Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.1.1. See the core changelog.
15.1.1 October 14th, 2020
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where a fatal error would be thrown on the post edit screen in cases where SEO data had never been indexed.
15.1 October 14th, 2020
Enhancements:
Adds buttons to easily add related keyphrases from the SEMrush integration.
Improves the styling of the link suggestions by adding labels and showing just one list of items.
Adds an activation link to the plugins overview page that is shown when your plugin is not activated in MyYoast.
Always shows a link to the FAQ on the plugins overview page.
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where the related links block would thrown an error when the metabox was disabled.
Other:
Integrates the internal linking suggestions indexing tool on the tools page into the general indexing tool of Yoast SEO.
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.1. See the core changelog.
15.0 September 29th, 2020
Enhancements:
Introduces word form support for Arabic.
Introduces a new table of contents block. In order for the table of contents block to work, all heading blocks will automatically have anchors generated for them.
Improves internal linking suggestions for languages without function word recognition by increasing the number of prominent words that are saved for a post, page or term.
Improves internal linking suggestions and insights for Arabic and Urdu by improving the prominent word recognition when words in the text occur with specific punctuation marks.
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where no plugin icon and compatibility data would be displayed on the plugins update screen.
Other:
Removes the feedback link underneath the focus keyphrase input field.
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.0. See the core changelog.
Adds the Yoast Related Posts block which generates a list of links to related posts.
Improves the text of the user feedback link in the SEO analysis tab and shows it for all languages.
Improves internal linking suggestions and Insights for Arabic by filtering function words.
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where opening the sidebar would make the user feedback link disappear inside the metabox.
Other:
Sets minimum supported WordPress version to 5.4.
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.8. See the core changelog.
14.7 August 5th, 2020
Enhancements:
Improves the algorithm used for generating internal linking suggestions, taking the relative frequency of the prominent words in your content into account.
Enables internal linking suggestions for all languages.
Adds internal linking support for terms. Terms can now be suggested as internal linking suggestions for posts.
Adds a label to the internal linking suggestions, indicating the post type or taxonomy name of the suggested post or term.
Changes the description of the site-wide internal linking analysis on the SEO tools page to better describe when it should be used.
Sets the minimum amount of words before generating prominent words to 100 words.
Notifies the user to add a meta description and title to get better internal linking suggestions by a message above the internal linking suggestions.
Adds recognition of common irregular plural nouns (e.g., uomo – uomini) and adjectives (e.g., ampio – ampli) in Italian.
Adds recognition of common irregular diminutives in Italian, such as nouns (e.g., ovetto – uovo), adjectives (e.g., dolciastro – dolce), and verbs (e.g., scribacchiare – scrivere).
Improves word form recognition of Russian nouns with stems that have endings similar to noun case suffixes (e.g., сиптом, гром, запах).
Improves keyword recognition of Russian irregular plurals.
Improves stemming of common irregular verbs in French (e.g., connusse, suiviez).
Improves recognition of several French first person plural verb forms with suffix -ons (not -ions), e.g. aimons, aidons, oisons, aerons.
Compatibility with WordPress 5.5: makes sure Yoast internal linking blocks are searchable, have examples and a description.
Other:
Enables tracking when activating premium. Previously tracking was always on. It can now be disabled in the configuration wizard.
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.7. See the core changelog.
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.6.1. See the core changelog.
14.6 July 21st, 2020
Enhancements:
Adds Internal linking suggestions and Insights for Indonesian.
Adds word form support for Portuguese.
Adds word form support for Indonesian.
Shows the Yoast didn’t recognize my keyphrase button when the site language is set to Portuguese or Indonesian.
Shows the language beacon when the site language is set to Indonesian.
Improves word form recognition of Russian nouns with stems that have endings similar to noun case suffixes. Example: сиптом, гром, запах.
Improves word form recognition of Russian nouns that have irregular plurals.
Adds recognition of common irregular diminutives in Italian, such as nouns (e.g., ovetto – uovo), adjectives (e.g., dolciastro – dolce), and verbs (e.g., scribacchiare – scrivere). It also stops filtering out scrivere, scrive, and scritto as function words during the keyphrase analysis.
Adds recognition of common irregular plural nouns (e.g., uomo – uomini) and adjectives (e.g., ampio – ampli) in Italian.
Other:
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.6. See the core changelog.
14.5 July 8th, 2020
Enhancements:
Adds a siblings block and a subpages blocks which can be used to improve internal linking.
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where an empty string set as rest_base for a post type would give JavaScript errors.
Other:
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.5. See the core changelog.
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.4.1. See the core changelog.
14.4 June 23rd, 2020
Enhancements:
Adds a fix for French nouns ending in -ition and -itions (e.g., supposition, suppositions) so that they can be recognized and matched with the corresponding verb and/or adjective (e.g., supposer).
Improves recognition of first person plural verb forms in French (e.g., chantons).
Adds keyphrase recognition for infinitives in Russian on ть (ать, ять, еть) and improves recognition of perfective infinitives in Russian on уть (блеснуть).
Other:
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.4. See the core changelog.
14.3 June 9th, 2020
Enhancements:
Adds word form support for Italian.
Improves keyphrase recognition of certain French verbs ending on -oir or -re in the infinitive (e.g. asseoir, apprendre) as well as of some irregular verbs (e.g. appertenir, vivre).
Improves word form recognition of short French words (e.g. ours – our; âmes – âme).
Improves the way keyphrases containing words ending in -ent are recognized in the text.
Improves keyword recognition of words ending in -is/-us/-os in French.
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where .htaccess redirects in a multisite were overwritten by other sites in the same network.
Fixes a bug where the replacement variables coming from Yoast SEO WooCommerce were not replaced correctly in the Social Previews.
Other:
Adds a feedback link underneath the focus keyphrase input field to allow users to report problems with keyphrase recognition for languages with rudimentary morphology support.
Improves security for AJAX routes used in the social previews.
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.3. See the core changelog.
14.2 May 26th, 2020
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where the buttons in several notifications didn’t work.
Enhancements:
Adds word form support for Russian.
Improves keyphrase recognition in French when the keyphrase contains a word which gets the -x suffix in plural (e.g., jeux).
Improves keyphrase recognition in French when the keyphrase contains irregular nouns or adjectives.
Improves keyphrase recognition in French when the keyphrase contains words ending in -issement(s).
Updates the copy of the notification displayed when the Premium plugin subscription isn’t activated.
Other:
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.2. See the core changelog.
14.1 May 13th, 2020
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where the styling of the score column heading on the post overview would be broken.
Fixes a bug when the keyphrase distribution assessment might return skewed results if a text contains lists of single words.
Enhancements:
Adds word forms support for French (beta version).
Improves the way Dutch diminutive nouns are recognized as forms of the keyphrase.
Other:
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.1. See the core changelog.
14.0.4 April 30th, 2020
Other:
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.0.4. See the core changelog.
14.0.3 April 30th, 2020
Other:
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.0.3. See the core changelog.
14.0.2 April 29th, 2020
Other:
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.0.2. See the core changelog.
14.0.1 April 28th, 2020
Other:
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.0.1. See the core changelog.
14.0 April 28th, 2020
Other:
Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.0. See the core changelog.
