January 2026 Changelog
January's SCM updates focused on reliability in the places where content work is most likely to get interrupted: long-running article creation jobs, Google Maps and local listing extraction, AI template selection, restart behavior, and API-created tasks.
This was not a single big feature month. It was a stability pass across the production workflow. If you use SCM to build pages in batches, scrape source data, insert links, or run tasks unattended, these changes make the app more forgiving when a browser window fails, a task is restarted, a template is missing, or a queue is stopped mid-run.
Who this update helps
- Users running Article Creator or Page Pipeline jobs with AI templates.
- Users collecting local SEO data from Google Maps and local listing results.
- Users creating tasks through the API, especially task names with and without spaces.
- Users who leave SCM running through retries, aborts, restarts, and rate-limit windows.
More reliable long-running tasks
Several January fixes were about preventing jobs from getting stuck in awkward states. SCM now handles aborting and stopping tasks more carefully, clears old rate limiter files between app restarts, and avoids starting new tasks while another task is already aborting.
The practical result: fewer manual restarts, fewer stale lock files, and less confusion when you stop a batch job and come back later.
- Stopped tasks no longer try to abort when they are not running.
- Tasks already marked as aborting are protected from accidental restarts.
- Rate limiter file handling is more robust and resets cleanly between app launches.
- The app clears stale aborting status on restart when restart tasks are enabled.
- Duplicate task names now increment predictably, for example task (1), task (2), and so on.
Cleaner article and AI template workflows
January also tightened the Article Creator and AI template experience. SCM now gives clearer feedback when an AI template is missing a required macro, remembers template state more accurately, and makes template editing less disruptive while you are typing.
These are small changes individually, but they matter during repeated content production. A missing %title% definition, a wrongly remembered template, or a hidden editor that autosaves at the wrong moment can derail a batch of pages.
- Article Creator now loads saved task settings more consistently.
- AI template selection resets correctly between different Article Creator tasks.
- Missing AI template definitions now show a warning instead of failing silently.
- GSA SER AI writer templates were added.
- Orphan AI writer template files are removed when an Article Creator task is saved.
- The AI prompt editor auto-saves selected template edits when appropriate.
- The hidden code editor no longer auto-saves while you type, avoiding layout shifts.
- SCM now displays the AI template name so it is easier to confirm what a task is using.
Better scraping and local listing recovery
Google Maps and browser-based scraping workflows received several recovery fixes. The main goal was simple: when SCM opens, closes, or reopens browser windows during local listing extraction, it should recover cleanly instead of leaving the job in a broken state.
- Google Maps scraping handles an already-running browser more safely.
- Google Maps browser windows reopen more reliably.
- Google Places windows are closed cleanly even when an error happens.
- The video scraper was repaired.
- A malformed URI error in keyword content collection was fixed.
Small usability improvements
A few interface changes made SCM easier to understand during daily work. Tooltips were added to explain sidebar tools, error notifications now show useful content more consistently, and task menu clicks behave more predictably.
- Sidebar tools now include explanatory tooltips.
- Some empty error notifications now show their actual message.
- Clicking the task more button opens the menu instead of accidentally closing the task.
- AI template editors gained missing indent guides.
- The post uploader task gained a thread count setting.
Related SCM guides and product history
Full developer changelog
The summary above is written for users. The original 29-item developer changelog is preserved below for exact release detail.
January 30, 2026
- fix: Google maps scraper PuppetBase Error: The browser is already running error
January 24, 2026
- fix: Google maps not reopening windows
January 21, 2026
- fix: When opening google places in browser, always ensure a close window is closed even on error.
January 20, 2026
- fix: Unable to login to SCM buffer error
January 19, 2026
- fix: Article creator insert links, if link format string is #links#, it will still insert a link if url and keyword fields are empty
- fix: AI template selector would in correctly remember last used template when it should reset state between different a rticle creator tasks
- fix: article creator, ai templates, sometimes fails to load anything even if selected properly
- fix: GSA SER article AI template missing %title% def. Now missing defs will show warning message.
January 16, 2026
- fix: API create task will allow both task names with and without spaces
January 14, 2026
- feat: Add tooltips on what each tool in sidebar menu does
- fix: Video scraper was broken
- fix: Some error notifications not showing any content
- fix: Clear aborting… status on SCM restart if you have restart tasks enabled
- feat: Remove orphan ai writer set template files on article creator save
- feat: Add GSA SER ai writer templates
- fix: AI prompt modal editor, if you edit a template and select it, it will auto save for you even if you forget to save.
- feat: AI user macro 'hidden code editor' will no longer auto save to prevent layout shift while you are typing. Press save or cancel instead.
January 13, 2026
- fix: Tweak some edge cases with duplicate numbering
January 9, 2026
- feat: Better duplicate task naming. Each duplicate task will add (number), eg task (1), task (2) etc.
- fix: Lots of errors with rate limiter writing to lock files. More robust now.
- fix: Clicking on task more button will cause it to open up instead of closing
- fix: Don't start new tasks if they are aborting…
- fix: Stop all won't abort tasks if they are not running
- fix: Article creator task not loading some settings saved in files
- fix: Clear rate limiter files between app restarts
January 7, 2026
- feat: Display ai template name
- fix: AI template editors missing indent guide etc
January 1, 2026
- feat: Post uploader task thread count
- fix: getKeywordContent URI malformed error
See all monthly updates in the SCM changelog archive. New users can also try SCM from the trial signup page.