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wolfcast/browser-detection

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The Wolfcast BrowserDetection PHP class facilitates the identification of the user's environment such as Web browser, version, platform family, platform version or if it's a mobile device or not.

Last release 2 years ago
no release in 18 months
Release timing varies
gaps range from 2 weeks to 2.2 years
Most releases are documented
notes for 10 of 12 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
10 years old
12 releases · first in 2016

Release timeline

12 releases since 2016

Releases

2.9.923 Mar 2025
Added macOS Sequoia detection for browsers that still correctly report the macOS version.
March 23, 2025

What's new since last version:

Added macOS Sequoia detection for browsers that still correctly report the macOS version.
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2.9.822 Apr 2024
Added macOS Sonoma and macOS Ventura detection. Note that all the majors Web browsers have reported macOS Catalina since 2021 for any macOS 11+ versio
April 21, 2024

What's new since last version:

Added macOS Sonoma and macOS Ventura detection. Note that all the majors Web browsers have reported macOS Catalina since 2021 for any macOS 11+ versions. See the documentation of macVerToStr() for more details.

Improved the library documentation when detecting Windows version names since Windows 11 is always reported as Windows 10. See windowsNTVerToStr() for more details.

Updated HTML documentation of the library to the latest version of phpDocumentor.

2.9.721 Sept 2022

Changed licensing to dual licensing: MIT or LGPL-3.0-only. This has no impact on existing users. You can continue under the previous license or switch

September 20, 2022

What's new since last version:

Changed licensing to dual licensing: MIT or LGPL-3.0-only. This has no impact on existing users. You can continue under the previous license or switch to MIT.

Open source →

2.9.52 Feb 2020Breaking

WARNING! Breaking change: complete rework of robots detection. Now robot name and version is detected in addition of browser name and version. Use get…

February 2, 2020

What's new since last version:

WARNING! Breaking change: complete rework of robots detection. Now robot name and version is detected in addition of browser name and version. Use getRobotName() and getRobotVersion() when isRobot() is true.
WARNING! Breaking change: due to robots detection rework the following methods signatures has changed (isRobot parameter removed): addCustomBrowserDetection(), checkSimpleBrowserUA(), checkBrowserUAWithVersion().
Added possibility to support new robots with addCustomRobotDetection().
Added support for the new Microsoft Edge based on Chromium.
Added version names for Android 10 and later (Google no longer use candy names for new versions).
Added macOS Catalina detection.
Added Windows Server 2019 detection (Windows Server 2016 can be no longer detected due to the fact that they both use the same version number and that the build is not included in the user agent).

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2.9.015 Jul 2018Breaking

WARNING! Breaking change: new Wolfcast namespace. Use new Wolfcast\BrowserDetection() .

July 15, 2018

What's new since last version:

WARNING! Breaking change: new Wolfcast namespace. Use new Wolfcast\BrowserDetection().
iPad, iPhone and iPod are all under iOS now.
Added Android Oreo detection.
Added macOS High Sierra detection.
Added UC Browser detection.
Improved regular expressions (even less false positives).
Removed AOL detection.
Removed the following Web browsers detection: Amaya, Galeon, NetPositive, OmniWeb, Vivaldi detection (use addCustomBrowserDetection()).
Removed the following legacy platforms detection: BeOS, OS/2, SunOS (use addCustomPlatformDetection()).

To re-enable removed Web browsers and platforms in this release you can simply do:

$browser = new Wolfcast\BrowserDetection();
$browser->addCustomBrowserDetection('Amaya', 'amaya');
$browser->addCustomBrowserDetection('Galeon');
$browser->addCustomBrowserDetection('NetPositive');
$browser->addCustomBrowserDetection('OmniWeb');
$browser->addCustomBrowserDetection('Vivaldi');
$browser->addCustomPlatformDetection('BeOS');
$browser->addCustomPlatformDetection('OS/2');
$browser->addCustomPlatformDetection('SunOS');

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