Changelog

7.8.0

Release Date: July 10th, 2018

Enhancements:
* Improves the way that the OpenGraph is determined for front pages, especially in the case of static front pages.
* Adds links to relevant articles to all SEO assessments.
* Adds Flesch Reading Ease assessment for French.
* Adds Flesch Reading Ease assessment for Spanish.
* Adds passive voice assessment for Italian.

Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where images from password protected posts could potentially end up in OpenGraph image tags.
* Fixes a bug where very old notifications could not be be dismissed or restored.
* Fixes a bug where the Insert snippet variable button alignment was incorrect.
* Fixes a bug where the snippet variables had a different label in the Search Appearance settings compared to the snippet variables when writing a post, pages and taxonomies.
* Fixes a bug where instances of the same keyword with different kinds of apostrophes (e.g., brain’s and brain’s) were not recognized as the same. This affects the following assessments: keyword in meta description, keyword in subheading, keyword in first paragraph, keyword in title and keyword in URL.
* Fixes a bug where the custom set breadcrumb title for the WooCommerce Shop page wasn’t used.

Other:
* Adds a reminder message to create a redirect if a user deletes a category or tag.
* Removes a banner spot in the admin.

7.7.3

Release Date: July 2nd, 2018

Bugfixes:
* Disables WordPress’ automatic conversion of emoji to images on every page where the snippet editor is present. This conversion is not compatible with React or content editable fields and broke the snippet editor.
* Fixes text directionality for the title and description fields in the snippet editor for right-to-left languages.
* Fixes a bug where the snippet title and description values were saved to the database if they did match the post-type template.

7.7.2

Release Date: June 29th, 2018

Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where the snippet variables selection is hidden behind the WordPress menu when using a right-to-left language.
* Fixes styling in the snippet preview when using a right-to-left language.
* Fixes a bug where the ‘insert snippet variable’ button placement was inconsistent.
* Migrates WooCommerce Product archive settings to the Shop page, if present and not already set on the Shop page.

7.7.1

Release Date: June 27th, 2018

Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where disabling the post_format archive would result in it actually being enabled and vice versa.
* Fixes an issue where all replacement variables were being displayed instead of the recommended ones.

Other:
* Restores currentyear as a snippet variable.

7.7.0

Release Date: June 26th, 2018

Enhancements:
* Implements the snippet preview in React. This brings an improved user experience regarding the snippet variables, making it easier to use and discover them.
* Implements the improved snippet variables on the search appearance settings pages.
* Adds an inserter to the title and metadescription fields to make it easier to insert a snippet variable.
* Improves the mobile snippet preview to match the Google mobile search results more closely.
* Changes the behavior of the meta description preview when there is no handwritten meta description. We no longer mimic Google by showing a part of your content, but explain what Google does instead.
* Sends the user to the proper control in the customizer when clicking the link in the “You still have the default WordPress tagline […]” warning message.
* Adds a wpseo_attachment_redirect_url filter to allow changing of the target redirection URL for attachments. This may be necessary to restore the redirect to the parent post. Props to cawa-93.
* Adds recommended snippet variables for templates depending on the context.
* Adds a wpseo_recommended_replace_vars filter to allow adding or altering the recommended snippet variables.
* Adds support for JSON-LD breadcrumbs. Props to teolaz
* Improves the lists of French transition words, stopwords, and function words, props to Laurent-1971.
* Improves the assessment that checks the use of subheadings so that it always returns relevant feedback to the user.
* Adds a notification when a post is removed.
* Overhauls the Content Types section under SEO -> Search Appearance by sectioning the post types and allowing users to collapse them. This is especially handy when you have a lot of custom post types.
* Updates the ‘snippet variables tab’ of the Help Center to have the new names.

Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where a PHP notice would be triggered when the opcache.restrict_api directive was enabled.
* Fixes a bug where restricting SEO setting access to network admins only on a multisite, would still allow regular admins to have access to SEO settings.
* Fixes a bug where dismissing notifications on a single site in a multisite environment, would result in the notification being dismissed on all sites.
* Fixes a bug where the attachment URL would redirect to wp-admin if the attachment was located on a different Site URL domain.
* Fixes a bug where MySQL would throw a “Duplicate entry ‘X'” error into the error log when attempting to upsert a record in the database.
* Fixes a performance problem where the selecting a fallback Open Graph image would collect the filename for all the images in the content. This has been changed to detecting if an image is usable per image and stopping when a usable image is found.
* Fixes a bug where the term title snippet variable would be replaced by ‘undefined’ instead of an empty string on posts and pages.
* Fixes a bug where PHP notices got triggered on archive pages when %%pt_single%% and/or %%pt_plural%% are used in a template.
* Fixes a bug where the configured separator wasn’t used in the title template fallback that’s being used when no title template has been set.

Deprecated:
* Deprecates the following snippet variables: %%userid%%, %%currenttime%%, %%currentdate%%, %%currentday%%, %%currentmonth%%, %%currentyear%%.

Other:
* Changes the timing on which the capability filter is run to better time when notifications should be initialized.
* Adds X-Redirect-By header to all redirects, making the origin of redirects much easier to debug.

Earlier versions

For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to https://yoa.st/yoast-seo-changelog