Changelog

All notable changes to this add-on will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

21.54.0 - 2026-03-31

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.

21.53.0 - 2026-02-24

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.
• Dependency update.

21.52.0 - 2025-12-18

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.
• Adjust warnings logged when a pattern incorrectly contains Confidence or Version tags, use just one punctuation character.

21.51.0 - 2025-12-15

Added

• A help page for the tech-detection (wappalyzer) automation framework job.

Changed

• Update minimum ZAP version to 2.17.0.

21.50.0 - 2025-12-03

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.

21.49.0 - 2025-11-04

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.
• Maintenance changes.
• The Technology panel toolbar now includes a toggle button to link its displayed contents to the Sites Tree selection.

Fixed

• Icon sizing in the Technology table when a transparent placeholder needs to be used.
• Reduced usage of error level logging.

21.48.0 - 2025-09-02

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.
• During load the time taken to process the data files will be shown in human readable format (generally seconds), as well as milliseconds (ms).
• Maintenance changes.

21.47.0 - 2025-07-15

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.

21.46.0 - 2025-06-20

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.

21.45.0 - 2025-03-04

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.

21.44.0 - 2025-01-15

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.
• Update minimum ZAP version to 2.16.0.
• Depend on Passive Scanner add-on (Issue 7959).
• The scan rule no longer sets a CWE for alerts (Issue 8733).

21.43.0 - 2024-11-25

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.
• Maintenance changes.

21.42.0 - 2024-09-24

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.
• Maintenance changes.

21.41.0 - 2024-09-02

Added

• Request stats.

Fixed

• Example alert details for documentation generation (Issue 6119).

21.40.0 - 2024-08-28

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.
• The add-on now has an options screen to allow users to select Quick/Exhaustive mode used by the passive scanner (part of Issue 8361).
  • Quick > Return on first match; which may mean missing version information, but should be slightly more performant. (This is the default.)
  • Exhaustive > Keep matching and don’t return early; likely slightly less performant.
• The add-on now also has the ability to optionally raise Alerts for each technology identified. The default setting is enabled. (Issue 8361)
• Maintenance changes.
  • This may be a breaking change for anyone that has code using the Automation Framework’s Tech Detection (Wappalyzer) data.
• The scan rule now includes example alert functionality for documentation generation purposes (Issue 6119).
• Link website alert page and help (Issues 8189).

21.39.0 - 2024-07-04

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.

21.38.0 - 2024-06-03

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.

21.37.0 - 2024-05-21

Changed

• Update minimum ZAP version to 2.15.0.
• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.
• Maintenance changes (standardize on “Technology Detection” naming).

21.36.0 - 2024-05-02

Fixed

• Implemented a change to address a resource contention issue when loading Tech Detection details (Issue 8464).

Changed

• Suppress further un-helpful messages from the jsvg library logger.

21.35.0 - 2024-04-23

Changed

• Maintenance changes.

Fixed

• A typo in the help content.

21.34.0 - 2024-04-11

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.
• Parallelize loading of the technology files, to improve install/start-up performance.

21.33.0 - 2024-03-28

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.

21.32.0 - 2024-03-04

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.
• Maintenance changes.

21.31.0 - 2024-02-09

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.

21.30.0 - 2024-02-05

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.
• Made UI strings and help less Wappalyzer centric and more Technology Detection focused.

21.29.0 - 2024-01-03

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.

21.28.0 - 2023-12-04

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.
• Dependency updates.

21.27.0 - 2023-11-03

Changed

• Updated with enthec upstream icon and pattern changes.

21.26.0 - 2023-10-18

Changed

• Updated with last AliasIO/Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.
• Updated with first set of icon and pattern changes from enthec/webappanalyzer.
• Help entries are now identified as ‘Technology Detection - Wappalyzer’ to simplify searching/filtering.

21.25.0 - 2023-10-13

Changed

• Update minimum ZAP version to 2.14.0.
• Moved from Apache batik libraries to weisJ’s jsvg library (thus reducing the size of the add-on).

21.24.0 - 2023-09-07

Changed

• Dependency updates.
• Depend on newer versions of Automation Framework and Common Library add-ons (Related to Issue 7961).

Fixed

• Ensure icons render when expected.

21.23.0 - 2023-08-14

Changed

• Maintenance changes.
• Update minimum ZAP version to 2.13.0.
• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.

21.22.0 - 2023-06-06

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.

21.21.0 - 2023-05-03

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.

21.20.0 - 2023-04-04

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.

21.19.0 - 2023-03-03

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.
• Maintenance changes.

21.18.0 - 2023-01-06

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.

21.17.0 - 2022-12-13

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.

Fixed

• Prevent exception if no display (Issue 3978).

21.16.0 - 2022-11-14

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.

21.15.0 - 2022-11-03

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.

21.14.0 - 2022-10-27

Changed

• Update minimum ZAP version to 2.12.0.
• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.
• Maintenance changes.

21.13.0 - 2022-09-23

Changed

• Maintenance changes.
• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.

21.12.0 - 2022-08-15

Changed

• Maintenance changes.
• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.

21.11.0 - 2022-06-03

###Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.
• Update Wappalyzer URL in help documentation.

Fixed

• Threading issue - only reproducible with currently unreleased core changes.

21.10.0 - 2022-05-03

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.
• Updated the pattern parser to deal with Confidence or Version fields extending DOM patterns (for the time being they’re ignored).
• Updated the passive scan rule to be thread safe.

Fixed

• Address error when generating the report with Java 17 (Issue 6880).

21.9.0 - 2022-02-03

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.

21.8.0 - 2022-02-02

Added

• API help content.
• Maintenance changes.

Changed

• Further support for DOM selector patterns (Issue 6607).

21.7.0 - 2022-01-03

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.
• Update minimum ZAP version to 2.11.1.

21.6.0 - 2021-12-07

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.
• Dependency updates.

21.5.0 - 2021-10-25

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.
• Adapt script source handling to upstream changes.

21.4.0 - 2021-10-07

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.
• Updated to handle upstream Wappalyzer data file changes (Issue 6784).
• Update minimum ZAP version to 2.11.0.

21.3.0 - 2021-08-25

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.
• Maintenance changes.
• Reduce logging of “Unexpected header type” messages from error to debug (related to Issue 6607).

Added

• Support for cookie patterns.

21.2.0 - 2021-06-17

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.
• Update link to repository.
• Update RE2/J library to latest version (1.6).
• Maintenance changes.
• DOM patterns are now only attempted against HTML responses.

Added

• Support for automation job data to make it available in reports.

21.1.0 - 2021-03-03

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.
• Now using 2.10 logging infrastructure (Log4j 2.x).

Added

• Support for DOM patterns, aligning with the upstream project (Issue 6180).

21.0.0 - 2020-12-15

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.
• Now targeting ZAP 2.10.
• Add-on promoted to Release.
• Dependency updates.

Added

• Added support for CSS patterns, aligning with upstream project.

20.3.0 - 2020-09-30

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.
• Maintenance changes.
• When available the description of a given app/technology will show in the tooltip for a row in the table, and be included in detailed API responses.

20.2.0 - 2020-08-04

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.

20.1.0 - 2020-06-30

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.

Fixed

• Correct script matching, check only script elements (Issue 6054).

20.0.0 - 2020-06-15

Changed

• Update RE2/J library to latest version (1.4).
• Add-on promoted to Beta.

Fixed

• Fixed an exception which was occurring when the tab was shown during install.

19 - 2020-06-09

Changed

• Updated with upstream Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.
• Wappalyzer’s enabled state is now persisted between ZAP sessions.

Fixed

• Fixed the Evidence context menu now functions properly again.

18 - 2020-04-06

Changed

• Update minimum ZAP version to 2.9.0.
• Update with Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.
• Maintenance changes.

Added

• The Wappalyzer toolbar now has a toggle button to allow users to enable/disable the passive scanner simply from the GUI (Issue 5846).

17 - 2020-03-06

Changed

• Update with Wappalyzer icon and pattern changes.

16 - 2020-01-24

Added

• Add info and repo URLs.
• SVG icon support.

Changed

• The panel is now shown when the add-on is installed.
• The site “names” are now normalized based on scheme and authority (including port if non-standard or specifically included). This represents a breaking change for any API code that is using listSite with host:port “names”.
• Fixed an issue where large PNG icons weren’t being resized.

15 - 2019-12-20

Changed

• Update patterns and icons as of AliasIO/wappalyzer@98814a0 (release 5.8.5+).
• Support for CPE information (as a table column in the GUI, and element in the new API output [as applicable]).
• Allow multi-select of rows to facilitate copy/paste, only show context menu if a single row is selected.

Added

• Export button.
• API with three views:
  • listSites: Lists the sites that there are application (technology) details for [similar to the host:port drop down menu in the GUI].
  • listAll: Lists all sites and their associated applications (technologies).
  • listSite: Lists all the applications (technologies) for a given site [host:port] identifier.

14 - 2019-10-02

• Update apps.json and icons to align with AliasIO/Wappalyzer release 5.8.4 (plus any subsequent PRs).

13 - 2019-08-19

• Performance improvements.

12 - 2019-04-24

• Switch to using re2j where possible - results in significant performance improvements.
• Added version information column to Wappalyzer Results.
• Updated to align with AliasIO/Wappalyzer release v5.7.4.

11 - 2018-01-04

• Minor code changes to address deprecations.
• Updated for latest contributions from main wappalyzer project.

10 - 2017-11-28

• Updated for 2.7.0.

9 - 2017-11-24

• Updated Wappalyzer github link in help content.
• Code changes for Java 9 (Issue 2602).

8 - 2017-03-25

• Remove the use of passive scan rule.
• Minor code cleanup.
• Add support for wappalyzer META tag checks.

7 - 2016-06-02

• Allow to update/uninstall the add-on without restarting ZAP.

6 - 2016-02-08

• Updated for latest wappalyzer data.

5 - 2015-09-07

• Do not access view components when view is not initialised (Issue 1617).

4 - 2015-04-13

• Updated to latest apps.json

3 - 2014-04-03

• Minor code changes (Issues 503, 1083 and 1085).
• Changed help file structure to support internationalisation (Issue 981).
• Added content-type to help pages (Issue 1080).
• Updated add-on dir structure (Issue 1113).

2 - 2014-01-09

• Updated to latest rules and icons

1 - 2013-10-22

• First version