24.5

= 24.5 =

Release date: 2025-02-18

Yoast SEO 24.5 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements

• Issues a warning message when the image automatically selected for a post social preview is in the unsupported AVIF format.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where the canonical presenter would throw a deprecation notice when the environments run PHP >= 8.1. Props to aanduque.

Other

• Simplifies calculating the date replacement variable before displaying it in the frontend. Props to apermo.
• Updates the Yoast WooCommerce SEO integration cards with the latest Woo logo.

24.6-RC1

Changes compared to: 24.5

Enhancements:

• Removes the breadcrumbs from the Search snippet preview in Mobile mode. #22027
• Provides support for the Optimized Markup feature in Elementor. #22026

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where invalid inner blocks would be removed when saving a post in the block editor. #22006

Other:

• Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.6. #22035

Non user facing:

• Changes the layout of the widgets in the dashboard. #22049
• Adds the ability to connect/disconnect from Site Kit in the integrations page. #22039
• Adds the ability grant consent in the Dashboard Site Kit widget. #22039
• Adds states and tooltips for the SEO score on the "Top 5 most popular content" table. #22028
• Removes widget specific endpoints for a generic time based endpoint. #22005
• Adds validation to a PR, checking if it has a proper changelog label and milestone attached. #22038
• Adds info tooltip to the table widget. #22009
• Adds a data formatter and implement it in the top pages widget. #22020
• Adds unreleased Google Site kit set up flow widget in the dashboard. #21978
• Adds a bare bones example web worker app. #22010
• Add a disconnect modal to the google site kit integration card when disconnecting from site kit. #22004
• Release new package versions. #22031
• Refactors the dashboard widgets to get their behavior via a widget factory. #22008
• Adds the top pages widget. #22008
• Improves the configuration endpoints by declaring their arguments as required. #22018
• Adds edit button to unreleased site kit table for the most popular content. #22014
• Adds an endpoint to manage user consent to connect to the Site Kit plugin. #22011
• Fixes an unreleased bug where edit links would be shown to users that can't edit posts. #22016
• Refactors endpoint fetching for time based seo metrix for the site kit integration. #22037
• Implements Site Kit setup widget' Remove permanently functionality. #22040

24.4

= 24.4 =

Release date: 2025-02-04

Yoast SEO 24.4 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where editing a link in the block editor would have unexpected consequences when using undo.
• Fixes a bug where the article:modified_time meta tag would show an earlier time than the article:published_time meta tag for scheduled posts.
• Fixes a bug where the Schema type of the product would not be locked when Yoast WooCommerce SEO is enabled.
• Fixes a bug where using hyphens at the start or end of a sentence would cripple the content analysis when editing a post.

24.5-RC1

Changes compared to: 24.4

Enhancements:

• Issues a warning message when the image automatically selected for a post social preview is in the unsupported AVIF format. #21962

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the canonical presenter would throw a deprecation notice when the environments run PHP >= 8.1. Props to aanduque. #22007

Other:

• Updates the Yoast WooCommerce SEO integration cards with the latest Woo logo. #22002
• Simplifies calculating the date replacement variable before displaying it in the frontend. Props to apermo. #21976

Non user facing:

• Adds unreleased integration card for Google Site Kit. #21946
• Adds link params to the learn more and card headers links. #21946
• Removes "New" badges from the integration page. #21946
• Enables translation for the "Learn more" in the integration cards. #21946
• Adds unreleased integration card for Google Site Kit. #21946
• Adds link params to the learn more and card headers links. #21946
• Adds a endpoint to get your top 5 most view pages. #21965
• Adds reusable component for tables widgets of the dashboard. #21951
• Adds a REST route to permanently dismiss the Site Kit configuration in the Yoast SEO Dashboard. #21988
• Adds a REST route to permanently dismiss the Site Kit configuration in the Yoast SEO Dashboard. #21988
• Changes the way we detect if the plugin is configured. #21996
• Enhances the Top 5 pages endpoint with edit links for the URLs #21998
• Enhances the Top 5 pages endpoint with better response status codes when site kit requests fail. #21998
• Fixes the endpoints that are included in the dashboard scriptdata. #21998
• Adds tests for converting Turkish keyphrases starting on capitalised İ and ı to lower case. #21980
• Adds SEO scores in the top 5 pages endpoint #21991
• Removes "New" badges from the integration page. #21946
• Enables translation for the "Learn more" in the integration cards. #21946

24.4-RC2

Changes compared to: 24.4-RC1

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where using hyphens at the start or end of a sentence would cripple the content analysis when editing a post. #21995

24.3

= 24.3 =

Release date: 2025-01-21

Yoast SEO 24.3 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements

• Introduces more robust HTML processing and highlighting for the sentence length and paragraph length assessments.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where the Semrush request would be executed twice when opening the related keyphrases modal.
• Fixes a bug where the text color in the search on our settings page would not change correctly when active, resulting in bad contrast.
• Fixes a bug where the View button label in the Yoast dashboard would not be available for translation.

Other

• Improves contrast in the related keyphrase suggestions table.
• Improves contrast in the RSS supported variables explainer table.

24.4-RC1

Changes compared to: 24.3

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the article:modified_time meta tag would show an earlier time than the article:published_time meta tag for scheduled posts. #21912
• Fixes a bug where users without Yoast WooCommerce SEO are not greeted with the AI upsell when trying to use the AI feature and are actually able to access the feature, if on a non-English site. #21937
• Fixes a bug where Yoast WooCommerce SEO upsell would not render when on a locale that translates the product post label. #21937
• Fixes a bug where the Schema type of the product would not be locked when Yoast WooCommerce SEO is enabled. #21937
• Fixes a bug where editing a link in the block editor would have unexpected consequences when using undo. #21948

Non user facing:

• Removes/Replaces deprecated ESLint rules. #21918
• Speeds up linting JS. #21918
• Removes outdated translation. #21940
• Bumps the morphology data version for German. #21979
• Merges the feature/plugin-fixes feature branch into trunk. #21952
• Removes the need for eslint-disable max-len for translation strings. #21918
• Removes outdated translation. #21940
• Splits off more specific configuration objects that can be combined for JS/React/Node #21918
• Updates all our JS packages to use the new flat ESLint configuration. #21918
• Upgrades ESLint to v9 for all packages. #21918

24.3-RC3

Changes compared to: 24.3-RC2

See the summary in #21960 for the addressed changes.

24.3-RC2

Changes compared to: 24.3-RC1

Non user facing:

• Updates the readability analysis result when there is a change in the list of Gutenberg blocks wpBlocks. #21953

24.2

= 24.2 =

Release date: 2025-01-07

Yoast SEO 24.2 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements

• Improves the tooltips accessibility in the related keyphrase suggestions modal.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where a deprecation message would appear in PHP 8+ when saving a post containing images with invalid sources. Props to kkmuffme.
• Fixes a bug where a TypeError would occur when checking for capabilities of SEO Manager user role when the roles were not passed as an array. Props to kfeinUI.
• Fixes a bug where styles on buttons, intent badge and modal links would not adjust the direction when on RTL view.

Other

• Changes the title text on the Yoast installation success page.
• Fixes a console warning about ReactDOM.render being no longer supported in React 18.