Quote Originally Posted by yellow1912 View Post
This is a more appropriate way to handle it (from my pov), instead of leaving a blank field there.
SSU 3+ leaves much parsing job in your hand (since removing non alphanumeric characters can destroy the names of those sites that use multi-lang names).
That makes sense. I thought it was a bug because for those who upgrade, generally it's not desirable for links to change and old product links to give 404 instead a redirect. GoogleBot doesn't appreciate that as well. Somebody could bookmark a product and when decided to buy, will get a "page not found". But all this applies only to those who upgrade.

Maybe, there should be a note about this on the 'upgrade' section of docs so upgradees can adjust their product names and check if all links are identical to current version before going live.

Anyway, big thanks for clearing it up for me