23.2-RC3

Changes compared to: 23.2-RC2

Non user facing:

• Updates marketing text. #21473

23.2-RC2

Changes compared to: 23.2-RC1

Non user facing:

• Disables the rest of the AI buttons when one AI button is pressed. #21483
• Fix gradient background for AI title and description generator introduction modal. #21484
• Allow the AI button to be used without tooltip. #21486

23.2-RC1

Changes compared to: 23.1

Enhancements:

• Excludes image captions from the keyphrase in introduction assessment: image captions at the beginning of a post will not be treated as an introduction anymore. #21414

Other:

• Deprecates the Ai_Generate_Titles_And_Descriptions_Introduction_Upsell class. #21465

Non user facing:

• Updates the styling of the AI assessment fixes buttons. #21415
• Update and separate feature introduction modal and ai consent modal. #21417
• Disables AI Fix buttons other than the one that is currently highlighted. #21418
• Fixes an unreleased bug where the AI fix assessment buttons would be shown in the in-between page of the Elementor editor. #21420
• Allows users to add additional CSS classes to the Toast's close button. #21423
• Update copy and design in the feature introduction modal. #21431
• Don't show the AI button for keyphrase in subheading assessment and for keyphrase density when the keyphrase is overused in the text. #21436
• Fixes an unreleased bug where the tooltip on the AI assessment buttons would not be visible. #21437
• Fixes an unreleased bug where the sparkles icon in the AI assessment fixes button would disappear when closing the metabox. #21439
• Updates the styling of AI assessments fixes buttons. #21441
• Disables the AI buttons when the editor or blocks are in HTML mode. #21443
• Adds a lock icon to the AI assessment buttons in the free version of the Yoast SEO plugin. #21450
• Updates copies in the AI upsell modal and the AI feature card #21452
• Makes Yoast AI non-translatable in the feature card #21454
• Allows disabling the AI buttons for given assessments. #21457
• Fixes an unreleased bug where the content analysis would perform worse when processing longer texts. #21474
• Merges the feature branch feature/fix-assessments into trunk. #21480

23.1-RC4

Changes compared to: 23.1-RC3

Other:

• Sets the "WordPress tested up to" version to 6.6. #21471

23.1-RC3

Changes compared to: 23.1-RC2

Non user facing:

• Replaces the logos in the SVN assets with animated GIFs. #21464
• Fixes an unreleased bug where the website information in the wpseoScriptData was no longer present in the Elementor editor. #21463

23.1-RC2

Changes compared to: 23.1-RC1

Non user facing:

• Fixes an unreleased bug where the previously used keywords was not expecting empty script data. #21461
• Release new package versions. #21410

23.0

= 23.0 =

Release date: 2024-07-02

Yoast SEO 23.0 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements

• Removes a redundant database write query, when saving a post.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where unnecessary data was written in the Yoast database on non-production sites (or when the relevant Yoast\WP\SEO\should_index_indexables filter was used to disable such a behavior).

Other

• Deprecates the Wordproof feature.
• Deprecates the following classes: Wordproof, Wordproof_App_Config, Wordproof_Helper, Wordproof_Integration_Active_Conditional, Wordproof_Plugin_Inactive_Conditional, Wordproof_Translations.

23.1-RC1

Changes compared to: 23.0

Enhancements:

• Disabled an unneeded cleanup cronjob when indexables are disabled. #21438
• Removes unnecessary query when indexables are disabled. #21442

Non user facing:

• Bumps the post metabox formatter's use_social_templates deprecation version to 23.1. #21458
• Refactors site information script data. #21368
• Changes the way we handle the SEO data for our metabox and sidebar. #21339

23.0-RC2

Changes compared to: 23.0-RC1

Nothing.

23.0-RC1

Changes compared to: 22.9

Enhancements:

• Removes a redundant database write query, when saving a post. #21335

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where unnecessary data was written in the Yoast database when on non-production sites (or when the relevant Yoast\WP\SEO\should_index_indexables filter was used to disable such a behavior) #21335

Other:

• Deprecates the Wordproof feature. #21424
• Deprecates the following classes: Wordproof, Wordproof_App_Config, Wordproof_Helper, Wordproof_Integration_Active_Conditional, Wordproof_Plugin_Inactive_Conditional, Wordproof_Translations. #21424