9.7

Release Date: February 26th, 2019

Enhancements:

• Replaces inch marks by smart quotes in search breadcrumbs.
• Improves the feedback for the assessment that checks the length of cornerstone articles.
• Improves accessibility and focus management for the How-To and FAQ structured data blocks.
• Improves the Internal Links table headers on the post overview for better translations and accessibility.
• Adds a description of the SEO and Readability score to the posts and taxonomies overview in mobile view.
• Adds a label element to the Google Search Console authorisation code input field in the configuration wizard.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where a Flesch reading ease score of exactly 90 would trigger incorrect feedback.
• Fixes a bug where the taxonomy sitemap provider would not handle private taxonomies as expected, resulting in sitemaps not being accessible in specific situations.
• Fixes a bug where an empty twitter description instead of the term description would be shown.
• Fixes a bug where 'undefined index' warnings would be given when saving a Facebook image.
• Fixes a bug where the Recalibration Beta could not be loaded in combination with specific server configurations.

9.7-RC3

Changes compared to 9.7-RC2:

• No changes. This version bump is to make sure the versions between premium and free are the same. This is also the reason why there is no zip attached to this release.

9.7-RC2

Changes compared to 9.7-RC1:

• Adds these two installs to the default allowed hosts in the webpack config: one.local.test and two.local.test.
• Bumps the tested WordPress versions in Travis to the latest and before-latest.

10.0-beta2

This is the RC after 9.8-beta11. 9.8 will be called 10.0 from now on.

Changes compared to 10.0-beta2:

• The recalibrated analysis is out of its beta phase and is now the default for the SEO analysis.
• Fixes the automated testing failures. This will make sure the class-aliases are loaded.

9.8-RC1

Release Date: March 12th, 2019

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the focus keyphrase snippet variable was not correctly applied on term pages.
• Fixes a bug where the Facebook image that was set for the WooCommerce Shop page would not be outputted as og:image. Props stodorovic.
• Fixes a bug where the featured image set on a WooCommerce Shop page would not be outputted as Facebook OpenGraph Image or Twitter Image. Props stodorovic.

Other:

• Adds $taxonomy to the arguments passed to the wpseo_terms filter. Props to polevaultweb.

9.7-RC1

No changes compared to 9.7-beta2.

9.6

Release Date: February 12th, 2019

Content analysis recalibration (beta):

• As there are already a lot of users who are participating in testing, we currently have enough input to start preparing for the release of the improved analysis.
  • Removes the ability to enable beta testing for new installations.
  • When the feature is disabled, the ability to re-enable it will disappear.

Enhancements:

• Removes schema (JSON+LD) output from 404 pages.
• Improves the Google Search Console table accessibility by removing a duplicate button.
• Improves the code to better comply to the coding standards.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where an empty feed would be available for non-existing pages. Props stodorovic.
• Prevents vendor_prefix/j4mie/idiorm/demo.php from being included in the release.

Other:

• Props to Kingdutch for helping improve our open source content analysis library.
• Improves the redirect upsell when creating redirects in the search console overview.

9.6-RC2

Additional changes compared to previous RC:

• Removes the recalibration beta toggle. If the beta is activated, the toggle is only removed on deactivation.

9.7-beta2

Additional changes compared to previous version:

• Fixes the Recalibration Beta to be loaded on specific server configurations.

9.7-beta1

= 9.7.0 =
Release Date: February 26th, 2019

Enhancements:

• Replaces inch marks by smart quotes in search breadcrumbs.
• Improves the feedback for the assessment that checks the length of cornerstone articles.
• Improves accessibility and focus management for the How-To and FAQ structured data blocks.
• Improves the Internal Links table headers on the post overview for better translations and accessibility.
• Adds a description of the SEO and Readability score to the posts and taxonomies overview in mobile view.
• Adds a label element to the Google Search Console authorisation code input field in the configuration wizard.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where a Flesch reading ease score of exactly 90 would trigger incorrect feedback.
• Fixes a bug where the taxonomy sitemap provider would not handle private taxonomies as expected, resulting in sitemaps not being accessible in specific situations.
• Fixes a bug where an empty twitter description instead of the term description would be shown.
• Fixes a bug where undefined warnings would be given when saving a Facebook image.