Yoast SEO 27.8 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.
- Improves post editor rendering performance by stabilising the getKeywords Redux selector reference to prevent unnecessary re-renders.
- Fixes a bug where the addon installer repeatedly downloaded Yoast SEO on every request when the installation failed or was outdated.
- Fixes a bug where the XML sitemap could fail to generate when redirects were combined with another plugin or theme that also filtered sitemap entries.
- Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 27.8.
- Improves cross-version PHP compatibility.
* fix - Fixes a bug where an empty Yoast Related Links block could not be selected or removed from the editor.
* update - Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 27.6.
* add - Enhances the task list with a task about adding Open Graph images to recent content.
* update - Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 27.4.
* add - Improves focus management restauration when the AI Optimize dialog is dissmissed.
* fix - Fixes a console error in the editor related to AI Optimize feature that occurred when the “Enable SEO controls and assessments” option was disabled for a content type.
* fix - Fixes a bug where the AI Optimize dialog did not have focus when visible.
* update - Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 27.3
* update - Improves permission checks in REST API routes.
* update - Modernizes how translations of the plugin work by removing the unneeded `load_plugin_textdomain()` calls.
* update - Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 27.0
* fix - Fixes a bug where Table of Content block failed to be registered in Widgets when Twenty Twenty-One theme was used.
* fix - Fixes a bug where the EDD schema structurepointed to non-existing nodes when a website represents a person.
* fix - Fixes a bug where the Yoast AI Optimize feature did not work properly when editing content in templated-locked mode in the Block Editor.
* update - Only loads AI Summarize assets on Posts, Pages, and CPTs.
* update - Ensures no deprecated props are used for WordPress components `ToggleControl`, `TextControl`, and `SelectControl` for Estimated reading time and Table of Contents blocks.
* update - Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 26.9.
* update - Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.8.
* update - Makes AI Summarize block not available inside Widgets when Twenty Twenty-One theme is used.