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18 Oct 2023 - ver. 3.1.0:

• Feature: Joomla 5 compatibility.
• Change: PHP 8.1 as min.

• Fix: issues with non-inherited routes in child menu items.

Additionally for Pro version:

• Feature: new plugin setting "Advanced > Backend Info" displays configured alias modifications in backend menu items list.

• Fix: short routes are not applied in backend, when using article preview or accessibility check.
• Feature: Joomla 6 support.
• Change: Joomla 4 support dropped, Joomla 5.4 as min, PHP 8.3 as min.

New plugin setting 'Redirect Old URLs' helps to redirect old URLs with original aliases to new URLs with 301 status.

• Fix: invalid routing of article page without ID if its alias is duplicated in multiple categories.
• Fix: first word of tag alias is missed sometimes.
• Fix: Falang compatibility.
• Fix: wrong canonical link on tag view.

• Fix: possible issue with permanent redirect of old URL without direct alias.

• Feature: ability to select categories of articles to remove IDs from URLs.
• Feature: ability to append Joomla article ID to alias in URL (for selected categories only as well).

• Feature: auto-find of tags menu item for tags.
• Feature: new setting 'Shorten All URLs' allows to remove all parent aliases for all menu items.
• Fix: category links from 'List All Categories' menu item.
• Fix: Joomla 3.7 compatibility.

• Fix: incorrect article links menu item on Joomla 3.7

• Changes for Joomla 3.8 release:
• Change: 'Remove Tag ID' setting doesn't take affect since Joomla 3.7.0 (when it started to remove IDs from tags URLs itself).
• Change: 'Remove Content Article ID', 'Remove Content Category ID' and 'Append Content Article ID' settings don't take affect since Joomla 3.8.0, use Articles component setting 'Remove IDs from URLs' when 'URL Routing' is Experimental.
• Fix: fatal error on on Joomla 3.7 with all disabled options.
• Fix: sometimes 404 errors are not triggered on URLs like http://site.com/BAD-SEGMENT/menu-item-alias/parent-cat-alias/child-cat-alias/article-alias

• Fix: shortened articles URLs on non-default language.
• Fix: issue with shortened article URLs and multilingual websites.

• Fix: issue with shortened article URLs for multilingual websites and articles with page breaks.
• Change: Joomla 3.9 as minimum.
• Feature: Joomla 4 compatibility.

• Feature: new setting "Redirect Status" to choose between 301/303/308 status for redirection of original URLs.
• Change: default redirect status changed from 301 to 308.

• Change: Joomla 3 support dropped.
• Change: PHP 8.0 as min.
• Fix: issue with non-inherited aliases.

• Feature: saving a menu item with direct alias can display a warning if we have another menu item with the same computed route.
• Fix: short routes are not applied in backend, when using article preview or accessibility check.
• Feature: new plugin settings "Remove Separator Aliases" and "Remove Menu Heading Aliases" help to remove aliases for all menu items of specific types.