Yoast News SEO for WordPress & Google by SEO Yoast 13.1

Enhancements:

• Schema: Adds Schema.org NewsArticle markup to all post types that you’ve selected as News.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Sitemap image URLs to use href instead of guid to prevent relative URLs in the Sitemap. Props to ChristophKnopf

Other:

• Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 11.0.

10.1

• Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 10.1.
• Removes the deprecated methods ( < 6.1 ).

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the news sitemap would show a blank page due to an internal server error.

Other:

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 10.0

Enhancements:

• Changes the titles in the news sitemap to default to the SEO title, with a fallback to the post title. (props: @timnolte)

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where it was possible the 48 hour selection range for posts in the news sitemap was slightly off. (props: @timnolte)

Other:

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.7

9.6.1
February 12th, 2019
Other:

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.6.1

9.6
February 12th, 2019
Other:

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.6

9.5
January 22nd, 2018
Other:

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.5

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the last modified date for the sitemap index has been displayed with the wrong time zone.

Other:

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.4

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.3

9.2
November 20th, 2018
Other:

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.2

9.1
November 6th, 2018
Other:

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.1

Enhancements:

• Allows term based exclusion in the news sitemap for all taxonomies connected to enabled post types.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where terms with show_ui set to false would be shown in the list of terms to be excluded from the news sitemap.

Other:

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.0

8.4
October 9th, 2018
Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the changelog would not show up when the plugin was updated.

Enhancements:

• Makes it possible to exclude posts with post type ‘post’ from the the news sitemap.

Other:

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 8.4

8.3
September 25th, 2018
Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the XML of the news sitemap would contain an incorrect publication time when the user would use a location-based timezone.
• Fixes a bug where posts with the post type of Post would always be included in the sitemap.

Other:

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 8.3