⛏️ Cantera · Changelog

What's new in Cantera

Every release, dated. Inside the app it lives behind the 🆕 button next to the version number. Download the latest version.

  1. v1.1.1

    Latest version

    Fixed

    • **Some listings showed a phone number and address that did not exist.** When a website refused to hand over its data, Cantera kept a fragment of the page's code and took it for a real number. Not any more: if what arrives has no phone or address shape, it is discarded.
    • Listings already published with that fault have been rebuilt one by one, with their real data or with none.
    • **Cantera searches better.** The search engine it used had stopped responding and more than half the searches came back empty. Swapped for another one: now they come back full.
    • When Cantera finds a business's official record in a public registry, it now always uses it. Before there were cases where it had it right there and did not look.
    • If your internet drops, Cantera stops and waits instead of carrying on blindly.

    New

    • **Cantera now knows which town to search in.** Many listings only gave the state or region, and searching "in Colorado" or "in Catalonia" is almost like searching nowhere. Cantera now checks an open worldwide business map and, when it recognises the place beyond doubt, narrows the search to the exact town.
    • Pages hiding behind a "log in" notice can now be read. Cantera used to give up before even trying.
    • **And what it costs to read is no longer thrown away.** A social-network listing with the name, town, opening hours and reviews was discarded whole just for having no phone number. It now gets used.

    Better

    • Far fewer failures when building listings.

  2. v1.1.0

    New

    • Cantera speaks English. **ES / EN** button at the top, next to the sun and moon: switches instantly, no reload, and remembers your choice.
    • If your Windows is in another language, Cantera opens in English straight away. If it is in Spanish, nothing changes.
    • Terms, privacy and What's new are in English too.
    • Your own data stays as it is: the names of your sites, listings and categories are never translated.

    Better

    • Each Ollama model's description now comes out fully in English: size, who published it, the languages it supports and the licence.

    Fixed

    • Some sentences came out half in English with a bit of Spanish stuck to them. Not any more.
    • The "last hour" counter was actually showing the whole day, both in the panel and in the Telegram report. It now says the real hour.

  3. v1.0.3

    Fixed

    • Contact messages you wrote before sending existed stay on your computer, as they were. Only what you write from now on is sent.

  4. v1.0.2

    New

    • Optional anonymous statistics to improve Cantera: asked at install time, changed from the Legal button, where you can also see exactly what is sent.
    • Serious errors are saved on your PC and, if you allow it, reach us so we can fix them.
    • Update from inside: when a new version is out, one button downloads it, installs it and reopens Cantera.
    • Opening a new version shows What's new once.
    • Doctor (🩺): internet, AI, your WordPress and the connector, available models, Ollama, scheduler, last publication, serious errors and database size, with the fix next to each item. Shows up the first time and whenever you want.
    • ⏸ Pause 1 h / ▶ Resume the scheduler from the header.
    • 📜 What Cantera did: the saved history (scheduler, listings, errors), with an errors-only filter, and it survives restarts.
    • 💾 Database backups, whatever the size: manual or nightly when they fit on disk (7 kept; 3 for large databases), and one-click restore. Nightly cache clean-up.
    • Wizard: 'Essentials only (5 min)' switch that skips the optional steps.
    • Before you start, the wizard tells you what is coming and how long it takes, so it does not catch you by surprise. And it lets you leave it for later.
    • Once it is set up, a single question: what was hardest. Whatever you pick, you get a useful answer about it.
    • 📧 Contact and support: your message now actually reaches us. You can attach the last 5 minutes of the log (unticked by default) and see, word for word, exactly what is sent before sending it. If there is no internet right then, the message is not lost: it goes out when the connection is back.
    • When you uninstall we ask why you are leaving. One question, genuinely anonymous: no name, no email.

    Better

    • The two logs now say what each one is for: "What Cantera did" (the saved history) and "Contact and support" (writing to us, plus the live technical detail).

  5. v1.0.1

    New

    • Seed your directory: Cantera now creates new listings from open sources or from your own list. Until now it only filled in the ones you already had.
    • Seed by city, region or a whole country at once.
    • Seeding history: repeat any run with one click and see which listings came out of it.
    • Business image on the listing, when available.
    • Smart priority: the listings most likely to bring visits go first.
    • Legal button with the app's terms of use and privacy, plus acceptance at install time.

    Improved

    • More reliable listings: fewer made-up details and better language control.
    • Cleaner, better-presented texts.
    • Seeding tells you clearly how many you already had and how many are left to do.

    Fixed

    • Small visual glitches on published listings.

  6. v1.0.0

    New

    • First public release: Windows installer and first-steps wizard.
    • Connects to your WordPress + Directorist and fills your listings with real data, with a quality check before publishing.
    • Your keys and passwords, encrypted on your PC.