter, send sentences to ai to rewrite etc Delete sentences as well
December 7, 2025
- feat: static scraper, if test url is empty prefill with url
- fix: Test selector button in static scraper completes more steps to make preview more accurate to final result
- fix: title macro in static page scraper now works
- fix: Static page scraper wasn't returning any results
- fix: Preserve new lines if you use 'remove html'
December 5, 2025
- fix: Sometimes not returning all content in article because the language filtering would exit early.
December 4, 2025
- fix: abort failing on some tasks
- style: Selected row on darkly theme was misconfigured to a light blue
- fix: Sometimes aborting a task would cause IPC channel missing error
December 3, 2025
- style: Fix layout on small screens <768px
- fix: Aborting tasks not working
- fix: When scraping urls, they were not properly uri decoded and showed escaped characters in them
December 2, 2025
- style: Upgrade internal ui components to v6
See all monthly updates in the SCM changelog archive. New users can also try SCM from the trial signup page.