23.8

= 23.8 =

Release date: 2024-11-05

Yoast SEO 23.8 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements

• Introduces a new, redesigned General page.
• Adds a notification to inform the user when an error occurs while changing the visibility of a notification or a problem.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug in our Elementor integration where previously saved slug values of drafts would be ignored.

Other

• Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.7.

23.9-RC1

Changes compared to: 23.8

Enhancements:

• Improves the compatibility of the Yoast blocks with WordPress 6.7. #21720
• Adds a maximum width to the problems and notifications in the dashboard. #21740

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the First time configuration would have a double separator for the title and content. #21754
• Fixes a bug where the First time configuration would not resize properly on smaller width screens. #21754
• Fixes a bug where the highlighting marker button was incorrectly enabled when switching the editor mode from code to visual while the AI Optimize toast notification was still visible. #21722
• Fixes a bug where a fatal error is triggered in Php 8.x when a user's additional contact methods have been improperly set to null. Props to PhilETaylor. #21753

Other:

• Stops PHP notices about _load_textdomain_just_in_time loading incorrectly, on WP 6.7. #21742

Non user facing:

• Fixes copy in the Alert center when no problems are detected. #21715
• Fixes an unreleased bug where a PHP notice (warning in PHP 8+) would be thrown when an error was dismissed in the new general page's alert center #21783
• Fixes a bug where a React prop type warning would occur in the First time configuration, due to the interface of the useBlocker hook. #21756
• Improves the handling of the feedback string for the potentially non-inclusive phrase 'tribe'. #21780
• Adds a rule description property to each inclusive language assessment that has a rule. #21779
• Adds columns to the semrush api request. #21711
• Converts the list assessment to use the HTML parser. #21726

23.8-RC6

Changes compared to: 23.8-RC5

Non user facing:

• Fixes an unreleased bug, where a bubble with zero notifications would be shown outside Yoast pages. #21784

23.8-RC5

Changes compared to: 23.8-RC4

Non user facing:

• Fixes an unreleased bug where the notification count in the admin menu and bar would not update when interacting with the show/hide functionality on the general page. #21781
• Fixes an unreleased bug where completing the SEO data optimization from within the First time configuration would not result in automatically dismissing the respective notification in the general page. #21781

23.8-RC4

Changes compared to: 23.8-RC3

Other:

• Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.7 #21765

Non user facing:

• Fixes a bug where the First-time configuration steps would not show updated values if switching to the Alert center. #21752
• Fixes a bug where the First-time configuration notice wouldn't disappear even if the configuration is completed unless the user reloads the page. #21752

23.8-RC3

Changes compared to: 23.8-RC2

Reverts #21703 and #21696 and #21734

23.8-RC2

Changes compared to: 23.8-RC1

Non user facing:

• Addresses a notice about enqueuing an assets incorrectly in the block editor iframe. #21734
• Fixes the alert center notifications breaking out of the space. #21730

23.7

= 23.7 =

Release date: 2024-10-22

Yoast SEO 23.7 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements

• Removes the keyphrase in slug assessment for static home pages.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where a database error would occur when there were no public taxonomies available for indexing.
• Fixes a bug where another plugin running the exit() function inside the plugin_loaded hook would result in a fatal error. Props to menno-ll.

Other

• Removes translation strings that are not meant for the Yoast SEO Free version from the plugin.
• Resets the notice for search engines discouraged when changing Search engine visibility to visible.

23.8-RC1

Changes compared to: 23.7

Enhancements:

• Introduces the new, redesigned General page. #21691
• Adds a notification to inform the user when an error occurs while changing the visibility of a notification or a problem. #21671

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug in our Elementor integration where previously saved slug values of drafts would be ignored. #21682

Non user facing:

• Adds a prompt for unsaved changes on first time configuration when switching to the alert center in the new dashboard. #21670
• Adds Black Friday promotion upsells in the new dashboard #21685
• Allows scripts to register their loading strategy. #21699
• Fixes an unreleased bug where the general page of the network admin would be broken. #21719
• Fixes an unreleased bug where the assets for editors other than the block editor were no longer enqueued. #21703
• Moves the changelog to a separate changelog.md file. #21732
• Addresses a notice in WordPress 6.7 about assets being added to the iframe incorrectly. #21696
• Fixes misplaced EyeIcon and EyeOffIcon positions. #21702

23.7-RC3

Changes compared to: 23.7-RC2

Non user facing:

• Removes notices on first time configuration tab. #21707